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*Note: You may find some skills are a bit outdated or work differently than they do in this guide. This is because allm is too lazy to change their in-game descriptions AND videos after making a big change, so much of the info I've compiled come from a mixture of the enha wiki, various builds on the forums, and the descriptions in game- a whole mess of work. I rely on player feedback of skill usage to update and finalize the skill descriptions here.
-If a class is marked as ※ , then the skills are currently up to date.
Any mistakes or changes with skill function please let me know and I'll update it as soon as I can.
Burst Breakers are, simply put, powerful strikers. They prefer to make use of their Fists rather than their Sword, and while they don't deal in quick combo damage and lack ideal evasive abilities, they make up for this with powerful one hitters that are as tanky as they are damaging. This class relies on the Mist Gauntlet, which enables all their attacks to become flame attributed, evolving many of their powerful skills into even more devastating forms, and providing even more devastating criticals.
Pros:
- Mist Gauntlet. At level 50 this character unlocks the full potential of his Super-heated Mist Gauntlet, allowing for greater Critical Hits and transforming some of his skills into more devastating fire-based attacks. This character puts a lot of emphasis on Charging, which makes being a Breaker feel so much more powerful.
- Fire attributed. While Fire is typically an unfavorable element, This class is completely Fire based thanks to the Mist Gauntlet. Building Fire element makes this character deal truly devastating damage. If fire's your thing, Breaker breathes and shits fire.
- Medicine Man! (STRIKE class) This class deals in powerful hits that destroy Super Armor. This means all the skills for Burst Breaker are Strike-Type and are much more damaging to Super Armor.
- Tanky. Many of Burst Breaker's skills provide Super Armor in some way, some even improving your defense a massive amount, allowing you to take loads of damage while dealing even more.
Cons:
-Late Bloomer. The true power of Breaker does not come out until after awakening (Lv50), and even then many powerful skills will have slow cooldown until you reach level 60.
-Not a Combo Character. This character can definitely hit large numbers when it comes to mobs, but overall this is a character that deals in sheer power and does not rely on chain combos.
-Not an Evasive Character. While Breakers have two skills that close in distance, they lack skills that allow them to get out of tight situations, including invincibility frame-type skills.
-Charging. Many of Burst Breaker's skills need to be charged to reduce and provide major damage. This can be a turn off for people who do not like keeping their character in check for peak capacity.
-Absolutely not a PvP character. As devastating and wide as the skills are in PvE, PvP is a completely different story. This character is an absolute training dummy when it comes to PvP if you do not invest points into Demon Blade long range skill and even perhaps one of Berserker's skills.. and even then, your skills are so narrow range that you must have extreme precision to do damage. One slight mistake ends the match.
Raging Berserkers are fast and reckless, going so far as to sacrificing their own life for more power. They Swing their giant sword around like nothing and do not relent on enemies, slashing multiple times for massive flinch damage. As such, they rely heavily on speed for more hit and damage output. Berserkers are indeed reckless, as they can abuse super armor properties to continue their insanity-driven assault, but they also have the ability to escape danger with relative ease.
Pros:
-Achieve Ultimate Fury. At level 50, Berserkers lose mana completely, with all skills consuming HP to execute. In place of Mana, Berserkers gain a Rage gauge, which allows for their true fury to come out, consuming rage to transform several of their skills into more devastating attacks, and absorbing Rage outright in order to tap into their true fury, granting constant super armor, speed, critical, and allowing full usage of some transformed skills.
-Undying. Berserkers gain much more health than other classes, with the ability to transform their no longer used mana into additional max HP, as well as having a skill that instantly regens 25% of their max hp per second for 5 seconds after falling below a certain amount of health.
-Relentless speed demon. (SLASH class) When you break enemy super armor and start unleashing your slash skills you really start to feel the power of speed. Berserkers can keep enemies that have had their armor broken held down with sheer speed that results in huge bursts of their hp lost. Slash-type skills do extra damage to defenseless enemies, bringing out the damage in Berserkers.
Cons:
-Destructive usage of health. While hp properties are massive for Berserker, the player has to keep in mind that even with HP regen, you can still die easy if not in check. This is another character that requires constant checking, which can be a turn off for some people.
-Deteriorating Equipment. With constant abuse of health and being in the heat of battle, this character is known to eat through equipment durability like nothing. Considering this, you can expect a minor dent in spare change obtained between dungeons. Worst case scenario? you'll be left naked in the middle of a raid dungeon, so repair tools are a must have for your inventory.
-Mob Whore. This character can make many dungeons a rage fest for other players with their many knockback skills. Mob location and consideration must be in mind so other players can be useful.
-AP Eater. A number of Berserker's best awakenings require a TON of AP, leaving your choice of awakened skills very limited. Choosing what you want end game must be considered carefully.
