Lancers are... ?

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When I am fighting nms I like to use a full STR build with 170+ and the rest is accuracy. I find myself doing as much damage as an archer with buffs (ferocity/raging strike/keen flurry or hawks eye). If I get my WS in the right spot of the BR I can do an easy 900+ dmg doomspike II on great buffalo or ueraus.

I hate to tell you, you are not out damaging an archer. I have all the same buffs you just mentioned and even a poorly geared Archer will still break 1k in the situation you described.

Maybe when they nerf archer lancer will be neck and neck in dmg.

When fighting the group nms I like to equip a lot of low tp/AoE moves to spam and throw in buffs every now and then. I find it taking down the off mobs a lot quicker than having a group on each off mob at a time.

Same thing here; hello WideVolly II for 350-500 dmg across multiple mobs . It's faster for an archer to get rid of adds than a lancer. Especially considering you have to move yourself between the groups of mobs where as archer just needs to switch targets range distance is usually enough. There's just way more burst damage output there to take down adds faster.

TBH any adds we ever get are taken by the mages using emulate so they can siphon mp or me for TP.