Great Sword Weaponskill Adjustment

[Ashman]

Hi everyone.

Some of you may know me from other various FFXI media. I have shied away from the official forums mostly because I disagree with the manner with which problems are addressed. Namely, I feel that adjustments are made to items that are irrelevant to the vast majority of the playerbase (order of outpost warp menu comes to mind) while things that everyone is concerned about are shunned (COP ring adjustment?) are put on the backburner or denied. It's not something I necessarily fault the dev team for. Frankly, it's hard to skim through all the posts requesting guillotine to be a 92 hit ws with 300% str mod, or wanting lightsaber models on paladin.

Regardless, I felt that I had to make a post in concern to something we have all been wondering about. By that of course I mean: Shockwave. Even before the additional effects were broken on weaponskills, I cannot remember a single time that I slept anything with Shockwave. Something that should have easily been Dark Knight's greatest tool has taken a backseat to content such as the lackluster merit weaponskill for Great Sword.

I propose that Shockwave gets a sleep-potency/duration buff based on TP. The sleep effect should be a potent "grey" based sleep (non-elemental) that has tp-bonus modifier of MND/INT> 50/50 respectively. The several pages I've seen suggest that Shockwave's duration is 60/120/360 seconds based on tp. Those durations would be more than adequate if anything ever actually fell asleep due to the weaponskill's usage.

I genuinely hope my suggestion gets some attention as this is clearly the easiest way to balance the disparity between Dark Knight and the other mage jobs. Thank you for your time.

[Narb]

There is no way around this action must be taken immediately to make this a reality.

[Gunit]

The sleep effect should be a potent "grey" based sleep (non-elemental) that has tp-bonus modifier of MND/INT> 50/50 respectively. The several pages I've seen suggest that Shockwave's duration is 60/120/360 seconds based on tp. Those durations would be more than adequate if anything ever actually fell asleep due to the weaponskill's usage.

That would be very unbalanced. I think perhaps a light based sleep(Dark already has dark based sleep) with a duration of 30/60/120 would be more in balance.

[ihm]

I expect this on Monday.

[Gaspee]

[Ophannus]

I propose that Shockwave gets a sleep-potency/duration buff based on TP. The sleep effect should be a potent "grey" based sleep (non-elemental)

No such thing as non-elemental sleep. There is light based sleep and dark based sleep. No other status ailments get alternate elements.

[Urteil]

No such thing as non-elemental sleep. There is light based sleep and dark based sleep. No other status ailments get alternate elements.

http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Pinecone_Bomb

[Rambus]

http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Pinecone_Bomb

No that is dark based, you can't sleep dark immune stuff with that. (Bones are dark immune, ghosts are dark RESISTANT)

It has been a while since I played and tested that but I know that has an element.

I will second the guy you posted, there is no such thing as a non-elemental sleep or non-elemental for any kind of de-buff.

[Sephiran]

No such thing as non-elemental sleep. There is light based sleep and dark based sleep. No other status ailments get alternate elements.

I'm not 100% sure on this. From my experience, there appears to be special abilities that inflict ailments based on whether the hit from a physical special ability is "clean" (like Lethal Triclip). Some moves always inflict a status ailment assuming they do not miss/get resisted. And yet more simply always afflict the ailment in question. My LS has termed these as affliction types and named them conductive for the first type, physical/magical for the second, and vector for the third.

We like to name things.

[Cowardlybabooon]

I thought this was a troll but it actually is a great idea.