2011-05-23, 01:43 AM
ShanghaiDizzy Wrote:I don't care for damage (and Night Lords are amongst the bottom for DPS). Nor do I really care for it to be ultra dynamic. However, when nearly all but a few of a 4th job class's skills are useless, I'm willing to say the class is garbage.
Also, I want to say that being able to KS another class doesn't mean that the KS-ing class is better than the KS'd class.
I'm not really sure what you're looking for.
I don't know how things will change when the Chaos patches hit, but currently, all bosses are easily survivable. cht does around 5k magic. grandpa and bodyguards do 3-4k max. czak does like 8k touch and like 5k magic, pb does 10k max if you don't touch him, ariel can do up to 11k w/ her genesis if you let her buff her matk, but if you're properly crashing her to prevent w.cancel, she can't buff and she'll only do like 9k. As such, all the hard bosses are easily survivable, so it's not a matter of living. It's actually (afaik) a matter of killing the boss quickly so you can get your loot and get out before dc'ers track you or people dc randomly or other silliness. Meaning, damage (I referred to it as ksing above) reigns supreme.
So please, define what makes a class 'better' than another in your eyes because to me, damage is a significant factor, survivability is another one.
CarrionCrow, being a 200 Khainian NL yourself, can you shed some light on this for me? I genuinely am confused why there are NL's talking about this Archer update as if it's the death of NL's or nexon's deliberate attempt to make NL's worthless (or more worthless than the already are as some would say).
EDIT: So you're saying that the NL's I see that are very strong and effective bossers are just like that because it's a mindset issue? The class as a whole is broken, yet damage whoring rich kids still pick it gladly and overwhelmingly more than any other single class? That seems hard to swallow if NL's really are as bad as some claim.