U mean ‘best AA single target dps’.
The person talking about slow start is wrong.
The missile penalty was drastically reduced if not altogether removed.
Your arrows now reduce enemy defense up to 50%. In practice this is more like a 20/25% reduction though.
With the reduced penalty Archers universally do more damage then before.
Only slow start IMO is if you go certain Cleric/Wizard routes (not really cleric but eh going cleric c3 for instance is not very quick solo).Peltasta c2/c3 are slow, psykino is slow if you go wiz c2.
That’s about it that I can think of early game, they buffed wiz c3 so that it was better.
Archer c3, QS, Ranger, Sapper are all good choices. Hunter, I don’t know if they fixed a lot of the skills working poorly on bosses if at all, however the Archer base is so strong it’ll carry Hunter.
They were talking pre buff. Im not sure if you are as well.
Nizidr states the Kobt is slower staying it as exctinct for a reason. After the 28th patch its like icbt2 was just a bad memory. No longer pushed to upgrade the weapon early, which is great and there’s just more damage now even if you had the same old set up.
Which now makes the question at rank 4 plus are they 2 strong due to the new damage modifiers? Im sure you’ll say no as a archer player but ill have to wait and see as i am not playing on the korean server.
Hard to say. My high rank Archer in icbt2 was a Hunter and they had skills (coursing for example) that didn’t work on bosses and were not intended for solo play use. Pretty much all my damage was rank 5 Oblique and barrage. Did not get better until c3 just because Growling is pants on backwards, silly CC. Though maybe they patched that.
Can’t expect someone who went support Archer to know. On the flip I’m playing Psychokino now and ready to level up my QS or start a cleric lol.
Rank 4 ability weaker then a Level 6 earthquake with over 2x the cooldown and a lower aoe ratio, wtf is this. If I can survive the chore I got to get the hell away from psykino c3 as it definitely will not get better lol.
Yea but pet classes in mmos have a history of being super bad 90% of the time.
Hunter wasn’t bad but it was lacking at c2 but not as much as psykino with a wiz c2 start.
Oblique shot and barrage are strong enough and frequent enough it wasn’t a big deal + rushdog ignoring defense made some quests end immediately if it was about destroying objectives.
Thing is you only have rush dog as an attack and exp cards don’t go to the pet so it was massively underleveled meaning it died fairly easily at times.
Finally coursing didn’t work on bosses and its single target so its weak for aoes. Hunter is a support class but some of its support didn’t or doesn’t work.
I plan to make another to check if they fixed the bugs, I actually really enjoyed my Hunter but it was a boss support with bugged skills on bosses lol.
Then you hit c3 and Growling perma stuns bosses and Growling is aoe making it one of the if not the most broken skill in icbt2. You get a hunter he hits Growling, everyone in the party can duck tape their Z key down and come back in 2 minutes on nearly every boss.