If you would play arcana, i would say yes
u have no idea what u r talking about, my reddit friend 
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class is strong. the reason its not popular is because its a really hard class. just like deadeye is one of the strongest classes that noone plays because hes incredibly hard to master.
what about the defense and survivability, is squishy like a GS or DE ?
Jeah better take the mayhem zerks that refuse to move out of mechanics and die 1 hit
Or any other class for that matter
U should not look at class (maybe apart from debuff synergy stagger/weak point and the normal 2 supp rest dd lineup)
Cause in the end its the performance of the player that matters
A good arcana will always be more useful than a “op” class piloted by a monkey
Yeah she is squishy and has to be in melee most of the time, but i use grudge and i have no problems raiding hard modes. Her stacking skills are also movement skills so u r not rooted like GS or DE
sure, but zerkers, GS and DE die a lot more than other clases, either if the player is a good one or not. I have a friend DE, is a machine, but in some situations he dies in one shot and other classes in same situation no, with the same damage recieved.
Then, Arcana is squishy?
u can see my screen of mvp vykas hard here, i had no 6set, pretty weak tripods and not 5x3 build yet here compared to the rest. also not 60lvl which boost ruin dmg too
good, thanks for your anwser.
is a good point the mobility… and the other is barricade and runes of protection I think.
She’s very squishy, also plays a lot in melee range, dies in almost 2-3 hits from bosses, and if you are using cursed doll you can’t heal very easily
you need to learn patterns to be efficient,with any class, but arcanist put that a step above by making you die if you make any mistake.
I love playing Arcana but naw. Its just way less damage than other classes for much more work/tripods/gear/engravings. The difference between what a 1445 sorc / arcana brings to Hard Mode Valtan for example at the same lvl of competency is just…yeah. Arcana needs some big flat dmg buffs and more stagger/destruction/weakpoint built into her ruin skills.
well u should know that some classes need more setup to deal good dmg and we will get small rework soon for some skills and dmg
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Pre-relic, yeah. But she scales really well with relic gear, tripod lvls and lvl 55/60. The difference is huge.
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Oh yeah, I love the setup aspect of Arcana I think its fun and requires you to be a bit more involved in the process than sorc for example thats just a glass canon. In general though the dmg of our yellow and blue skills feels so low and in general ruin skills should just do more flat dmg.
Btw I have no problem getting into raids
well i mean with setup, the relic set aswell like Littlefarnese already said ^^
have u seen how it looks like in korea ? from the test server
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That is wild and great to know. Glad the class is getting the love/buffs it deserves!
How can you get 3.5m dps ? How much does your celestial rain deal and secret garden deal? I am around 1475 but only 2.5m dps??
All tripods lvl 3 this was my best test, but i usually get between 2.8-3.0 anyway. Your damage is normal. My weapon is 81% too, If we had high tripods our damage would be stupidly higher.
Arcanas are basically another layer of RNG, they can be the most broken DPS in the raid, or maybe perform normally.
The real problem with Arcana (other than the RNG), is that it requires a lot of quick thinking and is a bit complex, so is hard to find really good arcana players. That being said, you shouldn’t have any problems finding groups if you have your build.