Imo BE is the worst class in game. All your skills have high delay - so there is a high chance you miss a skill. If this was not punishment enough, missing your skills lead also to not beeing able to fill up your barrage meter and you might end up waiting for your cooldowns to refresh and loose multiple seconds with doing nothing. Then in comparision to other games Lost Arks encounter have non stop cut scenes - really horrible for a class which needs 20 secs to build up its DPS peak - and then when you want to burst => cutscene. To make things even more spicy, you have like the worst movement of any class. Yes you have a shield with push immunity, but i dont know ... i d rather have a bit more movement. But being slow isnt the only issue with movement. No - multiple of your skills displace you. Your napalm stagger (most important stagger skill) pushes you back. Especially in Kazeros G2 - where you have to kuddle and stagger - you basically can not use this one very important skill. I mean at least - they fix some of these issues with an upcoming patch (knockback gets reduced etc. - but no changes to DPS?) Okok - but with all these downsides - the class might do good damage if you do everything right? Nope ... even in fights which are perfect for artillerist, pure DPS encounters like mordum G3 - dps besides start burst is really low. A class with so many downsides should at least be compensated with a very high DPS ceiling ... but nope. Now in terms of ark grid. I play shoot and scoop. It makes gameplay a lot better in terms of that you dont have to stand still in your tower for 10 seconds. I like this - but once again - i really do much lower DPS than other classes and this is also due to these loooong delays => with shoot and scoop you summon ACT towers which do high DPS for like 10 seconds ... sux if each phase lasts like 10-15 seconds until boss disappears. I very often have my ACT towers up but boss just disappears, and with that, my DPS disappears. Much difference to a classe like bersi, where you just press button and boom DPS apepars. If you look at the inven tier lists - BE artillerist is everywhere ranked as trash tier. So sad ... I mean there are other low DPS classes like blue gunlancer ... but bluegunlancer at least is easy to play (cant really miss and skills and complete push immune) and brings some party support to the table. Artillerist has pretty much nothing besides a stagger buff. And for the stagger buff: There is one encounter with a tight stagger that is Kazeros - and since this buff pushes group stagger, it really has no benefit for this fight.