Hello to everyone,i came back to lineage2 after 1 year and i want to start a new main char.I am between arbalester and soulbreaker.I like both of them really and i cant decide which one is best.Please give me some advice and the reason :D
Both are good. Just wear a Majestic Set to make up for their low con, and then some.
but remember its boosting your stun resist by 50% not giving a definate 50% chance to resist stun + the stun resist you have
cause if you have 20% stun resist +50% stun resist will make it 30% stun resist. so you'll still stun easy. but if you are an Arby your gonna want to use majestic light nonethes, this is just for SB
They've got too little skills and most are toward creating traps... which add nothing to your pve since L2 has never ever been designed for such type of gameplay. So basically, a huge part of your new skills would be dedicated to crap.
Soulbreakers are far more interesting and adds a lot more diversity imo to your gameplay.
you're gonna have to play all the classes eventually if you stick with them. my main is a 76 trickster with an almost A grade soulbreaker sub.
unbeknownst to me and a friend - when you sub soulbreaker, you play the opposite genders class. so, my doombringer friend has rapid attack and quick shot (and some crossbow passives), and my trickster has increase power and ancient sword masteries on her sub ;)
So... if a male SB subs to an Arbalester... he will get all the female passives as an arbalester?
Correct. You will have all the passives that you would normally gain as a U40 Warder, crossbow mastery lvl 8, increase range and the skills too such as warp, penetrating shot, soul shock, rapid attack, fast shot, fire trap etc.
You wont have skills like rush/courage/swordshield/furious soul/increase power because these skills are learned before the 2nd ccq. This applies to all Kamael classes vs their subs. Think of it like this:
You're a male Soulhound, you sub Arbalester, when you switch to that sub, all your skills and all your stats (str, dex, con, int, wit, men) will reflect that of an Arbalester, female kammy stats. You'll still look the same, like any other race does, but your stats/skills/passives will be that of the femmies.
My Doombringer is sub Soulbreaker, and i get the female version of the Soulbreaker, the only things that make it female are the alternate female stats (again, str, dex etc) and all the skills that i would've learned before lvl 40 (cuz after lvl 40 male and female SB learn the exact same skills) are those of the opposite gender. I have rapid attack and not increase power, since the males get both lvls of increase power and the femmies get rapid attack before 40.
Lol see how the other half lives ;) You'll have painkiller, but not sword shield. Unless you were a Trickster, in which case if you sub Soulbreaker, you get the male pre 40 skills and the male stats.
This gender stat/skillset switchover seems only to apply to subbing Soulbreakers. Obviously if a Doombringer subs Arbalester, you're gonna get the female skill/stat set and same for a Trickster subbin Berserker. She'll get the male stat/skill set.
I have a Soul Breaker who is now a Soul Hound. This is a fun class to play! Her skills are the best ever. I havn't encountered any problems playing her so far. She wears DC light until her Drac is made. My Soul Hound did the Polaka today and recieved her Tshirt which I was very proud of. I have also subbed an Arby who is now BG. The Arby atm is wearing Doom Light. She seems to do just fine in it. Leveling is slow imo, but its an *archer*. ;)
They've got too little skills and most are toward creating traps... which add nothing to your pve since L2 has never ever been designed for such type of gameplay. So basically, a huge part of your new skills would be dedicated to crap.
Soulbreakers are far more interesting and adds a lot more diversity imo to your gameplay.
I totally disagree. I just started an Arbalestor and imo its the must fun class on the game. Its just like playing a regular Archer class and not having to worry about Mana. I am only LV 43 and the skills I already have are very cool. Twin Shot is a very powerful skill that can usually instantly kill a mob of my level. Soul Shock is a shot that causes fear and make the enemy run away while I am still shooting it in the back so its basically an instant win. Binding Trap is a root trap that I can see come in very handy in PVP because a melee with always come rushing in to try to get close so with binding traps he gets rooted which gives means target practice for me. There are so many times that I am in party with a Archer where they draw aggro but with the Arbalester they have a skill where if they draw aggro they can tranfer it directly to anybody in the party. You have Dark Attack / Dark resist toggle skills that do not even drain mana. You have warp which will teleport you away from a mob or person. You have deco which creates a twin of your self. I cant wait to see how this toon develops. Go Arbalester Go!!!
You can do so much with the Soulhound. You will be pulling your hair out leveling the arbalester. Yes, they shoot fast, but overall they lack the spike damage in PvP to take someone down that is good at pot spamming (qhp+CP pots).
Soulhound can take out anything in the game. You want range? They have range, plenty of useful nukes. YOu want melee? they have that too.
How did I come up with my opinion on these two classes?
My soulhound is Lvl 79/ arbalester lvl 75/ zerker 75/ inspector 73
I only leveled up the arbalester to get the subclass emergent skills/passives.
Arbalester is good for archer parties and raids. Their traps sometimes fail. People run right over the traps and nothing happens (occasionally, maybe due to lag or something dunno).
Arbalesters are very fun to play as. Soul Breakers are as well but there is nothing like having a bunch of people walk into a mass poisoning trap or watching them scater like ants when a fire trap goes off in the middle of them :p. Arbas are also a realy great PVP class, at lvl 55 I could kill a human mage (can't remember class name but was nuker) that was in high 70's.:D
Arbalesters are very fun to play as. Soul Breakers are as well but there is nothing like having a bunch of people walk into a mass poisoning trap or watching them scater like ants when a fire trap goes off in the middle of them :p. Arbas are also a realy great PVP class, at lvl 55 I could kill a human mage (can't remember class name but was nuker) that was in high 70's.:D
then that mage sucked... don't try to justify it.. you're a one shot
Yea, killing a 55 Soulbreaker takes like 2 shot without buffs, even if they have buffs. Almost everything lands with minimal M.Atk with that kind of level difference, Lol.