It's not whether there's a point to a pure LUK build or not. It's the fact that it'd be possible, and not significantly weaker.
Depending on the context, 20% may count as "significantly weaker" if you're talking about equip differences in the same class, subclass, and build. But not when you're comparing cross-class, or in this case, a completely different build which was never meant to be playable at all in the first place. Illustrated by the fact that pure LUK hits straight 1's on anything higher than level 20.
It's not the fact that pure LUK would supersede standard builds, which they won't. Just the fact that they would outdamage any other build with a certain 2nd job skill, even if said skill can't carry them anywhere past 80, shows the senselessness of the thing.
And no, it's not a problem with the 130 wands, which you brought up earlier. Sure, the 130 wands definitely help the LUKlesses. But even if you took them out, and the 70s, and Shine/Wisdom, and even Noc/Lama/Maple Staff...
A LUKless wooden wand user would still be playable. Weaker than today's standard, sure, but definitely still playable. For an endgame equip set that costs 500k at most, it'd perform pretty pineappling well.
The weapons are not the issue. The formula is and has always been limequat, and we all know it.
(...No, 'limequat' was not an act of the censor.)
Rebalancing magic so that it's fixed at ~2.5 INT : 1 MA would be the most sensible solution. And if you're going to be so paranoid about LUKlesses losing 10-15 magic, why not just buff the spell formula a bit for everyone.
Depending on the context, 20% may count as "significantly weaker" if you're talking about equip differences in the same class, subclass, and build. But not when you're comparing cross-class, or in this case, a completely different build which was never meant to be playable at all in the first place. Illustrated by the fact that pure LUK hits straight 1's on anything higher than level 20.
It's not the fact that pure LUK would supersede standard builds, which they won't. Just the fact that they would outdamage any other build with a certain 2nd job skill, even if said skill can't carry them anywhere past 80, shows the senselessness of the thing.
And no, it's not a problem with the 130 wands, which you brought up earlier. Sure, the 130 wands definitely help the LUKlesses. But even if you took them out, and the 70s, and Shine/Wisdom, and even Noc/Lama/Maple Staff...
A LUKless wooden wand user would still be playable. Weaker than today's standard, sure, but definitely still playable. For an endgame equip set that costs 500k at most, it'd perform pretty pineappling well.
The weapons are not the issue. The formula is and has always been limequat, and we all know it.
(...No, 'limequat' was not an act of the censor.)
Rebalancing magic so that it's fixed at ~2.5 INT : 1 MA would be the most sensible solution. And if you're going to be so paranoid about LUKlesses losing 10-15 magic, why not just buff the spell formula a bit for everyone.