Relic get a boost in power?

[Therin]

Day of the update I noticed a DRK friend seemed to be scoring much higher damage Catastrophes than I saw from other Apoc-users, but I just chalked it up to error on my part and didn't think anything about it.

Who knows if they actually boosted them or not, but it'd be nice.

[Tekki]

A simple solution for some of our relic weapon skill's damage output would have been to get rid of some of the dumber modifiers out there. I'm disappointed to hear that the aftermaths are toned down... Excalibur's aftermath in most eye's is meh, and in mine very useful but not groundbreaking. To cut it short is disappointing

[Wizerd]

The critical hit effect on my Batardeau was lasting 30sec @ 100 TP, didn't time it for more than that. Not sure why others are only getting 20sec, I guess they're different. I woulda figured the length of time to be the same though.

[Izzy]

Mjollnir's aftermath timer was not affected at all.

[Tonyanjaii]

hmmm I had to upgrade to Photo bucket Pro >.> anyways... if this is not a bug, this is definitely like a shadow mantle on crack that proc's 60% of the time....

As far as gear wise while tanking... I have 2 different setup that I tested... One with Enimty/Blink tank, and the other shield block tank... no difference in dmg taken at all... I had ninja subjob, curious to see with warrior sub defender makes any difference... I'm curious to test this later today after work while naked and see if defense / gear wise plays a role in dmg reduction with the Aegis... but so far Phalanx II has proven itself.

If you look at the screen shot with the Aura statue...

Normal hit with no shield block I got hit with 155, then followed by 9, 8, 6 and final hit for 0 and at that point I got Phalanx II. That is about average of 95% damage reduction.

Next screen shot with Phalanx II full time I got hit with no shield block 123, then followed by 0,0,0,0. That's 4 shield blocks in a row for 0 dmg... consistantly... This is at 100% damage reduction.

[wop]

JP's with Aegis's in my LS were talking about 90% block rate this morning as I was getting ready for work.

I asked this noob to test it out instead as I was already late.....

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/9...0053028zv5.jpg

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hmmm

[Tekki]

ugh dont nerf this.... thank you se

[Arcanesoul]

As soon as I saw this, it reminded me of something that caught my attention last night when I went to see the exp range on dc birds in sky.

While I was killing birds I thought that my sheild was procing more often. I noticed 80 hit damage reduced to 4 or so a few times. My sheild skill is not very high either. It's somewhere in the low 100's (oh, and I was on bst/whm using a tatami shield).

I wonder whether they have just increased block rate and damge reduction on sheilds in general or perhaps just the tower and aegis sheilds.

Could just be me making associations where there aren't any though.

[Tonyanjaii]

Maybe I will try on my Red Mage with genbu shield and see if it takes less damage too... and I also have a sipar I can test on my pld...

[Starr]

If it's a relic boost, why? There's no Nyzul shield lol
If it's an overall shield boost, gj giving more stuff to PLD

[Xanthe]

Maybe it's addressing the nearly non-existent gap between other shields and Aegis.

[Minions]

Yeah just tested this... paired with the new ws... I can solo mamools at the staging point pretty quickly... me likes.

[LakshmiToralyn]

sorry posting from a non-aegis user, PLD not even unlocked. these 0-10 dmg shield blocks what kind of damage would they of been before the update?

[Kainstryder]

I'll need to actually test this, but 300% TP with Mercy Stroke last night in salvage, I'm pretty positive it wasn't lasting more than 30 seconds. Also damage SEEMED to be better, but I need to get on the game later and test this on different mobs.

Also, I don't know how SE can break the game every update, but Gungnir now says "Additional effect:: Weakens defense" Yes it has 2 :: now.

[Eruantalon]

Called "Lazy Programmers who use Find & Replace All"

they probably searched for something, replaced it with : and didn't think it would change the code with the aftermath.

[Tsuko_Asura]

For the Mandau person, DRKs on KI have confirmed that Catastrophe was nerfed. And, take it with a grain of salt, but one of them called a GM and had them confirmed that they were supposed to be adjusted.

[Minions]

For the Mandau person, DRKs on KI have confirmed that Catastrophe was nerfed. And, take it with a grain of salt, but one of them called a GM and had them confirmed that they were supposed to be adjusted.

The plot thickens.

[4evrDRG]

I'll need to actually test this, but 300% TP with Mercy Stroke last night in salvage, I'm pretty positive it wasn't lasting more than 30 seconds. Also damage SEEMED to be better, but I need to get on the game later and test this on different mobs.

Also, I don't know how SE can break the game every update, but Gungnir now says "Additional effect:: Weakens defense" Yes it has 2 :: now.

Huh? So the weaponskill effect on Geirskogul now says weakens defense? Gungnir already had a Weakens Defense effect. I just hope they got rid of that godawful 60%AGI mod.

I need to wait till Saturdays Dynamis to find out tho

Edit: Also has anybody noticed any additional 'Aftermath' effects. +Attack or anything like that?

Edit: Oh I see now, the 2 colons. Got it

[Caclax]

was doing consistent 1k-1.6k metatron in Jeuno last night, not too special but higher than i remember my average being, aftermath seemed to be the same length.

[Waef]

Seems silly that they would nerf relics after introducing mythic weapons that aren't supposed to be better than current relics, yet seem ridiculously powerful anyway.