[1.2.389] Mercedes

The thing is Mercedes compares to no other char, maybe only dual blades. She has the best things from many jobs and upgrades them. Like someone in this thread said, she makes Aran and Evan look like boyscouts.

Then again, she is the first Legend from a job branch that is expected to dish out high DPS in the first place. It's like people complaining that Archers got overpowered during Jump when compared to what Warriors and Mages got, when Warriors and Mages aren't primarily known for high DPS in the first place.

After some thinking, when comparing Mercedes to the other Archers, she's not that bad. She has high mobility and all, but everyone has to notice, she doesn't appear to have a max HP increasing skill at all. I'd be inclined to think that she's the most fragile class in the game. Sure, she has defensive buffs, but I assume that those can be dispelled, while the other Archers' HP increasing buffs cannot due to them being passive/tied to summons. All the HP restoring skills in the world cannot help you if you get one-shotted.

Her mobbing seems good, but I'm inclined to think that Marksmen are still better at it, on the basis that a Marksman's main mobbing move is ranged piercing-type and that they have some form of mob control through Dragon's Breath. The majority of Mercedes' mobbing skills require her to rush up and smack everything in the face, or jump into a crowd before raining arrows from above. Often with combos involved.

She has a Hurricane type skill, but I'm also inclined to think that Bowmasters still have better 1 VS 1. Mercedes lacks Spirit Link.