Demon Blades refine their skills in a form of Bushido that serve darker values. Their possessed blade imbues all attacks with darkness and grants the ability to call forth souls with several skills, allowing them to utilize a mix of long and close range attacks that push enemies and close gaps with relative ease. An adept in power, speed, and evasion, Demon Blade ranks as one of the more efficient, if not one of the top fighters in Kritika.
Pros:
-Samurai. Demon Blade opts to use the Katana he obtains during class advancement, while typical class swords are mostly just for show on his back. At level 50 the souls of his attacks infects enemies with Stigma, allowing him to acquire their strength to improve his own immensely.
-Darkness attributed. All of Demon Blade's skills are imbued with darkness, making him another elemental-based character. Darkness is one of the more favorable elements due to its effects, making this character much more powerful when building high dark element.
-Refined. (SLASH Class) Demon Blade utilizes both long and close range skills, so speed is a must. The power of this character comes out with high attack and movement speed, both of which his skills rely on immensely. Being a Slash-type character, his skills deal more damage to enemy without Super Armor.
-PvP Character. With PvP as broken as it is, Demon Blade is one class that can actually hold their own as pure profession in PvP.
Cons:
-Player Experience. This character needs a lot of practice and experience to master its usage. Of course, this is not denying that some players will find Demon Blade easy to get used to.
-Mob Whore. This character can make many dungeons a rage fest for other players with their many knockback skills. Mob location and consideration must be in mind so other players can be useful.
Cat Acrobats are pretty popular in Kritika, for obvious reasons. They're easily the cutest class in the series with all their skills utilizing Nyans in some ways or another, but the adorable factor undermines how deadly this class is. Cat Acros prefer not to rely on class weapons for attacks, mostly being a brawler - a cat class of sorts, if you will. As you may expect, this class is all about high speed and combos, making Cat Acros a very effective and devastating melee character to play with.
Pros:
-Aerial Queen, Speed Queen, Scratch Queen! (SLASH Class) One of the notable features of Cat Acrobat is being the only class that can truly take up aerial combat. Many of her skills knock enemies into the air and can keep them from catching a break, along with the sheer speed behind her attacks they make her even more unrelenting and a super combo character. being a lightweight Slash-type Character, Cat Acro claws at the enemy for high numbers when they're lacking Super Armor.
-Diversify. While the signature trait of Cat Acrobat in combat is aerial combos, At level 50 her awakenings are better aimed at combating her flaws and preference to other players, such as making her more of a ground-combo character, pure or hybrid, a better Super Armor breaker, or even a more evasive character.
-PvP Queen. More than a year has passed and poorly misguided nerfs have still yet to dent the severe power imbalance behind Cat Acrobat when it comes to all other classes. Cat Acro truly is a PvP Queen, with speed unrivaled by all other classes and evasiveness like no other, she can take directly to the skies and hold her own while targeting clueless opponents at will while they run around helplessly. Once Cat Acro knocks you into the air, consider yourself done. Unless you're an assassin! ohoho~
-Nyan factor. Call it fandom fodder or what have you, but this class is all about the Nyan. After advancement they become a meowing mess of a character, Mimicking the act of felines and speaking as such. Typically this could be a negative factor but, for one, this class is very diverse in attitude and atmosphere from what you expect when comparing all other characters. On top of that, the korean voice actress does a really good job of emanating the Cat behind this class. The change could be considered fun.
Cons:
-Nyan Factor! Because after awhile all that meowing will get very annoying at some point, and much sooner for some people. Try joining a 4-pt of Cat Acros, it's one hell of a nyan fest, I can assure you.
-Player Experience. While Cat Acro is a very fast and fluid character, some practice and experience is required to get used to evading bosses and such. Much more practice is required if you plan to diversify your build with awakenings.
-Early Pains. Cat Acrobats have some notable trouble breaking Super Armor. While they do have skills that break armor, and awakenings to provide further support in doing so, you'll have to fight a good portion of your battles in a party or apply tactics that evade around Super Armored enemies, more so in particular, "Champions", "Burst" enemies and bosses.
-Party Rage. Playing with Mob Whore characters can prove to be frustrating as many of your skills can be easily disrupted when enemies are knocked away.
-End Game Change. If you become accustomed to Aerial combat, you'll find that Ether Dungeons, Monster Hunter and Dimensional Library bosses are going to keep their arses planted to the ground.. you'll also find that these end dungeons are pretty much all about bosses and gimmicks. There's a fine line in difficulty that truly sticks out once you start getting near the end, and this change requires that you adapt to it, especially if you've come to expect that Aerial combo is an end all solution.
