Question to mages that have played post-update (specifically nukers)

[Spellbinder]

I haven't had the opportunity to play, and probably won't for quite a while unfortunately, but there is one thing I've been curious about that I have not seen mentioned yet.

As we all know, water attacks went bye-bye and elements got split between the two mages. Because of this, my thought was that the elemental wheel for resistances would more or less be thrown out of whack unless the developers modified it in some way.

So what I'm asking is, has anyone noticed changes in enemy resistances?

For example, Chigoes were fire element and weak to water. When running through the Lv 25 dungeon I definitely noticed a difference between using Thunder versus Water when nuking large groups of them.

[Lucifer]

I am also curious about this.

[JTSpender]

If chigoes were strong against thunder and weak to water wouldn't that make them earth element?

Anyway, for the most part I *like* the idea that the elemental wheel is "broken" and it's not just an issue of picking one of your 6 identical effects to cast on the enemy. That said, I was doing a few solo leves, and figgy puddings *were* pretty annoying to beat on CNJ while in earth-mode (absorb earth, super resistant to thunder, so that left first tier aero and blizzard from THM). And I was fighting some toads on THM and could two shot (Thunder + instant Thundara) things a couple levels higher than me.

[Spellbinder]

If chigoes were strong against thunder and weak to water wouldn't that make them earth element?

It was 4 AM and I think I had FFXI elemental wheel on the brain, but you get what I was trying to say. Hehe.

[Deceptistar]

so far all i was able to notice in the business and the confusion was my irritation at the lack of mp, cures, debuffs ...alas was not able to focus on any elemental aspects and resists ; ;

[Dreadnought]

so far all i was able to notice in the business and the confusion was my irritation at the lack of mp, cures, debuffs ...alas was not able to focus on any elemental aspects and resists ; ;

i also hate having only 1 cure option and no enfeebling and extremely high costs of nukes.

[Coglin]

i also hate having only 1 cure option and no enfeebling and extremely high costs of nukes.

CNJ has 3 heals.

The name of the game here is that if your unhappy with just one, level it up for the other 2. Thats the premise here. If your unhappy being weaker, then level up your class and/or other classes to utilize abilities to grow stronger.

I mean, honestly, isn't that the general concept of MMOs?

[MicahZerrshia]

i also hate having only 1 cure option and no enfeebling and extremely high costs of nukes.

Cure/Cura = Cure/Cure II

[Dreadnought]

Cure/Cura = Cure/Cure II

CNJ has 3 heals.

The name of the game here is that if your unhappy with just one, level it up for the other 2. Thats the premise here. If your unhappy being weaker, then level up your class and/or other classes to utilize abilities to grow stronger.

I mean, honestly, isn't that the general concept of MMOs?

i dont play CNJ dude, im a THM main and Cura cannot be cross classed = too little options for curing this makes leve quests much more difficult than before and partying as the only mage much more difficult.
i had to quit my party last night because we didnt have a CNJ and i couldnt heal for as much as the party needed.

[MicahZerrshia]

i dont play CNJ dude, im a THM main and Cura cannot be cross classed = too little options for curing this makes leve quests much more difficult than before and partying as the only mage much more difficult.
i had to quit my party last night because we didnt have a CNJ and i couldnt heal for as much as the party needed.

Well that was kindda the point of the update. To give classes a role and thm got the nuker side of it. I personally am glad I cant heal with thm cause I would much rather nuke with it anyway. If you want to play a healer your going to have to do con tho, its the way the game is going. Every class has its role, there was no need for 2 mage classes if they did the exact same thing. We needed the diversity. Love thm, hated healing with it. Unfortunately I got my con and thm to 50 before 1.20 so I missed out.

Perhaps now thm-burns that compare to blm burns from xi could be set up. Some decent exp could be gotten that way I'm sure. I would start a new char if I knew I could do mage burns again. That was always a good time in xi