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    Player
    Storm-Driver's Avatar
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    Sep 2018
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    Ul'dah
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    Raine Hyskari
    World
    Lamia
    Main Class
    Paladin Lv 100

    RPR "Circle of Sacrifice" GCD requirement doesn't work with DNC dances

    I love Reaper, as a tank main stepping into the melee DPS role for the first time. Was having a ton of fun with my static, working to optimize things in extremes and even normal runs, for the fun of it! However, we noticed something a little odd with my specific utility in Arcane Circle's extra buff, Circle of Sacrifice.

    The way it functions is, Arcane Circle applies to everyone around me, including myself, giving a 3% damage increase for 20 seconds. It ALSO applies Circle of Sacrifice, a 5-second status effect that tracks when a Weaponskill/Spell is used by the player with the buff. And if they use one within the 5 second period it's active, I gain a stacking buff that enhances one of my attacks, Plentiful Harvest. The potency increases up to 800 if I gain 8 stacks from 8 different players (myself included).

    Issue with this is strictly Dancer. The regular opener calls for Dancer to be using their Standard Step and Technical Step at the beginning of every encounter, right on the dime. And I am supposed to be doing the same with Arcane Circle. All party members receive my buff and are burning Weaponskills and Spells, which gains me my stacks. However, Dancer's actual dances do NOT count as Weaponskills, and therefore, I don't get a stack from them.

    By the time they're using their Weaponskills, the Circle of Sacrifice's 5 second timer has already expired, and I cannot accumulate anymore stacks. I essentially lose 100 potency off one of my hardest hitting attacks, because Dancer's dances aren't weaponskills, despite them taking up global cooldowns. The same issue happens with Ninja, though it's not as prominent because of the way their opening rotation lines up.

    I'm not here to complain about that, but rather point this out for other RPR's that might wonder why they're missing an entire stack of their Plentiful Harvest's damage. I've found that moving Arcane Circle back by one GCD can fix it most of the time. And waiting two GCDs solves the issue entirely. Whether or not this is worth it, I couldn't answer. The only fixes I could think of for this would be to have the Circle of Sacrifice buff last longer, to allow more accumulation of stacks. Or to mark Dancer's dances as Weaponskills instead of abilities.

    Not asking for these changes to be made, but rather proposing them if this does become some kind of issue. I myself can work around the problem. As for other people, that'll be up to them.
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    Player IdowhatIwant's Avatar
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    Character
    Jimbo Jimbo
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Summoner Lv 90
    Isn't it a chance to grant circle of sacrifice? From the tooltip that is house it sounds: Circle of Sacrifice Effect: When you or party members under this effect successfully land a weaponskill or cast a spell, the reaper who applied it may be granted a stack of Immortal Sacrifice, up to a maximum of 8.
    Bad rng maybe?

    If it is because it is an ability you could just adjust your timing on it.
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    Last edited by IdowhatIwant; 12-28-2021 at 10:49 AM.

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