Improvisation

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

You have Shield Sambra at -10%/-15% + Curing Waltz + Improv. Don't you think adding extra damage reduction on Improv is a bit much when the other two Phys Ranged only have two tools? Pictomancer also doesn't really compete with phys ranged - it's the casters that should be worried if anything.

[LynxDubh]

You have Shield Sambra at -10%/-15% + Curing Waltz + Improv. Don't you think adding extra damage reduction on Improv is a bit much when the other two Phys Ranged only have two tools? Pictomancer also doesn't really compete with phys ranged - it's the casters that should be worried if anything.

After stewing on it a bit, I do think swapping the shield and regens would be better. The stacks would go towards the healing potency of the regen and have the shield be static.

But I'd say it's fair for DNC to have another utility over MCH. It's the ranged that's supposed to be more supportive. BRD has 3 supportive tools as well though, Troubador, Nature's Minne, and Warden's Paean.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

After stewing on it a bit, I do think swapping the shield and regens would be better. The stacks would go towards the healing potency of the regen and have the shield be static.

But I'd say it's fair for DNC to have another utility over MCH. It's the ranged that's supposed to be more supportive. BRD has 3 supportive tools as well though, Troubador, Nature's Minne, and Warden's Paean.

Can definitely see the shield be the baseline application and the regen instead being boosted. However, you do have more utility than MCH already. MCH has Dismantle + Tactician, you have Curing Waltz, Shield Samba and Improvisation. Curing Waltz is nothing to scoff at.

And I would not exactly call Warden's Paean to be on a support tool level as all the other tools because it's basically just ogcd Esuna, which gets less use per expansion than Improvisation per raid cycle. In terms of AOE mitigation/support/healing tools, there is currently almost-parity in amount with DNC being one ahead and variety in the 2nd tool (debuff mitigation VS boosting group healing VS direct AOE heal in a small radius for stacks).