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    "you deal target" in skill descriptions

    I noticed an odd grammatical quirk in the skill descriptions of Ninja's, Reaper's, and Viper's skills that inflict a debuff to increase damage on a target. Specifically the wording "Increases damage you deal target" should be "Increases damage you deal to the target".

    For completeness sake, here's all the places I noticed this error:
    NIN
    * Trick Attack
    * Kunai's Bane
    RPR
    * Shadow of Death
    * Whorl of Death
    VPR
    * Dread Fangs
    * Dread Maw
    * Dreadwinder
    * Pit of Dread
    * World-swallower (PVP)
    SAM
    * Hissatsu: Chiten (PVP)
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Black Mage Lv 100
    If you deal five cards to someone, you deal them five cards.
    You deal five cards to target. You deal target five cards.
    If something makes you increase the cards you deal to someone, something increases the cards you deal them.

    Does it sound peculiar? Maybe. Ungrammatical? No.
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    Perhaps "peculiar" is the correct word to use here instead of "ungrammatical". I get your analogy with dealing cards, but (to me at least) that sounds less "peculiar" (perhaps because of the word "cards" instead of "damage"?).

    However, I would still argue in favor of adding "to the" to this description, partly because of how peculiar it sounds without it. Ultimately though, I concede that this is a minor nitpick at worst, one that could be easily ignored eventually.
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    Last edited by ShermTank; 07-12-2024 at 07:02 AM. Reason: typo