The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Tanathya]

Hello, a BRD here. o/

While I can’t speak for others, I would take Diversion’s 90% reduction in enmity generation over Refresh’s/Tactician’s 50% aggro dump.

On BRD, I would too, I was just pointing out how BRD and MCH both have 2 skills that reduce the enmity by half. In fact, both Refresh and Tactician should have some sort of enmity generation reduction attached to them on top of the dump.

It makes little sense Bard and Machinist are forced to burn utility abilities to half their aggro when a skill exists purely to accommodate that problem. Say a scenario occurs where the group needs Tactician. Oops, the Bard used it to cut their aggro or they'll rip from the tank. And a good Bard will rip before a Caster, though Black Mage moves close. None of the melee remotely touch Bard or Machinists aggro burst.

What is the likelihood you will have a group without Samurai, Ninja or Warrior? Three jobs provide Slashing yet only one provides Piercing despite three jobs benefiting from it. Casters are irrelevant since their damage isn't reliant on a utility like range and melee.

Refresh and Tactician, especially the first, is usually used on CD (note the "usually" there), and Tactician is normally up there on demand. Again, I would attach an enmity generation reduction to them on top of that. The burst is high, the enmity generation after that isn't. And I can tell you as a samurai, whose burst isn't exactly brilliant, as I struggled not to grab the hate off a tank shortly after the fights began when Diversion was crappy, on Deltascape Savage.

The likelihood of having a SAM, a NIN, or a WAR has nothing to do with the fact that PLD and DRK don't have it. DRG isn't only invited for their piercing resistance down, but also for their decent damage on top of Battle Littany and Dragon Sight. So, by that logic, the likelihood of having a DRG is quite high. It's as if they gave BRD and MCH their own piercing resistance down and the next step would be to ask for a Battle Littany kind of skill for themselves.

I would just take these resistances down away, they're not interesting in the least.