Yeah that would be weird since nobody suggested wanderers OHKO anyone solo. FYI until acid bomb and until Soul Destroyer, neither Alchemist nor Assassin had a use for mATK.Tetra is a ultimate OHKO skill on a class 100% oriented around mATK. Metallic is "hey let's add a skill to this class that hasn't needed mATK up to this point."
[...]two wanderers running around OHKOing people with 2300% * 1.5 * 2.25 * 3 Metallics?
No. They would need MANY MORE buffs to choruses to make them an exclusively support class than the required buffs to make them an effective hybrid class. MUCH MUCH MUCH more work. FYI you can kill with double strafe (effectively) as an archer and dancer (in fact the difference between hunter and dancer was hunter had traps and slightly more aspd. A dancer had way more SP, so you could spam DS harder and longer, it was a separate but equal offensive leveling style), and until renewal Arrow Vulcan was a great ranged DPS skill for 1 shotting Kathryn Keyron... 1 shotting an endgame monster. If someone wanted to make a good killer for Bio3... they could choose to make a Gypsy. So they could Mental Sense, use longing for freedom, and kill with AV. Oh my goodness! A hybrid ranged dps/support character? What? Those are facts (I'd like to see your evidence we've always been a full support class...) and your passionate (yet empty) desire to turn them into a full support class is something they have never been.Fixing wanderer as a support class seems more valuable to me than fixing them up as yet another way to take people out. Yeah, I'm not an expert on mATK - for 7 years of playing performers almost exclusively I've never had to think about it. Instead I learned about how to use my skills to buff those casters up. If I (or any of those performers) had wanted to kill rather than buff I would have expected myself or them to make killing characters rather than demand the ability. FYI, all the casters I knew were 100% willing to swap to bryn or whatever else they could use to increase their damage to the point they would kill someone. "reasonable expectations" of defensive gear were for people aiming to tank, not kill.
Edited by Jaye, 13 July 2011 - 02:52 PM.