2009-12-13, 10:38 PM
Takebacker Wrote:4th job i might level with you about at this point, but there's no way in hell you're going to convince me that arans are not:
A) The strongest mobbers in 1st and 2nd job.
B) The strongest overall class in 3rd job.
Without numbers of course.
No numbers because I really don't feel like doing this right now, but just going from experience - all of my low level characters have about the same funding because I have a lot of common equips that I throw on them. My CB outdamaged the pineapple out of my Aran at level 50. Consistent 4k+ SBs; my Aran only hits 4k+ on the third swing. For mobbing Combo Smash has ridiculous potential, but after training with it for 5 levels now I've realized that it really doesn't make a huge difference in practice, or at least it won't until I get the rush skill. That's at what, 6x? For now I hardly kill faster than my Fighter did.
Going a bit out of order here - 1st job Warriors outdamage Arans. Slash Blast is 130% to 6 monsters. If you're training on something like Mutaes, you're gonna be hitting 6 monsters a lot. No comparison. Plus you can get by with just single target damage in 1st job - claw rogues and mages train about as fast. 1st job isn't very balanced anyway; just look at archers and gunslingers.
As for third job, I dunno yet. I have zero experience on the matter. My hunch is that DKs would still be about as strong, though even if Arans are weaker than DKs I guess that still makes them the 2nd most powerful 3rd job class. I'm not even gonna consider Cygnus Knights here, although they're probably on the same level as that.