Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Dunking on poor Selene
Q.Q But she wore thigh highs, Cleretic. THIGH HIGHS!

I'm pretty sure the nerf to Selene's spell speed buff was so they didn't have to worry about a mage meta happening and pushing melees out again, as had somewhat happened in ARR with loads of groups totally opting out of using DRG or MNK for Binding Coil due to the sheer advantage of BRD, BLM, and SMN having things that overlapped far better while also being able to play with impunity due to most boss AOEs being designed to punish ceaseless melee. In HW I guess they hadn't really decided on a direction/the retunes to melee had made them more than a match for any mage comp.

So in Stormblood they opted to make it a flat DPS increase by itself, but one that could be used to ensure more consistent burst windows for all members of the party. Something kind of ignored/misread/not cared about at the time, what with BLM and SAM competing for top DPS rawdog dat parse, having no raid buffs and caring way more about the ultra potent AST cards (RIP all of you kings, except you, Spire. Also RIP Stella, but that's beyond the scope of this tangent).

Silence from Selene was great for:

Silencing ADS in Binding Coil T1/T2.
Silencing ADS again in T11 add phase iirc(been so long I forgot if Ball does high voltage)
Silencing Gobskin in A2s
Silencing Flan speed boost in A3s
Silencing Mind Blast (or w/e the aoe charm was called) in A6s(and phase 2 of A8s I guess?)

I'm sure there's more. Basically anything you might care about silencing.

But by comparison, the Eos buffs were so potent that SCH was still competitive/better at blocking incoming damage in spite of having weaker AOE shields after the enormous Noct AST buff (and honestly a less consistently strong single target shield too).


Selene was given a raw deal, I tells ya! Probably because she wears her hair up in buns. *sigh*