Pickpocket vs Chakra

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thread starter Honoramongshad Jul 29 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I'm trying to argue to a friend which one is better. She claims that Pickpocket>Chakra for bossing and training, while chakra would be stupid to max cus its useless. Discuss?

AeroPhysics1 07/29/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Chakra will decrease your experience per hour if you use it during training. Pickpocket will help you since you can blow up the mesos to finish them off.

dajnmonkey 07/29/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Go back and raise endure? That's what I would do.

YaItsKynic 07/29/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

The terrible damage from PP will also slow down your training. I went back and maxed L7 for the occasional hermit GPQ part.

SpikeRazzor 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I believe the proper build requires you to not max Chakra. At least with Pickpocket you could blow up the meso being dropped and lure or finish off monsters when your spamming BoT.

wispa12 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

pick pocket is better, its usefull and its cool

Mist 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

By the time you max PP (if you do), you'll almost be a shad. You're probably gonna be training with mages and using BS and venom to kill newts or skeles or guardians at ToT. Hardly an effective use of PP. For bossing, BS and assassinate takes care of everything. In essence, PP becomes nearly useless in 4th job. Chakra...pretty useless too. Saves pots though.

SerenadeBass 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

dajnmonkey said: "Go back and raise endure? That's what I would do." What did you do to not max endure in 2nd job? Anyway PP's cash cannot be looted by pet meso magnet and its damage is negligible. Chakra is always handy and it looks awesome

wasdf 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I prefer Pick Pocket. It's sooo coool, you attack monsters and mesars fly out, and then noobs start looting them.

DarkQuill 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Chakra has its uses. Pickpocket has far less. And Chakra doesn't have many as it is anyway. Pickpocket is mainly for bosses that cast Super Wep.Def (Zakum, Ergoth, Pianus) so you can rack up some coinage to bomb once the guard drops. For Shadowers though, one Boomerang Step can easily surpass that damage in the time it takes to bomb it all. Or you could charge Assassinate and do even more damage. In regular training however, it is next to Steal in terms of uselessness. Put a few points in it for the novelty, but don't count on it being any good. Chakra at the very least, heals a tonne of HP. When you're up training at Typhons who do incredibly weak damage for the exp they dish out, you can simply just use Chakra to heal. Don't even bother with Meso Guard, save you more money, use no HP potions. It's got it's moments.

Tundrical 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

piclpocket its quite obvious and im to lazy to explain :3

SerenadeBass 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Tundrical said: "piclpocket its quite obvious and im to lazy to explain :3" Thats because you dont have an explanation

Mizter Jul 30 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

YaItsKynic said: "The terrible damage from PP will also slow down your training. I went back and maxed L7 for the occasional hermit GPQ part." ? what are you talking about. It helps when you boss. I was killing Levia today with another shadower. We boomerang stepped it to a corner and while she kept bsing I savaged blowed with pp and set a giant puddle of coins 4-6 each hit. then I spammed meso explosion thats about 20 coins blowing up each with 1000-2000 damage each coin. I don't see how thats not useful... and chakra if you have pots youll never use it.

shanlan Jul 30 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

BStep completely replaces PP+ME in training & bossing after lvl 120 but lvl 20 Chakra > maxed Chakra if you want to use it in Mu Lung Dojo.. due to Endure's mp recovery.

iFrancisco 07/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

shanlan said: "BStep completely replaces PP+ME in training & bossing after lvl 120 but lvl 20 Chakra > maxed Chakra if you want to use it in Mu Lung Dojo.. due to Endure's mp recovery." I am assuming you mean after 1/1, endure adds 20mp, then Charka uses 21mp (20 + 1 after 1/1). Makes sense. Do you know where I can find a list of the updated chakra version, with numbers that are actually meaningful? I was very silly and maxed shield mastery, for what reason I still don't understand, and would consider resetting a few points if Level 1 is vastly worse than Level 20.