What is SE's Issue with Magic Users? CON NERFED!Follow

Well, the War classes had to force someone to slave as their healer class, despite SE promising CON would be a solo-able job pre release. They whined and cried to SE until SE relented and CON magic has been nerfed to 1/4 what it was....well actually they just made the spells use a ridiculously higher amount per cast. Thoughts anyone? Of course we got Curaga as a trade off...virtually sealing our fate as the whm of the mage class, thus making this the biggest bait and switch of my ten plus years as a SE MMORPGamer. When they start charging I am OUTA that game. If I wanted to be a dark ugly nasty THM that is what I'd have been. I LOVED soloing as a CON. Now they have made it impossible, and it just plain sucks. Finally there was a stand alone mage in an SE game. Finally a mage that wasn't too weak to survive without some mallet head to protect it. Then
NERF!
Gone in the name of IMPROVEMENT no less. Ugh...

At least Conjurers didn't get hit as hard as the Thms...

It's called balancing.

The MP cost increase was only logical, since the old MP costs were designed for a system with no passive mode MP regen. Healing was a total joke before. There was no need for any MP management whatsoever. I'd bet S-E will balance the jobs in favor of party play instead of soloing, so that was to be expected.

Whether the MP cost increase was too much or not, that I can't say. But it's certainly not a nerf. I enjoy healing a lot more now that MP management and thinking is worth something. ^^

Edited, Aug 1st 2011 2:02am by Lanih

I soloed before changes (up to 31) I soloed afterwards also (37 now) Fast and easy as usual. Changes are making the game funnier ^_^