Clemency and Interruptions

[pandabearcat]

Autoattacks don't seem to interrupt my clemency.

It is also meant as an OT tool to heal the MT (its 1800 potency if you cast it on someone else) and is not meant to be a pali self heal thing.

I'm fine with it being interruptable.

It is sad that barring high SKS you can't cast it during discoid on A4 to help your healers out, discord hits are slightly too fast.

[Faytte]

Autoattacks don't seem to interrupt my clemency.

It is also meant as an OT tool to heal the MT (its 1800 potency if you cast it on someone else) and is not meant to be a pali self heal thing.

I'm fine with it being interruptable.


It is sad that barring high SKS you can't cast it during discoid on A4 to help your healers out, discord hits are slightly too fast.

1) In normal alex sure, in savage, even a vit tank can be interrupted from a1's autos (im a vit tank)
2) This is your opinion. Nothing anywhere stats what it is meant to be used for. The fact it has an extra use when targetting others does not mean its the main purpose of the ability.
3) Are you also fine with it stopping your block and parries? I'm curious cause, not all busters have big cast bars. Some pulse over time (rage of bahamut, etc).
4) Nothing about it moving to a GCD from a spell really is disruptive, right? We have other gcds that consume mana (flash). Look at Darks Knights--lots of abilities consume mana, without being spells. It being a gcd means it will work off our skill speed, not be interrupted and not have a negative interaction with our defenses.

Not sure what is wrong with that. It still costs about 40% of our total mana bar--its not as if you will be spamming it one way or another.

[Slaygeist]

I would love Clemency to be a GCD skill but that does increase the power of it a fair bit. It would be much easier to time the heal landing, would be usable in more scenarios as it avoids interruption, and would be usable while moving. All of that sounds awesome to me but I assume they would have to balance the potency of the skill in that case.

[RhazeCain]

I see Stoneskin being cast plenty of times by MT. Usually when boss is doing some long cast ability. Clemency should be same in terms of getting interrupted.

Obviously usable by OT.

And I don't hear anyone arguing that it isn't a nice heal potency-wise.

Sounds OK to me. And quite happy with some skills being merely "OK".

[Ultimatecalibur]

1) In normal alex sure, in savage, even a vit tank can be interrupted from a1's autos (im a vit tank)

Alexander Savage is i190/i200 content. You are getting interrupted because you are undergeared.

[RayneBoemir]

So use it when you know you aren't going to be interrupted (boss turns to do an aoe etc)

[Xenosan]

In PvP Clemency works the same as all the Mage spells. Any inc damage will interrupt it - like an auto-attack from a SCH

It's nice for reducing down time, but unless Hallowed Ground is on it's limited to between encounters and kiting.

Not sure if Cover > Clemency has interrupts, will try

[Faytte]

Alexander Savage is i190/i200 content. You are getting interrupted because you are undergeared.

I'm i186 atm with a full vit build, using food. You still get interrupted in A1(savage) from autos, which is a far cry from the sort of damage we saw between autos in a3 vs a1 (normal).

[Faytte]

So use it when you know you aren't going to be interrupted (boss turns to do an aoe etc)

I.E when the healers have already healed you and you dont need the extra healing? KK.

[Reynhart]

It is also meant as an OT tool to heal the MT (its 1800 potency if you cast it on someone else) and is not meant to be a pali self heal thing.

No, it's still 1200 on your target.
If you're not the MT, healing you for 600 potency is not that important.

As for interruption, I don't find it that gruesome. Maybe it's because of years playing FFXI, but it's not that difficult to time your cast between hits, considering that you can't be interrupted after your casting bar reach a certain threshold. Of course, you may be avoiding popping each GCD right away, but surviving is more important.

As for removing casting time of Clemency, I think it would be a bit too powerful to have an instant 1200 healing spell