Crimson Assassins are precision based characters. Many of their skills are perfected towards executing a particular target, and as such, they are geared to accomplish that task. Due to the nature of their profession, this class does not do large combos, rather, opting for precise, fatal damage. Assassins are noted for their absurdly huge damage output compared to every other class in the game, standing with unparalleled reputation as the best damage dealer in Kritika.
Pros:
-Merciless Assassin. (SLASH Class) Assassins boast a lot of debuffs aimed at lowering the enemy's defenses for a fatal strike. By causing enemies to bleed profusely and taking stabs at them with deadly venom, the type of stack that can be obtained gives way to some of the best damage ever seen. As a Slash-type character the end goal is to keep the enemy resistance low and armor off, leaving them vulnerable to her strongest skills.
-Low Maintenance Character. As further emphasis on her ridiculous power, building on element and debuffs alone, you could solo end game dungeons without a weapon in relative ease and time, provided you have the experience to evade incoming attacks. When you consider this potential, one may realize that equipment strength end game is low maintenance for this character to dish out major damage.
-Evasive Ability. This character utilizes many skills that give her the surprise advantage on enemies, such as quick back attacks or fooling their vision, allowing her relative ease of movement.
-Ease of leveling. Provided you can get used to how this character works quickly, the power of this character reveals itself early on and only becomes more devastating as you rise in levels.
Cons:
-Boring. This character is not flashy like all the other characters and as such is very dull in comparison early on. While some may find Assassin appealing, overall they tend to be pretty boring until their entire skillset is unlocked.. and even then, you'll be relying on only a select few skills for real damage, while the rest are used for stacking debuffs and chipping away at health. She's also very lacking in AOE skills for a good while so you won't be expecting fancy damage.
-Not a Combo Character. While Poison Mire does cover a massive range and rakes in the numbers, Assassin is not a combo character. Skills are aimed for evasion and precision, rather than chaining and entrapment. You would need extraordinary speed in order to chain skills proper, and even then going about this method is questionable if you aren't stacking bleed.
-Player Experience. As a character that needs to stack debuffs and do precise hits, Assassin will require a lot of practice and experience, especially with end game dungeons.
-Debuff builder. This character emphasizes the need to stack debuffs, as some of her best skills take advantage of high bleed, low slash resistance, and back attacks for super massive damage. This type of gameplay may be unappealing to some as it does require a fair bit of work around bosses.
-Party Rage. Playing with Mob Whore characters can prove to be frustrating as many of your skills can be easily disrupted when enemies are knocked away.
Mystic Wolfguardians tend to rely on their companion wolf, Sirius, in battle, often joining skills and power together in order to unleash devastating skills and combos. Mystics command the power of lightning and use a variety of Strike, Slash, and Pierce attacks, making them a peculiar mix of hybrid skills. The ease of this character makes made it favorable to many.
Pros:
-Lightning-imbued variety attacker. (HYBRID-PIERCE Class) The type of damage varies between Mystic and Sirius, Mystic's being slash, Sirius being Strike, and both utilizing Piercing type attacks. In fact, nearly all of Mystic and Sirius's attacks start out slash, strike, then follow up with pierce and lightning attributed damage. This kind of mix makes her an interesting and surprisingly powerful character end game. As with other elemental-attributed classes, building high lightning element really brings out her power.
-Powerful Bloomer. End game Mystic is one of the more fun and powerful characters in Kritika, dishing out insane dps damage and combos. They can shock even the worst bosses into submission and keep up the damage while evading safely and riding Sirius for a long burst of immunity to attacks.
-Ease of Use. This class is known for simplicity in usage. End game, at the very least, still is.
Cons:
-Rape victim. (MEGA NERF) Yes, I hate to say it. Honestly, seems like allm took out all their anger on this particular class. When Kritika first started, Mystic Wolfguardian was the easiest class to use, not the strongest end game, but so simple that it was practically the beginner guide character for many Koreans and favored by many.. it was easily the most balanced class in the game. When their class balance change came along, almost all the nerfs came down full force on this class and barely tapped into other classes.
So what are we looking at?
- Massive Damage reduction early game
- AoEs pushed up to lv30, with MASSIVE Cooldowns for every damn skill 30+
- Many skills can easily be disrupted without awakening due to removal of invinc frames and super armor.
The end result is that playing Mystic Wolf is now an insufferable challenge for beginners, and even end game the massive cooldowns continue to hurt.
-Extremely Late Bloomer. After the above nerfs, this character will suck until you reach cap level.. and even then her true damage does not come out until her weapons are lightning-attributed, Ether Force is capped, and Lightning Element is built upon. For those with existing end game Mystics, this class still proves to be both fun and powerful.
-Mob Asshole. Mystic Wolf was known to cause massive rage with some of their skills, running away with bosses, and they still do. I'm pretty sure it's this reason alone that allm went full out nerf mode on this class.
