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As far as easy fixes to make tanking more attractive, just reduce everything on the right side of the tree to 5 point purchases. The secondary fix would be to make all the guard abilities work...

If by "full tank" you mean nothing on the left side of the tree, you roughly reduce your damage to 45% of your pure fury potential with melee weapons. This drops to 43% if you use Guard Stance.

I do apologize for being less specific. Rather than eliminating the time to stop for healing, I more meant eliminating the need to do such before the end of any extended photon art such as Shunka or...

In my earlier post, I explicitly said that full defense was clearly not optimal and that the rest of the points should be invested in Fury. And my general argument for some optimal value between the...

My notes:

-There is no need to dodge with flash guard 1 and flash tech guard.

-I assume you are going against something that takes more than one shunka step to kill if you need to dodge at all....

So, you are wasting time dodging with your primary damage tool in order to hit an insignificant target or just hit air instead of playing through and damaging the primary target? Sounds like a waste...

Ah, good to know. Thanks then.

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On a final note, is that taking out the parts and killing the boss or just killing the boss?

Sorry I missed your reply above that. Then my only notes afterward are these:

-Shunka and Overend are immune to knock effects, so getting hit while using either does nothing to reduce DPS. If you...

Outside of emergency quests, that is probably true for an average party with 2 or more bravers. Valid point.

A few notes from my standard thought process:

-Nothing besides Falz's back can kill you in one hit as a Cast with the flash guard 1/flash tech guard. A 100% chance of never dying in one hit is...

After getting back into the game, I did notice that there are actually a few situations where tanking is not a real sacrifice. Remember that DPS is an indirect measure of the thing that you really...

Remember that the Dex is still adding to the average damage, as 50 really is not enough to worry about the 90% damage cap. So with Braver Mag, you have the equivalent of a level 200 R-Atk Mag. The...

The primary advantages of Dexterity are it increases average damage to all 3 attack types as much as investing in any attack would and it decreases average enemy damage. The primary disadvantages are...

Yes, Guilty Break is my best friend and it makes a huge difference on the primary issues you just mentioned.

Oh, I agree with you there, which is why I mentioned grabbing Just Reversal from the subclass. It is just the "is 20% worth 5 points when I am using a weapon that gets knocked down significantly less...

I would not bother with Just Reversal Cover since half the sword arts are immune to knockdown anyway. But I assume anyone going a defense route is specializing in swords. 20% HP for a skill I never...

I have been playing around with tanking on Hunter for a little while now. My recommendation is to grab sword gear. Sword gear is around 2x damage to swords when it is at 3 charges, so grab that to...

The general rule of thumb is just build toward the left side of the class tree and you will be damaged optimized. Multipliers take priority over statics. Gears take priority if you like the weapon...

I am pretty sure it is not two digit after you divide by 5 in the damage calculation.

Dexterity is not the biggest difference, but technically it does mean that Cast female does more damage as a gun user than Deuman female. Also, affixing everything with Dex additions would actually...

Yes, it does get a little vague with rare weapons. The basic rule is that the minimum damage is your base stat plus affix plus 50% of the weapon for non-rares.

But according to that wiki link...

As I posted before, the source is one of the Japanese Wikis. It includes all the test data and the general equation they received as a result. And if you do a bit of math on that data, you will find...

Well, if you main bows, you can still put points into Average Stance. That is 20 points for a 21% damage increase and you can go further down for an extra 10% to charging. On the other hand, Rapid...

In that case, I suppose 3x PP regen and 103% attack power really is not that bad for 10 points, depending on how long the skill lasts between the 2.5 minute resets. Assuming the rate of button...

So, since we are talking about Rapid Shot, did anyone ever figure out what the second variable did?

TimeDef 0.2 0.19 0.18 0.17 0.16 0.15 0.14 0.13 0.12 0.1

As I would rather hold off...