Results -9 to 0 of 116

Threaded View

  1. #9
    Player
    Hachiko's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2011
    Posts
    433
    Character
    Shaenrael Calgarawyn
    World
    Lamia
    Main Class
    Marauder Lv 50
    Bloodbath isn't really reactive. Since it's not burst mitigation it's just "over time" and it's a small amount over a long period of time, calling it either proactive or reactive is a little bit of a mischaracterization. Same with Storm's Path, it's not usable on demand, and its only contribution is in the form of an "over time". I know you're counting all healing as reactive, but usually healers consider HoT type skills as "proactive" heals, meaning you put them on the target once they take some damage or are about to take some damage, in the hope that after they take the damage the hot will heal some of it. Essentially, Bloodbath and Storm's Path are the same way, except they are so minimal counting them as proactive seems kind of silly.

    Convalescence is functionally a pro-active cooldown. You want it up before you take the damage so any pre-cast heals will get the buff from it. The effect doesn't hit you until after you take the damage, but it's something you should be pre-buffing with. I don't think you should really be counting mercy stroke at all, either, because the heal is not of use in any sort of raiding situation and even solo it's hard enough to time it between attacks / auto attacks such that you actually get the kill with it and not an attack of some other sort. You are being pro-active with convalescence, even if the healers are being re-active with their heals.

    Also stoneskin is pretty amazing for a PLD. There are a lot of uses on many fights (Garuda, Titan, ADS, etc.)

    But if you look by bulk mitigation, Inner Beast is clearly intended and usually does provide more than any other skill, and that is reactive. So maybe it's the design intent, but it isn't really a functioning intent anyway, so it's hard to tell if that is really what they had in mind or if they even thought about it from this angle.
    (2)
    Last edited by Hachiko; 10-05-2013 at 08:07 AM.