Freezing Blasters live up to their name, to say the least. A Mage that utilizes heavy artillery to deal shotgun ice damage that slow, freeze, and shatters enemies, Blasters are a valuable asset to any party. The power that this class wields is so great that even the character is aware and becomes arrogant of his own skills, with very good reason.
Pros:
-Dungeon Savior. (SLASH-PIERCE Class) Freezing Blaster is an adept in wide range mob control. Most skills have a large range that can inflict slow and freeze, making mobs an insignificant threat. As a Magic Gunner, Guns and Magic naturally have Piercing type attributes, ignoring penalty from super armor and doing full damage to those without attributed resistance, making his damage shine regardless of the situation. Blasters make end game dungeons an easy task to accomplish.
-Ice Attributed. As expected from Freezing Blaster, all his attacks and skills are imbued with ice element. Building Ice Element makes this character much more devastating, increasing damage and adding even more Slow and Freeze to his already crippling attacks.
-End Game. Speed is the main issue with this class. Provided you get enough of it and build your character properly, this character has no problem even soloing the hardest raid dungeon in the game within 2 minutes. Even Ghost Knight just sits helplessly as a frozen statue until his life runs dry.
-Absolute Combo Character. While not what you'd typically expect from a combo character, many of Blaster's skills deal consistent dot damage, allowing you to stack skill upon skill for ridiculous numbers and incremental damage.
Cons:
-AWFUL Cooldowns. (Late Bloomer) This character has obnoxiously long cooldowns that make leveling an absolute nightmare. While skills exist to drop the cooldown of many of your important skills significantly, you can't even put points into them until level 60. Speed is even more vital when it comes to cooldown reduction.
-MVP Whore. While MVP means absolutely nothing besides the MVP Player getting to choose which treasure card the party gets at the end of a dungeon, you'd better be prepared to see Blaster as MVP a lot. This class deals in such large combo numbers that the only reason you wouldn't see them at the end is because they took a lot of hits.
-Boring. If you enjoy mages, this class is as pure as a Mage gets, but the big issue here that makes him boring is his super long cooldowns. Once you hit 60 that all changes, for the most part.
Shadow Shamans are quick and powerful, utilizing lightweight pistols along with support from their Shadow demon Alteo. While Shamans deals entirely in piercing attacks, Alteo slashes and strikes at enemies with dark attributed attacks. Shamans feel more at home as a gunner than they do mage, as they make full use of their guns while casting off Alteo to attack and ensnare enemies.
Pros:
-Refined Variety attacker. (HYBRID CLASS) Shadow Shaman has a refined set of skills. His shooting attacks pierce, ignoring penalties, while Alteo Smashes enemies or claws them apart, depending on what you command him to do. Along with a set of skills for every occasion, the speed at which both Alteo attacks and Shaman follows up makes this class a very efficient damager.
-Speed Demon? Combo Machine! Shadow Shaman is a proficient gunner, while Alteo is a professional rapist. With these two together, they make for amazing combos. Tossing Alteo to suck in enemies allows you to fire a mess of bullets down on them and have Alteo back out on them again immediately, even with low attack speed. Speed only serves to make their combination much more devastating.
-Alteo's Darkness attributed. Being a Shadow Demon, Alteo has the benefits of being dark attributed. While Shaman's attacks aren't attributed, imbuing your Gun with Darkness will greatly improve Alteo's attacks regardless. Plus, you get the benefit of darkness in your gun attacks and that's never a bad thing.
-Flexibility. Shadow Shaman skills can close the gap between enemies and escape to safety with relative ease, making this a very flexible class.
-PvP King. Due to the broken unbalanced nature of PvP in Kritika, This is another class that managed to pass by nerfs. If you absolutely underestimate them, you die fast, and hard. Once you're caught by Alteo you'll be shot dead. Even if you take Shadow Shaman with full apprehension, fights against this class drag out for a long time, provided you're even using one of the few classes that can survive a few seconds to begin with.
Cons:
-Vision problems. Some players have problem judging the distance of their skills with Shadow Shaman, and some skills can definitely be a bit uncomfortable to use early on. This takes a bit of experience to get used to, but it can prove to be a bit unsettling if this is not a constant class you use.
-Skill/Party Rage. Some skills that Shadow Shaman use require a bit of precision, so when a boss moves out of the way this can prove to be frustrating, while party members can make this even worse by knocking enemies away from your skills. Awakenings can easily correct this problem.
-Mob Whore. While not as bad as other Mob Whore chars, Shadow Shaman can cause its fair share of rage too, especially with end game awakenings. With that in mind, mob location and consideration don't be a douche etc this class really is scraping the barrel for cons.
Pros:
-If a class is marked as ※ , then the skills are currently up to date.
