Storm's Eye Is a Chore

[BloodRubyXII]

It's hilarious how DRKs think the state of Storm's Eye is fun on this thread when their damage buff is OGCD and has an incredible amount of flexibility in order to optimize.

[Shurrikhan]

It's hilarious how DRKs think the state of Storm's Eye is fun on this thread when their damage buff is OGCD and has an incredible amount of flexibility in order to optimize.

You realize DRKs can, you know, also be WARs?

I've been a WAR since 1.2, for instance. I just also happen to have a DRK at level cap, as I have since HW (shortly after WAR). That I've sometimes found it that little bit more fun than WAR does not mean I'm going to sabotage my other tanks now.

[waterboytkd]

This is what I'd been suggesting for a while for both Warrior and Samurai. Let second-tier skills combo from the opening AoE skill in addition to their normal openers.

I like this. Though with WAR, I'd do Storm's Eye being able to combo off Maim or Mythril Tempest, rather than Maim off Heavy or Overpower.

Don't forget DRG in there, too! Letting Disembowel combo off Doom Spike as well as True/Raiden Thrust would be a godsend for their AoE rotation. Then have Sonic Thrust add 10 more seconds to Disembowel duration would be perfect.

Maybe it seems like stepping on Monk's toes, since this is the way their AoE functions (EDIT: actually, MNK's is better since you can still finish the AoE combo after Twin Snakes). But Monk AoE feels so much better than all the others. SAM is close, but the clunkiness of getting Shifu and Jinpu buffs started stinks (though Meikyo does help there).

[MerlinCross]

It's hilarious how DRKs think the state of Storm's Eye is fun on this thread when their damage buff is OGCD and has an incredible amount of flexibility in order to optimize.

Do I find it more fun than Edge of Darkness? Dunno.

I think it feels/looks more impactful than Souleater and Storm's Edge.

[Kabooa]

It's hilarious how DRKs think the state of Storm's Eye is fun on this thread when their damage buff is OGCD and has an incredible amount of flexibility in order to optimize.

"Hit it literally right after the very first GCD that combat starts" doesn't sound like it's incredibly flexible to me. If it's not up, put it up.

If it is up, it will stay up unless a long ass transition occurs.

[RadicalPesto]

It's hilarious how DRKs think the state of Storm's Eye is fun on this thread when their damage buff is OGCD and has an incredible amount of flexibility in order to optimize.

Can people please make up their minds if homogenisation is bad or not, because turning Storm's Eye into Edge of Shadow is a great way to make the two tanks that draw the most complaints about homogenisation even more similar. Also WAR does almost identical damage to DRK at almost every percentile so maybe comparing jobs on a skill-to-skill basis isn't a good idea.

[NyneSwordz]

Make mythril tempest apply eye. Eye annoying mostly because of the new aoe rotation.

If mythril tempest applied eye 90 percent of the complaint would be addressed.

At times having to delay eye to use IR probably the other 10 percent.

If all attacks inthe ir window did damage as if eye was applied, i dont think anyone would have any complaints left to say.

[NyneSwordz]

I mean delay ir to apply eye

[Shurrikhan]

If all attacks inthe ir window did damage as if eye was applied, i dont think anyone would have any complaints left to say.

I would. You'd have just dumbed down my tank that was already most lacking in complexity.

[BarretOblivion]

Why are we complaining about storm's eye now? Seriously? Have you guy not played WAR at all in SB? Nothing changed basically when it comes to the flow of the job in ShB, its the same darn thing. Don't touch storm's eye until about 6 seconds left then reapply it. It gets priority over everything else. Make sure you IR with at least 16 secs left on storm's eye. Delaying it by 1 whole rotation once isn't going to kill you unless you got a MNK in your group. If so then just IR on cooldown if you are lining up with brotherhood then reapply it.
Shortening the combo of it would be nice, that's all. We don't need it to be a OGCD skill. We just become DRKs at that point where we have 1 combo and must OGCD our damage buff. WAR has enough problems as it is with a LACK of skills, we don't need to be removing what little we do have to make things even easier on the easiest tank to play in the game now.