Yes to this. I was very surprised when on one boss my bow (which has more atk than my crossbow) was doing 40s and my crossbow did 90s. I do know that both are “Stab” type, so I’m not sure what accounts for the bonus damage since my bow generally hits harder everywhere else.
I got a swordsman to lvl 25 easliy, then tried to make a archer and it was really difficult to handle the boss fights.
Maybe IMC games can try to include a matchmaking system where you automatically can find party member within ur level range
Imo bosses are fairly simple because they have slow animations. I was able to solo every boss on my archer and most of the time I was underleveled (near the end of the beta I killed a level 47 boss at level 41). After level 20 things start to get slower unless you have a build that focuses on single target damage, which I did not. I went mostly dex with a 4:1 dex to strength build because I thought str was a 1:1 ratio for physical attack. Although Mindmaker said it’s not so maybe if I changed my stat allocation things would’ve gone quicker.
I was playing with moderate lag. Perhaps its considerably easier with lower ping.
I wish we had some kind of way to really compare dex and str, I have seen so many posts that said going with a lot more dex than str was better because dex scaled beter somehow but it seems to me that later on you would lack damage and crit very low damage anyway.