02-13-2019, 07:52 AM
Gigantys is one of the most, if not the most less used Boss Drop weapon out of all of the existant one, and there's a couple of fair reasons why. The weapon itself provides more drawbacks than benefits, and the constant STR dump you have to deal with to even wield the weapon without being over your Battle Weight is absurd when combined to the weapon already providing minus Hit, which is heavily contradictory to their last ability, so here's a few changes that would make the weapon a bit better.
Decreases Hit by Weight. > Decreases hit by weapon's Weight/2 (Up to a maximum of 20 or 30) OR Removal of this part.
There's absolutely no actual reason to complete cuck the users hit just because the weapon's heavy and force them to pair their combo with Hexer always due to Plisfa's Masochism. It feels heavily limiting or hitting Evasion even on tanks with minimum evade.
Attacks cost 4M but deal bonus damage equal to Weight and can Guard Break. > Momentum cost changed to 3M, bonus damage equal to half of the weapon's Weight, Guard Break changed to ignore Parry skills.
With the basic attack costing 4M, someone without Fleur would only manage to use the basic hit once per turn, even with a crit. With Fleur, it would be twice per turn, but the weapon is not favorable to criting as it has 0% base chance plus the modifiers to add more weight tends to remove crit, which is why even in someone with only one Crit Evade stat (Be it LUC or FAI), you're going to have a hard time critting them.
So to balance the change of basic attacks to 3M, the bonus damage gained from Weight would be halved, as it would be too abusable and heavily damaging on someone who lacks defenses, even though they wouldn't have any issue dodging their strikes without Plisfa. The change from Guard Break to Ignoring Parry is something that makes more sense to me, as it would be very hard to parry a heavy and large sword such as Gigantys, and Guard Break feels heavily situational for a status that is easily break with a knockdown.
Other than that, I believe another cool interaction would have the bonus to weight also apply to autohits, but I'm not sure how abusable would that be. (Looking at you, Demon Hunter.)
Those are my opinion on the weapon, if you have any other ideas, make sure to leave a comment and discuss what would be a good change for Gigantys.
Also, for the love of god, please change the weapon's type from Medium to Large.
Decreases Hit by Weight. > Decreases hit by weapon's Weight/2 (Up to a maximum of 20 or 30) OR Removal of this part.
There's absolutely no actual reason to complete cuck the users hit just because the weapon's heavy and force them to pair their combo with Hexer always due to Plisfa's Masochism. It feels heavily limiting or hitting Evasion even on tanks with minimum evade.
Attacks cost 4M but deal bonus damage equal to Weight and can Guard Break. > Momentum cost changed to 3M, bonus damage equal to half of the weapon's Weight, Guard Break changed to ignore Parry skills.
With the basic attack costing 4M, someone without Fleur would only manage to use the basic hit once per turn, even with a crit. With Fleur, it would be twice per turn, but the weapon is not favorable to criting as it has 0% base chance plus the modifiers to add more weight tends to remove crit, which is why even in someone with only one Crit Evade stat (Be it LUC or FAI), you're going to have a hard time critting them.
So to balance the change of basic attacks to 3M, the bonus damage gained from Weight would be halved, as it would be too abusable and heavily damaging on someone who lacks defenses, even though they wouldn't have any issue dodging their strikes without Plisfa. The change from Guard Break to Ignoring Parry is something that makes more sense to me, as it would be very hard to parry a heavy and large sword such as Gigantys, and Guard Break feels heavily situational for a status that is easily break with a knockdown.
Other than that, I believe another cool interaction would have the bonus to weight also apply to autohits, but I'm not sure how abusable would that be. (Looking at you, Demon Hunter.)
Those are my opinion on the weapon, if you have any other ideas, make sure to leave a comment and discuss what would be a good change for Gigantys.
Also, for the love of god, please change the weapon's type from Medium to Large.