so you are telling me that you are a dagger and you are relying on a halfkill to kill fast?
First of all, you are mixing 4-5 different topics
1) you are a dagger, so you know what you are talking.... (good one, you should start a tiktok channel with dad jokes)
2) The point of the game.
It has always been about farming adena! its just simpler to do nowaydays
3) Class comparison
a) first major factor is your gear, if you are in blessed exalted gear with no element resist or proper defense, then there is really not arguement.
b) until you can aoe, whih takes time and possibly money, single target will make more adena
c) dagger can 1shot a mob with 1/4 of the gear an archer/tyr or wizard can with aoes.
4) class balancing
honestly daggers cannot complain about that, you are one of the hardest hitting classes since the beginning of the game, being affected by both p atk crit dmg and p skill crit dmg. You cannot AOE ( news flash! Fortune seekers can AOE) but here is another solution if you are a high level dagger, make a dualclass with somehting that you can AOE... this is a luxury no othere game provides!
5) Server Economy
Supply and demand, no1 really wanted mage gear so it was cheap, we have known that such update would come, I hope you have stacked up a few of those jewels to make profit.