2010-01-07, 01:23 PM
Stereo Wrote:Combo Barrier: 240 second party buff
Threaten: 80 second monster buff, fails 50% of the time
There are plenty of reasons why targeting monsters is inferior to targeting players. Threaten reaches its most useful on a boss that only does physical attacks, and multiple full parties are attacking. Combo Barrier is equally useful anywhere you can get the combos.
Helps rushers a ton if the touch damage is ludicriously higher than magic attacks, and rushing is needed for the fight. An easy example is Scarlion. With a 7.5-7.7k touch attacks and only ~3-2k ranged attacks. It helps Arans and Buccaneers in rushing Scarlion without needing to be 14x-15x just so they can take a hit without dying.