Quote Originally Posted by Dragonlord View Post
Using stardiver at the start of a fight is going to cause more damage through the added effect than the difference between it and drakesbane. So technically this WS already beats drakes in party situations.

The dev team mentioned with he release of drakes that they intentionally boosted the WS bc they felt drg needed a great WS. And it is still one of the best WS in this game.

Club and staff new WS are better than the previous because the others aren't much good to begin with (aside from hexa strike but that is main job specific). So those weapons deserve to finally have a good WS. Now drg has 2 WS that it can rotate between depending on the situation, this WS is fine by me. (Of course i won't complain if they boost stardiver either, i just don't think its necessary)
Going by bolds, it won't if you're just damaging your own DPS for the sake of others. 5% Crit is nothing. Oriandori provides a 10-15% we provide a mariginal 5%. So if you have a Ninja in your group, what then? It also lasts 60 seconds.

Are you really going to use a WS that damages your DPS by 5-10% per WS every min? More than likely inclined to say not.

If the Critical Hit Evasion Down -% was = to that of Orianodori then maybe. No, yes, it would be amazing then. However, sadly it isn't.

In regards to Drakesbane, when they first added it, it was actually horrible. Penta Thrust out parsed it every which way. It was so bad, it was speculated it had no bonus to crit rate at all. It was speculated to have a 0% Crit Rate Boost at 100% TP. So they adjusted it, made it better because it got flamed to heck for being so weak.

So, no Drakesbane wasn't released with a planned intention of being AMAZING. It was released as a Mythic WS which was found too weak, and augmented to meet standards.Through player feed back it was made better. Which is what I want to do here, I want to show that 1: this WS isn't all that it could be. 2: It's added effect isn't as great as people believe it is. 3: That it requires a greater boost in damage, and or some type of modification to it's added effect to be worth while.