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#1 Aug 24 2010 at 4:03 AM Rating: Default
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I have a friend playing Beta and this is what he says...

Okay so most of you already know this, but Archers are mainly going Thaumaturge and Conjuror for second class personally I think Thaumaturge will own because of the way you have to spend stat points, but if i can get the correct accuracy gear with both archer and conj, then it can be done so that you have most stat points to go on Archer DAMAGE stat (prolly str) ABSOLUTELY NON on vitality, because your range, DUH, be in a party get a tank......(of course you can always respec, but I don't know how much VIT makes a difference to your health, i forsee about 5-10 levels making a 1-2 extra hits before u die, which is great, but I'd prefer LUCK for Crits (if such a thing exists) STR for that extra dmg.

and for the conj simple, healing spell maxed out pretty high

STR put 10-20% rest gear
DEX etc 10% rest gear
conjur's equivalent to DEX same as DEX
HEALING SPELLS 50%
FIRE, THUNDER etc. (your choice here) 25%

that should be perfect, equipt provides damage and accuracy, foods give health mp stamina tp, or wotever im not sure how it'll work out, healing is a MUST for soloing and lets u turn conj mode to heal your party and also do sum damage.

it's not bullet proof but i think it's better keeping in tact with those who like to play RANGE.

no one seems to talk about gear and how it's stats will work out.

Personally i see no point going insane putting stats to do extra damage and accuracy if your going arch conj, for soloing your going to need all the juice u can get from healing.

I imagine this for solo (for harder targets of course)

conj HOLD TARGET
switch to archer mode
PWN,
target gets close, switch to conj, hold again, run then use a thunder move to stun, a ice move to slow movement, kite sumore, repeat.

by the second wave of attack your TP will be full so when you go archer, just unleash all your deadlys.

I imagine hold will come in handy for waiting for stamina to recover also, this seems like a great tactic as I do not imagine a pure archer to be able to hold it's own too much in closer ranged combat and i cant see de-activate, run, attack to work.......i think you will be running too slowly to make any descent ground.

People have only been playing around the LL town, so there hasn't been much access to the whole game, and while some people have supposedly complained about getting too much exp for doing anything......it seems to be a troll comment, many people seem to be enjoying the game immensely.

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Archer...Glad or Lancer will actually be the best build in my head for a damage spec, I will probably play with either until I find it time to party with lots of people for bigger stuff....that way while im using my "naive" spec or levelling spec I can just pump it all into STR and DEX being a pure dmg menace......

I tihnk you will be ok with either.....bigger stornger mobs in groups of say 2-3 come onto you, archer might mean u can pick em off solo, in which case, lancer would be better, but if 3 mobs will come running then maybe glad seems better.

FINALLY

what will you guys be playing? how will you be playing it? lets exchange some ideas n stuff!


#2 Aug 30 2010 at 5:09 AM Rating: Decent
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You have no clue on how this game actually works do you?

What makes you think you can actually change class during mid fight?
What makes you think you get to keep your TP once you change class?

Have you considered the lag time between executing these actions such as switching class,
applying action skills to the action bar? (even when using macro, there's a delay)

By the time you have switched class (even if you can mid-fight) you'd be long dead before
that switch is even complete. (I havent tried since i never needed to.)

Besides there's a reason for any class to be able to equip most other classes skills.

Your idea sounds good but it wont work with the current state & how the game in general works.
But from another point of view it's totally absurd.

Maybe you should actually try the game for yourself and see how "well" this works.

After reading this i just hope i dont accidently invite someone with a vivid imagination
such as yours to my LS, based upon things you have heard & not even experienced for yourself.

If you really really wanna PWN as you say, get ready to get PWN'd by the delay doing this tactic.
(If it even works)

- Info from an actual BETA tester.

(im not even gonna continue this discussion)
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#3 Aug 30 2010 at 6:28 AM Rating: Default
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I provided a little info from beta from a friend who is actually playing :)

The rest is just clearly stated imagination as of how I see the game playing it from what I've heard so far....I plan to put it to the test for OB.

Personally we have this term in greek, parashezis, which means to overcomplicate, with macro delay doesn't seem bad at all, skill changing will be instant, armour and wep may have a delay or sorts probably more of an animation thing than anything.............

In a group, arch arch arch, switch to conj whenever really, delay should be about 2 attacks MAX, then i can attack summor, I can see your point with TP, but surely with clever timings you can switch as HP will get low, and people shouldn't be using pots n stuff (again if such a thing exists)

I kinda wanted to farm info from beta to see what people thought............apart from some flaming on your behalf your comments have been taken into consideration...next time ye need only put squablesom thoughts aside and contribute some of this knowledge you seem to have hidden inside your head.........

so please....discussions aside, feel free to drop some lowdown bombs on this forum, because I;d love to read something more indepth.........afterall what's the point of multijobs if you cant really do anything clever with them!
#4 Aug 30 2010 at 12:28 PM Rating: Good
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You can't swtich classes mid-combat, and that includes being attacked. Your idea, while having some merit, would not work.
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#5 Aug 30 2010 at 2:11 PM Rating: Decent
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I can barely understand what you're even trying to say. Take a little time to organize your thoughts and take a grammar course and it might be easier to take anything you're saying seriously...
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