Removing elemental nukes from WHM

[Shougun]

Or the black mage can, you know, not use his thunder spells or he can use chains that don't end with thunder. He's still going to have an advantage in magical attack with his gear and traits.

Besides blizzard and freeze the other elements are aoe, that and their damage isn't to match the thunder combo (flare DoT is nice though).

Or further that if WHM is fighting stone weak monsters it probably means its resistant to lightning (if irc Earth strong aganist -> Lightning which means stone weak monster would be a lightning element being strong aganist lightning elements).

So advantage.. no - BLM will be inferior in those situations. Like gnats which are lightning element.

[Kallera]

Besides blizzard and freeze the other elements are aoe, that and their damage isn't to match the thunder combo (flare DoT is nice though).

Or further that if WHM is fighting stone weak monsters it probably means its resistant to lightning (if irc Earth strong aganist -> Lightning which means stone weak monster would be a lightning element being strong aganist lightning elements).

So advantage.. no - BLM will be inferior in those situations. Like gnats which are lightning element.

Advantage as in delivering nukes and magic attacks that aren't the monster's weakness, as in job trqit upping magic attack and gear focusing on int, the stat for offensive magic. Its not like they are as helpless as what people in this thread want white mage and conjurer to be.

[Shougun]

Advantage as in delivering nukes and magic attacks that aren't the monster's weakness, as in job trqit upping magic attack and gear focusing on int, the stat for offensive magic. Its not like they are as helpless as what people in this thread want white mage and conjurer to be.

Helpless no, but BLM would not have the advantage in that situation. Even a fully battle decked BLM vs "healing" decked WHM in that scenario WHM wins (if you attack by weakness you get like 2 to 3 times the damage - and the inverse of that if you are attacking by resistance). But like I said many posts ago, bosses dont seem to care about elements and there are very few stone weak monsters - so it never really became an issue in 1.0.

Of course if you want to make the magic wheel important then it would be. Some people have offered suggestions like designing content within the boss fight that goes around attacking the boss, like BLMs needed to nuke massive side swarms or charge machinery that damages the boss (and so they can ignore that the boss has resistance to their spells and still outdamage the WHM, without fking with the WHM).