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Aeonknight :
I would like to test that, but not many people are willing to be guinea pigs for this sort of thing...
Also, I got a few questions about your tests.
Were you the BLU or your opponent?
What were said BLU's merits/gear? Cause if he's lacking Magic Accuracy merits and/or homam helm or even nashira... it's quite possible you/him simply resisted.
Did the PLD let himself get killed after each successful stick? Cause poison IS a status effect, and they do eventually start getting resisted when you abuse them.
Was Chain Affinity used?
As for the shadow wiping thing.. I'm very much so aware of that. In fact I think Rambus made a list back in the day of the effects of blue magic on certain shadow types (Utsusemi and Blink). If you're a BLU, live by that list. Memorize the whole damn thing. But you gotta find it first
Yea a few BLU spells don't behave as they should in ballista (as listed in your experience with the breath spell), which is what makes the magic oh so fun to use.
Here's a fun fact: Jettatura also wipes Blink shadows. Despite not being AoE
Just learned this 4 days ago.
TheGriever :
Actually Aeon, youre wrong, without fealty on if you hit a PLD face to face and shield blocks 1 hit of disseverment, the poison does not stick. I have tested this, 20/20 times disseverment poison failed. I even recorded it but never posted I figured everyone knew about this. I dont hit a PLD/RDM with disseverment unless he is slep so I can get em from behind or the sides. Try it with your PLD buddy that has shield skilled up, unless there was a path in the past 3 weeks that I didnt know, Shield mastery is broken. Same thing goes for Head Butt and any other single or multi hit spell. Try it if you want. Except the only difference between headbutt and diss, is that head butt is a single hit, thus the chances of 1 hit being blocked as opposed to 5 is zinch, and therefor stun sometimes sticks. Again, this is without Fealty, which is why I meantioned it
I know it makes no sense, which is why it ticked me off when I found out, I figured I was just a late bloomer.
There is a few things people don't know about BLU, like did you know that Actinic Burst wipes Blink shadows? Not utsusemi, but the magic spell Blink. Also, it was really gay when I discovered this, but I was nin/rng and this blu was casting radiant breath on me while I was bound, i popped a spiritual incense and it didnt work...what...the...fawk?Doesnt carnal incense work on physical spells? Also, why does carnal incense work on ranged attacks and there is an incense that makes ranged attacks obsolete ;_; And how can you parry counter and block and guard while casting a spell??See? I can bitch about ballista too, but Id rather improvise and work with my team to do what I can win and I do, cause maybe I cant beat a RDM with my nin head on, but I can definately take them down with the help of my team, thats what ballista is about, its about strategy not wishing your job was perfect for all situatons.
Aeonknight :
Actually griever, the shield doesn't block out the secondary effects of spells. Fealty does. Does destroy physical spell dmg however.
Actually griever, the shield doesn't block out the secondary effects of spells. Fealty does. Does destroy physical spell dmg however.
Actually Aeon, youre wrong, without fealty on if you hit a PLD face to face and shield blocks 1 hit of disseverment, the poison does not stick. I have tested this, 20/20 times disseverment poison failed. I even recorded it but never posted I figured everyone knew about this. I dont hit a PLD/RDM with disseverment unless he is slep so I can get em from behind or the sides. Try it with your PLD buddy that has shield skilled up, unless there was a path in the past 3 weeks that I didnt know, Shield mastery is broken. Same thing goes for Head Butt and any other single or multi hit spell. Try it if you want. Except the only difference between headbutt and diss, is that head butt is a single hit, thus the chances of 1 hit being blocked as opposed to 5 is zinch, and therefor stun sometimes sticks. Again, this is without Fealty, which is why I meantioned it
I know it makes no sense, which is why it ticked me off when I found out, I figured I was just a late bloomer.
There is a few things people don't know about BLU, like did you know that Actinic Burst wipes Blink shadows? Not utsusemi, but the magic spell Blink. Also, it was really gay when I discovered this, but I was nin/rng and this blu was casting radiant breath on me while I was bound, i popped a spiritual incense and it didnt work...what...the...fawk?Doesnt carnal incense work on physical spells? Also, why does carnal incense work on ranged attacks and there is an incense that makes ranged attacks obsolete ;_; And how can you parry counter and block and guard while casting a spell??See? I can bitch about ballista too, but Id rather improvise and work with my team to do what I can win and I do, cause maybe I cant beat a RDM with my nin head on, but I can definately take them down with the help of my team, thats what ballista is about, its about strategy not wishing your job was perfect for all situatons.
I would like to test that, but not many people are willing to be guinea pigs for this sort of thing...
Also, I got a few questions about your tests.
Were you the BLU or your opponent?
What were said BLU's merits/gear? Cause if he's lacking Magic Accuracy merits and/or homam helm or even nashira... it's quite possible you/him simply resisted.
Did the PLD let himself get killed after each successful stick? Cause poison IS a status effect, and they do eventually start getting resisted when you abuse them.
Was Chain Affinity used?
As for the shadow wiping thing.. I'm very much so aware of that. In fact I think Rambus made a list back in the day of the effects of blue magic on certain shadow types (Utsusemi and Blink). If you're a BLU, live by that list. Memorize the whole damn thing. But you gotta find it first
Yea a few BLU spells don't behave as they should in ballista (as listed in your experience with the breath spell), which is what makes the magic oh so fun to use.
Here's a fun fact: Jettatura also wipes Blink shadows. Despite not being AoE
Just learned this 4 days ago.
I was the BLU and yes we figured that poison resists build over time like any enfeebling, we thought of all that and Chain Affinity was used as much as possible. I have 7 blu magic skill merits and 3 in magic accuracy and max physical, I was wearing jubbah and Im missing homam head piece, but the only time Ive seen Disseverment poison resist is with my ranger using an Orochi Nodowa >.>. And although Im missing Homam Head, 20 unsuccesful tries was a little odd. It led us to believe that Shield mastery, if it blocks even 1 hit of a multi hit spell it will block its status effect, which is why we tried head butt, and it only resists when shield blocks it, how we figured it was blocked is by the damage, my headbutt was usually doing high dmg, it even went to 104 with CA on the PLD, so when the dmg was really low and the stun effect resisted, we realized Shield Blocks pretty much any status effect that goes with it. Also we hit Disseverment from the front, it got resisted, we hit disseverment from the back...his HP started to go down. PLD died a few times to restart the test. The same thing happened when I was fighting another PLD, and it happened with this other PLD in 1 vs 1. So if the PLD has Shield skill really high...or even equipment that enhances shield skill...it's almost impossible to stick poison on them.
If Jettarura wipes Blink...then RDM 1 vs 1 a BLU is even more dangerous XD Of course its only a gaze attack ;_; but an unexperienced RDM wont expect it (/--)/ Jettarua ====> pinecone bomb ====> chaotic eye ====> death. Or so I wish
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