Rune Fencer Request.

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Swipe boggles my mind at what the intended use is. Hopefully it has a considerable amount of enmity and recast in return to be comparable to provoke so we can use other support jobs. So far it sounds like just a mini-lunge and with JA delay of both Swipe and Rune Enchantment, it'll just lower your damage output rather than continue to swing. Buffs to a job are always nice but they said they were trying to make RUN more durable. The only thing that really does this is potentially Accuracy Bonus to wear damage taken gear more easily. Depends on how fast the recast is on Vivacious Pulse but still a long way to go to be considered a PLD equivalent. Need some hard damage mitigation abilities or spells.

I'm under the impression that the timer might be lower than Lunge. This could allow Run to spam elemental damage at a higher rate if the timer is low enough, and with only the last rune used instead of all three. Then there's the fact we can use gambit to lower that elemental resistance further. However would the difference in damage between Lunge and Swipe be simular to single target and -aga spells, or maybe swipe is just 1/3 that of lunge.. ? Would there be an increase to lunge damage?

Lunge is also magical damage, and I'm fairly sure it can be used as a magic burst if timed with the right runes active. If swipe is also magical elemental damage then it could add an extra source of magic burst. Gambit > Ws1 (aply 1 rune) + Ws2 > skillchain> Blm+swipe = Magic Burst x2 (hopefully gambit is still up)