Opinions on Evan

Hahaha very funny. The only skill that Evans possess capable of OHKOing everything worth killing (ex. training at Skeles, etc.) is Dark Fog, which has a long enough cooldown to make it a near-useless training skill. The other mobbing skills an Evan has max out, if I remember correctly, with Flame Wheel at 300 base attack, an attack equal to an I/Ls max Ifrit.

So tell me: how many I/Ls do you know capable of OHKOing Skeles with Ifrit?

Actually, their strongest move is "Blaze", which is 320 Basic Attack and attacks 6 monsters. In reality, it is 340 base attack, because of Soul Dragon that they get in 1st Mastery. They also get AMP from the 7th Mastery, which is 135%. The skill, according to Fiel's thread, is supposed to work like chain-lightning.

The difference with Ifrit is that it's completely detached from your character: it doesn't get AMP nor a boost from elemental weapons.

Let's compare Blaze to an ultimate:

Blizzard: 570 base attack, 140% Amp, 125% Elemental
Blaze: 320+20 base attack, 135% Amp, 125% Elemental

With the stats that Bribery posted, that means with 20 MW and level 150, that particular mage will have 1256 magic and 997 INT total, which is pretty good to some extent.

Blizzard: 79977 - 99188
Blaze: 46001-57051

Blizzard at level 200: 111770-135187
Blaze at level 200: 64289-77758

So maybe I was wrong about 1HKOing. But they can definitely 2HKO, and then they won't have that problem that was shown in that video with the wyverns.

And what's the final caveat to your comment? If an Evan is reduced to something that attacks slowly, but can ohko things with its mobbing attacks, all you have created is a weaker single target DPS ArchMage with a few good party skills. In other words, you really haven't improved much.

You're forgetting other skills, like ice breath, which freezes things directly in front of the Evan, and Dragon Thrust, which knocks back things (I'm thinking Dragon Breath on a Bowmaster.)

It would make their gameplay a lot like a corsair's.