[Snake]

This is about the recent nerf to a racial skill that honestly didn’t need it, considering how high its costs and cooldowns already are.

At character level 60, Divine Eyes had its damage reduced from 300 to 240. It still ignores defense, sure, but it has an 8-round cooldown — and it doesn't even ignore evasion on use! You miss that hit, you're put to sit down, having suffered the HP cost, momentum cost and no effect to it.

Now let's compare that to the Shaitan's Painful Grip after a successful grapple. It also ignores defense and evasion, but has just a 1-round cooldown.

So, just as a quick comparison, over those 8 rounds, a Shaitan can hit for 120 damage up to eight times — 960 total — and that's unresistable. Meanwhile, Divine Eyes can only land 240 damage, which can be dodged and reduced since that is not considered bonus damage.

That's a massive gap in value.

To put it plainly:

• Round 0: Shaitan has a 65% chance to deal 120. Human has to roll evade for a chance to deal 240.
  
  
• Round 8: Shaitan potentially dealt 960. Human dealt 480 (assuming both hit so far).
  
  
• Round 16: Shaitan's at 1920. Human's at 720.
  

Also, keep in mind: Divine Eyes costs HP to use. And in any real 1v1, the match is over long before the human gets to cycle it more than once or twice, while the Shaitan is just cruising with no downside.

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This is not balanced, or even fun, honestly. Long cooldowns should be reserved for really impactful moves. If you are nerfing one of the main effects, then at least shorten the cooldown.

Honestly, I'd prefer if Divine Eyes had a "once per enemy" clause instead, if it is to keep its long ass cooldown. You cut through someone's lines? That should leave a permanent mark, like an HP Down debuff, something lasting and thematic.

That would be cooler and more worth its current state, costs and general feel.

But if we’re going the route of punishing everything that's fun, then alas, I point over the nerf bat to Painful Grip.

Have it deal 50% of its damage back to the grappler. I use it a lot, and even I'd be fine with that if it meant fairer tuning overall.

What stings the most is that Divine Eyes trait, all the way to Divine Ease, already has defining costs. So this nerf just feels like power was taken away where it needed to be taken away, with nothing being adjusted to make the costs worth it.

That's disheartening, boss man. If you really want an ideal look of what I think would be cool for Divine Eyes, on a fun day where you feel like reworking it, just read ahead, otherwise, see what can be done about other racials outshining this one and do whatever it may needs to be done for the sake of everybody having a more consistent experience when playing specific races.

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Strange Sight

Rather than reducing Max HP, make this reduce your Maximum Physical Stamina by 25%.

Rework it into letting us input an Arrow Minigame to instantly demolish Rocks, Trees or objects that can be attacked (such as signs) we try to harvest/destroy.

The way this would work is that it would take the maximum durability of said object, calculate how many swings you'd need to manually take, and make it only one. Then the cost is divided unevenly between Physical Stamina and Mental Stamina.

You gain resources as per normal, each roll being done separately.

Eyes of Elimination

This can have 4% Max HP cost.

This skill costs 5% of your current HP to use and some mental stamina.

You target one enemy in a 5 range, and swiftly close the gap on them, performing a basic attack that deals bonus (Char LV * 2) damage after you are in range.

This should have an animation. My suggestion is that you move using the 'blur' animation, then perform Thorn Scratch in a random angle direction, and finish with Invocation Breaking animation of Dark Bard, before it does damage.

Damage from this can instantly kill lesser enemies. If it fails to instantly kill, it inflicts or powers up Cursed Wounds LV X (X = damage), for 4 rounds. (Critical Hits double the duration of Cursed Wounds)

Drawing the line without making mistakes increases the attack's Hit and Critical rate, up to 50.

2 round CD. If it instantly kills an enemy, it puts Divine Eyes on a 2 round CD.

Divine Eyes

This can have 4% Max HP cost too, for a maximum of 8%.

This skill costs 10% of your current HP to use and some mental stamina.

You target one enemy in 1 range and try to dismantle them, dealing protection-ignoring slash damage (Char LV * 4) that ignores evasion, and can critically hit (critical hits from this skill deal bonus damage equal to 10% of the target's current HP).

This should have an animation too. Shinobi's Arashi slash animation does the trick. But you could also make it so it performs a Thorn Scratch animation in 3 random directions (based on the amount of lines drawn), ending by the Invocation Break animation of Dark Bard.

Damage from this can instantly kill lesser enemies. If it fails to instantly kill, it inflicts or powers up Cursed Wounds LV X (X = damage), for 4 rounds. (Critical Hits double the duration of Cursed Wounds)

Drawing the line without making mistakes increases the skill's Critical rate, up to 50.

4 round CD. If it instantly kills an enemy, it also puts Eyes of Elimination on a 2 round CD.

Divine Ease

Req. Strange Sight

This should make it so it costs 15 Physical Stamina and 15 Mental Stamina to use Strange Sight, Divine Eyes or Eyes of Elimination, skipping their minigame. If you don't have either, it still skips the minigame, but doubles any HP costs and increases the cooldown by 1 extra round.

This should also actually skip their minigame rather than 'auto-succeed' it. For the sake of fluidity in combat or mining.

It should also passively increase the cooldown of Strange Sight skills by 1 round.

[Poruku]

Damn that's a lot of words to say 240 damage on a huge cd sucks when you gotta lose 15% of your hp to get it.

I don't know why this got nerfed, divine eyes was never a great archetype, and human didn't need a nerf either

[pilcrow]

I think a QTE to instabreak rocks would actually be slower than a .dblclick ore-vein macro? That one makes mining go by lightning fast.
Trees are another matter, but they can also go down pretty fast already.

[Shujin]

Lots of words, overcomplicating something that doesn't really need to be over complicated.
All out of combat changes I vehemently disagree with, it just makes the already annoying grind even more annoying and LESS efficient. Stop it. its meant to be a buff for that, not a nerf and speed means literally NOTHING, if the output of items you earn is based on your STAMINA. -25% physical stamina just means you are worse at gathering than everyone else.

Divine Eyes isn't good, never was OP, balanced around being litterally a glasscanon that falls over when sneezed at, at the general direction simply by nature on how you need to build it.

The damage comparisons also does it no justice, as Shaitan grapple also combos into a lot of things, so that above is a low ball. Real grapple builds can skyrocket that alot more.

If Divine Eyes stays 240 damage, atleast reduce the HP you need to obtain it and make it an Autohit...Glady trade 60 damage for a guaranteed hit every 8 rounds.


Alot of words used to just say:
Buff Divine Eyes, its pretty bad right now.