Was wondering what all the changes to striders did. I have a dusk strider and boy it seems they REALLY got the short end of the stick.
No new abilites. I understand dusk are for transport but there is no speed differance in the new dusk strider from the old one...in fact as far as I can tell even the wind and star striders STILL have the same speed as a dusk strider only they got new skills. Thought the dusk strider special purpose was for transport. That seems to imply that dusk will be better at "transporting" than the other striders yet as far as I have been able to see and test the tank and mage striders have the same speed as a transport strider. So why does it have the same speed as the other striders and no speical ablities at all...no self wind walk or anything.
Before C4 my dusk strider had more HP than I did...now it has LESS HP than I do. Strider had over 2k HP and was actually fairly high into the 2k HP range...now it has 1300ish HP. Why the HP nerf?
Before C4 my strider was able to fight light blue even green con mobs and wasnt using shots or even the best gear. Wasnt easy but I was still able to keep it alive with battle heals using my SH. So I went and upgraded to the best gear for it and got shots...went out to fight a green mob and it got one shotted (maybe 2 but it died so fast I didnt even have a chance to heal it). SO then I go find dark blue mobs...again top strider gear and shots...it took so much dmg so quickly that even spamming my lvl 3 battle heal while poping a heal potion on the strider (casting speed on SH is over 730) with bsps C I could not keep it alive because it was taking more dmg than I could recover...FIGHTING A DARK BLUE MOB AT THAT!!
Only way I could even try to lvl the dusk strider was to cast slow and cursed chaos on a dark blue mob and let it beat on me (my SH is the same lvl as my strider by the way) while spamming self heal and recasting a debuff on the mob from time to time to maintain agro. I will say for one positive with shots the strider did kill a bit faster but nothing I would write home about.
What the heck did NC Soft do to dusk striders? They have no "special" skills to aid with their duty of beng transport and in fact the wind and star striders appear to still have the same speed as the dusk strider. Seems the HP of the dusk striders got cut in half at least and its so bad now that even in top strider gear fighting a dark blue mob will kill the strider faster than pre-C4 strider in mid lvl gear fighting green con mobs.
SO what gives...why the major slap in the face to all the dusk striders out there? Can anyone else report if they noticed MAJOR downgrades in their dusk striders from C3 to C4?
Exp wise fighting the bugbears outside of Hunters Village near the cave at with a lvl 56 Strider I got 00.10% per mob killed but these were DARK blue mobs. I am sure the exp will be better fighting green or even white conned mobs but the poor strider with the C4 changes will not survive the encounter if agro goes to it...they simply die was to fast now to even spam heals on it and using potions to risk it to see what the exp gain would be.
So anyone else that tested out their striders today what did you notice?
Oh one other thing I noticed...if you have a potion like greater haste potion active and mount or dismount a strider the potion effect is removed. I would almost say all buffs disapear mounting or dismounting but I didnt want to waste anymore potions testing it and with the nerf my strider is under I really didnt care to test it out because I was so disheartened by the changes.
I just tested and its any potions you use drop when you mount or dismount strider...normal buffs still stay.