2009-08-15, 08:08 PM
Cyanne Wrote:I think fire strike first may be better than curtain first, especially if you have an elemental wand, for the same reason fire arrow first is better than poison brace first: because you don't have enough accuracy to hit the high-exp monsters efficiently (relatively-speaking). Fire strike is beastly with its 140 base and fire element, I could see it absolutely tearing through duals, blue kents, etc. in low 3rd job. For standard F/Ps, mist is generally used at squids, wolf spiders, and places that give similar exp, but fire strike is so powerful that it can destroy mobs of duals/blue kents/whatever in like 3 hits, which are some of the highest exp monsters you can consistently hit anyways, and killing in 3 hits is faster than cycling curtain. For standard F/Ps, only until around the mid-90s can you start misting relatively high exp monsters in upper leafre due to precious accuracy problems. If you go fire strike first, you'll have strike and amp maxed around 87, so you can get curtain to 28 around 96, a good level to start those high-exp monster you'll want to go for, accuracy-wise. Saving points for 100 isn't an issue because ifrit isn't really that essential a skill, just a couple points in for the timer, and it's good to go for curtain cleanup.
If we get curtain burn accuracy in the patch though (somewhat likely if nexon copypastes recent kMS skill data) fire strike wins for sure.
when you say elemental wand, does that include wand 2?

