Making a FOmar!

[Junon]

ummm junon, you could never have equivalent ATP as a HUmar of the same level, your base atp would max and then it wouldnt matter what you equip because your atp would only go to a certain point, as far as i know, the srank twin cannot be equipped by FOs but if it can be, that give you +610 or is it +650 atp. Then with your shifta, you MIGHT just be able to break around 2000, whereas without Shifta i already have 2025. If i were to knock off 30 levels i would have 1885 without shifta sooooo yeah. I mean, like ive said and you can plainly see, ive raised 2 FOs to high levels and i own with magic (grant it i use the Newms) but a FOmar doesnt have much more max atp than the FOnewm, the FOnewm is even labeled the "melee FO" by the game itself. The FOnewm with all the same equipment is good, but you still dont have the Def or Hp to go running into a group of monsters. Melee isnt all about having strength, its about Def, hp, and most of all strategy. Online, you have no buffer time after youre hit, you keep taking hits, of which 2 or 3 would kill you because about 6 kill me with 1548 hp and like 800 something defense. Resta takes to long to cast when youre surrounded and you quickly die. Boss fights may just knock you off all together, if you dont have at least 1200 hp, falz's rabarta will kill you in one hit if you have a group of 4 (or are playing TTF).
EDIT: also junon, FOmars do not get attack magic boosts, that would be the FOnewm, the only boost a FOmar gets is SD. Nothing else... and on ult you guys seem to forget that magic sucks more or less. My FOnewm with maxed mst, and psycho wand can only do about 500 with rafoie to monsters in the forest. Good for forest but it quickly declines to about 350 to ruins monsters. Thats about 6-7 rafoies per wave and even with maxed mst (and tp upwards of 2700), i run low on TP and i can get quickly surrounded, especially if i were trying to melee and FOmars have less hp than FOnewms sooo yeah...

Right... where to start, where to start....

FOmar doesnt just get the S+D Boost he gets; 1.3 x damage with Gifoie, Gizonde, Gibarta, Grants | 2 x range/effect Shifta, Deband.

FOnewm isnt the best melee he only has 814 Max ATP whereas FOmar has 1002, And HUmar only has 1397, around 400 difference. So if both a FOmar and HUmar were maxed out for ATP, HUmar would only ever have 400 ATP more and the fact he can equip weapons which yeild a greater ATP bonus. Unless you have a TJS or a Dark Flow, HUmars most powerful weapons give around +650 ATP. The most poweful weapon avaliable to a FOmar is a fully ground Red Sabre, which gives around +630 ATP.

Of course, in a team with someone who can cast Level 30 S+D, HUmar will do more damage, but for solo play, FOmar has the highest ATP potential. Check here to see.

FOmar can equip S-Rank Twin.

Base ATP does max out yes, but with items your overall ATP can never max. Even if a FOmar had 1002 maxed ATP and equipped an item that did +5000 ATP (lol) his ATP would go up to 6002.

I also have a FOnewm at level 124, i dont struggle at all with him. I dont bother wearing a wand so i get a faster cast rate, and i can own pretty much by myself. 350 damage to everything in a room for 40 TP at insane casting speeds seems quite good to me.

You said - "Melee isnt all about having strength, its about Def, hp, and most of all strategy". I never said that it wasnt, infact i agree to an extent. FOmars true strength lies in the fact that he can use Level 30 Techniques as well as being able to succeed and do well in melee combat. There is very little strategy involved in PSO. Basically all you do is kill stuff ^^ Sure you can debuff them and evade some attacks with practice, but thats about as tactical as it gets.

All in all... FOmars may not be quite as powerful as HUmars in terms of melee statistics, but they are stronger than you'd think, HUmars at any given time will only have a maximum difference of 600-700 ATP. Which is a fair ammount, but level 30 Zalure and other Techniqes more than make up for it in my eyes. The main problem with FOmars is their low Defense and HP, but with some good armor, units and material use, you can get his Defense and HP up to something respectible. Also level 30 Jellen is mental ^^;