[1.2.270] New Weapon Types - New PQ - stronger Evan

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Those are fire weak. Even still, a 150k crit with SE on fire-weak with a skill that's like 240ish power weaker than Meteo is pretty good. Scratch that - all of what I said + the fact that's all done without a fire wand = amazing damage.



I'm literally crying looking at that screenie at 1:11-1:12. That's a combined 127k hit - FROM A MAGICIAN. I hit a 116k crit with Paralyze on a poison-weak mob with Echo, SE, a Banana Graham Pie, and a Poison Wand - at Lv. 200. This Evan hit 127k combined with SE using an elementally neutral skill and, as far as we're aware, no other crazy buffs. I'm SO happy to see this kind of single target damage from Magicians you have no idea. The fact that this class can mob fast enough to be a great training class, has extremely competitive and impressive single target DPS, and have a plethora of useful party skills, makes this, in the end, an amazing representation of Magic-based classes in an RPG.

Only thing we have yet to see is Blaze for comparison, but considering passive Mage crits are working (and SE clearly gives an amazing boost), I'm thinking Illusion just might edge out as the better of the two single target skills. Though throw Ewand5 into the mix and they'll be really close.

Waiting for comparison as well.

Only reason illusion would come out on top at this point though is because the 10 base attack boost that both skills got benefits illusion way more than blaze.

True that. And because, again, crits work more often with multi-hit skills, its DPS might come out on top.

But yeah...Ele wands really do add a ton of damage, and Blaze is immensely stronger than Illusion in terms of base power, so who knows. Of course speed is also a factor too, and I think Blaze is faster, so =/. We'll see!

Oh, and little fun thing too: in the first, what, 30 seconds or so of the video, you can see the Evan use their monster rider to ride their Dragon familiar. So sexy .

Eh. I dunno about crits. It's different for mages than weapon classes. The fact that blaze has really high base attack means that the multiplicative attribute of their crits gives them a ridiculous boost. 100k turns to 170k...

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Why do i feel i'm just stating the obvious when i tell you that though? :/

What i don't get is why they didn't allow us to just ride it constantly and let us use all of our skills while on the dragon. >_> I would have made it just for that.

Illusion may be slower, but don't forget when they crit, they CRIT. I am now awaiting a MP Zerked Evan with an elemental wand. Maybe add an Apple for good measures. 20 second Dark Fog for 1600 MP per cast? YES PLEASE.

Hmmmm, now I need to find a decent Fire E-wand.

Hm. I feel like I need to clear up some things.

1) Blaze was barely improved in this update, with only 10 more base attack (320->330) and no speed change.
2) The more hits = crittability issue only applies to weapon classes, as has been stated; with mages, critical affects everything equally. Therefore, Illusion does not crit better than Blaze. It's true that there will be more crits with Illusion, if you're just counting them, but when Blaze does crit, it crits hard. Look at the Flame Wheel numbers; they'll be slightly higher than that.
3) There is most likely no 10 base attack boost, according to JoeTang's investigation of the Korean characters used to represent "basic attack" and "magic attack".

Keeping this in mind, here's your comparison.

Critical Magic is 1 + 0.25 * 0.7 = 1.175x multiplier
SE alone is 1 + 0.15 * 0.4 = 1.06x multiplier
CM + SE is 1 + 0.4 * 1.1 = 1.44x multiplier

Base Attack * Amp * Critical / (Cast time * Booster coefficient) = final total power

Paralyze: 210 * 1.4 * 1 / (0.8 * 14/16) = 420.0 BA/sec

Illusion: (130 * 4) * 1.35 * 1.175 / (2.01 * 13/16) = 505.1 BA/sec
Blaze: 330 * 1.35 * 1.175 / (1.32 * 13/16) = 488.1 BA/sec
Blaze + Ewand Fire: 488.1 * 1.25 = 610.0 BA/sec

Paralyze + SE: 210 * 1.4 * 1.06 / (0.8 * 14/16) = 445.2 BA/sec
Illusion + SE: (130 * 4) * 1.35 * 1.44 / (2.01 * 13/16) = 619.0 BA/sec
Blaze + SE: 330 * 1.35 * 1.44 / (1.32 * 13/16) = 598.2 BA/sec
Blaze + SE + Ewand Fire: 598.2 * 1.25 = 747.7 BA/sec