Spear of Sylvia was bad but was good. This was my defensive skill when I was surrounded by mobs. Now Spear of Sylvia is useless to me, removed good heals and where is FG (Spear of Sylvia had SA, now it should have FG according to patch notes)?
As already said: without ability to use Marked Bloom during cd Marked Bloom is useless, small increase in endgame doesn't compensate for the loss of 50-80% grind speed on 1 hit mob zones.
And DoubleTap. This skill without protection is useless, the fact that we can use it more comfortably now doesn't change anything.
Nailed it here.
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Another point is, We didn't ask for this modifications, Archer has been a solid class for years, the only thing it needed was some minor adjusts in the numbers, like defense, and some other tweaks in order to perform good and have the chance to do great overall.
Not only did archer players not ask for it, I don't think there were any complaints from other class players either - were there?
Killed char. I have lot of bad words.. looks like rebuilded team never did play with archer. Very bad. Before you was not good in duel, but good in team... now still bad in duel and bad in team. Unusable. Marked Bloom was main skill, for Pve and PvP (making presure to different team). What now? Now boring and weak char... Stop touch with yuor dirty hand coders normal working system. And want to quit too. That impossible to beleve to company..who just killed my 3 years work for no reason
dont know what you are smoking our archers in nw had above 4-5 to 1 kda ratio (almost 100:20)
And that's all Archer is good for: standing in the second line in the nw. And shooting from a place that melee classes have trouble entering.
But only 1% of players are interested in nw, so why should we care?
Memorial: Archer 2021 - 2023
Archer is no longer viable for any form of grinding
I have the conviction that this changes are a market strategy designed to disapoint players that use this class, so either they spend money changing class, or quit the game. This affects the battle field, making the players loose ground, to help highlighting other classes, and promote their sales on them.
The best desision for players - don't cry here.. just go to setting - app - uninstall BDO. Everything else - not impotant for PA. Are you happy player with Maegu.. or Zerg, or lahn?
Don't worry, tomorrow stupid PA-coder will make from your char unusable garbage. Just because he want. And can.
Please revert spear of slyvia changes. NOT EVERYONE IS A ROOFTOP ARCHER. Plus the new spear animation looks like the old lights mark skill with extra steps.
Marked Bloom- Agreed
Spear of Sylvia- we needed proper capabilities to reduce evasion at range, no matter how awkward it is we got it
And quite frankly with the amount of grabs in the game there was never really a time that spear could be used in melee and if it's being used for a combo, then why?
Now the stamina issues is a rough one because the distance covered is really nice
This update has pissed me off to no end.
I mained tamer for a long time with iffy end game pve but great low level farming with rawr, then they "updated" tamer took away rawr and really didn't improve end game pve at all destroying the class for me.
I moved to archer, Marked Bloom made low level mob grinding easy and comfortable, along with having a decent skill rotation for end game areas, I enjoyed the class. I haven't seen any improvement in end game grinding but a huge reduction in low level grinding (map pieces).
I'm willing to bet the next class to get a big update is going to be Valk and we will see the zoom grinding go away next.
PA seems to want people to have to work harder even at low level spots yet makes is so necessary to grind them with pot and maps pieces. It's just stupid PA insists on making this game harder to play and less fun at the same time, if they keep going like this I'll be following OP out the door.
work harder
Harder? Today I only killed 2k mobs required for the event and i got tired like i killed 50k. Archer after these changes is unplayable for me. Muscle memory wants to use Marked Bloom all the time. When mobs surround me also muscle memory wants to use Spear of Sylvia. Full bloom / grand bloom attacks mobs which I don't want to attack and they attack me or die far from me (1 hit kill mobs). And swiping back with Flow: Echoes of the Call causes some short attack range mobs to return to their spawn point.