Sylph.Peldin said: »
Corrected some stuff, added some stuff, and made some other random edits to the OP. I also bolded some things that need verification.
Personally, I'm still dubious about Scherzo vs Arrogance Incarnate. I've had Scherzo on my PLD tank and watched him still take 1.8k damage. Also, the move seems to do more damage when EV gets lower. I want to say around 25-30% hp or so, it's like PLD goes from taking 900-1000ish to almost double that. Getting hit for 1.8k when PLD has about 2k total hp? Scherzo should definitely be kicking in. Or maybe it is kicking in, but the damage is being ramped up more than I thought and EA is also necessary to stack with it. I dunno. I'm at work so I can't do the exact math (not sure what skill my gear puts me at), but my Scherzo should be around 45% damage reduction. Given a PLD at 2000 hp, any single hit over 1500 should trigger Scherzo. And it would have to hit for almost 4k in order to KO with Scherzo on.
To anyone playing PLD, have you seen Scherzo and/or EA get taken off after Arrogance Incarnate was used? Or do you know other abilities that reduce it's damage?
Personally, I'm still dubious about Scherzo vs Arrogance Incarnate. I've had Scherzo on my PLD tank and watched him still take 1.8k damage. Also, the move seems to do more damage when EV gets lower. I want to say around 25-30% hp or so, it's like PLD goes from taking 900-1000ish to almost double that. Getting hit for 1.8k when PLD has about 2k total hp? Scherzo should definitely be kicking in. Or maybe it is kicking in, but the damage is being ramped up more than I thought and EA is also necessary to stack with it. I dunno. I'm at work so I can't do the exact math (not sure what skill my gear puts me at), but my Scherzo should be around 45% damage reduction. Given a PLD at 2000 hp, any single hit over 1500 should trigger Scherzo. And it would have to hit for almost 4k in order to KO with Scherzo on.
To anyone playing PLD, have you seen Scherzo and/or EA get taken off after Arrogance Incarnate was used? Or do you know other abilities that reduce it's damage?
I assume you mean Dominion Slash's dispel effect?
I personally have not seen Scherzo get dispelled. I can't speak for EA.
AI is almost certainly a breath-damage attack with either no-elemental or light-elemental properties, which scherzo will reduce. What I would think is happening in the situations I've seen large spikes is that Scherzo isn't procing because the damage has not exceeded 75% HP. Keep in mind that scherzo checks for damage after any -DT, assuming a fulltime DT/BDT mix for this fight, and a max HP of around 2200, there are times when you're unlucky enough to mitigate just enough damage from gear to prevent scherzo's additional reductions.