Being able to exit No Mercy with 3 cartridges now alleviates a good amount of pressure in having to build up 3 again by the next minute, but that doesn't change a few details such as the disproportionately punishing loss it suffers on death compared to almost any other job right now, certainly more than the other tanks.
We can't use Bloodfest in downtime because it requires a target, and even if we could, we would save it anyway or else risk losing Lion Heart. And it being a 2min cd means there's the odd minute where it is possible to have bosses become untargetable while you have no cartridges, so using Lion Heart for this solution feels like a band-aid. GNBs being forced to AoE against a single target just to maintain upkeep in certain Lv90+ encounters just doesn't feel good. I know this was certainly the case in DSR.
As a personal pet peeve, when participating in hunt trains, its not uncommon to only be able to do my proper opener every other fight because of how load bearing Bloodfest being available is.
Also, Blasting Zone still isn't 5y range? I haven't seen a single person talk about how odd this is despite Continuation being given the change to assist when moving away from the boss, and these two abilities functionally have the same cooldown? Shoha gets to be a line AoE for free and Blasting Zone is still single target? I wish this skill wasn't hampered by Danger Zone, but I also kinda wish it didn't exist in general just because I hate it being at the mercy of crits combined with its lack of impact by being an ogcd... but now No Mercy has no room so it can't be anything more significant either.
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We can't use Bloodfest in downtime because it requires a target, and even if we could, we would save it anyway or else risk losing Lion Heart. And it being a 2min cd means there's the odd minute where it is possible to have bosses become untargetable while you have no cartridges, so using Lion Heart for this solution feels like a band-aid. GNBs being forced to AoE against a single target just to maintain upkeep in certain Lv90+ encounters just doesn't feel good. I know this was certainly the case in DSR.
As a personal pet peeve, when participating in hunt trains, its not uncommon to only be able to do my proper opener every other fight because of how load bearing Bloodfest being available is.
Also, Blasting Zone still isn't 5y range? I haven't seen a single person talk about how odd this is despite Continuation being given the change to assist when moving away from the boss, and these two abilities functionally have the same cooldown? Shoha gets to be a line AoE for free and Blasting Zone is still single target? I wish this skill wasn't hampered by Danger Zone, but I also kinda wish it didn't exist in general just because I hate it being at the mercy of crits combined with its lack of impact by being an ogcd... but now No Mercy has no room so it can't be anything more significant either.
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