Skylit Wrote:When compared to current GMS skills, they only nerfed Bstep and Assassinate.

KMST v2 = BSTEP 450%x2, Assassinate 480%

GMS .86 = BSTEP 500%x2, Assassinate 600%

Assualter is still an upgrade at 720%



Again, no reason to QQ. The other upgraded skills make up for it IMO.

Cactuar in 1.2.318 thread Wrote:- Venom now adds +40% damage for an 8 second duration. Makes no sense to me.
- NEW SKILL: Grid(???). Increases monster drop rate by 20%, Pickpocket meso drop rate by 20%, decreases damage taken by meso guard from 50% to 40%, decreases amount spent from 61% to 51%, increases meso explosion damage by 50% per. Appears passive.
- Assassinate buffed I believe
- Boomerang step hits 4 enemies 4 times for 450%.

ROFLMAOMGWTH Wrote:If I'm understanding it right, BStep isn't nerfed at all. The first KMST change made it hit 450%x4, thus almost doubling GMS's current BStep strength.

roflmaomgwth Wrote:if i'm understanding it right, bstep isn't nerfed at all. The first kmst change made it hit 450%x4, thus almost doubling gms's current bstep strength.

Nature Wrote:I remember someone saying meso explosion combined with assassinate and boomerang step combo yield theoretically the highest damage output for shadowers. Hopefully greed improves the meso related skills that much. Well we cant know anything till Nexon fixes the thief job and makes it accessible.

FrozNlite Wrote:Because, like I said, summons attack 3 enemies every 3 seconds. IIRC the current cast rate of the Demons is 80 or 84 casts per minute with Lv. 11+ booster, which means you can cast ~4-5 Demons in the time it takes a summon to attack. 4-5 Demons = 24-30 chances to freeze. As compared to 3. My point is, if I/Ls are upset about their lack of freezing, they should ask for that with Ice Demon.

Takebacker Wrote:ROFLMAOMGWTH.

Yeah it doesn't do that anymore.

MetaSeraphim Wrote:You can't really blame people for thinking of past patches. Sure, they could read better. But something like this has never happened on this scale before, so. . .

Abysseon Wrote:Yeah, a freezing ice demon would be nice if its length of time/mob targets were increased although
those summons are still a problem.

They're just too slow/lolworthy for the game. =s

Also, before this revamp was introduced, we could mass freeze/mob control with blizzard and it made
sense with the storyline.

Now that blizzard has a cooldown with only 2-3 seconds of freeze at later levels, there's no longer
the idea of being an ice mage present in fourth job.

None of your skills can freeze...

My problem with these updates is that paralyze can 'freeze' the mob for 10 seconds while
none of the i/l skill sets have anywhere near that efficiency.

I don't think that nexon can balance these two mages while keeping the flavor of the game
present but they did surprise me with the big bang update.

Loose Wrote:I'm hoping they lower our (Shadower) damage because they plan on increasing the skills attacking speed and lowering delays. And making Assassinate hit 10 times in 1 second, without forcing a launch at the monster for the last hit.

donovan Wrote:None of I/L 4th Job Skills freeze, but Ice Strike still freezes and has a bigger range.

They could always give Big Bang a Fire/Ice/Holy element.

FluffyFoxxie Wrote:Big Bang needs to stay neutral, at least for Bishops. They don't get reset, and they only have ONE element, so they're fucked against holy immunes aside from claw and big bang.

Kabanaw Wrote:Then make the AM big bangs elemental.

Alloy Wrote:Imagine if assaulter was twice as fast, and the main DPS would be hopping between a monster's sides.

rhpot03 Wrote:Isn't that what bstep is?

Redemption21 Wrote:Dont worry Fellow Shadowers your time is coming for a buff that u guys deserve. I'm digging the Evan buffs espically for killer wing any predictions on when this patch will come out for GMS? im thinking Christmas but im not to sure seems a bit to early but Christmas time would be awesome

FrozNlite Wrote:What do elements MATTER? Buddy, Elemental Reset is not overkill. Think about it this way. The majority of classes that use elements in this game (Paladins, Corsairs, and Arans are the first that come to mind in this example) have the ability to turn their elements on and off at whim, allowing them only to incorporate them when it suits them for extra damage. They don't get shafted (well, Pallys kind of do, but not as much) like Magicians. Magicians, on the other hand, have passive elemental attributes to nearly every skill. This isn't something we can "turn off," but rather have to deal with appropriately with each mob. While it would seem that's no big deal, let me just anecdote you by saying at a Targa run I attended before I quit, with all my best gear at Lv. 200, I was able to spam 10-15k max Fire Demons on Targa the whole time. That's it. Big Bang was helpful, but not spammable, and regardless a mob that's immune to poison and resistant to fire screws us over hardcore.

That's why Nexon invented Elemental Reset for Blaze Wizards, and why I can't believe we didn't get it sooner. It's the perfect skill for those with passive elements who need a way to make elements only beneficial when desired, not a death sentence at certain mobs (ex. when Neo Tokyo was first released all ArchMages sighed because everything is resistant/immune to elements. We can't do anything on such mobs). So please. Big Bang helps, but it's not perfect, and Elemental Reset is a godsend. To the point where the last 10 points I have saved for MW30 will go to maxing that skill if we don't get our SP reset with this patch.

Bribery Wrote:...Like they really needed that.

No significant Evan changes