my friend tells me “you’re part of the problem,” and I know he’s right. but what are we going to do about it?
I was in a dungeon with 4 other archers the other day.
same friend says “if there was an even distribution of players in each class, compositions like that would be incredible rare” so why are we all picking archers? what would it take for you to want to play a healer or a tank?
Archers are not overly common i have had full groups of every class, even clerics despite people telling me there are no healers.
Also groups full of one class are only a issue if its swordsman.
Massive groups of mages or archers can over whelm dungeons with pure damage. I actually have a lot of fun in these groups.
There is nothing you can do about it, most ppl like to play a dps class compare to healer or tank, unless its like WoW where tank or healer can be dps class if they want to, then you will have a lot more ppl playing tank or healer.
Since this is not WoW, the only thing you can do is actually play a tank or healer yourself for easier dungeon grinding, or just do 100 mission because it does not require to have a healer or tank for smooth experience.
Clerics are very capable of dps, swordsman maybe not as much.
well the fact that they can strafe sets them apart from every other class as none other then archer can do that so it makes combat a little more fun and fluid. and the fact that archer is the basically fastest mob killing machine out there if built right has something to do with it. can spam skills and kill really fast. and most jerks pick archer to ks people 
but me personally i like archer cause of strafing though i don’t main it.
cleric imo is the most common
Well, is a matter of usability, attack from distances, and not to mention the skills, that make archers good for Up, much better than others classes.
I understand you convern: On the game “Granado Espada - Sword of the new world” 80% of the players are distance figthers type (guns, archer, bows, cannons), all because the usability.
We dont saw how everything will going to work when Guild vs Guild became high common, but only there we can see if that will be unfair or not for swordman types.
A mmo w/o class role will end up fail soon. People lost interesting cuz literally there no role in any classes beside ET.
Capable to what extent?
Cleric in general has poor mobbing ability.
Have you seen any high level grind party looking specifically for cleric as their dps?
you never see groups recruiting dps because they are a dime a dozen and they already have them. you only see them recruiting important things linker heals tank.
i believe alot of people like archer more then other classes due to the early game. i didn’t get to play in beta but leveling an archer was alot more fun
then a cleric on low levels.
overall i’d say archer > swordsman > wizard > cleric
ofcourse… i have no idea how to play a wizard, with archer all you
need to know is it focus on dex/str and only put one point into obligue shot.
swordsman with peltesta to pull all the mobs and the aoe skills you get along with the survivability also makes it very enjoyable
Actually I have seen many teams recruiting dps asking for archers or wiz.
So what kind of clerics are you referring to here that are very capable of dps and can compete with archers and wiz? I am just curious.
Diev and chaplin are good but are frequently considered support, so mainly druid builds. There are also PD dps builds.
oh? sorry my english isn’t all that great… what i mean was
i think clerics are the hardest to level solo wise and archers are very good at killing mobs fast while walking around in the map
Diev druid build is very situational when it comes to dps, works best at stationary fight and single target, and Chaplin has poor mobbing ability, thats why they are considered as support rather than pure dps.
In general open field grinding, I wouldn’t really pick them to fill the dps spots if there are archers and wiz out there.
Dps have poor mobbing ability thats why groups bring tanks and support linkers, thats a issue with all dps not just clerics.
Sorry if I got you confused, but I was mainly replying the other guy.
oh i see… wups, silly me
The only popular archer class that has poor mobbing ability is quarrel shooter, but can chaplain really compete with quarrel shooter in terms of damage especially after rank 7.
All other type of archers have better mobbing ability than chaplain.
Wiz don’t really have this issue, either they have their own link or they have better aoe.
No chaplin will probably be a little weaker then quarrel shooter. But chaplin brings more then just dps, while still having respectable damage.