Sexy Dance Partay

Shake your booty and discuss random daily (or whenever I update Post #1) topics pertaining to DNC at the Sexy Dance Partay.

Today's Theme: Tea Party
Today's Topic: DNC Merit Adjustment Predictions - What does SE have in store?



OTHER JOBS ARE INVITED BUT YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DANCERS BECAUSE WE ARE DIVAS AND NEED ATTENTION.

I now wish I was willing to level my Dancer just so I would have more input for this thread.

I dunno what to say!

Alternatively, you could post pictures of ugly sweaters while we wait for real input.

I don't own a sweater lol, I live in south Texas.

Here's my original suggestion from the official forums:


Suggested Adjustments: A new category of dance which consumes finishing moves to power up waltzes and modify their recast and/or TP costs.


The following abilities would be in a new category of dance, separate from steps and flourishes, but also require finishing moves. We'll call them "Techniques"

Dessus (Dancer level 65): expends a finishing move to reduce the TP cost and recast of the next Waltz. (Recast: 30 seconds, Duration 30 seconds) -- in particular, this should halve the recast of the next waltz. The TP Reduction would probably be about 25%.
Rise (Dancer level 75): expends a finishing move to increase the potency of the next Waltz, for an increased TP requirement. (Recast: 1 minute, duration 1 minute). Should increase the potency of the next waltz by 25% *ignoring the current cap on Waltz Potency*, and increase its TP cost by 10-15%.
Assemblé (Dancer level 95): expends all finishing moves to transform the next Waltz into an area-of-effect ability, doubling the TP requirement. (Recast 3 minutes, duration 1 minute)

Since Techniques would be one category, the shared recast, in particular of Assemblé (which would eliminate the ability to use Dessus or Rise for 3 minutes), would be a balancing factor.

It is my vision that techniques would overwrite each other and not stack, regardless.

google image "ugly sweater"
it's pretty horrifying

People actually wear that...?

Ugly Sweaters: the real-life equivalent of Aurore.

Ugly Sweater vest Bump?

My eyes!

God, i think you found the full perle of the sweater world.

Not sure how to fix the waltz problem, but all of the Flourishes besides Reverse Flourish are pretty much useless.

I think we need an ability which allows the next flourish to expend zero finishing moves or something so we can combine Reverse Flourish and something else.

I happen to enjoy Climactic and Striking on Rudra's. >.>;
Tbh the waltz timer only gets on my nerves during high-profile solos.

Violent is nice.
Climactic is excellent if you have Twashtar/Daka+2
I think the limiting factor on flourishes is their shared recasts, not cost. FMs are easy to get.

It's mostly a problem for people who wanna play support DNC, which a role which has fallen far out of style.

Edit: Voltron, ouch.

That is true, though honestly I spend most of my time solo on DNC anyway. :\ My other jobs kind of overshadow the need for me to be on DNC at events.

That's part of the problem, etc.
Well, there are the camps that would say "every job should have its draw for events" and there are the camps which are happy with the same 5 jobs forever.

Ugly Christmas sweaters, you say?

And as for you being divas, uh, you go girl! Match those shoes to that hair clip! Woo-hoo!

I can't take this thread seriously anymore lol god that's torture

it kind of frustrates me that no dnc gear matches twashtar

Its a rainbow cake spatula. If there was something that DID match it I'd be frightened.

we already had this discussion. i'd rather discuss why a life long dancer would only know 4 dances.

this is today's discussion
that can be tomorrow's discussion

but what will the accompanying theme be
god
it's so hard to match these things

I'm not saying that they're bad, but I'd rather do a second weaponskill and possilby self-skillchain than get some more damage.

The recast on each flourish tier is also a problem. The flourishes are great tools, but the problem is that most of them are outdone by Reverse Flourish.

i dunno i'll be back tom.

but you can use climactic and then presto/step or NFR and skillchain anyway. it really only makes a difference for rudra --> rudra, but the damage increase on rudra is no joke, outside or inside.