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No, unless someone wants to do weekly price checks on various items and analysis of the best use of your mesos for every server or something ridiculous like that. I choose to balance the scrolling on equips across classes because it's much easier and because it's fair. This method shows how strong each class is supposed to be. You could make a BW Pally outdamage a Sword Pally with enough funds but that doesn't make BWs better weapons. Prices change constantly as drop tables change and as we have Gach box events and new drops from PQs. People don't come into the game with a level 200 of whichever class they please and a certain amount of money to spend, so it's a pretty moot comparison, anyway. I refuse to do it the way Senyain did it.

With all due respect, I'd have to say that makes your comparison blatantly biased, particularly in favor of NLs. But that's what I've come to expect from a good part of the MS community. Balancing scrolling on equips is inherently an un"fair" comparison... it's not even close to fair, it's just easy. As for a BW Paladin or a sword Paladin with equal spending, if the BW Paladin is outdamaging the sword Paladin then maybe it *is* true that at that level of funding the BW would win (though I can guarantee you would not get that result - proper swords are too much faster). A person who comes into the game that chooses to play a certain job won't have the same level of scrolling on equips no matter what. Even with the shifts in prices due to boxes there have been some universal trends, and one of them is that for instance, if you start the game with a character, unfunded or funded is moot, you are not going to afford a +3 30%, +4 60% claw on a Night Lord yet only also afford a +3 30%, +4 60% sword on a Hero or Paladin with the same gameplay. Quite honestly your thread is a more accurate comparison of godly-funded thieves to poorly-funded everyone else.

Additionally, granting NLs one of their strongest stars and Shadowers a khanjar, but granting warriors only a normal speed 2h and a 1h with no attack shield, is automatically a joke. If I didn't know better I'd say you had an agenda to pursue, what with just how badly unbalanced this comparison is.