Thread: Majority of skills available now have a pvp version with 5.1

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/pvp/

Even classes that didn't have all their aoe now do and more it looks like. Gotta get ready for the Nadaam Frontline.

Look over your class and see if you like it.

Kinda bummed they removed the stun from AST Celestial Opposition but at the same time I can't fault them for doing so. It got a little ridiculous in stuff like Shatter and Secure.

I can't really comment on the rest of the changes without actually playing PVP but a quick scan of SCH makes me think it might actually be more viable now.

Kinda looks like they hit a reset button. AoE healing will be nice to have again. Tetra's back too.

I'll miss fluid auraing people off ledges, though.

Originally Posted by Fawkes

Kinda looks like they hit a reset button. AoE healing will be nice to have again. Tetra's back too.

I'll miss fluid auraing people off ledges, though.

The loss of healer CC is what's kinda making me frown with these patch notes. Yeah we still have the universal PVP role actions but I liked how PVP was one of the only modes left in the game where CC was still viable. I'd have preferred soft nerfs, or a hard nerf in the case of Celestial, to outright removal.

Healers are not the only ones who lose their CC, tanks also lost a lot of their CC these changes are ridiculous, everyone is going to play dps now.

From what I can see of CC, it's now tank: Stun, draw-in, knockback, ninja: silence, other-melee: non, healer: sleep, ranged: silence, bind, heavy, black-mage: sleep, red mage: bind, summoner: non

Axing Fluid Aura while allowing SCH to retain Aura Burst is kind of silly.

I don't think anyone could argue that the AoE stun on Celestial Opposition was actually okay, though (That privilege apparently got shifted to SMN who now has a stun on Painflare).

Originally Posted by Cidel

The real thing worth talking about is apparently ASTs can't forever obnoxiously insta-Benefic anymore, it seems like it's more like RDM's trait where you need to hardcast something 1st to get one instant follow-up spell.

This along with the AoE stun from AST and other direct healing potency nerfs seems to me they want to push healers to the back line out of harms way. Teams have to ensure their healers are more protected now than before.