2011-04-13, 08:15 PM
LegendGospel Wrote:As stated, mages originally had certain uniqueness. Priests would party with DKs at Himes, then join parties at Skeles or Newties. F/P mages would mist, and I/L mages would attack more. All 3 were kinda sucky overall, but they had a different gameplay.
Then 4th job came, which made all mages just ultimate spammers. The whole concept of 4th job was based around ultimates, the rest of our skills were mostly filler. A cool summon and some other attacks which weren't really that important. Our ultimates were everything, so important that mastery books costed hundreds of millions of mesos.
Big Bang did stop the ultimate spamming... but they forgot that 4th job was designed around ultimates, so they left us with horribly designed skills like Big Bang, just increasing the damage in hopes that would compensate for the lack of ultimate spamming. Not to mention, 3rd job is horrible for all mages too, post-BB. A Bishop supporting is just lol exp, and you can't even mist properly now...
What mages really need is re-thinking the whole concept of the 3 jobs, and CHANGE the jobs, not just "patch" them. A simple patch isn't going to fix something that's horribly designed.
As much as I would love to disaggree with you and try pointing out a few simple fixes, you make a really good point. They probably need to rework mages from the ground up, and possibly give them like 5 spells to choose from in each job that all have their own uses so that each mage can have its own build. They also need to have some way of keeping spells usefull later on so that they don't fall back into a spam class with weak attacks; however, the problem with reworking the entire mage class is that plenty of old mages would be seriously pissed off. Then again, not many mages seem to enjoy their class anymore, so who knows.