I realized after the fact that I completely missed the Scholar attack that happens during the Dark Knight finisher! 6:33 It looks to me like either a large AoE attack, maybe an upgraded Art of War, or a new debuff ala Chain Strategem. Perhaps the fabled AoE Chain Strategem? 🤔

@k.vn.k

3 ай бұрын

Those giant clocks give me a lot of “slow time” spell vibe.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Interesting! I see it more as gears clicking together

@k.vn.k

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t pass the dev not to add “slow” for scholar seeing they already have Expedient. Can see the benefits for raid. Slowing boss mechanic to the point it stops the boss so the rest of party can kill it fast enough before it enrages. Of course with the typical 10s duration 120s cd 😅

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

It would be cool, but something like that is unlikely to ever happen, especially since Astro originally had a lot of "Time mage" things that were slowly phased out. We don't really have haste/slow mechanics as a solvable thing outside of a few niche instances, so I doubt that a skill like that would ever exist. Fun to speculate about though.

@ovted129

3 ай бұрын

definitely seems like debuff cause it looks like the animation scaled with the enemy.

I can't wait to use "spread flower petals" on my white mage! I hope it's a party damage buff. WHM doesn't need more heals.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

That would be an interesting choice! WHM having a buff would give it a really fun interaction that it's lacking right now

@Author_Gamer

3 ай бұрын

It’s probably an upgrade to one of our AOE heals, though being a party wide buff would definitely be nice.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

@@Author_Gamer Yeah, the boring option is that it's just an upgraded version of Rapture

@toychristopher

3 ай бұрын

@@sharlayanforum but Rapture is fine the way it is. I want it to be a party wide damage buff

@Author_Gamer

3 ай бұрын

@@toychristopher my bet would be an upgrade to one of the Medica spells.

great video! I didn't even notice nidhogg's head in the dragoon animation

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! They snuck a lot of interesting stuff into this one for sure

In the heavensward benchmark, they also had the Tank Cover the Warrior of light and they used Shelltron. I wouldn't take this as a sign of it being anything like Passage of Arms.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Sure! It's entirely possible it's just an upgraded mitigation, infact that's probably even more likely. I just wanted to offer some ideas. :) Thanks for the comment!

@HyouVizer

3 ай бұрын

This and also in ShB benchmark the WoL DRK covered DNC with Shadow Wall, they're just retredding same benchmark flavor animations once more

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

It would be a good jebait though

What’s fun about the benchmarks and the camera always moving is you can catch stuff in the background GNB definitely did fated circle and then an ogcd, so continuation just like burst strike got in Endwalker MNK does some kind of flaming dragon head/claw and then a tiger head, but with the animation for twin snakes and assumedly dragon kick previously, so new base gcd upgrades? Wuk lamat at the very end does the pose for vengeance, so we might be getting tank cooldown upgrades MCH actually uses chain saw right before, and then reassemble followed by the big saw, so maybe a drill upgrade, maybe some combo, maybe a “reassemble -> super attack”

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Yeah, I missed the MNK stuff in the background, but I agree that it's likely a suite of animation/effect upgrades for their combos. MCH I fully expect that saw to be some kind of either permanent upgrade or temporary upgrade for drill following Reassemble/Chainsaw. The WAR cooldown I think is the big mystery. It makes me wonder if Vengenace is getting an upgrade, or if there's a change to Vengeance that makes the animation open for use for something else. Thanks for the comment and the watch!

new drk skill just looks like an enhanced 123 combo, the movements of the character are similar to the current 123 combo, my guess would be after using delirium or shadowbringer your next 123 is enhanced.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, my secondary guess to a new combo would be Bloodspiller/Quietus giving some kind of 3 stack buff that changes the 1-2-3 combo into an enhance Delerium Combo. The effects are similar but different enough to be recognizably new. Thanks for the comment!

Just wanted to add that before DNC uses the new attack it appears to be using improv. Myself and others are hoping this will finally make improv useful 🙏

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

A damage improv finished would be super fun!

You can also see a second new monk skill being used behind the SMN's new skill. It looks like an uppercut with some fiery dragon effect.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I watched some others and saw that too! It's so hard to see that I totally missed it when watching, but it's there very slightly. Like others have said it looks like the Twin snakes animation, so maybe monk is getting a suite of upgrades to its basic combos? 🤔

@iAero22

3 ай бұрын

@@sharlayanforum I'm hoping the PB gcds get a little added flare

I'm so hype for new summons that would be inevitable with a new SMN attack element like lightning.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Yoshi-P: "Summoner now has a random lightning spell and it's definitely not related to Ramuh at all."

@dieselsandwich42

3 ай бұрын

@@sharlayanforum and now I weep in the absolute emotional roller coaster that is being SMN every expansion

The summoner spell is just a Fester visual upgrade, (same mouvement animation than actual endwalker fester, and the actual effect had thunder effect and lightning bubble in it too) maybe related to ramuh but that not sure at all.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, we can't be be sure of anything. :P But yes, it could be just an upgrade. I predict we'll probably see a lot of upgrades to base and core skills in this expansion, but I'm sure everyone will get a new skill or two as well. Summoner is in desperate need of more kit, so hopefully we'll see more summons or at least more interactions

Great vid, thank you

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for checking it out!

Blood Lily defensive maybe, but you're right if that is the case as most WHM wouldnt use it lol. Hell i barely use my lilies for healing myself, just give tank regen and burn lilies inbetween dungeon pulls for 3 blood lily dmg aoe 😅

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

The almighty deeps!

I think you missed the scholar after the Dark Knight.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

I did! I mentioned it in a comment that I'll pin

I'm just going to throw out my prediction for what that AST ability is. My totally shot in the dark guess is that's a form of upgraded Aspected Helios. I think the animation and effects are similar enough and I doubt that the two Aspected spells are going to get thrown out by the rework.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think that's a very possible situation! Similar to the DRG skill, which I think could basically just be an upgraded Stardiver, since that probably isn't getting tossed either, I just didn't want to conjecture too much there because we just have no idea what they're going to do really. Thanks for the comment and watch!

Is it me or that all the spells effect are now using vectorised graphics similar to the Genshin Impact-ish? Looks more obvious on summoning effects, picto’s paint, etc. While it looks clean cut, it also looks less realistic.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

I think it's an intentional choice for the Picto spells to make them appear more "painterly" but with others I think it may just be a result of the video itself. I haven't noticed it much in game. Thanks for the comment!

Hellfrog: Large.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

b i g

How is the graphical overhaul going to affect console players? Especially those running on ps4 and xbox one.

@sharlayanforum

3 ай бұрын

My understanding is that they intend to continue last gen console support for "as long as they can" basically. It will probably be locked at lower performance modes, like a 30 FPS mode. I know that the current consoles, PS5/Xseries will have the graphics basically set to maximum and then most of the setting enforced/controlled to ensure that they run properly.

@LightSummoner84

3 ай бұрын

Take the benchmark and delete every grass, activate medium texture, activate LOD, etc,... low res shadow, etc, etc,... and you had the ps4 version graphics :s.