Is striker unwanted in pve/pvp?

[Yeldo]

I'm trying to decide my alt and its between striker and shadowblade but i hear a lot that striker isnt in a great spot and if I want striker i should go wardancer instead because its superior and strker only has better looking animations?

Is this true? I don't mind striker being a bit weaker, but I don't want to just be dead weight in a party

[Ice-Nine]

Nobody is dead weight in a party. There's no class that can't do well. And the people telling you that striker isn't good are just plain wrong. Stop listening to other peoples' uninformed opinions and play what you want to play.

[Darkrayne]

Striker is great if you are good with it. It just requires more work in PvE since it's based on back attacks mostly. This is where the idea that it's not as good comes from, because a lot of players struggle with the positioning and some bosses make it even more difficult.

In PvP it's the same kind of deal really. I had a maxed out Striker on RU and I did extremely well in PvP. Striker is super fast and can stagger lock other players constantly if you can keep up with the speed. It can also change attack directions mid combo which is really useful in PvP. There's numerous videos showing Striker 1v3 and winning easily.

It gets a bed rap because it's harder to be good with it than other classes. Most tier list type advice is based around ease to play vs results, not potential results.

[Sarina]

Originally posted by Yeldo:

I'm trying to decide my alt and its between striker and shadowblade but i hear a lot that striker isnt in a great spot and if I want striker i should go wardancer instead because its superior and strker only has better looking animations?

Is this true? I don't mind striker being a bit weaker, but I don't want to just be dead weight in a party

Unwanted in Abyss, good at everything else though.

[Yeldo]

Originally posted by Sarina:

Originally posted by Yeldo:

I'm trying to decide my alt and its between striker and shadowblade but i hear a lot that striker isnt in a great spot and if I want striker i should go wardancer instead because its superior and strker only has better looking animations?

Is this true? I don't mind striker being a bit weaker, but I don't want to just be dead weight in a party

Unwanted in Abyss, good at everything else though.

Why is it unwanted in abyss? Is it because it doesn't have much party utility? If that's the case, isn't that the same situation with sorcerer, berserker, deathblade etc..?
Striker still has lightning whisper just like wardancer to buff the party crit and atk speed?

[Darkrayne]

Originally posted by Yeldo:

Originally posted by Sarina:

Unwanted in Abyss, good at everything else though.

Why is it unwanted in abyss? Is it because it doesn't have much party utility? If that's the case, isn't that the same situation with sorcerer, berserker, deathblade etc..?

It's not unwanted in Abyss. Sure, there's some tryhards that listened to some low level youtuber's tier list and might reject you but you shouldn't want to play with those people anyway so they are just doing you a favour.

[Irrelevant]

Hm sadly there is the "I watched all tier lists and explenations why striker is fubar for groups and that's why I don't want one in mine!" mentality out there. Are there classes that bring more to the table then striker? Yes in every way! Are there classes who have more meaningfull group buffs? Yes in every way and the mirror class aka Wardancer by a lot. Is there a reason to take a Striker into group content if you only look at numbers? Sadly no.

Then again: Is there a reason to kick every Striker from the group and handle them as if they were unwanted? No, at least not if you have half a brain and social competence. If someone tells you: "class X is bad and you'll never see a raid from the inside with our group!" leave those clowns behind and look for someone else to play with... ooooooorrrrrr

Be the elitist number crouncher and play a different class ^^.

[76561198024588265]

Striker is good in pve and pvp.

[Yeldo]

Thanks guys I need to stop to listen to these tiers lists and YouTube class mentions, I will make striker because it looks fun :)

[☁]

Well I've never seen a striker be MVP, same for most martial artist types.

[Aegis]

Bro, play whatever you like...

[badger vortex]

Striker is awful in group PvP because no super armour skills, and 90% of your attacks will be interrupted by opponents who have better range and AoE abilities. Is not so bad in 1v1 because of lots of mobility skill and juggle potential, but just forget it for group PvP.

For PvE you have the issue that it's a back attack class, and your reach on attacks is very small compared to most other classes.

Most of your burst is in 1 skill and if you miss that you lose a lot of damage (also the skill has fairly long charge up time). You do have solid mobility though, you should be able to avoid all boss attacks with practice.

Having said that, the actual "feel" of the class, the combos and "one punch" skill do make it a fun class to play, I wouldn't recommend it if you want a powerful class, maybe if you intend to do a lot of 1v1 PvP then sure go ahead.