Devil Wrote:Isn't brandish damage for KB counted 2 hits as 1 or are those counted as 2 hits? Maybe an insane powerfull here could do 2x 70k with brandish and knock it back?
Still afaik, Assassinate is the only attack that goes beyond the 140k damage for 1x KB, but still... it won't keep him pinned... unless you have about 20 Shadowers present, which also won't happen, since there are too few...
Also even when they would lift the damage cap (which is coded in maplestory.exe - some private servers have it removed already) there are only a few attacks that could theoretically pass the 140k damage barrier:
- Panic (With max Advanced Combo)
- Assassinate (Stated before)
- Blast (With Thunder Charge)
- Heaven's Hammer (But too slow because of cooldown - Or is this a Holy Attack?)
- Piercing Arrow (But that would require to hit some summons first)
- Sniping (Max level "only" has a 10 second cooldown)
(I don't know if I have missed any, but I didn't think so)
My guess that it's just not possible to keep Strong Pink Bean pinned all the time and only the strong characters will survive him... Archers and Nightlords have just too low HP to fight it. Keep in mind that a fight will take 2~4 hours with all that HP, and Resurrection's cooldown is just too slow to keep the dieing ranged low HP characters alive all the time...
Maybe Nexon just decided that Pink Bean wasn't meant for ranged characters to play a mayor role in, just like they can't survive Tonosoma... Afterall, ranged characters have Horntail already... Maybe Nexon wanted to give Magicians and other less popular classes a bigger role in bossing, since they're left out in Horntail...
KB only counts as each separate number. And about the mage role, yeah, I find that nice... But mages can still get the horntail pendant if they want, can't they?
Ranged can't even have a chance, if they, you know, DIE EPICLY. If there's a waiting room, and you can come back from the dead, np.
Something like a timer in the death room could be interesting... that way, resurect would be still useful.