Is there an unneeded hostility towards regular classes in this game?

[T0rin]

Non-Zenith, since there's no reason to spend upwards of ten hours getting a vanity weapon that you don't need, the Key of Titan serves fine enough, and Spell speed increments add miniscule amounts of actual increases to the stats to matter, have you looked into how much points into Critical Hit Rate and Spell Speed actually add to the real value that determines when you crit and how fast you cast?

So, you're saying there is no reason to spend "upwards of ten hours" to get 3 more weapon damage, among other stats? 3 weapon damage is a LOT of damage. It's like, 18 INT worth of damage. On top of the extra 20 you get from the SMN Soul Crystal, that's a good chunk of damage.

And yes, I havelooked into how much Critical Hit Rate and Spell Speed actually affect damage. CRT is not an issue here, because neither weapon has it, but Spell Speed is a pretty underrated stat. I could you you exact numbers, but it's roughly ~13 points of CRT for a 1% increase in crit chance, and ~10.5 spell speed to get a 0.01 decrease to cast time.

Convalescence and Foresight for one, makes my heals better, and increases my naturally lower defense. I survived an AoE attack earlier thanks to Second Wind coupled with Blood for Blood, even without BfB it gives me a quick heal.

Wait, so, you're healing as a DPS class? That sounds counter-productive.

And why didn't you just, I dunno, dodge the AoE attack to begin with?

And 2% matters in how many fights again? Enkindle doesn't warrant a five-minute cooldown, especially with Garuda.

So because someone looked into something differently based on past game experiences, it means they've conjured up a false reality? If that isn't ad hominem I don't know what might be. Damn small character limit...

Last I checked, any and all increase you can make to DPS matter in, oh, I don't know, every fight in the game. Because that is your job, to create damage.

It is a false reality, not because of your game experiences, but because of the actual, provable reality of the game world, that shows very specifically that ACN is pretty bad in terms of DPS output, compared to SMN.

And you can edit your post to get past the 1000 character limit.