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[wary granite]

Hello, I have been interested to return playing elsword since it's the 15th anniversary.
However I want to try new classes and I want your recommendation.
I like playing DPS with good screen clear and multi hit that feels good to the ear.
Quick and mobile spell cast ( aerial cast) is appreciated, I don't want to feel clunky.
Good Bossing and MP management is a bonus too. Who fits this class perfectly?

[waxen girder]

👀

[wary granite]

I've heard Furious Blade is one of the most mana hungry and stat dependent class 💀

[waxen girder]

stat dependent? as in every dps? As for mana hungry , I cant lie you'll have to get mpr and cdr

but like fits all your other criteria

but tbh just play whatever is the most broken

if I were starting out again

I'd prob pick one of those

[wary granite]

I don't know who are broken thats my issue

[wary granite]

IM broken???

[waxen girder]

yes.

[wary granite]

I remember the time he was the worst of the 3 💀

[waxen girder]

well this aint that time

[wary granite]

crazy manavore and lack damange compared to the other >.>

time has changed Oo

[wary granite]

And I guess since 22/04 patchnote many chars has changed no?

[waxen girder]

also ngl cant even give u the advice of playing whatever is the most broken

let me rephrase that play whatever is fun to you that isnt completely useless

cuz meta changes

but if you're not having fun on your char

you'll just quit

[wary granite]

I've played Shakti and Nova Imperator and I found Nova Imperator quite cool gameplay wise. Agile aerial casting but survivability wise 💀

[waxen girder]

ey man if you like the character

learn him and get good at him

every char will have something you have to get used to

[wary granite]

Tho I've been Shakti for the longest time, since rework I feel disconnected with her gameplay now as mana balls don't regen as much as before 🙁

[waxen girder]

if you like NI play NI man

[wary granite]

You are right I guess, there is a power-up event rn?

I wanna reach my Shakti level on my NI 👍🏻

[waxen girder]

uh I think u just missed it ngl but if you're a returning player , progression is easier than back then

still gets brutal once u get to end game

but uh if u can get past that take ur time

find some friends to help you

and smooth sailing

[wary granite]

thanks bud, I've got no friend left on this game. Playing for pure nostalgia

[waxen girder]

make new ones , join the club all the OGs are gone

rip to all the homies fr

[wary granite]

I was one of the earliest guy to leave elsword for other game

But sometime I want to come back because of how great elsword gameplay experience is

Until I reach the end game grind 💀

And every time I come back the endgame becomes trivial and new content become the New end game.

[safe wigeon]

Collecting ESPC actually helps a lot with nostalgia, if you ever bored with the end game.

[waxen salmon]

I 100% agree with this. Seeing ESPC as a way to relive nostalgia is the simple reason why I didn't get burnt out from leveling characters, and how I was able to completely fill out my collection. It's also a great way to learn how every class in this game works and to try out their playstyles since you say that you're looking for a new class to play.

You pointed out that endgame grinding becomes trivial when new content comes. If there's anything to grind in endgame that doesn't become outdated from new content, ESPC would be one of them as it will always be relevant. Everything else; IB costumes, raid weapons, armours...they all get outdated eventually.

ESPC grinding is heavily slept on, because trying new classes in the game for the sake of learning new classes, go extremely hand-in-hand with the free stats you get as a 'reward' for your efforts in trying out new things. I can't stress this enough, and new/returning players aren't being recommended enough with this.

[wary granite]

ESPC ?

El search party collection? ( speculating)

I guess make sense, play every class so I tried them all once

[wary granite]

iirc there were limited character slot?

[waxen salmon]

Yes, but you have more than you think. As long as you do your epic story quests, you will have enough EP by the time you reach level 99 to pay for another character slot from Ariel. I have every single class in this game, and still with plenty of slots free for duplicate characters, around 10 or more slots free

[waxen salmon]

Correct

[verbal stratus]

I'm pretty late to the party but to offer my two cents on NI:
He's actually quite the opposite nowadays. Slow casting (though this has always been the main point in that he casts slow but everything hits hard), aerial mobility through his skills is either mostly removed or irrelevant in PvE (PvP is a different story) and his survivability has been buffed so much over the past few years that he's tankier at 40% HP than a good amount of the cast at 100% HP. Not only is his base HP above average but he also has a resurrection passive, 20% damage reduction, and also a bunch of other passives to help give him that extra tankiness. In recent years his clearing has been buffed tremendously. It's hard not to recommend him in terms of where he stands compared to the other Ravens, with the main drawback being said slow casting that people might not like (I imagine that this is the main reason why NI is the least popular end-game Raven).

[wary granite]

I kinda felt those slow casting when playing him again.
I dont feel the hard hitting maybe they are locked behind those Mod E?
Its kinda annoying that in order to play "full potential" of classes I have to unlock mod E but its so costy 😭

[verbal stratus]

You lose a fair amount of damage by not having Mod Seven Burst but it's not the end of the world if you don't have it (unlike other classes who go from below average to one of the best DPSes in the game with theirs).

The hard hitting part is mostly referring to Rain of Fire. It is by far his best big bossing skill and even against small bosses it's better than everything else in his kit. It's strong enough that he becomes one of the stronger classes in the game for big targets.

Mod E being costly is fairly unfortunate but usually those big boost events like Hyper Punch give one out for free from memory? In any case a couple of them have been given out over past events so it's very likely that they'll continue to be handed out in future big events.

[wary granite]

I also have tested Twins Picaro, Honestly I really like Laby's movement, it feels free and fast, those 6x aerial dashes are crazy imo for mobility.
I liked how her spells are strong and have crazy horizontal range for clearing.
I think she had like 4-5 horizontal clear skill.
I can feel the crazy difference between her clearing and my main (Shakti) who has only 2 clearing skill. And there is one that takes 2 sec to buffer.

[wary granite]

I hope there would be one soon from the anniversary haha

[verbal stratus]

TP's definitely a better class than NI. Better clearing (there isn't much in the game that beats Long Stocking + Cour combo), much better small bossing damage, big bossing damage is also very comparable, so on and so forth.

In the past her downside was that she offered almost zero utility in the party while NI did, but that downside has pretty much disappeared with the recent patch and a lot of classes (NI included) getting their party utility reduced now that all party utility is hybrid.

[wary granite]

I also tried the miner class of Lithia. I didnt like her mobility, it felt weird with the lasso.
The skills looks crazy tho with big range. Tho her MP management seems bad

I also watch clip of furious blade and revenant:
Aura

[copper nova]

[wary granite]

Is that the Alice Wonderland class?