Agny is just another addition to Tree Of Selfishness [or rather: selfish prick]…
I believe all the buff classes should get the option to either spread their buffs or keep them as a self-buff, with increased values.
E.g. Swell Left Arm adding 208 atk at lvl 15 for the party or 500 atk for yourself. That way support Classes can become viable parts of builds, and actually have a real gain from buffing instead of a DPS loss.
Bosses and monsters don’t die if you can only buff yourself a little, they die from damage. Classes with only damage skills don’t have this issue, and this sucks.
Buffs should always substitute for a loss of damage, so getting a certain buff should enable you to replace the loss of damage skills over time.
But, the problem that rises here is the damage attributes actually make a lot of buffs not viable. 1,5 -2x the damage is damage you can’t achieve with the bad buff scaling, and if everyone gets the buff, you’re the only one who has to pay with SP and time costs and get the least out of the buff, which is simply retarded. IMC even went so far and turned some damage skills into buffs like e.g. Merkabah with the Divine Protection Attribute, so why not the other way around and turn buffs into viable damage for yourself via attribute?
Same with Heal and Cure, they need “remove healing/curing” attributes to make them viable for damage, as pots and def buffs substitute more than enough for healing recieved damage.
Look how all those leechers run into your Heal,Cure & Safety Zone if you cast them and how they switch mobs to kill off your linked mobs to steal your silver. I believe this has to stop.
Either everyone becomes a supporter in one way or another, or everyone has to have the option if he wants to share his buffs, similar to how Archers can choose to share their Swift Step or not!
Agny is just shoving the ugly sight of Tree of Selfishness right back into the faces of those so-called “DPS-classes” who are now crying over “OP Pyro damage higher than mine q.q”, while supporter still have low to no damage at all and get their buffs used against them, thanks to the developers.
Tree Of Support: You work, others profit