Battleground 3rd Job Skills

There have been many requests to disable 3rd job skills from Battleground, as well as many other players who believe 3rd job skills should remain enabled. 

In an attempt to satisfy and accommodate both types of players, we have come up with a battleground schedule that enables 3rd job skills 3 days out of the week, and disables the 3rd job skills the remaining 4 days of the week. The schedule will run every day at 1 AM server time (01:00).

Days with 3rd Job Skills Disabled:

• Sundays
  
• Tuesdays
  
• Thursdays
  
• Saturdays
  

Days with 3rd Job Skills Enabled:

• Mondays
  
• Wednesdays
  
• Fridays
  

In addition to enabling or disabling the 3rd job skills, there are also battleground damage settings that will be updated depending on the days.

These settings will reduce the damage dealt by players inside battlegrounds.

i.e bg_magic_attack_damage_rate: 40 means that magic skills will only deal 40% of their damage in Battlegrounds.

Settings when 3rd job skills are enabled:

• bg_short_attack_damage_rate: 60
  
• bg_long_attack_damage_rate: 50
  
• bg_weapon_attack_damage_rate: 50
  
• bg_magic_attack_damage_rate: 40
  
• bg_misc_attack_damage_rate: 60
  

Settings when 3rd job skills are disabled:

• bg_short_attack_damage_rate: 100
  
• bg_long_attack_damage_rate: 90
  
• bg_weapon_attack_damage_rate: 90
  
• bg_magic_attack_damage_rate: 75
  
• bg_misc_attack_damage_rate: 90
  

The battleground announcements will be updated to indicate whether 3rd jobs are currently enabled or disabled.

there are many classes using 2nd skills as their main for offensive and yet it is reduced in 3rds. lol???

It is the current setting.. the update reduces the pre-existing damage reductions where 3rd job skills are disabled in order to make up for the lack of damage and de-buffs from 3rd jobs.

nothing was changed in 3rd bg only in 2nd BG. It's been like that for a long time. 2nd bg make people too tanky in the past where only coma usually kill them that's why the reduction were reduced.

Well especially RGs back then, but maybe RG are less tanky now because of the nerf in defender lol.