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Class
Burst Breaker
Berserker
Demon Blade
Cat Acrobat
Crimson Assassin
Mystic Wolfguardian
Freezing Blaster
Shadow Shaman
Dimension Controller
Valkyrie
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Warrior
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Pros:
- Mist Gauntlet. At level 50 this character unlocks the full potential of his Super-heated Mist Gauntlet, allowing for greater Critical Hits and transforming some of his skills into more devastating fire-based attacks. This character puts a lot of emphasis on Charging, which makes being a Breaker feel so much more powerful.
- Fire attributed. While Fire is typically an unfavorable element, This class is completely Fire based thanks to the Mist Gauntlet. Building Fire element makes this character deal truly devastating damage. If fire's your thing, Breaker breathes and shits fire.
- Medicine Man! (STRIKE class) This class deals in powerful hits that destroy Super Armor. This means all the skills for Burst Breaker are Strike-Type and are much more damaging to Super Armor.
- Tanky. Many of Burst Breaker's skills provide Super Armor in some way, some even improving your defense a massive amount, allowing you to take loads of damage while dealing even more.
Cons:
-Late Bloomer. The true power of Breaker does not come out until after awakening (Lv50), and even then many powerful skills will have slow cooldown until you reach level 60.
-Not a Combo Character. This character can definitely hit large numbers when it comes to mobs, but overall this is a character that deals in sheer power and does not rely on chain combos.
-Not an Evasive Character. While Breakers have two skills that close in distance, they lack skills that allow them to get out of tight situations, including invincibility frame-type skills.
-Charging. Many of Burst Breaker's skills need to be charged to reduce and provide major damage. This can be a turn off for people who do not like keeping their character in check for peak capacity.
-Absolutely not a PvP character. As devastating and wide as the skills are in PvE, PvP is a completely different story. This character is an absolute training dummy when it comes to PvP if you do not invest points into Demon Blade long range skill and even perhaps one of Berserker's skills.. and even then, your skills are so narrow range that you must have extreme precision to do damage. One slight mistake ends the match.
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Pros:
-Achieve Ultimate Fury. At level 50, Berserkers lose mana completely, with all skills consuming HP to execute. In place of Mana, Berserkers gain a Rage gauge, which allows for their true fury to come out, consuming rage to transform several of their skills into more devastating attacks, and absorbing Rage outright in order to tap into their true fury, granting constant super armor, speed, critical, and allowing full usage of some transformed skills.
-Undying. Berserkers gain much more health than other classes, with the ability to transform their no longer used mana into additional max HP, as well as having a skill that instantly regens 25% of their max hp per second for 5 seconds after falling below a certain amount of health.
-Relentless speed demon. (SLASH class) When you break enemy super armor and start unleashing your slash skills you really start to feel the power of speed. Berserkers can keep enemies that have had their armor broken held down with sheer speed that results in huge bursts of their hp lost. Slash-type skills do extra damage to defenseless enemies, bringing out the damage in Berserkers.
Cons:
-Destructive usage of health. While hp properties are massive for Berserker, the player has to keep in mind that even with HP regen, you can still die easy if not in check. This is another character that requires constant checking, which can be a turn off for some people.
-Deteriorating Equipment. With constant abuse of health and being in the heat of battle, this character is known to eat through equipment durability like nothing. Considering this, you can expect a minor dent in spare change obtained between dungeons. Worst case scenario? you'll be left naked in the middle of a raid dungeon, so repair tools are a must have for your inventory.
-Mob Whore. This character can make many dungeons a rage fest for other players with their many knockback skills. Mob location and consideration must be in mind so other players can be useful.
-AP Eater. A number of Berserker's best awakenings require a TON of AP, leaving your choice of awakened skills very limited. Choosing what you want end game must be considered carefully.
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Pros:
-Samurai. Demon Blade opts to use the Katana he obtains during class advancement, while typical class swords are mostly just for show on his back. At level 50 the souls of his attacks infects enemies with Stigma, allowing him to acquire their strength to improve his own immensely.
-Darkness attributed. All of Demon Blade's skills are imbued with darkness, making him another elemental-based character. Darkness is one of the more favorable elements due to its effects, making this character much more powerful when building high dark element.
-Refined. (SLASH Class) Demon Blade utilizes both long and close range skills, so speed is a must. The power of this character comes out with high attack and movement speed, both of which his skills rely on immensely. Being a Slash-type character, his skills deal more damage to enemy without Super Armor.
-PvP Character. With PvP as broken as it is, Demon Blade is one class that can actually hold their own as pure profession in PvP.
Cons:
-Player Experience. This character needs a lot of practice and experience to master its usage. Of course, this is not denying that some players will find Demon Blade easy to get used to.
-Mob Whore. This character can make many dungeons a rage fest for other players with their many knockback skills. Mob location and consideration must be in mind so other players can be useful.
