[Rendar]

I think it would already be good when it doesn´t stack with stuff like carentcall and the likes. That way you can produce amazing amount of damage, Expand ice itself can easily be countered with an armor that has Magic Defense. The boosts it can get from other things outside from Wintersbite are just making it far to strong.

But yeah, some sort of nerf is probably needed.

Claret Call doesn't benefit this in any way. It's best if you know the skill before commenting to nerf it.

Expanding Ice is (relatively) easy to deal with if you even remotely bother to have any sort of resistance... or evasion... or resistance + evasion + VA/ST (because those are offshoots with evasion!)

If you're not using that, then you're likely to not be running dodge. Which means you probably have some resistance! Or, should at least unless you're just going full idiot mode. But here, I did some tests with *very* basic stuff.


Attacker
50 STR (65 scaling)
50 WIL (60 scaling)
50 SKI (Ice atk)
27 Power Fist
Bloody Palms (12% Hunted)

Defender stats
Res 3
No magic defense
No Ice Resist

--- ROUND 0 ---
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf skips their turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 150 Blunt damage.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 188 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
--- ROUND 1 ---
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 0 HP.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 2 FP.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 211 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 52 Ice damage.
The battle has ended.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 61.92 FP.

As you can see. This does a shitton of damage, and for good reason. They're in no way attempting to mitigate the damage, and they suffer for exactly that reason. Taking 396 damage on the first hit, and 419 on the second time around. It's painful, but nothing was done to mitigate it.

Next up we have the same thing, except with the defender having a fourteen magic defense armor and the same stats as above.

--- ROUND 0 ---
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf skips their turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 129 Blunt damage.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 174 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
--- ROUND 1 ---
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 0 HP.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 2 FP.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 195 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 36 Ice damage.
The battle has ended.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 61.92 FP.

As you can see this time, the 14 magic defense armor reduced the damage to 318 on the first hit... and 339 on the 2nd hit. A reduction of about 70 points, and this can only be further made 'better' by having say... Zeran Horns of a ton of magic armor and armor if you even attempt to build for it. It'd reduce this damage by even more, but moving on..

We come to the final test. This time, the character has twenty resistance, which isn't that bad, and a dodger, even if they have a lot of cel, will probably have somewhere in this neighbourhood in RES so long as they bought aptitude (otherwise rip in pip their stats).

--- ROUND 0 ---
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf skips their turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 129 Blunt damage.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 141 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 28 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 28 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 28 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 28 Ice damage.
--- ROUND 1 ---(Winters Bite before Expanding Iced)
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 0 HP.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 2 FP.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 163 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer's turn.
--- ROUND 2 ---
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 0 HP.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 2 FP.
Crimson Clad Elf's turn.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 163 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
Sickly Ginger Archer takes 32 Ice damage.
The battle has ended.
Crimson Clad Elf recovered 61.92 FP.

The first hit does 253 in total, which from the original? That's an astounding 141 damage reduction. Just by wearing something with ACTUAL magic defense in it and very mediocre RES. Afterwards, I wintersbit the poor guy, which raised by damage to 291 (but remember, if my first hit had hunted on it, the damage would have raised a bit beyond 253 to 269 damage instead,) So winter-biting someone made me deal about 22 more damage due to RES being factored in.

Now, I'm not saying that Faker is bad at defense, but he had an 11 magic def armor on at the time. He could have taken a bit more RES, or some other form of damage mitigation that is available to him from his other classes, and used that to his advantage.

I feel most of the suggested 'nerfs' are quite a bit heavy handed.

Let's try lowering it down to 100% Ice attack and 100% Scaled Weapon attack, and having it only be usable once per turn (for 3 momentum).

Let's see where that goes and if numbers need to be adjusted from here.