Haven’t seen any dievs doing solmiki, only priests. Why is that?
Dievdirbys was for a long time not a super popular class in Korea. They had a much stronger affinity towards FS Priest builds. Dievdirbys became popular in the west far quicker than the east for one reason or another. It wasn’t until the Melstis + Ausrine cheese was discovered that it gained more popularity in the east.
In any case, a lot of groups out there generally accept that it takes up too many party spaces to have one player on a Dievdirbys build and another be a Melstis bot that does nothing else. It’s a pretty big loss in party function. So they choose not to use Dievdirbys since they aren’t taking advantage of perma-invulnerability.
With R8, there was the introduction of Missile Hole, which covered all of Stone Skin’s weaknesses with the sole exception of ground-based magic. It became a pseudo method of invulnerability especially since Missile Hole has 100% uptime and melee mobs generally aren’t too dangerous to begin with in the game. Sage was affixed to the end of Chronomancer builds too so it was an addition to comps without affecting the comp negatively at all.
There are of course situations where this backfires. The team that went to floor 35, despite their gratuitous amount of team funding as far as damage goes (T9 315 orange two-handed sword) still suffered from huge physical damage due to the sheer zerg of that floor. Relying solely on Missile Hole led to their death.
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Probably cause Ausrine Cheese is only really needed for hard situations where you are at risk of dying (ET, PvP). For anything else where you would have survived just fine anyways, you might as well have a class that focuses on something more fluid to get through the content faster.
because they dont know how to play?
Meltis + ausrine is broken as fu c k .
that explains a lot, thank you
would a diev3priest3 be good for 21F+?
well, solmiki is Earth Tower