Thread: Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

Originally Posted by Griffey

The buffs are mainly to improve nocturnal stance, since it was kinda lacking compared to diurnal. Astro should be a pretty good off-healer now, not as good as sch (that's a lofty goal) but still better than it was.

Also the cards get some significant buffs. The new balance gives a 20% damage up buff to single target and 10% aoe. With the right abilities you can give someone a minute long Raging Strikes. That's hot.

I was seeing that said a lot in some how to Astro videos I was watching today. Play they made it even with the other.

I still only have the first stance, but I hope to get to 50 fast. I have been excited for this class for awhile and reall want to try everything of for it. So with Stoneskin and this new Shield buff, how much damage can you theoretically prevent?

Yeah I saw those buffs too, and That does seem insane for a minute long 30% extra damage, or 10% damage reduction for the whole team for 45 seconds or so.

Stone skin gives a shield worth 10% of the targets HP, so if you have 10000 HP the stoneskin would absorb 1000 damage before breaking.

Aspected benefic gives you a shield worth 130% (make that 170% in 3.4!) of your heal, so if you healed someone for 1000 HP the shield would absorb 1300 damage. I think aspected Helios does 120% going up to 150% in patch.

As I said before for casual content like dungeon runs, stick with Diurnal, since regens are really efficient healing tools and probably easier to use whilst you are learning the job.

That is a lot of shield.

Yeah i wanna take my time and learn the class, since it seems very fun, and wanna be good at it. Kinda like how I love the warrior and made sure to try and get good with it as I leveled it(Warriors are so fun) Though I am not sure where to best level them. Ninja I just did story and roulettes, Warrior same but with yokai grinding and also the palace, but not sure if I wanna risk palace yet until I am better... and I am a bit tired of fate grinding after so much yokai weapon grinding haha

I'm that freak that liked Nocturnal pre-buff. I felt more comfortable with the instant sheild verses the regens.

I never had issues healing in either stance until Final Steps, which was just torture. I've been White Mage'ing since, but definitely want to give the other healers a go again with the cross hotbar additions and over all buffs.

Lest we start forgetting that we're in the lore forum, I thought the quest "Shadows of the First" from the MSQ had a really interesting title. Lots of implications that could be drawn up, especially if we assume it's a reference to the WoD. Granted, a quest name isn't a lot to go on, and they tend to be "prettied up" but man I could drop down at least five completely outlandish ideas from it alone.

Originally Posted by Rocl

The detracting factor for this idea, imo, is that every other language the name of that quest deals with mountains/valleys. So I'm going with it being the Xelphatol quest and that "the First" is actually a mountain, perhaps THE mountain, the Ixal live on.

It's also entirely possible you're right and EN is the odd one out in giving us a little sneak peek there! So close... so soon... we'll know!

Didn't the EN lore preview for Xelphatol have a line that went "in the shadows of the first mountain, the summoning ritual nears completion" or something. Must be a reference to that

Originally Posted by swiss_Momo

Didn't the EN lore preview for Xelphatol have a line that went "in the shadows of the first mountain, the summoning ritual nears completion" or something. Must be a reference to that

Yoshi also said that the dungeon was going to be early in the MSQ. Wouldn't be surprised if its the second (or even first!) quest.

If I remember correctly in a Interview Yoshi-p did say we would fight Titan in this patch but he won't be like the normal/extreme variant seems that would be fun.

Originally Posted by Interview

Q. We would like to start by asking you questions about the main scenario. Titan and Garuda showed up in the 3.4 trailer, but does that mean the story is going to revolve around the 3 nations?

A. No, they don't have much to do with the plot. The focus will be the warriors of darkness and Hydaelyn. At the same time, the story will focus on the origin/roots of the emotions between humans and beast tribes. The beast tribes being focused means that the primals will show up as a result as well. There is actually a fight against titan in the main story

Q. What sort of titan battle? It differs to a normal or ex?

A. I'd like you to check it out yourself through the main scenario. We did something which is pretty artistic. I personally checked it and i honestly thought the dev team did a good job putting in the details.