The August Version Update Makes a Monstrous Appearance!Follow

Yeah more is coming. As usual SE split the content up to force people to play basically, as you can see on the test server, there was quite a lot more to the system they could have released but it's broken up into parts.

It has been fun so far, (30 Rabbit, 10 mandy, 24 Tiger for me so far).

What gets me though is the spells. I want to be able to cast stuff, but I dont have any mage jobs leveled. So if I want to cast anything, I have to level up the mage jobs then learn the spells THEN I can have them. Unless im missing something, this seems very unfair to people who are only melee-job players. I understand the cut costs on the instincts when youve beaten maat (that seems fair), but the spell thing is not cool.

It's forced incentive to play new jobs.

Similar to forced incentives in other activities: Limited time in Dynamis, Cool down to enter dynamis, limited dispersal of stones/imprimiturs, et al.

I'm trying to be sympathetic to that, because I know the cost of spells is utterly absurd, but exp has flowed like water for the last three years. At the very least, leveling mage jobs and getting the cheapest vendorable spells could have been on your bucket list, even if you never did anything further with them. Like for PUP, I leveled it to 99, got the attachments I could get for a few thousand gil, and left the multi million gil attachments alone because 1. I wanted to leave those for the real PUPs; they are pricey because they are rare and 2. I knew it was a job I'd play to 99 and then abandon.

It gave me a little insight into the mechanics of how that jobs runs and also gave me a lot of respect for the true PUPs who have mastered the job and can pump out damage right alongside the MNKs and SAMs in many situations. It's not easy to get that kind of performance out of that job, but some folks can do it. I can't.

So, don't dismiss mage jobs wholesale because you've focused on melee. You probably won't be asked to come on them if you explain it was just leveled for yourself, which was the concern for many melee a few years back. ("If I level white mage and it gets out that I have it at 75, I'll never be allowed to come on DRK again!")

Hell, these days no one wants a BRD if it doesn't have a Dharp anyway.

Ehhhh, no disrespect, but disadvantaging people because of their job choices is sort of how this game has played since day one.

First they came for the Dragoons,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Dragoon.

Then they came for the Black Mages,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Black Mage.

Then they came for the Puppetmasters,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Puppetmaster.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.