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Rune Fencer Job Adjustments

Greetings!

I’d like to give everyone a heads up on the adjustments to rune fencer that we have planned for the upcoming version update. The main focus will be the adjustment of rune fencer’s job abilities, and the planned changes are listed below.
*Please keep in mind that this is still being worked on and is subject to change.

• Rune Enchantment

The effect values for elemental resistances granted from runes will be increased.

• Vallation

Recast time will be reduced from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.
Effect duration will be reduced from 3 minutes to 2 minutes.

• Pflug

Recast time will be reduced from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.
Effect duration will be reduced from 3 minutes to 2 minutes.

• Valiance

Recast time will be reduced from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.
Effect duration will remain the same (3 minutes).

• One for All

Recast time will be reduced from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.
Effect duration will remain the same (30 seconds).

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback thus far since my previous post.

We've seen a couple of questions, so I would like to provide some responses.



• Dia

While this is a spell that has a static amount of enmity, the amount of enmity generated is extremely low, so we removed it from the scope of our adjustments.

• Helix spells

The enmity for these spells depends on the effect, so it was removed from the scope of our adjustments.

Similar to elemental magic, the enmity generated is proportionate to the damage dealt.


Blood Pacts, Retreat, and Release do not generate enmity, and as such were not included in the list.

Also, while on the subject of pet jobs, below are some notes about beastmaster's job abilities that were not included on the list:

• Ready

This ability does not generate enmity.

• Spur/Run Wild

While these abilities have a static amount of enmity generation, they are time volatile, and because the amount is lost every second it was removed from the scope of our adjustments.



With ninja itself in mind, we understand that it would be best to increase the enmity for ninjutsu.
With that said, we will be going a separate route of adjustment so that ninjas can control enmity better.

However, we've included ninjutsu in the scope of our adjustments due to the fact that red mages who use ninja as their support job could cause the same issues from the past to arise.


We will not be adjusting enmity on blue magic because we feel that blue mage is a job that can better withstand a beating in the event that they pull hate from the target.


The AoE Bar- spells were removed from the scope of our adjustments due to the fact that the amount of enmity is very low. While the enmity depends on the amount of party members, the effect duration is quite long and is normally cast before battle, and if you need to it cast during battle, it's something you can use when Provoke and other front-line job enmity generation methods are being used.

Blood Pacts, Retreat, and Release do not generate enmity, and as such were not included in the list.

Uhh.... what?

I mean they don't generate much, but I've definitely pulled hate from commanding a BP before <.<

Ignoring the fact that they're admitting to actively hurting RDM in their own ignorant way, what RDM actually used /NIN to get or hold hate?

GG, SE, GG.

Could see the "holding it" part in not taking a big hit to the face with good shadow upkeep. But otherwise? I feel like we got the nelsonlaugh.jpg here.

Greetings,

The information mentioned yesterday about summoner's abilities and Blood Pacts not creating hate seems to have raised some questions, so I'd like to follow up on it.

To be precise, Blood Pacts have a non-volatile enmity value of 1. It's been arranged this way so that some enmity remains on the summoner when having a pet perform an action against a monster. If we were to make it so enmity was not placed on the summoner, once the enmity from the avatar is gone, it would cause bugs to occur (such as monsters becoming unclaimed). It's very similar to the way linked monsters don't come after the summoner once the avatar has vanished (except it would happen to the monster you perform the Blood Pact on).

In the case that the avatar's enmity has a minimum value of 1 for both non-volatile and volatile enmity, when executing a Blood Pact, the summoner will receive +1 to their non-volatile enmity, making a total of 2 non-volatile and 1 volatile enmity. When this happens, the target will go after the summoner.

As an adjustment, we are looking into the below:

• When the summoner has enmity, they will not receive +1 to non-volatile enmity when executing a Blood Pact. (The +1 to non-volatile enmity will only occur when the summoner's enmity value is 0.)

The above adjustment is not a job ability adjustment; it will be a change to the process occurring in the programming, so please give us a bit of time for this.

We had looked into taking another approach by adding an enmity+ stat to avatars like beastmaster's familiars have, and to ease up on the enmity lost when taking damage; however, this was geared more towards solo play and there are times when it would be best for avatars not to take hate during party battles, so we decided to adopt the adjustment mentioned above.