Dancer ideas

[Urat]

Job Trait: Prodigy
Increases the window length one can close a skillchain in.

Level 25: +1 second

Level 50: +2 seconds

Level 75: +3 Seconds

Level 99: +4 seconds

This goes for all weaponskills opened by dancer and wild flourish, and all skillchains about to be closed by dancer, thus.

A level 99 dancer has about 8-9 seconds to close skillchains instead of 4-5. Whenever they perform a weaponskill other members of the party have 8-9 seconds to close it as well.

Flourishes IV -> Finale

Consumes x Flourishes. Performs an multihit (equal to finishes consumed) attack that deals critical damage to your opponent while severely wounding them.

The attack acts like a weaponskill without SC properties. For each hit performed a potent enfeeblement is placed on the opponent.

Hit one: -10% eva
Hit two: -10% def
Hit three: -10% meva
Hit four: -10% crit evasion
Hit five: Very very potent terror/stun effect, maybe 5-10 seconds? Optionally maybe amnesia/silence?

Haste Samba II: 10% haste, +1% for each haste samba merit. Level 99? Please oh please make us on par with the mages.

As for the possibility of level 99 merits or whatever you guys are up to.

Infernal Samba: Consumes life in order to increase the potency of your attacks (Each attack does +10% dmg but also consumes that much of your life) +1% for each merit

Encore: Your next Weaponskill will only consume 50 TP but also take a dramatic loss of power.
(the weaponskill loses all fTP and stat mods, this would be used in order to help open skillchains with ease)
Recast: 5 Min, merits: -30 seconds each

Also a - Waltz Recast merit would be oh so glorious, maybe -2 seconds per, but waltzes cap out at -80% recast time.

Finishes: Increases finish cap by 1 per.

[Kasandaro]

Job Trait: Prodigy
Increases the window length one can close a skillchain in.
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A level 99 dancer has about 8-9 seconds to close skillchains instead of 4-5. Whenever they perform a weaponskill other members of the party have 8-9 seconds to close it as well.

This would drive my BLU bonkers. Also, why?

Flourishes IV -> Finale

Cool idea

Infernal Samba: Consumes life in order to increase the potency of your attacks (Each attack does +10% dmg but also consumes that much of your life) +1% for each merit

so...Souleater?

Encore: Your next Weaponskill will only consume 50 TP but also take a dramatic loss of power.
(the weaponskill loses all fTP and stat mods, this would be used in order to help open skillchains with ease)
Recast: 5 Min, merits: -30 seconds each

Or they could give us Wild Flourish II, letting it open tier III chains. Simpler mechanic.

Also a - Waltz Recast merit would be oh so glorious, maybe -2 seconds per, but waltzes cap out at -80% recast time.

Finishes: Increases finish cap by 1 per.

yes and yes. Though I'd put a floor on waltz recast or make it a percentage rather than a flat rate.

[Urat]

This would drive my BLU bonkers. Also, why?

A longer SC window would allow us to fit more shenanigans in between our WSes in order to really get some epic numbers on our closing WSes, for example, we could go from simply:

Evisceration -> Reverse Flourish -> Dancing edge/Pyrrhic Kleos -> Distortion

And instead do

Presto -> WS1 -> Build Flourish -> Climactic Flourish/Striking Flourish -> No Foot Rise -> Step+1(presto) -> Reverse Flourish -> Closing WS

This would be possible with such an effect, alternatively it could be a chain affinity style JA with a several minute recast

"Your next weaponskill will make your opponent highly vulnerable to Skillchains"

The weaponskill opens up a 1 minute long skillchain window, instead of 3 seconds. The window would be so long you could close it with a follow up ws through normal generic TPing while solo.

So whats the difference between this and wild flourish II? Wild flourish only counts as a chain 1 Skillchain, however using this ability not only does it open up tonnes of possibilities for epic combos, but the closing skillchain has the 15% damage mod for being a chain2 Skillchain!

yes and yes. Though I'd put a floor on waltz recast or make it a percentage rather than a flat rate.

I think we do have a recast floor already, and Trance maxes it out, not sure if thats as low as waltzes are allowed to go


Another possibility I thought of is a powerful job trait dancer could obtain at 99

Dervish: Your prowess in combat has augmented your abilities with Skillchains

Effect: All skillchain properties of your weaponskills have upgraded by 1 tier, so:

Liquifaction/Transfixion -> Fusion
Detonation/Impaction -> Fragmentation
Compression/Scission -> Gravitation
Induration/Reverbation -> Distortion

Fusion/Fragmentation -> Light
Gravitation/Distortion -> Darkness

Finally, a new set of skillchain combos are added to dancer, allowing them a wider variety of closing combos.

Light -> Fusion/Fragmentation = Light
Darkness -> Gravitation/Distortion = Darkness

Essentially allowing you to infinitely combo darkness skillchains over and over provided enough tp (very very hard to do but it IS possible to pull off an infinite WS combo in abyssea provided a really high TP gain rate from combat through STP/Haste/Dual wield, meditate, regain atmas, and a Monarch's Drink active. I managed to chain together an entire evi-DE-evi skillchain without using reverse flourish)

But other than that this would basically open up a tonne more WS combos, for example you could do Climactic flourish -> NFR -> presto+step -> Sekka -> evisceration -> evisceration -> reverse flourish -> evisceration for 3 wses 2 darkness SCs, all proccing on Climactic flourish for sick damage.