Revert Changes to Strafe. And Buff?

Good day, good day, a newly advanced Sniper here! And omg I have finally gotten my hands on the 5 hit strafe!

Anyway, on to the thread. I'm not exactly good at giving good points for my ideas, so I'll just get them across nice and simple.

I have been thinking that the changes made to Sniper's Strafe with the last skill balances is a bit too much, and should be reverted to its original state, and then given a small buff. I have read some stuff and have thought of some things, so I will make simple points make my argument.

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1. At max level, Strafe only does 75% damage. Now, while it does a good 5 hits, the % damage itself still seems too low, at least in 4th job. Strafe is our main attack, and it can't even deal 100% damage. The main point here is that with such a low % output, it can be more difficult for Snipers to deal enough damage to knockback a monster. I don't know how important it is, really, but I can at least use Headless Horseman as an example, even though we have puppet and therefore it's not really an issue. But it may be important on certain monsters (I did read something about the Pirate Crimsonwood Party Boss).

2. Main point. As we are aiming to be a pre big bang experience, I don't think it's suitable at all to make changes that are too far out there, or too big. One example being Assassin's Critical Throw skill, in which the chance to hit for critical damage was halved, while its damage output was greatly increased, causing assassin's to have low critical chance, but massive damage when they do, which seems strange and out of place as they would normally have stable damage. Anyway, Strafe was never able to hit 5 times in any version of Maple, though there was Ultimate Strafe in 4th job which hit 6 times. It was always meant to hit 4 times. But changing it to 5 is just too much of a difference, and such things should not be a part of any server that's trying to recreate the pre big bang experience. It isn't right to make such big changes, and Legends should not do things like this. Basically it's like breaking the rules.

3. From what I've seen on other threads about recent changes, I know this change was implemented to make the gap between Marksman and Bowmaster smaller, so that they have similar bossing ability, or something like that. One thread/post did give details about damage output, and apparently, non critical attacks from 5-hit Strafe has lower damage than 4-hit Strafe, the only time when damage was increased is with critical hits (with Sharp Eyes active I think) in which the damage output was a fair bit higher (nice).

Point here is that the whole change was made to make Sniper's damage output with Strafe better, or more in line with Hurricane. But instead of giving a simple small damage boost to Strafe, the staff decided to completed change the skill by decreasing its damage a fair bit and adding a 5th hit. But none of that is needed. Like at all. Therefore my suggestion is to just increase Strafe's damage output while keeping the number of hits the same, thus keeping the skill what it should be while also giving them the higher damage output that was intended.

I mean, there's no logical reason why you should decrease its damage and increase the number of hits and mess with the skill instead of just giving a small damage boost. That's all you have to do. Like seriously. That's it. Perhaps the change was made to give them greater damage with critical hits, thus the added line of damage, but can't this be implemented without giving another line of damage? Can't you just give a small damage boost instead?

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Anyway, I'm not sure if I've done a good job here or not, but I'll simplify everything.

1. Lower % damage spread over more lines = less chance of knockback
2. Changes skills too much = not the original pre big bang experience
3. Give Strafe a small damage boost to make it more in line with Bowmaster damage

Final conclusion.

Revert the changes made to Strafe back to the original changes of 4 hits with 110% damage.
Then, give it a small damage boost, like 115% damage output, or 120% or whatever.
Keep the skill the way it should be. 4 Hits is good. 5 Hits is bad.

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Did I do okay?

 

That, too. Thank you for commenting.

Also. People like my post and said good job and gave me that medal thing.
IM SO HAPPY.

 

I said why in my post. Messing with skills too much.
Do you have reasons why you disagree? Didn't state any.