Sacrosanctity

[Lancil]

Is anyone else extremely disappointed with this ability? It will wear off at the first sign of magic damage. I would fully understand the 10min cooldown timer if it was a full 1 min duration, but there have just been too many times that it'll wear off from spike effects or an enspell.

I would like to suggest that this abilty gain a full minute duration or lower the recast significantly (below 5 mins) to be usable.

[Gael]

yeah me too... i don't see the point to use this ja atm, we need a full minute duration >_>

Even if the recast is shorter, that won't change the uselessness of this ja, since anything which deal magic dmg can make it wear off. I mean often we use it for a situation and the mob do something before the expected dmg...

[Neisan_Quetz]

As soon as they do the same for Spontaneity and Manawell.

[Gael]

Manawell is usefull. Spontaneity seems more situational but can be usefull. Sacrosanctity is clearly inferior... Maybe because it's buff that target all party members (in range), but still, atm it's useless >_<

[Daniel_Hatcher]

As soon as they do the same for Spontaneity and Manawell.

Indeed, all three should have been on the maximum recast timer of five minutes, I'd still prefer three minutes seeing as SAM's self-skillchain ability which is more powerful is three minutes recast.

[Ophannus]

WHM is already the most powerful healer AND damage mitigator. This was the icing on the cake. You still have Shellra V and Barspell merits/gear.

[Septimus]

Take comfort in the fact that Divine Caress is amazing and on a one-minute timer.

[Soranika]

Who bothers to use divine caress? I've used it but it doesn't seem to really detour ailments from landing anymore than bar spells. It was more disappointing that it doesn't even work with esuna or erase.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I use DC every chance possible. It's written into all of my na macros.
Sarc is very good MDB, but the timer/duration sucks. Which only leaves it's uses to things you know are coming. Like astral flow or whatever.

[finalwolf]

Any testing on Sacrosanctity, if stats increases the potency of the job ability? I had a thought that Sacrosanctity has a modifier like Rampart does. I do swap in +MND when using Sacrosanctity, but never collected data if that actually does anything.

[Dekusuta]

Is anyone else extremely disappointed with this ability? It will wear off at the first sign of magic damage. I would fully understand the 10min cooldown timer if it was a full 1 min duration, but there have just been too many times that it'll wear off from spike effects or an enspell.

I would like to suggest that this abilty gain a full minute duration or lower the recast significantly (below 5 mins) to be usable.

Yeah, it feels like Divine Seal/Divine Veil circa 2005 all over again. Nice 'ability' that is only up every 10 mins or so.

I assume there will be gear that augments this later on, or possibly merit 3 will buff this. But I certainly hope it's a reasonable buff and not the really unbalanced -20 seconds on all mage JA path they went with for the tier 1 merits.

Yea an 8 minute convert was great for RDM since they get an entire MP pool back, but 8 min divine seal or even Elemental seal was a waste of merits for most people.

My hope is group3 merits will have the following Sacrosancity upgrades

Recast time -1 minute duration +30 seconds per upgrade to 5 levels.

So we get 5 minute recast and 3:30 minute buff. Then there may be gear to eek out a few more seconds.

[Alkimi]

Any testing on Sacrosanctity, if stats increases the potency of the job ability? I had a thought that Sacrosanctity has a modifier like Rampart does. I do swap in +MND when using Sacrosanctity, but never collected data if that actually does anything.

Reduces magic damage taken by 75%, this is after MDT, MDB etc. have been calculated. Wears off after one 'hit' so knowing when to use it can be important.

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Sacrosanctity

[Alkimi]

I would like it if they could expand the range of it to 20' rather than 10'. As it stands if it's up and I see a mob casting Thundaga IV or Kaustra or whatever there's no way I can run in close enough and use the ability before the spell has already gone off.