Thread: 5.0 Combat changes: What do you expect?

I m expecting weird stuff on MCH happen with any expansion.

I guess we will get:
- Turrets can overheat, too
- Ammo is decreased from 3 -> 1
- Hypercharge and Dismantle removed
- Flamethrower must be casted
- new Gauss Barrel, which is even more uglier
- Weapon overdrive, Potency 800 but 30s no skills or auto attacks possible

Originally Posted by OcieKo

We should probably stop thinking of Dancer as being "Slashing" ASAP, they made a big point out of saying it's weapons are THROWING WEAPONS not Chakram's specifically, with mentions of Shuriken and Throwing Knives being about. Even your standard bladed on all sides Star type Shuriken is still a piercing weapon with the primary purpose of sticking into the target, simply has fewer bad angles than say darts and knives. Chakrams even traditionally are thrown slashing weapons though, but they are also far close to the size of bangles than bucklers. But with the classification as Throwing Weapons not Chakrams even things like Throwing Axes/Hammers remain on the table.

It's still possible for DNC to be considered Piercing Damage, and the possibility of Pierce/Slash/Crush Resistance Down debuffs being removed is still decent. The possibility of it being dropped to Physical/Magic, Melee/Ranged, or Melee/Ranged/Magic isn't 0 either. It's a wait and see. We know at least the idea of core dmg type is still around based on the mention that Gunbreaker is said to do Slashing Damage, and it's possible that Pierce/Slash/Crush Damage Up Personal Buffs replacing Resistance Down Debuffs hapening isn't bad either. This is quite important for the "Impure" damage dealers in the game. Things like WAR, SAM, BLM, SMN this is noteworthy, but when it comes to jobs with more duality to their kits like NIN, RDM, PLD, DRK it could very well make limited chunks of their kit better. DRG, MNK, BRD, MCH I left out since they have a limited amount of non-physical damage that is there, but I'm not willing to dedicate them to it either side atm.

They also mentioned fans as DNC weapons, which makes it an even split as far as examples are concerned. That said, considering their relic is a pair of chakrams(unless all the art and renders are using weapons that aren't their relic, unlike every other job in the game), I'd be surprised if they aren't slashing.