Hello,
I am ButterCHICKn in game and have had the experience of playing the Shadower class. Throughout my journey i've experienced ups an downs. I really enjoy the Shadower class but compared to other classes with mobbing skill, Band of Thieves were on the bottom pile of my experience list as a Shadower, because of the lack of dmg and only being able to really grind through Petri's at 110 with Megabuff made it hard but i came through. As I got to 120 i loved the Boomerang Step and was looking forward to the Assassinate dmg and macro between the 2 skills.
However my expectation were sadly not met, as I was told a 2nd job skill was outdoing the 4th job skill with the use of SE.
Assassinate and B Step is quite weaker than Savage Blow + B step macro (WITH SE). The concerns started early for me considering the fact Assassinate lines were doing quite similar lines as Boomerang Step only slightly more occasionally. I understand the above mentioned diff from the dmg outputs in the 2 macro's are considering the addition of SE, however this macro (Assassinate + B step) is what I feel as the bread and butter macro as a Shadower for being able to compete in single target dps. Even without SE the dmg output in the 2 different macro's were only slightly away from each other. This saddens me a lot as SE is such a useful buff that any class should be able to gain an advantage with. In our case though the use of SE means we are changing from using a 4th job skill macro to a 2nd job skill macro. That does not make sense in my book
I even tested dmg output without 'SE' and with my current range. Savage Blow + Boomerang step does approx. 3,63% less dmg than Assassinate + Boomerang step. It goes without saying, that SE adds a significant boost which is fair enough, however being a 4th job skill macro only slightly outdoing a 2nd job skill with 3,63% is very sad to experience.
I would really encourage or hope to see a buff taken place for Assassinate. Please let me know what you think about this as I understand this is just my opinion. Be noted I have also had other Shadowers in the game having taken the same concerns as I have.
I am ButterCHICKn in game and have had the experience of playing the Shadower class. Throughout my journey i've experienced ups an downs. I really enjoy the Shadower class but compared to other classes with mobbing skill, Band of Thieves were on the bottom pile of my experience list as a Shadower, because of the lack of dmg and only being able to really grind through Petri's at 110 with Megabuff made it hard but i came through. As I got to 120 i loved the Boomerang Step and was looking forward to the Assassinate dmg and macro between the 2 skills.
However my expectation were sadly not met, as I was told a 2nd job skill was outdoing the 4th job skill with the use of SE.
Assassinate and B Step is quite weaker than Savage Blow + B step macro (WITH SE). The concerns started early for me considering the fact Assassinate lines were doing quite similar lines as Boomerang Step only slightly more occasionally. I understand the above mentioned diff from the dmg outputs in the 2 macro's are considering the addition of SE, however this macro (Assassinate + B step) is what I feel as the bread and butter macro as a Shadower for being able to compete in single target dps. Even without SE the dmg output in the 2 different macro's were only slightly away from each other. This saddens me a lot as SE is such a useful buff that any class should be able to gain an advantage with. In our case though the use of SE means we are changing from using a 4th job skill macro to a 2nd job skill macro. That does not make sense in my book
I even tested dmg output without 'SE' and with my current range. Savage Blow + Boomerang step does approx. 3,63% less dmg than Assassinate + Boomerang step. It goes without saying, that SE adds a significant boost which is fair enough, however being a 4th job skill macro only slightly outdoing a 2nd job skill with 3,63% is very sad to experience.
I would really encourage or hope to see a buff taken place for Assassinate. Please let me know what you think about this as I understand this is just my opinion. Be noted I have also had other Shadowers in the game having taken the same concerns as I have.