5.3 COMPLETE patch notes

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

DRK gets rebuilt every expansion, I'm sure 6.0 won't be any different. The job team just seems to have no idea what to do with it.

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They had it right in HW.

I actually loved the Stormblood version, aside from the Dark Arts spam. Can't comment on HW because I didn't have the nerve to try tanking yet.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I actually loved the Stormblood version, aside from the Dark Arts spam. Can't comment on HW because I didn't have the nerve to try tanking yet.

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It was the most complex tank, but everything flowed really well. Parrying had a chance to pull Reprisal off cooldown (meaning you could spam it practically if you were MT), crits had a chance to pull Low Blow off cooldown so you could spam it, a constant MP degen while Darkside was up so you had to balance doing damage with keeping your MP up, possible to always have cooldowns up and on rotation, an actual 2nd DPS combo (I miss HW Delirium), Abyssal Drain was spammable (if you had the MP for it), and a DoT. Just from that, you can tell what all was ripped from my poor boy.

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Originally Posted by Saix027

Bit disapointed how SCH once again got forgotten, less MP for its AoE Heal, nice but, i wish it would play more around, SCH has it the hardes on healing still, OCD Heals rely a lot on its aether stacks while WHM and AST have so many instant heals without conditions. I love paly SCH still but the class simply has to work far more to get the same effect then the other healers, it is a shame how it got butchered since the mass rework.

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I mean, Emergency Tactics is on a 15sec CD and now Succor is more in line with the cost of Medica.

I think it's in a good spot.

So is AST now, thankfully! If anything I'd kinda worry we might have like... too much MP? I guess it depends on how well people were utilizing Lightspeed's 50% cut before. Either way, much hype for updated AST even if I may miss the chaos of that first sleeve draw.

WAR Changes: Storm's eye duration increased to 1 min and "Nascent Flash - No longer requires a target party member to execute."? I love the devs so much right now.

Also, all the junk got taken out of DNG treasure coffers, which is cool.

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Gear that required the exchange of a base item and upgrade material can now be obtained directly in exchange for Allagan tomestones of poetics.
The base items and upgrade materials for such gear can no longer be obtained from shops or dungeons.

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So no more doubling up on tomestone rings with one augmented and the other not.

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Originally Posted by Pells

So no more doubling up on tomestone rings with one augmented and the other not.

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Since they explicitly mention poetics, I guess that only applies to old gear which you won't be using for long anyway.

Absolutely retarded ast changes, as expected, enjoy your randomly thrown useless divinations now I guess.

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Originally Posted by Fourbestintoner

Absolutely retarded ast changes, as expected, enjoy your randomly thrown useless divinations now I guess.

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Okay, go into more details, please, because the only negative thing I've seen so far was specifically the fact that Sleeve Draw seems to be one card 180s cooldown.

WHM remains untouched. Thank goodness. I'm always afraid there will be a nerf.