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I'm lvl 16 48% with highest mastery at lvl 12, have a nice set of equipment (no sos though) and I have just under 100k, I'm also a blade/fire user.

The damage I do on each hit is around 60 each time but, other poeple at level 16 say they do damage in the 100's.

Have I done something wrong?

nope, bladers do low dmg at lower lvls especially without a So* wep, but uhmm i was doin 1k-1.4k at lvl 16...

i suppose you did 1k damage with your critical

...on a mangyang...

Do hybrid bladers do more dmg than pure str?

Luye wrote:nope, bladers do low dmg at lower lvls especially without a So* wep, but uhmm i was doin 1k-1.4k at lvl 16...

So 60 on a bandit is correct then? (I use a level 16 blade, think it's +2). If so then it's pointless being a blade when glaives are doing 600/700 of damage.

at around lvl 18 usually the blader does around 120-150 (two swings) in the time it takes a glaiver to do around 150-170 (one swing)

the damage isnt THAT far down... but its noticable.

El Kabong wrote:at around lvl 18 usually the blader does around 120-150 (two swings) in the time it takes a glaiver to do around 150-170 (one swing)

the damage isnt THAT far down... but its noticable.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Because you do more hits do you get attacked less?

What sort of skill lvl's would you need to be doing that sort of damage at lvl 18?

Waylander wrote:

El Kabong wrote:at around lvl 18 usually the blader does around 120-150 (two swings) in the time it takes a glaiver to do around 150-170 (one swing)

the damage isnt THAT far down... but its noticable.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Because you do more hits do you get attacked less?

What sort of skill lvl's would you need to be doing that sort of damage at lvl 18?

If you want higher dmg then get a sword and put more sp on your fire mastery.
also use lightning (excpet the top/1st tree,since your using fire and it has more dmg..puttin sp on lightning's 1st tree is pointless)

If you have more INT then you better get a sword and put more sp on fire/lightning masteries.

If you have more STR then you better stick with blades and make yourself a STR char and put more sp on blade/sword masteries.

If your hybrid(STR=INT) then you can either keep being a hybrid or just start raising your INT/STR.

Are u killing fast? Cause as long as u kill fast i dont really mind having low damage. And besides ur a blader ur not meant to do as much damage as glaives or w/e so i think u will be ok. Trust me i once felt like i was weak once compared to my friends but i caught up.

Thanks for the info, I'll keep persevering. I'm doing a hybrid that's mainly STR. It was just getting frustrating at watching glaive and some bow users kill in 4 hits when I take 12-14 (white tigers).

However, chatting to a few people yesterday, I found that a number of people are still wearing lvl 16-18 gear (not weapon) but are up to lvl 24 (apparently they just hadn't got around to upgrading!!), which makes a big difference on the hit damage.

Also remember that just because you want to be a blader at higher levels doesn't mean you have to be on at lower levels. If using a bow, or a spear or whatever kills faster then use that for a while and switch to blade later. Curst hearts are your friend.

hellsharpt wrote:Also remember that just because you want to be a blader at higher levels doesn't mean you have to be on at lower levels. If using a bow, or a spear or whatever kills faster then use that for a while and switch to blade later. Curst hearts are your friend.

lol true true....only one little problem :/ he said he has around 100k which means he can lvl dwn around 3 lvls and barely have any money left..its expensive to lvl dwn your skills even i dont do that

so i wouldnt suggest him to waste sp on spear/bow

Thanks, but Im going to continue hacking and slashing with a sword, it's not that bad. It might take a little bit longer but I'm not in any rush.

As this is my first character I don't think I'll be staying with it for the long run. It's more sort of finding out about the game, which I've done lots of already.

Didn´t read all the other replies, but you can also farm at lvl 21 (with your skills at 12 at normal bandits.

You´ll get lower sp, but on the other hand the drops are better.. in other words you make more money. Also the fact that sos lvl 16 bows are just increadibly expensive.


If you just started this game like you said you might as well not farm at all.. and just have fun. If you start a new char less time will be `wasted´, and if you stick with it you can always farm at the cap.