Hmm. Though it hopefully won't be too bad, I can't help but wonder how this will affect the RDM 2 hour. For instance, the only way I've ever heard of the BCNM50 "3, 2, 1..." being done (have to kill a bomb with 10000ish HP in one minute or it self destructs and kills everyone) is with 3 red mages using Chainspell > Fire II... and obviously, with 3 red mages spamming Fire II, it would build resistance fairly quickly. I'm sure there are other strategies for it, but that's the one I've always heard about, and so I'm just wondering if that will be possible anymore. I guess I'll just have to try and see the effects for myself.

Also, I read in a few posts about people saying that it would only build resistance for one element... the way I intrepreted it, it sounded like it would become resistant to the entire type of magic, as if your magic skill in that school of magic were decreasing. For example, spamming Fire II would cause a mob to become resistant to all types of elemental magic, rather than just the fire element, and then a white mage could cast Holy for full damage.

We'll just have to see, though.

Yes I agree with whoever said this effect should go both ways to us and the NMs. There are mobs with manafront ability and do cast ancient magic.

This is how i explained it on bethegamer.com:

Also the new update will inculde a change to offensive magic. Many players (especially BLMs) are worried this will nerf them. This is not the case. Imagin a bucket and water (yes some of u know this is an analogy for plds and nins but ill show how this applies to the new update). Now for the update, wheneaver a spell is casted, it builds up resistance. Now lest say that the bucket has a hole in the bottom. Magic will be water thats added to the bucket. So resistance is how full the bucket is. Now 1 or 2 blms will find little to no resistance, because they only fill the bucket a little, and resistance goes out of the bucket by the time they cast another spell. But lets say your manaburning. This will start to put more water into the bucket then what comes out. Resistance builds and doesnt go out. So now manaburn parties will half to wait for the water to leak out or theyr magic will start to suck. Now this first of all only applies to NMs. And more spesificly NMs that are being won easily by manaburns. Battles like Snoll Tzar will prolly not be effected much because thats how the battles sapost to be faught. Ones like Fenrir will prolly have a greater resistance because theyr so easy to beat by spaming Levithan blood pact. (NOTE: SMNs are only being affected on blood pact spams. They astral flows will not be affected. And 1 or 2 will notice little differece. Also for DYnamise the statues die so fast they wont even have time to build resistance.) SO in short, these is a countermeasure to manaburn because SE has no intentions to nerf mages.

This also goes for 2hrs. Its just a way to stop people from winning certain battles with manaburn. With only 1 person usin NIN suiside itle still do the damage. Its when you do the same thing over and over with to many people.

I'll say one thing then I'll let it go because we have beat the hell out of this dead horse. lmao! If this same thing happened to a melee job then they would be ********* e.g." All Impossible to gauge mobs' defense will increase over time as they are hit." The Melee would ***** like hell. The Blms have the right to complain. It takes a great deal of time to get to 75.

Just like the gimp that happened to Ranger. That was wrong. SE should increase the power of the other jobs. They should destroy a good one. If you do not want to hear people ***** then STFU and do not read this thread. They put the time in on their job. They can complain.

Although, We still have to see how severe the gimp will be. Time and patience will answer all these questions.

Ya know what. It's their game. If you don't like it, don't play.

Personally, I am tired of SE seeing that one job is more powerful than others...and then nerfing it. Instead, why can't they be a little creative and strengthen the other jobs to where they CAN effectively be incorporated into strategies used to take these NMs down.

Heck, from what I know lots of HNMs have to be kited otherwise the tanks go down WAY to fast...this right there makes it impossible for melee to participate.

i so saw this coming after seeing how merc run work and 17 blms one shotting DM. i just didnt think it would go as far as ninjustu. it kinda beats teh whole purpose of ninjutsu since its suppose to lower elemental resistance. chi blast and mijin gakure? wtf. oh well. SE is just being gay nowdays.

Dont discount what SE does and do not over estimate the changes. One thing I have noticed about players is when SE makes changes, players cry and shout they nerf <insert job> here.

