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Pros and cons of the bourg classI thought I would bring about a place to discuss the pros and cons of the Launcer or Gun Bourg since the latest patches.
The following was what I thought was a good summary of the problems with the Launcher bourg that Pish-it wrote in another thread. I thought makeing it a stand alone thread might be more constructive.
Stolen from Pish-it:
Another class that people seem to be forgetting to mention, that hardly anyone plays anymore is the launcher bourg. Launchers were superior to guns in the past but the orlo update didn't actually balance the two of them they just crippled launchers instead.
Lower attack speed is a given, but because of how attack speed is calculated now, weapons with a lower base attack speed recieve a smaller benefit from any attack speed gear. Basically a p7 will benefit katars more than launchers, to the point where it isn't even worth improving attack speed. With 173% aspeed on my launcher bourg I was hitting about the same speed as when I equipped katars and had 55% attack speed.
Not just melee but skills are very slow also, so they need more time to kill then others, as a result of taking more time to kill they take more damage, and their while their defenses may not be bad, they still cant tank much. The range is much shorter too at 22m, so they don't get much of an advantage from that either.
Compared to guns, sure they have a higher attack power and aoe's, but what advantage is hitting multiple enmies at once and having them swarm you when you could just melee them in the same amount of time with a gun at a safe distance? The radius on the aoes is also very small as well.
Also, with the huge increases in defense, the signature launcher buff dual layer is still only increasing defense and magic resistance by a linear 300 points.
Previously, if I had 1600 base defense, the 300 def from dual layer would make a decent difference. But now if I have 3300 defense, that same buff is very very minor, especially considerign it lasts only 45 seconds. (Dual layer is effected by int, but regardless it is too short and small compared to defenses today)
So to sum it up here are the pros and cons of guns and launchers.
Launcher bourgs are the slowest class out there now, even knights can run faster, skill faster, melee faster and are able to do more damage per second than launchers can, knights can also tank far better than any launcher bourg can dream to.
If launchers were intended to be made the slowest class, that is reasonable, but they need more improvements in skill effects, range or tanking abilities to compensate.
