ShiKage Wrote:For one... Heroes shouldn't be above Marksmen. They weren't changed AT ALL there. Marksmen still do higher DPS than Heroes. Secondly, the changes are still coming. Just wait... Also, Marksmen still do a higher DPS than Shadowers... Shadowers still suck compared to most classes on single targets.
Marksman's 1288%/s vs Hero's 1431%/s single target vs Bow Master's 1933%/s
Snipe is limited by the fact you can only effectively use it on a new monster; therefore, you can't just spam it every five seconds.
Secondly, the server delay causes the cool down to stretch to at least 7 seconds.
DualReaver Wrote:I don't get why a MM can't put Snipe on a quickslot key, allowing you to see the cooldown, since watching a skill load while attacking stuff is not that hard, in practice. I'm only bringing this up cause one guy said that it's hard to pull it off unles you're watching it, which I don't think is very hard to do.
Third, your cool down can finish in the middle or even the beginning (first ms) of another attack and it is impossible to predict when it will happen to avoid this unless you want to waste an attack or fourteen waiting for the last "1 second bar" on your cooldown counter to disappear. Yes, I have waited more than 20 seconds for a 10 second cool down to finish actually cooling down (no, not on a Marksmen, but the same effect would occur).
Fun fact: Did you know a Hero's 3 Mob Brandish does more DPS than a Marksman's Full Charged 5 Mob Pierce?
The main complaint has always been that Marksmen get shafted compared to Bow Masters. They do almost everything the exact same way, except someone decided Marksmen would get to Freeze Monsters, and Bow Masters would get to deal great damage.
So far, these balance changes seem to provide nothing significantly important to Marksmen. The added OHKO on Freeze is interesting. 11.5% doesn't seem like a lot, but it will still improve training efficiency. Just not by a lot.
On the contrary, Bow Masters got a significant boost to their lolprimary mob skill.
@Kaida: The primary DPS skill for Shadower is Boomerang Step + Assassinate, followed by Boomerang Step + Savage Blow. Overall speed should be Boomerang Step Delay + the second skill's attack speed from LazyBui's DPS chart. Assassinate should have no charge or they risk the chance of dying in Dark Sight, concerning bossing. Otherwise, a Shadower would charge Assassinate as long as he can while moving from mob to mob if he really wants to use it for training, which is a completely different aspect from DPS.