Re: Aegis Thousand Year War - DMM Online Game
No, I definitely saw that 'the fundamentals of the unit may be strong, but the class is weak' thing. Samurai really aren't plagued by lack of practicality even as a class like they used to be. Their defense is in general not bad when compared to many units with similar roles(mage armor, heavy artillery - both of which have higher costs). Certainly their defense looks underwhelming compared with the new heavy armor defense, but heavy armors needed some leverage over other units, given how underused they were compared to the likes of, say, Hibari.
The 'become one block' feature of several of the samurai is admittedly a bit strange, but it wouldn't be the first class that has a transformational role, either. You could even argue that it's on theme, with their whole identity of being warriors on the battlefield as well as in private duels. At this point it's better to just treat this as one of the potential samurai characteristics and consider 'dueling skills' as a part of what it means to be a member of the samurai class.
What are your 'other' melee support units?
Math doesn't lie - these units have solid AoE dps for a very low cost with reasonably solid uptime. If you're comparing them to blacks like Berna or Kayou, or units with much higher cost, that's sort of missing the point to begin with. Sure they're squishy, but you get what you pay for and they have to have a downside somewhere, and melee supports are generally skill reliant anyway.
The primary point I was hinting at in that paragraph is that you can argue that a lot of classes are nebulously flawed if you're really looking to. There's really only a small set of classes that are inherently strong and weak in practice, though. Judgment calls on unit quality only really starts to become meaningful when you take a look at their individual abilities in most cases. To be a definitively awful class is to suggest that even a 'fair' black in that class may have trouble being good without going above and beyond and giving them some crazy skill, in my opinion, and that's quite a tall order with how units are designed in this game.
Hope that clarifies my thoughts a little.
No, I definitely saw that 'the fundamentals of the unit may be strong, but the class is weak' thing. Samurai really aren't plagued by lack of practicality even as a class like they used to be. Their defense is in general not bad when compared to many units with similar roles(mage armor, heavy artillery - both of which have higher costs). Certainly their defense looks underwhelming compared with the new heavy armor defense, but heavy armors needed some leverage over other units, given how underused they were compared to the likes of, say, Hibari.
The 'become one block' feature of several of the samurai is admittedly a bit strange, but it wouldn't be the first class that has a transformational role, either. You could even argue that it's on theme, with their whole identity of being warriors on the battlefield as well as in private duels. At this point it's better to just treat this as one of the potential samurai characteristics and consider 'dueling skills' as a part of what it means to be a member of the samurai class.
What are your 'other' melee support units?
Math doesn't lie - these units have solid AoE dps for a very low cost with reasonably solid uptime. If you're comparing them to blacks like Berna or Kayou, or units with much higher cost, that's sort of missing the point to begin with. Sure they're squishy, but you get what you pay for and they have to have a downside somewhere, and melee supports are generally skill reliant anyway.
The primary point I was hinting at in that paragraph is that you can argue that a lot of classes are nebulously flawed if you're really looking to. There's really only a small set of classes that are inherently strong and weak in practice, though. Judgment calls on unit quality only really starts to become meaningful when you take a look at their individual abilities in most cases. To be a definitively awful class is to suggest that even a 'fair' black in that class may have trouble being good without going above and beyond and giving them some crazy skill, in my opinion, and that's quite a tall order with how units are designed in this game.
Hope that clarifies my thoughts a little.
