Cloudsplitter

[Septimus]

Another thing about it being a brew-only weapon skill, Abyssea isn't the focus of the game anymore. Any new items to upgrade Empyrean weapons will most likely come from Voidwatch where Cloudsplitter is going to be terrible damage because of a lack of brew, or (less likely) from Walk of Echoes where Cloudsplitter is going to be terrible damage because of a lack of brew. And eventually they are going to add new content where Cloudsplitter is going to be terrible damage because of a lack of brew.

It's lovely that it is an awesome weapon skill for brewing, but what about the other 99.9999999% of the time we are playing the game?

[Stabbytabby]

It's lovely that it is an awesome weapon skill for brewing, but what about the other 99.9999999% of the time we are playing the game?

This. I shouldn't still be using Rampage 97% of the time. With other ws like CDC, Ukko, etc. I don't see many Emp holders still using a L55 weaponskill and yet here I am with my cool new weapon using the same macro I made in 2005.

Also, since it's a magic ws it's unaffected by the base dmg of the weapon so it'll need a substantial fix to scale properly all the way to 99 as the physical dmg Emps get more base dmg added to them. CSplitter will be even less impressive compared to ws like Sanguine as CSplitter has no dINT/dCHR bit in the formula so you can't even stack a stat to up the dmg.

Another strike against CSplitter as it stands is that while jobs like war and thf will get new traits and gear that boost crits, double and triple attack, etc. the best bst can look forward to minor stat increases as the sole boost to csplitter via the mod. (I assume this is primarily a bst ws as war gets Ukko's and seems unlikely to dual axe much anymore. I have war90 and rarely do.)

How about borrowing from the Mythics and having the aftermath work on my pet as well? Then it's a conditional boost to the ws, if solo, use Rampage, if you have a pet out, Csplitter.

Short version: I shouldn't wistfully be looking at every other Emp ws and regretting my choice, not on an Emp used by 2 different DD jobs. Fixing it and keeping it balanced will not be easy, but, a fix is badly needed. If it makes it easier to balance for SE, that fix should be tilted towards bst as it's the only Emp bst gets.