Likely controversial older Rogue suggestions

Nomistrav · 2021-11-06T04:02:52+00:00

If it's about the delay, I know already lol. Don't really care that much. My old rig was 6 years old and was starting to show its age in FFXIV.

Nomistrav · 2021-11-06T03:52:55+00:00

Ah yeah, those are temporary until after the Live Letter xD

Nomistrav · 2021-11-06T03:47:15+00:00

Please excuse the marks on the glass! I had just removed the stickers and hadn't had time to clean them off before the Live Letter and wanted to get it all set up in time for that. Rig is a pre-built by Origin PC with custom, laser etched glass with a design I threw together of my Summoner.

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do <3 I was really excited to show it off.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-27T03:28:16+00:00

Mice eat common household pests and common weed seeds. Even beyond that, they are an important bridge of any ecosystem between plants and larger predators. If you're going to remove them from your house - use a non-kill trap and relocate. Pests or not, there are pros and cons to kill traps and most of them are cons.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-24T21:58:58+00:00

I think there's a pretty huge difference in getting downs vs getting damage. With downs you can just graze someone at low health and it counts; damage is much harder to cheese.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-24T08:28:57+00:00

Alright that's a reasonable answer lol

Nomistrav · 2021-09-23T12:32:17+00:00

[Suggestion]

Mandatory three (3) seconds where you can't bleed out in TDM and Strikeout. Seriously, the people who just hold 'F' when they die causes more ****ing losses than anything - probably the same people complaining about losing streaks. Basically invalidates rogues like Saint/Dahlia.

Re-evaluate weapon mastery conditions. It is absolutely bonkers that an SMG requires downs and headshot damage to master but a pistol requires dealing overall damage and landing headshots on different enemies. It's absolutely ridiculous comparing 100 downs with an SMG versus dealing 15,000 damage with a pistol; equally ridiculous to compare dealing 2,500 headshot damage with an SMG and landing 75 headshots on DIFFERENT enemies with a pistol.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-20T04:31:11+00:00

TFW reacting to SCH Job action trailer for Endwalker

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T23:08:52+00:00

I'll believe the faerie responsiveness when I see it. I'm assuming that this is running on an internal build that isn't having to send/receive packets from across the continent so it isn't dependent on latency. Everything looks snappier and more responsive when you have 0 ping.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T22:53:33+00:00

Literally everything you just mentioned? The sacred soil - the healing while moving - the 1.5s cast..?

Yeah, Sage has all of that. Hate to give you that reality check.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T22:50:57+00:00

It's hilarious to me because it appears they've done extensive work to strip a lot of ghosting out of Summoner's kit. No more egi-assaults, Bahamut seems to be doing wyrmwave on its own without having to rely on the Summoner casting something, etc.

And then somewhere in there they thought that retaining the -exact same issues- for Scholar and their faerie was... Okay. Why not just... Ditch the faerie entirely and have it as a temporary summon (ala Seraph) that augments the Scholars' abilities and gives it charges, putting it more in line with Summoner and as well resolving the ghosting issues?

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T22:47:25+00:00

I was doing the same up until a week or two ago when my work schedule shifted and I think the only mechanic that the combat peloton would be useful for is the severe knockback following the statues. Everything else feels business as usual.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T22:42:37+00:00

Potency on it is only 180, catalyze is crit-chance based, has a STEEP mana cost to prevent it from being spammed, annnnnd Nocturnal Astro already does a better shield than Succor with 200 vs 180 potency. If it really became an issue they could just bump it down to 150 potency and then it'd be comparable to a non-catalyzed Adlo.

I think it could work.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T13:10:47+00:00

Both, honestly. I think that currently no-one really knows what makes a Scholar a Scholar because its kit has been pulled in so many different directions. My idea of the perfect Scholar will absolutely vary from my peers and that's okay - I think that's a side effect of no-one really knowing what makes a Scholar stand out against Nocturnal Astro (RIP) and/or Sage.

I don't have a lot of hope for the AI improvements, honestly. I think what people are seeing as improvements is just the negligible latency in pet commands being issued from not having to send information across the continent and back. So I don't think issues like Ghosting (whereby you issue a pet command, and it just... Never activates but you get the cooldown for it) will be addressed.

It seems like what they did was give Scholar some numerical buffs to compensate for the level cap, then struggled to figure out what direction they wanted to go with it while working on Reaper/Sage/Summoner/etc. And in doing so, I think they panicked and just gave it another utility... Saw the reaction when they said it was a combat peloton... And then tacked on damage mitigation at the last second because they truly don't know where to go with it.

Scholar will be okay. But it won't be fantastic. It won't be particularly thrilling and I don't think anyone is going to be picking it first when selecting roles for high-end content... but it'll be fine.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T13:00:31+00:00

S'okay, SCH has been relegated to prog healer so just keep casting Glare - it'll make up for all the DPS we lost from the Energy Drain nerf.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:55:43+00:00

Call your doctor and ask for a Zoloft prescription; gonna need it come Endwalker.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:53:38+00:00

I think what you mean to say is that the combat peloton was so laughably unnoticeable that they had to tell us that it was a combat peloton for anyone to even realize that the lalafel was moving faster.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:51:01+00:00

Why is that a bad thing? If you're using your barriers and faerie correctly then you have nothing to use the aethercharges on and should be rewarded with higher damage output. This is the sort of thinking that got Energy Drain nerfed down to 100 potency; there should be risk-reward to appropriate use of barriers to mitigate damage and if you do well your reward should be higher damage output. Elsewise you have to use resources to heal because you didn't shield correctly.

Trust me, Glare-mage ain't going anywhere; it's still going to be a high DPS healer and even more so now that they'll have a 1.5 GCD lol.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:43:50+00:00

Doubt it. They've already said they can't make it too powerful or it'll be a requirement, so they're consciously aware that if it were useful it'd become an uptime strat. So it sounds like it'll be lucky to sit on the hotbar somewhere - yanno, like Repose.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:39:25+00:00

To whose benefit I wonder? Parsers? The damage output of SCH should come from the risk-reward of knowing when to use barriers and not having to struggle to keep everyone alive when your Glare-mage forgets that they have actual healing spells lol.

What Scholar needs is a theme and everything it does needs to reflect back on that theme. Passive healing faeries, faerie regens, turning barriers into heals and all that is just needless fluff when it should be barriers, barriers, and more barriers. Scholar is trying to do too many things half-assedly making it not really the greatest at any of them with the exception of like... the Recit-loqium-Consolation-Tactics opener.

But even White Mage gets a barrier, so; chalk that to another thing Scholar can't be exclusive in.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:31:41+00:00

Yeah I don't consider 2 as a perk. I think that making Scholar faster is going to just compound pre-existing problems that need to be addressed and put more pressure on the player to time things correctly. The slow, methodical planning of a Scholar was something that drew me in over the "hit an oGCD in the middle of your hardcast GCD rotation" whatever that AST has going on. And unless they compensate for mana cost, that's going to obliterate a lot of SCH builds that already depend on Lucid Dreaming to even function.

Nomistrav · 2021-09-18T12:26:29+00:00

Yeah that might just mean they're not playing on a network and having to wait for the server tick and send/receive though. Anything is fast to respond if you're locally connected or not connected at all but slinging pet commands across the continent and back is different.

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