Beast Monk went from mediocre to good because there was a buff which makes it deal dmg based on its HP. Before that, it is just like a punching bag with minimal threat.

Wind Pioneer aka Pundek on the other hand, is mediocre. Not OP and if you have lushen/wind DPS, his use significantly diminishes. Eg. if you have Lushen, Pundek's third skill is rather lackluster.

However, some uses it for its second skill which remove + block beneficial effects as a counter for Theomars' endure. So very niche/specific use. You can search youtube for Vindi's video on Pungbaek or Pundek. =)

Btw, I have one too and although it is not the worse NB5 (e.g. as compared to Chow), it is certainly not game-changing one (e.g. like perna/camilia/BMs/oracles).

However, this game is about making the best use of what you have. So good luck and have fun researching/discovering.

Yup, no harm having more options. Especially when you start Guild War, things tend to die more often. Backups and additional mobs are always welcomed. =)

One month into the game and get pungbaek is still very decent then. There is a lot of write ups on what you should consider focus on from beginning/mid/end game.

I assume you have already went through some of them. Enjoy the process and if you have any queries, there is a lot of members here for reference.

Got. Raiding R4/R5 with friends/guildies.

If bored just go farm more runes. Now got 3 dungeon to farm. Hard to focus also. Need all of them! Giant for swift, Dragon for violent/revenge, Necro for Will/Rage/Nemesis.

Then need to tune team to make those dungeon run faster + stable.

So much things to do. Will be a while more before I get bored =P

Ya, how good the mob is also no use when you have no chance to even make an attack (out-speed).

Speed AO clears is essential for arena and suddenly I see so many Rinas back in AD to "slow" down the speed clears.

LoL

Slow down doesn't mean can't kill. If I can drag the fight to more than 30 seconds, considered success already.

Rush hour, most competent AO will clear ADs within 30 seconds or lesser.

Putting Rina in also means they have to change to typical speed AO composition of Tiana/Chiwu + Zaiross/AOE to kill Rina. Sometimes this leads to some unexpected win.

=)

I use Chow almost everywhere, DB10 runs, GWO and sometimes even GWD. His new buff makes him hits hard and being tanky at the same time. Self-heal also relevant when he violent procs.

I have guildie to stripped his Theomars runes for Chow.

LoL. If you need something universal usage, ya maybe Laika would be better than Chow.

But Chow himself is very good and very relevant, even at end game stage.

Come Asia server. =)

Global isn't what it is when you left I think. Euro server was introduced. But I guess depends where you friends/online friends are I guess..

Juno is decent. Got her few weeks back and started to use her in GWD and AD.

You will see her a lot in high level arenas and GWDs. Some of the top guilds uses her a lot. One of the more staple GWD: Juno Ritesh Theo

Disrupts those galleon AOE combos and double lushen.

This post has been edited by draky: Jun 10 2016, 11:19 AM

Nice team one. Team 2 lack threat density. If only one threat, try to combo with reviver instead of 2 heal/support. But generally 2 or more threat is better for GWD, especially when they are different element.

It's her fire element, which is good on defense. Her passive is mediocre but with crit rate and atb refill, on despair she can be disruptive.

On defense, soha/Aquila is relatively less useful as compared to Juno.

On offense, no, don't use Juno on offense unless you have no other AOE stripper. =)

And Juno is not easy to rune also. Need to be tanky, decent crit rate (normally compensated if u use her as lead), decent accuracy and some defense is bonus (her base def is quite high).

Basically if people are aiming for her on defense, then I think u have met your objective of diverting the focus on her. If they are not aiming her and aiming your threats, then a despair/revenge Juno is good to delay/counter/disrupt their plains either through AOE strip or stun or both.

Just imho. =)

Nemesis or Revenge personnel preference I guess. I see some top players use revenge more and honestly revenge can be very funny when I bring her on offense and those beastmonks just AOE away and my juno counters back either stunning them or stunning + refilling her attack bar.

You can see her in a some of Xyphers GWD together with Ritsh and another threat.

My Juno stats not that good also. Around 35k hp / 1k Def / 210 speed / 50-ish % crit rate / 65% accuracy..

Need to grind more I guess. LoL