Like Devil said, change the skills so the later ones don't make the earlier obsolete.
But in general, speed up their skills (and on a side note, work on that hit frame issue of skills not affecting monsters occassionally). They finally got the firepower, aesthetics, and party support aspects correct with this class; make it so that damage output can compete at the single target level and is worthwhile for training at the mob level, and this class will be amazing.
This. Take it from anyone who has ever played a Magician past Lv. 120 before, the Evan class is a godsend in that it fixes almost every issue the ArchMage classes have, but the cast speeds ruin it as a whole. They're the Achilles Heel of the entire design.
Ultimate powers ranging from 570 up to Dark Fog's 750 are ridiculously strong and should be slow, and are - except for Genesis, ultimate cast speeds get slower as you increase the attack power, from a 3 second ArchMage cast speed to a one-minute Dark Fog speed. But an ~3 cast speed for Flame Wheel, a skill with a little over half the firepower of an ArchMage ultimate? Even with critical hit abilities and MageZerk it's not enough to keep such a skill that slow. Not to mention the fact that Magicians still can't single target DPS well, so if you're going to put a time cap on the Evan ultimate you should make sure it can compete at the bossing and training levels with it's single target and mobbing skills. Not waste elaborate animation time on monsters that will have moved out of your range, as Sarah said.
But in general, speed up their skills (and on a side note, work on that hit frame issue of skills not affecting monsters occassionally). They finally got the firepower, aesthetics, and party support aspects correct with this class; make it so that damage output can compete at the single target level and is worthwhile for training at the mob level, and this class will be amazing.
BombsAway Wrote:I was really excited about this job but those attack speeds are such a huge turn off.
This. Take it from anyone who has ever played a Magician past Lv. 120 before, the Evan class is a godsend in that it fixes almost every issue the ArchMage classes have, but the cast speeds ruin it as a whole. They're the Achilles Heel of the entire design.
Cyanne Wrote:If you look at the spell attacks of each skill, they are ridiculously strong, so they should be slow. kMST people just haven't maxed the skills yet for reasons like not having done quests or not passing mastery books.
Ultimate powers ranging from 570 up to Dark Fog's 750 are ridiculously strong and should be slow, and are - except for Genesis, ultimate cast speeds get slower as you increase the attack power, from a 3 second ArchMage cast speed to a one-minute Dark Fog speed. But an ~3 cast speed for Flame Wheel, a skill with a little over half the firepower of an ArchMage ultimate? Even with critical hit abilities and MageZerk it's not enough to keep such a skill that slow. Not to mention the fact that Magicians still can't single target DPS well, so if you're going to put a time cap on the Evan ultimate you should make sure it can compete at the bossing and training levels with it's single target and mobbing skills. Not waste elaborate animation time on monsters that will have moved out of your range, as Sarah said.