User blog comment:Thousand Troops/Balancing the Assassin Vocation/@comment-107.137.244.71-20150224011859/@comment-23878607-20150224205028

This was written long before Dark Arisen's release and is terribly outdated. Weapons and armor now outweigh build in terms of direct affect on damage output; one can play deliberately as a Mage all the way to 200 and still wreck enemies if properly equipped for different vocations and curatives/tools to address weak stamina, DEF and deficient strength.

The assertion that the Mystic Knight's shield is less capable of blocking attacks is, um, frankly, laughable, because a Riposte-buffed perfect block from an MK is one of the most powerful moves in the entire game in terms of power output.


 * ) So there, haha!