[Suggestion] Ideas to balance out the "Blunt/ Slash/ Pierce damage" system.

[Crimson_Hunter]

Looking at the different damage types of each class I noticed that 4 jobs are Slash damage, 3 Pierce, and 1 Blunt, which didn't seem right, so I've been thinking of how to balance it out a bit more.

1.Turn DRK and/or WAR to Blunt damage, I mean their weapons are meant to crush, not slash anyways, having them be blunt wouldn't be too out of the question.

2. Link the damage type with the weapons instead, most melee classes have weapons that don't specifically match their damage type, this goes triple for monks.

3. Get rid of Blunt damage altogether, if it's only one class using it, they could very well just scrap it, Monks could definitely be piercing damage.

4. Straight out get rid of "Slash/ Blunt/ Pierece" and replace it with either just:

A) Physical(all DoW) & Magic damage (All DoM).

B) Make it Melee / Ranged / Magic damage instead.


(Sorry if it reads weird, I had a way more fleshed out version, but 1000 character limit made me cut like 3/4 of it.)

[NaesakiAshwell]

Don't forget you can edit your post afterwards to include what is missing.

[ElHeggunte]

Does it need to be balanced? There's no real difference between damage types so I don't see the point unless you also introduce mob weaknesses.

[Warlyx]

Does it need to be balanced? There's no real difference between damage types so I don't see the point unless you also introduce mob weaknesses.

yes because only war and nin debuff slashing , and only drg debuff piercing and only mnk debuff blunt , brd /mch debuff magic ,Nin/ MCH debuff physical

war nin pld drk all do slashing , a raid w/o nin and pld/drk tanking....

if u have mch and brd and no drg lol.... and Mnk is alone for now...but im sure there will be blunt jobs in the future...

the issue is that removing that creates ton of issues...

nin has nothing , goad and agro tools meh , so nin will need a boost in dps

brd/mch are in parties because of that (some MP / Tp regen once in a blue moon) , removing foe for example why u would take a brd? get another caster .... mch idem ...

[bass9020]

yes because only war and nin debuff slashing , and only drg debuff piercing and only mnk debuff blunt , brd /mch debuff magic ,Nin/ MCH debuff physical

war nin pld drk all do slashing , a raid w/o nin and pld/drk tanking....

if u have mch and brd and no drg lol.... and Mnk is alone for now...but im sure there will be blunt jobs in the future...

Imho , remove all the debuffs and balance the game .... i guess physical and magic debuffs can stay , but wont mind removing that too

So make the game even more bland than it already is with its stats, weapons, magic, debuts, etc. Its fine how it is and if anything they should add to it not take away.

[Warlyx]

edited my post , after thinking for more than 5s my answer , and yeah i would love to get piercing debuff (it was asked before 3.0 ><) , on some dot or even EA D: , same for MCH :P

[FinalWolf]

So you're telling me a giant SWORD and AXE was meant for crushing?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

So you're telling me a giant SWORD and AXE was meant for crushing?

Duh! You beat people with the blunt end!