Thread: 2.1 Steel Cyclone, Not Enough

Originally Posted by Sybreed

I completely agree that just throwing extra enmity onto SC is not enough of a buff to make me use it in any situation other than one where I can do w/e for the lulz (see stuff that doesn't matter). I'd love for it to do something like apply an 8 second blind to all enemies hit by it, in addition to the extra enmity (and keep it at 200 potency and ignores the damage penalty of Def). That way, it hits hard, produces tons of aggro, and lessens the damage we take from a ton of small incoming hits. That way it's our go to button for locking down and weathering large packs of trash mobs, isn't completely worthless for damage reduction, and also isn't something we'd use on single targets.

I'll echo what Phreak said, in that an 8 second blind is in no way worth 5 wrath. 20% DR just weighs too much on the scale. PLD already have a free blind, and in a blind scenario you'll run into a couple things pretty easy: PLD AoEing with you won't stack, diminishing returns, and blind resist. There are actually a lot of things in Coil that flat out resist blind, making it trivial unless tacked on to a spammable move such as Flash or Overpower. In any situation you are dual tanking a pack, a PLD will simply have the buff up no matter what.

The idea of spreading AoE fracture was interesting from a mechanic stand point. I do like that, but it'd have to be a free skill. Again blowing 5 wrath has weight, and 20% DR is the only *REAL* option as a tank. People get all frothy at the mouth at damage and different applications, but Warrior is a tank first and foremost.

Originally Posted by Sakasa

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I'm not sure what you are trying to say. 20% DR is on Inner Beast come 2.1, not 50%. Blowing Wrath stacks isn't weighted on our healing received anymore, however it is weighted against our new 20% DR. As I explained earlier in the thread, SC will be worthless in comparison to this without an added DR effect. Even a heal drain would be sub-optimal as over heals, and timing come into play that would make the 20% DR better suited. It is the same argument of current IB with proposed 2.1 20% DR.

Phreak and I already hashed out 20% DR with 6 second CD, with wrath regen in place (some form of overpower wrath gen), would put it on par with 2.1 inner beast change (which isn't OP) and wouldn't side line SC for IB, like 2.1 proposed changes would. There are of course a few other good ideas being floated about to make SC usable on a regular basis, which is what we are truly after.

Originally Posted by Sakasa

stuff about 50% DR

Damage reductions are multiplicative not additive so 50% is incorrect and somewhat makes stacking them inefficient (you don't see PLDs stacking all their CDs together, they stagger them to maintain a constant high eHP that's manageable to heal without grossly over doing it for the first 10 seconds then dropping like a rock afterwards. As far as 'stacking' the buffs from Steel Cyclone and Inner Beast together you would have to somehow start the fight magically with 5 stacks of Wrath AND have Infuriate off CD. To even do this you would've had to carry over stacks from the last pull and pull that new pack within 30 seconds on top of the fact since you were holding your Wrath to begin with you wouldn't have been maintaining your DR on the group prior meaning you're taking more damage on that pull but less on the next, it's all a wash.

The buffs would also only last 6 and 8 seconds respectively, that's hardly OP considering it would be a full minute before you could pull that stunt again and if your AoE pulls are lasting up to a minute something else is going horribly wrong.

Your example is one of poor play not over powered design.