[dev1135] New Special Job Abilities

the bst 2hrs is rly good. and the smn 2hrs haves a lot of potential for zerging

well i was thinking if you had a lot of people hitting the same mob. then it would just be generating tp like mad so
/shrug

I really hope this is wrong. THF doesn't need another worthless 2hr. =/

More useful than perfect dodge, I'll take it. Free instant high damage+enmity transfer is ok with me.

Impact! 130-150 TP return in STP set!

Haha ya I assume so just thinking of mobs that like to spam TP moves.

I'm just hoping the drain amount is worth using... would be awesome if this could drop a swing or 2 in X hit builds

The new Monk 2 Hour seems pretty great to me. When is Hundred Fists even used now after all.

But, I think I'm excited for Nin more than anything. It's kind of terrible but at least the job will have a two hour used for something besides death warping now.

Completely serious. Even if it isn't something all that great, I'd probably use it more than Mijin at least(Besides RR>Mijin>No weakness).
But I don't use Nin for anything important as my Nin is just god awful.

Or was that about HF? Need something more than an image macro.

Every 2hr thus far is duration-based. Every other new 2hr looks to be duration based as well.

Benediction, Eagle Eye Shot, and Mijin Gakure say wha?

The NIN 2hr is arguably less useful than Mijin. The most significant thing a NIN might tank that warrants the parry increase is an old content MNK, and we already have Issekigan for that. The ninjutsu recast reduction is of minor relevance even for solo NINs (useless for the rest). You either waste it while you finish going around the wheel or it lets you cycle back to an element you have merited slightly sooner.

I'll use it too cap parrying, that's about it!

They mentioned that these two hours will be able to be enhanced through Group 3 merits though right?

That could have a glimmer of hope for adding additional effects to these.

Alright, you got me. Throw in wild card too.

God I hope you're all wrong and thf 2hr isn't a 1-hit thing.

agreed, much more useful than blood weapon.

I hope so too just to be clear lol

Job combo with access to Curing Waltz, PDT gear, grab 10 or so mandies, afk for a while with Spellcast or AutoExec on, rinse and repeat til capped. 2hrsayswhat? You could probably cap from 75-era cap level in less than 2 hours doing that.

Well, maybe not quite cap since they'll be a little too low for that unless you level them up, but close enough.

That's what the description is...

I love the BLM one :p
Can nuke even harder now without having to worry about hate. MP is never an issue.
WHM one is also nice if you don't have a smn and are zerging something for example. Can just put it up before and no need to worry about enfeebles.
THF one has potential depending on how strong it is. Still better than PD in most cases.
DRK sounds nice if the effect is not 1tp/hit.
BST is nice just for the reraise.
BRD is my new friend now. Even more nuke damage!
RNG is atleast better than EES.
SMN sounds really nice.
PUP is good I guess?

I like most of them. I don't understand why so many are crying because of them. What did you expect? Some uber ultra hardcore abilities? It's not like they are replacing the old 2 hours. I'm sure there will be a use for every one of them. Just gotta find them.

Seriously how are you guys honestly expecting the drk tp drain to be 5/tp a hit on a 2hour that will probably only have a 30-45s duration. Given drks ability to swing fast (they don't make these 2hs JUST to zerg), they have to think the average to shitty-geared drk is gonna swing a few times per 2h. Do you really think that it's a 2h that they designed to only be good at haste cap with every haste buff? No... They are going to give you quite a decent bit of tp per swing on this. My only concern, is that people aren't going to use this defensively properly. If you can tp lock an NM for say 30-45s this 2h could be godly.

I agree but don't forget what happens if it is too good? You could just DRK zerg everything.

I'm beginning to think that all of Dragoon's problems deal with the fact that it is a pet job. Or Square-Enix, but still.

I often wonder how it'd be like without the Wyvern.

So play 14. Drg in 14 is dope lol

They added Dragoon?

Well you see that's just it. Defensively, it's NOT a zerg 2h. It's a TP-lock, organized 2h use JA. It's so very promising.

On a side note. I actually like this drg one. Spirit Surge is good and all (for what it's worth. I'm glad call wyvern isn't the 2h anymore lol), but this one could be great. If it really does morph the wyvern into a bigger one (even if Guivre size wyvern) it would be great hehe

A long time ago. They added advanced jobs. Monk, Paladin, White Mage, Black Mage, Dragoon, Warrior, and Bard.

Square-Enix told us a long time ago that these abilities would not REPLACE the current 2-hours, but would rather suit different situations. That's why they came out this way.

I can see most of these being used in (at least) niche situations, but for the most part, the regular 2-hours are more useful. That's why these suck.

There are a few good ones, though.

I just saw some of the images, and I think I'm going to resub to check this out in the next few weeks.

FFXI's been getting stale lately.