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Lance Rolls

MagraalMagraal
in TERA PC - General Discussion
Just an anomaly I thought I'd sure with people- Slaughter lances apparently can no longer roll aggro% (not that you would these days) as the roll has now been replaced by a damage from behind line consistent with dps weapons, as in the picture below:

backdmg_lance.jpg

Comments

  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    I keep hearing people say Slaughter is one of the worst mid tier sets ever made. Bad for tanks and healers and mostly providing DPS. It seems as if the devs now want lancers to pull aggro through DPS just like brawlers. And why is there a back attack buff for a class that should pretty much always be at the front? To re-gain aggro faster through dps when a monster turns towards a healer or DPS perhaps? Maybe for pvp? Maybe they felt the current aggro lines +etchings is enough and they wanted to toss something else there? I'm also curious about all these.
  • LunatycLunatyc ✭
    The backdamage is certainly for pvp....except u want to try and backcrit dps on lancer :p
  • LunatycLunatyc ✭
    edited May 2016
    @Nopi
    The slaughter set is actually more rewarding for tanks and healers than for dps.
    Slaughter for dps is about 7-8% better than dreadnaught for dps while its about 15% better for tanks and healers because dps are missing a backdamage roll on the weapon.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lunatyc wrote: »
    @Nopi
    The slaughter set is actually more rewarding for tanks and healers than for dps.
    Slaughter for dps is about 7-8% better than dreadnaught for dps while its about 15% better for tanks and healers because dps are missing a backdamage roll on the weapon.

    I see. My own experience on my ninja, the one thing I saw improve a lot from full DN to full Slaughter was attack power. Just adding weapon and glove gave me over 12K extra ATP. The rest just saw the expected moderate upgrades. I have not tried to gear my lancer yet, though. She's still in poor schisma.
  • DoIlDoIl ✭
    can I roll for a DPS lancer now?
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    DoIl wrote: »
    can I roll for a DPS lancer now?

    Here's a funny one. From what I've heard, on initial builds of alpha Tera, lancers weren't tanks. They were dps. Warriors were the only tank, and they didn't have block back then. That was when BHS was seriously playing with the "Evasion tank" idea. This could be only a rumor, but still a funny 'wat' story.
  • DoIlDoIl ✭
    Nopi wrote: »
    DoIl wrote: »
    can I roll for a DPS lancer now?

    Here's a funny one. From what I've heard, on initial builds of alpha Tera, lancers weren't tanks. They were dps. Warriors were the only tank, and they didn't have block back then. That was when BHS was seriously playing with the "Evasion tank" idea. This could be only a rumor, but still a funny 'wat' story.

    that's interesting. I guess BHS went along with their original idea, according to the rumor, and decided to make a certain broken DPS tank class
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    DoIl wrote: »
    Nopi wrote: »
    DoIl wrote: »
    can I roll for a DPS lancer now?

    Here's a funny one. From what I've heard, on initial builds of alpha Tera, lancers weren't tanks. They were dps. Warriors were the only tank, and they didn't have block back then. That was when BHS was seriously playing with the "Evasion tank" idea. This could be only a rumor, but still a funny 'wat' story.

    that's interesting. I guess BHS went along with their original idea, according to the rumor, and decided to make a certain broken DPS tank class

    Only that they replaced evasion with just more dps. Anyway, a bit more on topic. This is sparking my desire to revive my lancer and try to gear her up. I've always had fun playing the class back then.
  • VesporaxVesporax ✭✭
    Weapon aggro roll is kinda pointless when crystals give like 5x the amount for 1 slot. Highly unlikely you will fill it with attack crystals since you don't attack from the back, and counter is a guaranteed crit so you don't need 3.2% crit that much.
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