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Krito wrote on 2014-01-26 20:21
Alchemy update made it easier to use the supportive skills easier with the guard cylinder. If you are a giant with a lance/2h sword, you can use frozen blast and shock which is amazing.
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ironwoman wrote on 2014-01-26 20:47
Quote from Krito;1191834:
Alchemy update made it easier to use the supportive skills easier with the guard cylinder. If you are a giant with a lance/2h sword, you can use frozen blast and shock which is amazing.
The better part would be that they get balance that they're missing from the guard cylinder. Though they would be missing out on damage that cooking pot offers.
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Zunori wrote on 2014-01-26 23:34
Alchemy now seems quite powerful... much more powerful than it used to be before the Enlightenment patch. I'd say its still one of the harder skill sets to master because it requires a lot of specialization before becoming powerful. It's very tempting for me to switch to Alchemy as a main skill-set now but I know I should focus on ranking other things first.
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Aubog007 wrote on 2014-01-27 03:12
Quote from Kenero;1191766:
That's the thing, once you hit enough to one shot mobs in hard and elite, extra damage isn't rewarded and so far I have been one shotting in elite and hm shadow missions.
The true reason it suffers is because the AOE for Alchemy is nonexistance, Flame burst's area is too small, heat buster is conditional, and shock's damage is lackluster. The other classes such as range, melee, puppets, magic, and even guns have a much more manageable AOE, with rider reach and impressive damage.
Shock suffers from too many downsides to be used effectively. It used to be good, then the glitches and nerfs turned into trash.
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ironwoman wrote on 2014-01-27 04:26
Quote from Aubog007;1191973:
Shock suffers from too many downsides to be used effectively. It used to be good, then the glitches and nerfs turned into trash.
The title used to be worth it, but then there's blood master now.
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Aubog007 wrote on 2014-01-27 06:18
Quote from ironwoman;1192005:
The title used to be worth it, but then there's blood master now.
Thanks for adding that fact too.
Shock has almost nothing going for it at all. Even elemental wave shock sucks. Animation is nice.
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Syrion wrote on 2014-01-27 07:38
still generally much weaker than other skillsets, the updates didn't really power up alch a lot, just more stuff to play with
specifically hydra seems very strong
summon golem taunt might be situationally useful
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Slayerj wrote on 2014-01-28 05:31
I hate how the tower cylinder was completely shafted, and how synth and stuff are all still 150% useless other than stats.