Battle Adjustments (05/28/2008)

[Reality]

i hope the bard ability is at most 60 second recast, and at least 30. i don't see how a 30 second recast would break the game mechanics at all to be honest, all you're doing is specifying which person you really want that song to be on

they didnt say it would be a merit ability, so i'm going to assume it'll be similar to snarl/accomplice/etc

[Lordwafik]

Don't PLD block enough as it is? I guess this makes all the shield gear obselete (if it's a big boost) and every shield is becoming closer and closer to aegis!

Hmmm once again, depending on how big of a boost it is, it could possibly open up possibilities of using bigger sized shields that nobody uses, and if it's subbable, rdm/pld = nice solo.

[Sev]

+20% hp on kraken drks from mantra sexy? (yes yes if you waste the merits or w/e)

[Lyramion]

I thought that Desperate Blows was counted outside the cap? I really don't know much about the math for it

There is JA haste cap (unknown), gear Haste (25%) and Magic haste (43.something)


All together has an ultimate cap of 80% now included JA Haste.

[Robert]

didn't someone test shield block with both kaiser shield and aegis to cap at 66% with sufficient skill?

[RKenshin]

Finally! I knew they'd do this eventually, it just didn't make sense to have those recast timers, but damn it took a lot longer than I thought it would for them to do this.

But fuck yeah @ 25% Overwhelm!
And fuck yeah @ 5m Warrior's Charge!
And fuck yeah @ 90s Penance duration!
And fuck yeah @ 600+ HP Chakra!
And fuck yeah @ 25% Desperate Blows!
And fuck yeah @ DRK having it's own version of Aggressor!
And fuck yeah @ 10% delay reduction on RNG!
And fuck yeah @ 1:45 duration Angon! (wtf lives that long with Angon on though?)

::implodes::

And damn, NIN merits still blow.

And gdi, I have a shitload of merits to get now. I'm pissed I blew most of my 9 merits in Empathy recently. I just finished with them too.

[Jkun]

Holy fuck @ increased Optimization, Fine Tuning and Desperate Blows.

Edit: Does this mean they'll increase the upgrade numbers too so that it's like:

3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 etc.?

I capped my teir 2's a long time ago, so if so I have a lot of merits to get Dx

[terraflarex]

Jesus...
Did SE get hacked too cause this update news is regoddamndiculous

[Almalexia]

Time to bring out my dune boots again!

FUCK!

[Corrderio]

didn't someone test shield block with both kaiser shield and aegis to cap at 66% with sufficient skill?

I never heard of this before 0.o But if that's the case it may make Size 4 shields a decent choice depending on the situation.

[terraflarex]

I sincerely doubt you can make a kaiser shield block as much as an aegis. I mean if you can, then I'm doing something horribly wrong..

[Robert]

I'm not talking about on HNM, I mean on the test subjects, it was either Robber Crabs or Steelshells, I don't remember who did it, but I'm fairly certain that both Aegis and Kaiser/Koenig Shield plateau at 66%

[Mayareira]

Increased cap on merits is awesome but wasn't really expecting a pld buff.
Can't complain, of course :D

[Weeks]

Does anyone at Square play the game, or do they just let Allatards do all the playtesting for them?

Actually, strike that. Even the Allatards realize PLD and BRD are overpowered already. Good thing the PLD buffs are balanced out by Sange now being on a 2.5 minute timer.

[wyred]

/nin tanking pretty much makes the new PLD spells less useful in my humble opinion.
If those spells were introduced back when /war was the only viable SJ for PLD, it would've been great.

[Toksyuryel]

Good thing the PLD buffs are balanced out by Sange now being on a 5 minute timer.

fixed

[Robert]

but it may make /war tanking viable again, or at least better for apathy lol

[Khelek]

/nin tanking pretty much makes the new PLD spells less useful in my humble opinion.
If those spells were introduced back when /war was the only viable SJ for PLD, it would've been great.

cause, you know, shield blocking while putting shadows back up is terrible.

[Nama]

Time to bring out my dune boots again!

FUCK!

I just tossed my dune boots yesterday too

[terraflarex]

Did not realize /war tanking wasn't already viable, but let's not start this up again lol..