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change for the good or the bad ?
It helps a lot to reroll to FOTM, the dps upgrade is much bigger than going for VM or mastering an old weak class!
1 - Tera is not rocket science: It's easy to learn any class, i'd say it's not even that hard to be very good on most new fotm classes;
2 - Don't tell me that "skill>all" on a such imbalanced game as Tera is. The developer ALWAYS design a new class/revamp to deal at least 50~100% more damage that the previous classes, so, dps wise, it's much more "wiser" to master the new op fotm class than to be the best player on a old class and improve the dps by a measly 10%!
When i was playing Tera, i was a good slayer on vm6/vm7 patch and i choose to reroll for sorc on the end of vm7 patch till vm8 patch. On the first week after they revamped sorc, i was doing more dps than my slayer even with wrong rotations. When i mastered the class, before i quit this game, i was dealing double of my slayer's dps! (if we igore gear dif, in practice, it was at least a ~50% gap!)
This game is so fkn imbalanced that imho: "ok'ish" archer/sorc >=good Slayer, Good Archer/Sorc>>>good Slayer... Tera is on FOTM mode since Reaper release.
Probably should read more than the first few words. Slayer's max damage potential isn't low enough for some bad Archer to beat in damage while being in inferior gear at the same time. Regarding your skill level with Slayer, I would like to point out there are Slayers who have much better performance than you, and being at the "top" of an unpopular class is not an achievement. Other "top" Slayers perform at half the level of the top few Slayers just for some context. Even if Slayer is buffed to be on par with Archer, you would still be behind Archers performing closer to their peek damage.
A class imbalance only matters when you're performing at the max, otherwise you end up with cases where people deal higher dps on Slayer, than they do as a Sorc. This is why I said re-rolling is pointless when you're performing really well as which ever class you play. There's also the fact with all these revamps, buffs, nerfs, being thrown around you're going to be re-rolling often, if you can afford to, go on ahead, but not everyone playing Tera is sitting on enough resources to do that.