Delerium Blade debuff, any info?

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Originally Posted by Xenosan

Sounding like Reprisal is oGCD, debuff lasts 20 seconds, with a 30 second recast, and requires a Parry to pop (DRK also has +30% parry CD). It's fine, they gave Storms Path to DRK but didn't cut into WAR's exclusive trademark in doing it. Frankly I wasn't expecting them to give DRK Storm's Path at all. So it's fine for me

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The one issue with this is that if you're not MT then there is no way to get a parry unless you stand in cleaves which just gives more work for the healers. I'm not gonna say much as we still don't know how well it works and how parry was reworked in HW but in its current state it seems almost useless you are MT and/or taking physical hits. It's a great tool to have though like I stated before its still unreliable.

The debuff isn't too bad; it seems more raid-focused than dungeon focused (me speaking the obvious, at any rate). Pairing a PLD with a DRK/MNK and you start taking the fangs out of a boss fight a bit. Throw in a Virus with the enhanced trait, and it gets better (provided they stack, at any rate, at which point you're looking at -25% STR/INT on a mob).

I'm not sure how it works in this game, but typically monsters (and raid bosses) have beefed up stats compared to characters. So if a BLM had an INT rating of 600, then Delerium would bring it down to 540. If a raid boss had 6000 INT, then it would bring it down to 5400. With percentage scaling it can add up to be a pretty big chunk of change especially when you add in Virus (provided the effects stack, which I think they do).