You can solo level from 1-85 in the game just doing quests.
You can solo level to 90 which is max level just by doing quests. There are daily quests that give amazing exp. And during an EXP event it is easy to cap level.
Blunt weapons are not preferred. If your build uses skills, use a sword. If it doesn't use skills, use an axe.
Doesnt matter if you use skills or not, for a warlord and a zerk you use the Crystalia Axe. For a commander/prot you use a bludgeon.
Premaking a party doesn't matter since there usually isn't a battlefield with enough players in the queue.
There are plenty of people in battlegrounds throughout the day. You dont have to premake a party, or you can party with 1-2 other players. Unfortunately if you party with more, you wont be able to join the match.
You should be able to raid with a Radiant and pvp with a Berserker.
You can pvp and pve/raid with a Radiant. PvP with a Berserker is a bit hard and relies heavily on having great gear. And even then you wont get many kills in battlegrounds
Warlord is more a support character in raid and PVP, they don't do much of the killing.
Warlords are AMAZING for pvp especially if you have good gear, they allow your team to completely destroy the enemy team. And if you have good enough gear, you can get plenty of kills yourself
If you wanted to do both with 1 character, you would want to use the warlord.
You can use both radiant and warlord for pvp/pve
The problem will be finding a Raid or PVP battleground. There just aren't enough players.
There are plenty of players for battle grounds. Raiding will require you to find a guild that does them daily.
Most people already spent their way to top end gear.
Most people have spent very little to +30 (top end) their gear. The only thing that might require some cash investment is things like a pet, and a permanent costume. Thats about it
It costs hundreds in cash shop purchases to make competitive gear, otherwise you get squished.
It costs literally no money to make the best gear in the game. You can do it all using battlefield points or using items from events.
That's just insurance xeons that prevent breaking equipment when reinforcing which can happen with 100% success chance.
The chance of losing an item at 100% success is so small that its negligible. I have made over 30 items +30 and havent lost a single one
SCAD is Skill Critical Additional Damage.
First correct statement in this wall of nonsense
When you critical, you double your damage and add on the Skill Critical Additional Damage.
Second Correct statement
The regular damage is affected by the single variable logarithmic function for damage reduction.
This is only for Auto Attacks and Melee Skill Attacks. This is untrue for Casters using magic skills.
Past level 80, everyone has 80% damage reduction.
This makes no sense. Please ignore this statement. You only have 80% magic resist if you have proper gear and/or enchants for it. Being level 80+ does not mean you have 80% damage reduction. In fact most casters do not have 80% Short range damage reduction unless they switch multiple gear parts
SCAD uses a different damage reduction formula.
SCAD uses no reduction formula.
Previously it ignored armor all together.
Scad is not affected by ARMOR in anyway whatsoever
It still is only marginally affected by armor.
Nope.
As a result it's a way to get around the poorly devised damage formulas.
I suppose. Though i doubt thats why scad was implemented.
However, there are actually 2 numbers, CAD and SCAD.
Third correct statement.
When you use a skill, it's affected by Skill Critical.
Fourth correct statement.
When you use an auto-attack, it's affected by Critical.
Also correct.
Warlords and Berserkers have a low Skill Critical rate,so you first have to get Skill Critical to above 40% for SCAD to be effective.
All end game gear gives plenty of Skill Critical Rate. As such, every player at end game that has decent gear is running 100% Skill Critical Chance. On top of that, there are plenty of enchants that allow you to reach 100+ critical chance.
Then concentrate on SCAD.
You concentrate on SCAD only when you have 100% critical chance. This does not apply to Radiants or Warlords. In both cases SCAD is a secondary. Radiants primary focus is mnd to increase heals, and Warlords need to have HP in order to survive.
Warlords and Berserkers also have the highest base damage.
That is only because their 2 hand weapons give enormous damage. If you choose to use shield + bludgeon instead of 2h Axe, you will have the same base damage or even less than an Assasin. And in fact an assasin with a Bow has more base damage that a Warlord or a Zerk
I would not worry about auto-attacks since the developers broke the auto-attacks a couple years ago.
Auto attacks are NOT broken. They have never been broken. Zerk currently has a small bug with its attack speed buff, where the cooldown and duration are off. While Assasins have no issue using Auto Attacks.
