2010-07-15, 02:31 PM
Hazzy Wrote:In the old system, the damage formula for a swing or stab had two multipliers. 5 and 3.5(?) respectively for a PA, and reversed for a Spear. The specific multiplier was used in both the max and minimum formula for each weapon.
Swing with a spear? Max and Min use a 3.5. Stab? Now they use 5. This is why a PA Fury(?) would never hit the bottom part of the shown damage range, or why a PA Crusher would never hit the top part.
Now, however, there is only one multiplier (1.49*4) used in the Max formula. The minimum is a direct multiplication of the max and mastery.
The only problem I have with this is how useless PAs are for DKs now.
First off, you have Arans hoarding them. Then you have the fact that every PA is slower than a spear(?). The extra 2 or so wAtk they get doesn't compensate for this. Then you have the massive supply of well scrolled spears from the 6 or so years of kMS and 4 or so of gMS where using a Spear was better than a PA.
Even if they fixed the speed issue, there's no diversity. No difference in training, no difference in skills, no... nothing. I feel like Maplestory got more bland than before, which is hard to pull off.
DrK's can now use Purple Surfboards for crusher.