New Battle Effects 'Enhancement'

[Reika]

I would say you were able to 3-man it because dodore and his minions have this seemingly useless ability that creates that white shockwave in the air, instead of attacking. I saw that go off so many times at times a spell or attack would have killed the tank. All the NM's do this, and it is a reason why they tend to be so easy. They also use stamina, which if they increased the stamina regen of NM's it would increase their difficulty enough to require a bigger/full party.

Oh and stygian/shock spikes dont do anything for magic attacks or special skills..

[Eldaena]

Oh and stygian/shock spikes dont do anything for magic attacks or special skills..

Yes, but he was still getting back mp from stygian on some regular attacks so it was still useful. He needed to be able to cure himself and this allowed him to do so. Previously, stygian spikes never seemed to work in this particular fight, but here it is. A lot of tanks for that fight would run out of mp, but here he did not.

[Eldaena]

Another thing, we fought the Buffalo the other day with only 5 people and debuffs from spells were landing almost always when it seemed dreadfully hard to do this pre-patch.