Suggestion for Developers: Replace Rage/Ward system with Blood Pact charge system

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I would suggest 3 charges, heck even up to 5(but no higher) for a few reasons:

1) We are still restricted by MP, and spamming that many abilities would be a huge strain on our MP pool.
2) We are the most underpowered class in the game; good melee DPS can use 5 or more WS in the time it takes us to go from 1 BP to another(and do vastly more damage as well).
3) other than our lvl70BPs(and considered our best BPs) our attacks rely on TP to do barely moderate damage(for this day and age).
4) Our BP damage is underpowered in comparison to other DPS.

Not entirely true.

SMN does need massive fixes, but the previous statement in bold is not true.

[RAIST]

Not entirely true.

SMN does need massive fixes, but the previous statement in bold is not true.

While that may hold true under the right conditions where SMN is able to amplify it's output, the same holds true with other jobs--and scales in a similar fashion. There's only so much that can be done to boost an avatar's output. Other jobs simply don't run into the seemingly "hard cap" with their WS and such that avatars are up against.

5 Charges may be pushing it a bit though. You could easily be spamming 4-5k BP's every 10 seconds (can go higher, note I said "easily") under the right conditions, seating all hate on your avatar and not you. Not sure SE would go for that without imposing some sort of penalty to prevent cranking them out too quick.

3 may still be pushing it even. At worst, you could be firing them every 20 seconds. If SE were to implement this, I would expect it to be either 2 charges or they would have either a longer recharge time or impose some penalty for running them back to back or something. They'd find some way to put the brakes on it simply because of how the hate system works with SMN.