[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Greatguardian]

I'm more surprised that Tachi: Shoha, the absolutely plum-broken WS that shits all over the Empyrean and Relic GKTs, hasn't been nerfed yet.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind having a super badass GKT WS. I'm just sorta in my corner shaking my head as the Devs nerf all the crappy, broken WS even more while leaving the strongest alone.

[SpankWustler]

I feel like this thread is in desperate need of one of spankwustler's explanations as to the thought process of the devs.

"We saw the giant insects again last night. Nobody was on anything and we weren't in the same room. We saw them anyway. Got calls from each other about it, same thing all around.

They asked about logs. They asked about ore. They seemed unsatisfied. They seemed hungry. Maybe they eat sadness. Maybe they peel off human skin and eat that instead. Hard to tell; they don't have mouths. Ten feet tall, some of the things, and still can't see what's at the back of the pincers. Tried not to look hard, anyway.

I told them about Requiscat. Another guy told them about Shijin Spiral. Ever heard a giant ant chortle? Ever seen how the middle bit of a praying mantis moves when it giggles? It's kind of like, like...you know dried seaweed, right? Imagine if that stuff was moving with the tides instead of living seaweed. It's kind of like that.

Some poor intern told them about Realmrazer. He's...not...He's still here but he's not really here anymore. He's just not."

[Unleashhell]

After testing, we concluded that there is a need to lower the damage dealt by the club weapon skill Realmrazer. We'll be making adjustments so that Realmrazer is the strongest club weapon skill for jobs that cannot learn Hexa Strike.

We also concluded that there is no need to increase the damage dealt by the H2H weapon skill Shijin Spiral and the sword weapon skill Requiescat. (The adjustments for the katana and great sword weapon skills were made to fix the difficulty of dealing damage against stronger opponents.)

Shijin Spiral has an attack boost effect, so it can effectively deal damage to stronger opponents. Thus, we decided that there was no need for adjustment. Also, please keep in mind that its modifiers are DEX and not STR.

Since Requiescat has no element, it’s an effective weapon skill against monsters that are immune to physical attacks. Considering that players can use attack boosts and double attack effects to enhance damage (edited at 12:28pm PST), we decided that an adjustment was unnecessary.

We’ll make the above adjustments in the next version update and will look into implementing further adjustments following the version update as necessary.

The sword weaponskill is terrible though. Its not worth meriting....

[Chriscoffey]

I'm more surprised that Tachi: Shoha, the absolutely plum-broken WS that shits all over the Empyrean and Relic GKTs, hasn't been nerfed yet.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind having a super badass GKT WS. I'm just sorta in my corner shaking my head as the Devs nerf all the crappy, broken WS even more while leaving the strongest alone.

You are surprised they haven't nerfed something on Samurai.... dude you have to be joking.

[Karbuncle]

Seriously? Hexa Strike is your idea of balancing? Why?

A level 220 Combat Skill - Level 67 minimum Job Requirement Weapon Skill should have a greater power over a level 96 357 Weapon Skill? Please tell me this is just a troll and a typo. This is redundant.

If the idea of these new weapons is to simply be WEAKER than what a job already has, why has the Dev Team WASTED their time on them? As well as our time in testing, simply to make them weaker than something at 220?

This is just ridiculous, I can understand you being interested in weakening it slightly. However, why not just make it WHM and BLU exclusive? Why bother having given Warrior the ability to use 9 out of 14 WSs? This in itself needs balance if you feel you need to destroy this WS for Club and Jobs that aren't over powered and broken.

Hexa Strike - 6 hit - 1.0 fTP 20% STR 20% MND, this piece of crap is supposed to be better? Really?

This mind set the Dev team has on something like that is a huge let down. You want to consider Abyssea a failure? These new WS are starting to look like a HUGE failure. Just delete them, and buff all level 58-67 WS. This way we can all use Tanaka's Rage WS of: Sidewinder, Skewer, Hexa Strike, and let's not forget Gekko!

This is truly a joke.

Realmrazer: 7 Hit WS - 20-100% MND. <- It's about looking forward into the FUTURE OF FINAL FANTASY. Not looking back into it's monotonous past.

This is why your post has no likes Bayohne!

Level ~67 WHM Exclusive Club WS you gain from Natural leveling, Being Better than a level 99 Merited WS you have to dump about 100 Merits into?

inb4 i'm banned, but seriously, this is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Who's going to blow 100 Merits on something designed to be weaker than other weaponskills?

Non-White Mages? But if the issue is that White Mage should get a better weapon skill... perhaps they should buff Hexa Strike for White Mages at higher skill levles or give White Mages another WS learned at a higher skill while keeping Realmrazer the same...

Oh yeah, Makes perfect sense for all those Club-Heavy DD's out there to want this. Oh wait... o-o

[Coldbrand]

HURRRRR THE NEW WEAPONSKILLS ARE BALANCED BECAUSE THEY'RE BETTER FOR JOBS THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE USING THOSE WEAPONS ANYHOW! IT ESPECIALLY MAKES SENSE FOR STARDRIVER SINCE IT HAS A DRAGOON JUMP IN IT YOU GUYS.

[Prothscar]

Have been waiting for you to come in here with that picture. ilu

[Economizer]

This is why your post has no likes Bayohne!

Please don't shoot the messenger. I think the poor Moogles already have to deal with the dev team trying to eat their poms. I imagine their salary doesn't even include Kupo Nuts!

Some poor intern told them about Realmrazer. He's...not...He's still here but he's not really here anymore. He's just not."

I was hoping you'd accept my explanation, but I suppose being a White Mage Tarutaru isn't enough... I'd have to have the onion haircut too.

Who's going to blow 100 Merits on something designed to be weaker than other weaponskills?

Non-White Mages? But if the issue is that White Mage should get a better weapon skill... perhaps they should buff Hexa Strike for White Mages at higher skill levles or give White Mages another WS learned at a higher skill while keeping Realmrazer the same...

[Neisan_Quetz]

Awesome, I now relegate Resquiescat to Spirits/Atonemont 2.0, only it might be situationally useful if you dump 100 merits into it.

Thanks for nerfing club, I have no clue what to merit after GA/Sword now. Maybe I'll just go level Sam after all.

[FrankReynolds]

Who the hell clicked the like button on this dumb ass nerf?