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You crazy dude. So we can have like a huge damage dealer along side with a great passive Energy regain. Good work!

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Wouldn't that make Bounty Hunters more powerfull? Resulting in massive OPness? You sound like Hun.

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either one or 2 of these buffs , not all.

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IDK about you , but all i can see is that 1) Merc was supposed to be a good offensive class in the first place ( that explains why they have HA instead of shields due to FM / BM being an offensive buff ) and 2) many people always keep saying Caster TM is the most OPed one only because of "high PB damage , it can make anyone's HP go 60% or less" and SC doing much damage and stuff that what makes them great yet their not even mentioning the cons too . And besides , Merc has been UPed for more than a year . Imagine if that lasts for 2 or more years!

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Or .... maybe i couldn't understand properly because you didn't gave an explanation . If you have time , i would love to know why since all i see are STR and 5 - Focus, not much news about SUPP or other builds .

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Support builds work great, especially Tech Mage & Cyber Hunter (yes, they are here. God damnit!), I don't understand why everyone goes defensive with those builds, Battle Elf and I went all out offensive with it and was more devastating then the defensive one. Technology isn't as usefull, although a Tech Bounty Hunter is pretty awesome, I was a Tech Bounty Hunter last week, had some pretty awesome fights! Also, that Smoke Screen on level 3 is totaly OP'd.
Strenght builds are fast, some people, like me love fast builds. Although I was even faster as a Sup Cyber Hunter back then. It's a common used thing, people see it work and they use it. "I saw a rather interesting 139 Health that Gassia had, I could try it aswell", and holy crap it actually works better then expected (incase you're wondering, I never did that builds, although it killed me...).
5 Focus, I don't like those stats, having 16-20 Primary, Side arm and Auxiliary damage is great with good defenses, it gives somewhat offense and defense. It's like a survival build, it lasts long and people who don't mind having long battles use it I guess. I absolutly hate having to battle 5 Focus Tactical Mercenaries that always has to last freaking long as hell, but I defeat them with more then half Health left. 5 Focus Cyber Hunter's better 'cause it has better offenses. It's just that people aren't smart enough to figure that adding Massacre at level 1 with a few points extra into Energy would greatly benefit. I don't get Cyber Hunters with a 5 Focus build. Kinda lousy in my opinion.

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Also, the class isn't that underpowered, it is overrated. A decent Mercenary Strenght build completly destroys everyone. Here's the part of the stat sheet of a Merc build I made for my friend:
Primary/Side: 21-26+ 35 (27-33 +35 with Blood Commander)
Aux: don't care
Defense: 26-32 +5 +6 +1
Resistance: 25-30 +5 +5 +1

Now you tell me that that isn't a great build? You get a Health regen because of Blood Commander and the Energy (which is 71, incase you wondered) provides many options for skill usage (strategy).

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but what about the non-Varium perspective ?

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I know they have strong and decent STR build combos but the rest of the builds are actually pretty much of a history, but then again ....

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rest of the builds are actually pretty much of a history

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I was referring to SUPP BH being the UPed one , but the rest , yeah , the other classes' SUPP builds can be successful , but what about the non-Varium perspective ?

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I know they have strong and decent STR build combos but the rest of the builds are actually pretty much of a history, but then again ....

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<~RabbleFroth> the crossover point is 70% of the damage coming in
<~RabbleFroth> meaning that if the second person's defense is greater than 70% of the original gun damage, the attack does less overall
<Trans> Hmm, quite complex but kinda makes sense. The crossover point is complicated since it works on 2nd person. So let's say Gun deals 55-59 damage (+35 & 20-24) and enemy's defence is 30 and other one's is 25. How does it work there? (example usually explains it best)
<~RabbleFroth> so if you were going to shoot enemy A (30 def) with a regular gun it would do about 27 damage (57-30)
<~RabbleFroth> shooting both does 57*0.85 = 48 to each, so 18 (48-30) and 22 (48-25) for a total of 40
<~RabbleFroth> it did way more because the second person has less than 70% of the gun's normal damage (25 / 57 = 44%)
<~RabbleFroth> but if enemy B had 40 defense (70% of 57 damage), it would do a total of 26 damage, 18 to enemy A + 8 to enemy B (the number is off because I'm rounding, but it's essentially the same damage as you would have done with a normal gun to one enemy)

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Is it too hard to have Defense that is equal to 70% of their gun damage?