Adjustments of the Job Persuasion! (06/17/2010)

No level cap increase is complete without an accompanying arsenal of new job abilities, traits, and magic spells. Come the June version update, adventurers will find themselves empowered with myriad new ways to smite enemies and support comrades in battle. As the icing on this scrumptious cake of additions, performance-enhancing tweaks are also being whipped up for certain existing job abilities. The following job abilities will be added: Restraint (WAR Lv.77 Ability Delay: 10 min. Effect Duration: 5 min.) Enhances your weapon skill power with each normal attack you land, but prevents you from dealing critical hits. Perfect Counter (MNK Lv.79 Ability Delay: 1 min. Effect Duration: 30 sec.) Allows you to counter the next attack directed at you. Mana Wall (BLM Lv.76 Ability Delay: 10 min. Effect Duration: 5 min.) Allows you to take damage with MP. Despoil (THF Lv.77 Ability delay: 5 min.) Steals items from an enemy while inflicting a status ailment upon it. Divine Emblem (PLD Lv.78 Ability Delay: 10 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.) Enhances the accuracy of your next divine magic spell and increases enmity. Nether Void (DRK Lv.78 Ability Delay: 5 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.) Increases the absorption of your next dark magic spell. Double Shot (RNG Lv.79 Ability Delay: 3 min. Effect Duration: 90 sec.) Occasionally uses two units of ammunition to deal double damage. Sengikori (SAM Lv.77 Ability Delay: 3 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.) Grants a bonus to skillchains and magic bursts initiated by your next weapon skill. Futae (NIN Lv.77 Ability Delay: 3 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.) Grants a bonus to your next elemental ninjutsu by expending two ninja tools. Spirit Jump (DRG Lv.77 Ability Delay: 90 sec.) Delivers a short jumping attack on a targeted enemy which suppresses enmity. Effect enhanced when wyvern is present. Blood Pact: Rage "Holy Mist" (SMN Lv.76) Deals light elemental damage to an enemy. Blood Pact: Rage "Lunar Bay" (SMN Lv.78) Deals darkness damage to an enemy. Blood Pact: Rage "Night Terror" (SMN Lv.80) Deals darkness damage to an enemy. Bolter's Roll (COR Lv.76) Increases movement speed for party members within area of effect. Caster's Roll (COR Lv.79) Enhances "Fast Cast" effect for party members within area of effect. Tactical Switch (PUP Lv.79 Ability Delay: 3 min.) Swaps TP of master and automaton. Presto (DNC Lv.77 Ability Delay: 15 sec. Effect Duration: 30 sec.) Enhances the effect of your next step and grants you an additional finishing move. Divine Waltz II (DNC Lv.78 Ability Delay: 20 sec.) Restores the HP of all party members within a small radius. Climactic Flourish (DNC Lv.80 Ability Delay: 90 sec.) Allows you to deal critical hits. Requires at least one finishing move. Libra (SCH Lv.76 Ability Delay: 1 min.) Examines the target's enmity level. The following adjustments will be made to existing job abilities: - Beastmasters will be able to invoke the aid of six new creatures via the "Call Beast" ability by using the following items: Cunning Brain Broth / Lucky Carrot Broth / Deepbed Soil / Wool Grease / Vermihumus / Dancing Herbal Broth - The level requirement for the samurai ability "Sekkanoki" will be reduced from 60 to 40. - When dragoons use the "Spirit Link" ability, half of their wyvern's TP will be transferred to them. - If a corsair's "Double-Up" ability produces a total of XI, the roll's effect duration will be extended by 10 minutes. - Dancers will be able to perform the ability "Cure Waltz" on non-party members. - The "Dual Wield" job trait will become available to dancers at level 20, with the degree of mastery increasing in stages thereafter. Support jobs will be subject to the following ability restrictions: - The white mage abilities "Afflatus Misery" and "Afflatus Solace" will be unavailable. - The ranger ability "Shadowbind" will receive a penalty to accuracy. - The ninja abilities "Innin" and "Yonin" will be unavailable. - The scholar abilities "Accession" or "Manifestation" will triple rather than double the recast time for associated spells. The following job traits will be added: *The jobs column indicates the level at which the trait will first be learned. The degree of mastery will increase in stages thereafter. Trait Jobs Effect Crit. Atk. Bonus WAR Lv.78 THF Lv.78 DNC Lv.80 Improves power of critical hits. Crit. Def. Bonus PLD Lv.79 BRD Lv.80 Improves defense against critical hits. Tactical Parry NIN Lv.77 DNC Lv.77 Grants bonus TP when parrying an attack. Tactical Guard MNK Lv.77 PUP Lv.80 Grants bonus TP when guarding against an attack. Shield Def. Bonus WAR Lv.80 PLD Lv.77 Reduces damage taken when blocking an attack with a shield. Stout Servant BST Lv.78 PUP Lv.78 Reduces damage taken by pet. True Shot RNG Lv.78 Grants a damage bonus to ranged attacks performed at an appropriate distance. Blood Boon SMN Lv.60 Occasionally cuts down MP cost of Blood Pact abilities. Does not affect abilities that require Astral Flow. Skillchain Bonus SAM Lv.78 DNC Lv.45 Improves skillchain damage. Fencer WAR Lv.45 BST Lv.80 Increases rate of critical hits when wielding with the main hand only. Grants a TP bonus to weapon skills. Conserve TP RNG Lv.80 DRG Lv.45 DNC Lv.77 Occasionally cuts down TP cost of weapon skills. Occult Acumen DRK Lv.45 SCH Lv.78 Grants bonus TP when dealing damage with elemental or dark magic. Mag. Burst Bonus BLM Lv.45 NIN Lv.80 SCH Lv.79 Improves magic burst damage. Divine Benison WHM Lv.50 Quickens spellcasting for status ailment recovery magic. Grants a bonus to enmity reduction Resist Amnesia BST Lv.15 COR Lv.30 PUP Lv.15 Gives you a slight resistance against amnesia. The following magic spells will be added: - White Magic Cure VI: WHM Lv.80 Protect V: WHM Lv.76 / RDM Lv. 77 / SCH Lv.80 Shell V: WHM Lv.76 Baramnesia: RDM Lv.78 Baramnesra: WHM Lv.78 - Black Magic Stone V: BLM Lv.77 / SCH Lv.79 (Addendum: Black) Water V: BLM Lv.80 Aspir II: DRK Lv.78 - Songs Foe Requiem VII: BRD Lv.76 Army's Paeon VI: BRD Lv.78 Knight's Minne V: BRD Lv.80 - Ninjutsu Aisha: Ichi: NIN Lv.78 *Uses the ninja tool "Soshi". More jobs will be able to learn the following spells: - White Magic Shell IV: PLD Lv.80 Phalanx: PLD Lv.77 Regen II: RDM Lv.76 - Black Magic Stone III: DRK Lv.76 Stone IV: RDM Lv.77 Water III: DRK Lv.80 Water IV: RDM Lv.80 Several new blue magic spells will be added.