Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

[Kutch]

There was alot of promises made from SE about balancing jobs and providing new spells and abilities with the release of Aht Urgan.

Well, we're a few months in now. The paladin has gotten his refresh, and WHM's benediction now remove ONE ailment from all in the PT, but where are all the other mentioned improvements to the jobs? Where is the monk's ability to share HP with the rest of the PT? The WHM ability to share MP? The new spells for RDM?

Was all this just hype to sell more copies of LToAU? I don't even see a mention of this anymore from SE.

[ValisOfValefor]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

As was said at the fan festival, All will come soon enough over the schedueled time.

This was not -hype.

The abilities, and adjustments are going o be put in over time, so be patient.

Remember good rewards come to those who are patient

[Mhurron]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

What is LToAU?

[McBride]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

What is LToAU?

Probably ToAU, Treasures of Aht Urhgan, with an "L" put in front of it for whatever reason.

I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen for thief. Every time I check the stupid POL site, it's in the hope that I'll see something thief-related. Please, Square, please allow me to bask in the glory of information once more?

I am way too sleepy right now.

[Feba]

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The WHM ability to share MP?

SE never talked about an ability for WHM to share MP, i'm 95% certain.


And SE never puts out the entire expansion up front, they release everything slowly, so problems are easier to fix. Like CoP, originally you could have one person leave PT and get drawn in by Diabolos, then rejoin and the rest of the PT kills from up top, they fixed that. Also, rolling out expansions slowly gives them more time to work on content, and keeps players interested longer, not to mention makes it fairer on players who don't have a ton of time.

[Yeargdribble]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

I also remember the WHM sharing MP thing being mentioned. I'm too lazy to dig it up but there was a big announcement about the things they were planning to do for all of the jobs and one of them was for WHM to be able to give their MP to people.


Also, I believe the timeline has most of these adjustments slated for this update. However, even if they are in this update I have the feeling SE might just not mention it until the day of the update and put them in the patch notes. The probably don't wanna give anyone prep time to do anything like sell a piece of gear.

I personally have horded up 10 unspent merits in hopes that they will add some new, meritable spells or abilities for BRD. If they don't I'll just go spend them in the other ways I had planned.

[Murphie]

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Feba, they did mention that they were thinking about a WHM ability that would allow them to share their HP with the party. But it was just one of those random ideas that they tossed out.

I worry about folks who took that list of possible changes as exactly what SE is going to do. There are bound to be some disappointed folks in that case.

[Feba]

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eh, still, SE did say they were only THINKING about these things at fan fest. They never said they would actually happen.

[Matera]

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Yep, there was talking about Whms getting a sharing ability.

As for updates, don't take things seriously until they happen. See: Chocobo Raising Deadline.

[MisterCookie]

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I'm just happy us plds got auto refresh ^^ I really hope they start giving some boosts to thf though, I can imagine that TP update sucking alot.

[Balfree]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

eh, still, SE did say they were only THINKING about these things at fan fest. They never said they would actually happen.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/top.../060330_1.html

White Mage
We want to make it so the white mage remains totally dedicated to keeping their party alive, no matter what. No other job should fulfill this role as well as the white mage. We also want white mages to be able to contribute to the party in a way exclusive to their job, aside from just curing. This may be accomplished by adding an ability where white mages could share their HP and MP with party members. Also, we are considering adding the effect of removing status ailments from the Benediction ability.

But yea... they say "may be", but thats more often than not enough confirmation of what will be :-P

[Feba]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

at fan fest.

=P

[Balfree]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

well they wrote a news article about it.. ;P

[Feba]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

There's actually some minor changes between what they said at fan fest and what was in the POL article.

I'm guessing due to translation.

[Balfree]

Re: Where is the job balance and new spells in LToAU?

yea, sometimes they throw a confucious on us <.<