2009-11-28, 11:49 PM
Dusk Wrote:Lukless is only cheaper if you're talking about startup gear only. You can be lukless with clean gear. Lukless is better for most of 1st - 3rd job, because you can't wear the high level stuff yet. So yes, it is a good idea to start out lukless and convert once you have a little money. You can't say one build is cheaper than another, because to compare them you want to use equal funding. With equal funding, luk > lukless. 64 maple weapon = 81 stats clean - 4 = +77 magic. Normal staves = +12. That's a 65 magic advantage. Now let's just assume we're not talking about completely clean, unfunded characters with absolutely no gear and we're in the range of what normal people would use. Compare common items. ZHelm = 15. HTP = 22. That drops the advantage down to 28. Medal. Belt. We're looking at only a little over a 20 stat advantage by being lukless now. Maker'd gear EASILY covers this difference. Just the shoe - you can easily grab 18-20 stats out of a high level Maker'd shoe for less than 100m. Good luck getting a YSS or a level 50 shoe with stats like that for a comparable price. Then you have the weapon, overall, and glove. Not saying you can't make a lukless Bishop stronger than a luk Bishop, but for equal funding in the "average 4th jobber" range (500mish -several bil) luk is pretty much always stronger.
You just said 500mil- bil.
I MIGHT have spent 500 mil in my ENTIRE maple career.
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But yeah- with funding and STAT planning low-luk is the easy middle ground.
And the trend of AWESOME common class equips it will only make Low XXX build stronger.
But for all stat build purposes pumping pure til 4th job is probably what you should be doing no matter what.
Then based on gear money availability etc. you can plan an end-game build.
