Temper Fail and...Enhancing Magic? What's that?

[Neisan_Quetz]

How is it getting weaker? Using those formulas 5/5 phalanx 2 comes out to exactly the same as phalanx 1 with same skill, so either I'm missing something, or the formulas aren't quite correct.

EDIT: Figured the issue, Pld has 280 base skill at 90 with no swaps, so they're using the below 300 skill formula while Rdm is using the above 300 skill formula. So it's actually going to improve less for Pld with the level increase (adding 40 skill is +2 damage mitigation for Pld).

Didn't you already state you're not always going /sch yourself? The only sacrifice I consider worth noting is 1 merit in paralyze 2, which is negligible at best.

Phalanx 2 was never worth it below 4 merits imo.

[saevel]

How is it getting weaker? Using those formulas 5/5 phalanx 2 comes out to exactly the same as phalanx 1 with same skill, so either I'm missing something, or the formulas aren't quite correct.

EDIT: Figured the issue, Pld has 280 base skill at 90 with no swaps, so they're using the below 300 skill formula while Rdm is using the above 300 skill formula. So it's actually going to improve less for Pld with the level increase (adding 40 skill is +2 damage mitigation for Pld).

Didn't you already state you're not always going /sch yourself? The only sacrifice I consider worth noting is 1 merit in phalanx 2, which is negligible at best.

Phalanx 2 was never worth it below 4 merits imo.

Also PLD's do get some +enhancing skill gear, so factor that in.

The point was that I would have to go 5/5 to match or barely beat what they get naturally, the improvement isn't worth losing out on Slow II / Dia III. And my two most used subs are /DRK and /SCH, /DRK for whenever a set of moves needs stunned and /SCH for when they don't. Considering I can get the exact potency of 5/5 Phalanx II by going Accession Phalanx 1, what little worth those 5/5 had was just lost. Now if SE made it so that Phalanx II at level 1 had the same potency / duration as regular Phalanx and only got stronger, then I'd be more interested.