2011-04-14, 04:39 PM
Sorien Wrote:Ok, I'm not going to bother quoting all of the comments that I want to reply to as there are just too many of them at this point. Instead I'll just give a generalized post about why I agree with Sarah in this situation.
While it is indeed true that over time, the damage difference between multi-hit and single-hit skills will even out, it is also true that the % miss rate doesn't always work out exactly as a calculator would lead people to believe.
If, for example, I were to go on my Paladin and fight a monster I could kill in one hit using ACB, but I had a 50% miss rate for some odd reason, then theoretically I would be able to kill that monster in 2 hits if I miss on my first attack; however, that 50% miss rate is also present in the second attack, and then the third as well. I have missed using single-hit skills up to 5 times in a row on monsters that are only 2 levels above me, and have thus wasted a large amount of time, mp, and hp trying to kill a monster that could have been dead much earlier. If I had been using Blast at the time, which hits multiple times, then there's a good chance I could have killed that monster sooner (not to mention Blast's instant kill rate, but I'm ignoring that in this particular case).
Yes, when a monster has massive hp, multi-hit and single-hit even out after a while, but that % miss rate can be a pain in the ass sometimes and force single-hit skills to be utterly worthless at times. That is not to say that I think single-hit skills are worthless, but I do think that the current accuracy formula makes single-hit attacks far more annoying to use when a monster is above the player's level.
This will be the first and last time I will comment on this argument about multi-hit vs single-hit. Frankly I think both sides need to lay off, especially since each party is beginning to sink to petty insults and neither party has shown a desire to let up any time soon.
Glad someone gets the general point of both sides... I agree that the lack of tact shown was getting rediculous.
Anyways, whats the new party bonus system now? i see a lot more mobs here with it, yet the patch notes says it was getting taken away?