[1.2.381] The Wind

Yes, because it does do damage, but on a lesser scale for certain characters, that does make it synergy, but on a lesser scale for certain characters. That doesn't make it bad synergy. Now, before you say that damage doesn't equal synergy, keep in mind the skill. If the entire and total purpose of the skill is to do damage, and it does damage, then it accomplishes it's purpose. If all skills play a part in synergy, and this skill, being a skill, is accomplishing it's purpose of doing damage, which is all it's supposed to do, then it plays a part in good synergy. It will do damage if you place it in a good location, that relies on you, and is not a problem with the skill. Just as puppet is useless to me if I throw it between me and a monster that throws a spear (like a kentaurus). I can't complain about poor synergy because I placed the puppet poorly, I used the skill poorly, and thus that's MY fault, not the skills. Same with Dark Flare. I didn't think that was a hard concept but apparently it is.

I'm not even going to bother replying to the rest of your post because it's all irrelevant. My whole position on this topic is built on the recognition that there is synergy, of varying degrees, within the NL class. Since you can't see the 'varying degrees' part, there is no purpose for me to continue further.

Wow, holy crap. How hard is it to understand that the fact it does damage doesn't mean it has synergy. Do I really need to dumb it down for you? Here, let's do it this way.

For this example, we won't be using Maple.

a) You are a fire mage.
b) You are fighting fire weak monsters.
c) Some ice mage comes along and makes the fire weak monsters into ice weak but now makes them fire strong.
d) Your fire attacks now deal less damage.

That is negative synergy! It's not "less good synergy" as you called it before. Dark Flare + Achilles and all the other sorts of skills that reduce its damage have negative synergy! It's not hard to grasp!

And while yes, the placement of Dark Flare is important, the placement factor of Dark Flare has NOTHING to do with its inability to compliment fighting non-stationary bosses. How you manage to make it deal damage to non-stationary targets does not add to its synergy when its inherently made to combat stationary targets.

I'm done with this topic in this thread, think what you want, but NL's have synergy within their class, plenty of it, just not as much as some other classes. NL's also do great damage, not as much perhaps as some other classes, but my experience says they certainly pull their weight or more than their weight in a party all the time.

So despite all the dumbing down we had to do for you, you still don't grasp the whole concept nor the inherent flaw within NL's. Wonderful. Good job on wasting your own time and ours. Even better job on refusing to learn anything else and further increase your knowledge about the game.