Rogue
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Pros:
-Aerial Queen, Speed Queen, Scratch Queen! (SLASH Class) One of the notable features of Cat Acrobat is being the only class that can truly take up aerial combat. Many of her skills knock enemies into the air and can keep them from catching a break, along with the sheer speed behind her attacks they make her even more unrelenting and a super combo character. being a lightweight Slash-type Character, Cat Acro claws at the enemy for high numbers when they're lacking Super Armor.
-Diversify. While the signature trait of Cat Acrobat in combat is aerial combos, At level 50 her awakenings are better aimed at combating her flaws and preference to other players, such as making her more of a ground-combo character, pure or hybrid, a better Super Armor breaker, or even a more evasive character.
-PvP Queen. More than a year has passed and poorly misguided nerfs have still yet to dent the severe power imbalance behind Cat Acrobat when it comes to all other classes. Cat Acro truly is a PvP Queen, with speed unrivaled by all other classes and evasiveness like no other, she can take directly to the skies and hold her own while targeting clueless opponents at will while they run around helplessly. Once Cat Acro knocks you into the air, consider yourself done. Unless you're an assassin! ohoho~
-Nyan factor. Call it fandom fodder or what have you, but this class is all about the Nyan. After advancement they become a meowing mess of a character, Mimicking the act of felines and speaking as such. Typically this could be a negative factor but, for one, this class is very diverse in attitude and atmosphere from what you expect when comparing all other characters. On top of that, the korean voice actress does a really good job of emanating the Cat behind this class. The change could be considered fun.
Cons:
-Nyan Factor! Because after awhile all that meowing will get very annoying at some point, and much sooner for some people. Try joining a 4-pt of Cat Acros, it's one hell of a nyan fest, I can assure you.
-Player Experience. While Cat Acro is a very fast and fluid character, some practice and experience is required to get used to evading bosses and such. Much more practice is required if you plan to diversify your build with awakenings.
-Early Pains. Cat Acrobats have some notable trouble breaking Super Armor. While they do have skills that break armor, and awakenings to provide further support in doing so, you'll have to fight a good portion of your battles in a party or apply tactics that evade around Super Armored enemies, more so in particular, "Champions", "Burst" enemies and bosses.
-Party Rage. Playing with Mob Whore characters can prove to be frustrating as many of your skills can be easily disrupted when enemies are knocked away.
-End Game Change. If you become accustomed to Aerial combat, you'll find that Ether Dungeons, Monster Hunter and Dimensional Library bosses are going to keep their arses planted to the ground.. you'll also find that these end dungeons are pretty much all about bosses and gimmicks. There's a fine line in difficulty that truly sticks out once you start getting near the end, and this change requires that you adapt to it, especially if you've come to expect that Aerial combo is an end all solution.
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Pros:
-Merciless Assassin. (SLASH Class) Assassins boast a lot of debuffs aimed at lowering the enemy's defenses for a fatal strike. By causing enemies to bleed profusely and taking stabs at them with deadly venom, the type of stack that can be obtained gives way to some of the best damage ever seen. As a Slash-type character the end goal is to keep the enemy resistance low and armor off, leaving them vulnerable to her strongest skills.
-Low Maintenance Character. As further emphasis on her ridiculous power, building on element and debuffs alone, you could solo end game dungeons without a weapon in relative ease and time, provided you have the experience to evade incoming attacks. When you consider this potential, one may realize that equipment strength end game is low maintenance for this character to dish out major damage.
-Evasive Ability. This character utilizes many skills that give her the surprise advantage on enemies, such as quick back attacks or fooling their vision, allowing her relative ease of movement.
-Ease of leveling. Provided you can get used to how this character works quickly, the power of this character reveals itself early on and only becomes more devastating as you rise in levels.
Cons:
-Boring. This character is not flashy like all the other characters and as such is very dull in comparison early on. While some may find Assassin appealing, overall they tend to be pretty boring until their entire skillset is unlocked.. and even then, you'll be relying on only a select few skills for real damage, while the rest are used for stacking debuffs and chipping away at health. She's also very lacking in AOE skills for a good while so you won't be expecting fancy damage.
-Not a Combo Character. While Poison Mire does cover a massive range and rakes in the numbers, Assassin is not a combo character. Skills are aimed for evasion and precision, rather than chaining and entrapment. You would need extraordinary speed in order to chain skills proper, and even then going about this method is questionable if you aren't stacking bleed.
-Player Experience. As a character that needs to stack debuffs and do precise hits, Assassin will require a lot of practice and experience, especially with end game dungeons.
-Debuff builder. This character emphasizes the need to stack debuffs, as some of her best skills take advantage of high bleed, low slash resistance, and back attacks for super massive damage. This type of gameplay may be unappealing to some as it does require a fair bit of work around bosses.
