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Bsts are fine. Spend some time farming a -dt set with a stack of remedies and its business as usual. Less bandwagon bsts means more chances for dedicated bsts to setup a 4 step fusion without the spam of readys from trigger happy bsts. This update has made playing bst even more fun for me.

As a nerf, it doesn't work. BST is as good as ever in any fight where the target is static tanked. All this change achieved was to make the job annoying to play. It was horrifically misconceived from the get-go and is just going to cost SE subscriptions.

Trying to forcibly change how people play their job of choice at this stage in the game's life is risky at best, but enforcing it by effectively disabling half their signature abilities based on a tight proximity check is basic stupidity.

If damage output was simply scaled according to range, it'd be fine. But making it so that beyond a range smaller than the radius of a large mob the pet becomes unresponsive and unable to be healed is just irritating.

There already is a feature.
By doing quests and assignments, Reja in the library gives copper and silver shovel cordons.
AND this past update added a Gold KI that reduces improbluhs even further... (Don't believe it's obtainable yet, what with having done every quest but GEO's mythic; and the previous two levels didn't require any RUN or GEO quests. Makes me think Amchuchu's Vegetable Vegetable line will get a finale next month. Which finishes all hanging quest lines.)

REALLY hope they don't mean something dumb like RoV KI reduces the timer...
Would MUCH rather it reduce conversion cost (HPB to 1:1k, coalition gear and items get a 50~80% cost down, SR simulacra for 1k, etc).

Just put it back to F8 and make F7 or F10 the key that selects whatever is closest... Just give me back my F8 targets enemy!

Yes please, or make it an option in the config to chose which is prioritized. Not being able to quickly target the nearest enemy has been annoying as all hell.

This is actually fine as far as I am concerned.

The epic QQing to un-nerf BST is funny as hell to read. All those bandwagoners who were cheezing fights slammed into a brick wall.

They can still do it and I see them do it all the time. It's just the incredibly gimp bad players like that Olor guy. The rest were just inconvenienced. That guy is something else, he is just so bad and needy on a whole other level. Completely takes the BST stereotype and makes it his own.

Would you be surprised to learn that most of my LS(large majority career BST) also enjoy reading that thread for the same reason? Seriously, this whole range thing isn't a big deal. Git gud, scrubs.

Well I've never had an issue with dedicated BST players doing crazy good ***, only with large quantities of people quickly tossing gear onto BST and then abusing game mechanics to easily clear everything. BST is still broke as *** but at least this shakes the ultra noobs off the bandwagon.

I have partied with BSTS and they do just fine.

Good BST are still good, just maybe a tad more careful on where they stand.

Bad BST die horribly as I laugh maniacally.

win/win

Looking like I'm right, VVR questline is being finished, so it seems the gold KI was indeed added early.

Bst is still easy to play. Attack run in ready, spur ready wait 1 secs ready again run out of range to let ready timer refill press ready attack ready run out of range. Easy as pie. Just we need more dedicated bst. I prob ran into 1 other 1200 JPs bst all this time.

Bst is fine the way it is. If anything needs changed it's blu's AOE damage. I can 1-shot 15 IT mobs with ease on blu, and my blu sucks. I would rather other jobs are just made stronger, but instead SE is paying attention to inferior players that can't stop crying on the official forums. Blu's know they've gotten lucky, between Subduction and Specrtal Floe... Magic Hammer really? If you can't be strong on Blu it's time to play another game.

I been defending bst n now defending blue. Only way to one shot mass mobs is with burst affinity and even then some mobs might still have a sliver amount of life left so ur gear must be pretty good to be able to one shot 15 IT mobs. It takes good players to play blue good. Not mediocre player so ur opinions is a little wrong.

This is exactly why SE need to unnerf SAM.

All 2-handers need a buff. Hell, if S-E even went back to the old 1:1 STR/DEX: ATK/ACC ratio, that would be a great start towards fixing our accuracy issues.


Even if only 20% of blue mages can perform at that level, it's still a bit unbalanced. There's no reason why one job should be able to do well in so many roles. BLU needs either an across-the-board nerf or a heavier nerf to a single facet of the job. A nerf to CDC might be a good start, or a nerf to their cleaving spells.

SE needs to allow Accession > Haste already, so my 10+ minute Haste is also AoE.

Let's not nerf anymore jobs pls.

That's summoner's thing, though. That's not likely to happen.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/47747-Haste-Accession?p=555748#post555748

He's exaggerating big time. Probably talking about Accuex's which take extra damage from certain elements, then using BA and having really good Helios or Abjuration MAB gear with Nibiru clubs. BLU's nuking sets are nearly identical to what a SCH / BLM / RDM / GEO would use so someone with one of those jobs already geared has some really nice nuke gear.

Now BLU can one shot VT dragons / puks in escha, well most of them, with good gear and BA Tenebral. BLM could of done the same except magic spell damage is divided up among targets while weapon skill damage isn't. BLU magic spells are considered weapon skills, so you have cataclysm, aeolian edge, and fell cleave on a 20~25 second cool down.

Prior to the last JP update BLU was balanced just right. It has a really high skill vs power curve, which is how all jobs should be balanced. There is no gimmicky "push B to win" mechanic to the job due to it's complexity. Unfortunately that last 1200JP was too much and pushed BLU over the edge into OP territory. The issue with jobs like MNK, SAM, BST and Rag-Reso DRK, is that they had virtually all their power front-loaded onto the job with practically zero skill requirement. So while there was some room for power-through-skill growth, it was fairly small and a bandwagon player could gather the requisite gear, download someone else's gearswap file, and within a week be capable of exploiting whatever gimmick is in vogue. This leads to everyone and their mother jumping on that job and thus pushing out anyone not doing the bandwagon. Try that on BLU (or DNC which almost as powerful as post-1200JP BLU) and the player will fail miserably. We saw this already years ago when there were so many bad BLU's that the job got a huge amount of discrimination. I remember having to convince shell mates to let me bring it to various events because everyone thought it sucked due the sheer number of bad BLU's who had zero idea how the jobs mechanics worked.

So does this teaser release mean I shouldn't expect an October update?