2013-07-06, 12:58 PM
EthanB Wrote:After 24/03, Merc and Phantom continued to receive major buffs that significantly affect 1v1 DPS:
Merc:
Advanced Final Attack (4th): Damage increased to 240% (which greatly increases DPS of Ishtar Ring).
Unicorn Spike (3rd): debuff will no longer be removed after a certain number of hits, it will stay for its entire duration (meaning Ishtar Ring damage +10%)
Elvish Blessing (Hyper): duration has been increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds (now 2/3 of time weapon attack +80)
Defense Break: new effects of 30% max critical damage and 15% boss damage have been added (enough said)
Lightning Edge: new effect has been added where when used on a boss, a debuff will be applied for 10 seconds that increases Ring of Ishtars damage by 20% and ignores the bosss touch damage
Phantom:
Acute Sense (3rd): critical chance has been increased from 30% to 35%
Pray of Aria (4th): damage boost has been increased from 20% to 30%
I believe these will change the positions of these two jobs in your chart drastically. Merc DPS should increases around 50%, helping her to climb up at least 20 steps. Maybe you can consider to update the chart.
I'm pretty sure that the %s in the chart at the moment already apply all of those changes except the Defense Break and Lightning Edge changes for Mercedes. For the current Mercedes % (after those two previously mentioned chnages), just check out the first post in the Archer %/s thread. Phantom %s already account for the Acute Sense and Pray of Aria buff. Now Phantoms need to be tested to find out which skills are ideal to steal after the RED Explorer Revamp, which will take some time to figure out which skills can be stolen and which skills are ideal for %/s.

