Marauder, Meele AE

So I thought I'd post about this... MRD is a very specialized class. It doesn't do anything the other classes do well but the one thing it does better than the rest is AoE.

On Dodore you can see MRD AE at its finest. Dodore has 7 minions plus himself and if they are tanked well you can Broad Swing and hit all 8 at the same time.

Engraved Bhuj+1 hits for 66 normal, 88 crit on them (times 8 of course!) and supplies on average 950 TP per broad swing.

I then choose to use Brutal Swing II and Skull Sunder II as my WS's. Typically I will Broad Swing 3x to get 2700-3000 TP and then follow the pattern of Brutal Swing -> SS -> Broad Swing and can keep that up until minions start getting killed.

Brutal Swing II on Dodore Minions do ~135 damage, and SS II does ~120 + DoT. We usually kill Dodore in a party of 4-5 now and kill minions in ~4 minutes and Dodore ~10 minute mark... allowing it to pop twice in its window. The power of AE!

Well we all know that MRD single target is fairly lackluster due to not really getting any "main" damage skills and are forced to used skills from other jobs such as Raging Strike etc. MRD also doesn't get any high damage single target WS such as Bloodletter, Victimize II.

So lets hope they keep adding fights where MRD can shine, fights where lots of AE is to be had!

Have you not used Maim before?

well put zdenka, i completely agree with you. MRD AoE is uncompairable! with our amazing AoE capabilities we can ultimately become the top DPS dealers in large groups of enimies!