dude i believe it does, i have a barb-fencer but i never got a close look on the numbers because first, the rapier range is really crap so sometimes lunge apply to some mobs and cleave to others when i’m mobbing so it becomes really hard to check but i always use the slash combo before seism and the mobs are dying faster, i can go up to 50k+ with the full seism combo now and i’m sure that before the patch i was not even close, i will check tomorrow since is already 5 am here, and will edit the topic if the buffs does not stack.
on a side note: what skill do you all think will be the next skill to be able to copy by the clones?
i have a theory that IMC have not choose barb skills for clones yet because all of the good ones have overheat and the cd is really short and also have a effect , so it can really break the current balance with builds for shinobis.
Now i will expand my theory on the skills that the clones would be able to use from barb:
first let’s keep in my that IMC only allowed skills from ranks until 3 that is moulinet/Synchro Thrusting so we can assume that since barb start at rank 3 we would only have : cleave , helm chopper ,Embowel or Stomping Kick
first: if we take a good luck on the new skill set that clones are able to use now, the only one who is good is moulinet but because the cd it can only be use one time, where the the most popular skill from barb (cleave) would be able to use two cycles per clone and thus allowing for a far better grown than any combination before could have and i have seen someone doing a 25k on stunned target per cleave and this was before the 50%debuff so it would really break the balance from classes so we could remove cleave.
second: if we compare double slash damage with moulinet alone that is the best new skill that they have allowed the clones to use :
they are mostly the same :
moulinet 5: needs 3 ranks just like double slash 5.
Moulinet: it have 5 hits with 151 damage tooltip cd 35
Double slash: 2 hits with 531 damage tooltip 3 overheat(6 hit) 21 cd
Now if we look at a skill with similar values in barb it would be helm chopper.
helm chopper: 2 hits 283 damage 2 overheat(4 hits) 20 sec CD , the skill alone seems to be the closest of both skill before, but without doubt the weaker as well, but let’s not forget that helm chopper is the one with the best possibility to grow (lvl 15) and also have a stun effect so it can become a reality.
the only options left would be Embowel or Stomping Kick:
embowel is really weak if we compare to moulinet for example so it would not be a good boost for barb-shinobi and if the clones had to jump to use stomping kick it will be a total havoc with the BAD AI of the clones.
So what skill from, barb you would like for the clones to copy ? i think it will be helm chopper after all , all those barb2-corsair2 shinobis needs something to make their char useful again if we compare with the rest of the shinobi builds.
