Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
In SB, DRK had to reach 50 Blood if they wanted a powered up Blood Weapon in their opener, than you needed to do the most Dark Arts available. Breaking a TBN to rappidly gain that was much more irritating than doing your rotation.
Depending on your party members, PLD could have to wait up to 7 GCD (Shield Lob, RoH combo, SwO and 2/3 of Goring Blade combo) before using FoF to make sure it covered two Goring Blades.
Oh, and they also both needed to wait for WAR to put their Slashing Debuff back in HW.
if you want to talk about enmity combos, that is an entirely different issue that entirely depended on party. If your OT doesnt know what shirk is, add 3gcds to everyone. Nothing to do with how long it takes to build up to max damage. For pld to be at max damage, they just hit FoF before goring. 2 whole gcds, and still doesnt have anything to do with 'ramping'. Thats just popping your instantanious ramp button (FoF) before your 1st big hit. Ramping means you need time to build up buffs. Stacks. Think greased lightning or damage buffs like eye. TLDR: Enmity has nothing to do with ramp up speed. It has to do with party dynamics. If you need to do 2 RoH combos and a stance swap thats your parties fault for making a pld crap all over their damage. Not ramp. Plds 'ramp' is hitting FoF.

Drk didnt need to 'wait' to get 50 blood. You popped blood weapon almost immediately and you easily had 50 blood to pop delirium to extend BW long before BW fell off. Extending a buff that you gain the resources to extend it from the buff itself isnt ramp. Ramp would be closer to now when you have to get 50 blood before you can use your most powerful skill (shadow pet). Old drk/pld had literally zero ramp. Any buffs that needed to be applied were a simple ogcd. The only ramp now is building blood to drop your shadow clone on drk. Pld still has zero.

Ramp means you must setup preconditions before you can do anything. Drk needing to earn 50 blood before BW wore off isnt ramp. BW literally gave you the resources you need to extend it all by itself.

And now they dont have to wait on war/nin to apply slashing. Enjoy.