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Slayer Class DPS
Slayer's as a class are fun to play, and look great! However, for Dealing Damage PVE or PVP, they are the WORST class in game, a common phrase to point out how easy something is, is to say, "Even a Slayer can do it alone!" point is, why have they been made so poorly for damage as a pure DPS Class? Will EME be addressing this anytime soon? Thank you.
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because a true slayer is a valkyrie now
They are fine so that is why they are getting buff with the upcoming patch 57 and another buff in summer in Ktera? What kind of class that keeps getting buff after buff lol ? That's right. The garbage one.
1. Slayer has no crit cap. You can build all the crit in the world and you will still miss your crits - and you NEED to build crit on slayer.
2. Slayer is a legit RNG class. Your dps depends on In Cold Blood and getting a decent proc off of that is like winning the lottery. On top of that lucky ICB, UOHS has even less of a chance to crit than normal OHS. Sure some slayers have good dps, but you probably didn't see all the runs where their dps was rendered sub-par because of not getting lucky with that ICB.
3. The buffs they've been getting have been pretty bad compared to sorcerer, archer and warrior. While I don't think that every class needs a complete overhaul (though slayer could probably use one) they've been buffing dumb skills and only giving dumb buffs to their decent ones. Take for example Knockdown Strike. They have buffed this skill's damage massively. This skill never crits and has no crit glyph. Now take Measured Slice. This is a huge part of your damage as slayer. They buffed this skill's damage from 4506 to 4956 and added a 0.1% crit chance on it which will later finally be changed to + 0.5% which will actually be somewhat better.
How to fix Slayer:
1. Give them a crit cap for at least MS.
2. Remove RNG out of ICB.
3. Remove KDS "knockdown" glyph and give it a crit glyph so that it is actually somewhat viable and not a complete dps loss because of constant white damage.
2. A great portion of any Slayer's DPS is left to the whims of RNG during enrages, since that's typically when ICB gets used and you must roll dice to determine whether one of your top DPS skills becomes actually useful... or becomes worse than it was before.
3. BHS refuses to acknowledge the deficiencies and problems created by power creep, as well as the imbalances between regional releases due to the absence of the talent system outside of KTERA. Hence, Slayers will only be receiving minor damage boosts in some of their skills.
4. Other/new classes have received much bigger boosts in power (warrior, valkyrie), some without due consideration for how they interact with different types of bosses and damage mechanics. (e.g. an archer can stand away from harm from some attacks, maintaining their ability to continue outputting damage; sorcs can warp barrior; a slayer must DODGE...) These differences exacerbate existing differences in damage output against sandbag bosses.
They are still not the worst.
Nerf Measured slice damage, by around 20%, to minimize the gap between slayers in KTERA and other regions.
Nerf overhand strike damage and buff heart thrust, knockdown strike and whirlwind so slayers need to manage their rotations rather than mindlessly smashing overhand strike(dare i say, similar to smashing spacebar).
Fix ICB multipliers, no more RNG. 1.5x constant multiplier is acceptable for putting slayer's DPS in an average level.
Increase crit chance of Whirlwind to make it more worth to use, even if it has so called 'triple crit factor' it deals lots of white numbers, and surprisingly low damage contribution in reality with powerlink of knockdown strike and headlong rush/fury strike ASPD boost.
Fix the damage scaling of fury strike, when in full hp it deals only 30% tooltip damage, like 1000+ with 40% damage glyph you kidding? that's only just twice as much as 1st auto. I expect this skill to deal 100% at full hp and 10% more damage with every 10% hp loss, 200% maximum.
Also fix mana cost of fury strike and exhausting blow too. 300 is a bit much.
Increase damage of leap strike, right now the damage against floormat is a joke with 5x scaling.
Remove mana cost of evasive roll and make double roll available at level 1. Look at valkyrie.
I don't think a nerf in this skill would do any good, is like nerfing burst fire on gunners or shining crescent on valks.
This could be an interest change but the thing why OHS and UOHS are top dps in Slayer is becuase they reset often because glyps, making this skill a core in your rotations between other skills.
More like reduce the critical factor cap on Slayers so their skills can crit more often.
Same as above.
This skill is more for Slaying runs but I concur that is ridiculous how this scales its damage righ now. I like that posible change.
This is more like, you try to make a combo but you run out of mana before reaching half of it if you don't use prime battle solutions, you even lose mana overtime doing nothing.
Yeah, I concur I better skip that skill from my rotations becuase it won't do any better than others skills with faster animation.
I don't concur with this, I feel this i-frame is good enought but if you mean for PvP purpose then yes, its mana cost is some what a disadvange becuase other classes i-frame mana cost are less expensive than this.
What I would love is to have a Backstab with less CD time, maybe half.
It's easy to call a class trash when your damage isn't good enough because you're not willing to put effort into it. Yes your DPS won't be sent to you on a silver plate like other classes. But that's just the players we have nowadays. Oh well.
> If your DPS isn't good then you're not playing it right. Maybe it is indeed harder to get the same damage compared to other classes. But if you know how, then you won't be lagging behind.
> It's easy to call a class trash when your damage isn't good enough because you're not willing to put effort into it. Yes your DPS won't be sent to you on a silver plate like other classes. But that's just the players we have nowadays. Oh well.
No. Slayer's true dps is dependant upon the rng of icb. It doesn't matter if you are a god slayer or not, you will not do much past 1m/s without a good multiplier of uohs. You must not play slayer. Do slayers a favor and refrain from commenting about a class you obviously know nothing about.