anyone datamined yet? >.>

[draxyl]

Thanks, I'm not registerering for another forum just to read a thread.

I just use windower macro's to override my normal ele skill gear swap. Alt Q is ugg, alt w is ice obi, alt e thunder, alt s is sorc ring, alt b is black cloak....seems to work well.

And @ Shuemue, I guess the added int does make a difference but I wasn't feeling up to doing math this morning I don't really know the specifics of the blm damage formula anyhow.

Doesn't change the fact that we have no clue what was changed about the obi's. The damage/conditions are the same, the wording on the items is the exact same. I don't understand.

[spooky]

You're a horribly bad BLM if you need a bot to manage your gear.

thanks ^.^

[Turlos.]

There was a *significant* damage fluctuation going on with obi's that wasn't there before the July patch. A pair of blm friends that always duo Apollyon NW noticed the fluctuation first and mentioned it to me. Where thunder 4 would always do 1395 or something with full latents (sorc, ugg, obi), they were noticing quite a few 1200's and one 1400+...damage was all over the map. Before the patch, so long as you met the latent conditions, your damage was always the same - even if you hit a 50% resist, that damage was a predictable %.

This fluctuation had nothing to do with the patch, we can see the adverse effects on impossible to gauge monsters who haven't had 1 spell cast on them.

I had not noticed this at all before or after the patch. I know a few people here have mentioned this, but I have not experienced any kind of damage fluctuation.

I spent some time killing buffalos waiting for Ice weather to disappear over the weekend, and of course used my Ice obi. My spells for the 30-40 minutes were completely consistant. The only deviation was when I used a pendant or the couple of times I got a resist.

I did use my Rarin obi the last Fafnir I fought and saw some damage fluctuation there (from 2239 down to 1890) but I assume since that is a notorious monster, that is just the BLM nerf showing up.

I honestly do not know what was changed about the obis as I had not really seen anything broken before hand.