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The only reason you would keep crit is unless you achieve 100% crit with it, otherwise its pointless imo

[quote=godman111]I thought hyper skills were KMS exclusive, meaning that kanna/hayato dont get hypers since they were JMS exclusive, but thats just what i heard.[/quote]

Not at all, sir. Hyper skills aren't exclusive in any meaning of the word. Hayato and Kanna likely won't be receiving Hyper Skills though, just because they've been out since before KMS did hyper skills, and they never received them in JMS (even to this day).

I sincerely hope they do, as it'd definitely give Hayato that extra "Oomph" I feel he needs, I just seriously doubt it. I actually feel like these 'exclusive' classes and expansions are pretty terrible ideas. They're VERY cool, but expecting for any one region to balance their game for the exclusives, is silly, and won't happen for LONG periods of time after their release. I mean, look how long it took them to bring that NLC expansion. Took them years upon years to release it, even after teasing it. And even still, the shops don't have everything they're supposed to (like magnifying glasses, and nebulite drills).

[quote=FireBoy67]Buff duration, boss damage, or cool down reduction. I'd not bother with crit since you can level a phantom to get 10-15% crit plus the hyper skill will give another 10 which is 20-25% right there or 80% if you have the event hat and pendant. An explorer crit ring or legendary gratias ring can give you 80-90% crit if you have one to trade on you're account.

Like @Housha said you have 45% crit naturally, without the event stuff you'd have 90% crit with them 100%.

@above attack speed is pointless since hayato's are at speed cap by 2nd job.[/quote]

I thought hyper skills were KMS exclusive, meaning that kanna/hayato dont get hypers since they were JMS exclusive, but thats just what i heard.

In my personal opinion-If you ever get boss damage, keep it no matter what the other lines come out to be.

If at all possible though, Buff Duration would be really nice for Hayato, as well as attack. Reason being, Hayato has two (maybe even 3) things that are very important that rely on buff duration: Willow Dodge stacks, Jinsoku, and Issen (Hitokiri Strike). I'm not sure if buff duration effects those skills, but if it isn't glitched, it probably should. In which case, you get more time to stack Willow Dodge stacks (more chance at achieving 5 stacks/ 30% extra damage). You also get Jinsoku's passive defense buff to last longer when it activates. And most important, Hitokiri Strike's critical buff will last something like 52 seconds while having a 90 second cooldown (only 38 seconds of downtime).

That's my opinion, anyway.

@FireBoy67 : there's no cooldown reduction inner, not exactly anyway
there's chance to ignore cooldown (up to 20%) but that's a little gimmicky

30% crit
20% boss damage
30 att
-1 attack speed

edit:
also +1 targets for mob ability

@Kanuhduh and @FangKingRei: Critical Rate isn't worth 1 line, IMO. Not for Hayato, which has 100% 50%'ish of the time. There are IA's you could have greater benefits from.

I'm pretty fond of my 23% Critical rate. As a shadower, it is quite useful.

%boss or weapon attack. Look through all the inner abilities though