MCH, still as bad?

[RiceisNice]

But there are perks to regen as MCH as well. BFB, HE, and RS do not affect your turret autos, for example. Outside of Hypercharge you are able to regen while doing full DPS (minus turret autos) at the same time. It's a much greater loss for a BRD to use their offensive CDs w/ regen up. Unplanned regen uptime hurts MCH a lot less. A BRD will need to decide between delaying the regen, delaying the offensive CDs, or using both at the same time and taking the additional damage hit.

I think you more or less answered it yourself as well, but that's also cooldowns that aren't affecting part of your dps. And in a scripted (which is almost all) fight, regen can't really be unplanned unless people are (excessively) dying. Otherwise, the toggling of my regen is almost clockwork in regards to the fight.

What buffs we need or don't need will mostly depend on how SE decides to approach content in 3.2. They have already gone out and said they are making ways for tanks to tank more, and healers to heal more. How far they plan on going with that we will have to see.

Each weapon skill could have a different secondary affect when it's used with ammo (hence quick reload for those on spot requirements, versus a normal reload for your next 5 shots), or make the ability itself have a stacking usage that resets refreshes on it's own; each cast uses 1 charge, and 1 charge refreshes every 15 seconds. Sort of like dork arts but you're drawing from cooldowns instead of mp.

Another synergy that might improve the overall desirability of party composition is giving MCH blunt or hybrid (blunt and piercing damage, since the ability animations implies blunt impact and piercing at times), and a means to inflict blunting debuff, that serves as a synergy to MNK's dps if they can use bootshine every 1st hit instead of dragon kick (as well as being applied faster).