like i said, fencer boosting will be a true thing and i bet that will be nerfed, but dragon, not so much because if you compare for example, doppel have the slash buff, someone said that was 50%, on the ktos topic i believe, or it was in this topic i would not go back to check, plus cleave and is 50% as well they have problems , of course, the uptime is bad and the execution is even worse and because of that, is something that there is not need to nerf. and i do not see rank 9-10 going up to 50k base damage, right now if you went ET for example, you will see that the mobs on there had 280-300k HP, so now the mobs outside have 300k as well, the elite ones, and a good DPS party already was enough to kill those mobs in et with rank 7 the main problem was killing “enough” of them in the time frame given, but outside there is not clock to tell you the time to kill the mobs. so a party that is not so good would be able as well with rank8, and of course anyone who already went past 230 knows that the game is more party oriented in those levels, and rank8 will not change that, so 300k is not so the problem right now i think, a full META damage char would be able to kill them solo and the ones who is not damage focus, will need PT the same as we have now, and even the damage ones would still need pt as well, to boost their xp/hour.
but for fencer, most people are even forgetting that we have venier and lola rapier with +2 skills, this means a extra 40% in critical damage just because of the weapon.
and again, please look at doppel2, and dragon 1 or fencer 2 for example, doppel was by fair the best dps, so of course he would need to have the bad end with rank 3.