Make Photon Blasts More Interesting

[gray pecan]

Topic: Photon Blasts can be more interesting if there's an added variety of effects or functions. E.g. bouncer PB deals huge down factor to bosses for clutch moments, techter PB increases all party's potency by 10% for 10 seconds, slayer raises rarty's crit rate, hunter gives tri-shield and etc.

Reason: To make party set up more interesting, make players feel more important in battles.

Why: Right now players put no value to each other in battles because it is all about each individual's dps which not a lot of players care about, mostly we'd only check if there's a ranger or techter in a team.

P.S. IMO single-player dps balance should not be an issue.

[uncut jackal]

this sounds like something they could fix with the upcoming skill rings.
doesnt even have to be limited to photon blasts, maybe they could make it so certain active skills or actions activate these effects

to comment on the effects themselves though, having more down factor on bouncer might not be ideal. hell, having 2 bouncers already means you probably need extra PB gen because the boss is gonna Break very fast - it can mess up skill timings and cds.
also Hu giving tri-shield can actively hinder Waker which sometimes wants to get hit for marmelo stacks. flat damage reduction is probably better, or an hp boost

[north palm]

Techter also already has an effect attached to their PB

either way I'm not terribly excited about the idea of stacking classes based on their PB effects

The TE one is a bit of extra damage to everyone in the effect, kinda like baby zanverse

[sudden spindle]

bouncer pb also already does a ton of down to bosses

and people very much care about party comp, why do you think people leave when there's no ranger

[stark shadow]

Techter has one, considering it's the photon blast class, it makes sense.
Other classes provide other support utility.
Rangers are invaluable ~~and those bouncers are making my downs too fast and messing with my timers ~~
We are also getting skill rings and ex styles, which could change them even more...
The new leciel also can change what photon blast does, based on the preview they showed

[frail crest]

you run out of interesting effects that aren’t just damage pretty quickly too, like if they give force natural pp regen and gunner active pp regen I don’t think people will be that thrilled

[gray pecan]

thanks for the replies! Yeah i know the skills I put as example can be quite redundant but the point of my thread is whether if it would be great if PB has more to it than just straight damage waiting to be used on a boss break. There could be PB than can be casted early or late and I wish this thread can come up of something, if none, then yeah maybe we leave it as is~