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Best Male Dps Class
Which male class is better for dps, no offense to elin lovers but I don't wanna run around as a small girl in a game I want to play for a while.
I'm considering warrior, slayer, or berserk, I'm leaning towards the castanic race not sure what race is suited to which class. overall which class for MALES can really bring out a good chunk of dps.
I'm considering warrior, slayer, or berserk, I'm leaning towards the castanic race not sure what race is suited to which class. overall which class for MALES can really bring out a good chunk of dps.
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From my experience (using a DPS meter in different parties with different people over the last couple of months), slayers tend to get the best results, followed by warriors and then berserkers.
Zerkers were noticeably behind during the FIHM patch, however they've been able to catch up since ninja patch – even though they still seem to stay behind: I've played with ~5 different zerks since ninja patch, and none of them has been able to outdps me (at equal buffs) even with a +15 vm7 weapon for one of them.
So while all zerks seem to be lacking a bit in DPS, most slayers I play with tend to get either a little more or a little less DPS than me, and in the long run it averages out to the same amount of damage (I'm saying this with slayers of equal gear and equal (or slightly greater) skill in mind).
And I can't really compare other warriors since I almost never play with other warriors, and even when I do it greatly affects our DPS one way or another, because of the way edge works.
That being said, I've observed that while poorly skilled slayers may still get a reasonable amount of damage (of course much lower than any skilled player at their class, but still kinda enough), unskilled warriors and zerks usually get very very low DPS. So if you're new to DPSing in Tera it might be a safer bet to choose slayer, to secure at least some damage.
Now if you plan to never tank ever you'll want to skip this paragraph, however know that wars and zerks are able to tank (to anyone reading this yes they can tank). It won't be optimal tanking and people in pugs won't take you for harder dungeons, but they are very well able to hold aggro to any kind of DPS and they're also able to keep the boss straight. Which is what tanking should be about anyway. So it'll give you an easier time gathering parties in easy dungeons, or even harder dungeons when playing with people you know, if you want to learn how to tank.
Another thing you might want to consider is ping: every class suffers from ping, some more than others, and I can't really tell which class has the hardest time with high ping since I only play warrior, but keep in mind warriors are fast paced and high ping will harm you. I come from EU Tera where I had 20ms ping, and while the 100ms I get during the day on NA is still very playable and enjoyable (even if there is still a loss in DPS), I have to play between 150 and 200ms during the evening, and I can tell you that even just 150ms is a noticeable DPS loss compared to 100ms. I heard that charge classes (so zerk included) are also high-ping unfriendly, and my guess is that slayers is the class which suffers the less from ping, though this is only an assumption – you'll need to ask real slayers for that.
Now about the race: as long as you don't care too much how your character looks, the most important thing to look at in my opinion is the attack animations a race offers to your class. For example, castanic female warriors can't chain scythe after using evasive roll to the back because their scythe animation won't reach far enough (90% of the time), but elin warriors can (which pisses me off to the highest level because I don't want to play elin either). A good compromise would be castanic male because they can chain scythe from evasive roll in most situations, and they also benefit from the crit passive. That's just an example. I also heard castanic female slayers can easily do combos in PvP that other races can't, or need to do extra stuff for it to work.
So I cannot stress this enough the first factor that you should consider when choosing a race (besides appearance) is which race offers animations that will make your gameplay smoother.
And lastly, remember to choose a class that you can have fun with, and that player skill matters the most as no matter which class you choose if you are very skilled at it then you will do more damage than any FotM unskilled player (for real).
Edit: also note that when I said that slayers > warriors > zerks (from what I observe), I was talking about the current state of the game. Some classes are going to be buffed. More specifically, warriors are going to be significantly buffed, and you can expect them to become quite powerful for a vanilla class if the other classes don't receive the same kind of buffs.
Slayer > Warriors > Zerk
BUT the gap between those 3 aren't HUGE compared to like brawler/ninja where the gap is a [filtered] joke you'll never out dps them (inb4 plebs say "oo my vm7 +15 sorc out dps a idoneal ninja huehue)