Battle Adjustments (05/28/2008)

[Toksyuryel]

A 1 minute ventriloquy would be funny, haha. Definitely going optimization though.

fixed

And why are blm so excited? The only benefit to getting more than one level in AM2 is in magic bursts, and who the hell does those anymore?

[wintersquall]

there better be a insane amount of missions and NEW things to do... i'm not reactivating just to cap overwhelm again ffs....

no srlsy, fuck you SE i'm not...

[Khajit]

The brd ability has a use when you have a nin and pld cotanking. 2x march the ninjas and then ballad2 the pld.
Or you can 2x march everyone in a zerg pt and then add a minuet to the drk that's already above the haste cap thanks to desperate blows.

[Burnsy]

Time to bring out my dune boots again!

FUCK!

i lol'd

2hr + Kick buff is going to be very fun to try out, merits are good, it'll bring people back from campain once in awhile. O and I wont et ballad'd anymore when I'm in pt with a pld? FUCKING PURE WIN

[Xanthe]

The brd ability has a use when you have a nin and pld cotanking. 2x march the ninjas and then ballad2 the pld.

Or you can March/Ballad them both because your NIN should be /DRK anyway.

[Octavious]

And why are blm so excited? The only benefit to getting more than one level in AM2 is in magic bursts and +5 magic accuracy per increase, and who the hell does those anymore?

adjusted for correctnesstaru

[Toksyuryel]

And why are blm so excited? The only benefit to getting more than one level in AM2 is in magic bursts and +5 magic accuracy per increase, and who the hell does those anymore?

adjusted for correctnesstaru

The accuracy is only during MBs.

[spooky]

God damn it, I was so nearly finished capping merits for 4 jobs, now I have to start all over...
I was even looking at group 2 the other day thinking, hmmm, I wonder when they'll up the cap on those. Might have to rejig some of my merits around in light of these changes though...
Really don't understand the point of the BRD JA, like I don't already have enough to do.

[Octavious]

The wording is quite ambiguous, even if it is only on MBs, I only use Freeze & Burst anyway since I didn't plan on doing the other ones since i never used their tier 1 counterparts either.

[Dense]

I came.

[Dense]

Really don't understand the point of the BRD JA, like I don't already have enough to do.

Meripo and the Mage is on top of the melee. Sing melee songs, and then single target the mage for ballad... Seems like win to me...

[dedalius]

The bard JA would have been nice when leveling BRD when PLDs weren't in the right place. Other than that, it's pretty meh.

[Jem]

5/5 Snake Eye & Fold certainly has potential if you're willing to ignore Winning Streak and Loaded Deck. A free 1 roll and Fold every rolling cycle means you can roll risky as hell. It's pretty much going to mean settling for Lucky, 10 or 11 only.

Also fuck yeah 25% delay reduction from Desperate Blows. Overwhelm 5/5 is just sick.

[Octavious]

Really don't understand the point of the BRD JA, like I don't already have enough to do.

Meripo and the Mage is on top of the melee. Sing melee songs, and then single target the mage for ballad... Seems like win to me...

The JA would require a timer around 1-2min for it to be of any use though, if it's anything >2min timer it might just be a bothersome addition. If it was something like 5-10min recast it kind of hampers the usefulness unless it could increase duration. Or i suppose you could stack it with Troub since you can merit tier IIs more...damnit so much more to do now he's right... --;

[arus2001]

I love the 2 minute feint timers but how the hell am i gonna out damage a sam(and possibly drk that gear up for the 25% haste bonus) on my thf after this after this?
I'm not qqing though. I love this part.

Someone's gotta do more damage somewhere, and simply being able to Accomplice/Collaborator still leaves THF pretty high in my book. Utility's a good thing.


Otherwise, ugh.. more meriting. D:

[Cream Soda]

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

Only way I could ever see a monk meriting that shit is if it wasn't their main job and it was specifically for that one purpose for their ls. Any career monk though, would get more use out of the other abilities and only merit this if they wanted to kill someone with blood aggro.

[Tekki]

Paladins will be receiving a new spell that increases the rate of shield blocks, as well as reflecting blocked damage back to an attacker. As with "Blaze Spikes" and "Dread Spikes," this spell will only affect the caster.

Paladins will be receiving a new spell that increases the rate of shield blocks, as well as reflecting blocked damage back to an attacker. As with "Blaze Spikes" and "Dread Spikes," this spell will only affect the caster.

Paladins will be receiving a new spell that increases the rate of shield blocks, as well as reflecting blocked damage back to an attacker. As with "Blaze Spikes" and "Dread Spikes," this spell will only affect the caster.

FUCKING WIN RAWR!

[Aemora]

I thought, for a while, what use Single-target songs would be.

Then realised that actually, it's of no use at all. Because between Pulling, sleeping, Ballading, and Singing, the last thing I want to do is spam JAs too, then select individual songs for individual people so they can get the benefit from it via E-Peen'in. So ya, \_/ Brd Merit.

HOWEVERRRRRR:

When I read these notes, first thing that jumped into my mind was...

• - 5 Minute Snake-Eye (which means Epic Awesome Roll-rate on 1 Roll every time you use it)
  - 6:40 Minute Roll Duration (which means Cor gets to play around meleeing a bit longer :>)
  - 75% Chance of Recharging ANY Ability with Random Deal [Inclusive of Elemental Seal, Convert, Troubador, whatever else you wanna add in] (Sup Loaded Deck)
  - lolFold
  - 160% TP Bloodpacts for Summoner... Win or Fail, who knows?!
  - +10 Magic Accuracy and +6 Magic Burst damage on capped Ancient Magic 2 Merits womgggggg
  - 3 Minute Bio3/Dia3 for Rdms
  - 5 Minute Dark Seal recast timer for Dark Knights, what with Drain2sup etc (Useful, idk :/)
  - +2 Blue Magic Points

My only concern is that when they do release Dnc/Sch Merits, all of the above will be taken into consideration, so you may have to work harder on Sch to obtain the same results that you would already, before this patch.

Also, inc merit recast alterations, just to jew us over ^^

[Weeks]

The brd ability has a use when you have a nin and pld cotanking. 2x march the ninjas and then ballad2 the pld.
Or you can 2x march everyone in a zerg pt and then add a minuet to the drk that's already above the haste cap thanks to desperate blows.

In my experience, PLD needs the extra March more and NIN needs a Ballad more.

[Vedder]

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

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

If I were betting, I'd say the 4th & 5th upgrades for a category will both be 5 pts each.