2013-06-27, 03:17 PM
All these revamps for NL's still look half-assed, in my opinion, and never look complete at all.
We're currently lacking in some form of vertical mobility, but the biggest concern right now is two things: useless skills, and survivability. None have really been completely addressed, besides making Taunt a viable 4th job mobber, and ETSH giving off 25% Total Damage. We still have zero Evasion Rate, no damage reduction, and no defensive multiplying skills compared to the rest of the Thieves.
Some of the useless skills I think that should be removed, or manipulated in some way:
-Nimble Body (could add Evasion Rate to it like Sidestep)
-Wind Talisman (lower the delay, increase the range of knockback, make it affect 8+ mobs)
-Dark Flare (reflection damage needs to work when you actually evade, and more effects should be added like damage reduction, Stance or Evasion Rate because we're Thieves after all)
-Shadow Web (the binding effect should work on bosses, but it doesn't, and only the DoT is somewhat effective when a boss is using Cancel W.Attack similar to Ninja Ambush)
-TT (it's not really needed in 3rd job because you don't regularly boss, and we easily breeze through the 40 levels with our mobbing skills)
-Sudden Raid (an Ultimate that doesn't fit the play style of NL's, most high levels would only use it for aggro purposes, waste of 30 SP, the damage and DoT isn't great when you factor in the slow delay, and it only really beats out the new Taunt on 8+ mobs if you're willing to use it every 30 seconds)
-Purge Area (needs a bigger hit-box range, effects on bosses should be almost instantaneous)
We're currently lacking in some form of vertical mobility, but the biggest concern right now is two things: useless skills, and survivability. None have really been completely addressed, besides making Taunt a viable 4th job mobber, and ETSH giving off 25% Total Damage. We still have zero Evasion Rate, no damage reduction, and no defensive multiplying skills compared to the rest of the Thieves.
Some of the useless skills I think that should be removed, or manipulated in some way:
-Nimble Body (could add Evasion Rate to it like Sidestep)
-Wind Talisman (lower the delay, increase the range of knockback, make it affect 8+ mobs)
-Dark Flare (reflection damage needs to work when you actually evade, and more effects should be added like damage reduction, Stance or Evasion Rate because we're Thieves after all)
-Shadow Web (the binding effect should work on bosses, but it doesn't, and only the DoT is somewhat effective when a boss is using Cancel W.Attack similar to Ninja Ambush)
-TT (it's not really needed in 3rd job because you don't regularly boss, and we easily breeze through the 40 levels with our mobbing skills)
-Sudden Raid (an Ultimate that doesn't fit the play style of NL's, most high levels would only use it for aggro purposes, waste of 30 SP, the damage and DoT isn't great when you factor in the slow delay, and it only really beats out the new Taunt on 8+ mobs if you're willing to use it every 30 seconds)
-Purge Area (needs a bigger hit-box range, effects on bosses should be almost instantaneous)