[Trexmaster]

http://www.neus-projects.net/viewtopic.p...amp;t=5255

Bellowing Stag, as it stands, is so powerful you can have it as your only means of offense and still remain in the top tier of builds with the tankiness to back it up.

Right now it can exceed 100+ unresistable (bar dark resist) damage, which also subtracts from maximum health. As it stands it's a tank buster that scales off a tank stat and is equally if not more effective against non-tanks. If you happen to not resist dark, you'll lose roughly 20% of your health a turn to it, and damage racing Bellowing Stag tanks is often futile since their offensive stat is RES, leaving them plenty of points to spare to bulk up, not to mention freedom with their equipment.

For a skill that scales solely on Dark ATK with a minor bonus from rank + rage, it can afford to be toned down. Bellowing Stag is a better version of Retaliate right now, being not only more Rage efficient, but it deals its damage in an AoE to boot instead of a single target.

A simple suggestion to bring it into line: make Bellowing Stag go vs Mag DR from RES, at the very least.

All of this still applies today, for some reason I thought Bellowing Stag actually got adjusted to go against Mag DR but it didn't. The only difference is now you can potentially replace the RES requirement with WIL using Luminary Element.

I would go so far as to suggest a 2-3 round cooldown be attached to it as well, or require more rage energy to cast it with. 1 Rage energy can be generated by just about any tick of damage that deals higher than 0, making it trivial to upkeep. Adjusting the duration of Cursed Wounds Bellowing Stag applies may also be appropriate.

I'd also like to emphasize the Cursed Wounds part as well--nothing else in the game aside from Gae Baed's trivial 10 on hit inflicts this outside Matador's kit. Retaliate dumps all your energy (on one target), Crashing Bull requires Airborne and spends it to cast(but is an AoE), then you have Bellowing Stag which can be repeated ad infinitum if you have more than 4-5~ energy at round start(and is also an AoE). CW is one of the most potent statuses in the game for anti-sustain, beating out even Interference in that you're removing an enemy's max HP entirely, thus countering %HP heals (and healing in general) on top of preventing bonuses an enemy would get from being at certain HP thresholds (Rising Game, Instinct).

So you have a skill that requires no weapon to use, has no cooldown, deals unresistable damage that is effectively applied as a max HP penalty instead, has a 2x2 AoE, and scales entirely off of elemental ATK with minor flat bonuses. On top of all of this you can also apply an elemental effect to it.

TL;DR Make it goes vs Magic Defense and or give Bellowing Stag a cooldown, as it's overwhelmingly powerful right now.