It needs to be done... it NEEDS to be done...
! Why does it
need to be done...!?
I am just going to get on with it then you can decide for yourself as to why this (thread) needed to be created (yes it did).
Opinions are what people
think and is generally more
preference-oriented (considered
Subjective).
Facts are basically things like a (video-)recorded event that can be verified as having
actually happened (considered
Objective).
(This is of course not getting into things like real-time facial-reenactment video-manipulation to unnecessarily complicate the above descriptions... freaking «skeptics» [or more accurately
pseudo-skeptics]
always seem to have to
argue about everything
!)
Examples of «opinion»
words include :
better,
best,
prettier, etc.
One of my cousins, a long time ago, said that Chinese (language) was «better» than Japanese (language), and that is an example of an
opinion. Even what language is easier to learn is also largely more opinion-based, but I
can state
statistically that another language that is
already similar to a language that someone
already speaks is going to be easier for them to learn, than it would be for them to learn a language with completely different sentence-structure and entirely different base-vocabulary. So someone who speaks Spanish will most-certainly be able to speak/understand Portuguese, Italian, French, etc., more easily than someone who does not speak
any of those languages.
I bring up the «Archers» thing into the thread-title to use as an example. When making
comparisons, sure, some people use videos that Koreans may have uploaded onto YouTube (or BitChute, or Vimeo, or Veoh, etc.), whilst others take the mathematical-
statistics and mathematical-
potential approach. When using mathematical multipliers, everybody can also work out the same math-problem, thus making that an example of a «factual» numbers-comparison. When it comes to
in practice, how-ever, not everybody is going to have the same
intrinsic-skill, even if the
extrinsic skills are the same (note: Intrinsic is more of the
innate-stuff that comes
naturally to you the controller
behind-the-screen, whilst
extrinsic is the
external-factor, such as your human/elf/giant-character's skill-rank being anywhere from
Novice to
Dan 3).
In practice, I have always found my human-character(s) to
land their shots
more reliably than my elf-characters, and I will later on eventually back-track to my human-character, but the main reason I «see» for most humans
not going
primarily the human-archer route, is simply because it's a lot easier to clear content in less time with warrior-oriented talents with more reliability (why shoot things when you can just final-hit two or even three whole entire rooms worth of spawns before your Final-Hit even runs out ?).
Here are some
factual things about Human-Archers versus Elven-Archers...:
・Elves have no delay between loading Magnum-Shot; Humans must wait around a second between each Magnum-Shot
・Elves have the Mirage-Missile skill whilst Humans do not; Humans have the Arrow-Revolver skill whilst Elves do not
・Elves can shoot arrows whilst mounted on certain pets (usually of the Horse archetype) whilst Humans cannot
・Elves gain Vision-of-Ladeca after the Potentials-requirements are completed from L100 onwards per re-birth (Humans do not)
・A regular Ranged Attack by an Elf shoots (up to) two arrows at a time; One arrow per shot from a Human-Archer
Here are some
opinion-phrases between Human and Elven Archers...:
・Humans are better than Elves at Archery (one can be entitled to their opinion)
(Opinions are like ***holes... everybody's got one and they all stink)
・Elves don't know how to
aim properly (until they get Vision-of-Ladeca anyway)
・Humans clear rooms faster with maxed out archery than Elves do with max out archery (this actually
shouldn't be the case in most instances but
in practice my human-character
was pulling this off over my elf-character until my elf-character became my current main-character; the advantage being that my elf-character now has all of the Potentials-Levels completed whilst my human-character hasn't even talked to Blaanid yet)
...with that mentioned, what I am going to ADD, for
examples of «factual» statements, involves the use of
clear-times. If someone were active with both Human and Elf characters, and decided to use Archery, running the same contents, starting from beginner
(what some might refer to as so-called «n00b» or out-dated or obsolete content)
content all the way up to Elite Tech-Duinn content, running everything solo, the «clear-times» would show the
in-practice result of using the Elf/Human as an Archer. If the Human-Archer is making clear-times of 25 minutes on a Shadow-Mission like Spider-Elite (solo) whilst an Elf is doing it in only 10 minutes (solo),
consistently, then it can be
objectively said that the Elf's clear-time (with Archery) has been faster (and less time-consuming) than the Human's clear-time (with Archery).
There's plenty of content, from Dungeons (Normal-HM, Basic-Abyss/Veteran, Alby-Peaca), to Shadow-Missions (Tail & Tara), Commerce-Runs, Bandit-Hunting, Saga-Episodes, Phantasm, Tech-Duinns, Purifications, etc. With all of these buffs and reach-max-stats-over-night items/events/etc., now being handed out pretty much like candy these days, it shouldn't take that long any more for anyone to Rank 1 whole entire skill-sets (perhaps even get some of them to Dan 3 within a month or two), and it's also a lot faster these days to rank up those Life-Skills for the relevant Talent-Specific stats compared to before. And that's exactly what I plan to do after I get back from all of this «keep-me-too-busy-to-do-much-on-line» overseas stuff... just to see my own clear-time-comparisons (also between
other skill-sets, not
just Archery).
I am also planning on taking up a certain someone's «challenge» on
Knights of Round Table Elite with the use of
Ice-Bolt. Mind you, I do have a Maxed Out Magic-Tab (other than nothing «Danned» yet), and a full-upgraded Chain-Cast Savage Ice-Wand. If it IS indeed
possible to one-shot those wolves with
Ice-Bolt (on
ELITE), then by all means that is most-certainly something I've GOT to try out
! Last time I did it, despite having the ALO Asuna 2nd Title & Meteor Strike Master titles equipped, a
maxed out Magic-Tab (other than no Dan), and using a Savage Ice Wand (full-upgraded; just without Blue/Red-stones... like as if I'm going to waste those Upgrade-Stones on a Chain-Cast Ice-Wand), I was disappointed with the result, but perhaps it can be done if I decide to «waste Blue Upgrade-Stones» on a Chain-Cast Savage-Ice-Wand and even try to get Ice-Bolt to Dan 3.
I try to avoid being
opinionated if possible, how-ever, I have different
in-practice preferences that not everyone may agree with, but to each their own. With my Elf-Character, I much prefer to use Magic over Archery (for
most content anyway), but with my Human-Character... actually... I still prefer to use Magic in many instances over any other skill-set I might have, particularly when waiting for Final-Hit to go off cool-down-timer,
depending on what content is being run.
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