Almandaragal Wrote:I'd be more satisfied with that than the weapons probably, but if it were a viable option, Magic would be to magicians what Luk, Str, and Dex are to star users, warriors, and bowmen. That is, you're rewarded for putting into a secondary stat because there isn't a 1:1 ratio of ability stat to attack stat. What I mean to say is that if such a thing were a likely thing to be implemented, our magic stat calculations wouldn't be so retarded in the first place.This is more of a LUKless vs LUK dilemma. I've been thinking about this, and it really isn't hard to fix.
Make it so INT adds only 0.8 Magic.
Make it so MA from equips counts as double.
Only problem is that changing it now would screw over way too many people, jumble up the prices on all INT/MA items, and cause a lot of complaints.
But, that's off topic.
Concerning ultimates, spamming from one spot was never their intended use. That's why they cost thousands of MP in the first place.
But that doesn't mean anything in GMS anymore, so they need another kind of check. I'd say that giving them a cooldown time of 8 seconds at all levels would effectively destroy ultimate spamming, which I never believed in from the start.
Before you start complaining about how it'd be impossible for mages to level, all they need to do is strengthen their other skills. Give AR and Paralyze and CL 400+ base attack, and ID/FD 200. And to give the ultimates some use, halve their casting time and remove their MP cost, to make them the same for mages as Snipe is for high-level MMs.
Then the question wouldn't be "Bishop Ult vs AM Ult", would it?
But I don't see a large-scale overhaul of the mage class being practical at this point. It would alter the current AM/Bishop mindset beyond recognition. People already deep into 4th job would suddenly find themselves with an unusable set of skills. (Reset everyone's 4th job SP? ...Nah.) Besides, Nexon's making profit, why would they care?