Job Adjustments (04/18/2012)Follow

[dev1106] Job Adjustments: Samurai

Shikikoyo

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to five.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead grant a bonus to the amount of TP shared.

Blade Bash

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to three.
Plague effect duration increased.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead increase the effect duration of Plague by fifteen seconds per point.

[dev1107] Job Adjustments: Ninja

Sange

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to five.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead reduce the likelihood of shadow images being consumed.

[dev1108] Job Adjustments: Dragoon

Deep Breathing

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to five.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead further enhance wyvern breath effects.

Empathy

Now also increases the wyvern's level at a constant rate.
Additional merit points no longer simply increase the number of beneficial status effects to the wyvern granted by Spirit Link, but also increase the rate at which the wyvern gains experience.

Restoring Breath adjustments

The priority by which status ailments are cured will be adjusted as follows:
　
(Pre-Adjustment)

1. Disease/Plague
2. Curse/Bane/Doom
3. Paralysis
4. Blindness
5. Poison

(Post-Adjustment)

1. Paralysis
2. Curse/Bane/Doom
3. Disease/Plague
4. Blindness
5. Poison

[dev1109] Job Adjustments: Summoner

Elemental Spirit adjustments

The following Tier V spells will be unlocked:
Fire Spirit: Fire V (Lv.86)
Ice Spirit: Blizzard V (Lv.89)
Air Spirit: Aero V (Lv.83)
Earth Spirit: Stone V (Lv.77)
Thunder Spirit: Thunder V (Lv.92)
Water Spirit: Water V (Lv.80)
Light Spirit: Protect V / Shell V (Lv.76)

[dev1110] Job Adjustments: Blue Mage

Diffusion

Recast time reduced from twenty minutes to ten.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead lengthen effect duration.

[dev1111] Job Adjustments: Corsair

Snake Eye

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to five.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead increase the likelihood that the next roll will result in a sum total of XI when a 5 or higher is showing.

Fold

Recast time reduced from fifteen minutes to three.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead increase the likelihood of resetting the Phantom Roll recast timer.

[dev1112] Job Adjustments: Puppetmaster

Role Reversal

Recast time reduced from four minutes to two.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead increase the HP amounts granted.

Ventriloquy

Recast time reduced from two minutes to one.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead decrease the lower of the two enmity amounts switched while increasing the higher one.

[dev1113] Job Adjustments: Dancer

Saber Dance

Recast time reduced from five minutes to three.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead increase the effect duration of sambas.

Fan Dance

Recast time reduced from five minutes to three.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead reduce waltz recast times.

[dev1114] Job Adjustments: Scholar

Enlightenment

Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead grant a bonus to INT and MND.

Of the jobs I play I think they did a nice job with SAM and DNC. SMN essentially got nothing since elemental spirit AI is based on Tanaka's.

Fan Dance

Recast time reduced from five minutes to three.
Additional merit points no longer reduce casting time, but instead reduce waltz recast times.

Of the jobs I play I think they did a nice job with SAM and DNC. SMN essentially got nothing since elemental spirit AI is based on Tanaka's.

I'd throw a complete of shurikens at the dev because the sange "buff" is still a joke, but I'm afraid I don't have my throw skilled up high enough to hurt them enough.

NIN throwing wouldn't be bad if SE would just release easily craft-able / NPC vender ammo. Making throwing WS for NIN wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Well.... you know what would happen if they did add Throwing WS to the game. Someone would use it somewhere in the middle of Arrapago Reef, and it'd cause some Dhalmel with Shantotto's head to pop in Lower Jeuno, and it'd run around casting Chainspell casting Cure1 on everyone which would somehow boost their gil by about 3 million, cast reraise on them, then add a nondispellable bio effect for 4k per tic, kill them, auto reraise, kill them again, rinse/repeat until they delevel until they're level 15, even after the player has freaked out and shutdown their system, remove any warp/teleport items, and homepoint them into the middle of Vrtra's room.

..... and then SE will make an update stating that everything's working as intended.

