honestly Trickster class sucks

[scritchforceone]

Thats it. Its ok against mobs (by ok I mean its very mehhhhhhh) and sucks against boss monsters unless there happens to be 2 boss monsters around, bleh. not playing this class again. anyone here actually like it?

[twiggy]

its the best tank in the game and then you can give the best buffs to your party

[Barry Evans]

It's still to early to tell tbh, a lot of the classes are niche and requires you to change your playstyle.

[Edelgris]

It's too gimmicky for me. Probably good for memes, tho. It was fun for about an hour. There was a few times I dropped into enemies only to realize my pawns were stuck somewhere far behind me. guess_ill_die.jpg

The best part of Trickster is the token radar augment.

[saice]

maxed it out and yeah its not super good. I can see its use but the big thing that kills it for me is the complete lack of damage which makes at least one quest nearly impossible to complete if you happen to use using it at the time.

But some of the augments are nice for other builds. And I can see grabbing the buff for a wayfarer build.

But over all not all that fun IMHO as a main vocation to run around it for long.

[Mike]

I havne't played Trickster but from my understanding of watching other people play it, it is the MINION class of the game. So if your playing Trickster looking to do damage yourself your playing it WRONG and its not a class for you.

Now if you use the Trickster class as a minion class, or commander class, it is really really strong. Heck I've even seen some videos of just the pawns along with the tricksters buffs killing a Drake like its nothing.

So when it properly used and with decent pawns its a beast of a class from what I can tell.

[Matticus]

Originally posted by twiggy:

its the best tank in the game and then you can give the best buffs to your party

You dont need a tank in this game.

[Josch]

Originally posted by twiggy:

its the best tank in the game and then you can give the best buffs to your party

It's not even that, the Mystic Spear is way better with it's Pala-Bubble for th entire group without cooldown.

[Rubyeyed]

It is hell to play trickster. You can't do damage unless you throw stuff at enemies. You are totally at the mercy of your pawn's AI. Have you tried to fight a golem with an amulet on the underside of it's leg? By the time pawns get it I would have soloed like 10 golems.

This class would be ok if pawns had more brains. It is aneurysm inducing to watch the pawns fight on their own.

The tanking or rather tricking enemies with the specter is exceptional though. Too bad it is a lot better to just actually fight yourself.

Edit: I tried running a mixed party, Sorc Ranger Mage party and 2x ranger mage and it is all horrid.

[Neko Batyx・猫バチクス]

Yea, I tried leveling Trickster and I even got the Dragon's Delusion spell but if your pawns keep dying or not doing what you want them to, there's no point to being able to CC enemies or make them run in circles. At least let Trickster's normal attacks to do SOME damage rather than almost none, or apply some sort of damage-over-time effect so that CCing and wasting enemies' time makes sense. Imagine if the Censer does minimal damage but can apply Blight, Tarring, Drenched, etc. It would at least incentivise constantly hitting the enemies for more than just pulling aggro.

Anyway, I heard Warfarer gives EXP to other unlocked Vocations so I'm just gonna level Trickster through that instead.

[The Living Darkness]

I pushed alot of content as the trickster. I wouldnt say the class sucks, its both EZ mode and hard mode at the same time. Essentially as long as you have pawns with you nothing will hurt anyone on your team, like ever. If you get separated you suck for the most part, just casting your decoy is crazy hard if there are no pawns nearby.

Its kill speed is generally slow, though again its entirely dependent on pawns, so if you have good pawns you can have great clear time. Pawns can do incredible damage just like the Arisen with the right gear and skills.

Virtually every Trickster skill is worthless. The starting skill where you spin and taunt at insane range is never gonna leave your bar. The magic wall and the skill that throws your decoy into enemies are pretty much it. The phantom floor rarely is useful and anything beyond that is totally useless including the joke dragon.

The most important stat is Strength because it boosts decoy health, you spend all your time taunting with this class anyhow the magic stat to boost taunt doesnt matter.

One thing the class excels at though is monitoring pawn AI. Because every encounter is trivialized in that enemies cant do anything but chase the carrot you can just watch how pawns use their skills, and with what frequency and how reliably they use certain skills. You can gauge pawn AI very well too with the different personalities. You can attempt this with other classes by simply standing back but pawns will often want to fall back to you if you keep yourself away from the fight, thus messing up their own combat.

I certainly wouldnt recommend the class. I also would not say its bad, its just kind of weird. obviously playing a Mage could run a full support build and then do the same thing with pawns but enemies will actually fight back. The trickster is probably the most overpowered tank class ever in a game. You can do stuff like place your decoy in a room that an enemy is too big to enter, and then just taunt them, literally standing right next to them or jumping up and down on their tail or something, and watch them stand at the door of the room unable to do anything because they cant path to the target. But because its so troll I dont think people who enjoy the in your face style of tanking gameplay will like the class.

[GetUrAssToMars]

It's super unconventional. At face value it sucks because you can't do damage. I think given enough time people are going to find interesting tactics to employ.

In the past 40 minutes trying it out I got separated from my pawns and ran into some slimes. They kept "wasting" themselves attacking my decoy till they shriveled away. First time I've seen them die like that.

Such a crazy game.