2008-12-11, 10:09 AM
You can max Grenade if you want, and leave Booster at 11. It's entirely up to you; it's your build, and it won't hurt your training speed. Its only negative impact will be the shorter buff timer. Let me just say a few things, though:
- You can have just as much fun messing around with a level 11 Grenade. You get 11 Grenade just by not putting any points back into 1st job (and you can manage that just by not putting any into Flash Fists or more than 11 Somersault Kick, which are both fine where they are). That rules out maxing Grenade because it's cool.
- Grenade's actual purpose is so limited even I can't find any reason to use it. This is coming from someone who supports maxing skills with niche uses that don't necessarily come into play in the best training spots, like Inferno for Rangers and Poison Breath for F/P Wizards, because I try to maximize versatility in my characters. There is one situation where I have actually been impressed with Grenade, and that was when I dropped a Grenade in the pit in the first Gryphon map to kill all the turkeys that had collected in the spot that teleports you one map back. LOL.
- Grenade's niche use, which is basically sniping hard to reach targets, becomes completely replaced by Air Strike in 4th job. Maybe even Gaviota in 3rd job, but I'm not sure on its range as I don't have it yet.
- Corsairs only have one buff to keep up (Booster, not counting MW), which is the fewest of any class in the game, but 90 seconds is a lot to give up.
- You can have just as much fun messing around with a level 11 Grenade. You get 11 Grenade just by not putting any points back into 1st job (and you can manage that just by not putting any into Flash Fists or more than 11 Somersault Kick, which are both fine where they are). That rules out maxing Grenade because it's cool.
- Grenade's actual purpose is so limited even I can't find any reason to use it. This is coming from someone who supports maxing skills with niche uses that don't necessarily come into play in the best training spots, like Inferno for Rangers and Poison Breath for F/P Wizards, because I try to maximize versatility in my characters. There is one situation where I have actually been impressed with Grenade, and that was when I dropped a Grenade in the pit in the first Gryphon map to kill all the turkeys that had collected in the spot that teleports you one map back. LOL.
- Grenade's niche use, which is basically sniping hard to reach targets, becomes completely replaced by Air Strike in 4th job. Maybe even Gaviota in 3rd job, but I'm not sure on its range as I don't have it yet.
- Corsairs only have one buff to keep up (Booster, not counting MW), which is the fewest of any class in the game, but 90 seconds is a lot to give up.