Potential new damage spells?Follow

I pray for Chomp Rush and Goblin Rush every single update ;_;

For Multi-Hits, I think that list is pretty much perfect. Only thing I would add is Amorphic Spikes. 5 hits and would fill the completely dead spot of physical Amorph spells.

For Single hits they could go back to the beastmen. Aerial Wheel, Ore Toss(Or Lob) and maybe Double Kick. Though, I feel new spells will mostly end up coming from the various Abyssea areas, and I doubt the beastmen will show up there.

All kinds of spells that I hope for, but SE really surprised me with 90% of the new spells, so I can't even imagine what's really coming next.
I didn't see(or want) Leafstorm at all, or Cimicine Discharge instead of Pandemic Nip.

That's very true.
I wouldn't be too surprised to see some high attack single or double hit spells next time around. Though, I would also like to see them come with some really good additional effects. Disseverment is an awesome move, but that poison on it makes it so much better. That's a lot of extra damage.
Ending up with Bloody Caress for the 3 hit and HP drain, or Chomp Rush with the 3 hit and 25% slow would be incredibly welcome, as far as I am concerned.

The spells this time were so hit or miss, it's really strange.
Regeneration, Battery Charge, Animating Wail... these spells, imo, are just completely awesome. I mean like I never would have expected awesome. Regeneration is incredibly cheap to set and use, and provides a very good self mid-range regen. I have been loving it. Animating Wail and Battery Charge seem almost too good to be true to me. I've noticed a huge difference since getting 79 and using them, I love it.
Plenilune Embrace is nice, but it still feels a bit MP heavy to me. I haven't used it enough or built for it to really say, though.

Acrid Stream, Cimiscine Discharge, Leafstorm, Demoralizing Roar... these are not quite as good. Honestly, I don't really get it when they add things like this that they know for a fact are almost never going to be used. Maybe I am missing something.

The only thing about them is the additional bonuses, i.e. stats and setting for traits. I am sure they want us to constantly be balancing our spell usefulness with our stat needs and trait desires to try and come to the point we want. I just wish they didn't make some of them so pointless (I'm looking at you Bad Breath for Fast Cast...). We have such a cramped spell list as it is, shoving in another 9 points of spells we won't use for one trait is just mean. I'm praying they decide to be extra nice and let us get 10 point upgrades at 81 and 91. :X

Anyway, I had a thought. They said at vanafest that they wanted to open up our subjob options, which is why dual wield was being considered. They didn't exactly give that to us in the way we wanted, but we did get it. At the same time, we got some other goodies. Haste was going to be a big draw to /whm, and we got that. Refresh was soon going to be a draw to /rdm, we got that (and then some). Even gave us a higher cure and a nice regen, as well as the ability to set double attack (a big draw from /war). It seems they may be aiming that direction, still, giving us ways to put together our job while drawing in some of the nicer benefits we might want from other subjobs... freeing us up.
There are obviously way more reasons to want a sub (like JAs), and that wouldn't just change your mind, but it's an interesting thing. I often don't want to set /war if I can just make double attack while using another sub. If that is their goal, I would love to see what else might come down the line for us to use in the future. Spells and traits that give us the building blocks we need like that would be wonderful.
So, spells like phalanx, or en-spells... maybe an easier erase move... protect/shell... I'd like to see what they end up with. :P

(BTW, they should let us start making job abilities with spell combos. Meditate, yes please. :P)

Acrid Stream has been fun MBing off SB+Diss SCs. Was getting like 600+ with INT swaps (could do more if I brought my HQ staff).

I'd like to see some more slashing type damage attacks. Blu only has, If i remember correctly, three slashing spells that are actually good for damage. Those spells being vertical cleave, Sickle slash and mandibular bite. none of which are multi hits. If SE gives another multihit i hope its Quadrastrike from demons, which is definently slashing damage seeing as how all demon weapons are slashing type weapons(Scythes, Swords and great swords)

I would love a new spell. something with multiple hits, 4 or 5 or 6. and mods like 50%str 50%dex. i know everyone is gonna complain thats overpowered but it would increase the dmg rating on the spell to allow for more endgame uses as opposed to just cannonball.

what i really want is more blue points. after auto refresh, refresh, haste, head butt, diss, FR, im left with a couple points that dont allow for many other spells to be set. instead of the usual 5 point increase, i could see a 10points per gain just so we can set more dmg spells and more everything. that would be pretty awesome.

Bloody Claw looks promising.

5(6?) hit, and drain from gargoyles.

I'd much rather have a big defense-ignoring one-hitter that doesn't rely on CA to be effective than more multi hits.

Spike Flail!

But seriously, I'd like something that works well against mobs higher level than you without needing Sneak Attack.... heck, something I could use in XP parties or HNMs. I like Cannonball as much as the next guy, but the situations where it is a viable tactic seem vanishingly small.

But Spike Flail would be nice. Tossing mobs across the map with a real Knockback effect would get us a lot of respect, and it would be an actually useful and unique thing we could do to control the flow of a battle and monster pathing. I don't even care who I'd have to fight to learn it.

Heck, any physical spell that uses 300% TP with CA to do more than up the damage on T and tougher mobs by 20% would be nice. Maybe then Azure Lore would become an ability that does.... well.... anything useful.

Spike Flail won't be that bad to get come 99. Will probably suffer from everything else you listed, but I'm not so worried about the rapage.

And they'd be wrong. Since the level increase a lot of things that used to be "omgcrapmypantscrazy" are now "meh." I could totally see six man BLU crews pop into Nyzul to get this spell.



Fair point. We should probably just be happy we got Battery Charge.



Seriously? I can think of a dozen situations where tossing a mob across the room would be useful, not the least would be "any NM situation where getting close means insta-death."

I remember the excitement when Asuran Claws came out, then learned and tested...
I hope we don't have another Asuran Claws moment... EVER.... seriously.