#RIPRDM

[Blueyes]

I am curious of anything is worried that the AoE damage of a Red Mage will be a bit underwhelming, particularly for a caster. For the most part Red Mage will be repeatedly casting Scatter which has a potency of 100. If the tooltip Additional Effect information is accurate, it would seem every other Scatter will generate a higher amount of mana. After six casts of Scatter, enough mana will have been accumulated to use Enchanted Moulinet which has a potency of 200. It can be used once, then its back to Scatter to reacquire mana. The only other offensive AoE action is Contre Sixte which has a potency of 300 and a recast of 45 seconds.

Perhaps those numbers aren't low, but I would consider them far from impressive. I would have liked to see Verflare and Verholy as AoE spells, scaling down with additional enemies, with Enchanted Moulinet working as a setup for the combo requirement. At the very least I feel like that would make the AoE combat feel more satisfying.

[Yorumi]

Perhaps those numbers aren't low, but I would consider them far from impressive.

AOE was pretty heavily nerfed across all classes. Almost everything has fall off now, including bane. Speaking of smns and scholars shadow flare isn't permanent, miasma II is gone, bliz II is gone etc. Mch turret has fall off now. I honestly kind of wonder why they bother to put aoe in the game cause clearly they don't want us using it.

[Blueyes]

AOE was pretty heavily nerfed across all classes. Almost everything has fall off now, including bane. Speaking of smns and scholars shadow flare isn't permanent, miasma II is gone, bliz II is gone etc. Mch turret has fall off now. I honestly kind of wonder why they bother to put aoe in the game cause clearly they don't want us using it.

For the most part yes, except for Black Mage. According to the new tooltip information, Flare now only scales down to 30% less damage rather than 50%. Thunder IV and Foul have been added while the changes to Blizzard IV allow for more casts of Fire II. I would not be the least bit surprised if Black Mage became the new AoE king. Summoner is harder to judge because their AoE is now entirely focused on ability usage.