Allods online Player, thank you very much for your Input. That is a very good overview an helps a lot! But how about Bard? Is it completly "useless" except for CC (AoE or mostly single target?)?
bard is of course not "completly useless"; my observations & testings showed it does good dps so we could say dps is the part where bard is better than the engineer then (bard also bursts better)
contrary is that the bard will die faster than the engineer;
basically as a warrior vs a bard it feels like recieve 1 cc, recieve another cc, bard uses shield, dunno, hit till dead , end .... while the engineer will pop up all these mechanical friends which boost the warriors determination but the engineer will still survive long while also putting a cc every now and the and then heal up, shield at low hp and so on so the fight will take longer
many ppl dont focus engineer because it wont die fast and often absorb / outheal all the dmg
you wont have this problem vs a bard usually
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even though its obvious,
what i wrote in general applies to PVP, in endgame PVE every class can fulfill the DPS-role sufficiently
maybe its a good idea to update this thread once 8.1 is there; the changes are public on russian forum already so its foreseeable what will change into what direction, but personally i prefer to test things live before i issue a final verdict