2010-11-28, 05:52 AM
You are right Pol. As always a warrior is an up close and personal in your face fighter. As stated, Ground Smash is just like that half baked Soul Blade skill for Dawn Warriors.
Besides... after Big Bang you will need every single 2nd job buff up skill just like you've needed them before. As stated, it's a throw away skill for excess SP. It won't have that great a usage. Soul Blade has gotten me killed numerous times. It's useful when you have something a distance back, but seriously, it's worthless to a warrior to be ranged for only a few levels.
Think carefully, a Page is going to need maxed Mastery, Threaten, Booster, Fundamentals, and Power Guard. Most of the time you will be going 1 vs 1 with monsters granted so Power Strike will need maxing out. Even then in 1st job you will want to mob kill faster so guess what? Slash Blast will need maxing. If you even build Ground Smash at all you cripple two or more skills for minimal gain that's entirely temporary. Plus, think carefully on this as well:
Power Strike with Fundamentals will do 380% damage to a single target. That's still a useful 3rd job skill and better than Charged Blow in certain situations. Slash Blast too will be useful as well at 250% damage with Fundamentals maxed hitting more targets and getting extra hits from Final Attack. In fact both will while Ground Strike is still only limited to 300% damage and hitting only 3 monsters a single time.
You build Ground Smash as a primary skill and you will find it to be less than what you've hoped from it. Soul Blade, as I stated, got me in more trouble than it saved me. The range was nice, but in all, it was not as useful as it was hyped to be.
Besides... after Big Bang you will need every single 2nd job buff up skill just like you've needed them before. As stated, it's a throw away skill for excess SP. It won't have that great a usage. Soul Blade has gotten me killed numerous times. It's useful when you have something a distance back, but seriously, it's worthless to a warrior to be ranged for only a few levels.
Think carefully, a Page is going to need maxed Mastery, Threaten, Booster, Fundamentals, and Power Guard. Most of the time you will be going 1 vs 1 with monsters granted so Power Strike will need maxing out. Even then in 1st job you will want to mob kill faster so guess what? Slash Blast will need maxing. If you even build Ground Smash at all you cripple two or more skills for minimal gain that's entirely temporary. Plus, think carefully on this as well:
Power Strike with Fundamentals will do 380% damage to a single target. That's still a useful 3rd job skill and better than Charged Blow in certain situations. Slash Blast too will be useful as well at 250% damage with Fundamentals maxed hitting more targets and getting extra hits from Final Attack. In fact both will while Ground Strike is still only limited to 300% damage and hitting only 3 monsters a single time.
You build Ground Smash as a primary skill and you will find it to be less than what you've hoped from it. Soul Blade, as I stated, got me in more trouble than it saved me. The range was nice, but in all, it was not as useful as it was hyped to be.