With the new stat rework and skill, I tested my cataphract (c3) with decent gear and 200 str with 50con. The skill is lower than previous update, reason being the old cataphract had already have a % damage increase along with a flat damage increase. Like Rush had 150% attack damage + 800 flat damage increase, unlike now its only 158% no flat damage. That 8 percent is nowhere near the original damage, you might say it will scale later on but thats like real max gear at max level. Doom spear (had 200 percent plus flat damage, now its 192 (nerf)) and earthwave (150 percent plus flat damage before, now its 140) is laughable, they have the same case as rush with better multiplier and flat damage. My current weapon and gear are catacomb spike +4, plus the nyx armor set. Conclusion, the multiplier for the skills needs to be higher.
They should but IMC don’t want us to plau Catagoon, because it was the most popular swordsman PvP build before. So this classes has been destroyed intentionally in favor of Corsair and Lancer.
From what i heard so far Lancersair was better in pvp then catagoon befor the patch.
Catagoon was just better at bossing and pve it was a good allaround cls.
Sad that this is now over :<
I dont think new players will be able to progress in the game anymore using Cataphract. They will get stuck at lvl 200 for a very very long time. Earthwave, DP, Rush require extreme high amount of silver just to be decent, and that would be your main skills as you progress to lvl 200+ maps, Imagine youre new to the game with poor silvers in hand.
This class is pretty much dead. Having Cata3 at 300+ with decent investment is just lucky in itself.
If the damage is now too low they should just remove the charge casting. it’s just slowing cataphracts dps so much. dex doesnt even affect the charge casting speed. kinda broken.not to mention that catas have very terrible crit rate. maybe go SW3>Hop 2>cata3 for Finestra buff but that would mean no dragoon abilities so SW2>Hop2>cata2>goon2 but no rush? idk anymore
better dex = concentrate
Agree though. It’s like they’re expecting everyone/newplayers to get a Regard Horn Pike nearing end game. which is very unlikely for new players. plus blessed shards are hard to come by for new players with probably 2 characters. all cata skills should maybe have atleast level 40 damage attribute to deal damage decently. Not to mention there is no crit rate. When I started playing last year with just 1 char, I built my cata with high dex because evasion was just really good back then. even if there wasn’t that much damage as long as I can survive fights that was good enough for me. Now that evasion is dead, I wonder how the new players are doing.
They chugging pots more than ever, they kill very slow and get hit a lot. Upgrading equips is cheap so they might as well get +11 catapike before going Regard pike, then trans it to lvl 2.
As I’ve observed, STR investment for damage diminishes with better gear even with skill multipliers. It’s now just a race to trans-10 lv.315 purple/orange. Probably same for INT as well for mAtk.
yea, people are forced to up their gears because skill multipliers are low now. Problem with upgrading equips is the abysmal chance to get to higher grade. If a newbie bought his new catapike, he only got to +6 then he wont be able to progress fast. We also got RNG to progress fast, if unlucky youre stuck in the hell hole called Rushing and Earthwaving the mobs while taking constant damage to yourself, he will stay poor for the rest of his life because of pots consumption.