Quote Originally Posted by Rahaya View Post
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DRG piercing debuff has been tried and proven and it's very easy to apply one thing to another when it comes to things like resistances because of how this game works. If debuffs were universal and everything had the same potency, I can guarantee you a piercing debuff would be the same increase as slashing debuff on every turn from 1 to 13. NIN even gains more from slashing debuff than a BRD gains from piercing at that because of potency scaling. I explained in my post why I didn't necessarily count twin snakes, and the only real advantage TS holds over slashing debuff is that DoT will benefit from it, since the actual dot ticks will be buffed. I accounted for bootshine autocrit as far as rotational potencies (150 potency x 1.5) in my original post. I will however give you DK debuff, but a lot of the buff reapplications are a drawback that a MNK has to deal with as it's still a potency loss on that specific GCD.