Only the taekwon class cant wear ifrit ring. The rest can. Star glads can wear books so they could dispell if they wanted to or they can use valk hat. and no not all classes would have to put valk R card in their weapon just to counter whitesmiths. Gear switching is an essential part of pvp. Learn to switch your weapon to dispell and/or strip. and switch back to attack. Besides that we also have valk hat which procs immensely much.
Just saying snipers are dealing the same damage at immense range, yes they are easy to nerf. But I dont see people complain about the damage they dish out. And if you're going to say their damage is easy to reduce because it's ranged.. You'd be changing gears for them wouldn't you ? Why would you have to change gears vs snipers but not vs Whitesmiths ? Same goes for GTB. You change gears to fight wizards or profs, why not change gears to fight Whitesmiths ?
I can agree 50k might be high, but it's SO easy to disable their damage by dispelling them or using ifrit ring, or cast quagmire(as wiz) or keep them on range. The damage should be high.
30k damage will not kill ANYONE that is smart enough to keep a bit of distance or use anything to cancel the whitesmith or even just ygg properly. You're saying to remove pneuma, make them vurnerable for range , nerf their range skill AND let their main spell do about 3/4 the damage the TT does right now ? Sorry but that's honestly just rediculous and will bring WS back to the level they were before the thor hammer got released.
Ps. CT itself (even with meltdown) cant break armor. you'll have to normally hit them or cart revolution.
I'm not crying about the way WS are right now in any single way. I'm just giving my point of view. I dont have much trouble with the current WS class, they are still beatable but I can agree to them being a bit OP and them playing different than they should be. Thats why I'm posting here. and IF these changes were to happen I want to make sure the WS class will still be decent and wont get back to the way they used to be.