Buff durations, especially thieves, too short
Several classes including thief's buffs don't have long enough durations. night lord has 6 buffs, shadower 7, and dual blade 6, before decent skills and 5th job skills are even taken into account. That's way too many for them to only last 200 seconds. flip the coin is very annoying to keep up with only a 120 second duration.
Either increase the duration of thieves buffs to around 240 seconds or make 1 or 2 passives per job. Many other classes in the game are suffering from similar problems.
July 25, 2017
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240 seconds? all buffs should be 30 minutes long like in every other MMO. just another paywall i guess.
Remember when half of the passives we have used to be active?
Though I do agree, I would like more passives and less actives
@ecarina: Lumi had buff delays reduced substantially a while ago, they aren't that long anymore, probably take as long as sharp eyes does.
Having trained all the classes (though some more recently than others), I can definitely say Thieves were the biggest pain with their buffs. More recently the explorer thieves at least aren't too bad, they've gotten some buffs turned into passives and stuff, but they're still generally worse than other classes. The exceptions are probably Wind Archer, Dawn Warrior, and Lumi. F/Ps and i/Ls also have quite a few buffs but a lot of them are toggles or useless summons and they get +50% buff duration from their own 4th job skill. Lumi in particular has a lot of buffs with long casting animations.
It takes like, what, 10 seconds to rebuff? And you only have to do it every 200 seconds, it's really not that big of a deal.
At least your buffs don't go on cooldown so when you die, you have to wait a bajillion years to get back to where you were.
Legion gives a total of 60% buff duration, dood. That's the third thing I went for because the other stuff was useless for me. And I'm pretty sure you can cast Flip the Coin any time after landing a critical hit, so just refresh it whenever, the animation doesn't have any delay.
Just be glad bosses can't dispel anymore.
They just kill you to do that.
Use pet with auto buff then. Or increase your empathy level, use a mechanic card, roll a buff duration inner ability.