the NINJA'S now.....

[Navia]

I do about 70ish with elementals, alittle over 100 when I burst on the skillchain. The elements the monster is strong against, even doing the wheel will be like 10 damage but it creates more hate than a 10 damage hit from a weapon easily.
At higher level, skillchains like blast shot > spinslash will take 2/3 of a monsters hp before bursts come in. Any risk of rangers getting hate somehow even if they accidentally pull with barrage :p is short lived, any competent party can make the monster die before the ranger loses their shadows and takes 2 hits.
One thing to understand is Ninjas will play hate loose sometimes and 'use up' a ranger shadow of two if it means the ninja doesn't end up with no shadows waiting on a recast timer, risking getting pummeled, making things worse. I've been guilty of doing this a few times myself and I havent killed a ranger yet :p

[Omni]

Originally posted by Navia
I do about 70ish with elementals, alittle over 100 when I burst on the skillchain. The elements the monster is strong against, even doing the wheel will be like 10 damage but it creates more hate than a 10 damage hit from a weapon easily.
At higher level, skillchains like blast shot > spinslash will take 2/3 of a monsters hp before bursts come in. Any risk of rangers getting hate somehow even if they accidentally pull with barrage :p is short lived, any competent party can make the monster die before the ranger loses their shadows and takes 2 hits.
One thing to understand is Ninjas will play hate loose sometimes and 'use up' a ranger shadow of two if it means the ninja doesn't end up with no shadows waiting on a recast timer, risking getting pummeled, making things worse. I've been guilty of doing this a few times myself and I havent killed a ranger yet :p

heehee, yea i do that as well. even if the rng takes 1 hit its not a big deal. i think it would definately make things worse if i had both timers down and was scrambling to get my shadows back up than takin an extra 4s to get ichi bak up then bring the mob bak to me. i havent sacrificed any rngs either... so far ;p

i do about 90 dmg to a mob unresisted with elemental ni. 110ish unresisted mb. it all balances out, i have less str than other races so i guess its equal~