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Which pure class is best to select?
I mean good income, fight, drops e.t.c.?
I mean good income, fight, drops e.t.c.?
The only pure skill that's good for fort battles is health, but any build can do fort battles. The problem with hiding is that it's just counts on defense, and people who ignore their town or alliance's attacks and only defend are generally lame tower huggers.
Hiding is about luck jobs, and I do prefer adventurers for luck jobs. I'll take a higher drop rate over slightly more LP from an overrated class weapon any day. The more LP you have, the better items you'll find, and +5 or +10 from a trumpet won't give you significantly higher value drops at high LP.
Hiding was traditionally the best pure for luck jobs, but now that LP has such a large effect on drop value, any skill with a high luck job can be great for luck. I haven't really analyzed the new jobs to compare what skill gets what new job when.
Trading is much better than it used to be, since work as a traveling merchant is the best overall luck job. The old problem with trading was that it lacked XP jobs, especially at low levels (with most of your XP jobs coming from animal instinct from charisma), but I'm not sure what new jobs have done for it. I know they get marriage swindler, but that's not low difficulty.
I was talking trading, not hiding. Hiding starts out a little slow, but not as bad as charisma pures. You do have to rely on some swimming and HBR jobs early, but hiding basically gives the same XP jobs as trapping, just not quite as soon, because they tend to be 2x trapping and 1x hiding.
Yeah, pure FMS is horrible. You're speccing entirely for one job that I despise that's a necessary evil for quests. No cash, no XP, just luck. I recommend grave robber over merchant for third keys, but once I get my key, I respec ASAP and don't miss it at all.
Money is secondary, I spec for XP. I didn't say don't go pure, I said don't go pure FMS. Pures went out of fashion in favor of all jobs builds (if jobs were your main priority), but they came back when the formulas were changed and LP was given a bigger effect on cash and luck.