Continuing Skill Balance

In before the masses shout this down for the sake of muh nostalgia.

 

I'd say it's a good idea, but u can't deny the fact that theres a big line between good NL's - Shad's and regular-bad ones. Just the ammount of meso needed to properly fund one with good dmg it's enough reason to not nerfing it (Also considering HP washing being expensive aswell)
I agree on the buffing part.

 

Every job in MapleStory is unique. Some are better for bosses, some are grinders and some are destined to be supportive or dependant on other classes. Nerfing v62 skills is just a no go. Buffing is something worth mentioning, but is needed to be thought through...

 

Well you could always just increase the damage multiplier of the skill up to the point where it becomes worthwhile to have.

Right now FA is bad because 1) the animation is slower and may cause you delays and loss of mobility and 2) the split damage makes it inferior.

So suppose the skill's damage was boosted up to 400% when maxed. That would make it a very good option while bossing, and then on multiple targets the damage spread would be like:

267%, 89%, 30%, 10%, 3.2%, 1.1%

That's roughly 400% damage total, minus the mobs' weapon defense, whereas slashblast with 130% damage at 6 mobs is still superior at 780% total damage...

But hey, it's about equivalent with 3 mobs, and superior when dealing with 1 or 2, so if you get FA, your playstyle may change to killing mobs where you see them and NOT focusing on agroing all mobs on a platform first before spamming slashblast to finish them all off at once.

I do think that with the way mob spawns work and the time it takes to gather mobs into a big group, at least FA could be viable if we buffed it...

 

Clearly the buccaneer class needs a huge dps update

 

The buff that actually makes triple throw so very powerful is actually Sharp Eyes. The added crit chance + double damage ontop of the double damage it gets from a crit means NL get 4x damage multiplier on their 160% damage mulitplier stars when hitting a crit.

Onyx apples, Heartstoppers, ciders. These don't multiply their damage as much as SE does. Although Onyx apples does nearly double their damage.

 

I think nerfing is the wrong way to go here. Nerfing a class after someone has put tons and tons of hours in a character will only make people unhappy in this style of game.

Buffing classes is positive for everyone. I'm not going in depth on how to exactly buff the classes that need it, I think they all deserve their own thread so every detail can be discussed. One thing to keep in mind here is that DPS is not the only thing that can balance things between classes. Would rather see unique points buffed that make them stand out.

 

LF> Sair buffs please

 

I don't see how doing a flat % increase on some skills would hurt the game if all it does is bring more balance.
Bandits could use more dmg on Savage Blow for example, as it ends in the main rotation later on anyway. Mages do not scale as well as other classes, so they could appreciate it also. Just ideas to consider

 

too lazy to read what other people wrote: One drawback to the Night Lord class is that it does not have a great 4th job mob skill, which is one trade off for it's immense bossing damage. Also consider the class is balanced by the inflation of its item's prices AND the difficulty with getting triple throw 30; when I joined the server I believe only one player had passed the book.

 

Regarding other skill issues: DrK should never get Beholder's buff/Blessing past level 20 because then it prevents us from using onyx/stoppers, would it be possible to buff our dragon's blood skill to a higher attack (maybe not 25, but like 20) so that we can at least have that. As the skill is hardly worth sparing the money for warrior pots (because fighting bosses with debuffing makes using dragons blood a pain to recast).

 

just saying:
beholder att buff later was stacked with att pots (basiclly gave DK +25att at any time) *flys away*

 

This might be a little greedy, but can Archers get like +30% on strafe? The other ranged DPMs Marksman is comparable to is Battleship Cannon/Rapid Fire, TT, and Hurricane. Sure you can raise the damage cap, but a strafe boost gives something to someone other than deribou Salt Next and myself

 

Just want to point out that the price of certain goods in a player-run economy doesn't actually mean anything is balanced. If the prices inflate way beyond the norm for something, it means that either the players who play that class have a lot of money, or there's just a lot of them driving up the demand. Usually it's both, neither of which situations would indicate anything is "balanced".

Also, every class has difficulties with skill books. But I would say some "necessary" books are more difficult to obtain than others.

 

Speaking of buffing. CB, one of the worst dpsers in 3rd job (who cares about m-e) and the same goes for 4th job. Bad bossers and people in general don't want them on boss runs, atleast on servers big enough to reject people depending on class.

If you buff anyone, they should be one of them. Boomerang Step is slow and it's horisontal range is terrible.

My 2 cents . Ty for trying to improve upon the gameplay <3

 

Not sure what you're talking about. But Bowmasters don't have a mobbing skill at 4th job either.