Proposal for inner release change

[Colt47]

No thanks. 4.0/4.1 WAR wasn't fun, and guaranteed direct crits are a nice alternative to a low % damage increase. WAR doesn't need changed because a few jobs have crit/direct hit raid buffs, fix those buffs instead.

I'm just imagining what it would look like if they kept the inner release the same, but instead of making it 100% crit they did something like +25% damage. I just can't see it working given how the crit buff is sort of easily capped and measured vs putting in strait damage boosts. If they just changed the cleave to some special move that had insane potency when inner release is hit that could work, but then having a crit on a 600 potency attack is probably greater than getting auto crits on the current fell cleave.

[Absurdity]

I'm just imagining what it would look like if they kept the inner release the same, but instead of making it 100% crit they did something like +25% damage. I just can't see it working given how the crit buff is sort of easily capped and measured vs putting in strait damage boosts. If they just changed the cleave to some special move that had insane potency when inner release is hit that could work, but then having a crit on a 600 potency attack is probably greater than getting auto crits on the current fell cleave.

Well, how does it work for GnB? No Mercy gives you a 20% damage buff for 20 seconds, there is your answer.

[Colt47]

Well, how does it work for GnB? No Mercy gives you a 20% damage buff for 20 seconds, there is your answer.

With PLD and GNB the idea is that it just boosts the damage on your main rotation, where as with DRK and WAR the damage buff comes from completely switching to a different engine. Technically, they'd have to move warrior to something more like what Dark Knight has with the Quietus, where the move just has more potency and they get to spam it. But if they did that I think it would take away the feeling of doing big damage for that one stretch, since DRK doesn't really give that feeling during Quietus spam. That's also why I don't really like the Quietus phase of DRK because it's just an aesthetically different primary rotation for a few seconds.

[fulminating]

But if they did that I think it would take away the feeling of doing big damage for that one stretch, since DRK doesn't really give that feeling during Quietus spam. That's also why I don't really like the Quietus phase of DRK because it's just an aesthetically different primary rotation for a few seconds.

How does this differ from fell cleave spam?

[Colt47]

How does this differ from fell cleave spam?

Probably the assured visual shake from doing multiple critical strikes and the big crit numbers, but also that the delirium spam relies completely on the increased potency. Otherwise they are the same thing. My comment was more on the feel of the two when a player uses them than functional difference.