100% ailment resist casting still got flinch

Some said guard will reduced ailment resist. So I tried on light armor without shield and yet still got flinched when casting. Mtl mage not viable anymore?

 

If ur armor is light and u didn't have shield equipped, from where guard is supposed to come from in first place?

 

No

no guard....i tried with light armor and md no guard at all...and still got flinched (tested at sword marionette). Only occur during casting magic. Mp recharge no flinch

 

its called magic flinch. and you can't prevent it with ailment resist.

 

any attack that does not have a chance to inflict a status ailment, will inflict 'magic flinch' which cancels any skill that has a cast time.
ailment resistance has no effect on this.

the priest skill Ether Barrier will prevent this, but it costs 300mp, needs 4 seconds to activate and the effect only lasts 5 seconds. it also reduces your matk.
it's the worst skill in the game.

 

The point here isn't even ailment resist. The dude is trying to trigger guard using ONLY equipament meant to evasion.

 

i guess this is about the bug where guard ignores ailment resistance, so he unequipped all guard gear to get the full MNT effect.
this bug was fixed today, so guard no longer ignores ailment resistance.

 

Mtl mage is still viable. I tested it with a shield and the bug where 100% ailment resist mages were getting ailments when guarding during finale cast has been fixed with the recent maintenance. I don't know about sword marionettes, but if you are still getting interrupts from them it probably has nothing to do with ailment resist/guard. Also, it is still possible to receive some ailments and interrupts even with full ailment resist as mentioned by Red_Fox.