Changing Skillchains

[OmnysValefor]

Worth mentioning as well is that the hate produced by a scholar is a mere fraction of what a ranger produces. After a single-target hate reset, a single Provoke or Flash is enough to get the boss back on me from the mages. Rarely both might be needed.

If I'm hit with a hate reset and lose to a ranger, it takes significant effort to get the boss back on me.

Apex crabs are a great example of this. Killing crabs, while I was still regaining gear for PLD, most crabs only got a single flash (to pull it as the current target was dying). This flash, unless it had decayed too much, usually held the crab til it was dead, from mages doing 50k, 70k, 99k MBs. Let a DRK do a 50k ws after a flash/voke and enjoy the funeral.

Safer strategy by far.

I had once considered that maybe Immanence shouldn't be able to open a skillchain but only close it (or vise versa), but even that is just too much if the tank can reliably WS. You also can't make immanence trigger a longer cooldown because then people will just make sure to bring two scholars and have them SC together, as many groups do already.

[Urmom]

Worth mentioning as well is that the hate produced by a scholar is a mere fraction of what a ranger produces. After a single-target hate reset, a single Provoke or Flash is enough to get the boss back on me from the mages. Rarely both might be needed.

If I'm hit with a hate reset and lose to a ranger, it takes significant effort to get the boss back on me.

While it wont work for all jobs if you are having trouble with hate and rng you can switch to magical ws. Since almost all their hate is ws limiting the ws hate is huge. And magical ws hate is a very odd thing in that it doesn't count most the dmg when doing the enmity calcs. So like doing a 3k tp trueflight with idk 300 agi will give the hate equivalent to do 2.8k dmg regardless of how much you actually did... and yeah I've done 50k trueflights where the mob didn't even glance at me. And of course their is wildfire for even less hate