New ability and TraitFollow

New ability for WHM is Divine Viel. It is to be used like divine seal excpt that when a whm removes a status effect from a party member it will become an AoE remove.

Sam Job trait, Zanshin. Well here what it said the trait does. Whenever you miss with your weapon, you will attack immediantly after.

The info can be found under updates on the POL viewer




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Edited, Wed Feb 23 12:56:14 2005 by apachemonk

Edited, Wed Feb 23 13:11:17 2005 by apachemonk

The Wight begins casting Dark Cloud (or whatever it's called).
The Wight casts Dark Cloud.
PLD receives the effect of curse.
DRK receives the effect of curse.
BLM receives the effect of curse.
RDM receives the effect of curse.
THF receives the effect of curse.
WHM receives the effect of curse.
WHM uses Divine Seal.
WHM begins casting Cursna on WHM.
WHM casts Curnsa on WHM.
WHM removes WHM's curse status.
WHM removes PLD's curse status.
WHM removes DRK's curse status.
WHM removes BLM's curse status.
WHM removes RDM's curse status.
WHM removes THF's curse status.
<WHM> woot! 150MP saved!
<RDM> {Refresh} = 150MP. {Thank you.}

Or let's pretend that everyone except the WHM gets petrified and the WHM has to cast Stona. That's 160MP saved along with all the time saved from the WHM having to Stona each person individually and waiting for cooldown.

I wonder if it works for Raise, too? 0_0

Edited, Wed Feb 23 13:24:17 2005 by Dryhus

Wight's can't Curse, but you've got the general idea there. :p

I dunno I was hoping for an ability to improve our curing so we can't be replaced. Well this will still come in real handy. Though I wish they'd have reduced the cooldown time for DS along with it. Because I like to use it with Curaga. I do have Curaga II and III but those aren't cheap either, and I shouldn't have to use III when I could use II with DS.

Basically. Still I'm sure situations will present themselves. I don't DS+Curaga very often anyway.

No, I meant Curse. I used Curse and Petrification as examples because Cursna is a moderately expensive 30MP and Stona is a heavy 40MP. They're not as costly as AM, but considering that they are status ailment cures that would normally have to be cast on every member of the party, it adds up.

Blindna is only 16MP and if a mob has AOE Blind, you'd only Blindna the melees, generally, which would cost maybe 48MP; mages can get by being blind. If everyone but the WHM is Petrified, they have to have Stona cast on them quickly or things can go badly (right?) so that's 200MP with 30sec delay JUST for cooldown vs DS+Blindna for 40MP with 2sec (to JA and cast) delay.

I'm not a WHM by trade. I was just trying to illustrate an ideal use for Divine Veil and I couldn't think of mobs that AOE Curse or AOE Petrify.

Sounds that way, from the way I read it on the main website.

I know what ya meant, but Wights still can't Curse. :p Ghosts can. That ability, Black Cloud? That's Blind. Which is why that was suggested. I know what you were thinking though.


There was a shout fest about Reraisega in Port Jeuno for awhile, though I don't know if anyone actually tested it. Wouldn't that be interesting? >_>

So, does anyone know what level the new whm skill is obtained at yet?

Erase has a crappy recast so I can definately see the benefits.

Either way I see what you were getting at Dryhus, and I agree, this is a major benefit :)

Question: why would it not be Erasera? In recent FF games, there was Cure, Cura, and Curaga...and there was Fire, Fira, and Firaga...in ascending order of power.

In the case of FFXI, the standard spells seem to represent the first order of power being normal power, single target spells. The -ra spells seem to represent the second order of power being normal power, group target spells. The -ga spells seem to represent the third order of power being higher-powered group target spells.

BLM spells:
Poisonga (Poison II AOE)
Stonega (Stone II AOE)
Waterga (Water II AOE)
Stonega II (Stone III AOE)
Etc.

WHM spells:
Protectra (Protect AOE)
Protectra II (Protect II AOE)
Shellra (Shell AOE)
Barstonra (Barstone AOE)
Curaga (Cure II AOE)
Curaga II (Cure III AOE)

Since Erase or whatever is being enhanced by DS+DV has the same functionality but on group target, should it not be Erasera? I've always felt that a RDM's Chainspell > Raise > Raise > Raise > Convert > Raise > Raise > Raise should also be referred to as Raisera instead of Raisega because it's not as if a Raise II effect is granted. Does anyone else see this??

Sorry if I'm a lunatic about the naming of spells that don't even truly exist.

I believe it is literally translated as "Erase" in most if not all of the FFs. Esuna is just the english name we got. Like Tina to Terra in FF3(FF6 there). The vast majority of the spells in FFXI are the literal japanese translations, not the english throw-ins you see in all of our FFs.

It is a level 50 trait. Check the WHM forums - WHMs who are level 50 and 51 have it.

Zylle, maybe the WHM in your LS couldn't find it because he/she was looking under job abilities and only saw Divine Seal? Divine Veil is a Job Trait.

I just want to say that our new trait is awsome!!!!!

I love it

ERASE-AGA^^

Gazoo