Final Fantasy Online servers are down today from 9:00 to 11:00 (PST).  This patch looks pretty interesting.  There’s so many changes I can’t really post it here.  You can check out some of the incoming job changes below.

The following jobs have received adjustments:

• Warrior
  • The job ability Blood Rage no longer grants a bonus to critical hit damage.

• Paladin
  • Shield Bash
    • Recast time has been reduced from five minutes to three.
    • The Shield Bash Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by six seconds per level, instead of the previous ten.
  • Holy Circle
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
    • Duration increased from one minute to three.
    • Reduction granted by Holy Circle Recast merit enhancement adjusted from twenty seconds per point to ten.
  • Sepulcher
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.

• Dark Knight
  • Weapon Bash
    • Recast time has been reduced from five minutes to three.
    • The Weapon Bash Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by six seconds per level, instead of the previous ten.
  • Arcane Circle
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
    • Duration increased from one minute to three.
    • Reduction granted by Arcane Circle Recast merit enhancement adjusted from twenty seconds per point to ten.
  • Arcane Crest
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.

• Samurai
  • Warding Circle
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
    • Duration increased from one minute to three.
    • Reduction granted by Warding Circle Recast merit enhancement adjusted from twenty seconds per point to ten.
  • Hamanoha
    • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.

• Dragoon
  • New Wyvern Breath Abilities
    • Healing Breath IV (Lv. 80)
    • Remove Breath will now cure additional status ailments at the following levels:
      • Curse and doom (Lv. 60)
      • Disease and plague (Lv. 80)
        *In the event that a character is afflicted with multiple status ailments, Remove Breath will cure only one, with higher-level cure effects being prioritized over lower-level ones.
        This ability is still under consideration, and priority adjustments may be implemented in future updates.
        
  • Ability Adjustments
    • Spirit Surge
      • The “Haste” effect granted by Spirit Surge may now stack with similar effects granted by spells and equipment.
    • Jump
      • Recast time shortened from 90 to 60 seconds.
      • The Jump Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by two seconds per level, instead of the previous three.
    • High Jump
      • Recast time shortened from 180 to 120 seconds.
      • Expanded range.
      • The High Jump Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by four seconds per level, instead of the previous six.
    • Super Jump
      • Expanded range.
    • Spirit Jump
      • Recast time shortened from 90 to 60 seconds.
    • Soul Jump
      • Recast time shortened from 180 to 120 seconds.
    • Spirit Link
      • Recast time shortened from 180 to 90 seconds.
      • The Spirit Link Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by three seconds per level, instead of the previous six.
    • Ancient Circle
      • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
      • Duration increased from one minute to three.
      • The Ancient Circle Recast merit point enhancement has been adjusted to reduce recast time by ten seconds per level, instead of the previous twenty.
    • Dragon Breaker
      • Recast time reduced from ten minutes to five.
  • Status Adjustments
    • HP has been raised from C to C+.
    • Evasion skill has been raised from C- to B.
    • Parrying skill has been raised from C to B-.

• Summoner
  • The Elemental MP Cost merit point enhancement now reduces MP cost by three points per level instead of one.
    *Beginning with the next version update, merit point enhancements will reduce summoning magic recast times instead of elemental magic MP cost.

• Corsair
  • Phantom Rolls have been adjusted. View the details here.

• Scholar
  • The required charges for the following abilities have been reduced from two to one:
    

    Altruism / Focalization / Tranquility / Equanimity

You can see the full details at the link below.

Feb Version Update

I can’t wait to check out the new changes later.   I’m hoping the new changes to Corsair makes the job more useful.  I’m not going to hold my breath though.  Anyway, thanks for reading!

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