-Party Rage. Playing with Mob Whore characters can prove to be frustrating as many of your skills can be easily disrupted when enemies are knocked away.
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| Sirius! Go bite that particular creature in the face! |
Pros:
-Lightning-imbued variety attacker. (HYBRID-PIERCE Class) The type of damage varies between Mystic and Sirius, Mystic's being slash, Sirius being Strike, and both utilizing Piercing type attacks. In fact, nearly all of Mystic and Sirius's attacks start out slash, strike, then follow up with pierce and lightning attributed damage. This kind of mix makes her an interesting and surprisingly powerful character end game. As with other elemental-attributed classes, building high lightning element really brings out her power.
-Powerful Bloomer. End game Mystic is one of the more fun and powerful characters in Kritika, dishing out insane dps damage and combos. They can shock even the worst bosses into submission and keep up the damage while evading safely and riding Sirius for a long burst of immunity to attacks.
-Ease of Use. This class is known for simplicity in usage. End game, at the very least, still is.
Cons:
-Rape victim. (MEGA NERF) Yes, I hate to say it. Honestly, seems like allm took out all their anger on this particular class. When Kritika first started, Mystic Wolfguardian was the easiest class to use, not the strongest end game, but so simple that it was practically the beginner guide character for many Koreans and favored by many.. it was easily the most balanced class in the game. When their class balance change came along, almost all the nerfs came down full force on this class and barely tapped into other classes.
So what are we looking at?
- Massive Damage reduction early game
- AoEs pushed up to lv30, with MASSIVE Cooldowns for every damn skill 30+
- Many skills can easily be disrupted without awakening due to removal of invinc frames and super armor.
The end result is that playing Mystic Wolf is now an insufferable challenge for beginners, and even end game the massive cooldowns continue to hurt.
-Extremely Late Bloomer. After the above nerfs, this character will suck until you reach cap level.. and even then her true damage does not come out until her weapons are lightning-attributed, Ether Force is capped, and Lightning Element is built upon. For those with existing end game Mystics, this class still proves to be both fun and powerful.
-Mob Asshole. Mystic Wolf was known to cause massive rage with some of their skills, running away with bosses, and they still do. I'm pretty sure it's this reason alone that allm went full out nerf mode on this class.
Magic Gunner
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| Beware, for I shall bestow upon you this glorious gift! |
Pros:
-Dungeon Savior. (SLASH-PIERCE Class) Freezing Blaster is an adept in wide range mob control. Most skills have a large range that can inflict slow and freeze, making mobs an insignificant threat. As a Magic Gunner, Guns and Magic naturally have Piercing type attributes, ignoring penalty from super armor and doing full damage to those without attributed resistance, making his damage shine regardless of the situation. Blasters make end game dungeons an easy task to accomplish.
-Ice Attributed. As expected from Freezing Blaster, all his attacks and skills are imbued with ice element. Building Ice Element makes this character much more devastating, increasing damage and adding even more Slow and Freeze to his already crippling attacks.
-End Game. Speed is the main issue with this class. Provided you get enough of it and build your character properly, this character has no problem even soloing the hardest raid dungeon in the game within 2 minutes. Even Ghost Knight just sits helplessly as a frozen statue until his life runs dry.
-Absolute Combo Character. While not what you'd typically expect from a combo character, many of Blaster's skills deal consistent dot damage, allowing you to stack skill upon skill for ridiculous numbers and incremental damage.
Cons:
-AWFUL Cooldowns. (Late Bloomer) This character has obnoxiously long cooldowns that make leveling an absolute nightmare. While skills exist to drop the cooldown of many of your important skills significantly, you can't even put points into them until level 60. Speed is even more vital when it comes to cooldown reduction.
-MVP Whore. While MVP means absolutely nothing besides the MVP Player getting to choose which treasure card the party gets at the end of a dungeon, you'd better be prepared to see Blaster as MVP a lot. This class deals in such large combo numbers that the only reason you wouldn't see them at the end is because they took a lot of hits.
-Boring. If you enjoy mages, this class is as pure as a Mage gets, but the big issue here that makes him boring is his super long cooldowns. Once you hit 60 that all changes, for the most part.
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| ALTEO! GET OVER HERE, YOU SNOB! |
Pros:
-Refined Variety attacker. (HYBRID CLASS) Shadow Shaman has a refined set of skills. His shooting attacks pierce, ignoring penalties, while Alteo Smashes enemies or claws them apart, depending on what you command him to do. Along with a set of skills for every occasion, the speed at which both Alteo attacks and Shaman follows up makes this class a very efficient damager.
