Rayray

http://irowiki.org/wiki/Double_Attack Double attack is prioritized over critical hits. Hence your argument on needing -50 crit for the dagger sinx is invalid. I have never remembered hitting a critical hit on a player using daggers. everyone has a bit of luk due to gears, hence they have a bit of critical resistance. And since I never had any form of luk or crit rate except on what was on default(gears), then my crit rate is low enough not to proc since DA has a 50% chance of proc. The use of the dex sword now is having ok damage with being a bit more tanky than critical or the dagger builds. I think that is a nice trade off. In all honesty, I never liked to build crit on sinx myself. I find the build severely lacking on utility, I have no hit whatsoever, so using meteor assault to reveal other sinx is out of the question. Saying the dex sword build a decoration only shows that you actually have never used it. Way before the sword was actually buffed, there are about 4 people who used the sword(including me before I lent it to someone) and it was ok. Back then, it lacks utility, but now the sword is buffed, it is seems quite decent. I'll get myself the sword and test(probably on the weekend) then I'll edit or post again here if my opinion changes.

I actually use a dagger sinx. I do not know what items you use, but on my end, I do not really crit. As far as I know, Double Attack has higher priority than criticals, hence if your critical rate is lower than the chance of double attack at max level (50%) then you have nothing to worry about crits. Also, the cards used with a double dagger sinx and a critical sinx only differ on some modifiers like paper card. However, as I use turtle general and skeleton worker cards to do that, it also affects the damage of a critical strike, hence if ever I will crit, the damage is still not low(compared to missing when you are a crit sinx and you did not crit). If what I remember is correct, it actually does stabilize my damage a bit. I'll test it, but as far as I remember, I never needed to decrease my crit on dagger sinx.

Would need testing. I don't have dex sword so I can't do test well yet. How high is the lifesteal of dex sword? because if it is a bit high, then double attack + lifesteal might be a bit broken with the right gears. I myself used loki's blades as an offhand weapon when needed, but my sinx is still primarily using only daggers. I would rather have a sinx dagger that is meant to be a main hand weapon(rather than the ones we have which are clearly made to be offhand/ breaking weapons) than to change sinx dex oriental.

You can just buy it at the mall, through the Books NPC, it is called ledger of death in game. It has 2 card slots, so I normally put phreeoni and dragoon warlord there.

I was able to coma people, honestly it was actually a bit reliable. It worked better for Battle priest because you have enough reducts and you are able to hit hard using physical attacks, compared to when I was using it on autocast professor(where they can just slap in a gtb and be safe). With battle priest, including the coma from the tarot and this, it becomes annoying as they can't actually use GTB because then you would know and just easily switch back to the other weapon and kill them with the damage or the lucky asura. However, I mainly use it as a last resort against someone where I have been fighting for a long time. My book of dead is my strip weapon so I never use it to start a fight(I always think people have FCP so I always try to make it run out). I would also advice to still bring a 2x fbh shoes and switching to it when they went dual raydrics. hit them with the thana weapon and that, and it would deal good enough damage.

Randomly slapping them with book of the dead can net funny kills when they are not focused. :p

There was no need to update it(if it isn't updated). 10% elemental reduction is a big thing.

Updating this since TOS is officially f2p. Anyone who plays, please comment your team name and server so we can party up. Note: I am on Telsiai but that's the one with restricted access atm. I do play 2 more servers, being Varena and Klaipeda.

-1 for a couple of reasons. 1. Making loki's blades only main hand weapon would hinder dagger sinxes who uses the blade as offhand for extra damage when the need arises. 2. It isn't needed. Changing it to become only main hand is only for the convenience of switching. I never had a problem of switching weapons on sinx, it might be a bit hard compared to others but it isn't game breaking. Others carry a katar, switch to it, then switch to the main hand blade you want. I just switch while having my inventories open anyway so I don't think there's an issue.

They are trying to match server side and client side delays so that programs such as breakneck would offer no help.

1. Every class had one of their skills nerfed in terms of spams. That's just the way it is, as the GM Team is trying to match server side delay to client side delay. 2. Take note, I never used Kitty Claw, I was using the legendary counterpart(so it is far weaker mind you). I dunno how to explain it, but there seems to be a timing on SBs, and not before that you mindlessly press the button and it "links" magically. Also note that I am not a pure SB sinx(as I find THAT boring), and only uses SB to surprise people of the burst(i am a dagger sinx primarily), so my opinion will differ from you. To me, SB atm works from my end as I do not purely rely on it, so that might be different from you. 3. The GS boost is not that OP when I encountered it, shotgun GS has 0 utility. DS Snipers who uses traps are more annoying, GS also has to get close. I fought a GS on my Biochem though so that might be something completely different. 4. 3 SBs should be the one being consistent, with 4 happening occasionally if YOU HAVE LINK. 5 and 6 very rarely happens and only happens when you got animation reset(you are being hit while spamming). Getting 4 without link is very rare in my experience, just so you know.

Here's my piece of advice. Please research on the game and plan ahead. If you are gonna be f2p forever, that's the one thing you can do so you don't screw it up. Trust me on this one.

It's awesome. I see more of Legend of Mana series in it rather than just pure Ragnarok Online. Tons of jobs to combine into each other which is nice. f2p access is on apr 29 or 30 I believe.

No it is not absurd. There was no need for warning as it is in the rules. You are selling your items in FRO to another one, so you are planning to move away from this game anyway, banning you was the right choice.

people not knowing how to use snipers is not a good argument to make it OP. 30% ds is too much when DS is flexible on card choices while FAS is not.

If all the other legendary weapons(HW and Prof) have delay reductions on them, I don't see why the l.mace should not have it. I would like to hear from the GM team if this was intended though.

Life is so much easier as an STR Paladin if you have it though.

If you get negative defense, people who don't use incantation samurai card on their weapons will deal more damage. Incantation samurai card sets the enemy's defense to 0, so if people use that card against you, and you have negative def, they effectively increased your defense back to 0(instead of a negative def). That is why some people (especially snipers in my experience, and also clowns/gypsies) don't use incant card at all. Almost everyone will get negative defense if they are on dual skolls unless they are like me who has +10 armors just in case.

It seems you are new to the class as you only explained the general idea. Good Guide overall. I would give a tip that one of your weapons should have thanatos card. Thanatos card works on holy cross, making you deal good damage using it. you play as a biochemist when you had that, spam Holy cross when you deal good damage, then use rapid smite when you don't(as rapid smite doesn't get affected by it). I believe you made a typo up there, you say holy cross forces people to GTB, but I think you meant grand cross, as holy cross is a 2 hit physical attack.

They do, but they are talking about melee + soul breaker, which is doable provided you do have good gears.