Cygnus impressions

How fast is Storm Breath, roughly? At max level, it should be significantly more powerful than Arrow Bomb, as well as Iron Arrow (mobs). Level 1 wouldn't be as great though, especially compared to Iron Arrow's power.

Level	Skill Distribution
30	+1 Wind Breath [1]
31	+3 Bow Mastery [3]
32	+2 Bow Mastery [5] +1 Bow Booster [1]
33	+3 Bow Booster [4]
34	+1 Bow Booster [5] +2 Soul Arrow [2]
35	+3 Bow Mastery [8]
36	+3 Bow Mastery [11]
37	+3 Bow Mastery [14]
38	+3 Bow Mastery [17]
39	+2 Bow Mastery [19] +1 Wind Breath [2]
40	+3 Wind Breath [5]
41	+3 Wind Breath [8]
42	+3 Wind Breath [11]
43	+3 Wind Breath [14]
44	+3 Wind Breath [17]
45	+3 Wind Breath [20]
46	+3 Wind Walk [3]
47	+3 Wind Walk [6]
48	+3 Wind Walk [9]
49	+1 Wind Walk [10] +2 Final Attack [2]
50	+3 Final Attack [5]

That build seem good? I still see Final Attack as fairly useless early on. Especially in CPQ seeing as how you get a fairly strong Mob Skill.

Alternatively, it would be to place Final Attack after 19 Bow Mastery and moving everything down a bit. Since they have spare points in second, and FA is active, they could easily spare the points to max it for faster single target.

Their FA is meh... I'm not even planning on getting it. I got some FA on my bowmaster and it's probably the only thing I regret doing. I really hate it, and while some of the annoyances are removed by having it castable, I don't see myself casting it. My build is similar to that, except instead of FA I have been working on Booster, and my SA is at 6. This is the length I'm used to on my BM so I'm going to finish up Wind Walk (which is at 4) before going back to it.

See, while Storm Breath doesn't consume arrows, how this usually works is you hit 2-3 monsters with it, knock them back, then pick up more as you're going across the map. What this really means is that the first 5 usually die and leave you with one, which you'd finish off with DS. The thing is when you're spamming Storm Breath and don't need SA on, it'll tend to expire right when you need it.

The real issue with it, versus Bomb or IA, is that it's got such a short range, and it doesn't bend. It goes out as a projectile about as tall as your character and doesn't hit any below or above that, so you can't snipe with it. When I was looking at a lot of the common 2nd job archer training spots, they usually involve sniping from a platform with bomb or IA; you just can't do that with Storm Breath. Also, because of Bomb's odd critical (Doubling damage instead of adding 100%) it's only equal. Granted it doesn't have the weak hit of bomb, but that's pretty much canceled out by the fact that you have to chase your monsters all over the map to finish them off.

This does open them up to a lot of melee-type training spots (I find myself falling back to the same places I trained my infighter many months ago) but really, who wants to be a melee archer? We picked Archers to be ranged.

going by this thought, it sounds like they should have made the cap more around 140 or 150. by doing that they could even think of stretching the job advance lengths, tho it does sound kind of nice that, if they are pretty strong at 120, they could just be used mainly for Zakum and Pap runs, just mainly for using it.

On another thought, the lower lvl cap may make it an alternative to those looking to get to the max lvl, even without a lvl cap at 120, 80 lvls in that high of a lvl range is a long process.

yeah I think 150 would have been nice. Most of the Cygnus jobs have less skills in their advancement than you'd expect (I have 7 beginner skills, 5 first job, and 7 second job. That's kinda messed up.) As it stands now the classes that could even survive going to Zak and HT are gonna be suffering from huge damage reductions due to the level difference, and since bossing is pretty much the only endgame content there's not much you can do as a 120 cygnus.


Oh, and if you guys want I can try to take a video but it wouldn't be very exciting. I'm not sure if the lag will allow it though so I'll have to test it first.