Get him to tune it.
The concept is legit the implementation is poor.
A real burst ability would be to add that proc but make each AA rank increase the duration and the damage but make the proc happen on every round like the ranger imbue ferocity.
Remove the proc limit of 20 and make it unlimited for the duration. So at max rank for this expansion it could do 1200 damage base and get fully focused and last for 72 seconds meanwhile the first rank lands for 300 non crit and only lasts for 42seconds
so 300 damage 30 seconds and it procs every round at rk 1
IIRC there are 6 levels of this AA
300 damage 42 seconds
400 damage 48 seconds
600 damage 54 seconds
800 damage 60 seconds
1000 damage 66 seconds
1200 damage 72 seconds
Allow
blessing of light to work on this add in a dummy recast value so that
spell damage can affect it, make sure
destructive fury and
worn magic DD focus from armor work.
That would be a burst ability.
So then the only thing to work out with him would be the real numbers based on how many rounds of combat we can do in 72 seconds as paladins. Number tweaking is semantics though. Get him to agree to make this proc every combat round and then scale the numbers up or down from there. Shoot for the moon and hopefully he will meet us at a respectable dps burst ability level.
For those of you who don't know rangers get
Imbued Ferocity it causes a proc from weapon damage every combat round and they also get things like scouts mastery of fire and or ice. So rangers will go farm boom sticks like
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=53730 and then pop Imbued ferocity and scouts mastery of ice and the proc damage goes through the roof. They also find a weapon with an equal proc for their secondary. This is a small portion of ranger dps under discs and the recast is 20 minutes. For a paladin that has nothing this would be one of our primary dps abilities. This would be a great way for us to burst without it causing problems with slay. You can see parses here
http://www.eqoutrider.net/eqforums/view ... f=5&t=5035 as well as some discussion here
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=160001This would also justify a 30 min re-use because it would be an actual burst dps ability. In my opinion Hulking we should try to talk him into something like this.
This has potential and we have two weeks where he can adjust the values. please please please get him to tune this or he is going to have an angry hoard of paladins ready to tar and feather him. 35 dps from an expected burst ability is bad bad bad.