New Features for Dancers and Scholars! (12/08/2008)

[Dohorehn]

"So put on your dancing shoes, crack open those books, and read on!"

Wth, lol.

[Aemora]

I'm hoping, that like they did with Cor Af2 Body, put on the Relic armor stats that boost T2 Merits... Say the Body with Refresh and perhaps the Mortarboard with "Enhances Stormsurge" perhaps for an additional +3... Stat+10 would be pretty neat. If they put Refresh on the Head and not on the Body, they've totally made it a confusing piece... Which do you chose? Af1 Hat when Sublimating, or Af2 Hat when Sublimating... THE CHOICES :<

Seriously though, 1 item will have Conserve MP+5, another will have AGI+3, and one will have "Increases 'Stratagem' recast" because they will fuck this over and not give us Refresh or Morrigan's... Jewish bastards...

Either way, I'm doing 5/5 Stormsurge, and then probably 5/5 Enlightenment for a 5 minute Sleep2 whenever I want it when Curing!

[Aemora]

Aaaaaaand furthermore, the 5/5 Stormsurge would be awesome in Salvage, cuz it will be like, Str+7 and Enfire for my Melees~

[Daemonic]

Hi all, first time poster long time reader. I've been levelling SCH a for a while now and I’m rather interested in these merits +3 to stats as a base is rather nice and I’m sure no BLM or SCH would say no the opportunity to +7 INT in parties or some end game stuff.

Enlightenment has be a bit confused. It sounds as thou it’s a mini light arts and dark arts combination for the next spell? And we can cast any spell we like as thought we have addenda: ----- on?

I'm rather curious to see how the Stratagem merits will be done, maybe the enmity merits per example will give a base enmity reduction of 25% then the following merits will add a extra 10% minus to them? It seems like there has to be some kind of bonus to meriting past one merit but I guess we will have to wait for the update itself.

[Not Kuno]

Enlightenment has be a bit confused. It sounds as thou it’s a mini light arts and dark arts combination for the next spell? And we can cast any spell we like as thought we have addenda: ----- on?

From the looks of it, you will have the skills of both arts, as well as being able to cast any spell w/o addendums. It's fucking great for putting RR2 up while on Dark+Add, or tossing out a needed nuke if you're on light arts.

[Toth]

Looks very good :D

It appears Saber Dance and Fan Dance are DNC equivalents of Berserk and Defender timing wise. I just hope both SD and FD last a decent amount of time (i.e gradual decrease starts around 1-2 mins, effect wears at 3).

[Xanthe]

Fully merited recast is 3min not 2:30 for DNC abilities... or do I fail at math? >_>

Nah, Germans just fail at math. A 5:00 initial recast plus 4 additional merits at 0:30 reduction each is a final recast of 3:00.

[Kaeko]

There are more merits. I'm really interested in testing the SCH ones SE failed to mention in this - enmity down and magic accuracy.

I'll probably dump 1 point in one of the enmity down ones and test to see if it breaks the -50 enmity cap first thing.

[Pergo]

I'd imagine Voidstorm will be hmp? Dark Staff gives hmp. Although Dark Rings give 1 to every stat, I don't see how they'd be able to balance that with varying merits.

If fully merited, voidstorm would give 7hmp, while costing 30 to cast. I think the true benefit would be for other mages, but would only take 5 ticks to be useful for yourself.

[Zilong]

Aaaaaaand furthermore, the 5/5 Stormsurge would be awesome in Salvage, cuz it will be like, Str+7 and Enfire for my Melees~

Isn't the weather damage boost depends on the target's weather effect? not the user's?

[Lordwafik]

Isn't the weather damage boost depends on the target's weather effect? not the user's?

Nothing to do with the person you quoted. They're saying STR+7 (if fully meritted), not weather boost. With this merit, you could completely ignore weather dmg bonuses , it's as if you're casting etudes on people.

[Xanthe]

Isn't the weather damage boost depends on the target's weather effect? not the user's?

No. That's the same as asking if a BLM with Thunderstorm + Obi will get the damage bonus for nukes on Tiamat. It's dependent on the PC's weather status, not the target.

[Deftscythe]

Glad relic is coming this update. Hoping for refresh body, another +arts piece(maybe a catch-all with +5skill in either art), and though it's a lot less likely, another piece like the mortarboard.

As for merits, definitely maxing out enlightenment, beyond that I'm not sure yet. Also interested to see if Dancers might become passable tanks for low-level stuff with that new +enmity thing.

[Zilong]

Ah, I remember some people were talking about using Voidstorm to reduce the damage from Citadel Buster, so I thought it might be dependant on the magical spell target's weather effect.

Nothing to do with the person you quoted. They're saying STR+7 (if fully meritted), not weather boost. With this merit, you could completely ignore weather dmg bonuses , it's as if you're casting etudes on people.

Well, i thought he meant that would just like having your cake and eat it if it's both STR +7 and weather effect boost on enfire.

[kayn]

Does firesurge have a greater affect on wars because they're fire based? LOL

[Lordwafik]

Glad relic is coming this update. Hoping for refresh body, another +arts piece(maybe a catch-all with +5skill in either art), and though it's a lot less likely, another piece like the mortarboard.

As for merits, definitely maxing out enlightenment, beyond that I'm not sure yet. Also interested to see if Dancers might become passable tanks for low-level stuff with that new +enmity thing.

Every true mage so far has gotten refresh body (BLM RDM WHM even BLU) rdm got it on head. I can see refresh body being likely.

[Pergo]

As for merits, definitely maxing out enlightenment, beyond that I'm not sure yet. Also interested to see if Dancers might become passable tanks for low-level stuff with that new +enmity thing.

not sure if you mean low-level or low-man but these abilities are merited, so it won't be any lower than lv75

[Zilong]

Maybe SCH relic will take some burden over SCH's endgame equipment being mostly made of suck and fail.

[Toth]

Maybe SCH relic will take some burden over SCH's endgame equipment being mostly made of suck and fail.

Huh? Outside of salvage and sky gear, what do you mean?

[Deftscythe]

not sure if you mean low-level or low-man but these abilities are merited, so it won't be any lower than lv75

Yeah, that was kind of vague. Low-man would be more accurate for the kind of stuff I meant. Basically end-game content that isn't HNM.

@Wafik: I consider it a safe bet, but you can never be 100% sure SE isn't going to dick you.