Damage change thread

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Post your findings on what changed in this patch.

[Ryko]

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3287/parse1az8.jpg

Dual sword WAR/NIN
SAM/WAR (his damage fell off when he was screwing with soboro)
DRK/SAM

2 handers used meat, I used sushi. Double marches/minuets.

Wow, balance, who would have thought?

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3287/parse1az8.jpg

Dual sword WAR/NIN
SAM/WAR (his damage fell off when he was screwing with soboro)
DRK/SAM

2 handers used meat, I used sushi. Double marches/minuets.

Wow, balance, who would have thought?

JESUS CHRIST BALANCE IS POSSIBLE?

[Nameless]

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3287/parse1az8.jpg

Dual sword WAR/NIN
SAM/WAR (his damage fell off when he was screwing with soboro)
DRK/SAM

2 handers used meat, I used sushi. Double marches/minuets.

Wow, balance, who would have thought?

Nice parse, one question, was Drk/sam using scythe or GS.

And do you think GS would have been better consider alot of ppl saying spinning slash is the best now.

[Ryko]

He was using scythe, thing is spinning slash is a lot less prone to getting its damage ganked if 2 people fire WS at the same time so that overkill skews it in their favor, much like what sams were getting pre-patch. Since the damage fell off a bit though I'm not quite sure.

[Beckwin]

I'm guessing SS experienced the same thing y/g/k did after today's patch, but I haven't really tried it out yet.

Should note that I wasn't really spamming Souleater or anything either. Either way, I'm perfectly fine with being a hair behind a stacked ridill war in fodderburn. 2h jobs can keep up now without being too overpowered (think Ryko's SAM prior to today's update- would've absolutely murdered his Ridill war).

[Nameless]

I'm guessing SS experienced the same thing y/g/k did after today's patch, but I haven't really tried it out yet.

Should note that I wasn't really spamming Souleater or anything either. Either way, I'm perfectly fine with being a hair behind a stacked ridill war in fodderburn. 2h jobs can keep up now without being too overpowered (think Ryko's SAM prior to today's update- would've absolutely murdered his Ridill war).

Yea, from what i heard that Guillotine and especially CR were nerfed badly. Spinning slash seems to stay more or less the same.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

why the hell did they nerf guillo :/

[Beckwin]

I didn't really notice much of a nerf. They definitely didn't make it less accurate. I landed a couple 1700s with LR up, which was pretty consistent with what I was doing before.

I'll see about messing with SS later tonight maybe. I also wanna check and see if they did anything sneaky with ranged attacks.

[Michaera]

Ryko/Beck: What camp was that? It sorta looks like trolls (unless you were spamming sushi at colibri?), with the high-ish crit rate and good acc. Would like to see a DRG along for the ride in one of your parses if you know any good ones, but thanks for sharing otherwise. Balance is gewd.

[Ryko]

Was birds, I didn't feel like taking a madrigal instead of a minuet and hurt the 2 handers to accomodate myself fully. That said, I think I might be able to find a drg somewhere >_>

[Retrieving/C.D/Searain]

I wonder if the sellouts will come back to the game and/or to playing their once favourite jobs now.

[Michaera]

Was birds, I didn't feel like taking a madrigal instead of a minuet and hurt the 2 handers to accomodate myself fully.

<3 Good man.

I guess it makes the field slliiiiiiightly skewed thanks to the extra damage from the Joy, the only piercing in the pt, but overall I think the picture looks pretty good. Lookin' forward to more!

[Beckwin]

tbh I think sushi might've been the best option for you anyway. I don't see meat taking your ws avg much higher at all and a melee avg of 75 on a pair of D40/35 weapons is not shabby.

And yeah, definitely some decked drgs we could find.

Searain: let's hope not

[Ryko]

Also I was trying to aim for a crit build but my dex is like 2-3 points short to do it fully, need askar head to flesh it out.

[Naphtali]

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z83/Naph7/test1.png
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z83/Naph7/test2.png


Just went to Mamool Ja staging point to test 2 ws just to see. This don't mean much since it was only 4 ws, TP was 120-150 for all, using Hagun. SAM/WAR too, had berserk/hasso on, friend gave me Minute x2.
STR72+65 (not full out STR gear)
Attack 796 w/ serk/hasso/sis kebabi/min x2.

Last merit pt i did with this setup getting minx2 , average was 1500-1600 with highs 2200~. Hard to say what average would be now, since again this is only 4 ws, just wanted to see if there was any big change. Seems to def be less ws, but decent still..

[Falaras]

Looks like for the most part, 2 handed parses will be pretty good because of the DEX1=ACC1, especially at camps with Lurkers where meat is hard to use for 1 handers. Problem being significantly lowers WSs which won't take enough % of the mob off to kill it or do any big damage like before, leaving us with hate to take a beating. So basically maybe the "Ohshit" macro will need to be used in order to make 2 handers worth using in merits instead of more Wars, Mnks, and Nins. Of course none of that matters because 95% of the Sams won't have one and everyone will go back to "WAR NIN MNK ONRY".

[Don Katsu]

625-640 Tachi: Gekko with Soboro on Lesser Colibri

[SeraphusRagnarok]

2.3-3k Pentas on Spongilla Flies/Greater Colibri prepatch, now 1300-1700...

Prepatch I used to get 300% and do 2.5k with 2hr and shit, but now that Penta is acc varies with TP, I can't do that :/

Oh and just from eyeballing it, I was missing hits on Penta today on Aw' Aerns even scored a 1 hitter....

[Kaylia]

Bleh, back to WAR I guess. Was kinda hoping I could retire my ridill and use my sam.