Quested 2hourFollow

okay, i was driving when i had this thought, something similar might have been posted on this, and if so, i'm sorry. Here's my thought: A quested JA for each job that would replace the 2 hour for that job. requires AF to be done and given by maat (or equivalent) after you beat them for 70 cap and are 75. no merits are required.
Here's my list of each job's ability, this is going to be a bit of a wall so just find the jobs you are interested in. i know many of these will seem broken, but hey for 1 minute of the game every other vana'day it would be nice to break things a bit. could even be a 24 hour ability.
(this will be my second time typing all this since Vista crashed 18th job in >.>)

Bard:

Orchestra- like soul voice only removes the limit of 2 songs, can sing as many songs as they can squeeze in there, songs do not start decay time untill after orchestra has worn off. after wearing, all songs disappear normally untill total is <=2. e minute

Beastmaster:

Pack Alpha- like familiar only brings out 2 more pets of same kind as currently out, pet is instantly raised to max allowable abilites (i.e. jug pets) pets stay out after ability but return to 'normal' stats for type. Leave command causes lowest HP one to despawn, untill only one pet remains. cannot call beast or charm with any pets out (unable to replace fallen pets)

Black Mage:

Ultima, yes mo'foing ultima, 2hour unlocks ultima for 1 minute, 5 second casting time, takes all MP to cast, regaurdless of mp total (must be >0). non elemental, cannot be resisted. damage at 1 mp ~500, while under 2hour Macc and Matt receive a boost, recast/casting time lowered for all spells (recast ultima 2 seconds)

Blue Mage:

Azure Soul- allows access to ALL learned spells, wich receive Macc Matt bonus, as well as a permanent burst/chain affinity on for duration of ability. 1 minute (this makes up for the crappy 2 hour SE gave you, hope you like it)

Corair:

Loaded Dice- like orchestra with dice, also all numbers land the best number for the roll, double up cannot cause bust (caps at 11). all rolls behave as if affiliated jobs where in pt.

Dancer:

Performance- able to stack differant daze effects, all steps start at lvl 5, instant max finishing moves, potency of all JA's are enhanced.
(sorry dont know much about this job, hope it looks ok)

Dark Knight:

Bloodmaster-Instant ability, drains HP, MP, TP(all), all stats, ACC, ATT, EVA, DEF, and grants hate effect while giving mob slow effect (drain speed) drained stats do NOT decay over time, last 2 minutes. This ability DOES affect undead.

Dragoon:

Ancient Spirit, like spirit surge only wyvern not sacrificed (think thats how that works), grants same bonuses to jump abilities, gives access to "meteoric jump", jump *3-4 seconds* come down like a falling star complete with re-entry flames/shockwave. Big damage, no hate gained.

Monk:

THOUSAND FISTS! (bolded in JA menu, i mean COMEON) 1 minute, blindlingly fast hits, think shadow images hitting mob your going so fast and you'll be close to what i'm thinking. Also gives eva, acc, and counter bonus while active.

[Break time, **insert movie theatre music** would you like a carbonated soda? I've chosen the large Tub. MY NIPPLES LOOK LIKE MILK DUDS!]

Ninja:

(jp translation of Justu master)-chainspell + 100% tool mastery for 1 minute. gains permanent shadows. (like thf perfect dodge)

Paladin:

Champion- invincible, like real invincible. cant be hurt by ANYTHING, also unable to be enfeebled / debuffed while under this affect. 1 minute.

Puppetmaster:

Limiter Removal- auto's abilities are raise per overdrive, master becomes pet that is on /autofollow to auto, gain full control over automaton, WS JA MA all selectable as per normal charactor methods, all recast times are reset, unable to be overloaded, can have up to 6 maneuvers active at the same time. 2 minutes. after 2 minutes auto returns to normal abilites, overload, 3 maneuvers, etc only still able to directly control automaton, last until death/zone into city or with the /pet Revert command.

Ranger:

Salvo- consumes remaining ammo in slot into damage, position is ignored for damage/accuracy. Receive Ratt and Racc bonus. unlimited shot adds one extra 'arrow/bolt/bullet'-'s worth of damage.

Red Mage:

Quicken- much like chainspell, only all spells are selected first then cast at the same time, recast of alls pells 1 second, casting time 1 second, duration of ability 1 minute. animation is blm by default unless casting only one type of magic class.

Samauri:

(jp translation for Dark Blossom)- TP cost is 0 for all WS, damage calculated as if 300%, 1 minute, 'nuff said.

Scholar:

Tabula Perfectus (Final paper/final board)- like tabula rasa only raises all skills to A+ (relax its only for one minute blms). (cant think of much else to add really)

Summoner:

Astral Torrent- like limiter removal for pup, only conrol of avatar is given, stats boosted for avatar as per astral flow. perpetualtion cost reduced to zero and native auto refresh for 10/tick, avatar CAN be buffed by pt members (summoner cant tho, as you are a pet) astral flow ability available as normal but 0 mp does not cause avatar to disappear. after effect wears, the avatar will still be able to be manually conrolled untill cityzone/death of smn or a /pet Revert command.

