Originally Posted by Pteryx |
COR doesn't deal in guarantees. The closest I could see COR getting here would be increasing the proc rate for the matching element and decreasing the proc rate for the "losing" element by, say, 4% on an unlucky roll, 8% on a 1, etc. up to 40% on a lucky roll and 44% on an 11. A bust, of course, would mean that for the COR, the bonus never happens and the penalty always does -- potentially a bummer for Quick Draw.
Of course, there's also the thought of "enhances weather effects" meaning increasing the damage bonus/penalty from it, possibly on 1.5 times the rate of Wizard's Roll to make up for the randomness. Or even a mixed thing -- increase/decrease proc rate by 2% per and when it procs increase/decrease by half the effect of an equivalent Wizard's Roll. -- Pteryx |
I don't know why people are getting so hopped-up on the weather-effects idea, COR never gets any buffs based directly on spells, but on job elements/traits/abilties. They take a little liberty here and there, but more often than not, there is a true dimension of the jobs in the Phantom Rolls.
Here's an example of the liberties they've taken:
Rouge's Roll is based on Thief's ability to ensure a critical hit, so Rouge's Roll affects critical hit rate.
Ninja doesn't really have any job traits beyond DW, DW buff wouldn't make much sense, so instead, THF's Evasion bonus was given to Ninja Roll since NINs are known to be evasive.
Bard, like NIN, doesn't have many JAs or JTs going for it, so they just took a fact from BRD - their songs don't get interrupted no matter how much you wail on them. So Choral Roll gives an Aquaviel effect to simulate that.
Scholar has some notably unique Job Abilities and Traits. Lowered spell costs under Arts, the ability to halve MP costs and also cut spell-casting timers in half.
While SCH's weather spells are interesting, they don't make for much of a party buff.
What I see happening here is a few possible things:
Conserve MP has not been used for a Phantom Roll yet and Conserve MP would resemble a dimension of SCH via Arts.
COR lacks any haste buffs, so if DNC was a melee haste, SCH could be a magic haste.
Putting my bets on DNC Roll being a haste simply because trait/ability-wise, DNC is the only job COR could get such a Roll from at this point and it really needs a Haste buff. I see no reason to base it strictly on Haste Samba though, and would hope it would be
true haste and not just a melee haste, especically since Hunter's Roll covers both forms of accuracy and Chaos Roll covers both forms of attack. Reduced spell costs from a Scholar's Roll or a Conserve MP buff would make a lot of sense. COR distinguishes itself from BRD by actually having
useful mage buffs, let's keep them useful instead of gimmicky.
Finally, I just want the trend of COR's more highly useful buffs to continue, rather than us get vendor trash like 90% of all BRD songs are. A buff covering weather effects would be just that - vendor trash. Considering we already get MAB and MAcc buffs from BLM and RDM Rolls, I see no point in a weather effects buffs.
I'd also just like a Haste buff for the simple fact that my job seems to be beneath a RDM or WHM's consideration for Haste, you jerks. Just because other CORs are cheap bastards that backline the job doesn't mean we all are. Some of us do play the job right instead of playing an NQ BRD, you know. I didn't camp Joytoy because it looks cool, I camped it to spam Slug Shot and Detonator >.>;