Those are fire weak. Even still, a 150k crit with SE on fire-weak with a skill that's like 240ish power weaker than Meteo is pretty good. Scratch that - all of what I said + the fact that's all done without a fire wand = amazing damage.
I'm literally crying looking at that screenie at 1:11-1:12. That's a combined 127k hit - FROM A MAGICIAN. I hit a 116k crit with Paralyze on a poison-weak mob with Echo, SE, a Banana Graham Pie, and a Poison Wand - at Lv. 200. This Evan hit 127k combined with SE using an elementally neutral skill and, as far as we're aware, no other crazy buffs. I'm SO happy to see this kind of single target damage from Magicians you have no idea. The fact that this class can mob fast enough to be a great training class, has extremely competitive and impressive single target DPS, and have a plethora of useful party skills, makes this, in the end, an amazing representation of Magic-based classes in an RPG.
Only thing we have yet to see is Blaze for comparison, but considering passive Mage crits are working (and SE clearly gives an amazing boost), I'm thinking Illusion just might edge out as the better of the two single target skills. Though throw Ewand5 into the mix and they'll be really close.
True that. And because, again, crits work more often with multi-hit skills, its DPS might come out on top.
But yeah...Ele wands really do add a ton of damage, and Blaze is immensely stronger than Illusion in terms of base power, so who knows. Of course speed is also a factor too, and I think Blaze is faster, so =/. We'll see!
Oh, and little fun thing too: in the first, what, 30 seconds or so of the video, you can see the Evan use their monster rider to ride their Dragon familiar. So sexy .
Eh. I dunno about crits. It's different for mages than weapon classes. The fact that blaze has really high base attack means that the multiplicative attribute of their crits gives them a ridiculous boost. 100k turns to 170k...
Spoiler
What i don't get is why they didn't allow us to just ride it constantly and let us use all of our skills while on the dragon. >_> I would have made it just for that.
Last edited by Takebacker; 2009-12-03 at 02:06 AM.
Do people never consider attack speeds, and the frequency at which you can use attacks? Illusion is literally 3 times slower than most attacks. So what if it can do over 100k damage?
Illusion may be slower, but don't forget when they crit, they CRIT. I am now awaiting a MP Zerked Evan with an elemental wand. Maybe add an Apple for good measures. 20 second Dark Fog for 1600 MP per cast? YES PLEASE.
Hmmmm, now I need to find a decent Fire E-wand.
Last edited by IllegallySane; 2009-12-03 at 02:48 AM.
1.2.271 was released
They changed a lot of stuff about the elemental weapons. It's obvious that they're still testing this stuff.
I hope they lowered the hands requirements on the knuckles. Also, if they increased the crit chance and bonus damage on the weapons for classes that don't have a natural crit, that'd be nice. lol and ./facepalm at the fact Night Lords, Archers, and Aran get a 5% increased crit chance while everybody else who do not crit also get..... 5% increased crit chance.
anyone think Evan's might be valuable at Pink Bean? I was looking more into their skills and magic resistance is a party skill that reduces 20% magic damage taken...partial solution to taking Ariel/PB dmg?
*edit* does anyone know if you have to allocate all ur SPs into skills before advancing to the next mastery or does the change automatically happen when you get to the required level?
Last edited by Furnost; 2009-12-03 at 11:23 AM.
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