2009-12-21, 03:06 PM
FrozNlite Wrote:You DO realize that not everyone treats leeching like it's the plague like you do right? If anyone bothers playing an F/P anymore it's not hard to get from 30-70. So yes, it's useless. In fact, a Fire Arrow that hits 4 mobs is more effective than Explosion as a 3rd job training skill.
"For anyone who goes Explosion first." I've been contributing to F/P forums for 3 years now, ever since I was that level. Not only is the number of ArchMages sad due to their crappy skills, the number of F/Ps is even smaller, and beyond that, the 8 or so who went Explosion first an almost negligible amount. Plus, as I just said, a 10 base attack power difference on Explosion, while leaving the cast speed utter crap, is still overpowered by a Fire Arrow that hits 4 mobs.
Yeah, I know my platform from Lv. 200 means I appear biased or ignorant, but then again I've actually played my goddamn class through hellish times and really know what I'm talking about.
EDIT to your edit: Yeah, it's useful, but then again Poison Brace, like myself and other F/Ps have said, is already an amazing skill. An F/P Bracing DTs on 4x trains obscenely faster than an F/P hitting 4 Samihos with Fire Demon on 4x.
You do realise my husband is a 2.5 year old 150 F/P right? You've met him. We both struggled through the hellish times also. He maxed explosion first without any idea of how useful mist was, and I can tell you that having a better explosion would've made the trek to 120 a whole lot easier. Besides, the gap between mist and explosion shouldn't be so disgustingly wide. No skill should be completely useless. You should be able to choose whether you want to go explosion or mist and not suffer for making that choice. This helps bridge the gap a little.
It seems to me like you're just discrediting things that don't benefit you. That extra 3000 damage from amp would allow me to 1HKO skeles sometimes as a full-luk Arch Mage. How is that not useful? You just don't seem to be looking at it from the point of the aspiring adventurer.
Besides, you said it yourself. There aren't that many high level F/P's. Not even 4th job ones. That speaks volumes about how much they need to be changed.