Well.... you know what would happen if they did add Throwing WS to the game. Someone would use it somewhere in the middle of Arrapago Reef, and it'd cause some Dhalmel with Shantotto's head to pop in Lower Jeuno, and it'd run around casting Chainspell casting Cure1 on everyone which would somehow boost their gil by about 3 million, cast reraise on them, then add a nondispellable bio effect for 4k per tic, kill them, auto reraise, kill them again, rinse/repeat until they delevel until they're level 15, even after the player has freaked out and shutdown their system, remove any warp/teleport items, and homepoint them into the middle of Vrtra's room.

..... and then SE will make an update stating that everything's working as intended.

Howdy!

Just wanted to give a bit more insight into the dancer adjustment.

As a result of the increased Samba effect duration for Saber Dance, the rate of recasting and TP consumption are reduced, which contribute to a greater attack rate.

The main effect is focused on Saber Dance itself, so instead of raising the effects on Samba, we made adjustments aiming to allow players to concentrate on attacking.

Since shurikens are such an essential part of Sange, I wanted to share some information as there have been some requests for higher shuriken damage and delay adjustments.

　
•Explanation of shuriken parameters

The following is the basis for shuriken parameters:

-Lv48 shuriken (DMG 63, delay 192)
DPS is 0.328
-Lv60 shuriken (DMG 72, delay 192)
DPS is 0.375

With a level difference of 12, the DPS is increased about 0.047, so the DPS increases 0.0039 for each level increase…

-Lv80 shuriken (DMG 80, delay 192)
DPS is 0.416

DPS is increased 0.041 from Lv60 to Lv80, so the DPS increase for each level increase is lowered to 0.00205. If we continue to use the 0.0039 DPS increase for each level increase, the DMG rates would be:
-DMG 87 at Lv80
-DMG 102 at Lv99

“DMG 102 at Lv99” is a value for shurikens that can be synthesized. If this becomes loot from a NM, it may be difficult to obtain, but I believe “DMG 118 at Lv99” could be attainable. (Regarding Iga shuriken, I believe it is necessary to reevaluate DMG values)

One recommendation we have seen from a player is to have DMG 146 and delay 193 (0.760 DPS), but this is definitely impossible. We have no plans to do so, but this may be the range of stats of a relic shuriken, if it were to be created.

Also, regarding cost, it would not make sense for a shuriken to deal more damage than ammunition for RNGs that cost more, so we would like to reevaluate this aspect.

I.... wait... what? When did people say there was a problem with shuriken dps? the only reason no one uses them is because they're not even remotely cost-effective because of how retardedly expensive they are

Am I really seeing the words "relic shuriken" being used, even hypothetically? That's [insert hyperbolic reaction here]!

Obviously, I'm biased as a DNC, but NIN already has a relic weapon. DNC doesn't. DNC's AF weapon is a throwing item. If anyone "deserves" a relic throwing weapon, I'd say it's DNC. Or, to put it another way: I would be rather jealous, as a DNC, to see NIN get a relic throwing weapon.

I would love to see shuriken adjusted to the point of being useful to a NIN. I have a completely inexplicable obsession with throwing skill (~10 points away from cap). I'm certainly not arguing to maintain the status quo. I'm just hoping that if adjustments to throwing items and skills are being considered by the devs, they don't forget about DNC too.

Oh yeah, I won't deny for a minute that my "reasoning" is silly. Jealousy and obsession usually is silly. :P

That, and I'm still sad that WotG jobs never got relic weapons.

Edited, Apr 26th 2012 11:53am by Strummer

I was hoping for throwing WS's

More scythes for beastmaster eh?

Well, the development team just told me that they do in fact have plans to add some new scythes to beastmaster's array of weaponry.

In regards to weapon skills, we are also planning to revamp each job's weapon skills in the future, but we can't make any promises about giving Guillotine and other EX weapon skills to beastmaster.

Hi everyone

Thanks for the easy to read list and your suggestions.

We ran the feedback by the development team and they mentioned that since blue magic spells have such high stats, they would like to proceed with adjustments carefully. Basically, if we were to extend the effect durations right now, the MP cost for the time granted would be lower, causing blue mages to be in a superior position, so thought needs to given to this when making adjustments.

Of the list that was given, there was an impression that Feather Barrier being a passive skill is difficult to really utilize within the short effect duration of 30 seconds, but for the rest of the spells the development team feels that they are not extremely difficult to utilize within their effect durations.

We will be adjusting Diffusion in the next version update and this will enhance the usability of these blue magic spells further, so we would like to see the effects from this and determine the necessity for adjustments.