Quote Originally Posted by Dfoley View Post
Being as stringing pummel was already better, I fail to see this as a lool pup nerf.
^ this.

Ukko's nerf is only right. I mean... that WS gets +80% crit at 300TP, one may wonder what the hell SE were smoking when they decided stats for Ukko.
Nerfing it a bit means making so it's not as broken as now, it doesn't mean to make Ukko's useless... it should be a reasonable nerf, not too big not too small.
One could argue about nerfing it one year too late, and I would agree with that. If you let so much time pass before you acknowledge something is "seriously broken" then you might as well leave things as they are and try to address the issue in some other way.

As for Victory Smite I'm not sure. I mean, the WS is surely brilliant and one of the best, probably the second best after Ukko's (but there still is a big difference between Ukko and Vsmite...), but it shows its limits when outside Abyssea. On tough stuff it's not really that awesome unless you got Impetus up and with a decent amount charged up.
I don't know Vsmite's exact TP>Crit values, but I always thought it was assumed to have the same ones as Blade: Hi?
That would mean 100%>15%crit, 200%>20%crit, 300>25%crit.
Doesn't seem particularly unbalanced to me.
If they want to nerf Vsmite I hope the % of the nerf won't be bigger than 5%, so to say 10%>15%>20% for 100, 200 and 300 TP respectively.

What really annoys me about this is not the nerf itself, but rather:
1) the fact this comes way too late
2) the fact I had already ruled Shijin Spiral out in favour of other WSs, now I'm back to square one because Shijin Spiral is definitely becoming the best MNK WS, even for people with Verethragna, and I really don't like the idea of gathering countless +DEX gear, stressing my limited inventory space even more and forcing me to give up one of the 3 WSs I learned. But yeah, Shijin and Vsmite are so close atm (outside Abyssea) that even a 1% nerf would make Shijin win over Vsmite, and we all know it won't be just 1%. Sigh...