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5 levels is really nothing new or horribly magnificent in the grand scheme of things.

Some jobs have 20-25 levels between getting new job abilities.

Sure the ammount of exp that it takes to get those 5 levels could be be greater than previous larger level gaps but fundamentally it is still nothing new.

Edit: Rumors on BG towards some of the Blu spells. The water spell perhaps being the adamantoise Aqua Breath, and they also have in their video a fire based attack thats thought to perhaps be Lava Spit off Cerberus. Been a while since I've seen either though so can't really say myself.

Would go along with the comments made about unlocking spells off HNM's though.

Edited, Jun 10th 2010 1:35pm by PlanckZero

Refueling is 10% so im going to assume that Animating Wail will either be:

A. AOE + 10%
B. AOE + 15% + high MP cost

I'm expecting...

D. AOE + 5%

Since it's AOE, SE probably thinks they have to make it weaker than the single-target spell. It would also be equal to Haste Samba, the other "AOE" haste.

Except you're forgetting that as of this next patch AOE haste is going to become staple for all mages.

RDM/SCH
SCH/WHM
WHM/SCH
SMN/anything
DNC (10% Haste Samba via merits)

Animated Wail should either act like an AOE refueling for a moderate MP cost or 15% on how giving SE decides to be. This makes even a party without haste capable of getting in one go via a BLU even if it is 10% vs 15%.

No one likes hasting so I see wail as being just a quick fire haste if a dedicated mage isnt covering the duty. DNC can apply an "Aoe" haste but it counts towards the JA cap and requires you to be engaged. It doesn't take away from the fact that all mages will soon have the ability to AOE haste in one form or another.



Edited, Jun 10th 2010 2:24pm by SparthosofLakshmi

BLM doesn't have a native haste, and therefore will not be able to AOE-ify it with Accession.

I'd love to be able to haste myself on blm

Yes, but you know as well as I do that having Haste means that you're the last person in the group to ever get Hasted.

SHhh!! You're undermining my point, here.

Let me clarify something with these JA's.

SE is known to put JA animations in the .dats well before they are implemented and they release them little by little. It is highly unlikely we will see all 14 JA's given on the day of the update, but rather a slow release of them in groups of 4-5. Remember, Tier II Enspells were in the .dats for 6-9 months before their actual implementation and there is also room for SE to add new JA's as they see fit. Right now, it just looks as though they have those 14 JA's locked in and what they want to do, and other JA's they are still working on ironing out.

Edited, Jun 10th 2010 11:47am by ImmortalAlchemist

Well maybe if your point made sense, i wouldn't undermine it

Spell descriptions are never updated during preliminary updates. These updates take place in order to allow new animations and models to be downloaded to the client so that on the day of the update, the size is not as large. What is listed for the new BLU spells is based on what we already know the effect has from when those mobs use it. We do know that some BLU spells get nerfed in some way, such as Exuviation where its 85 HP healed + Erase, but when Wamouras use it, its full erase (All status ailments removed) and the number of ailments removed increases the amount of HP healed to it.

So are there animations on these new JA's we could punch into altanaviewer or whatever to have a look?