New 2-hour Abilities

[Lienn]

Greetings!

With this week’s Test Server update we will be implementing the new special abilities for monk, red mage, ninja, and corsair, so I would like to share with you each of the new effects!

• Monk
  While the effect is active, your max HP will be doubled and upon activating the ability HP will be recovered for the amount that is added.
  • The effect will stack with items and other max HP enhancing effects.
  
  Since large problems were discovered through testing for the previous counter effect, we changed the effect while still keeping to the idea of a defensive ability, and made it so there is an HP increase effect to increase your endurance and deal with large damage.

We are planning to add new special abilities for thief, paladin, and beastmaster during next week’s Test Server update.

Since i didn't see ppl talking about new MNK 2hrs, lemme put a point that was overlooked:

When you put double HP it will actually remove the sj restriction of souleater (5% of real HP with double HP = 10% real HP), causing the new "defensive special ability" to actually increase a lot MNK/DRK DPS due the current haste/doublt/triple/quadruple attack overflow. With a proper gear MNKs would beat 5k HP while this effect is up, reaching nearly the same amount of HP converted to damage a DRK with enhanced souleater can have.

Also, think that if it stacks with other HP bonus effects it will also stack with mantra, generating another 40% of real HP (20% of doubled HP), making this ability a bit too powerful for an ability that will be usable every 1hr-30 min.

If someone was going to receive this ability, it should be DRK, not MNK. ^^

MNK one should be related to kick attacks...would be nice for a change. Maybe a progressive critical damage increase for every kick that lands and making kick attacks having 100% critical hit dor the duration of the effect...it would be like a mighty strikes for footworker MNKs.

[Cljader1]

Since i didn't see ppl talking about new MNK 2hrs, lemme put a point that was overlooked:

When you put double HP it will actually remove the sj restriction of souleater (5% of real HP with double HP = 10% real HP), causing the new "defensive special ability" to actually increase a lot MNK/DRK DPS due the current haste/doublt/triple/quadruple attack overflow. With a proper gear MNKs would beat 5k HP while this effect is up, reaching nearly the same amount of HP converted to damage a DRK with enhanced souleater can have.

Also, think that if it stacks with other HP bonus effects it will also stack with mantra, generating another 40% of real HP (20% of doubled HP), making this ability a bit too powerful for an ability that will be usable every 1hr-30 min.

If someone was going to receive this ability, it should be DRK, not MNK. ^^

MNK one should be related to kick attacks...would be nice for a change. Maybe a progressive critical damage increase for every kick that lands and making kick attacks having 100% critical hit dor the duration of the effect...it would be like a mighty strikes for footworker MNKs.

Its amazing that you saw this and a room full of DEV's didn't, however as a drk im more concerned with the fact that our SPs are gimped, they do not effect ws's and they cannot be stacked. Both DRK SPs need to be able to be stacked AND both SP need to activate on WS as well.

[Xilk]

just got off test server tinkering w/ new special ability and /drk
I've a very good hp+ build on my galka mnk.

player hp caps at 9999
outside abyssea I was able to get 7104 (using hp gear, mantra and full melee+2)
slight improvements to gear would make it ~7400
IN Abyssea w/ ebon hoof, razed ruins and sanguine scythe, I had hp of 9743

w/ soul eater, and the new special ability up, every punch does ~1000 in abyssea
crit hits vs detector-types w/ arcane circle did 2.5k

outside abyssea the best you could hope for is around + 370 damage per hit
not sure if 100 fists will stack... didn't test it, but embrava, marches etc should probably get you to cap w/out gear... I think.
someone else can check that.
This special ability works to save you from a BIG nuke or can be used in zerg situations w/ /drk.

Its very fun.
The most challenging part is getting the Ja's to go well. 30 seconds is not alot of time. one might want to pop this on ADL AFTER PD wears off to survive the first terraslash or somesuch..

[SpankWustler]

Its very fun.
The most challenging part is getting the Ja's to go well. 30 seconds is not alot of time. one might want to pop this on ADL AFTER PD wears off to survive the first terraslash or somesuch..

Or to die solely to the additional effect attached to Tera Slash, and better understand that FFXI is designed to mirror the absurdity of the universe as a whole.

Thinking about that situation, I imagine the incoming Monk SP being highly compatible with the incoming White Mage SP. If both jobs are already present, cobbling the two abilities together into the ghetto-est version of Perfect Defense imaginable seems like a good use for them.

Well, if the Development Bros pick the version of the White Mage SP that is useful for 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds of flaccid disappointment.

[Monchat]

just got off test server tinkering w/ new special ability and /drk
I've a very good hp+ build on my galka mnk.

player hp caps at 9999
outside abyssea I was able to get 7104 (using hp gear, mantra and full melee+2)
slight improvements to gear would make it ~7400
IN Abyssea w/ ebon hoof, razed ruins and sanguine scythe, I had hp of 9743

w/ soul eater, and the new special ability up, every punch does ~1000 in abyssea
crit hits vs detector-types w/ arcane circle did 2.5k

outside abyssea the best you could hope for is around + 370 damage per hit
not sure if 100 fists will stack... didn't test it, but embrava, marches etc should probably get you to cap w/out gear... I think.
someone else can check that.
This special ability works to save you from a BIG nuke or can be used in zerg situations w/ /drk.

Its very fun.
The most challenging part is getting the Ja's to go well. 30 seconds is not alot of time. one might want to pop this on ADL AFTER PD wears off to survive the first terraslash or somesuch..

at 1k damage per hit you loose 3k HP per attack round on average.

If your numbers are right (350/hit outside abyssea), you lose on average 1k HP every attack round, ie -1k HP every 2 second. No one healer can keep up with that.

[hiko]

just got off test server tinkering w/ new special ability and /drk
I've a very good hp+ build on my galka mnk.

player hp caps at 9999
outside abyssea I was able to get 7104 (using hp gear, mantra and full melee+2)
slight improvements to gear would make it ~7400
IN Abyssea w/ ebon hoof, razed ruins and sanguine scythe, I had hp of 9743

w/ soul eater, and the new special ability up, every punch does ~1000 in abyssea
crit hits vs detector-types w/ arcane circle did 2.5k

outside abyssea the best you could hope for is around + 370 damage per hit
not sure if 100 fists will stack... didn't test it, but embrava, marches etc should probably get you to cap w/out gear... I think.
someone else can check that.
This special ability works to save you from a BIG nuke or can be used in zerg situations w/ /drk.

Its very fun.

who care about souleater zerg when 90% of HNM are resistant or build resitance to it
+ what Monchat said

[Caketime]

who care about souleater zerg when 90% of HNM are resistant or build resitance to it
+ what Monchat said

He made a post about the new MNK ability in the thread discussing new abilities. Truly, he is a terrible man.