2 or 3 days ago I found Kaeko's blog while trying to find some information on soloing Apollyon NW. At the time, I saw the posts on enmity but I skipped over them because I was trying to watch Kaeko's solo video. Today I went back to it to read the enmity and found it interesting. I've always had a specific understanding of how hate works, through the years of playing especially in endgame fights, just that I could never seem to verbalize it. But I can always "feel" when hate is going to shift and to whom it would shift, just by internally analyzing what actions have been done. But what Kaeko and Ashira has done is put an actual model to enmity and found various properties through vigorous testing. I am currently still reading these posts and analyzing it against what I understood about enmity, but if you would like to read, here are the posts:
Part I
Part II
Part III
I'd like to post the summary of the testing here, but I felt that it would do no justice to them, because of the time they have thought this out and the time they took to do the testing (spamming 320 Cure I's for just one test...). So instead, I'm forcing anyone that wants to learn more to read the original posts rather than through here. =P
If I find anything that conflicts with what I know or holes in their testing, I will post here as well as notifying Kaeko but I think they have been pretty solid with the tests and hypotheses.
As for implications, I don't think it will have much impact on the current endgame community. Most people understand that Flash and Cures helps PLD/NIN keep hate, that NIN/DRK works well, and that mages will overtake hate on long drawn-out fights. It will only help explain why these are the case and perhaps help make minor tweaks to tanking/fighting styles, but it would be very minor at best. It may have more impact on low-count fights however, but as to the specifics I will have to come back to that another day.
edit1: I've finally finished reading through Kaeko's post for the first time. There is one thing that was extremely surprising to me: The chart at the end of part 3. I had always suspected that Flash and Stun have some of the highest "persistive" hate (Cumulative Enmity as Kaeko calls it) of the spells with the Cure series behind it. A few years ago, I used to kite Kirin on my WHM, with our kiters fighting back on hate. I would normally toss Flash as the timer came down and occasionally toss a Cure IV. I thought the Cumulative Hate would be the dominating force at this point and attributed my high hate level mainly to Flash. However, because how Kaeko's testing results in "round" numbers, I am inclined to believe in them, despite not agreeing with the tested levels of Cumulative Hate for each action performed. Perhaps I am underestimating how long it takes for Volatile Enmity to decay and as such, its contribution to overall hate.
(any posting/edits after this will use the same naming convention used in Kaeko's blog)
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