Quote Originally Posted by Skies View Post
I only have my Thaumaturge at level... 14 was it? IT's in my signature. I do play Conjurer, however, and the last boss fight my LS actually won I was playing it

I think you also literally illustrated the reason why enfeebles why the way they do right now right there in your example about the Ixali. They're high-level mobs, that attack in a huge band, you're seriously not supposed to solo that stuff, but if Enfeebles were in fact as powerful as you want them to be they'd be easily soloable as a Thaumaturge.

Although speaking of it, have you tried the strategy of 'sleepga the lot, pick them off one by one with Thunder'?

Also- WHY, in heaven's name, needs the 'spells that carry the Ancient Magic spell names' invariably be DD? Why can't they be powerful support spells? Is that a legacy term issue? Because that that's pretty silly and, sincerely, a choice left to style alone, you can't say that any of the three short of Burst is not working their potential.
That's my point about the enfeebles, when it matters it doesn't work. Picking off an Ixali one at a time is not a good idea. One you'll waste MP really quickly, two when they wake up you'll probably be inclined to try a dark seal sleepga, which will still not help it last longer. They will wake up at once again and you'll probably have extremely low MP and die. And you can't Sleepga as Thm so you can't afford to fight more than one at a time.

Lastly, why should Ancient magic spells be purely damage dealing? Because everyone loves to throw around traditions, such as Whm having Aero. So I am throwing this into the mix that Ancient magic spells have always be the highest form of magic damage dealing it and should be that way. The only time I use Freeze is to reduce my agro not good damage unless you critical hit, even then it's not that great. Flare is stupid, for trash mobs only, use it against someone like coincounter or Chimera you'll probably die.