Battle Reform Blueprint

[Physic]

That wouldn't have solved the problem. You'd just have people healing their parties over and over again all day long.


Pretty much, yeah. Anything over dlvl 10 is meaningless.


"killing difficult monsters as fast as possible only if you had enough mobs to sustain them (which was usually never so not killing them as fast as possible was the usual way to go)" would be a more accurate description


If you're a PGL, you would think that the best way to play would be to do the following:

• hit the rear of the mob for better accuracy,
• let the glad keep hate and keep it off yourself, use concussive blow 3 times to get "concussive blow x 3" status,
• use Victimize for massive damage

Under the old SP system, the best way to get SP for the PGL would be this instead:

• stand right next to the tank so that the mob blasts you with AOE so that the mages get more cure SP,
• use taunt provoke and warmonger on the mob whenever the glad's tant/voke/monger debuff wears off,
• do Concussive Blow only ONCE (since CBx2 and CB x3 don't proc SP),
• use skull sunder for the WS damage and debuff proc SP (even though it's not as useful as other WS),
• use trammel for the WS damamge and debuff proc SP (even though it's not as useful as other WS),
• totally ignore Victimize because it's a waste of TP,
• totally ignore other abilities like discerning eye or sentinel because they use too much stamina and don't proc SP.

Stupid, huh? Yeah, I know.

See this quote from one of the posters in that guide to getting SP thread from october:





The problem was this this was hardly ever the case. The only time it was close to true was when killing raptors, or when fighting efts too early.


There will always be some actions that are more beneficial to SP gain relative to others so no matter what you do, you will always have the same problem.

e.g.
skull sunder + trammel better SP than using Maim
taunting and voking even if you are not a tank
not using shockspikes or stoneskin
etc
etc

That is the fundamental flaw with action-based SP-gain.



"unless you run out of targets"

Which was usually always the case unless you were killing raptors.


Also, while you might have been getting good SP it was highly likely (especially for pick up parties) that other people were not getting good SP and proccing as much because they weren't playing like an idiot on purpose. Therefore you had to slow down and be courteous so you didn't hog all the SP at the expense of your fellow party members.


Nope, only crabs, efts, and raptors were worthwhile, everything else was garbage. Just like now.


That part is correct


Nope, the grind mobs now are the same as before: crabs, efts, and raptors.


Looking at your character's history, I see you only got to PGL rank 35-ish before the November "lol coblyn genocide is the best SP now" patch, at which point you quit and then started playing again in April, so I can see how you have the opinions that you do.

Your memories of the old ways are fonder than what was really happening.

lol i deleted that post so we wouldnt argue about it, but fine, hears the truth victimize is epeen, victimize is not best damage, i like seeing big numbers but victimize is with all the buffs going to hit for like 700 on mob thats 10 levels higher with 3000 tp, whereas concussive blow costs 1000 and debuffs the mob, and does 250-300 on the same mob. skull sunder, even better does a dot to the mob and also hits for 250-300 even on sub, but it only costs 500 tp of course since it has a long recast on sub, its not the best.

using voke for hoping to proc a skill up wasnt worth it, why? because voke costs about 2-3 times the stamina of regular attacks and about 1.5 the amount weaponskills used to cost. the SP gain was balanced for the stamina cost. voke was good for tanking, because hey your damage was probably going to suck anyway. and you need the mob on you, more importantly you could proc parries, which on high level monsters was very beneficial.

So being high dd monk, yeah go behind the mob, unless it was a raptor, or you wanted to incapacitate its head (which actually helps alot on bones, eyes, and imps)
heavy flurry flurry flurry concusive pounce skull sunder concussive (every thing else is on cooldown anyhow) which you know what, is actually one of the better ways to do DD now, and perfom my role now, i could throw in trammel, but then you start having too many skills, like you also want a feint there raging strike, blinside etc.
Being a good DD gave the most skill ups, which is why archer stole all exp and leveled faster than everyone.
BEfore everyone gimped thier exp to serve healing mages. but with a shared exp system, the other 5 people in the party getting good exp and not dying would make up for any healer gains.

i experienced all the SP booms and all the ups and downs, as people were really learning how to get SP it was actually pretty fun, and we explored the world. since raptors were often taken we went to tam tara.
when they did the coblyn sp nerf, i knew the first day that coblyns were going to be OP, and leve linking was good but honestly no where near as fun. before monsters were balanced based on thier stats, imps would give very large procs to damage probably because they could kill you so easily. the game had achieved making many mobs good for different types of parties or groups. There is no way that putting same sp on most mobs was going to be good, when they are totally different in levels of danger. and time to kill. it was obvious, i dont know why they even tried to have only like 3 or so SP classes

BTW most the mobs were good, pterocs in mines were excellent if you had a chain killing party, even though some times you only rolled 1 proc overall you got great sp, and this is with 4-6 man pts. Skulls were great but rare, but in tam tarra you could cake up in skull room, then kill imps wisps and bats till they respawned and still get large SP. there was also piestes for large parties, Monkeys were excellent sp for a small group, of about 3 people or duo, the monsters were very adaptive, there was different monsters for different playstyles. i remember antling parties in one of the thanalan mines as well, and hogs were great high level, oh yeah antelopes and hippogryphs in the 20s. (3-6 man) or duo when you got higher.

now the game is basically leve link only and behest only, at low levels of challenge. they need to change sp gains or no one will learn to use the new battle system well. and people will ignore 75% of the game and monsters.