2013-09-12, 07:38 PM
Prism Wrote:What is mechanic's role? This is a serious question. I really don't know what they do for a party other than damage. I mean I guess they have their little teleport pods.
I didn't mean role as in their service to the society of maple world characters. What they contribute to a party, etc. Role is more of what makes them different from every other class. Why they are worth existing as a class.
Party skills at this point, aside from the bishop because they define their role, are chiefly a way to make a class viable to fund. (mobility is in the same category basically)
Basically if mechanics are supposed to be the summon oriented, tank quality ranged class that it is, what upgrades could they get to highlight those qualities? They got a bunch of survivability based buffs in this update, but they were squishy already imo and this doesn't really make them close to paladin tier defense that are required of a tank. Their summons, similarly, are not highlighted as being essential due to the start up costs and lack of major dependance on them for DPS (they do depend on them to be competitive but the impact isn't as high as it should be for such a role). When compared to even my own class where every summon is both a massive boost while also being extremely low start up with some utility thrown in, the summon king title gets overshadowed. That's what i mean.