Meso Explosion is a problematic skill Here's some input from the thread about meso explosion, and pickpocket (ME, and PP) and how they could function a lot more beneficially for the class overall. I think with a better working pickpocket, meso explosion could work the same, or even better, with less effort from the player Suggestions: Pickpocketed coins deal more damage if bombed than self dropped, but self dropped can still potentially do more because PP will never scale as high or drop as fast as self dropping, but gives PP bombing combo more incentive Pickpocket effect scaling with your Hands stat Pickpocket scaling with your range a bit better, especially vs bosses [less about the amount of mesos monsters have, or the amount of mesos that can drop or be looted, which can be easily softened for generation concerns, more about balancing skill dynamics and stabilization after removing the self drop function] Pickpocket coins can merge into a large meso sack of a (yet) determined amount is reached, 20k, 30k, 40k etc., to help in bossing. Helps by concentrating (altered) ME damage, needing to bomb less, so you can get back to attacking, gives you better visual of amount dropped/on ground/available and time left, lets you pick up mesos faster if your target has moved or died. Merged bag gets a fresh countdown timer to dissapear merged bags would look pretty funny/cute. like the pixel cape, huge blocky pixel border on enlarged sax Pickpocket having a chance to proc double coins/bags as your range scales. Secondary sacks could have value for ME but not when looted Spoiler: Steal? Allowing mesos to be stolen from boss mobs to help increase ME damage (or help increase the merged pickpocket sack faster) gives steal relevance + synergy in 3rd job bossing and a chance to be even more helpful if steal mastery is also to be considered from third or fourth job, replacing shield mastery or ninja ambush. Stolen bags could be gold, or dark in color to diffentiate. PP could also increase Steal's meso value to circle back so stolen mesos having a nice extra punch for ME dmg ME does 1-3 lines, and takes less time to blow up large amounts of mesos, stabilizing dpm if you opt to use pp/me Bit more useful on normal mobs, lot more useful on bosses Would be like 17x more engaging and fun, and way less imbalanced for chief bandits. Allows you to put a hotkey back on ctrl More bigfoots around Could allow for the improvement of other aspects of cb/shad since ME isn't such a huge imbalanced peak in the class. Such as improving/replacing shield mastery, steal, chakra, ninja ambush (just replace ninja ambush with steal mastery pls) Cons: Some bosses (krex/ht, zak arms) have weird PP coin drop placement it's different (reeeee) bandwagon shad backlash Meso sink from ME just reroutes to buying leech, most likely you could still bf and bomb him. use SB to pin (his KB is 2k) and accumulate PP, and use Assaulter and an escape macro of Assaulter>>DS (to instantly phase through/away and hide in ds) liberally to phase through him or away toward a ghost, or party hunt Spoiler: bonus chakra quiz Would chakra in dark sight be OP or worth the risk? Would you use it in ds if you could? If chakra had an hp % auto cast like pet, but was still slow, would you use/set it? If chakra was a bit faster but had a 2-3 sec cd would you use it? If chakra was a buff (same animation to cast) with like a 300 sec duration, and healed you a little bit over time, and each time you got a miss, would you use it? If chakra increased m.def/avoid/etc during cast would you use it more? Should chakra be buffed? If so, how? If not, why? Should it be buffed in 4th job? Should chakra require X amount of points in endure? Should chakra passively raise the stats of endure in it's last 10 levels?
I wouldn’t use the word “indeed”. The poll has 37 verse 31 and it’s about 50/50. I personally very much like how ME works back in the day and now in royals.
Actually [currently] it's 46 vs 32, two options agree it's problematic but represent different approaches. I'll take indeed out though. The poll doesn't really represent why the skill is problematic though, it only represents people that think it should or shouldn't be changed
love the energy. yet another skill to "fix". But my guy, realistically, when do you think GMs are gonna work on these suggestions at all? like in 6 years after auto-ban is fixed and we are running pink bean? Nexon couldn't even make an auto-ban to defeat 12-year-olds with $5 hacks back in 2008. If I was you, I would compile all your ideas, and just be ready. Write ALL OF THEM in one thread, then when the GMs are madly bored and have nothing else to do. BAM. Let'em have it. ONE HUGE ASS thread of all the fixes in your head possible. I can see it now, the ultimate skill fix thread. It will be glorious. For now, though, we can just let bandits blow bigfoot the fuck up in peace. thanks Even @Kenny out here defending shads. My mans don't wanna see another thief nerf. Thieves need a break. They been picked on more than a nerdy kid with a roller backpack in 5th grade.
If they do on site training I'll do it myself lmao. I do have my full suggestion index, every class and subclass, I've thought about posting it but also no point atm
LMAO, I FUCKING KNEW YOU DID YOU PSYCHO. For real though, ME is dope and it's fine. I hate to use "there are bigger issues" but honestly, it's not even an issue compared to other issues. It's even comedic how people self-leech with a mage or buy leech when it is WILDLY more efficient to make a bandit and leech yourself via bigfoot genocide. People are just lazy. And that's the game-changer. People only play NL: Lazy. People buy leech: Lazy. People only order UberEats: Lazy. Meanwhile, Shad players are getting arthritis to put out godly DPS and the 5 corsairs in the entire server are happy they're in the shad's smoke. ME is lit and rewarding for the amount of work it is. AND DARE I SAY IT. NOSTALGIC. Hate to pick on Ironmen, but I think Ironmen are just a tad bit upset that they get smoked by Shad's bombing. For Ironmen, shad is so op its fucking hilarious. But hey, they chose to play that way. Not my problemo I like to make BOOM BOOM on horntail butt with my friends.
It's fun, but it's not as many changes/suggestions as you think it might be. I even have some NL buffs. And yeah by making this or any of my threads Im not prioritizing them over anything else going on, I'm just putting it out there. I don't want ME completely gone I just want it to be better overall. I played sair, that's some freaking high stress arthritis too, no doubt
