2013-04-18, 04:48 PM
MetaSeraphim Wrote:I am sorry but no, there was no sacifice made for Dark Impale, there was no dumbing down of Dark Knights for Dark Impale.
Before Dark Impale it was "When in doubt, spam Crusher." Fury was only useful in like 1 - 3 situations tops.
You go to one map that is good for Crusher and you spam it, you go to one map that is good for Fury and you spam it, you go to any map now and spam Dark Impale, guess what, there isn't a difference between the three.
At no point where Dark Knights better than they are now, at no point where they ever dumbed down (Except for the Berserk change but Berserk was retarded in the first place, it would have been better if there was only certain skills you could use while in Berserk mode instead of just improving your overall damage), at no point did Dark Knights take more skill to play than they do now.
Dark Knights are the only class in the game that have managed to stay consistently consistent in what they are and what they do.
when i tried empress back then, it required me to use everything in my arsenal, sacrifice on empress herself, fury when she summoned the mobs, fury when she summoned the knights, and then crusher when some of the knights had died.
same for c/zakum, fury was used whenever he summoned to keep the mobs at bay along with roar, fury with the arms, and sacrifice on the body. same for HT. while training in LHC you had to alternate fury and crusher too. we had skills that we used depending on the circumstance. now no matter the circumstance, spamming impale is better. buster sucks so hard it isn't even worth putting a point in third job.
using berzerk back then certainly required more skill, i enjoyed having to pay attention to it and thinking "i can take another hit after which i'll have to pot, i could also use this other pot now to remain within berzerk range. that's probably my love for quick math however, but it wasn't as easy as "spam impale and don't hit DR" that we have now. i find both of these changes as dumbing down the class.
i may not be a champion MMO'er or anything of the sort, but you shouldn't have all your attacking skills become 100% obsolete.
and i consider losing achilles a "sacrifice" even with my nutjob 4 second invincibility after every hit, i've still had bullshit deaths that could have been avoided if i had achilles.