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How good will the bm balance be?

I read the skill changed but how good is it gonna be in practice?

November 30, 2014

24 Comments • Newest first

bomberb0i2

ikr i hope it is 350% also cuz turret got a super nerf in damage and atk speed...

Reply December 3, 2014
store

I hope the update note about hurricane wasn't a typo, 350% hurricane....

Reply December 3, 2014
wileytam

Best in da world. Make a bowmaster everybodah C;

Reply December 2, 2014
betaboi101

[quote=bomberb0i2]@betaboi101: nah Nova seems more fun to make, think of all the Norse legends of Pantheon. <3[/quote]

Oh wait, I forgot nova classes were a thing ..

Reply December 2, 2014
bomberb0i2

@betaboi101: nah Nova seems more fun to make, think of all the Norse legends of Pantheon. <3

Reply December 2, 2014 - edited
betaboi101

[quote=bomberb0i2]nexon really needs to make a new Bow using class... plz let it be a Nova race [/quote]

Or a third bowman adventurer <3

Reply December 2, 2014 - edited
bomberb0i2

nexon really needs to make a new Bow using class... plz let it be a Nova race

Reply December 2, 2014 - edited
twopointonefour

All things said bossing is still the same old routine except now you get added mobility for bosses like Chaos Root Abyss and Magnus rather than being locked down with Blaster+blaster.

Reply December 2, 2014 - edited
shalazaar

@betaboi101 its not unfortunate lol il take a 40% total damage boost

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
Elufu

The buffs should yield roughly a 20% increase in DPS excluding Turret AFA and with it .. probably 40%?

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
Mesmus

[quote=carlsonlf]Ooh turret activates AFA now? <3[/quote]

I don't know if I read it correctly but seems like it was actually a bug that it wasn't activated by turret.

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
betaboi101

[quote=xXMCheifXx]I can confidently say ~6m range, ~240% boss, ~91% pdr is nowhere near enough to currently cap with blaster. On cvellum, I hit ~15m blaster and ~30m hurricane.
In dojo I hit 45~50m hurricane and 30~40m blaster.

After SF I should be capping with hurricane on bosses like cvellum -- that 40% attack is delicious. Plus enhancements from star force will give me around 4k more dex.[/quote]

6m seems a bit high/ of a generous estimate to be honest. I hit well over 60mil consistently with the current hurricane (more so given two of those buffs let you pass the cap) and do not think that I have anywhere near a 6 mil range. I can cap with the blaster that you hold down but my summoned blaster still has a way to go .

The above poster is right it's unfortunately only a 40% total damage buff (which is still nice but not as nice as attack would have been).

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
store

[quote=xXMCheifXx]I can confidently say ~6m range, ~240% boss, ~91% pdr is nowhere near enough to currently cap with blaster. On cvellum, I hit ~15m blaster and ~30m hurricane.
In dojo I hit 45~50m hurricane and 30~40m blaster.

After SF I should be capping with hurricane on bosses like cvellum -- that 40% attack is delicious. Plus enhancements from star force will give me around 4k more dex.[/quote]

40% atk? I thought its 40% damage. Well I would be extremely happy if its 40% atk

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
xXMCheifXx

[quote=betaboi101]Capping with the current blaster summon requires like a 5+mil range with a ton of % boss (I honestly lost track of how to calculate range after 2m-2m but I can tell you that 2m-2m clean with a level 10 bow is still not enough to cap your summoned blaster pre nerf with). Once nerfed, capping with blaster (still part of the hits per second as final attack really amps its hits even though its slowed) will be even a more difficult feat..[/quote]

I can confidently say ~6m range, ~240% boss, ~91% pdr is nowhere near enough to currently cap with blaster. On cvellum, I hit ~15m blaster and ~30m hurricane.
In dojo I hit 45~50m hurricane and 30~40m blaster.

After SF I should be capping with hurricane on bosses like cvellum -- that 40% attack is delicious. Plus enhancements from star force will give me around 4k more dex.

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
carlsonlf

[quote=twopointonefour]I think BM's will have a compareable buffed range to Wind Archers.

@KnuckleBrown :
[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=50733&p=1274423&viewfull=1#post1274423]43.31/s 2220.17m/s[/url]

Red Update : [url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=50733&p=1271643&viewfull=1#post1271643] 30.89/s 1568.88m/s[/url]

The majority of the hits per second change even though blaster was nerfed is the fact that now blasters turret triggers AFA.[/quote]

Ooh turret activates AFA now? <3

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
reconforce946

Anyone know if blaster turret will still trigger DR? I'm assuming it will (kind of) because of it activating FA

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
shalazaar

@betaboi101 yea as close as I can get to capping the better even 25m is fine haha

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
betaboi101

[quote=shalazaar]@ twopointonefour thats why I changed to BM they have a lot more hits per sec very fast attacks, imagine capping on all yr hits <3 thats the goal lol or close to![/quote]

Capping with the current blaster summon requires like a 5+mil range with a ton of % boss (I honestly lost track of how to calculate range after 2m-2m but I can tell you that 2m-2m clean with a level 10 bow is still not enough to cap your summoned blaster pre nerf with). Once nerfed, capping with blaster (still part of the hits per second as final attack really amps its hits even though its slowed) will be even a more difficult feat..

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
shalazaar

@ twopointonefour thats why I changed to BM they have a lot more hits per sec very fast attacks, imagine capping on all yr hits <3 thats the goal lol or close to!

Reply December 1, 2014 - edited
twopointonefour

[quote=shalazaar]I changed to a bowmaster from my wind a rcher because the buffs look pretty good my WA range buffed was 1.6m hopefully it doesnt drop too much[/quote]

I think BM's will have a compareable buffed range to Wind Archers.

@KnuckleBrown :
[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=50733&p=1274423&viewfull=1#post1274423]43.31/s 2220.17m/s[/url]

Red Update : [url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=50733&p=1271643&viewfull=1#post1271643] 30.89/s 1568.88m/s[/url]

The majority of the hits per second change even though blaster was nerfed is the fact that now blasters turret triggers AFA.

Reply November 30, 2014 - edited
shalazaar

I changed to a bowmaster from my wind a rcher because the buffs look pretty good my WA range buffed was 1.6m hopefully it doesnt drop too much

Reply November 30, 2014 - edited
KnuckleBrown

Does anyone have or know the new hits-per-second data?

Reply November 30, 2014 - edited
Nicolas28

+40% dmg
+20 attack
+20 dex
+Hurricane hit 2 lines and is more powerfull
+Fixed 4th job skills like Armor break and Advanced Final attack

-Arrow platter is slower
-Arrow platter hit less

Reply November 30, 2014 - edited