2011-04-15, 04:07 AM
At first I was all 
about losing Elemental Resistance, but I guess if it's partly folded into Baha (which makes no sense but whatever) and partly into Invincible then I'm kind of okay with it. Invincible going down to 20% is going to make it harder to tank tail at HT though. =/ And I'll really miss Holy Shield's passive resistance to seduce. It can be a butt-saver. EDIT: Ninja'd by post above - does Advanced Bless do this now??? o.O
Cautious thumbs up on the changes. I'm happy-surprised we got the new skill that increases damage as you keep hitting a monster... I'd assumed they'd make that archmage only. And I'll be the first to dance on Mana Reflection's grave. Good riddance!
Side note: We don't need an undispellable MG. Dispellable MG keeps things interesting when you're otherwise a tank class. We need bosses whose dispel skills give reasonable invinciframes. And who don't cast dispel and stun (or dispel and unavoidable sed) at the same time. >_>
Side note 2: It's impossible to tell if bishops are balanced as a support class until Nexon makes up its friggin mind about how party play is going to be structured. Are bishops doomed to always train slower than every other class from BB til the game closes down? 60/40 coming back takes us a long way toward being a playable class again, exp/hour-wise, but it's still always going to be slower than, you know, having decent attacks or holy-weak training areas so we can get majority exp once in a while.
Actually, I'm fine playing even a pure support role. I feel like my DPS is ridiculously low when my 135 battle mage outdamages my 183 bishop with worse equips, sure, but I can accept it. But something like a boost to the bishop's exp only, folded into HS, would make us at least able to level at a similar speed to all other classes. Because as a party class, I like leveling with my friends, and it gets annoying when my friends are easily outleveling me.
Of course, it's much worse in GMS right now with weaker AR/BB and 80/20... Getting under 2%/hour at 18x to the 10%+ of everyone else I know... Chaos + Jump are definitely big steps in the right direction.
about losing Elemental Resistance, but I guess if it's partly folded into Baha (which makes no sense but whatever) and partly into Invincible then I'm kind of okay with it. Invincible going down to 20% is going to make it harder to tank tail at HT though. =/ Cautious thumbs up on the changes. I'm happy-surprised we got the new skill that increases damage as you keep hitting a monster... I'd assumed they'd make that archmage only. And I'll be the first to dance on Mana Reflection's grave. Good riddance!
Side note: We don't need an undispellable MG. Dispellable MG keeps things interesting when you're otherwise a tank class. We need bosses whose dispel skills give reasonable invinciframes. And who don't cast dispel and stun (or dispel and unavoidable sed) at the same time. >_>
Side note 2: It's impossible to tell if bishops are balanced as a support class until Nexon makes up its friggin mind about how party play is going to be structured. Are bishops doomed to always train slower than every other class from BB til the game closes down? 60/40 coming back takes us a long way toward being a playable class again, exp/hour-wise, but it's still always going to be slower than, you know, having decent attacks or holy-weak training areas so we can get majority exp once in a while.
Actually, I'm fine playing even a pure support role. I feel like my DPS is ridiculously low when my 135 battle mage outdamages my 183 bishop with worse equips, sure, but I can accept it. But something like a boost to the bishop's exp only, folded into HS, would make us at least able to level at a similar speed to all other classes. Because as a party class, I like leveling with my friends, and it gets annoying when my friends are easily outleveling me.
Of course, it's much worse in GMS right now with weaker AR/BB and 80/20... Getting under 2%/hour at 18x to the 10%+ of everyone else I know... Chaos + Jump are definitely big steps in the right direction.