Quote Originally Posted by Ilyn View Post
both same ninki gain and only a 20 potency difference ... woop dee do ...
Wait till you hear how a Dread Fangs combo and a Steel Fangs combo on Viper generates the same Serpent Offerings but one is 100 potency less.

This is the case for basically every melee with a buff. The GCD that applies the buff is a weaker counterpart but maintains the buff, while also generating the same amount of gauge resources.

Aeolian Edge and Armor Crush are not "playing off of each other" any more than they currently do pre-DT. You still alternate between the two, you still need to maintain a buff with Armor Crush (which is less potency that a buffed Aeolian Edge), and they both still provide the same amount of Ninki. Nothing is actually new, you're just doing 1 more AC per AE than you used to.