i know a few days have passed, but while we're still on the subject of 2nd class skills, anyone else feel like the ensembles should be looked over again as well?
- Battle Theme is fine as it is
- Acoustic Rhythm is fine as it is
- Classical Pluck is fine as it is
i don't recall seeing many people using any of the other ensembles, if at all.
- Mental Sensing is fine as it is, but it's still clunky as hell to use
- Harmonic Lick... i don't know if this one is okay or not, i don't remember what its effect in renewal is
- Down Tempo would be nice if it reduced MDEF to 0 as well.
- Lullaby, even after all these years, still feels like it should've been straight up a bard skill.
- Power Chord. the skill itself is fine, but the prerequisites are bad. Focus Ballet/Perfect Tablature is quite useless, unless those skills themselves were revamped. on top of that, requires 1 skill point into Lullaby. i'm also not seeing a logical connection between skill progression here: hit/flee boost -> put enemies to sleep > remove item catalyst costs.
Harmonic Lick is pretty stupid if you ask me. The same thing as Battle Theme does, but giving "mastery attack" instead of "equipment attack". It was limited to level 4 weapons before renewal.
Lullaby. To think NORMAL sleep is scarier than DEEP sleep after balance patch... Hmmm....
Power Cord... Affects too few skills. I think it would have no problem if the skill had something like a 30~50% chance to not blow the catalyst of ANY skill [Except runes and GX poisons].
Ensembles are dumb. That's why I like the chorus system.
In the ensemble you need two performers OF DIFFERENT GENDERS having to learn the SAME SKILL AT THE SAME LEVEL to have the right effect.
And only three skills affect "Anyone in the AOE": Lullaby, Classical Pluck and Down Tempo. [Mental Sensing does not count as it affects only monsters] ALL THE OTHERS AFFECT ONLY PARTY MEMBERS.
They should add a quest skill which allows us to use ensemble buffs in the same way as a chorus, in which only the caster needs to have the skill.
And think about a chorused mental sensing with one-minute "battle manual-like" buffs. /gg
It would be fair in my opinion. If a [mainly female, bards have strings] performer does not have any reason to enter a party, making them affect the EXP/hour flow of the party from one way different from killing... I have no reasons to not allow this. Adding a new skill on performers which boost the EXP of the party.
HELL THEY CAN EVEN REPLACE LERAD'S DEW OR CIRCLE OF NATURE WITH THIS. Chorus system to make it "hard", aka requiring more than one performer, turning the skill to be a reason to fill a party with performers again ^^