I would say I don't mind it that much if the game is responsive, but unless I was lagging horribly which I dont believe I was, It felt like there was a 1+ second delay between everything i did... I could start moving 1 second before the cast was over on everything and it wouldnt cancel it. It's even worst when you want to run out of red circles and youve been out for 2 seconds yet it still hits you. That's what I disliked the most in beta :\ 2.5 GCD is also too long like some people have mentionned, Bring it down to 1.5 I say.
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Vorph
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Right, but if Arcanist doesn't have a few heals in its spell list then it seems very unlikely that Scholar will actually be able to compete with WHM like they promised.
Either way, the posted list is ancient and hopefully a hell of a lot has changed since then.
I doubt Arcanist itself gets that much in the way of heals. I think the only main addition you're going to see to Arcanist early on is a powerful HoT in Regen. My guess is that they'll make Regen work in the following way so it can be used in instances (without forcing bads to pickup cure):
Also, Regen being cross class is going to be awesome should they go that route. It'll turn CNJ DPS uptime in early instances from 75% to 95%. Just throw on a regen at the start of the pull and dps away. Same thing should apply to the Arcanist really.
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Well that's not that necessary, based on the early arcanist info. As you can see in the summoner skill, what happens when you become a summoner and unlike every other job is it converts your 2 carbuncle spells into 2 summoner pets. As such it's safe to assume that Scholar will get the 2 fairies(I wanna say one that heals and one that tanks/DPS for soloing). On top of that as soon as you hit 30 you also get your first scholar spell. Also note that because Scholar requires 15 CNJ, it's also a given you can cross class at least up to 15. With all these, you wouldn't need much for Scholar to be a viable healer right at 30. Your fairy should probably be able to heal and possibly to Esuna, your first spell is say an aoe heal, you have Cure to help your fairy healing and Raise to well Raise people as well as Protect for mitigation. That's the basics for healing, plus whatever debuff Arcanist gets to reduce dmg. The thing is, unlike WHM which gets an aoe nuke and a bunch of long cd abilities, it wouldn't be too hard for Scholar to simply get 5 healing abilities+fairy+CNJ cross class and have enough to do the same as a WHM.
The biggest issue here is you probably can't queue as a healer until 30, so that's annoying. But I don't think it's necessary for Arcanist to have any healing related spells for Scholar to be a viable healer, because of the way the pets are given for "free" and can probably have multiple spells themselves, which gives the scholar more spells compared to a WHM, and the fact the scholar can cross class all the CNJ stuff while the WHM won't be able to cross class Scholar stuff, only Arcanist.
Maybe they'll just rework Arcanist entirely to be a healer from the start though, I explained a few weeks ago a decent way to do it with a Stance similar to Cleric's Stance that would change your spells from damage to heals.
I think I read a post a few pages back that the devs have confirmed this as a bug. There is some sort of delay involved with casts. Where if you do not exit out of the red circles immediately, they will still hit. A red circle for a mob means they are casting a spell, much like your own spells, it may have a 2-3 second cast time, but the spell activates to hit after around 60-70% of the cast. This is what enables you to be hit while not being in the circle, and cast spells even though they should be interrupted.
Vorph
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This is what I am hoping for, a healer with debuffs. Looking at that old spell list from a dps perspective, it's utter shit compared to a THM from 1-30.
No real mining of pet skills yet and I'm guessing the bulk of the jobs functionality comes from that, because them skills is turrible.
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Sounds like a bunch of bullshit for a supposedly open beta. I have a couple friends I might be able to convince to just download a client and try it out (and let's be real, OBs are free trials with some stress testing). Go through all that shit which includes fucking around with their terrible account management system to be able to play at an unknown week sometime in the next month? Yea, not happening.
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It doesn't say you have to register before the date to participate, it simply says to do so before the date if you want to use older codes. After that it'll probably use a different system, and the servers are gonna be laggy/down as fuck due to people spamming so you'd better do it earlier. Regardless there's no open beta without registration, in any mmo ever. Even if the registration is a simple process without an email confirmation check, which happens rarely, you still have to create an account to log on the servers.
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The first line of the message actually answers that, it says you won't have to register again.
On their registration system yeah I don't know how hard it is as I had an old account I think, but I believe they made a simpler system on a new page? It's mostly shitty because they don't link you the client so you have to figure out how to log on the beta board, then find it there.
I agree, SE's account management system needs a ton of help. But in reality, once you are done with the account management you will spend less than .001% of your gaming time dealing with their management system.
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To be fair, FFXIV has improved 16MILLION% over the abortion of a system that PlayOnline used in FFXI
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