2011-04-19, 01:11 PM
As long as i can get the same amount of experience as other attacking classes, i'm happy with being a bishop. If i can get 30% an hour while attacking classes get 40% an hour, even that would be fine. When bishops get 10% an hour while attacking classes get 40%, there's a significant non-advantage for bishops. It'll basically turn them into how they leveled in 3rd job back in the day: leeching from the party.
Why bother partying with people when you get the same crappy experience per hour just training by yourself? AND you can get the full use of your buffs just the same without the party. Granted they don't have to be on par with Heroes or some other class, but at least make it so that at LHC, in the time a hero kills 3 mobs, at least make it so that the bishop is able to kill 1/2 of another mob's HP (or more) instead of not even denting the HP. I mean really, in the time it took 2 level 12x bowmaster/shadower to kill 4 mobs, i, a 15x bishop, had managed to take away maybe 1/16th of the HP bar. At that point, the party comes in and kills that mob (because i don't kill it fast enough to help circulate the map) resulting in the me getting maybe 3k more exp than a mob i would have leeched anyway. yay. It really made no difference if i was going to buff on the rope or walk around.
What the changes should encourage is not buff muling on a rope, but rather how parties are supposed to be, when each class can help contribute damage to boost their experience gain. Healing/dispelling/ etc. may be "mandatory" at bosses, but if you're training, why shouldn't they be able to contribute more than just a few buffs? Because they're just for the buffs? Because they should "HEAL PLZZZZZ11!!!1111!" or "ZOMG!!!1! Y u no hs??@1!? " and "wtp? BUFF NAO NAOANOANAONAONAONAONOANOA!1!!!11!" ? To encourage bishops to continue to play the class (beside for the love of the class), there should be some upside to circulating the map. If all you get is a measly 100k extra exp every 30 minutes, what's to encourage me to do so, when i could just as easily just sit on a rope?
Why bother partying with people when you get the same crappy experience per hour just training by yourself? AND you can get the full use of your buffs just the same without the party. Granted they don't have to be on par with Heroes or some other class, but at least make it so that at LHC, in the time a hero kills 3 mobs, at least make it so that the bishop is able to kill 1/2 of another mob's HP (or more) instead of not even denting the HP. I mean really, in the time it took 2 level 12x bowmaster/shadower to kill 4 mobs, i, a 15x bishop, had managed to take away maybe 1/16th of the HP bar. At that point, the party comes in and kills that mob (because i don't kill it fast enough to help circulate the map) resulting in the me getting maybe 3k more exp than a mob i would have leeched anyway. yay. It really made no difference if i was going to buff on the rope or walk around.
What the changes should encourage is not buff muling on a rope, but rather how parties are supposed to be, when each class can help contribute damage to boost their experience gain. Healing/dispelling/ etc. may be "mandatory" at bosses, but if you're training, why shouldn't they be able to contribute more than just a few buffs? Because they're just for the buffs? Because they should "HEAL PLZZZZZ11!!!1111!" or "ZOMG!!!1! Y u no hs??@1!? " and "wtp? BUFF NAO NAOANOANAONAONAONAONOANOA!1!!!11!" ? To encourage bishops to continue to play the class (beside for the love of the class), there should be some upside to circulating the map. If all you get is a measly 100k extra exp every 30 minutes, what's to encourage me to do so, when i could just as easily just sit on a rope?