Ranylyn Wrote:Logic to all 4th job skills: 99999 damage is the max per hit with a few exceptions. Therefore, skills that hit multiple times are always the best in the end because 2 hits of 50000 = 100000 damage from one skill, which the powerful single strike 99999 is unable to attain. This is the logic people use in saying Spear DK > PADK, this is the logic people use when they say NL > Archmage, etc. Simple fact of the matter is that ultimately, it comes down to what hits more than once.
Spear vs. PA is honestly more a matter of Berserk - it's very difficult to find maps where you can run Fury on mobs of 4-6 while keeping under the 35% HP but still give good exp, and on smaller mobs (1-3) Crusher does more damage than Fury can.
If there were a monster like Himes (hp/exp/spawnwise) but only did about 1k damage, then they would suit PA DKs a whole lot better. It's not easy avoiding monster damage when you're trying to keep Berserk up, the best way to do it is to be killing the monsters in 2 hits without running into them, and that doesn't fit well with the idea of mobbing (as at Himes - you run to the ends of the map collecting monsters, kill them in a group)
The damage cap is definitely a concern for Hero/Paladin, though - Panic and Blast (especially with Apples) are hitting the 100k damage cap a high percentage of the time, and that excessive damage is wasted. From mid 14x, most Paladins with maxed Blast can hit 100k with an Apple, and it just goes from there. Panic does about 50% more than Blast (with Advanced Combo), so it happens even earlier.