2012-01-23, 11:55 PM
DrRusty Wrote:I also don't think SM is a very good class to take on as your first class. They're annoying to play in PvE and have a bad rep because EVERYBODY rolls one. A huge portion of their skills push mobs around and that can tick people off pretty badly sometimes. I would recommend mercenary, paladin, or ele as your first class.
Since when was Swordman bad at PvE? LOLOLOLOLOLOLO. If anything I find other classes pushing my mobs away when I'm trying to do runs in a party, like Mercenary. Mercenary is full of skills that knock enemies high into the air, or spread them apart. Swordsman really only has Triple Slash that does it. Paladin is by far the worst starting character to play as by the way. Paladin is the most tedious class to level up.
Swordsman is a perfectly valid starting character. It's fast, powerful, mobs well, combos well, etc. Swordsman used to get a bad rep because of PvP, back in the Lv24 cap, when people would choose Swordsman to try and excel in PvP. That's why tons of shitty Swordsman builds were being used, because they tried to cater to PvP, and that led to seeing Swordsmen all over with cookie-cutter builds and crap-tastic crests. I don't hear pomegranate about them anymore. I'm pretty sure there are more users of every other class compared to Swordsman.