Job Adjustments in March 2015 Update

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Originally Posted by Ulth

Yeah, and to use it you need to use Mandau, which is nice looking with it's golden shine, but has horrible base damage.

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Base damage is low but the very low delay still makes it one of the highest DPS daggers. Equip a mandau and jugo +1 and with max haste you'll attack faster than a MNK under the effect Hundred Fists, so fast that your attack speed outpaces the attack animations. Also it has a 13% triple damage effect. Increasing the multiplier on Mercy Stroke would solve the problem of base delay on WS. You can only use Mercy Stroke with Mandau so it couldn't be abused with a higher DMG low delay dagger like Iptam.

The aftermath is pathetic though and needs to be improved. 20% critical hit rate starting at 60 seconds at 100% TP would be just about perfect. Also the extra damage proc on relics needs to be fixed so it can proc on the second and third hits of a double or triple attack.

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Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull

Base damage is low but the very low delay still makes it one of the highest DPS daggers. Equip a mandau and jugo +1 and with max haste you'll attack faster than a MNK under the effect Hundred Fists, so fast that your attack speed outpaces the attack animations. Also it has a 13% triple damage effect. Increasing the multiplier on Mercy Stroke would solve the problem of base delay on WS. You can only use Mercy Stroke with Mandau so it couldn't be abused with a higher DMG low delay dagger like Iptam.

The aftermath is pathetic though and needs to be improved. 20% critical hit rate starting at 60 seconds at 100% TP would be just about perfect. Also the extra damage proc on relics needs to be fixed so it can proc on the second and third hits of a double or triple attack.

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no. hundred fists breaks the delay cap.

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Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull

Currently the damage on Mercy Stroke is about the same as Evisceration on average but Evisceration spikes higher. Mercy Stroke would be worthwhile if they had left the multiplier at 6.0 and if the critical hit bonus was at least 20% (rather than 5%) and lasted as long as empyrean and mythic aftermaths instead of 20 seconds.

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Sorta depends on buffs. If you can get crit buffs or enough multi attack it starts to go a bit more in favor of evisceration