2013-02-13, 04:01 AM
Lunar Knights were always a gear-intensive class, but now they need to be pretty near well off (as in, building a decent amount of FD -and- crit in order to strengthen both their magic and phys attacks at the same time) and use a specific kind of build (as in dropping everything below Forward Thrust on the phys side of the skill tree in favor of maxing Triple Slash, Splitter, and so on) in order to even outpace the kind of damage that a Saint can pull off with Chain Lightning and Holy Burst (maxed in most Saint builds), much less one that also has maxed Righteous Bolt.
Those that gear towards raw magic damage won't really be doing anything of note, since there's only two magic skills that can be considered high DPS at this cap (Splitter and Moon Blade Dance) plus one that's situational DPS (Crescent Cleave), and all of them got nerfed.
They were hit super hard in our latest balancing patch that was really designed for 60 cap instead. IIRC Moonlight Splitter and Crescent Cleave got a 20% damage nerf, and Moon Blade Dance recieved a 30% nerf along with its max hit count being reduced from 15 to 10. Sure, they got the Brave/Courageous Shout skill, but it's a buff that only lasts for what, 10 seconds with a 35 second CD? However, Blade Storm is still one of the strongest attacking ults in the game, but again, it's an ultimate every 2 minutes or so.
Actually yeah, they should be above Saints. But they currently have terrible DPS for a class that is supposed to be a DPS class in the first place. I kinda feel sad for them. Lunar Knights have been the only class post-T4 that have gotten any sort of PvE nerf. I saw so many Lunar Knights quit for the time being and reroll something like Mercenary over the past month.
As for War Mages, their DPS is almost entirely front-loaded into Laser Cutter and a maxed fully charged Linear Ray EX from what I've seen. The classes above them have more ways to deal high amounts of damage faster.
About Warden/Artillery, yeah, geared Artillery are still fairly rare. I personally only know of like 3, and one of them is DarkQThunder here. Same thing for Acrobats (of which incidentally Dark here also has a super geared Wind Walker). I don't think the idea of Sharpshooters being a high DPS class now has really sunk in the minds of the NA community yet, as during T3, Archers and Swordsmen in general were seen as useless due to their general lack of good party skills and debuffs.
Those that gear towards raw magic damage won't really be doing anything of note, since there's only two magic skills that can be considered high DPS at this cap (Splitter and Moon Blade Dance) plus one that's situational DPS (Crescent Cleave), and all of them got nerfed.
They were hit super hard in our latest balancing patch that was really designed for 60 cap instead. IIRC Moonlight Splitter and Crescent Cleave got a 20% damage nerf, and Moon Blade Dance recieved a 30% nerf along with its max hit count being reduced from 15 to 10. Sure, they got the Brave/Courageous Shout skill, but it's a buff that only lasts for what, 10 seconds with a 35 second CD? However, Blade Storm is still one of the strongest attacking ults in the game, but again, it's an ultimate every 2 minutes or so.
Actually yeah, they should be above Saints. But they currently have terrible DPS for a class that is supposed to be a DPS class in the first place. I kinda feel sad for them. Lunar Knights have been the only class post-T4 that have gotten any sort of PvE nerf. I saw so many Lunar Knights quit for the time being and reroll something like Mercenary over the past month.
As for War Mages, their DPS is almost entirely front-loaded into Laser Cutter and a maxed fully charged Linear Ray EX from what I've seen. The classes above them have more ways to deal high amounts of damage faster.
About Warden/Artillery, yeah, geared Artillery are still fairly rare. I personally only know of like 3, and one of them is DarkQThunder here. Same thing for Acrobats (of which incidentally Dark here also has a super geared Wind Walker). I don't think the idea of Sharpshooters being a high DPS class now has really sunk in the minds of the NA community yet, as during T3, Archers and Swordsmen in general were seen as useless due to their general lack of good party skills and debuffs.