[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Zirael]

　　
Sword Weapon Skill “Requiescat”
Since Spirits Within’s damage varies based on your amount of HP and TP, we are adjusting Requiescat so that it will be easier to use than Spirits Within once you have 300 TP and also so that jobs that cannot boost their HP as high as paladins will be able to deal damage.

Also, Atonement is an easy to use weapon skill for paladins, which has a special feature, so the idea behind Requiescat was to give jobs other than paladin, specifically red mage and blue mage, a good weapon skill choice.

Giving Red Mage a native weaponskill with attack penalty (Requiescat) makes more sense than not giving Red Mage a native weaponskill with STR/MND/INT/Mab modifiers (Sanguine Blade)? Last time I checked, RDM didn't sit at 999 Attack. If something is resistant to physical damage, both Red Mage and Blue Mage would use... magic.

[FrankReynolds]

Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over your feedback and wanted to give more details in the thought process behind our changes and some of the weapon skills themselves.

Basically we just tried to do everything you didn't want us to do, and none of what you wanted us to do. We even tried to mess with some stuff that you thought was fine to begin with, just for good measure.

I'm joking.....

Seriously though..... Nobody cares why you guys are doing all this weird crap with the new Weapon Skills. We just want you to knock it off.

[Greatguardian]

Hey guys, don't you understand? It's an EXP sink. People've been asking for something to do with that overflow EXP, right?

Now you have things to drop 3 million EXP into!

What? Why are you angry? You told us they didn't have to be useful merits. You just wanted an exp sink!

Guys? Why are you looking at us like that? Is that a pitchfork? Are you cosplaying? What anime is that from?

Oh dear. I don't think they're cosplaying, Jim.

[Prothscar]

Seriously though..... Nobody cares why you guys are doing all this weird crap with the new Weapon Skills.

On the contrary...

[Nightfyre]

Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over your feedback

Bullshit. If the developers honestly believe this tripe constitutes good game design, they are not only ignoring our feedback but also have no understanding of the game they've created. This is an embarrassment and they should be ashamed, if not fired. Not just for this, but also for every other terrible idea they've implemented over the years.

[Sparthos]

Gene Wilder with a message from the developers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGk...eature=related

[Daniel_Hatcher]

lol, Wow! And someone actually gave a thumbs up to this nonsense.

[Kalilla]

Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over your feedback and wanted to give more details in the thought process behind our changes and some of the weapon skills themselves.

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Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over our feedback and wanted to give more details in the thought process behind our changes and some of the weapon skills themselves.

Ah now it makes sense

[darkhorror]

Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over your feedback and wanted to give more details in the thought process behind our changes and some of the weapon skills themselves.
　　
Axe Weapon Skill “Ruinator”
We will be lowering the attack modifier value and changing it so it’s half of the current value. The amount of damage dealt to high level enemies (those that have high defense) will be reduced, however, being able to deal damage easier than other axe weapon skills will remain unchanged.

We are making it so that the amount of damage will be around the same as Rampage if you have full accuracy and get 2-3 criticals. (This is when both of them are executed at 100 TP. There is of course more damage that can be dealt depending on gear and food.)

Did Ruinator have a large attack bonus? Did they just cut the attack bonus in half? Or was their an attack modifier that was at like 1.5, and cutting it in half puts it at .75 making it so you have an attack penalty? Or was it just an ftp mod or something?

If there was a large attack bonus and it was just lowered to half of what it was, I am ok with that. But an attack penalty will make this WS totally useless in any situation where it matters.

[Dreamin]

I'm going to predict right now, Tanaka going to make these new WS required proc (or only thing that will proc) the 'new/reramped' content...

I gave up trying to understands what SE is doing...