Patch Available - GMS 1.45

I guess pirates would come in as a close second to warriors, right?

At this point, the class archetypes have become pretty much arbitrary. Classes are designed with their archetypes as an afterthought, rather than the defining characteristic. And, partly due to that, we are severely lacking in thieves.
But then what would even be the point of a thief nowadays? What do thieves specifically have to offer? Ever since every class ever got buffed with crazy high mobility, what's really so special about thieves? What makes them unique?

I think they started a good idea with Phantom, with the idea of stealing buffs from bosses, but it's a shame they forgot about those themes for the other thief classes. It would be great if each different class had a different role. Thieves would debuff bosses, Mages would support the party, Warriors and Archers would attack in different ways and Pirates would be a jack-of-all-trades that does a bit of everything.

Unfortunately though, I doubt Maple would go in that direction. especially now, where it would hard to bring all the available classes in line with those "roles".

I'm also getting the file not found at the link provided. It's like they changed their mind about releasing the patch.

That or they released it by accident, it's happened before. And it isn't like it's been put on the main maple site either, they don't intend for us to download it yet.