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    Urdnot Rekt
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    Midgardsormr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karshan View Post
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    Another thing I’m a bit annoyed with : I always thought SMN lacked spammable AOE (even at high MP cost I’d take it) and had to rely too much on CD abilities (a tank doing packs of 2 becoming infuriating).

    I thought ruin 4 would be an AOE type, to do something outside of transe, and balance the gameplay between transe and out of transe. So that we wouldn’t pressure tanks and healers, to reduce possible friction in dungeons.

    But they went the opposite way ! Focus in transe bursts even more and nerf AOE. Guess what ? I absolutely don’t wanna take a Bahamut out, only available every 2 mins, for 2 useless trashmobs ! But what other choice will we have ?
    His attack is around 680 potency, and can be used twice in one summon, you should be taking him out as much as possible to begin with, even more so on single target.
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    Lina Kirell
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vallhallix View Post
    His attack is around 680 potency, and can be used twice in one summon, you should be taking him out as much as possible to begin with, even more so on single target.
    Of course I will, but on 2 trash it's like Goku going all Genkidama in SSJ3 on a saibaman, it does the job but it's frustrating as hell...To use a Bahamut for any pack under 8 mobs seems so...unworthy of him, I don't know. I would have loved for ruin 3 to get this decrement to 150 but become AOE while Ruin 4 takes its place
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    Michael Stormcloud
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karshan View Post
    Of course I will, but on 2 trash it's like Goku going all Genkidama in SSJ3 on a saibaman, it does the job but it's frustrating as hell...To use a Bahamut for any pack under 8 mobs seems so...unworthy of him, I don't know. I would have loved for ruin 3 to get this decrement to 150 but become AOE while Ruin 4 takes its place
    Considering Aethertrail stacks no longer have a timer, you can save Bahamut summoning for when you actually want to use it.
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    Dyvid Pandemonium
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShaolinMike View Post
    Considering Aethertrail stacks no longer have a timer, you can save Bahamut summoning for when you actually want to use it.
    This is a god send. I hate the timer. I hate getting to the boss with 7s left and the tank is scratching themselves as it ticks down.
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    Last edited by Dyvid; 06-07-2017 at 05:35 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
    This a d god send. I hate the timer. I hate getting to the boss with 7s left and the tank is scratching themselves as it ticks down.
    Except every second you keep your aethertrail stacks that tick from your aetherflow that can be situational even bigger dps loss than dropping current stacks. You want always use dreadwyrm stance 15 sec before aetherflow get out from the cooldown if you dont wanna see huge dps loss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunako View Post
    Except every second you keep your aethertrail stacks that tick from your aetherflow that can be situational even bigger dps loss than dropping current stacks. You want always use dreadwyrm stance 15 sec before aetherflow get out from the cooldown if you dont wanna see huge dps loss.
    In a raid setting, yeah. But between trash pulls in a dungeon, I prefer the convenience of being able to sit on my stacks.
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