He was talking about how direct experience from playing multiple characters and computation backs up an opinion that he holds that happens to be in direct opposition to yours.
Before comparing Mages and Fighters with Pure Int/Str and their respective hybrids, I'd suggest you compare them in a situation that is not PvP as gameplay and class balance is different for PvE and PvP before you conclusively say that one is 'better' than the other. They both have their drawbacks and advantages.
Yes, it's already proven that pure Int/Str [consistently] outdamages hybrids in the long-run and yes, a hybrid will of course outdamage a pure-build
if the hits crit. I'm aware that Spr does more than just increase crit rate, but people are more concerned about the damage that floats up on their screens and thus the +5% crit rate is held most important.
When you talk about one sub-class (different builds) using PvP as a means to gauge their overall superiority over the other (Pure int/str versus hybrids)
you must be of course aware that damage is not the only factor. PvP between the people of the same class falls down to (Especially amongst Mages) skill cast order choice, timing, level and luck. Equips too of course.
In PvP, having a consistently high damage is nice, but what is also important in Fiesta's (admittedly somewhat cracked/broken) PvP is the unexpected critical hit. All characters and classes have stones that heals a set amount of HP with the number of stones held being the difference between classes.
PvP in Fiesta boils down to two people attacking each other until they either run out of stones or one leaves in disgust. This of course only happens when they're equally matched. Otherwise, one of them are either blown out of the water just because one is just that more Cash-Shopped than the other or nothing happens at all.... See Cleric on Cleric battles for this.
A timely critical hit in PvP is thus usually a good way to kill someone because a crit at an unexpected time blows their stone usage timing completely out of whack. This is of utmost importance especially to Mages, because if they use the right skills at the right times (Fear, Mana Burn, Stifle) with the full knowledge of how Fiesta PvP combat flow works, they're unstoppable.
So with that said, don't use PvP to compare builds. Such things as localized incidents and random chance (which is what critting essentially is) do happen and it is best to repeat trials to determine the supposed superiority of one build over the other.
Last edited by Ivramire; 07-14-2008 at 02:37 AM..
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