Quote Originally Posted by LolaLou View Post
It also allowed for deep and interesting optimization strategies, which revolve around skipping casting ice spells alltogether with the aid of transpose and non ice filler spells including paradox. But this aspect of the job has now been made absolete due to being forced to cast ice spells in order to gain mp which is a big shame in my eyes and took away a lot of excitement I've had for the expansion.

Okay, rant over. How do you guys feel about the changes tho?

I don't get this logic. Being able to ignore core parts of your kit is deep optimization? It's no wonder they made this change. It's more like a glitchy interaction that broke the design of the job that people were getting away with rather than what I would call "deep optimization".

Personally this simplifies job expression of skill and makes it standard to use the full kit. We have these spells, you should want to use them the two times you have to use them. It's a loss that it was more optimal to not use the spells than it was to use the full kit.

To me this is a win.

The other changes I am a huge fan of too. More spamming explosions during fire phase, and a big fire nuke that looks modern for both single target and aoe fire.