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Originally Posted by Brother-brian
I am frustrated by being a warrior who hits for less dmg than archers. I understand Barbs, who hit harder, but suffer in hps. But, where barbs can hit for 1500+ buffed, I am only hitting between 3-400, 500 crit. When I go into battle, even with ao1, i get ignored until enough allys are dead that ALL the enemy can concentrate on me, meanwhile I am struggling to get in a single hit, and when I do, its for 346 or 371, someting pretty useless like that. IMHO, knights should be able to deal more damage. Not as much as a barb, but more than we do right now.
And now we are forced into a 30sec interval where we cant cast trollskin?
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I feel your frustration Brother-brian ,but for me if I had a toss up of more damage over more effective blocking , I would take the blocks.
In my adventures as Knight in the war zone, I always felt that it was my duty to protect the mages, offer attack in a support role, trick players into wasting long CD spells on me, soak up damage and tank guards.
We can do this with defence and as such, I feel defences should be the focus of discussions regarding knights.
Yes our damage is low but, with a few set-up tweaks here and there plus the right armour/weapon you can improve your damage. Going with a slightly knarbish setup (example slash : charge (3), Acc swing (4), SC (3) ) I am able to deliver ~690 on a SC. Also 360-460 normals .This is so because I also have several + strength weapons and armour in my inventory. So it is possible to raise attack without sacrificing too much defence points.
In a RvR sense , if you can get either a bless weapon/ bear strength/ barb OWTH you can do some more damage. If I am so blessed and buff myself ,doing 490+ normal damage is not difficult . Problem is that support conjus configured that way are becoming an endangered species and the ones that have it would rather buff the barb than "wasting" it on the knight which probably makes sense. Plus with healing becoming so tricky who knows what configs conjus may have to come up with to be effective.
In summary, if we can block and resist better then the low hits will not matter as much. My fear is that if our damage increases NGD may see it fit to reduce our defences further. Just my feeling on the matter.
Please keep in mind this is in a PvP or RvR sense. The low damage is still a big problem for grinding and the knight may after all still be the slowest and most tedious to level .
Artec.