2011-09-06, 09:44 PM
Alilatias Wrote:Got my Mystic to level 22, and decided that I might as well start up a Warrior. Thing is, I know absolutely nothing about Warriors, but I'm already thinking about making him into a Mercenary since it seems almost every Warrior I run into is already a Swordmaster, so... Eh.
Are Mercenaries that bad, or are they just more difficult to play? The few Mercenaries that I've partied with in Mino Nest seem to do exceptionally well, and it looks like they have some really powerful debuff skills. Maybe I'll try out hammer Mercenary, although it sounds like I'll need a ton of crit for that to be effective. Eh, I'll figure something out.
Mercenary isn't bad, but it's slower and the attacks tend to only hit once.
Swordsman is for speed, Mercenary is for brute force. You'll have an easy time stunning monsters with a Mercenary, especially if you go with hammer, however hammers are very slow and attack awkwardly making it harder to keep a combo at times, but good for keeping monsters off balance.
ShinkuDragon Wrote:mercenaries are pretty godly as is, SM's are late bloomers, we only get 3 good wave skills as is. mercs go a bunch of debuffs at low level.
Swordsmen aren't late bloomers, it's just at this cap going pure Moonlord path is foolish, either hybrid path or pure Gladiator path until more magic skills are available. We get free resets from that quest anyway. Magic attack is much harder to build up for a Warrior in general, and this low cap doesn't help.
My Gladiator-path Swordsman rips everything to shreds, so far my other characters don't compare.