Black Mage's quirky cross class abilities

[Jinko]

I'm happy in both the skills available for BLM and WHM, SE seem to have done a good job limiting spells and skills yet retaining some usefulness.

[viion]

Jobs are party oriented so you are supposed to get Stoneskin, Protect and Cures from the WHM class which is supposed to now dish out that rather than... well still doing what it does now XD

Its a bit weird tho that out of the 5 cap there is only 5 useful skills anyway. Maybe in future tho, looking at the "big picture" and all that ...

[alienbaby]

fight ends, drop stone, buff and help cure. restone, Marco city again.

[DeadRiser]

fight ends, drop stone, buff and help cure. restone, Marco city again.

I REALLY hope it's not that easy to switch between class and job. I'll be very annoyed if this becomes the staple of all content....

OH and Quelling strike provides some TP, not a lot but still supplies some.

45 second cooldown and self cast only as opposed to 5 seconds and any friendly target.

Plus, that Second Wind is going to seem mighty valuable when you need to save it for Convert

Why would you want/need to heal someone else? That is the WHITE MAGES role. YOURS is to burst DD, not heal everyone else. If you get hurt pretty badly, you can suffice that with second wind and any more that needs to be healed comes from White Mage. Black Mages shouldn't be healing anyways. People are already getting classes and jobs mixed up...

[AdvancedWind]

I REALLY hope it's not that easy to switch between class and job. I'll be very annoyed if this becomes the staple of all content....

OH and Quelling strike provides some TP, not a lot but still supplies some.

It is. You just need to unequip the soul crystal and you're in the base class again. Only works when not engaged with an enemy, of course.

[DeadRiser]

It is. You just need to unequip the soul crystal and you're in the base class again. Only works when not engaged with an enemy, of course.

I know this is just looking into the future and assuming it will happen... but I don't want us to change between classes and jobs every other mob. It reminds me of that macro cloth changing from XI. Even though I never played it, it looked stupid, annoying, and redundant...a nd made completely no sense. Just opinion and speculation lol

[electrikALIEN]

Why would you want/need to heal someone else? That is the WHITE MAGES role. YOURS is to burst DD, not heal everyone else. If you get hurt pretty badly, you can suffice that with second wind and any more that needs to be healed comes from White Mage. Black Mages shouldn't be healing anyways. People are already getting classes and jobs mixed up...

Krausus was asking why I'd prefer Cure to Second Wind, and that's the reason I gave. I don't plan healing as BLM, but I do plan on surviving my role as a glass canon.

I do like the fact that both White Mage and Black Mage have nothing to do with each other now, as opposed to CON and THM. Unique mage classes have been needed in the game for a while now.

[DeadRiser]

Krausus was asking why I'd prefer Cure to Second Wind, and that's the reason I gave. I don't plan healing as BLM, but I do plan on surviving my role as a glass canon.

I do like the fact that both White Mage and Black Mage have nothing to do with each other now, as opposed to CON and THM. Unique mage classes have been needed in the game for a while now.

But you have two healing abilities in this game as a Thaumaturge or a Black Mage: Necrogenis and Second Wind. And if you plan on surviving, good enmity control and watching your positioning will help that. If you do that right, you shouldn't take much damage and not need to heal yourself lol

[fusional]

if you haven't already been using quelling strike on thm every cooldown, you are doing it very, very wrong

[electrikALIEN]

if you haven't already been using quelling strike on thm every cooldown, you are doing it very, very wrong

Or haven't been informed. Not like the tooltip is specific or anything...