Currently, Dawn Warriors are relegated to being grind mules - a quick and dirty way to level Blessing of Fairy. Half of the server has one for this purpose now.
Every other dawn I've seen pop up inevitably quits out when they realize how awkward and uncomfortable the class is for other purposes.
[Ultimate stance mule transformation!]
In it's current state, the class excels at leveling and falls short elsewhere.
The trouble primarily lies in having one skill, a spammable FMA (impaling rays) that absolutely laughs in the face of mages. Twice the speed, and more damage. The trouble is, nerfing this skill would leave nothing left to like about the class.
The main concerns for other content, namely bossing, are the severe lack of ability to survive, and the god awful reach on new Moon Shadow.
An Example:
Castellan Toad, the only notable holy weak boss, will hit you for 18k+ if standing on it.
The range on Moonshadow requires Dawn to stand on the boss. It cannot tank the hit.
The fight becomes a struggle of wifi connection and pet potion reliability more than anything else, because missing a single potion means instant death.
The Fix Proposal
Reverting Moonshadow to its original state, with a little extra love.
From the old 500% to, say, 550%
Intrepid Slash boost to make up for the DPS change without S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶ "Moonshadow".
310% -> 400%
Adding a weak %Def type effect to Stance. Perhaps lowering the stance value, and adding 10% reduction?
And the coup de grace, Advanced Sword Mastery. This would make up for Dawn having half powered combo orbs compared to Hero (+100% vs. +200%), and balance the wide range of numbers that can be hit with the single line attacks.
Archers and Dark Knight already have Advanced Masteries for reference.
Impaling Rays should likely return to how it was, on cooldown, but with some kind of boost. Toss on an extra 500, 1000%?
Otherwise leave it as current, but weaker?
It's always been the ugly duck skill of Dawn.
Thank you for hearing out the OG POWERGAMER LV.250 DAWN WARRIOR LOVER 9000 who very reluctantly quit to play a class that feels better.
Long live YunaMS! (With a better Dawn Warrior)
Every other dawn I've seen pop up inevitably quits out when they realize how awkward and uncomfortable the class is for other purposes.
[Ultimate stance mule transformation!]
In it's current state, the class excels at leveling and falls short elsewhere.
The trouble primarily lies in having one skill, a spammable FMA (impaling rays) that absolutely laughs in the face of mages. Twice the speed, and more damage. The trouble is, nerfing this skill would leave nothing left to like about the class.
The main concerns for other content, namely bossing, are the severe lack of ability to survive, and the god awful reach on new Moon Shadow.
An Example:
Castellan Toad, the only notable holy weak boss, will hit you for 18k+ if standing on it.
The range on Moonshadow requires Dawn to stand on the boss. It cannot tank the hit.
The fight becomes a struggle of wifi connection and pet potion reliability more than anything else, because missing a single potion means instant death.
The Fix Proposal
Reverting Moonshadow to its original state, with a little extra love.
From the old 500% to, say, 550%
Intrepid Slash boost to make up for the DPS change without S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶ "Moonshadow".
310% -> 400%
Adding a weak %Def type effect to Stance. Perhaps lowering the stance value, and adding 10% reduction?
And the coup de grace, Advanced Sword Mastery. This would make up for Dawn having half powered combo orbs compared to Hero (+100% vs. +200%), and balance the wide range of numbers that can be hit with the single line attacks.
Archers and Dark Knight already have Advanced Masteries for reference.
Impaling Rays should likely return to how it was, on cooldown, but with some kind of boost. Toss on an extra 500, 1000%?
Otherwise leave it as current, but weaker?
It's always been the ugly duck skill of Dawn.
Thank you for hearing out the OG POWERGAMER LV.250 DAWN WARRIOR LOVER 9000 who very reluctantly quit to play a class that feels better.
Long live YunaMS! (With a better Dawn Warrior)
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