Quote Originally Posted by kayfabe View Post
The attack power nerf doesn't even really hurt Elaine or Kerry that badly since they were already stuck in that awkward sub-500 damage tier anyway--they both have a bad habit of barely leaving a standard goblin alive with one blow before massively over-killing it with the second hit, something that doesn't really mesh well with UP gain per kill. The new changes won't change that dynamic entirely, but at least now the low tier valks should be cheap enough that you can easily field a cleanup crew behind them to take care of the leaks.

I suppose the trade-off is that they'll be slightly worse duelists than before but whatever, I already preferred Conrad, Mortimer and their mighty beer guts for that job anyway.
If anything they were duelists if only because they have the HP bulk and MR that made them very useful for dealing with enemies that dealt nothing but magic damage, ex. Liches. Beyond that? If you have decent healer support bandits could fill that role since bandits have crap tons of HP and usually run Risk Life of various ranks which is golden vs magic enemies since defense didn't matter anyways so in that case its okay to lose it for maximum damage output.