Live Letter 70

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's nice to see that DRK finally got Bloodwhetting too. It's just on a 5 min cooldown instead of 25s and you literally have to die and burn your invuln to trigger it. Almost the same thing.

Yeah, but it's still a step up from "just die, but slightly later".

[BokoToloko]

I feel you. I loved Monk back when it had Greased Lightning to manage with the positionals.

What part of GL did you have to manage? It boiled down to do the 1-2-3 you do anyways until getting any time cutscene or RP kicked in and you had to take a big L. Last time I checked, MNK players HATED old Greased Lightning. From all things MNK had to manage, that mechanic wasn't one of them.

Yeah, but it's still a step up from "just die, but slightly later".

Technically, you still die at the same time. And depending on the potency of the heals, you might even die sooner in some multihit tankbuster scenario if you clear Walking Dead too soon with the added self heal plus healer's help.

[Caurcas]

Mug now has the Trick Attack effect and has a 2 minute cooldown, Trick Attack is now a buff only for yourself.

That is...a strange change.

[KageTokage]

It is rather odd because Trick Attack being a one minute cooldown already aligned with the big two minute burst windows.

I'm assuming they wanted to make NIN's personal DPS higher and less dependent on its RDPS contribution so it contributes more evenly regardless of gear level/party size.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I absolutely hate dungeons but this comment annoys me. Dungeons are needed for the MSQ and so should be balanced towards the skill floor, not the ceiling.

Trusts exist for this very reason.

[Lauront]

Trusts exist for this very reason.

Yep, exactly, and this will soon apply to trials too. So by all means, they can add a super ez or even visual novel mode to the trusts if they want, but hopefully it means the DF trial version can be liberated from its shackles of having to cater to the lowest common denominator.

This needs to be in our PVE kit, too. This is just...beautiful! Nutbusting levels of worthiness for a real destructive WHM spell!!!

Yeah, looking forward to it. Still wish they'd add Megiddo/Entropic Flame for BLM.

You mean the spell caster that commands the elementals to strike at foes with slicing winds and massive boulders, that can blast undead with purifying holy light while at the same time promote growth and soothe an ally's wounds? The mages whose nation stood up to Mhach? Before the great ShB healer action culling, WHM had quite a few offensive spells. In fact, Cleric Stance was originally a WHM ability in ARR. Lore wise, WHM has always been written as a rather powerful offensive spellcaster. They even go as far as to call out Sylphie, a character in WHM's job quests that wants to "only heal" rather than fight, on her obstination with refraining from using the elements to harm.

Visually it looks to fit perfectly within WHM's current "light and flowers" aesthetic.

Indeed, even if I tend to prefer darkness-powered jobs typically, I often like putting on the Amdapor Keep HM theme for it in FL, and playing it like some kind of angel of death... it fits very well with the job's lore. Just a shame it lacks Holy there, but the new abilities seem to be addressing that.

[KageTokage]

Scathe-like beams of destruction aren't exactly the first thing to spring to mind when I think of WHM, so I'm hoping SGE gets an impressive offensive limit break as well.

[GrimGale]

Scathe-like beams of destruction aren't exactly the first thing to spring to mind when I think of WHM, so I'm hoping SGE gets an impressive offensive limit break as well.

You mean the spell caster that commands the elementals to strike at foes with slicing winds and massive boulders, that can blast undead with purifying holy light while at the same time promote growth and soothe an ally's wounds? The mages whose nation stood up to Mhach? Before the great ShB healer action culling, WHM had quite a few offensive spells. In fact, Cleric Stance was originally a WHM ability in ARR. Lore wise, WHM has always been written as a rather powerful offensive spellcaster. They even go as far as to call out Sylphie, a character in WHM's job quests that wants to "only heal" rather than fight, on her obstination with refraining from using the elements to harm.

Visually it looks to fit perfectly within WHM's current "light and flowers" aesthetic.

[KageTokage]

You mean the spell caster that commands the elementals to strike at foes with slicing winds and massive boulders, that can blast undead with purifying holy light while at the same time promote growth and soothe an ally's wounds? The mages whose nation stood up to Mhach? Before the great ShB healer action culling, WHM had quite a few offensive spells. In fact, Cleric Stance was originally a WHM ability in ARR. Lore wise, WHM has always been written as a rather powerful offensive spellcaster. They even go as far as to call out Sylphie, a character in WHM's job quests that wants to "only heal" rather than fight, on her obstination with refraining from using the elements to harm.

Visually it looks to fit perfectly within WHM's current "light and flowers" aesthetic.

I think it's mostly the sheer amount of "oomph" the LB has compared to their existing light/holy spells that was a bit jarring. WHM is a weird case where I feel like its spells feel less powerful after they moved into the ShB stretch in terms of visuals and sound effects. Roaring gales and crushing earth were satisfying in a way that its 80+ single target/DoT abilities aren't, and even Holy II doesn't quite exude the power that the original Holy does IMO.

I do kind of wonder if the LB gauge is going to charge at a variable speed for different jobs because at least in the case of Yoshi's BLM it was filling extremely quickly, though that might tie in with the fact that their LB buff seems to have some manner of ramp-up gimmick that gains stacks the longer you maintain it. The ominous purple aura is a bit of double-edged sword since it looks cool but also serves as a big "Kill me now" flag.

[Semirhage]

I think it's mostly the sheer amount of "oomph" the LB has compared to their existing light/holy spells that was a bit jarring. WHM is a weird case where I feel like its spells feel less powerful after they moved into the ShB stretch in terms of visuals and sound effects. Roaring gales and crushing earth were satisfying in a way that its 80+ single target/DoT abilities aren't, and even Holy II doesn't quite exude the power that the original Holy does IMO.

God, right? The WHM damage spells (what few of them remain) all feel so neutered from a visual/sound design standpoint. There's no variety. All of them feel like throwing a handful of glitter at the target, coupled with the light tinkling sound of gently shaking a chandelier at them. There's no boom, no crunch, no blast, no explosion. Just *swirly swirly* *gentle glitter sparkle tinkle noise*