MoDoy

no, you dont have to play meta if you want to be competitive, you need to play meta if you want to be TOP, but thats big difference, you need to put bigger effort to make other classes work, you need to learn maybe to click more than F1, maybe you need more gear, so people in their nature, being lazy bums, just prefer the easy way out i am pretty sure when we tried summoner setup before any changes happened to them or when we tried WC mage setup, it was relevant eventho it was far from meta, yes, you need items and you need some idea about your side and enemy side, who you fight and how you can utilize class

you cannot balance all classes and tbh there should be carry class in every kind of setup, i would say SR is in kind of playable sphere right now, HE is still lacking a bit but ppl would have to like the class itself and invest some time/resources to it (same like for example summoners are now in playable sphere, but same thing, you need to invest in them to be actually okay if you compare them to necros)

because of exactly same reason why people dont play only necromancer in mage party or tyrant in melee party ;d yes, who said SR works out as auto attacker? we were testing it with rizos as skill machine gun and to my surprise, it did very very well, much better than what we expected. Not to say that you have big chances of getting hero (and i would say hero SR > non-hero PR), new trigger of SR is kinda neat DPS wise and change on rapid fire helps this build a lot please, do not touch PRs, there are not many archer parties playing right now because if fully buffed, even fatal is making funny damage (spoilers: yea, you wont 1 shot on low HP even elemental mage), imo ppl just dont want to invest in their char nowadays and they just go for meta picks, if i ran archer party, at this moment coz of trigger and powerlevel i would definitely trade it for PR, especially knowing its very easy hero, but sure, clicking 1 button is easier with half assed gear, so decision is clear :p

proof or pizdabol, also dont forget this would be compensated by blessed soulshot, so the damage seeing now is normal damage ;d

well, thats pretty much H5 archer gameplay, when your whole dps was trickster + spam multishot + deathstinger, just because its not IL archer doesnt mean its absolute poop (eventho SR/HE is not the best, but i would compare it to PW - you can make it work, but for what price )

i wonder if people who talk about archers tested them :d try to go make 80 lvl SR with full boost and you will be genuinely surprised, its just ppl are meta poopers and cannot think about anything themselves :p

he said he doesnt want to go for nuker DD, what you do on your summer break that you forgot to read @_@

pretty much what nansey said, times when SR could go full +CON and get away with it are LONG gone, now its too late to make from prophet something which it isnt BW light set, doom shield, 1h sword, +8 wit+4con or full +12 wit, when fighting with party with 80 lvl sws, first 2 minutes of fight you want to help with healing/buffing things canceled by crusher/mystic immunity/block shield-ww (as those skills get canceled even through puri) , after 2 minutes you can switch to debuffing root/fear/even more block ww-shield as it gives debuff now and reduces stats even more, if you play against party without purification song, you can go for roots even sooner, tho i dont think it will be insane landrate but you can try it

nah, its just fine

yeah, that goes for many classes, but guess what, BD is such a good class that actually every party/CP needs it. Is BD weak if the class is essential in ANY setup out there? i dont think so its same like saying "buff paladin, its sh1t class", but half of setups are running with paladin, because its essential for the build right now

first of all - arrest land rate is actually really good, yes, its bad if enemy has orfen 3 and you dont, because it gives hold resistance, which once again is eliminated if you also get orfen 3, you cannot complain you dont land debuffs in fight epics vs no epics, that makes 0 sense in term of balancing second of all - PP/SE has exactly same mechanic for root like BD/SWS has on arrest, which means they also have to wait until debuff disappears and then cast it again, so this kind of complain is also really bad if your complaint is about olympiad, then depending on which arena you get, i believe all these match ups are winnable (except probably vs top kek stacked people on those classes), not saying you are favorite in those match ups, but you can win those matches - thats 14 classes out of 31, is it really that bad? WL, PK, TH, HE, sorc, sws, PW, SR, sps, AW, PR, sph, spoil, craft

probably never, scrub forever for this i would have to first make my BW set from +4 to +6 and my kris from +6 to +10 seems as too much hassle and money for poor PW :< so probably never

that "less 1k difference" is actually 26% boost of HP, thats almost like having extra btb or vitality song

no i wont, there is more than enough tanks in club already, no need to do another tanks from bards

y, also give them full lvl of shield mastery, i am ready to give to bards 400 damage with stabs, i think making 800 damage to bards right now is too OP with dagger also other skills you mentioned, totally useless, waste of time even implementing those because they arent going to be used at all

for pvp mage staff, for pve melee fighter style (dagger), for both BW light armor set if you dont strive to be number 1, then PS is just fine in any aspect of the game, be it solo pve, party pve, 1vs1, olympiad, mass pvps, you wont really get lost but you also wont be the most shining star

mage weapon (for starters demon staff is okay, later can switch to overenchanted demon staff or soes), armor is BW light, you want to farm as mage with infinite mana (boxer of unicorn)

you get offended by that? good, because then it serves its purpose

3 castles are owned by chinese, 1 clan by american side, 1 by european, so dont worry, you can see them compete for castles in 2 weeks ;p

anything more than 2 sides on same prime is not possible in anything longer than 2 months on any server

@iAxZp you see? wasnt even that hard, few days of cry and its fixed

we know how big poop daggers are, can i get this one on my dagger please? thanks

i guess on l2wiki is new tooltip and in game we have something different, but on link you provided @Lunareaia there isnt single word written about canceling any buff :d just that you cannot recieve such buffs