Report 879

Report #879
Skillset: Loralaria Skill: StratusSerenade
 Org: Symphonium Status: Rejected Oct 2013
Furies' Decision:
We can look into the efficacy of the foresight contingent upon the dodging
mechanic being changed, but we do not feel that increased affliction avoidance
alongside increased dodging is necessary.
Problem: StratusSerenade's FutureGlimpse effect - a 20% chance to block 1
affliction only when in cloudy terrain - is weak. Comparable songs give a
significant home-turf advantage in terms of offense and/or defense, as well as
utility. The diamond-fused effect, 4 seconds of +15% PvP-only straight dodging,
is reliant on the successful proc and renewal of the FutureGlimpse effect -
meaning that unless the bard is being completely inundated with afflictions, it
comes up very unreliably.
Solution #1: Increase the proc rate of the affliction blocking to 60%. This
 still means a max of 1 affliction blocked per song tic. Once an
 affliction is blocked, the effect fades until the next song tic.
Solution #2: Make the affliction blocking a constant effect, rather than
 having it work a maximum of once per song tic. Give the
 fused-diamond effect a 50% chance to come up, regardless of
 whether or not an affliction was blocked.
Solution #3: Change the diamond-fused Foresight effect to a boost to regular
 (acrobatics) dodging, with its diminished effectiveness on
 subsequent hits after a successful PvP dodge, and allow it to
 proc every song tic.
Player Comments:
---[Talan on 10/6 @ 20:56 writes]:
Note that any of these solutions will still be limited to cloudy terrain only.
---[Vivet on 10/7 @ 14:16 writes]:
Solution 2.
---[Wobou on 10/12 @ 17:26 writes]:
Any of these solutions sound fine to me. My preference would be solution 2.
---[Shuyin on 10/16 @ 02:53 writes]:
Solution 2
---[Thoros on 10/20 @ 13:33 writes]:
Unsupported...unless the dodge effect is changed, I really don't feel like bards
need any more dodging, whether the chance is 1% or 99%.
---[Thoros on 10/20 @ 13:34 writes]:
Whether it's based off a 15% affliction tick every 10 seconds, or a 50%
affliction tick every 10 seconds...no. No. More. Dodging. BARDS do not need it.
Nobody needs it.