Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Judge_Xero]

Very broad wording indeed... And 50% flat CRT would be too broken. BLMs having a 50/50 chance to smash targets for 6k damage with Fire IV?. Lmao

Yeah, the NA wording is pretty vague then. Will have to check it out when the game goes live, but +Crit Rate and Damage seems so broken, unless it scales extremely slow. Which negatively effects skills that rely on crit procs, and not necessarily the increased crit damage.

50% flat crit wouldn't be too bad.

Base Crit would be a 50% chance at 5% more damage. (instead of 5% chance at 50% more damage)

[Shamirah]

Ah my bad. I was sure they nerfed Det for everything not only auto's.

[Saggo]

Nope, doubt they'd change that.

Honestly, with a reduction in Enkindle recast, I could see it going either way.

[pandabearcat]

SS isn't getting a buff. It simply won't be useless.

Previously, roughly 50% of a summoner's dps was from dots, so SS was 50% efficiency.

Now it'll be 100% efficiency. We'll see if it is actually worthwhile, and if mana will be an issue.

For example, lets assume 100SS increases dps by 1%, well if 100 crit still increases dps by 1%, then we'll still go crit, because it doesn't have any mana inefficiency issues.

You see the point here, unless SS is overbalanced in that it provides more dps/point than other stuff, it won't be used, it is still the least useful of the stats, if we assume similar damage contribution.

[luizf_sp]

Radiant Shield now procs "everytime physical damage is suffered by self or nearby party members".
Isn't that wonderful?

[pandabearcat]

Radiant Shield now procs "everytime physical damage is suffered by self or nearby party members".
Isn't that wonderful?

Whats that? SMN intentionally suicides party for additional dps?

More at 11.

[luizf_sp]

The tank probably counts as a nearby party member, though. An additional 50 potency everytime the tank takes a physical hit for 20 seconds would be really nice.

[Judge_Xero]

The tank probably counts as a nearby party member, though. No idea why you'd have to sacrifice anyone.

Yeah exactly. Also with Egi's always getting Rear Accuracy, you can have him right beside the tank if needed as long as he doesn't get cleaved too hard.

[Ardan]

Radiant Shield now procs "everytime physical damage is suffered by self or nearby party members".
Isn't that wonderful?

Any idea what the changes to the other pet commands are?

[pandabearcat]

You guys really aren't any fun. Yikes.

Also, if aoes count you could totally divebomb your group for additional dps.

I'm totally calling it, SMN behaving like jerks on farm content.