Night Lord's Shadow Meso Skill (Hermit)

Thought it might be cool if shadow meso is usable once you run out of throwing stars, as a "oh shit not enough/never recharge stars" moment.

Lv1: +1 wa, uses 300 meso per star
Lv20: +20 wa, uses 100 meso per star

So even at maxed level it acts as a 20 wa star, still far from any decent stars, and more of a last resort.

 

This skill was quite handy in 3rd job era pre-bb and when use slots were capped at 48 slots or so; for especially zakum scenarios with DCs and Deaths (no ress)... Even so, measures to stretch out our Lucky7's were either to Remove SP or have fellow runners to hold our backup stars. Whereby even in 3rd job standards, this skill was quite poorly constructed, even meso web gave more utility in Goby grind and Zak summon control (excluding blues); reducing houses HP during WC and Dropping Summons for ranged. Don't think this skill requires changes but would love to hear your hot take on changing it up, utility wise.

Some ideas:
- lvl30: Uses 10,000 mesos. On hit, a 30% success rate in removing Physical Defense up (Sub-par Dispel, Armor Crash)
Targets 1 individual as compared to multiple (Dispel) with Lower success rate since it's a ranged skill.

 

Before anything else, if this skill is going to be useful it needs to be able to crit normally. Currently it has its own crit formula which doesn’t stack with SE and sucks terribly. After that, I would double the lines so it is at least comparable to lucky 7.

Believe it or not I have seen this skill used before at zakum when one of our NLs ran out of stars 5 minutes in lol. It was so laughably terrible that there is no reason to use it in its current state.