2011-04-17, 10:33 PM
The only experience I have with archers comes from my wind archer, but I got a few ideas of some improvements that could be made to archers. I came up with these ideas quickly so don't bash plz.
2nd Job
-Change Storm break to require only 10 points. Reduce it's damage to 100%
-[New Skill] Whirlwind shot: Shoots an arrow that summons a whirlwind around the monster that it hits, casuing damage to all monsters nearby (Same concept as inferno) When maxed it hits 350% on 6 monsters.
3rd job:
-Remove Strafe
-Eliminate the Eagle Eye transformation requirement on Wind Shot. Increase the casting speed, Reduce its dmg to 300% per arrow.
-[New Skill] Advanced Critical. Increases critical Chance by 10% while also increasing miniun and maximum critical damage by 20% (or whatever quantity). Max level: 20.
This is all I can think for wind archers.
As for bowmasters, I only have experience on these from watching my friend play hers. But I also can think of some Ideas. Some of these also based on comments on this thread.
2nd job
-Obviously get rid of enhanced basics for a +40 dex skill or +30 str/dex
-Change powerknock back so when a monster is pushed back by this skill, it can crash into other monsters and deal damage. IDK what amount of dmg would be necesary to make this skill usefull but well, just an idea.
As for 3rd job, I can only think of:
-Remove Evasion Boost
-[New skill] Quick Evasion: Double Tap the directional arrow keys to perform a quick hop in that direction and avoid attacks. After performing a quick evasion, the next attack has 20% higher chance to be a critical hit. As a secondary effect quick evasion also boosts your avoidability by 20%.
If only we didn't know that by this time, the development department of KMS must have the archer changes already planned while already building up the next Thief and Pirate changes (if there will be any).
2nd Job
-Change Storm break to require only 10 points. Reduce it's damage to 100%
-[New Skill] Whirlwind shot: Shoots an arrow that summons a whirlwind around the monster that it hits, casuing damage to all monsters nearby (Same concept as inferno) When maxed it hits 350% on 6 monsters.
3rd job:
-Remove Strafe
-Eliminate the Eagle Eye transformation requirement on Wind Shot. Increase the casting speed, Reduce its dmg to 300% per arrow.
-[New Skill] Advanced Critical. Increases critical Chance by 10% while also increasing miniun and maximum critical damage by 20% (or whatever quantity). Max level: 20.
This is all I can think for wind archers.
As for bowmasters, I only have experience on these from watching my friend play hers. But I also can think of some Ideas. Some of these also based on comments on this thread.
2nd job
-Obviously get rid of enhanced basics for a +40 dex skill or +30 str/dex
-Change powerknock back so when a monster is pushed back by this skill, it can crash into other monsters and deal damage. IDK what amount of dmg would be necesary to make this skill usefull but well, just an idea.
As for 3rd job, I can only think of:
-Remove Evasion Boost
-[New skill] Quick Evasion: Double Tap the directional arrow keys to perform a quick hop in that direction and avoid attacks. After performing a quick evasion, the next attack has 20% higher chance to be a critical hit. As a secondary effect quick evasion also boosts your avoidability by 20%.
If only we didn't know that by this time, the development department of KMS must have the archer changes already planned while already building up the next Thief and Pirate changes (if there will be any).