Metakirby
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Yes, you can, as long as you stay in range of the enemy. You do need to stop moving to be able to activate abilities though, but you only really need to move every X seconds anyways, so that shouldn't be an issue. I feel like the "you can dodge while attacking" argument is not that great of an argument for using mage, but if you feel like it works better, go for it. It's not inherently wrong to use mage, it's definitely a little simpler, but not necessarily more effective. Also, something you should note is that you can stay in range 100% of the time doing the first phase, no attack will ever force you out of range. In the second phase, there's only 4 out of 8 possible attacks that forces you out of range for the entire animation (technically only 3, but staying in melee range during the Flame Breath attack straight though the arena means you have to stay in more or less a perfect spot, which I would definitely not recommend on Ultra Akriloth because it doesn't have the attack area displayed). So you have 4 attacks left, 2 which doesn't force you out of range (left/right breath attacks), one which if dodged around well only loses 1-2 seconds of attacking (the side to side breath attack) and the last one that covers mostly the entire field, which still only loses 5-6 seconds, at worst. If mage really does have worse DPS than other classes, this should them out or get mage closer in terms of efficiency. I wouldn't say mage is better to use than other classes (I still think Dragonslayer is the best to use for this), but I am not saying anyone should stop using mage, especially if it can make them stay alive longer while contributing damage. I would rather have a mage that's alive during most, if not the entire fight, rather than another class who keeps dying constantly. Speaking of that, what annoys me the most about so many people using mage is that they: a) Don't care about dodging whatsoever, when all they had to do was walk a little bit left/right/forward/back. b) Don't understand that Akriloth Resets if there's no one in range for either X amount of time, or at a specific timing in the fight. at least 50% of the mages I see do one of these things, although the second scenario is a lot rarer than the first.
< Message edited by Metakirby -- 4/6/2018 9:57:22 >
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