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Mergen is underwhelming

Class and Rank Archer
#81

Ah I see. Thanks! Assumption-based theory: every hit creates 3 explosion damage, each of which will damage nearby enemy. That’s why two adjacent enemies create 6 damage to each other (6 explosions).

EDIT: so it does not work like barrage. Instead, the more enemies that are close to each other, the more explosion damage will occur. For example: 2 enemies close to each other = 2x3 =6 damage each. 3 enemies = 3x3 = 9. 4 enemies = 3x4= 12. And so on. Therefore, this skill will be amazing with hangman or magnetic force.

#82

This is a very rough estimate, but getting the full +15 attack range attribute should cost ~18m. You have to level it at +1 per level.

#83

Will post some vids here:
Mergen range increase + kneeling shot bypass boss aggro range:


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More:

@DiMeowgio For your qs3 mergen? :slight_smile:

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#84

Woah but that for kneeshot lvl10 only right too bad i’m only lvl5 T T

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#85

I was gonna ask the same, I’m also only at A2 (Lv5 Kneeling). Is it enough? :stuck_out_tongue: The attribute for range increase doesn’t seem to be working in iToS yet so I can’t test properly.

Thanks for the info though @greyhiem

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#86

If you are low on funds, I would let someone else test it. Quite expensive attribute.
I forgot you were A2 (kneeling 5), I am not sure if kneeling 5 is sufficient.

#87

I have the attribute but I can’t feel/tell any difference because I haven’t extensively been playing “at a distance” from bosses. Whenever I use RS, I “circle” around the boss (as a habit) when I was still doing Mission runs. Now I can’t shake that habit :stuck_out_tongue:

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#88

It’s just a QS habit. I circle boss on qs too. Feels better to move during running shot. I have to remind myself to repeatedly move left-right, and up-down to keep boss facing away from party. (at low lvl siaulai of course)

#89

I’m curious if you were to build a mergen how would you build it?

#90

kneeling a3 already bypass aggro range just fyi. unless the boss has a auto reset positon/ aggro Like 290 bosses

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#91

Lost to a krevis/taoist :[ oh well got 2nd

#92

You can do that trick with necro skels as well, though you have to at least aggro the boss once.

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#93

Vs ghost armour boss/ice element boss? Krivis taoist lightning damage~.
Have seen quite a lot of mergen combo already:
iToS fletcher -> mergen/hakka.
Ktos fletcher -> mergen/hakka.
iDreamy scout -> mergen (due to capture burst).
A3 Scout3 Falcon1 -> mergen (circling homing arrow is nice).
QS3 A2 Falcon1 Scout1 -> mergen.
A2 Sapp2 Wugu3 -> mergen.

#94

on 12m wb basically who ever have the largest nice bust burst wins. :^)

Taoist +krvis combo is one of them. Fencer, dopple dragoon and musketeer all excel in rotation hp burst(2-3m burst damage in 10-20second). soo yea…

#95

To be honest, I love my Mergen but I had to accept that I am no longer top DPS on bosses and I’m absolutely useless in TBL against teams that has stone skin, shield users, ausrine, 7revenge, prophecy, bloodletting.

Still fun though.

#96

I’m still at the dilemma of picking mergen or hackapell once I reach rank 8 for my A1R3F3 archer. Either seems to be a great pick and so far from what I’m seeing when I explore the higher level maps, it seems to be that AOE would be king yet there is theories that hackapell would be a better fit for R3F3 since it synergises more due to the multi-hit [missile] AA and skills which Skarp would do tremendous damage to whatever that the hackapelle has rounded up. But yes, hackapelle would be a single target boss fighter compared to a mergen aoe caster.

I agree we’d never know how these 2 classes are going to fare once rank 9 releases and it’s a gamble, but the tone of mergen seem to be ‘meh’ and the otherside that tells me mergen would benefit from steady aim, but I also think hackapelle would as well…

So I can’t decide even after typing this out, so I’d like some thoughts from the playerbase who have already reached r8.

Thank you.

#97

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#98

can you use magic arrow while mounting? if not then choose mergen

#99

this is just a bunch of text

#100

Hackapell is far from bad…