Comprehensive breakdown over Endwalker job balance

[Deceptus]

So what is my proposed solution? Honestly, just go back. Revert buffs to their original unique timers. Leave the ones at 2 minutes that it makes sense for, but don’t do it to everything. Reduce the size of hitboxes to give some room for melees to improve above what is expected, and squash the potencies of abilities! An ability doesn’t have to be 1000+ potency for people to get a dopamine rush from critting it.

Even simpler fix. Adjust the scaling on weapon damage so you don't have to have these 1000 potency attacks.

FoF only works on physical damage, Holy Spirit, Confiteor and your entire Blade combo are all magic damage so Fight or Flight does literally nothing for them.

Which could be easily fixed by changing the modification value from :MagicDamage to :AllDamage (not the exact coding but you get the point)

[Mikey_R]

Even simpler fix. Adjust the scaling on weapon damage so you don't have to have these 1000 potency attacks.

Changing weapon damage is going to do nothing about the relative strength of actions as that is all potencies are, a way to show relative damage. That 600 potency attack is always going to do twice as much damage as that 300 potency attack, regardless of stats. So, if you want the 1000 potency actions to be less impactful, you need to reduce the potency of said actions, not adjust weapon scaling.

[Deceptus]

Changing weapon damage is going to do nothing about the relative strength of actions as that is all potencies are, a way to show relative damage. That 600 potency attack is always going to do twice as much damage as that 300 potency attack, regardless of stats. So, if you want the 1000 potency actions to be less impactful, you need to reduce the potency of said actions, not adjust weapon scaling.

Why not both.gif

You can increase the base amount and decrease the potency so we don't have this Potency arm's race. That was the whole point of the number squish.