Archer, Blademaster or Wizard for PVE?

All 3 classes are very powerful at higher lvls, it depends on your preferred fight style (melee, ranged physical or magical).

For cost, I'd say Archer is the cheapest. For PVE, you don't need much HP potions and the best gear because mobs won't be able to reach you (make sure you have a decent bow, though). With MP recovery gear, you'll never need MP potions. Also, Archers mainly kill with normal attacks and lvl1 skills (such as knockback), so you won't spend much spirit and coins on skills (I only have some important skills maxed and I still do fine).

Axe/hammer BM is good for stunning and AoE, but you will drink lots of MP pots. Thanks to their high defence, they can AoE grind alone. It's not recommended to AoE with a Wizard and Archer without a Cleric, unless you're charmed. Wizard is better for AoE than an Archer (more powerful), but Archer is faster in 1v1 killing than AoEing anyways (and safer, too).

For soloing, I think Archer and BM are about the same. BM has high def to stay alive, but Archer has range and after a while, Archers become strong enough to kill mobs before they could reach them. I personally love soloing with my Archer (lvl 75), it's fast and easy. At higher lvls, Wizards should have no problem due to high damage, but at lower lvls, they have to kite and drink HP pots.

In teams, a BM can play the role of a damage dealer and tank. Archers and Wizards are awesome damage dealers too, they definitely kill mobs faster and good to have them in squads, but they can't tank, obviously. Wizards might be able to tank some magic bosses.

I've only tried BM, Veno and Psychic (besides Archer). I still have to try Wizard, not sure about them, to be honest. My BM has potion problems (drinks lot more MP pots due to low MP pool and skills, even HP pots during AoEs). It was similar to lvl them until mid lvls. They both became a lot better after lvl 30-40. However, I find Archer more fun because of the range, the crits, the different skill combinations, and the fact I can kill mobs before they could reach me.

I'm actually not sure about endgame, I am far away from it. All classes become powerful at endgame PVE, but they all have their PROs and CONs. I saw my lvl90 Archer friend fighting lvl93+ mobs and she was doing fine. Just like me at lvl 75, but faster and more powerful... and she crits all the time!

I recommend Archer, BUT make sure you read the guides in the forum. Lots of people give up and/or mess up their archers and say they suck... =( Archers can be really fun if they are played right. Good luck!

Blademasters are the best class in the game i have a lvl 87. They are sooo much fun too play with especially if ur axe and hammer build. The aoe is unbelievable once u get ur aoe maxed out ur pretty much unstopable. As for drinkin alot of mana pots u are better off just gettin a charm. I bout a platinum charm for about 500k and it has lasted me 3 weeks and u save alot of money that way. Also bms have the best stuns soo its very hard to kill them. But it also all depends on how u build ur bm i prefer str to be 200 points higher than vit and dex and than work on ur dex. Blademasters also have the best evasion bonus so once u get ur dex up its very hard for somethin too hit u. I have been killin lvl 100 mobs since i was lvl 78. The only downfall is the magic damage does alot of dmg to u.
Other than that bms are by far the better class.

OlieTheKing - Lost City wrote: »

Archers solo pve are best if you max out your damage.

^ This. I quitted my BM for my Archer. Lot more fun, better damage, faster lvling, and cheaper too. I wanted to lvl my Psychic but I can't stop playing with my Archer. Addictive class. b:pleased

bustarime wrote: »

Blademasters are the best class in the game i have a lvl 87. They are sooo much fun too play with especially if ur axe and hammer build. The aoe is unbelievable once u get ur aoe maxed out ur pretty much unstopable. As for drinkin alot of mana pots u are better off just gettin a charm. I bout a platinum charm for about 500k and it has lasted me 3 weeks and u save alot of money that way. Also bms have the best stuns soo its very hard to kill them. But it also all depends on how u build ur bm i prefer str to be 200 points higher than vit and dex and than work on ur dex. Blademasters also have the best evasion bonus so once u get ur dex up its very hard for somethin too hit u. I have been killin lvl 100 mobs since i was lvl 78. The only downfall is the magic damage does alot of dmg to u.
Other than that bms are by far the better class.

plat charm for 500k? O_o on which server? ..must be a new one, cuz it costs a lot more on sanctuary. even if it was only 500k it's still cheaper to create life powders and stuff like that. archers use minimal amount of potions and wizards have no mana problems at high levels. they have range, what BM lacks that's why BM will be a potion drinker always. they will alway take damage and if you cannot use your heal skill (cooldown or not enough chi) you gotta drink potions if you wanna survive.. so, if we only look at potion usage, BM loses to the other 2: archer wins, wiz is 2nd. And about the "fun" of BMs... it's a straightforward class - go to mob, hit it many times, mob dies, heal, go to next mob and start over. archer and wiz need some kind of strategy to fight that makes them more fun than the BM. =/

If youre looking at PVE, I say archer..period.

1.) Low repair cost (eg. as opposed to a barb/BM's 50~75k repair, archer would suffer like 10k)

2.) Low Equipment cost (as long as you have a good weapon, you can manage with real crappy armours as well so long as u dont let the mob hit u)

3.) Low potion usage (again since we barely use skills and rarely get hit we dont really need much of mana pots or hp pots. I have like 900+ hp potions in storage after donating all the lower level ones to clerics and BMs in my faction. The barbs were to proud to take freebies from me <.<)

4.) Great damage

5.) Easy to play irrespective of whether youre soloing or in a squad. (in some cases like long boss fights, you can actually be semi-afk while attacking since u click and ur archer goes pew pew pew pew pew...). Sometimes you can get bored of how easy it is to play.

6.) You can also tank certain ranged magic bosses. As long as the boss does ranged magic, you can tank it with a cleric supporting you.