4th job Single Target DPS

Just curious, who do you think belongs there?

No class should really be the bottom of the DPS, aside from, of course, Bishops, who are the supportive class. But to have one class more than 2x more powerful than another DPS-dealing class is just f'ucking retarded. Seriously...? -.-


I wouldn't be so upset about being the single lowest DPS class in the game (of course with the exception of Bishops, but they're a special case) if it weren't for the fact that not only are we outshined by just about everyone in training, but we have nothing special about our class anymore. What do we have? A skill that has a miniscule chance to give a miniscule increase in experience? So what? If we can't even kill monsters, not bosses... MONSTERS as fast as the rest of the classes, what's the point in not being able to catch up in experience per hour even with the experience buff?

-We're boring
-We suck at training in comparison to other classes
-Our play style is probably one of the worst in the game... Run and Dragon Strike while trying to get hit so we could have chance of gaining an insignificant amount of damage and barely even killing fast enough to level once with your sanity in tact. Sure, it's not a CONSTANT spam of a single skill, like some classes, but using a variety will only make our horrible experience gain worse.
-We suck the worst at bossing, by quite a big gap.
-We're slow... Just plain slow.



What GOOD do we have? That we look "cool" (which is a matter of perspective) in a transformed state? That we're the only class who can fight bare-fisted (except, now we don't even have a way to even kill anything without a knuckle...)?

Our specialty, which was helping certain DPS classes boost their slow attacking speed was out-shined by Battle Mages, a class with much better support and damage, and then all we have left is Time Leap... No one ever even uses this, with the availability of Wheels from the cash shop AND the huge decrease in damage dealt by monsters and bosses. There's absolutely no point in playing the Viper class anymore, except for the case of those who were stuck playing one in the first place with nothing else to hop to without training a new character to an equal or higher level, or just to be one of the rarest classes in the game.





Of course, my argument only works in the case of those of us who can't shell out hundreds of dollars a week for a high chance at wasting money on potential gear, or those of us who can't merchant the hell out of the economy and make billions of mesos a day to hope to afford the cubed items other people have made.