6.11a patch notes

[Kranel_San]

As soon as I saw BLM changes, I knew Yoshi P was playing PvP a lot recently.

[Cheremia]

We are not dps. I might heal by using DPS for some of my healing, but it is not easy to do a lot of damage. Killing still takes much longer than a dps.

Sage can kill as fast as any dps tho? Have you ever been nuked by 2 phlegmas because i have, they hurt.
Literally 20k in a 5 yalm radius every 30ish seconds (for both charges). Ast is 16k with both gravities in same radius and it absolutely hurts.
Pneuma is 12k every 30 seconds and also heals.
And also:


And did you not read that i said sch is chip damage through guard? Because that's what sch does. Meaty chip damage.





So yeah, I confidently say that sage and Sch are support DPS. Sch is more support than sage.
Sch can spread a 3k dot tick for 15 seconds on the entire enemy team and they can not guard or cleanse it. You do not need to be close and the only thing you need to do is make sure to hit as many people with deployment as possible.

Good sages and SCH do an absurd amount of damage.


The notion that healers can always heal (even ast and whm can't) has to go.

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Edit: I'd like to mention that all healing is count together. Aka the one you do on you and the one you do on party members. Pots probably count to. Elixirs count. Recup counts. So whms is just inflated as all hell.
Nobody can ever tell if they just healed themself a lot with recup, it was overheal with lb, it wa soverheal with Cure 3 (whms always use it instantly, they don't have to... you can also target it), etc.
Same goes for ast, too.
People that regularely retreat to elixir when low (smart people) can have more healing than whm/ast.

Healing numbers itself say nothing because it counts it all together and nobody knows what and who they healed.

People HAVE to learn to take care of themself, retreating to pot is always better than rushing in.
People running out with no mp, then getting a single heal from me, just to run back in and die happens way too often, even tho i heal them so they maybe survive long enough to retreat.

People NOT knowing how to play and hoping healers can fix all their mistakes are the reason why sage and sch are seen as "bad".
Because SCH doesn't have the "highest" kill count mostly.
And both don't have the "highest" healcount either.

Yes, damage clumps together single and aoe damage too so people that have more aoe have more damage than like... monks or nins. Which is fine, monks and nins are picker (they can 100-0 you but only single people).
But SCH and sage still do a lot of damage by themself, pretty sure SCH dots are almost half(if not half) hp of many classes for NO commitment. That is REALLY good.

You really don't need healers to win if your team actually manages to kill the enemy team. Sch benefits a lot from an agressive team that knows how to take care of themself. Their chipdamage can help many dps (nins anybody?).

Also, the GNB changes scare me. GNB already hurts a lot... this is gonna be interesting.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Ayyo those Gunbreaker changes are hella lit, getting to hit harder AND giving me mitigation under LB? Damn Rough Divide -> Relentless Rush just got a whole lot scarier.

[AnotherPerson]

Crystal players being lumped in with diamond is interesting, I wonder why?

It's more like the opposite of what you're thinking right now. I get consistently matched with Crystal players at diamond 5, but I was already matched with Crystal players when I hit Platinum 1. If anything, this was to further close the gap between matchmaking ranks so the disparity of player skill difference is smaller. Don't know how it will affect queue times though.



After reading these patch changes, most jobs are getting really buffed in terms of survival and mitigation prevention. Black Mage in particular got a huge buff - Nightwing now even slows enemies in addition to its sleep effect, the barrier potency increased by 4000, all its finishing spells have increased potency, and its LB also giving 20% mitigation. That might be an issue, considering how fast Black Mage charges Limit Break compared to other jobs. It's a huge threat when left alive, moreso than any other job at the moment. These changes are really overtuned in the hands of a good Black mage.

Summoners got a powerful buff to Radiant Aegis - mitigation went up to 20% and barrier increased by 2000 potency. Casters are pretty tanky at the moment. RDM got nerfed slightly, but it's alright since they can heal or increase their lethality by a crazy amount.

Dancer got some survivability with honing dance offering 20% mitigation, which is nice since Dancers are now the "healing/defensive ranged support" job, Machinist is the high burst damage ranged job, and bard is a mix of the two with decently high sustain DPS. Really good changes all around for these three ranged roles by cementing their identities uniquely.

If anything, these changes is basically a huge stealth nerf to ninjas in the opening phase (has anyone been assassinating Yoshi P lately?). Assassinating someone is goanna be a lot more annoying for me, but I think it should be alright..? Going to have to try it out a bit more to tell though, but it looks like teams with Black Mage will dominate the opposing team unless the opposing team can quickly get rid of the Black Mage.

[Jettinson]

Ayyo those Gunbreaker changes are hella lit, getting to hit harder AND giving me mitigation under LB? Damn Rough Divide -> Relentless Rush just got a whole lot scarier.

Kinda wished a bit more on the junction for passive but now GNB got even more kill potential.
You do so much burst damage on your own, the double down plus blasting zone with rough divide hurts without any debuffs.

The LB having some mitigation is nice, wonder if it is good stacking with Nebula for more defense although you are still a sitting duck when doing the spin (CC/status ailments vulnerable)

[Cheremia]

Also i'd like to say that the thing to buff on SCH is Seraph.

10 yalms range for such along lb charge is absolutely laughable.

Yes i know sage lb is just 5 yalms but you have to put yourself in it (it does do damage to you too) to be able to damage anybody in the dangercircle. People do always just run into it to fight in it, yes. But they do actively put themself into danger. There is a risk.

But 10 yalms on seraph is pretty bad tbh. Considering WHM is movable 30? Yalms? Ok. Make Seraph at LEAST 20 you cowards.

And... dunno about all the buffs to blm, good blms are scary but definitely too squishy so at LEAST the shield is fine.
Good GNBS already scare me so nothing changed.

SMN buffs are funny, i quite enjoy smn so, yay? Cool.

[Saraide]

Ayo time to afk again without getting woken up by the auto play trailer.

[TheGrimace]

They buffed Summoner with still no limitations on Frontline? What the hell are they thinking? Matches were already hellish thanks to the overabundance of people relying on SMN for group damage, and now they're even more powerful.

And yes, they SHOULD factor in Frontline into these decisions. Atleast make it so there's a drop off in damage against 5+ enemies.

[RobynDaBank]

As soon as I saw BLM changes, I knew Yoshi P was playing PvP a lot recently.

Sauce, the Twitter.

[Listrella]

for me the most notable thing is these patch notes is that they're dropping the 30 minute logout timer. I was starting to think it might be a permament addition but apparently they feel okay in dropping it now.