[dev1010] Job Adjustments

[Colenzo]

still kind of sounds like a waste

[blue]

Why would you want to merit muted soul? Scared to grab hate of someone?

[Raen Ryong]

Souleater HP loss + the potential of lowered def from Last Resort being on almost fulltime makes you kinda squishable.

[Kirschy]

was thinking about muted soul if we are able to spam Souleater with less HP consumption.

Muted Soul is such a horrible JA imo. Due to the mechanics of enmity generation for damage, it helps a slight bit until you're capped, and then does nothing. Not that DE or DS have any great purpose now, I just don't feel Muted Soul ever has a purpose.

This is the elitist in me talking, but I don't see why people couldn't spam souleater before. There's been so many adjustments and augments to help keep healers like RDM and WHM keep up with high MP. (This is not even counting all the incredible new things added since Abyssea/Lvl cap increase.) Yes, for average player spamming souleater was near impossible, and this adjustment might be a big fix in that department. (And I'm not counting Apoc/Drain stuff here, I'm talking just a regular high-end DRK.)

[Kirschy]

Souleater HP loss + the potential of lowered def from Last Resort being on almost fulltime makes you kinda squishable.

As squishable as a WAR /w berserk! (Less since I use SR recast instead of LR effect!)

Opps I accidently hit Edit instead of Reply /w Quote =x

[Malacite]

Base on LR is ~15%, with an extra 10% if you get 5/5 LR merits. It's still nice to have the attack boost for longer, but it's not nearly that good =p.

LR (merited) + Berserk = 50%.

Leaves you vulnerable but that's still a huge plus for zerging NMs, particularly if you have either of the Empy's. Aren't the Empy WS pretty attack-dependent?

[Kirschy]

LR (merited) + Berserk = 50%.

Leaves you vulnerable but that's still a huge plus for zerging NMs, particularly if you have either of the Empy's. Aren't the Empy WS pretty attack-dependent?

They are, although Scythe is supposed to ignore defense?

[Nameless]

only 10% at 100 tp

[Plow]

You weren't not coming to events as DRK because of Last Resort.

No, but I might actually use it for a couple things now because of Last Resort.

[Zag]

That seems to be the purpose of the patch. By bumping up the average joe, you buff the class by increasing its overall reputation. The terrible DRKs will still be terrible and the elite will continue to understand the limitations of the class.

DRK was due to see a resurgence in popularity outside of Abyssea anyway. With jobs like DNC, THF and NIN seeing a dip in sheer broken-ness, the old 2handers would be back in style along with buffers like BRD and COR actually having vital purpose again. Abyssea was fun and all but some sense of balance would be nice again.

Im seeing some DRK talk about /WAR being back in vogue again but is that really wise with you know... MP pools being limited outside Abyssea. Im no DRK so idk but it sounds suicidal as fuck to me even with PDT/MDT sets. Seeing the first groups do Voidwatch and wipe cause of MP issues will be entertaining anyway.

I just wanna be the first to say that the MP pool is about exactly the same. You can now get like 15/tic refresh using whm refresh gear, refresh II, and the 2 ballads or 3 ballads depending on if you have empyrean or ghorn then its over 15/tic refresh. Our WHM never runs out of MP when we fight stuff outside abyssea now. The problem is the lack of HP which results in things getting 1 shotted still unless its a ninja with migiwari.


With that being said. I'm suprised noone mentioned the soul eater job trait for DRK. That can stack up so badly at level 99 that souleater does like 1% damage to yourself and dishes out the normal souleater damage. Souleater can be fulltimed without any huge penalties possibly and thats extremely powerful now that they added stuff outside abyssea again.

[Zeroth]

The enhances Souleater affect doesn't stack from multiple pieces of gear.

edit. Nvm I was thinking you were talking about gear and not the new job trait Stalwart Soul, but yeah I can see muted soul helping balance it out a little.

[Yeyoking]

I'd like to hear more about this "other-era" you are talking about. Tanaka has been, and will always be, the producer of this game.

During the WoTG, during the Abyssea, right now, years from now, Tanaka is and has been there for you. Him "leaving" for XIV is simply bs people made up. He was the producer of both.

The "other-era" is the era when FF11 was only released in JP. There were some drastic buffs and nerfs during that time. I think elmer's website have a detailed timeline of that era.

[Not Kuno]

I have 5/5 muted soul so I wouldn't die so horribly when zerging thens. Back when zerging things as drk was the thing to do, I mean.

[Nattack]

guess i should actually level my drk again. and merit it.

[Colenzo]

I have 5/5 muted soul so I wouldn't die so horribly when zerging thens. Back when zerging things as drk was the thing to do, I mean.

Only reason I leveled DRK. It looks pretty impressive to do now, I mean with fully merited last resort you're looking at 1:10 on the down time of not having it up. If this attack speed nerf isn't too incredibly gay then this will possibly be useful as fuck again.

[Nattack]

cut my life into peices every 5 minutes

[Kirschy]

Only reason I leveled DRK. It looks pretty impressive to do now, I mean with fully merited last resort you're looking at 1:10 on the down time of not having it up. If this attack speed nerf isn't too incredibly gay then this will possibly be useful as fuck again.

What attack speed nerf Did I miss something ?

[Colenzo]

What attack speed nerf Did I miss something ?

i misread something, carry on nothing to see here

[Colenzo]

cut my life into peices every 5 minutes

merit that down to 4:10 minutes brah

[Nattack]

every 4 minutes and 10 seconds for 3 minutes