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    Player Shiyo's Avatar
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    Apr 2011
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    Shiyo Kozuki
    World
    Leviathan
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 70
    Boss is a gear check, entire game is, anyone saying differently needs to test just how much gear matters. For example, in Castrum if I use my full darklight gear exhaust from giants and the boss does about 15% of my health, if I use full crafted level 48 gear(for soulbinding) it does 80% of my health. Giants autoattacks in full darklight do 15-20% of my health, in full crafted level48 gear(for soulbinding),their autoattacks do 60% of my health. I can practically completely ignore AOE circles in full darklight, but in full level 48 crafted gear I have to dodge every single one and play flawlessly. The first boss in castrum spawns adds, if I am in full level48 crafted gear the ranged adds will on shot me the second they spawn with ranged damage and there is nothing I can do to stop it, no amount of skill will save me, nothing I can do besides "get better gear". In full darklight they do essentially zero damage to me.

    Until bahamut's coil, everything is 85% gear, 15% player skill. Yes, that includes demon wall, you can be the best player at constantly dodging the beams, but if your entire group is using level 20 accessories, full AF, and level 44 GC weapons you will have a MUCH harder time than decent gear.

    Take this into consideration as well: The difference between a ilvl 44 green GC weapon and ifrits staff or tome is a 15% increase in healing, and from ilvl 44 DPS weapon to ifrits weapon is a ~12% increase in damage. That's just from weapon alone, full darklight to AF/48 accessories is 30% increase in healing, totaling to 45% with ifrits weapon. Tell me skill can counteract being 45% stronger. This isn't even getting into defense, where an ilvl 90 belt compared to an ilvl70 belt has 65% more defense and nearly triple(it's about 5-10% away from being triple) the magic defense.

    Source for math: http://valk.dancing-mad.com/
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    Last edited by Shiyo; 09-13-2013 at 11:54 PM.