So I've got an archer with the intent of making a Hunter out of her, but I was thinking. Would a dancer/gypsy be a better character to leech?
Hunters have:
pretty much just auto-blits and blitz beat
normal build would be... an additional 1000 def ignoring damage? give or take
Snipers have:
Focused Arrow Strike/Sharp Shooting
Falcon Assault (according to ratemyserver, it's +500%. so... 5000 damage?)
I'm not familiar with the damage and spammability of these skills
Dancers have:
Sling Arrow, pathetic. Better just use a bow and Doube Straffe
Gypsies have:
Arrow Vulcan, which can one-shot a lot of low DEF monsters
Marionette Control, not an offensive skill but should help with crafting and brewing, if ever I want to do that
what do you think guys?
Autohitters deserve a long painful death.
If you want to leech, DS is the way to go, all you've to choose is between which class and if you want higher dmg [Sniper] or using the character later for anything [Gypsy].
If you can't reset the stats through an easy way, like a npc, just go Sniper to abuse their high dex and aspd [they can get 180 dex and 190 aspd in tons of different ways] or just abuse of the -SP% items, like Ulle's cap, to use less SP items while spamming DS.
A dancer will be far more useful post-leeching if you are planning on doing anything besides PvE. Plus, a Dancer with some decent SP gear can spam DS non-stop. Between Hunter or Dancer, i'd say dancer.
The best for leeching is hunter cls and there is absolutely no space for a discussion. So as long as you limit your actions to leeching, hunter always must be your choice.
Hunter benefits:
-higher aspd coefficient at bow
-ability to use awakening pot (dancer cls is limited to concen pot)
-far higher dps by true sight and some exclusive sniper gear (sniping suit; fe)
Just look at this screen:
(http://puu.sh/cFXe4/37f21d13e9.jpg)
Used skills: IC+concen pot on clown and IC+TS+awaken pot on sniper
178 aspd means ~2.27 hits per second
182 aspd means ~2.78 hits per second
http://irowiki.org/classic/ASPD (http://irowiki.org/classic/ASPD)
So you basicly do 1 more hit every 2 seconds without any gear and the possibilties for sniper pve gear are much better. Ofc the aspd heavily effects ds spam.
A higher sp pool on dancer cls? lol who cares?
Lets say you farm 1hr. You kill 5 mobs per minute, lets say its mavka.
You need 7 hits on sniper and 10~11 hits on clown, lets say 10.
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So 5 targets per minute means 300 per hour. 7 ds * 300 are 2100 and 10 * 300 are 3000.
2100 * 12 SP is 25200 SP per hour
3000 * 12 SP is 30000 SP per hour
Plus 80 SP for TS every minute means 80 * 60 which is 4800 SP. So we also have 30000 SP for Sniper.
So does this really matter? No, it means a s***. Because the natural SP recov depending on your int which is the same (every 6 int = 1 more sp per recov tick).
Welcome to grade 6 math.
if you need a farmer + leecher go sniper. if you need a pretty good farmer + good support go gypsy. ez
Sniper. You can actually clear mobs easily with Sniper as opposed to Gypsy.