2010-12-28, 11:03 AM
Devil Wrote:Dark Flare has a cooldown, maxed = skill duration = cooldown, so you don't have a cooldown. Check Fiel's skill tables for it! Only max lvl has no cooldown!
Shield Mastery works now for ALL wdef and mdef (not only shield def anymore), and also doubles wdef / mdef buffs!!! It's very useful, in party with a DK with Iron Will, I have a total of 2800 wdef now, you really notice it!
If you have the NX, 2nd job resets aren't that expensive, so I would buy those 3 (tnx Nexon for not giving you a free SP reset...)
About 4th job: You can get Bstep to 21 (4 hits) and max Meso Mastery then, since it's only 10 SP's and the damage of Meso Explosion at bosses is THAT good (Note: all Lionheart Castle mobs are Boss flagged), and upgrades ALL your other meso skills aswell, I would max it after Bstep lvl21.
If you like Shield Mastery on your Paladin, you also like it on your Shad, you won't have the 8000+ wdef, but still around 2000 wdef, so it's nice I guess (remember with meso guard, you half all damage also! and with meso mastery maxed, you only take 40% of the total damage!).
And not maxing Assaulter? I don't know if you use Chakra a lot, but Chakra is only useful if you have lot's of HP (like me, I'm a blood Shad with 7500 HP without HB) since you can only use Chakra when you HP is below 50%.
Assaulter itself is an amazing skill, especially in combination with flash jump. It also ignores all wdef, it's very useful at bosses. I would rather max Assaulter then Chakra.
In my own build, I maxed Steal, and left BoT at lvl1, since I was already 4th job, and don't need BoT anymore for training. With leaving BoT at lvl 1, I could max everything else, but again, I'm already 4th job...
About the rest of the build, with Lionheart Castle coming, I would leave taunt at lvl0, it's not that useful anymore, since it doesn't work on bosses.
Also Assassinate full Charge + Shadow Partner = Amazing 1 hit damage (like 2 million damage at normal builds till 6 million when you have a LOT of potential equips, per 8 seconds charge). I would max it before Shadow Shifter. Also: Assassinate lvl1 doesn't get the bonus damage (250% on SPartner hit), you ONLY get that with 8 seconds charge (read: near maxed Assassinate).
[COLOR="Teal"]Okay I see. I'll dump the 17 points into dark flare for now I guess and max out shield mastery, and if I can ever get the 3 sp resets I need I'll transfer 3 points from steal over to dark flare.
As for 4th job:
21 BS
max meso mastery
continue maxing BS or MW?[/COLOR]