I Was Wondering...

can DipperYuly hit mobs that are flying....i.e.: Wyrm from ks99?

nope. easiest one to test is the floating eye NM in konschtat.

Hey, I was wondering... and didn't want to waste a thread:

Has anyone heard anything about the adjustment of BST merits? With the way they were reducing the "20 min base recast, shorter recast based on merits" skills and other merits, has anyone heard anything about bst being adjusted or did i miss it?

What, and how, do you think they will change things; if they do?

When the devs mentioned the adjustments to Circle-type JAs, they added a little note about their plans for the Killer Instinct revamp:

Current:
Effect duration: 1 minute
Recast time: 15 minutes
Each merit point reduces the recast timer by 2 minutes 30 seconds
↓
Adjustment plan:
Effect duration: 3 minutes
Recast time: 5 minutes
Each merit point increases the Killer effect +2

Is carrie the highest level jug aquan? I'm pretty sure raphie doesn't count.

99 but i think porrogo (even without hats) count as beastmen.... maybe?

Raphie is a lizard
Carrie is highest aquan (only aquan, crab familiar is just LQ carrie)
Silas... is a beastman

no idea if silas intimidates anything or not. probably not

If it's a normal frog I'm pretty sure it counts as aquan, was killing frogs in misareaux for a str trial.

If this is true, this is amazing.

A lot of people don't realize how good this JA is. I'd gladly take off 2-3 of each Beast Affinity/Healer for it. The intimidation rate and damage bonus given and taken is high enough to warrant dragging a BST around to VW with the appropriate jugs.

Regularly, this offers 15%. If merits offer +2 for each merit, that's 25% bonus for 3 minutes. I'm doubting this is true. That's broken as ***.

Pretty sure you don't need 5/5 affinity anymore. Anddddd your current merits make me /headscratch

The actual ToAU fight, he wouldn't be able to because of the BLU's PDT accrual. The Prime fight, probably would be interesting.

You know, it took me 10 minutes to figure out what the hell you we're talking about, and then it clicked in.

I forgot about the merit points option on this. Haha. I haven't touched that in 2 years I'd say. I suppose I ll adjust that on my nightshifts.

5/5 Killer
5/5 Sic/Ready
5/5 Beast Affinity
5/5 Beast Healer

I'll be knocking Affintiy down to either 2~3/5 and playing around with Feral Howl/Killer Instinct after the update. SE said they were adjusting mob resistance to enfeeblement. I'm hoping this includes Feral Howl actually working on H/NM type mobs now. The update is right before my first day off work. I'll be sure to do some testing with it afterwards. Until then, Feral Howl is moot. Use violent flourish instead.

I got really excited when I first heard about he killer instinct change too. The 5/3 duration/recast alone would be fantastic.

However ading 2 Killer effects for additional merits as well is just fantastic. 15% damage boost, then an easy total of 33 Killer effect (15 from KI, 10 native, 5 merits then 8 from killer instinct merits) would get a good 33 Killer effect. 16.5% boost in damage multiplied by the 15% boost from KI itself...

also I think party wouldn't mind the flexibility of keeping that circle effect up on everyone. 15% intimidation rate, 15% reduction in damage, and 15% boost in damage dealt for everyone else..

the circle effects really are fantastic. Duration/recast has been the biggest problem. but this will allow us to keep it up 60% of the time. its really a fantastic boost.

If silas is indeed an aquan.. I'll want to test that out, especially w/ killer instinct. Although, I dont' know if level 90 carrie, or level 99 silas would be stronger... I think maybe level 90 carrie...

Good on you, Josi. I bought some worm broth (being cheap and doing trials). Silas was intimidating amorphs like crazy.