2011-12-01, 05:23 PM
Chameleonic Wrote:I agree. The phrasing in my statement was bad. I meant that I'd drop Pierce in a heartbeat in favour of Laser. The laser looks how I imagined Pierce would/should be in its mobility, AoE and has no charge...
Pierce has more mobility, but the range means you'll never catch up, even if you fire like 3 Pierces in the same timespan. In the majority of situations, you're only as strong as your weakest hit. Dragon Strike itself dominates Pierce because of the AoE. Pierce effect is hardly justified in training when you still either need to use another attack to kill the first few monsters, or everything's dead so the Pierce effect didn't help. If there were 8 mob bosses on flat platforms, it might be more worthwhile though.