Changes: Saber Dance

Latest revision as of 15:45, 16 May 2012

Job Ability

Increases Double Attack rate but renders Waltz unusable. Double Attack rate gradually decreases.
Obtained: Dancer Level 75 Merit Group 2
Recast Time: 3 minutes
Duration: 5 minutes

Notes/Description

Each upgrade increases effect duration of sambas by 5%. Maximum upgrade 5/5 increases effect duration of sambas by 20%.
Also applies to weaponskills.
Does not stack with Fan Dance.
Saber Dance will overwrite Fan Dance, and Fan Dance will overwrite Saber Dance.
Saber Dance boosts double attack rate to 50% immediately after usage, and it decays to 20% over the next 30 seconds.
Average Double Attack rate with 1/5 merits is 21.5% (assuming 5 minutes per usage) while average for 5/5 merits is 22.5% (assuming 3 minutes per usage).
Saber Dance does not stack with Double Attack from Warrior sub job, but will stack with any Double Attack from gear.

Macro Syntax

/ja "Saber Dance" <me>

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 [[Category:Job Abilities]][[Category:Merit Points]]
 ==Job Ability==
-*Increases [[Double Attack]] rate but renders [[Waltz]] unusable. Double Attack rate gradually increases.
+*Increases [[Double Attack]] rate but renders [[Waltz]] unusable. Double Attack rate gradually decreases.
 *'''Obtained:''' [[Dancer]] Level 75 Merit Group 2
-*'''Recast Time:''' 5 minutes
+*'''Recast Time:''' 3 minutes
 *'''Duration:''' 5 minutes
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 ==Notes/Description==
-*Each upgrade shortens recast time by 30 seconds. Maximum upgrade 5/5 decreases recast time to 3:00 minutes.
+*Each upgrade increases effect duration of sambas by 5%. Maximum upgrade 5/5 increases effect duration of sambas by 20%.
+*Also applies to weaponskills.
 *Does not stack with [[Fan Dance]].
 *Saber Dance will overwrite [[Fan Dance]], and [[Fan Dance]] will overwrite Saber Dance.
-*Possibly gives 50% double attack rate on first minute and appears to go down -10% every minute.
+*Saber Dance boosts double attack rate to 50% immediately after usage, and it decays to 20% over the next 30 seconds. {{Verification}}
+*Average Double Attack rate with 1/5 merits is 21.5% (assuming 5 minutes per usage) while average for 5/5 merits is 22.5% (assuming 3 minutes per usage).
-* Appears to allow double attack to activate on both hands while dual weilding, ignoring some rules of multi-hit weapons (Example:[[Joyeuse]])
+*Saber Dance does not stack with [[Double Attack]] from [[Warrior]] sub job, but will stack with any [[Double Attack]] from gear.
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