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Mergen: Spreadshot/Parthian Shaft.. are they really as bad as everyone says?

I’m just curious… parthian shaft looked strong when it was previewed, but I keep hearing it’s terrible. Also, is spreadshoot really that bad as well? I need someone who has actually tried both at lvl 5 to confirm. Thanks!

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Wanna know too. Most people said that Homing Arrow was bad but from my experience it’s very useful even without Falconer :confused:

I only have lvl 1 parthian shaft but it looks totally bad. It doesn’t have an enhance attribute in the first place… and secondly it is rly inconvenient to use… mostly you don’t want to run away from your enemy… also maybe it is only me but I miss with it a lot of times because my character is not in the exact right direction.

Hopefully it will get some nice attributes on rank 9…

i hope it doesnt get any nice attributes on rank 9. Otherwise we might be forced into using the skill … ungh

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haha XD Yeah I understand that… but I made a retarded mounted Mergen so I have to hope for something…because there is nothing else for mounts (yet?) and even if there will be I guess I still have to use this skill too… because that’s what you deserve if you are a special snowflake…XD

archer 3, scout3, falco, mermen is a good build?

good but it will lack bossing/single target damage.
ar2ra2sc1ro1fal1mergen is a better variant.
for single target dmg: steadyaim+feint+barrage and double flareshot+rain arrow
for AOE: circling+multishot+homingarrow+triple arrow
the cons is you cant use any c3 costume

I like tripple arrow most
then arrow sprinkler
last on the like list is homing but because it is at level 1 :slight_smile: charge is kinda slow…but with someone that have a falcon, it rocks!

i don’t have lv5 of those skills but i did try parthian shaft and spreadshot.

the problem with parthian shaft is when you are using mouse mode. It will fire opposite of where you hovered your mouse. Usually when you are running you still hover on your enemies, so when you press parthian shaft skill, it woud fire in front of you which is what we dont want.

problem with spreadshot is sometimes it failes miserably to cast. In paper, it seems like a good skill if you get the ricochet attribute (but thats expensive). I read somewhere that it will get an attribute in r9 where it shoots behind as well

atleast it good with joint penalty

(like almost every skill LUL)

i suggest you to try the skills with cards with AAR.

Like 5 card = + 50 AAR you can see if there is a difference and if the skill can be usefull.

Also with circling / join penality you can see if the skill is usefull too.

The problem of certian kind of skill is that have a too low Aoe Attack Ratio Value so even if potentially could be a good skill when it end for hit 1-3 target resoult disppointing.

But if you try with +50 AAR or with falconer or joint penality the things may be much different.

which card do you mean? this is the first time i heard about AAR card

centaur card, have yet to see one so I assume it’s just listed and not implemented, says something along the lines of “+1 AAR per card” cannot remeber clearly what it said, and googling it? nah.

Should be 1 AAR.x card.lvl. so.10 AAR x.card lv10

cards w/ [number of cards] on their description doesnt work that way. When it say’s number of cards, it means literally the number of card you equip. So if you equip 1 centaur card, then that is 1 AAR. equip 2, thats 2 AAR. its card level doesn’t affect its effect.

i myself have tried testing these w/ templeshooter cards which has a 1% chance to silence induce 4 seconds silence when using missile attacks. Had tried with using lv10 templeshooters but it didnt increase the chance for silence. its really just plain 8 templeshooter cards = 8% chance to silence