Character worth

i am not home right now, but i shall play with dps and stuff when i get there after work (which i should go back to). however i just want to put thos out there.

my boywife kayako (176 corsair) and myself have been doing zakum arm solos for exp, i must say its damn good too. he takes 25minutes to kill them all while i take 45. he does have a few more attack than me but it does not warant 20 more minutes of killing. except their damage is extremely higher than ours, i am pretty sure an equally leveled and geared BM or hero can do it faster too.

I think the average corsair should have less att than the average MM. He's probably just a lot better equipped than you. I have a good range lead on Danmakurain, (he's only 2 lvls higher than me) and he still out-DPS's me by a good margin. Besides, it's pretty well known that corsairs are the best DPS'ers in the game, but that doesn't make MM DPS BAD.

As for the BM and hero comments, I'm pretty sure an equally funded BM would only be slightly faster (2~4 mins tops?) and of course a Hero is faster cuz he can hit multiple arms. (But heroes do less DPS on body; Brandish isnt the best 1v1 skill. If anything, the only thing that makes Heroes good at zak, besides the arms, is their ability to pretty much ignore mobs, whereas with us single target DPSers, mobs get in the way. Well except 'sairs, cuz of adv. homing. But that's yet another reason why their DPS is so sick.)