Job Adjustments: Scholar & Summoner (01/25/2012) Follow

Three MP off ele spirits instead of one--and spirits will still have exactly one use: Elemental Siphon, then stuffed back into the ether while the REAL avatars do the work.
Oh..and is that per tic or total MP cost to summon, I haven't been on in a while, so I iz confused...

Scholar job changes...I'm rusty as hell, what good are those again?

Edited, Jan 25th 2012 3:45am by Magicalsquirrel

Here is some fluff, enjoy the fluff, love the fluff.

So, finally, the merit stratagems get the cost they always shoud have had.

Nice, and depending on what they do, it might be interesting to drop 4 levels of Enlightment and put them on -enmity for nukes... Or +macc for trying to proc a difficult enfeble in VW (but if RDMs have problems, I don't see how we could land them anyway...).

I'm sure Mellowy would enjoy that, but in the long run...?

It's just another addition to the list of "Here, look, we're giving you an update so you cannot complain anymore, but dont expect it to be even remotely useful or for an ability or spell anyone still uses".

Thanks SE - real useful. I tried my hardest to get spirits to be useful, but try as you might they just plain suck. So I guess now they Suck-1.

How about you just do this:



THAT may have been useful.

Edited, Jan 25th 2012 8:09am by ManifestOfKujata

Even more useful, with that new buzzword "balance" thrown in...



Yes, I'm bored, little sleep, and in a mood to test a bad sense of humor.


Edited, Jan 25th 2012 2:58pm by Magicalsquirrel

In order to balance this, we will be giving SMN Cure V. In the name of balance, RDMs, PLDs, and SCHs highest cure tier will remain at IV.

So they completely forgot about spirits when it came to updating their spell list post 75...

(I'm assuming they still haven't changed that? Although wiki says they randomly gave light spirit an extra tier of banish and holy post 90, it lists no changes for the rest of them. Why they would give only the light based pet new nukes is an entirely unrelated mind boggle..but to be fair I haven't cast any of them, except for siphon, in years.)

...but they remember spirits when it comes to adjusting a merit that 99% of SMNs don't have anyways and still won't bother with. But, even if every single SMN had spirit cost maxed out to 5/5, this adjustment wouldn't affect anyone, because no one in their right mind would keep spirits out regardless.

But this goes a step beyond just 2 degrees of uselessness. Even assuming that every SMN ever had this merit maxed out, and that we all kept our spirits out all the time, this adjustment would still be useless because with all the new gear they have been throwing at us since abyssea, it's almost certainly possible to get a positive tick with spirits out already, with or without merits, and while an even greater positive tick would be nice, it's not extremely important because you don't have to spend mp on blood pacts when you have a spirit out.

/rantoff

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that it's at least not detrimental, and most of the job adjustments recently have looked kinda "meh," so I didn't expect anything good. I just don't see why SE insists on being so utterly, unbelievably, and remarkably stupid when it comes to SMN.

At least SMN would have something to offer the party outside of an Alex here and there. I say go for it, as long as SE fixes the issue with healing caps I could care less if my 3 cure 4 only healing jobs got C5.

I think I'd rather be rickrolled for a SMN update. :(

SMN got that, I can only wait to see SE's RDM tweaks.

my prediction
Spoiler

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/20057-SMN-adjustments....seriously?p=269500#post269500

If they want to make them useful, they can simply add their spells into the Blood Pact Ward/Rage lists and let us pick the ones they use and when. As useless as they are, they might actually serve a purpose if they were controllable rather than autonomous.