I play a lvl 61 warsmith and up till c4 it was a grind but not so bad as to make me stop playing the character. As a warsmith i have no party skills, so getting into a party is very rare. i do not have the pdef of a tank or anywhere near a decent damage ability, so soloing is pretty out of the question. with c4 they not only make the big boom more expensive to summon, but now it draws all agro back on to me. For my past three lvls big boom has been the only way i have actually got decent xp. I used the pet for many things, including training bots. I never train actual players btw. And nothing against ncsoft but there are way too many bots out there. I no longer can train the bots which are against the EULA. So as of c4 i am useless in all aspects of the game except for crafting. If your gonna nerf the warsmith so bad then at least give them xp for doing crafts (and no I am not saying low lvl crafts should give xp as i am sure that would just make people craft braided hemp all day long). that way we can actually get a method of gaining some xp. I really hope that something is done as I love playing my WS. I really dont want to reroll and go through that long of a grind again, and truthfully i dont think i will.
Dwarves have respectable PDef, it's the lack of a hate skill that keeps them from being full tanks more than anything else.
Dwarves have respectable attack power, if they choose to emphasize it: +str, a focus weapon, etc.
Quit worrying about your Big Boom, pull out your Mechanic Golem--didn't you notice the huge upgrade it got today?
In short, you don't need crafting experience...which is fortunate since it's really a bad idea.
Also, you can train bots just fine if you do it right. Just unsummon instead of letting your servitor die.
Honestly, it doesn't sound to me like warsmiths are the problem. It sounds like you're just tired of the grind. If that is true, quit now, because it's going to get worse and worse as you gain levels.
**** i was waiting for this post to pop up
i wrote a post about this on the pts, when i was boosted to 76 unlike all the other ws's who spent their sp on craft i got myself big boom
went out and tested it
tryed 1 group with se buffs and for starters boom took a hell of alot more damage (5% less pdef and hp) casting time is longer
when it blew 3 mobs where still alive and thats plenty to kill a lvl 58 ws
i can only guess why it was nerfed so hard since no suggestions in NA actually get implemented and i hear koreans love their ws's
guess its only fair man i mean after only 57 lvls of being the worst xp class we get to be the best solo (not group) xp class for 2 lvls
at 62 with an se in party we could be like the 3rd best party xp class for another 2 lvls when at 64 pretty much all nukers and archers make more % per hour than us
BTW you have to agree on 1 thing man the adena we got at abg was waaaay overpowered
at 57 i was spending 1-3 mil a day to get 20%
at abg i usually came back with up to 3 mil (includeing infernium)
obviously nc wants us to go back to the good old days of spending 1 hour in town crafting for every 4 hours we hunt
Man, I dont mind the grind at all, wouldnt be a lvl 61 warsmith if I did. The mech golem leaches xp and now cost c crystals, not that c crystals are a problem. I just miss being able to big boom a few groups and take a polearm in for the kill. that was real nice. the actual grind is no porblem, just wish they would do something for the ws to get into either parties or make them better at soloing.
btw abg was way overpowered lol. I don't mind the boom costing more but it does nothing to mobs, mostly dies now before it even goes off.
dwarf pdef is fairly low even if we had tank skills we couldnt tank
next time you see a ws hunting (its rare but it does happen) see if they have the golem out O.O
without the luxuary of spoiling spending 2k adena on a mob that drops 1k has to be balanced out with crafting. slow kill speed + crafting to earn adena = very low xp
what sucks is big booming was actually fun and prolly the only lvling that required skill to be effective (guess pole groups do as well)
doesnt really bother me too much because i am 20% away from out lvling the effectiveness of big boom but i feel for any ws that is 58-
BTW after 12 lvls of big booming beleave it or not it does get boreing
Im playing a lvl 25 Artisan.. in c3 i could craft while sitting, which really improved my moneyearnings.. but now.. in c4, i have to stand up, close my shop, use craft, sit down, open shop xD Seriously.. i miss the sitting craft already!
This was a bad move by NCsoft they tried to screw WS forgetting that they were already screwed. ABG will be empty of peeps cept for the occasional nukers now. I have heard that there was to be 1/4 HP mobs in C4 is this true? Does anyone know where they are? These will have to be the new big boom targets
1/4 hp mobs at dimesional rift and devils pass
both not places for ws's
im finding i can hunt forest of the dead with full auto spam (including golem) and actually turn a profit
unfortunately lower lvl ws's will not have that luxuary