2009-01-18, 11:37 PM
Cyanne Wrote:Archmages: Remove ultimates and power up fire demon/ice demon/paralyze/chain lightning/big bang to allow archmages to train at a similar pace to other classes. In the ultimates' place, a new skill should be added that removes weapon/magic cancel but with quite a long cooldown. This lets them become more useful at bosses in a unique way.
I'd be happier if they just made blizzard/genesis/meteor slightly more powerful than ice strike (maybe a 170 to 200, on par with thunder spear, and boosting chain lightning a bit so it's not a meak 180 but possibly a nice 220), for approximately the same casting cost and retaining the 15 targets.
Then it's just a minor scale up over what they had on 3rd job in terms of damage and targets, not an unbalanced nuke-the-universe-to-oblivion.
I really dislike the way chain lightning's arcing works and that paralyze is single target. Them both arcing and dropping 25% per arc instead of 50% would be a lot more useful overall since all you do is aggro the last three mobs hit right now.