Now, I've been away a while (a long while) and it'll probably happen again. as my first char I always wanted love to conqs BUT, I just logged on after 14 months not playing it and got 18:5 and I started looking at the three main damage combos.
Putting the ridiculous 30% weapon damage to BOTH the formation/technique w/e; AND 70% added after the technique pops.
I just tested HOFS and IFA.
Rounded to the nearest hundred and in pvp 9 with pvp 7 weapon, I'm getting
HoFS VI crits 3k BUT HoFS V crits 4k
IFA IX crits 6k
1 step = 6k
2 step = 4k
3 step = 3k
You have this completely backward.
Don't just start getting out the nerf hammer either. I believe you're running AoC now until population is gone and there's no real development. But even if you just swapped the combo animations for IFA IX and HoFS VI around you'd have 3 step combo with more damage than a 1 stepper.
Then all you would need to do is remove the no cooldown part of furious strikes so ppl cant just spam HoFS 6.
This would bring it in line with Guardians counterweight which hits slightly more than IFA 9 (for me at least, and with T1 pvp weapon :\)
The one step IFA 9 is crazy in pvp. I don't want conq nerfing under the table again I just want to be rewarded for using 3 steppers (perhaps taking HoFS V damage down 10%)
The damage is slightly too easy to get off.