BB does 1000%. It does 2 hits of 500%.
Only if the target hits another enemy (least thats how it used to be), it may just auto-2hit with a single target on this server though, and if it does that's idiotic and I'm bug reporting it because that's broken as hell. Also, the only instance you're going to be possibly using pierce is against single targets, not groups.
So do you get 2hits with BB against a single target that doesn't get knocked into anything? Wait, is it doing 2 hits to the mob too?
It has a higher sp cost, but that's almost not a factor with the 5kp potion boxes.
Players can't get a free 250kp keys anymore last I checked, so they will start having to pay out of pocket for them. There's also the chance that the WOE potions may be pulled out of general use in the future and restricted to WOE use.
Especially when alchemists come along. Cause if they're just gonna give out pots like that. I'd like a stack of AGI, Blessing, and priest buffs that I can buy for $0.10. $0.50 for a very very strong ice claymore would be nice too because screw blacksmiths. Who needs support classes when I can just use money?
Meanwhile there are people who are perfectly fine with playing without spamming premium items.
Where are you (Nikarus) getting your damage numbers from?
Both IRO classic and renewal wikis list the same % damage modifiers for BB and Pierce. Unmentionables also list 150% and 200% as the damage mod for pierce at level 5 and level 10 respectively. For some reason the tooltip for pierce (and brandish spear) don't list additional damage bonuses per level in game for some reason. (Several skills are bugged like this.)
Course those wikis might be wrong, and pierce has no damage modifier advantage per level in this server, but I highly doubt that.
and also the overall DPS wouldn't be much better
BB had a built in delay, whereas pierce was spammable IIRC. Though that might not be the case on this server with their mixed up mechanics here and there.
Not that it's much of a decision since you can get both skills and have left over points.
2h knights were always supposed to be the group fighters, while spears were for single target. If BB 2h knight is getting the second attack against single targets though and doing 1000% with every BB usage... then there's literally 0 point in even associating yourself with the spear skills.
but then you'd be locked into single target killing which is a horrible way to level...
Leveling isn't everything. Many builds that are good for MVP, or PVP, or WOE might not be good for leveling solo. Shield crusaders for example are garbage to level, but extremely powerful once leveled up, and geared. Assassins and rogues are slow to level as you can't mob, but are both quite powerful in PVP. (at least they were). Also not everything is solo grinding. I can remember in early RO, 1 of my guildies, (spear knight) his primary role while we were leveling was to hang around the squishier people of the party, and spear stab things away from them. Meanwhile our other players did other thigns for mobbing and killing groups of things.
Course if BB is really that broken, again there's precious little point in a spear knight ATM.
Edited by nikarus, 13 July 2017 - 04:36 PM.