Let's get something straight, the game is fantasy but also they try to incorporate real world physics. Also, they try to curb down abuse of certain players in the game preventing others from obtaining items using certain jobs only, only certain groups obtaining stuff, etc. The latter being lower on the reasons of changes.

Nerf RNG - depending on distance range accuracy and range attack varies. Interesting, in real life this is true. The further from a target the less accurate but you can cause more damage and closer you are less damage because the projectile will not reach maximum velocity. And yes too far from target you begin to lose range acc/att both.

Nerf Ninja - Every shadow hit lowers the mob's enmity towards the ninja. This one is funny because think about it, you have shadows up, I swing 1 shadow down, swing again another, I am getting frustrated but at the same time I am thinking, "***** this I need to find the weakest link and work from there." Also, Ninja is a stealth fighter/thief - stealth being the key word. You want to be sneaky, not draw attention, and avoid stuff even if they are on to you. The idea here is the shadows lowers the mob's interest in you because you are suppose to be stealthy and hitting your shadows frustrates the mob into just ignoring you.

Nerf Beastmaster - When releasing mobs they despawn and respawn in their original area of patrol/grazing. This was done to lower MPKs from some bad people out there. This one change, that result affected BST ability to solo levels quickly. But BST adapted to this change and learn other ways to solo more efficiently. This is one where they should have use an if-clause in mobs, such as if-release command is issued the mob wanders back to area of origin and ignores all others.

Nerf Shield skill - Shield skill now absorbs partial damage when being hit. This is interesting because this too mimics real life. Shields were designed to lessen the damage but not completely negate unless the blow was weak. Various PLD and other who have capped or kept up their shield skills will admit that shield skill does help out but does not always 100% gaurantee or your money back. I personally, have noticed that my shield skill has saved me many times from not only regular hits but also WS from mobs playing as BST.

Now something to consider, if they were truly to make the game tougher, then something they have not added is breaking, wearing out, or damaging weapons and armor. Who knows, they might add a quest where certain weapons break you have to get them repaired. Personally, if they do this, I think you should break your AF1 weapon, do several quests to get parts to repair it. Then after repairing, the NPC says if you get me these items I will upgrade your AF1 to AF1+ where it boosts some stats. and abilities like when worn 2 hour ability is extend from 30 to 45 seconds, Benediction (the WHM in me) extends to an alliance or -ga spells like curaga. Also, the weapon becomes say lvl 60 to use or something.



Now something about this magic resistance is a problem to me. First off, I can understand the building up resistance in mobs but this too should be applied to US the players as well. If a mob spams paralyze or sleepga or something we (the players) should also build up resistance. If mobs build resistance than players should also build resistance HOWEVER my thoughts are the following:

6 spells of Fire - fire resistance build up quickly to fire nothing else
if you mix the spells around where not 1 element is constantly being used then the resistance build up to each individual element is slower.

So in layman terms, resistance build up should be on individual elements and not elements as a WHOLE. Also, if a mob is weak to a certain type of element, then the reverse effect, each additional same elemental spell should increase in damage not increase resistance/defense.

Where I also do see a problem is RDM soloing mobs; RDM depend on Magic and Melee to survive so this one change that SE better reconsider BEFORE deploying so quickly. Else you will have a lot of ANGRY RDMs.

Also, Dynamis, BCNM, ENM, etc areas, the mobs con as Impossible, so consider that too.

Changes to mob abilities should also apply to players as well, equality to mobs and players.

=O SE said it themselves, HNM stands for High Notorious Monster. Not Hyper, not honorary. Not whatever else that starts with an H. lol.

Lower the defense of the mob of the element of the spell, it helps the buffs stick!

Raiton(lowers earth resistance)---> Hojo (Earth based spell) = Slow

Katon(lowers water resistance)---> Dokumori (Water based spell) = Poison

Huton (lowers ice resistance)---> Jubaku (Ice based spell) = Paralyze

an turn its also called magic resistance please dont get annoyed if you dont understand. what they were talking about ty

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Wait and see what the details of the changes are before freaking out peoples.

These announcements are an outline of what is going to be done. When the update is available they'll release more details about it so how bout you don't flip out until that date.

You could be getting all worked up of a small adjustment. How stupid are you going to feel then?