DPS Balance Thread

[HyperiusUltima]

Well, since we’ve described at least 3 pages’ worth on Disembowel, I want to hear what people think we should do about Casters, specifically BLM. What should they do to improve on it moving forward to the next raid tier?

[Kitfox]

Well, since we’ve described at least 3 pages’ worth on Disembowel, I want to hear what people think we should do about Casters, specifically BLM. What should they do to improve on it moving forward to the next raid tier?

BLM just needs damage, though they're already quite strong.

Let's keep talking about #deletedisembowel for another 200 pages instead so SE will actually do something about it.

[HyoMinPark]

Well, since we’ve described at least 3 pages’ worth on Disembowel, I want to hear what people think we should do about Casters, specifically BLM. What should they do to improve on it moving forward to the next raid tier?

Disembowel holds together the meta of DRG/BRD/MCH. Remove it, and casters will have a higher chance of getting in groups. BLM and SMN have started to trickle into top speed kills already; their damage is fairly strong to offset the less amounts of raid utility they have compared to, say, BRD.

RDM needs some potency tweaks, because outside of prog, its Verraise utility is not that good (in an optimal setting or a farm setting, people aren’t dying constantly, so there’s no need to be Raising them); they could stand to maybe even tweak to Embolden a bit. Because it’s so hard to line up with important rBuffs (like Litany and Battle Voice, for example), and it decays over time, making it weaker compared to something like Litany or Trick Attack. Personally, I think they could do away with Embolden-2 and Embolden-1, extend the CD timer to 3-minutes so that it lines up better with more raid buffs (TA+Litany+BV), and extend the timers of Embolden-5, Embolden-4, and Embolden-3 to make it a bit stronger.

I know that there are some groups that actually hold Litany and Battle Voice until the 4-minute mark to line up with TA and Chain Strategem; this would also work for Embolden timings, but I believe the decision whether or not to hold CDs like Litany and BV is dependent on kill time—if you are killing something in 6 minutes, might as well hold them for 4 minutes, but if the kill time is closer to 10, there is no reason to delay because then you delay the next usage, too.