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Im not suggesting that you get 3 lines of buff duration, Im suggesting that you look past the nerf and try to get as much buff duration as possible given your limit amount of time that you want to invest.
80% is by all means doable without locking lines, but most of it probably wont be that enjoyable, which is probably why most people dont want duration of their skills nerfed but rather % damage or something else.
Something that many people overlook aswell, is that you dont need beholder to use Gungnir's Descent you can force yourself into final pact to spam it aswell. And please note before you continue to read that I dont care about any boss outside of CRA/Hard magnus, if you somewhat can kill CRA solo this nerf wont even matter at Empress, it will only take more time you will still succeed.
Assuming you have 80% buff duration, S rank mercedes card (assuming this still caps at -5 sec) & decent combat orders your final pact will have 325 sec cooldown & 45 sec duration. While your beholder will have about 67 cooldown & sacrifice will have 54 sec duration. This this means you have 13 sec without Gungnir's Descent without using up final pact.
If you follow this pattern and avoid dying (unless you use buff freezers ofc) you will have Gungnir's Descent almost all the time:
Use beholder before entering a boss and let it cooldown. Proceed to use sacrifice then beholder right after and enter x boss you're going to kill. 54 sec later you use up the beholder you summoned after sacrifice and about 15 sec later while you got a sacrifice active you recast your beholder. This will start the cooldown for beholder for your next sacrifice. About 30 sec later your sacrifice runs out and you use should use sacrifice again. Beholder is still on cooldown for about 35 sec more but you should cast it when it becomes available, which should be about 10 sec before your current sacrifice runs out. Use beholder and use up the remaining 10 sec of your sacrifice then once it runs out you cast sacrifice of the current summoned beholder.
Now after that you will start to have downtime on Gungnir's Descent due to beholder having longer cooldown than your sacrifice duration. However, final pact allows you to spam Gungnir's Descent aswell, without the need of sacrifice. So if you use are good at controlling your character and try to save final pact for this situation, you can cast beholder and go into final pact whenever its available (do not use sacrifice). This will give you 45 sec of attacking time with a summoned beholder that will start to cooldown and can be used up after final pact is over to spam Gungnir's Descent again.
If everything goes right you will only have about 10-15% downtime (if not less) where you have to use dark impale instead of Gungnir's Descent. So overall this didnt nerf a player who is willing to stock a lot of buff duration, it nerfed the unfunded new player who dont even have a single line of buff duration at all.
It obviously requires you to spam beholder and use final pact for Gungnir's Descent spam over survivability once in a while, but the job did not become garbage at all, its still way better than many other jobs given that you can get around 60-80% buff duration and folllow my suggestion.
Ye you can, my friend had 19% 19% buff duration. Landing 50% 50% is impossible, 50% and 19%ish is not.
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