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    Archwizard Drake
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    Sargatanas
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    Red Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
    - Jolt II, Impact, and Scorch have a chance to grant Enchanted Blade (35%, 35%, 100%, respectively). Enchanted Blade is a stacking buff that caps at 3 stacks and allows free use of an Enhanced Weaponskill of your choice per stack. The idea is for spell spam to give additional opportunities to use the sword within the current design beyond just hitting 80/80. The only concern would be just how much this would increase RDM's DPS output.
    I like the idea of this "stackable free weaponskills" trait and I could absolutely see them adding something like that in a future expansion, possibly even next, in lieu of adding more weaponskills while still increasing melee uptime.
    Though I have a few concerns with the stated implementation:

    1) Having it proc from Jolt is possibly a bad idea, largely because the goal of the current rotation is to minimize Jolt as much as possible. Since the goal of any job is min-maxing, increasing the value of Jolt means minimizing the value of Verfire/stone, which could lead to ignoring their procs.
    2) "Weaponskills" is a broad definition, which includes Reprise. Attempting to stock several charges could also limit our mobility in an effort to avoid spending them on Reprise by accident.
    3) Increasing access to Weaponskills without increasing access to our gap-closer at the same time could be painful.

    - Engagement's damage buffed to match Displacement's. I don't see the point in punishing the player for not jumping away and/or being in situations where they can't jump away.
    ... but then you run into the alternative scenario where nobody ever uses Displacement as an intended punctuation on our melee periods -- which is to say, nobody ever uses Displacement, period, instead just standing in melee and popping Engagement on CD.

    Other melee stuff
    See my previous post.
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    Last edited by Archwizard; 10-04-2019 at 06:22 AM.