Job Points; May 14th Sneak Peak

The '550' Job Point gifts as follows:

Sch: reduces stratagem recast time by 15 seconds per 1 charge point.

rdm: new spells: addle II, distract III, frazzle III

blm & drk: new spell, drain3.

pld: increases effectiveness of protect spell received by 10%

thf & dnc: decreases weapon delay by 5% with two weapons

rdm: new spell, addlII, frazzleIII, distractIII

whm: increases regen spells by 5HP

bst: increases pet attributes by 8

brd: songs spellcasting time down 5%

rng: increases number of projectiles from barrage by 1

sam: increases number of shadows from third eye by 1

drg: reduces recast time of restoring breath and smithing breath by 10 seconds

smn: avatar's favor effect increased by 1

blu: increases the potency of blue magic by 5%

cor: QD delay reduction 10 seconds per charge point

run: new spell, temper

war: weaponskill dmg +3%

mnk: counterattack dmg +5%

Nin: Increases the effect duration of ninjutsu by 10%

Pup: unknown ><

war, cor, sch, rdm seem to be clear winners. what you guys think!!?

RUN getting Temper has got to be some broken *** :<

Its like having a RDM with a GS that can also sub SAM and be useful.

pup: marital arts effect

and not only that we get new category on JP for martial arts too so

PUP: Decreases hand-to-hand delay by 5 (Martial Arts).

You were faster than me!

pup ma is a mixed bag, if you dont have KKK its great, if you have KKK it hurts. and the new blurred +1 is a strong contended to beat KKK with aftermath 3 down, 30 more dmg, and still possible to easily cap dly reduction with

Geo is Aspir 3, depending on how good this is it could be a pretty awesome gift. Hella salty about 550 JPs though, that is downright insane.

I read someone doing a 900+ aspir 3. RNG gifts are nice but how to get the CP bugger

All you had to do was join my pizza parties!

As a side note, disappointed in the SMN bonus. Avatar's Favor is a job ability with bad quality of life and not very interesting. That's not saying it's bad, but... sigh.

Why did you leave me.

Brd's Song Spellcasting Time -5% is a total slap to the face for 550 JP lol, has to be the worst of all jobs.

Granted, the job is still fine, but man... Song Spellcasting -5%...

DNC gets +1% CHR bonus to Flourishes III per JP level and -3% TP cost per JP level during Contradance. They both kinda suck, although Flourishes III is better than the contradance enhancement.

BLM gets Aspir III, not Drain III. It costs 2 MP.

Sam got boned ; ;

PLD Got so *** in the ***. *** this game.

I would've enjoyed even...a new song...like...Massacre Elegy or something. Not this ***.

Yeah, SAM should be complaining about getting a bad deal on Job Points. OK.

As a career melee RDM I'm pretty salty about temper being handed to another job even if they have to work their *** off to get it. We finally had something for our melee that was purely ours... and now it's not. Hopefully the Enspells changes are good enough to not have us crapped on again.

Further proof that SE has no idea how to keep things balanced and interesting. Oh boy, Counter does 5% more damage, sign me right up for grinding the hell out of Job Points.

Come on now, you KNEW that was going to happen eventually. RUN is basically melee RDM with some more tanking aspects thrown in. They already had their own version of enspells, magic defense bonus, phalanx, refresh, regen, barspells, spikes spells, aquaveil, stoneskin, blink, protect, shell and obscene fast cast, it was only a matter of time before they got temper. The one thing they don't have though is the ridiculous +duration that RDM gets, RUN has to constantly recast it's own buffs while RDM's can throw them on and ignore them for 10~15 minutes+.

Are you saying that with the right gift you'd have been willing to grind all day, all night?

So who liked their new job point categories? I only looked at THF and PLD so far, definitely like the Triple Attack Damage increase for THF and the Enlight damage + accuracy increase category for PLD.

It is attack on triple attacks for THF.

I liked all the categories I looked at apart from DNC really.

+10 attack on triple attacks? That is so useless. Also what's up with the 550 job gift for dnc and thf? Sounds like it would be bad since both had no problem hitting the delay cap before. So if it works like job haste then yay, but the way it's written sounds like it will also lower tp per hit.

Hmm not that great then but it's still an increase.

I'll stand by the Enlight thing though.