SE, Please Delete Scarlet Delirium

[Aver]

ITT: Empyrean holders love their jobs less than relic holders.

[Armangetto]

I would rather SE FIX Scarlet Delirium than delete it, honestly. It has potential. We are gona get it regardless.

[Alhanelem]

I played since JP Beta. Distortion was nice, but not once have DRK ever been the "OMG GET!" job of FFXI outside of zerging.

That's kind of like saying no pie has ever been delicious outside of the filling. It might be true, but since when was it not significant?

[Quetzacoatl]

I think everyone telling Urteil to chill needs to look at the Dark Knight forums a little more often.

The OP, as brash as he is being, isn't the only one calling out for this job ability to be deleted for the sake of leaving nothing to waste. We've all been disappointed with how this JobAbility is being implemented, and Square is clearly telling us to adjust to this. If we've been trying to do just that, how is it that we are still trying to get Square to get our attention about the lackluster implementation of SD? It's almost time for the update, and where has Square been to tell us that they're working on fixing it for a more practical usage? I know Camate and Bayohne and the Japanese/French/German Representatives probably have their hands full, so maybe Square should work on hiring a few more helping hands for each region? Lighten the load a little.

Basically put, Scarlet Delirium is a really great concept, but the way it actually works makes it inefficient and detrimental to party/endgame contribution. And to have Square Enix not touch up on that issue is worrying to us.

Of course this is probably not the first we've seen something like this happen, so while we still have the time to fix this Job Ability...if they won't take our advice, yeah, I would too think it's time for them to scrap the JA completely until they come up with something better and more practical. Because if they're not going to adjust it to accumulate damage instead of taking single damage, then there is no way they would ever make it so the JA would absorb the damage and convert three times the amount of it to attack/magic attack. I mean, that would just be "broken," wouldn't it?

We're not trying to give up on Scarlet Delirium, it's just that Square is leaving themselves with very little options if they continue to tell us to "adjust to this job ability."

[Leonlionheart]

Well, look at restraint. First implemented, worst thing ever. Now? Awesome.

[Darkwizardzin]

Well, look at restraint. First implemented, worst thing ever. Now? Awesome.

Dark knights won't see it this way... they think SE gives better consideration to adjusting other jobs better to begin with and thus SE will never touch SD again after its put in the game.

....not that SE hasn't given them much of a option but to think this way.

[Gokku]

didn't last resort recently get a really really really good ass buff?

[Quetzacoatl]

Well, look at restraint. First implemented, worst thing ever. Now? Awesome.

'Cause WAR needs to be DD #1 anyway. >_>

DRK they probably won't give two shits about for Scarlet Delirium, since they probably think taking cumulative damage would make us more dependent on healers, which is an issue DRKs are trying to address. And in typing that, I think I just found why we landed ourselves in this mess of a job ability. I guess we have to be more careful about what we wish for.

didn't last resort recently get a really really really good ass buff?

Yeah, but it doesn't permanently fix the job. It's a huge step in the right direction, but not the end-all-be-all of DRK updates. We're not saying we should make Scarlet Delirium just that. It's currently a piece that doesn't fit into the puzzle right now.

[Leonlionheart]

I really don't think SE is sitting on a throne saying

LOL LOOK AT THE DRKS QQ. I LOVE THE TASTE OF THEIR TEARS

I think they have brains and realize DRK is a popular job, even though it's been shafted for the last... ~10 years. They are just trying to make it better, Absorb-Attri is a good start.

Edit: and SD is a good idea, just not a good implementation.

[Quetzacoatl]

I agree, Absorb-Attri is probably the biggest upside DRK has gotten this time around, but I do still question when they'll implement Dark Celerity. Hopefully by the near end of the update when they announce everything we're all getting.

I just wish they would do something better with Scarlet Delirium already and not keep us on our toes about what progress has been made.