2010-12-09, 01:36 AM
FA has been fairly active for me when mobbing. It's nice to have it as an attack with my Explorer Critical Ring too. I actually had Final Attack today perform the assuming impossible hit. An actual Instant-Death Strike. Now that's what I call a real Final Attack. It's worth building though as it can be that last hit that kills a monster, and it does get affected by elemental charges apparently so it can do better than 150% damage or it can activate special effects like Instant-Death at random.
I don't know about you Joe, but even if FA isn't perfect, the extra hits and damage that has the possibility of occurring and even reoccurring make it worth it. It's also funny to see Rush get an extra zap at the end of the lunge attack as well.
I actually placed some points into Ground Shock to try it out... and I'm less than impressed as it really doesn't strike vertically any better than other skills I have to do, plus the range somehow isn't too good either as it was actually not even hitting a few times on monsters that should have been in range of it. Not only that it was kind of slow and some of the faster monsters I tried it on were quick enough to move away before the initial strike could occur. Slash Blast and Power Strike were a bit faster to the hitting than GS too and the damage seems no better really. It's seemingly better to actually stick to SB and PS w/ FA and the get CB at 3rd job to replace them both till you get ACB and Blast later on.
I don't know about you Joe, but even if FA isn't perfect, the extra hits and damage that has the possibility of occurring and even reoccurring make it worth it. It's also funny to see Rush get an extra zap at the end of the lunge attack as well.
I actually placed some points into Ground Shock to try it out... and I'm less than impressed as it really doesn't strike vertically any better than other skills I have to do, plus the range somehow isn't too good either as it was actually not even hitting a few times on monsters that should have been in range of it. Not only that it was kind of slow and some of the faster monsters I tried it on were quick enough to move away before the initial strike could occur. Slash Blast and Power Strike were a bit faster to the hitting than GS too and the damage seems no better really. It's seemingly better to actually stick to SB and PS w/ FA and the get CB at 3rd job to replace them both till you get ACB and Blast later on.