Gweivyth wrote:
Feather Tickle lowers enemy TP, right? What's so busted about it on Nasomi? Does it have the same potency as the actual Colibri Feather Tickle? (Which if I remember from retail was like 80~120 TP drop?)
If so that seems incredibly valuable for lowering monster damage output.
I don't know how much TP it wipes on Nasomi, but the redeeming note here is it always lands, always. It cannot be resisted, even if you were Lv.60 or whatever level is necessary to learn it, and cast it on a level 99 enemy naked with 0 gear and 0 Blue Magic Skill, it would still land with 100% accuracy.
On retail, against enemies IT it'd have poor accuracy pending gear/skill, but vs. HNM? The land rate was literally so bad it was a wasted spell slot.
So, as you can imagine, the ability to wipe enemies TP, particularly bosses, with 100% land rate is absurdly over powered, especially if a strategy is used to keep TP gain under fair control (such as using BLMs). I'm not certain on the recast, but given the fact it never misses you can cast it full-on haste gear/fast cast, and lock an enemy down unless it has noticeable amounts of Regain.
Frankly, I'd say it's something that warrants an immediate fix, regardless of the current state Blue Mage is in. I've stopped caring about it though at this point, as there is simply a myriad of over powered things on this server that this simply becomes a rock among many other rocks.