Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
The only problem I really forsee with it is that Scholar’s Deployment might make it hard for the criticals to be a real threat because of barrier spreading. But then, that’s easily solved by having Deployment only spread the shield effects and not the crit nullification.
Only two things could Crit a party member back then, an autoattack (which should be hitting a Tank), or very specific Physical Tankbusters (which are guaranteed to Crit every time, and should also be hitting a Tank). As such, for a SCH to make the Crits 'not be a real threat via Deployment' would A: require Deployment a lot more often than is available, to cover all the autoattacks, and B: cost a GCD almost every time to apply Adlo/Succor to the Tank. I'd imagine it'd be more a case of 'Oh Tera Slash (guaranteed crit) is coming soon, I'll Adlo the tank in advance because I don't know if they have many CDs left and it's better to be safe than sorry', rather than trying to keep 100% uptime on barriers to completely negate autoattack crits

Also, the game rolled for 'is it a Crit' before 'is it Blocked', even when the Block Rate was 100% (ie with Sheltron), so PLD would be disproportionately screwed by such a system, unless Holy Sheltron was adjusted to give some Barrier instead of 1000p of regen. IDK why Bloodwhetting has 400p of barrier, but Holy Sheltron doesn't. I guess PLD does get Guardian's massive barrier effect though. And DRK gets TBN, and GNB gets (sometimes) Brutal Shell, so maybe this wouldn't actually change anything after all