So I'm slowly lvling my marauder and I was thinking, should I max energy drain or shockwave? I feel shockwave might be better since i'll be maxing transformation and the CD will decrease but having an hp absorbing skill also sounds beneficial. What might be better?
Energy Drain is more useful than Shockwave during 3rd job, but Shockwave during 4th job can be more useful because you can pair it with Dragon Strike (especially when DS is still low level and deals crap damage). I'd say max Energy Drain and keep Shockwave at 21 since it deals quite a bit of damage even unmaxed.
shockwave is a bad skill, max Energy Blast, you'll never use shockwave, not even after 4th job comes cuz if you transform you'll be spamming Demolition all the way, Energy Drain is a great skill, nice damage, helps a lot, but Shockwave need too many points to be usefull, it's too slow despite the fact that it deals high damage. Energy Blast is your main mobing skill, spam flash fist and somersault kick to charge it, and give use to 2d job skills, they're very usefull
Energy Drain is actually a lot stronger Shockwave does 700% damage but is very slow with a cast time of 1.5 seconds. Energy Drain on the other hand is really fast and is at the same speed like the 1st job flash fist with 0.45 seconds per attack. This makes Energy Drain the strongest 1vs1 skill in 3rd job and it doesn't even fall that much behind 4th job attacks like barrage. Aside from that, Shockwave is beaten by dragon strike in pretty much every way. Dragon Strike is faster, stronger and it also got a longer range. Aside from that Shockwave got a weird range where it can only hit enemies in a straight line (making it useless in maps like ulu 1) while dragons trike hits everything near you. Energy Drain on the other hand, doesn't just have a good DPS but can also heal you. Soon mu lung dojo is coming and without being able to use potions there (aside from mob drops) a drain skill would be extremely useful
i know, but once you max Energy Charge it will fill faster if you hit several mobs with Somersault Kick, also you need to be transformed to use Shockwave but Energy Blast > Shockwave, Energy Drain helps a lot and give us maraurders/buccaneers higher survivality
It's true but shockwave needs you to be in transform too, and the 3rd job transform got a very long cooldown of 8 minutes at max level.
