2010-07-05, 02:47 PM
Herborist Wrote:Using steal during 2nd job is faster than using savage blow, even if only for CPQ. Disregarding a strong mob skill just because it becomes obsolete in the future is poor logic. As for training speeds, it's been long known that bandits are the slowest 2nd job trainers. But you don't have to agree with me, I've started more than my fair share of bandits just to quit them because savage blowing my way to 70 is ridiculous.
Also, I'd like to add that you're disregarding steal in favor of savage blow because it does more damage despite hitting fewer targets, but you won't disregard BoT and steal in favor of boomerang step even though it does more damage but hits fewer targets. In case that was too cryptic, your dogma is self-contradictory and you're hypocrites.
It's not about targets and numbers, it's about what replaces what. Getting BStep does not mean you'll never use BoT again. Getting BoT (and maybe ME) means you'll never use Steal again. Bandits are not the slowest 2nd job trainers at all; their training speed isn't spectacular but it certainly doesn't suck. Hitting one target for 480% damage exceeds the total damage output of many other classes on mobs of 3-4 (I/L mages, Clerics, Gunslingers), and that's under the favorable assumption that you constantly have mobs to hit (which you don't, not even in CPQ once you're past level 43ish, and certainly not in your average training spot). Of course I'm using comparisons based on the game we're currently playing, but I think the point still stands. I would NOT leave a buff I'm going to be using forever at 110 seconds when I could max it at the cost of skipping a mob skill that will only help me for a short while.
Edit: Third job is a MUCH longer ride than second job. You have got to be kidding me about going through 2nd job with only 11 Steal being the same as going through 3rd job without BoT. You're forgetting the main reason we DON'T max Steal is so that we can max Booster. BoT can be maxed without skipping any important skills.