This is going to be very interesting. Nerfing of BLM alone would have impaired the ability of groups fighting many HNMs, but additionally nerfing Bloodpacts, Spirits Within and Chi Blast is going to make some major problems to current strategies. Now no melee job was actually reliant upon Spirits Within to deal damage it was just easier and more consistant than other moves. I think we will start seeing MNKs doing SATA Full Swing depending on how powerful the Chi Blast nerfing is. Personally I think this will have the largest impact on beseiged, hyper mode nms, and nms that were already near unbeatable. Personally after this update I have no idea how it will be even remotely possible to beat AV.

Finally... a decent way to combat manaburn parties and give non-mage jobs a decent shot at fighting HNMs. Battles these days have relied far too heavily on the "throw as many BLMs as you can at it" strategy. Finally an update which will force players to actually use a proper tactic instead of relying on a single job for all your damage.

Someone in my ls brought up a good point, will this magic resistance be added to statues in Dynamis?

These are usually manaburned because of their high phys. defense and nasty aoe tp moves. Hopefully it won't gimp dynamis runs. :/

Woo!

Edited, Jul 19th 2006 at 3:07pm EDT by SirGanon

Honestly I don't think that this will be that big of a deal. I think they want to bring down the powerfulness of 10+ black mages attacking something. As far as effecting Blood Pacts (being the SMN that I am), I think it only refers to using magic, not the LV 70 Blood Pacts. So using Fire IV on a mob that already has elemental magic resistance up will hit for nothing. But, this isn't much to worry about since they aren't that good anyway. There is my opnion...

SE needs to specify what they mean by resisting magic ... do they mean resisting a type fo magic or a type of spell ... like say if you have 15 BLMs and they all casts thundaga III ... will that be the only spell thats resisted or will all Elemetal magic be resisted? if it is just the res to one spell or a element of magic that then a simple thing can be done to fix if you have the same 15 BLMs now casts different spells 3 Thundaga IIIs 3 Blizzaga IIIs 3 Firaga IIIs 3 Aeraga IIIs 3 Waterga IIIs and 3 Stoneaga IIIs then the damage problem will be some what solved ... granted some of the spells are not the best of spells to use cause of natural elemental resists that some mobs have but it could be a solution to some manaburn LSs. But SE also said they would not ever gimp BLM ... perahaps we should start a petition about this ... SE cant function w/o people playing its money maker Game maybe if enough people quit or deactivated their accounts SE would have to listen?

Why are they gimping SMN? ... if i remember sorrectly SMNs are supposed to have NO N FREAKIN O Damage calculators ... but then again SE also said the thing about BLM and look how that turned out.

Ninjustu is a NIN magic that is done by the use of tools ... that first off should lable them as not a type of magic ... cause elementals dont aggro you when you sues NIN magic ... secondly the elemetal Ninjutsu spells LOWER a mobs res to spells SE cant do a 180 and now say yea but over time they will be Resisted ... This will **** alot of ninjas off on my server cause i know ALOT of elemetalists (NINs who sub BLM and use int equips to do damage to mobs and lower their Resist to other spells)

IMO they are changing the game to a point where it will no longer be fun to play but true work ... a game is supposed to be fun with some minor work so you feel that you have accomplished something ... what SE wants to do and plans to do will change this game into just another waist of time. Cause i mean really its hard enought to get stuff done on this gmae cause of peoples constant fighting and name calling ... now SE wants to put up a wall that will just ***** everyone over ... yea SE needs to really rethink what they plan to do in this version update or they will lose my 30 bucks a month.

Yeah, so, is this going to affect BCNM's and KS? I can just imagine how the merc business for KS30 will be going... I think I'm going to cash my KS in now.

Great Now KSNM are nefed now its going to be even harder to get my vermy ><

This is a gimp of EVERY job. They nerf Spirits within and you lose the ability to kill some HNMs quickly, they add Resisance to Blood pacts (which are supposed to have no Damge Calcs in them) and what good is a SMN any mroe to end game shells? w/o BLMs nuking and doing some nice damage by having 5-6 BLM spamming thundaga III on SCs at some mobs .. all i have to say is they better get rid of hyper mode cause if not its going to be almost impossible to kill some mobs.

A mage nerf. Great... -_-'

Those better be some damn good magic spells they're supposed to be adding for BLM. One question though, anybody know if the Besieged monsters check as "impossible to gauge" once they're inside the city? I know they do outside but I've never bothered inside. If they do, hopefully SE will show a little foresight and change something in that regard, not a lot of faith there though.

I don't know about this new blm nerf. If you ask me, the more beat up you get, the easier and faster it is to get beat up some more. Someone smashes you in the nose, it starts bleeding, your tear ducts start working, your eye swells up, and all that stuff but according to SE that kind of thing makes you more stronger? Now I know physical damage irl is not the same as magical damage in the game but c'mon! Guess we all know by now that SE thinks this way with all the latent effect items in the game but it's backward thinking to me. For example, you get blasted with lightning and burned a bit, then blasted some more and then some more so technically you should be a crispy critter by now. Over time and many battles fought I could see you growing resistant to it after being exposed and healed to full.

Btw, I am NOT a blm, lol, just think it's unfair. Someone has to be the most powerful don't they? Not every job should be equal, because if that were so, then whms should be able to somehow solo toughs too but they get ripped apart instead. That's what teamwork is for.