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You can't even toss out a Boxstep (10 TP) at the start of a fight?
If you finish off a slug at the end of a fight, you have enough to Boxstep at the start of the next fight. Failing that, one or two rounds of a Joy would get you enough at the start and you'd still likely have 100 TP by the end of fight with the right mix of haste gear and buffs. I didn't really even need haste gear to pull that off, so why are you not getting there with it? |
I don't know why I keep responding to these straw man arguments you keep throwing out. I never said I wouldn't toss out a Box Step at the start of a fight. I simply said that
sometimes when I do, I don't have enough TP to Slug Shot at the end. Obviously whether or not this happens is completely dependent on many factors including mob difficulty and how many other DD's are on it. That's why I didn't say it happens every time. It happens often enough that I've noticed and been annoyed by it, though. And it's not just from Box Step; it could be from any dance moves I do during a fight like spending 20 TP on Healing Waltz to get rid of Paralyze or Blind. I refuse to believe that you almost never have cases where you would have had enough TP to Slug Shot but don't because you spent it dancing instead; that's simply not mathematically possible and it has nothing to do with what gear either of us are using.
Look, I'm not trying to bash /DNC as a subjob for COR. I just want to be realistic about the drawbacks to it instead of glossing them over. The tradeoff of having to use TP for curing, status removal, and small defense or evasion down debuffs vs. using it for weaponskills is a drawback to /DNC, and for me it's a fairly major one.
I'm more than willing to acknowledge the drawbacks and limitations to /WHM as well. The main limitation to /WHM is that you really need some form of Refresh for it to work, either from Evoker's Roll or another source like Ballads. Resting for mp as COR/mage really isn't a good option most of the time since it's likely to be interrupted by our roll or Quick Draw cycles. If I were ever put in a full melee party with no mages at all to put Evoker's Roll on, there's no way I would ever go as /WHM; in fact I would see that being an ideal time to pull out /DNC.
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| I'll not /WHM in Salvage unless I'm assured of (1) an MP cell and (2) a BLM PT. |
You bring BLM parties to Salvage? Seriously, though, and I'm not being facetious about this, you should try coming as COR and having someone else come BRD to Salvage (or vice versa), and put both of you in the main party. Chaos plus SAM or Fighter's Rolls stacked with BRD songs on melees make a
huge difference in kill speed on early floors, Evoker's stacked with Ballads is sex for mages, and Monk's Roll is a godsend on Chariot bosses and Restoral and Rail Cannon-happy gears.