2013-06-05, 01:24 PM
4th Job - Bow Master:
Arrow Blaster: Hold down the skill key to fire high-angle arrows at a rapid rate. Movement is available while attacking. Use the up and down keys to aim the arrows.
This skill sounds entirely tedious to use in a bossing sense. Literally forcing you to more than likely stand in touch damage range of a boss. I think this skill will probably start at the lowest possible range at every cast, forgetting where your last angling of the skill was.
Hound Shot (?): A new skill that decreases the amount of HP an enemy heals. Useful against monsters that heal large amounts of HP often.
This sounds incredibly useful, sounds great for parties but thinking of a boss that heals I'm struggling to think of them, they're probably obvious but the few I can think of are Ranmaru or Empress.
Uncountable Arrow: Focus your mind to unleash a swarm of arrows at once. New skill.
I guess this is the replacement for Ultimate Inferno, doesn't seem like they changed much there.
Illusion Step: Elite Puppet's damage reduction added here.
At least we have it still on a skill we can just recast that actually lasts for longer than a minute.
Advanced Quiver: Upon using this skill, temporarily consume no arrows from Quiver Cartridge. Also improves the effect of Quiver Cartridge.
I don't really have much feedback about this mainly because I haven't really seen how the skills function clearly yet.
Armor Pierce: A new skill that allows you to cut past part of an enemy's defense when attacking, dealing more damage to enemies with stronger defenses. The chance of this effect occuring increases until it activates, and then it resets.
I guess this is a lot like Defense Break, hope the amount of defense ignored is a flat decrease like threaten.
Marksmanship: Moved to 3rd job.
Good change.
Advanced Flame Shot: Due to the addition of Uncountable Arrow, this skill has been deleted.
At least Inferno/Flameshot hits twice now.
Spirit Link: Phoenix: Total damage has been moved to Marksmanship, Defense bonus has been moved to Phoneix, Max HP has been moved to Climbing Hooks, Status Effect has been replaced with Concentration's effect. As such, this skill has been deleted.
At least they applied the effects else where, especially in 3rd job where they really made a lot more sense.
Elite Puppet: Damage reduction has been moved to Illusion Step, and this skill along with Puppet have been deleted.
Good bye old friend ;~;
Extreme Archery: Bow: Decrease your physical and magical defense to improve your attack. ON/OFF Skill.
I guess since defense is less important this skill makes sense but I was hoping for an accuracy->attack conversion skill, not a defense->attack skill, then again Adv. Archers are pretty psuedo-tanky.
Concentration: When you successfully hit an enemy, increase your status effect resistance. When you successfully resist a fatal status effect, this skill will enter a cooldown. For non-fatal status effects, the increased status effect resistance will reset instead without entering a cooldown. Use rapid fire skills to increase your resistance quickly.
Oh Glorious status resistance, I imagine fatal status effect would refer to things like Hard Hilla's cage or are there going to be new status effects?
Arrow Blaster: Hold down the skill key to fire high-angle arrows at a rapid rate. Movement is available while attacking. Use the up and down keys to aim the arrows.
This skill sounds entirely tedious to use in a bossing sense. Literally forcing you to more than likely stand in touch damage range of a boss. I think this skill will probably start at the lowest possible range at every cast, forgetting where your last angling of the skill was.
Hound Shot (?): A new skill that decreases the amount of HP an enemy heals. Useful against monsters that heal large amounts of HP often.
This sounds incredibly useful, sounds great for parties but thinking of a boss that heals I'm struggling to think of them, they're probably obvious but the few I can think of are Ranmaru or Empress.
Uncountable Arrow: Focus your mind to unleash a swarm of arrows at once. New skill.
I guess this is the replacement for Ultimate Inferno, doesn't seem like they changed much there.
Illusion Step: Elite Puppet's damage reduction added here.
At least we have it still on a skill we can just recast that actually lasts for longer than a minute.
Advanced Quiver: Upon using this skill, temporarily consume no arrows from Quiver Cartridge. Also improves the effect of Quiver Cartridge.
I don't really have much feedback about this mainly because I haven't really seen how the skills function clearly yet.
Armor Pierce: A new skill that allows you to cut past part of an enemy's defense when attacking, dealing more damage to enemies with stronger defenses. The chance of this effect occuring increases until it activates, and then it resets.
I guess this is a lot like Defense Break, hope the amount of defense ignored is a flat decrease like threaten.
Marksmanship: Moved to 3rd job.
Good change.
Advanced Flame Shot: Due to the addition of Uncountable Arrow, this skill has been deleted.
At least Inferno/Flameshot hits twice now.
Spirit Link: Phoenix: Total damage has been moved to Marksmanship, Defense bonus has been moved to Phoneix, Max HP has been moved to Climbing Hooks, Status Effect has been replaced with Concentration's effect. As such, this skill has been deleted.
At least they applied the effects else where, especially in 3rd job where they really made a lot more sense.
Elite Puppet: Damage reduction has been moved to Illusion Step, and this skill along with Puppet have been deleted.
Good bye old friend ;~;
Extreme Archery: Bow: Decrease your physical and magical defense to improve your attack. ON/OFF Skill.
I guess since defense is less important this skill makes sense but I was hoping for an accuracy->attack conversion skill, not a defense->attack skill, then again Adv. Archers are pretty psuedo-tanky.
Concentration: When you successfully hit an enemy, increase your status effect resistance. When you successfully resist a fatal status effect, this skill will enter a cooldown. For non-fatal status effects, the increased status effect resistance will reset instead without entering a cooldown. Use rapid fire skills to increase your resistance quickly.
Oh Glorious status resistance, I imagine fatal status effect would refer to things like Hard Hilla's cage or are there going to be new status effects?