2010-08-15, 02:57 PM
McAwesomesauce Wrote:Pirates are the only class that need HB?Come on, obviously wasn't referring to pirates. I forget pirates exist except when crappy pirate gear is clogging up my inventory instead of literally any other class's gear that i could use. The skills are only available on level 70+ gear, according to this, and archers only have pants up to 40. But i suppose gunslingers need it as well, and what do you know, they can't get it. SE only coming on level 120 gear, when all archers have SE at that point, the exception being a wind archer but no one is going to play a 120 wind archer.
*sigh* it just seems as though everything KMS does lately is an extra "pineapple you" to archers. Our most valuable skill is up for grabs for anyone, but we can't get most of theirs, and even the ones we could get are far less useful by comparison. Haste for SE? please. When you add this in with Thorns and the ridiculous alterations to the acc, avoid and critical formulas in Big Bang they basically beat the pomegranate out of us and kicked us back to the bottom of the stack. Granted these skills aren't exactly easy to get without spending hundreds on cubes, but the point remains.
Basically three things that made me want to play an archer:
1. The ability to hit any monster (No longer true post BB since the only crucial factor in accuracy is level, rendering the accuracy stat worthless)
2. Critical hits for nice damage (Criticals in KMS are far, far weaker than they are prior to BB. To the point where my wild hunter occasionally hits criticals that are lower than non-criticals in the same attack.)
3. Eventual 90% Mastery reduces the weak hits which plague us through the prior 120 levels. (Mastery is also really wonky after big bang, and the rate is dropped off as well from 90 to 70)
I also liked playing Aran and Evan, who have the exact same abilities (high mastery and criticals). Now all 3 of them get severely weakened in big bang. It's very de-motivating.
anyway back onto the point, only warriors and some thieves wear top + bottom sets at high levels, and they're the ones who need survivability bonuses the least. Putting HB on pants was a moronic thing to do.
And for the record Evan dragon gear can't have potential, so that can't be the mystery group.