2011-12-20, 08:53 PM
I think archers in this game really need a lot of help, mostly in terms of skill design. I mean...
Paladins: All-around tanks, draws aggro.
Priests: Relics can impede enemy movement/block attacks. Useful buffs and healing. Can immobolize enemies. Many skills with electrocution that can interrupt attacks.
Mystics: Time Stop and Acceleration. Black Hole can gather mobs. Force Mirror can impede enemy movement/block attacks, and I assume it raises everyone's magic damage while it's up.
Elementalists: Magic DPS. Can freeze/slow enemies. Frozen enemies take more damage from everyone's attacks.
Swordsmen: Melee DPS.
Mercenaries: Super Armor cleaving machines. Debuffs and buffs galore.
Acrobats: Melee DPS without the buffs of a Mercenary or the health of a Swordsman?
Sharpshooters: Ranged DPS... And that's about it. It seems everything they can do, Eles can do way better, although Eles are more likely to get hit. Eles also have way better support for the whole squad, while SS has like nothing beyond Ankle Shot (which Priests can already cover).
I don't know what the hell Academics can really contribute during a major boss fight, but they seem like offensive Priests or something. With a 1st job ultimate that can spit out food.
It also doesn't help that it sounds like crit seems to benefit other classes far more than it benefits archers. I don't see people talking about the benefits of archers with stacked crit nearly as much as the benefits of every other class with stacked crit.
Paladins: All-around tanks, draws aggro.
Priests: Relics can impede enemy movement/block attacks. Useful buffs and healing. Can immobolize enemies. Many skills with electrocution that can interrupt attacks.
Mystics: Time Stop and Acceleration. Black Hole can gather mobs. Force Mirror can impede enemy movement/block attacks, and I assume it raises everyone's magic damage while it's up.
Elementalists: Magic DPS. Can freeze/slow enemies. Frozen enemies take more damage from everyone's attacks.
Swordsmen: Melee DPS.
Mercenaries: Super Armor cleaving machines. Debuffs and buffs galore.
Acrobats: Melee DPS without the buffs of a Mercenary or the health of a Swordsman?
Sharpshooters: Ranged DPS... And that's about it. It seems everything they can do, Eles can do way better, although Eles are more likely to get hit. Eles also have way better support for the whole squad, while SS has like nothing beyond Ankle Shot (which Priests can already cover).
I don't know what the hell Academics can really contribute during a major boss fight, but they seem like offensive Priests or something. With a 1st job ultimate that can spit out food.
It also doesn't help that it sounds like crit seems to benefit other classes far more than it benefits archers. I don't see people talking about the benefits of archers with stacked crit nearly as much as the benefits of every other class with stacked crit.