New 2-hour Abilities

[Helel]

Can nerf the haste effect of embrava, just not the regain please. I like to pew things on ranger still.

[Vivivivi]

Maybe Geomancer and Rune Fencer will alleviate the need for PD and Embrava for Nyzul or ADL? :3

[Septimus]

There is no reason that if the recast for the new SP abilities has to be the same as the current two-hour effects. The new SPs could be 30 minutes while keeping two-hours the same recast and potency.

While it would be nice to have content that doesn't rely on Embrava and Perfect Defense to win, I cannot imagine that content being produced given the current fetish of giving mobs weaponskills that rain death in a 500 yalm radius.

[Ophannus]

Our DDs get ADL from 100% to 50% in less than 30 seconds without WSing at all and we usually turn for 10-15second till he splits. I'm sure if we wanted to, we could CS Stun ADL for 75 seconds with a RDM/BLM aand DDs would kill him in 30-45 seconds(since we get him to 50% without WSing at all in 30 seconds, I'm sure with WS spamming we could take him out before he splits)

[Byrth]

The main strategic benefit behind 30 minute Astral Flows would be only having to bring along ~3 Summoners for your ADL runs regardless of how many pops you have.

I don't think you can take ADL out before his splits, Ophannus. I think that's kind of hard-coded into his AI. It's going to happen and doesn't take him any time, so Chainspell Stun doesn't save you from it. It's similar to AV putting bracers on.

[Secondplanet]

Here's an idea SE, why don't you take this concept of 2hr avatars and change them to normal avatars??? then we won't mind you nerfing PD so much, make it alexander's BP:ward 2hr(loosely) ability, and give him a 2hr offensive one? That way we summoners get 2 actual avatars and you can nerf it without as much complaining.

[Tamarsamar]

If we can merit our current 2-hour Abilities to 30 min. or so, then the Two-hour recast time Evoliths might actually become somewhat useful, particularly if they can be used in conjunction with the Two-hour Enhancing Relic +2 armor.

All in all, another thing to macro.

Still, amazing news. If this was at the behest of Mr. Matsui, he's shown that he knows when to hold them and when to fold them, and there wasn't a much worse hand to fold than the grand majority of these new Two-hours. The inevitable delay in implementation will be well worth the wait, I feel.

[Insaniac]

Still, amazing news. If this was at the behest of Mr. Matsui, he's shown that he knows when to hold them and when to fold them, and there wasn't a much worse hand to fold than the grand majority of these new Two-hours. The inevitable delay in implementation will be well worth the wait, I feel.

Agreed. My false hope meter is back to full. 15/20 of them seem more like 5 minute JAs than 2 hours so I will gladly wait a few extra weeks.

[Insaniac]

You're still being illogical. The only 30min+ event that exists currently and doesn't have either constant 2hr resets or a ??? to lock your 2 hour on is dynamis currency farming and I will admit a dynamis with ~50 minutes of embrava would be nice and yield more currency but it's far from "SEVERELY BROKEN!!". I would be more worried about beastmasters with full time familiar in dynamis though =P. All other events would be unaffected.

[Xilk]

You're still being illogical. The only 30min+ event that exists currently and doesn't have either constant 2hr resets or a ??? to lock your 2 hour on is dynamis currency farming and I will admit a dynamis with ~50 minutes of embrava would be nice and yield more currency but it's far from "SEVERELY BROKEN!!". I would be more worried about beastmasters with full time familiar in dynamis though =P. All other events would be unaffected.

fyi for the uninformed... Beastmasters already have full time familiar for Dynamis. YOu pop it once and the effect stays for the duration of the pet on a jug pet. +10% pet hp (nice but no big deal) and +10% haste from monster trousers +2, which is very nice, but for an experienced bst, this jsut means I have to fight DC's and not EP's to farm because my pet KIll's them too fast and proc rate goes way down.