PvP for Disciples of Magic is disastrously designed and woefully inconsiderate.

[TaneshimaPopura]

Yeah thats what I do on my MNK too. Also since WHM is the FoTM Healer now, Perfect Balance > Arm of Destroyer on WHM's Green DMG reduction heal area is really good, or slap him with 10s silence when his equanimity is up followed by Feint > Somersault. Most of the people trying to pillar you your Shoulder Tackle will rush but not deal damage and stun and not go on CD. Which is really good, though it is unintended. Personally I'd prefer if Shoulder tackle did 150 potency damage and just a rush attack instead of having a bad stun tagged with it.

You can't face cast a MNK, if he gets his GL3 and does all correct positional attack. My MNK itself did 1k True Strike crits on top of Auto Attacks critting for 400-500 on R30s. BTW... Silence doesn't have DR since When I Perfect Balance I can always silence 5 times with equanimity up.

[Youmu]

BTW... Silence doesn't have DR since When I Perfect Balance I can always silence 5 times with equanimity up.

You're kidding me? Fuck this gay earth.

Time to start calling for allied MRD bursts on MNKs, ranged DPS can wait.

[TaneshimaPopura]

Normally I wouldn't Perfect Balance Silence a BLM though. But when the WHM puts down the green thing everyone goes inside it so it's good to Arm of Destroyer silence everyone in it.

[Spyrit]

IT"S CHEMICAL WARFARE! dearies......

There's also something that's been gnawing at me since i have been playing this game, does anyone recall the importance of elemental staves in ffxi? How they boosted both offensive and resistances to elements.

Well a goldsmithing quest pointed out that same issue, it said that the elements had certain properties to boost spell damage, which only solidfied what I always thought about. Maybe a test for elemental resistances. need to take place. If I recall:

Stun > Thunder
Silence > Wind
Slow > Earth
Paralyze > Ice
Poison > Water
Sleep > Dark
Gravity(heavy) > Dark

I'll make some jewelery for 30 and 40s, and some brands. Give 'em a test drive. Can't use WoW as the go to game, gotta goto ffxi, when looking for strats.

[JerryJetman]

Arm of the Destroyer has a 2.5 recast time, so even if you have -0.5 sec to gcd (which no1 does since you need like 700+ skill speed) its not doing anything if u spam it
Also it has 50 potency making it a non viable dmg option
AND it costs like 130 TP

It's good for stuff like focus target Arm to clutch cancel a heal/spell, silence a big spell or follow up on tank cc - but all around terrible otherwise

Definitely not worth using while PBing - silence feels shorter than 1 sec anyway from my personal exp

[TaneshimaPopura]

@ Jerry

Spamming AotD with PB is worth it and can secure you kills. It forces healer to only use instants during that 10 seconds, and capable of wasting 10s of equanimity. I did it countless time where healer equanimity and stay inside his green zone while 2 other team-mates flock into the Green zone all getting AotD which is 150 potency. Also PB AotD along with Holmgang ensures a healer's death if he doesn't have Purify or Attunement.

[Spyrit]

Well i definitely seen the spell interupt first hand, I was fighting a blm, they were long casting I was spamming scathe, every single one of their spells was interupted.

[Youmu]

sounds like a dumb BLM, if I see a BLM scathing to interrupt I manaward and keep going. Equanimity saved for melees.

[Spyrit]

I would of used manaward too, but they didn't. Pretty good at disrupting the healing game though.

[Youmu]

yeah great on WHMs for interrupt spamming cure2s while they're on sleep DR and your teammates still need to finish off a DPS.