Perfect Dodge. Just a thoughtFollow

At the same time, let PD dodge ranged attacks ffs.

30 Secs of sneak attacks would be cool, except after the first few secs, striking for 400+ every hit, you're going to pull hate and unless you're on something that doesn't move, gonna lose the ability to hit from behind.

Yes, I also agree with dodging ranged attacks. And Blue Mage physical spells (though I have no idea if it does already?)

But I just like the idea of making Perfect Dodge useful in a complete Osh*t moment. You could even put them in the Drk party at a zerg and tank half way through whilst they SEBW it.

Either you don't do any real endgame, or your tanks are terrible.

I was thinking this at least would give it a use. Tank messed up and died to ixion? toss Thf in RNG party, steal ALL their hate, and kite/flee-kite.

Zerging Kirin/Bv2/KV/Etc? Stick Thf in Drk party, and 2hr half way through. If you run out of time on CS Stun (If you're using it) then at least your Drks wont die. For Shells attempting their first/first few zerg HNM fights, a dead Mkris drk can be a serious problem.

At the moment it has no use in anything outside of messing up while solo or such.

Noodles wrote:


The same could be said of your experiences after dinging 75. If you think our JA's should get an emnity boost whilst under the effects of Perfect Dodge, then "Either you don't do any real endgame, or your tanks are terrible." Just sayin'.



As if "it" wasn't already useful as is. I do not see as many THFs complaining about PD as I do with say BLU's about Azure Lore, or RNG's about EES who's Sidewinders regularly do more DMG than their two hour. It is in my opinion that Perfect Dodge is incredibly useful. I just wish it was on a < 2 hr. timer. If your tank is "messing up" on Ixion enough to cause you concern, then perhaps he/she should come WHM as punishment.



But that is just it. Zerg strats are risky. If you are willing to take the chance on Kirin Zerg, then sure go for it. You enter that zerg strat knowing full well though that if your Kclub/Mkris DRKs start falling to the way side while Kirin starts popping his friends, then you probably have failed your run and with it your seals.

That is rudimentary knowledge though. You learn of these risks way early on in this game. As early as Ronfaure. Take a level 2 thinking he is gong to take on a VT Orc. He/She has to make a choice. Will put a potential home point on the line for about 200xp or should I just stick with worms and rabbits and make the same XP over time? The risk your LS takes by zerging of an HNM is wasted Seals (time camping or Cloud Evoker) if they fail but the chance to end the fight quicker than killing mini's 1-by-1 and killing Kirin last.



Your version of an enhanced two hour would definately bring a appeal to THF coming to endgame not just because some lead wants TH. I'm not saying it's useless. Any buff to any JA is better than nothing. While your "If I was SE, I would..." idea is nice and all; I would hope that if you we're given FFXI to manage, fixing something else besides Perfect Dodge would be a priority. I can think of a couple of things if you want. Here's one:

"Why am I level 100 cooking (A veteran) but still capable of failing a synth at level 2; or even under level 50 for that matter? It's like Emiril Lagasse or Rachel Ray failing to make a bag of microwavable popcorn."



Edited, Aug 14th 2009 4:33pm by Brockonunicorn

Perfect Dodge should be changed to deduct your exp loss from each of your alliance members by 100exp for each time you sac pull and die.

No, seriously, I don't think this JA needs any boosting.


It needs a complete overhaul. Just like you did with 66+ base dagger damage that we asked for SE. Which you will then follow with tp floor nerf, and then a 2 hander acc/attk boost that erases the base dagger damage boost. Crap, I shouldn't complain about anything wrong with Thief. SE will come fix it in a few years and then boost every other type of job by so much it won't matter. Anyways, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, Perfect Dodge. It's a horrible JA as is, one of the worst 2 hours in the game. I pretty much forget I even have this ability until someone tells me I should probably pop it, along with Flee, just in case some crap catches up with me while I'm saving the alliance from a total wipe. I'd have preferred almost any ability besides Perfect Dodge, which plays into our job description.

How about Perfect Mug every 2 hours for 10,000-50,000 gil?

How about Perfect Steal for a stack of platinum/gold/silver/beastcoins?

How about Perfect Precision for a 100% haste for a minute and every hit is a critical hit?

Instead we got 1/3 Dodge. Couldn't even give us two-thirds, we get the ability only to dodge 33% of the various types of attacks (magic, ranged, melee). Definitely sounds "perfect" to me.

I hate Perfect Dodge. It just sits there accumulating cobwebs until I remember it *might* help. You know it might, because our evasion is so low, we can't get by without it.

It could be 1 second timer from first hit landed and be just as good with 100% haste xD

Edited, Aug 14th 2009 11:19pm by Noodles

It might be more interesting if it affected the whole party, the way that some 2HRs do like WHM, etc. THF is often the unsung hero of the show; maybe with a more tangible, "I saved everyone by buying them 30 seconds to prevent the wipe" type of 2hr, THF would get more credit. If they did that, it wouldn't help solo THF of course, but maybe they are worried about balance issues there? (I'm not really sure if they are or why they would be, but who knows.)

It'd either crash the game, or be infinitely more powerful then a KC drk.

This


Adjust this slightly and let's you steal something the monster actually drops :D

"Bimbam steals a Byakko's Haidate"

Yeh I could live with that :D



Scrap the second idea, you'd get alliances of Thf's purely for AV/PW runs stealing and wiping. Touch broken lol