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[Defiledsickness]

they looked at it as; "high dmg, low mp cost... ok give it low accuracy". idk what was said on the JP forums that made them lower the acc further, but w/e the case we still dont know how it will perform against NM's yet. we have lower level spells that say "crit varies with TP" so maybe one of those can be useful on NM's.

even tho i dont think we got screwed this update, if they dont pick it up from 95-99 i will be really upset.

[Prothscar]

they looked at it as; "high dmg, low mp cost... ok give it low accuracy". idk what was said on the JP forums that made them lower the acc further, but w/e the case we still dont know how it will perform against NM's yet. we have lower level spells that say "crit varies with TP" so maybe one of those can be useful on NM's.

even tho i dont think we got screwed this update, if they dont pick it up from 95-99 i will be really upset.

No, we do know how it will work on NMs.

Finally got around to testing Heavy Strike on Hahava, and it's kind of bittersweet. Was able to squeeze in 4-5 casts per pop between Fanatic's and landed Sudden Lunges (more below).

In STR gear with Sole Sushi, I was having an astoundingly hard time landing the spell at all, when it did hit it hit for 300~500. On the 4th or 5th run I decided to try TP gear for the extra ACC, and it made a large difference (obviously); landed far more casts, but the damage obviously suffered. CA+Efflux damage was pretty nice considering the mob, but I didn't get a large sample size on that since I didn't feel like running back 50+ times.

A sample of the damage:
No CA:
383
464
465
333
479

CA:
980
1206



Overall the shitawful accuracy had given me the overwhelming urge to strangle badgers. Would seem that my previous premonitions were wrong and the ACC is pretty damn bad. :\

For comparison, Sudden Lunge and Vanity Dive had more casts and landed almost constantly in STR gear.