Media Shadestpper TNA solo - Proof for Shadestepper being garbage

While waiting for assassin buff for ages...



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The media isn't lying, but not always right.
Shadestepper is not weak, but strong for many cases.
With the usage of many damage boosts : Backstab, Mark, Satsujin, it can melt almost every bosses easily, so it's strong for sure.
However, it's same for other classes, they can also melt bosses with 2.0 abilities, and there's one thing which shadestepper is different from other classes..

It sucks in raid.


In this video, you'll see how it suffers in The Nameless Anomaly bossfights, due to lack of range attack options, weak mobility spell, inconsistent dps, etc.





If you're still willing to play shadestepper, I recommend it, as it's fun, strong, and it's my favorite archetype.
But please don't forget, it's still absolute garbage class.

Don't get clickbaited :(

 

21 minute solo :doom:

 

Average tna pfinder dps and arena

 

I'd say just in TNA since the boss moves so fast, and it deletes you out of existence randomly if you're too close

I also tried heavy melee couple of times but I couldn't even know if my hits are actually being registered

 

By calculating health/time, the average dps of that run is '17460'. It's insanely low. But by just looking at dps it doesn't make sense on my dps on other stuffs like Legendary Island. (which takes me 9 mins with that build)

The reason is.. obviously, I can't attack. I must spend too much time on avoiding attacks. Other classes can do ranged attack while running away, but shadestepper has no option. So the fight takes very long like that.

 

Personally, I've found that heavy melee Shadestepper can keep up continuous engagement with Greg pretty well (if I can do it, I'm sure you can do it better). I used this build:
https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...003601000361000361001Z60z0z0+0+0+0+0-zp-nNlq6
WynnBuilder build:
> Heroism
> Taurus
> Earth Breaker
> Valhalla
> Downfall
> Downfall
> Diamond Steam Bracelet
> Contrast
> Pyroclast [e6e6e6]

which admittedly is not very high on damage, though you could probably swap in Dune Storm and Blind Thrust and make that work out okay.

 

While shadestepper works well with heavy melee... I'd like to focus on spell build here (as it feels like it's denying main abilities like backstab ;-;)

 

@Enderae :doom:

 

yea i clickbaited

a mixture of non mythic assassin and spell stepper makes for quite the gaming moment. going out of your way to build towards "(no pot)" also severely dinked your damage. obviously you're trying to make a point, but i also don't think being able to solo the endgame boss is meant to be how we assign value to an archetype. Paladin also sucks ass at solo'ing Greg but does that make it a trash archetype? Where does this put Trapper? Full Ritualist certainly doesn't have an easy time against Greg either

Maybe you should have played towards shadesteppers advantages like tierstack or heavy melee and mixed that with a hybrid build.

Shadestepper is trash against Greg and thats facts
makes for an interesting time doing anything else though

Each archetype has its place. Shadestepper performs excellently where it's meant to.

It does lack range options though, 100% agree on that
Backstab also needs an extended hitbox
aint a perfect archetype