I want to add a little more to the points Prin made already, regarding WMs:Not to nag on one point, but this applies even more heavily to the War Mage class as they are probably the absolute worst class of all to take to the endgame due to their lack of groggy. A personal example is always a bad one but it bears mention: I've seen perhaps the best WM in the server and perhaps the best Pathfinder in the server barely do slivers of damage to Elga, and skill cards, stats, gear, and skill still proved to do literally nothing to keep up in terms of DPS.
I do not want to seem incredibly whiny and of course I am not saying that WMs/Sorcerers are the only neglected class (Rogues/Savages as well). If I didn't love my class so much, I would have rolled another more useful one or quit. Probably the latter.
But anyways, I agree with everything that Prin already said. War Mages are incredibly annoying to play with when it comes to groggy. A War Mage can stand there and spam their entire arsenal of spells on a boss in rage-mode and what happens? -- Nothing. Maybe, if you are lucky, you are able to groggy the boss up to about 5-10%, but that was it. Unless you want to find yourself mindlessly whacking with your spear, this is a serious pain in end-game. As a War Mage you only serve as a padding in Elga runs, while everyone else just daggers everything out of their way.
Mind you, that I have around 21k MATK buffed with passives, Focus and 10 Star rings. Which isn't too bad in itself but I think it is time to remind Gravity, that War Mages are supposed to be the magical destructive class. Basically the equivalent to Myrmidons/Overlords (we know how loved those are compared to Paladins/Dragoons, right?). Oh, and they sure are treated as such. Only one of our falsely promising MATK-passives is working on our final MATK-stat (the one on the Warlock skill-tree) while the 4th class passive is just a complete waste of skill points, because it is based on your base-MATK. I would whine a little less, if this would be fixed. It also adds salt to the wound (oh, woe!), that Summoners/Earth Master/Spirit Lord are receiving working MATK-passives left and right and can easily rack up to 30k MATK with the right build, equips and enchants. On top of that, groggy is easy cakes for them.
(edit: Oops, wrote them Myrm wrong!)
Edited by Albruna, 09 April 2012 - 11:08 AM.