Thread: They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

Originally Posted by YukioKobayashi

Hypothetically. You could give the current lvl 70 Bard to some bardmain back in the days and the person wouldn't noticed anything immediately except the duration changes and the missing requiem.
Bard pretty much plays the same and i hope it stays that way. Lets hope they dont remove BRD dots in the future.

The funny part is, despite barely changing since 4.0 a Stormblood bard main could immediately tell you as soon as they use Wanderer's Minuet.

The simple change of making Repertoire procs no longer tied to your dot crits changed the feeling of the job massively.

Give BRD repertoire procs back (and give it a Bane while you're at it)

god I miss endlessly raining arrows on trash pulls

Future battle design may cause difficulty with casting spells, so we have shortened the cast time for a variety of actions. Furthermore, the effect expiration of Astral Fire and Umbral Ice has been largely detrimental to attack power in situations where players must interrupt casting to address battle mechanics. For this reason, these statuses will no longer expire.

In Patch 7.1, Ley Lines became a charge-based action, which has resulted in movement restriction lasting longer than intended, so we have reduced its duration.

In light of all these changes, we have generally amplified black mage's firepower by increasing attack potency and adjusting the trait Enochian.

Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Future battle design may cause difficulty with casting spells, so we have shortened the cast time for a variety of actions. Furthermore, the effect expiration of Astral Fire and Umbral Ice has been largely detrimental to attack power in situations where players must interrupt casting to address battle mechanics. For this reason, these statuses will no longer expire.

In Patch 7.1, Ley Lines became a charge-based action, which has resulted in movement restriction lasting longer than intended, so we have reduced its duration.

In light of all these changes, we have generally amplified black mage's firepower by increasing attack potency and adjusting the trait Enochian.

EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME MUST BOW DOWN IN FRONT OF THE ALMIGHTY DDR RAID DESIGN

Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Future battle design may cause difficulty with casting spells, so we have shortened the cast time for a variety of actions. Furthermore, the effect expiration of Astral Fire and Umbral Ice has been largely detrimental to attack power in situations where players must interrupt casting to address battle mechanics. For this reason, these statuses will no longer expire.

Wow, we're so lucky to have the devs noticed the immobile caster was immobile! It'd be a shame if that caster stayed immobile though, we can't have that

I've never seen a worst justification of job murdering than this one, and I've played a lot of MMORPGs. Players dropping their enochian so they can't hit the boss and do less damage? How's this a big deal? They'll learn the fight and they'll be able to do every mechs without spell interrupting. Like we've always done it. Ah but right, we can't have that too, of course, no failures allowed, only success even if that means the game must almost played by itself.
Can't wait for next patches to give every caster instant cast on all of their spell too, after all, we're dropping our cast too when dodging a mechanic for the first time right? Don't forget the enormous EW hitbox to come back, melee have to hit the boss 24/24 too or they'll get sad

Originally Posted by ovIm

Considering Yoshi-P said something about them having gone too far in terms of job simplifications roughly a year ago, I don't see how we can take anything he says serious anymore.

I think he was talking specifically about the content design, not the job design. And it's the content he's trying to address at the moment.

But since he has declared 8.0 as the expansion that will focus on job design in a number of ways (skill tree tease, making them unique tease, etc), they'll have to confront this sentiment eventually.

Originally Posted by Wawaya

Wow, we're so lucky to have the devs noticed the immobile caster was immobile! It'd be a shame if that caster stayed immobile though, we can't have that

I've never seen a worst justification of job murdering than this one, and I've played a lot of MMORPGs. Players dropping their enochian so they can't hit the boss and do less damage? How's this a big deal? They'll learn the fight and they'll be able to do every mechs without spell interrupting. Like we've always done it. Ah but right, we can't have that too, of course, no failures allowed, only success even if that means the game must almost played by itself.
Can't wait for next patches to give every caster instant cast on all of their spell too, after all, we're dropping our cast too when dodging a mechanic for the first time right? Don't forget the enormous EW hitbox to come back, melee have to hit the boss 24/24 too or they'll get sad

Gotta remove positionals too. Not being able to get the extra 50 potency on Gekko because a boss was doing a backwards half-room or something just made me want to delete the soul crystal.