-Speed Demon? Combo Machine! Shadow Shaman is a proficient gunner, while Alteo is a professional rapist. With these two together, they make for amazing combos. Tossing Alteo to suck in enemies allows you to fire a mess of bullets down on them and have Alteo back out on them again immediately, even with low attack speed. Speed only serves to make their combination much more devastating.
-Alteo's Darkness attributed. Being a Shadow Demon, Alteo has the benefits of being dark attributed. While Shaman's attacks aren't attributed, imbuing your Gun with Darkness will greatly improve Alteo's attacks regardless. Plus, you get the benefit of darkness in your gun attacks and that's never a bad thing.
-Flexibility. Shadow Shaman skills can close the gap between enemies and escape to safety with relative ease, making this a very flexible class.
-PvP King. Due to the broken unbalanced nature of PvP in Kritika, This is another class that managed to pass by nerfs. If you absolutely underestimate them, you die fast, and hard. Once you're caught by Alteo you'll be shot dead. Even if you take Shadow Shaman with full apprehension, fights against this class drag out for a long time, provided you're even using one of the few classes that can survive a few seconds to begin with.
Cons:
-Vision problems. Some players have problem judging the distance of their skills with Shadow Shaman, and some skills can definitely be a bit uncomfortable to use early on. This takes a bit of experience to get used to, but it can prove to be a bit unsettling if this is not a constant class you use.
-Skill/Party Rage. Some skills that Shadow Shaman use require a bit of precision, so when a boss moves out of the way this can prove to be frustrating, while party members can make this even worse by knocking enemies away from your skills. Awakenings can easily correct this problem.
-Mob Whore. While not as bad as other Mob Whore chars, Shadow Shaman can cause its fair share of rage too, especially with end game awakenings. With that in mind, mob location and consideration don't be a douche etc this class really is scraping the barrel for cons.
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Dimension Controllers do everything as their name implies, stopping and bending time around enemies, making themselves faster and improving their defenses, as well as calling down meteors and distorting gravity for improved damage. A very fast and methodological class, Controllers are as efficient at mob gathering as they are with destroying Super Armor, making them well rounded.
Pros:
-Precision Mob Smasher. (STRIKE-PIERCE Class) Dimension Controllers can gather enemies and lock them down with relative ease, making some of his stronger precision skills easy to execute. Most of his skills deal in explosions, meteors, and gravity distortion, making him a Strike-Pierce Class that deals only in increasing damage, with ease of destroying super armor.
-Unrelenting Speed! Combo Machine. This class stacks high numbers with relative ease, along with the potential of unlimited combos, making increment damage a major plus. The speed at which he executes skills and moves, along with many of his skills being disruptive, also makes him a great evasive character.
-Sword Shield Buddy. Also known as the Error Modifier, this Shield rides around on your back and is almost like a secondary attacker when high element is built and awakening is taken, protecting you from attacks and executing its own elemental skills.
Cons:
-Mana Eater. This class burns through mana at a ridiculous rate end game so a lot of mp pots will be needed.
-Mob/MVP Whore. This character deals in ridiculous numbers so prepare to see him on MVP often. Some skills can cause rage as well since you can suck enemies from right under players. Consideration for mob placement may be required.
Scyther
Aka the only character with a name, Yoran.
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| You shall call me Queen! Ohohohohohoho~ |
Valkyries utilize a peculiar set of fighting stances that allow them to move quickly and deal major damage. When Valks are prepared in Violation, they move fast and deal deadly criticals, on the other hand they extend their Scythe in Coquettish fashion, lashing out at enemies with long range, dragging them around helplessly. The newest character and class, Valkyries still have a lot to show.
Pros:
-Unique Fighting Stance. (SLASH Class) Valkyries make use of a pair of fighting styles, known as Violate and Coquette. They start off poised to Violate, dealing in melee attacks and extreme speed, while right clicking sets them off in Coquettish, lashing out at enemies, gathering them and dealing major damage. The abilities associated with these two stances make this a powerful and unique character.
Cons:
-Ridiculous Consumption of SP. This class has a ton of skills, and nearly all of them reach level 20+. Because of this maxing even a single skill would leave many of your other skills suffering. A lot of consideration to subtle differences in skill damage must be taken.
-Ridiculous Consumption of SP. This class has a ton of skills, and nearly all of them reach level 20+. Because of this maxing even a single skill would leave many of your other skills suffering. A lot of consideration to subtle differences in skill damage must be taken.
-Lack of Awakenings! This class is still new, so new in fact that two other classes haven't been released yet. Because of this, many of her skills currently have a fine disadvantage that cannot be rectified like all other classes. With that said, a real overview of this class will occur when she's actually finalized, which, according to allm, is "soon™".
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She loves thorns and whips. We'll find out what class this is in due time.
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She loves playing with the blood of her enemies. In due time.
