oh come on Gumi.
why you have to nerf back Sparky damage variance?
i feel pretty pissed, just when i though I can rely on her again. This happen.
It is like they don't want anything to do with Doublehand.
And prefer everyone to focus on chainer meta.
pretty pretty disappointing.
Fixing something that is not broken.
But it was broken (as evidenced by them changing it back) and it would be broken if it continued.
It was 50% extra damage. Not ATK, damage, as in at the end of the damage calculation. This damage variance was also applied to the weapon in your offhand, so you could equip Aigaion's Arm or another high ATK weapon and benefit from that 50% damage on something with huge base ATK.
This persisting not only gives enormous advantages to anyone who pulled Olive or Reberta, it also penalizes people who joined later in the game and couldn't obtain any of the other weapons that got that variance. Take a look at the list and tell me how many of them are obtainable today. The answer is 2 - Sparky and Crimson Blood.
HP buffs to GL content? Lightning resist added to counteract Sparky's innate element? Maybe, maybe not. We'll never know, because it's dead. Good. I have two Olives, so I have a horse in the race, so to speak, and it was fun to see her hit like a truck, but units have lifespans, and when people are measuring the distance between unenhanced Olive and enhanced Luneth in milimetres, I really don't know what anyone expected.
The idea that the 1h damage variance was somehow separate from the 'chainer meta' is also not correct because people were mathing out what kind of chain caps Olive and FV and a speculative Balthier could get with Sparky+[Aigaion Arm/Other High ATK weapon). Spoilers: it was a lot of damage.
Yeah it kind of sucks that they accidentally put it in on some 'look what you could have!' shit but forget it Jake, it's Gumitown.
Just shrug and keep TMR farming
Yup. All I was doing before was TMR farming and dailies. If they want to take the game down and then give me lapis/NRG compensation, I don't really see how I lose out.