Counter Skill on mobs miss too please! not only on evade

[Meleena]

I'll assume the part I underlined was just poorly worded, since it doesn't make sense otherwise.

Sure it makes sence, youre not stunned only if you're hit, you can be stunned by the surprize of a powerfull missed blow too. After all it's still a miss if a blow goes 1mm beside your face.
You think: What will happen if that thing hit me?
And your response is dalayed just by that.

As for where your going, you seem to have both feet firmly planted in the real world where monster don't exist.
The main complaint here is that SE has basically screwed PGL it's no long a decent DD, and it's tanking is even worse.
For us to rely solely on evades to use 3 of our attacks is a bit silly. And our other attacks with the exception of victimize and concussive blow feel pretty mediocre atm.

I don't agree, we would not become stronger if we could use counters on miss, it would just be 2 attacks in place of 2 other attacks.
I use Marauder's Skullsander 2, Lancer's Heavy Trammel, Aura Pulse, Victimize 2 and these attacks are more than enough for me to deal damage.
I make a difference with the counters anyway, since they are not stronger attacks than the one's I mentioned.
And I am saying that because it's still quite easy to use counters with evades.
Counters on miss arent that big of a power up...

Okay, lets assume that, how would it vary from if we evaded the first blow?
I know it can be difficult at times to see things from other perspectives, but when you start flipping things, usually the obvious shows through.

Theres a variation, If you evade the first and counter it then the opponent attack stops there.
You can't counter missed attacks so the opponent follows with the next hits too.

It's logical really, none really "counters" missed attacks.
Its not a counter if you hit someone if they missed, its called punish and it's rare.
You can't be ready to punish every missed attack that comes to you.
It's just wishfull thinking if someone would believe that he can punish every wiff.

As far as this whole mess goes, I'd rather they simply do away with this whole evasion/counter system, or bring in something like the counter trait from MNK in FFXI. While they may very well be saving for the MNK job in FFXIV. (we won't know that for few more months)

Maybe it's just me feeling this way, but it feels like PGL and THM got the super short end of the stick in 1.18.

I love the evade-counter system, I think it's awesome and i want it to stay.


EDIT:
For lack of a better example, plz look at 1:05 of this video to see what I mean with: "stunned from a missed blow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN49t...eature=related