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
Pre-relic, yeah. But she scales really well with relic gear, tripod lvls and lvl 55/60. The difference is huge.
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
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.
The biggest problem when it comes to raids with Arcana is it brings little to no group synergy. It’s dps is nothing special, it’s not horrible just not special. In otherwords it’s dps does not make up for it’s lack of group buffs that other dps classes bring. There for it would be better to bring a dps class that brings better buffs.
that makes no sense. she has perma crit synergy. what other better dpses synergy u want, wardancer or blade? yeah thats cool, but shit uptime.
The problem is it provides a 10% crit rate uptime. Which sounds really cool but at end game most players have achieved a 100% crit uptime either through engravings or self abilities or gear. Keeping in mind 10% crit uptime at 100% crit rate is 0%. Now at earlier stages it is very useful but towards end game it tends to fall off. Now if it provided a 10% crit damage buff that would different. Where taking a class that provides damage buffs or debuffs the boss becomes more useful.
Yeah, you’re just wrong. The 10% crit synergy is one of the best in the game.
what?
Not only are you clueless about arcana, you have a tenuous grasp on all the other classes in general. Why would you post about things you know nothing about?