2010-11-06, 11:06 AM
Interesting thread.
However,I would say that the argument that BB becomes more useful when CL maxes out will not apply to most of us mortals; you would need something like 4000 INT and 400 MA for that to happen (if i'm using the formulas correctly).
Also most of us have to find a lot more than 12 points to save.
For me:
Mana Reflection: A lot better than before, but still not much help. Zero points. 30 points saved.
Ice Demon. Still weak. Unless you put a lot of points in it, it only freezes 2 or 3 monsters. The damage over time effects will be too slow to be useful. Zero points, or 5 if you want summons. 25 or 30 points saved.
Maple warrior: Lvl 30 mastery book reputedly works a lot less often than 50%, and with my past luck on lvl 30 MB's (usually requiring 4 or 5), there is no way I want to spend ~5 billion mesos (assuming I could ever acquire so much) to gain extra 5%. 10 points saved.
Elquines/Ifrit: I never had much use for the fire summons. Too slow, too weak, annoying, added lag, aggrod monsters I wasn't ready for yet. Maybe the ice one will help more, but I doubt it. Max after everything else if I still have some points left.
Hero's Will. Seems useless? Ridiculous cooldown. The bull boss in Temple of TIme (iirc) and the bogus event pink bean are the only times I've faced the attack that this is used against, and they spammed it every few seconds. So.. what's the point?
Infinity: Was useless, now may be important. Unfortunately, the skill book is about impossible to get, since the only way to acquire it is by accompanying a warrior on his/her El Nath PQ. Unless you have a huge network of Warrior buddies, and just happen to catch one of them in the brief time between when they decide they need the skill after all and when they have already finished the quest, and they owe you a favour big time enough to allow a lolAM to tag along... good luck with that.
30 points saved.
Actually no problem, I'll have more points than I can use.
However,I would say that the argument that BB becomes more useful when CL maxes out will not apply to most of us mortals; you would need something like 4000 INT and 400 MA for that to happen (if i'm using the formulas correctly).
Also most of us have to find a lot more than 12 points to save.
For me:
Mana Reflection: A lot better than before, but still not much help. Zero points. 30 points saved.
Ice Demon. Still weak. Unless you put a lot of points in it, it only freezes 2 or 3 monsters. The damage over time effects will be too slow to be useful. Zero points, or 5 if you want summons. 25 or 30 points saved.
Maple warrior: Lvl 30 mastery book reputedly works a lot less often than 50%, and with my past luck on lvl 30 MB's (usually requiring 4 or 5), there is no way I want to spend ~5 billion mesos (assuming I could ever acquire so much) to gain extra 5%. 10 points saved.
Elquines/Ifrit: I never had much use for the fire summons. Too slow, too weak, annoying, added lag, aggrod monsters I wasn't ready for yet. Maybe the ice one will help more, but I doubt it. Max after everything else if I still have some points left.
Hero's Will. Seems useless? Ridiculous cooldown. The bull boss in Temple of TIme (iirc) and the bogus event pink bean are the only times I've faced the attack that this is used against, and they spammed it every few seconds. So.. what's the point?
Infinity: Was useless, now may be important. Unfortunately, the skill book is about impossible to get, since the only way to acquire it is by accompanying a warrior on his/her El Nath PQ. Unless you have a huge network of Warrior buddies, and just happen to catch one of them in the brief time between when they decide they need the skill after all and when they have already finished the quest, and they owe you a favour big time enough to allow a lolAM to tag along... good luck with that.
30 points saved.
Actually no problem, I'll have more points than I can use.