Sleep Duration Halved On Some Monsters/ares, Have Fun BLM/RDM :]

Well some of you prolly already noticed, but sleep* spell duration on some monsters or area has been halved. It's not about your equip, enfeebling magic skill or whatever, duration is halved period. No matter how "pro" your gear is. RDM with high enfeebling magic skill and under Elemental Seal already reported this.

So far I can confirm that :

-Limbus is affected (did Apollyon SW)
-Salvage is not affected
-Windurst ANNM with Gnat is affected
-TW mobs outside any instanced area are not affected
-Mobs from the latest WoTG windurst quest "The Long March North" are affected
-Spiders from Aht Urghan (right outside WG) are not affected.

Haven't tested the rest yet (usually i nuke before half duration hits).

Also a GM confirmed this, working as intended.



(and *** typo on title, areas not ares lol, if a mod can edit it :o) :x

And you didn't ask about light-based sleep? *doesn't care anymore* >:|

Well I'm BLM so cannot ask about things I haven't tested myself :x

Oh thanks SE, I get to die more now...

No idea for dynamis yet, my dynamis shell on holidays, well any RDM or BLM can try out, just ESeal sleep, and measure duration.

whats mobs were affected you think?

RAWR! /em changes into the hulk.

Well I'd all all mobs that checks as impossible to gauge and aren't inside "Nyzul" areas.

Yea can confirm this with Fafnir.

Dynamis is affected.. as well as light based sleep. I was talking about this to our bard last night in Dyna Sandy.

Also.. Bind seems to have been altered as well.

Thanks SE!.. Beef up WHM and RDM and *** over BLM.. Haha.. business as usual.

I'm going to not come as BLM for Dynamis anymore...
I'm not going to solo as BLM anymore...
I'm not even going to merit as BLM anymore.

As a BLM, I'm on strike.
Sleep II/Sleepga II is the staple of a BLM in every end-game Dynamis.
Nukes are nice, but a SCH can nuke on par with BLM.
Sleeps are nice, but BLMs have Sleepga II.

I'm done. I'm storing all of my BLM gear on mules and sticking with RDM and WHM.
~Yote

*nods to Kael*

That's how we all feel. ;-;

I can confirm that the ENM Brothers has been affected. Used to be able to sleep the Eldertaur until long after the little one is dead. Now, Elder likes to wake up halfway through the trying to kill the little one, making things really damn messy, even duo with ES.

I've got a couple BLM toons, it's pretty consistent behavior.

My Bind worked fine on Pluto at least. ~30 seconds, which is my average.

Yes, I have HQ staves.. it was after Dyna when I was soloing puddings to fill my xp back up that I noticed that I was getting many more resists than usual. Bind landed about 4/10 times compared to my usual of 8/10.. and when it did land it didn't seem to keep them in one place for very long.

I thought bind was ice based?

Pluto on Apollyon NW...

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Pluto

No where in teh notes does it mension that sleep or bind was nerfed, that really ticks me off.

That's what I said to GM lol, he said some battle were adjusted :<

My bad, I saw HQ staves mentioned and assumed the wrong thing lol.

It says "Battle adjustments were made"...given the travesty that the augment system is, as well as the BS Campaign adjustments, this doesn't surprise me one bit. Next there'll be a rage timer on every NM in the game...good luck BSTs

I guess its not so bad since now I can just stomp around crushing everything in my path.

Pro tip: If you see a giant green naked Taru heading toward you yelling incoherently about sleep durations, you might want to use your warp cudgel.

fixed it for ya :/

IF that comes to pass, /wrists. I'm a DNC main, I don't kill anything fast >.<

meh gawd if that happens ill toss out my axes and leave bst at 32 or wtv I left it at ><

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Lulz, SE neades to highr peeple that are can spellz! "ajusted" FTW! lololol

Not holding my breath...

Maybe a revolt should be staged...possibly clogging up a system somehow to raise awareness of the issue if they don't change it? Political Movements and FFXI haha. Interesting idea to think about. Do we still have the 1.5 million players to organize?

We never had 1.5M :o

No. Oho nonononono...
*** you SE. Quit shoving it up the BLM community's *** and take some of your own goddamn medicine. This is absolute ***. Not to mention every RDM, WHM, SCH, BLU, and BRD who's getting screwed over by this...