11-06-2023, 04:54 AM
The 'average' use case for this enchant, which is Boneheart + Luck with only Aptitude levels of faith, makes life generally unpleasant for crit setups that don't have a massive class crutch to help them out. Using my own crit-duelist with a crit-favored weapon (Hisen) as an example, my stat-screen crit evade with Boneheart would be 86; and my stat-screen crit is 118.
Some classes don't care, and can jump this hurdle easily – my own class combination included, between north wind/veil off/duelist/kensei. But it sure can suck if you aren't running some variant of duelist, rogue, or Bonder. It feels weird for a torso enchant to out-value all of the class option equivalents for crit evade, even with up to 3 points invested in a Black Knight skill dedicated to it.
I don't believe the gouge scenario is worth giving much consideration. A Faith/Luck theoretical Redtail is much more susceptible to dying to a crit build than just a semi-optimized tank using Body Guard or Akmedis would be (bonus points if it's a healer). The latter is already functionally impossible to kill before dying for most crit builds, so min-max'd Redtails versus Veil Offers is a pointless metric in my mind.
I'd dock a few points off of Boneheart with that in mind, even if the majority of people can't be bothered to get a 2nd torso for slotting versus susceptible crit setups. Though, I don't blame people for taking health over Boneheart – for most people, the real lethal opponents are mages or skill spammers, not usually the crit builds.
Some classes don't care, and can jump this hurdle easily – my own class combination included, between north wind/veil off/duelist/kensei. But it sure can suck if you aren't running some variant of duelist, rogue, or Bonder. It feels weird for a torso enchant to out-value all of the class option equivalents for crit evade, even with up to 3 points invested in a Black Knight skill dedicated to it.
I don't believe the gouge scenario is worth giving much consideration. A Faith/Luck theoretical Redtail is much more susceptible to dying to a crit build than just a semi-optimized tank using Body Guard or Akmedis would be (bonus points if it's a healer). The latter is already functionally impossible to kill before dying for most crit builds, so min-max'd Redtails versus Veil Offers is a pointless metric in my mind.
I'd dock a few points off of Boneheart with that in mind, even if the majority of people can't be bothered to get a 2nd torso for slotting versus susceptible crit setups. Though, I don't blame people for taking health over Boneheart – for most people, the real lethal opponents are mages or skill spammers, not usually the crit builds.