Thief:

Assasin- resets recast for SA and TA, SA gets following "Prevents enemy from acting" TA gets "Prevents enemy from moving" both effects last 1 minute. Assasin lasts 2 minutes, triple attack rate is enhanced and thf cannot be hurt by physical or ranged attacks.

Warrior:

Mortal Rage- mighty strikes with 100% acc rate, double attack effect is enhanced, haste effect (less then hundred strikes)

White Mage"

Grace- instant HP/MP/TP full for all pt members (range ignored), removes all negative status effects, and grants RR3. If any pt members are dead, casts R3 on them instead. Affects alliance members, set hate gained as per cure V

All of these abilities are immune to paralyze.

sorry for the wall of text. tell me your thoughts, just whether you like the abilities, as i already know they are fairly broken. I tried to give some love to blu whm and nin since i know their 2hours could use a boost.

or every 24 =D
but honestly they dont give THAT much advantage, JoL or AV coulnt be taken by 2 ppl, or even most BCNM fights that require 75s, least nothing that couldnt be beaten with normal 2 hours.

Perhaps, but "Perfect Defense" for a minute, especially if you've maxed your hate first, is enough to let a lot of zergs be done without having to worry about anyone dying.

I don't think that's a bad idea actually. I mean make em balanced and when you hit 75 a quest for an extra (don't replace original) 2-hour ability might be pretty nice. Kinda reminds me of Oblivion where on top of the once-a-day ability your race gets you can also align to a doomstone and get an additional once-a-day ability. Perhaps make em more practical for typical meritting/adventuring scenarios rather than major events though. In that case maybe a 1-hour timer would be more suitable? Good idea overall.

Waaaay over powered.





I am sure BLMs will still prefer Manafont....




Stopping making DRK zerging more game breaking than it already is.




I am sorry but I still prefer Chainspell, since you said "cast at the same time". What use is CS Stun if all the Stun spells are casted at the same time? And most of the time when you CS, you often are casting the same spells over and over withour worry about recast (CS nuke often nuke with highest tier for example). CS still pwns.




We finally have a way against DRK zerg, it is call SAM zerg instead.




There IS such an ability in the game already, called Redemption, used by the CoP NPC when you fight Promathia....



Most of your ideas are waaaaaaay over powered, except the RDM one you are gimping us instead WTF, may be on the similar track but less game breaking, and also as a laternative 2hr (but share same timer) instead of replace the old one?

I do hope for the idea of quested 2hr tho, it is just like WSNM and such....

Lets all welcome 2hrNM

So... you wanna give Blm a spell that does 500 damage per mp? 1500 per tick of Refresh? 500,000 for like, 80% of their total MP? That's enough to one shot AV about 10 times? Great idea.



Let's see what's wrong here. While stacked with Soul Voice, we have a 60hp/tick Paeon, 6mp Refresh, any and all Preludes, Minuets, Madrigals, Marches, Minnes(lol) and any other song you want to pull off, lasting for at least 4 minutes. From one Bard. Cool.



Spam Double up until you get a job enhanced 11 with no fear of a Bust? Sweet. Not broken at all.


So you want to make Kraken Zerging even stronger? Okay...



Lol.



Yeah, make zerging even more retardly easy.


Edited, Dec 26th 2008 7:33pm by AnotherSephirothFanBoi

A lot of interesting ideas no comment on balance though.

I think someone posted one for ninja. It would enhance their shadows to become psychical manifestations for 30 seconds. The effect of shadows on the ninja would defend the same but, they'd also add extra attacks for every shadow up.

Don't remember the link.

Edited, Dec 28th 2008 2:49am by Saricks

Good point, I just checked, even Odin only has 100k HP.

So a BLM can go a 1 shot Odin with a nuke that does 5x Odin's HP worth of damage.

Lets do it.

I loled

My god, this is so deliciously overpowered.

For an idea like this, I won't want a job's 2hr to be replaced with a new quested one because some may find their original 2hr to be better in certain situations (not counting the ones OP suggested for obvious balance issues, we leave that to SE). I rather have it added and for both to share the same timer. (In the way that we can't use both at the same time.)

Goku could wail a mob 1,000 fist and dodge still.

"These abilities do not work and/or cannot be activated when you or your party/alliance is engaged to an enemy that checks 'Impossible to Gauge.'"

Also, they would need a massive cool-down. Much longer than a two hour. There's also the overpowering issue- but the idea of quested job abilities overall sounds like a great idea so I rated you up.

Edit: You know, I was not considering mages when I typed the above bolded statement so I edited it for clarity.

Edited, Dec 27th 2008 12:18am by UltKnightGrover