2011-03-25, 06:39 AM
Atuan Wrote:What. Only the stone golems in LHC resist damn near everything. ToT past memory is weak to the elements. Gigs are weak to lit. The dragon turtles to their elements. Rexton weak to lit. Brexton weak to Ice. Bains to ice. Bearwolves weak to fire.
Plenty of weakness to go around on the training mobs.
Not "really, really weak", but they can't have Divine Shield, Guardian, Shield Mastery and all of the damage to boot. I feel the warriors will eventually become "balanced" by having the user weigh their options. Paladins for ridiculous survivability. Drks for great utility. Heroes for rape.
Yeah but Paladins need something that's Holy weak to be able to be almost on par with Dark Knights/Heroes.
Saying that survivability balances damage in a game that plays like maple is stupid, and I'm sure you're aware of it.
Surviving is useless in party play because chances are you can just have a bishop tape down the heal key and have an Aran/Battle Mage cast their party defense buffs and any class pretty much doesn't have to worry. Paladin's defense is basically a solo gimmick that doesn't benefit anyone. What good is a Paladin if the rest of the party dies?
And they're pretty much the same as everyone else when it comes to magic tanking. Divine Shield doesn't block magic properly, Guardian only works with touch contact, shield mastery requires a shield equipped, so you sacrifice even more damage (and x2 of a paladin's base magic defense is...still crap) for a stat that still has a bad formula.
Until they get some skill that can makes everyone else take 50% less damage or something, there's really no way damage can balance with surviving. The game of maple with all its emphasis on damage is to kill something before it can even hit you.
Also, Mechanics have an nearly infinite Divine Shield-like guard that deflects physical and magical attacks, good physical/magic defense boosts and RANGED damage that beats everyone's ass with a spiked club.
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