2014-01-22, 06:52 AM
Stopped for now with the streaming at Lv.33.
Overall I find it a very interesting class, and above all, it has something MapleStory has needed for a long time: Class variance. There's so many skills, and the way it's built up you cannot possibly max everything. I believe you may be able to get to the end of every tree, but you'd have to be at least 245 or so. You need at least 190 skill points to get to the bottom of a single animal's skills (and the final skill). I think it's 180 for the Bird and Cat, however combined that's still 740 skill points. At 250 you'd have 750, but that's not including the first ten levels which don't have any points so really the max you get is 720. Even if you could get to the bottom of every animal I don't think each tree MAXES at 190/180 points, but I could be wrong I haven't done the math yet. Regardless, even at 200, it gives so much potential in a single class, and while I'm sure there will be the "do this" build people will make up, there are still other options available which is very, very good.
I haven't seen anything of the mysterious boxes that supposively give SP. I've only noticed picking up RED's D cubes and some event item that gives free RED coins. It seems that concept was abandoned in the middle of CMST, or JMS decided to not use it, which I am happy for because it sounded dumb as hell. Maybe they do still exist though, I haven't really paid too much attention to my items yet.
Overall I like the Panther the most, because he has great mobility while doing some mean damage output, but the Bear will obviously be the best for bossing because the panther's attacks move you around too much (at least so far). You don't unlock the bird until 30, and the cat until 50, so I don't really have much to say about them yet. I haven't put any points into the bear yet either, however that's mostly because you lose all your mobility when you switch to him which would just make it too annoying to train with. That being said, I've seen some people with him and he seems pretty decent for DPS. He can...I think fart a fiery AOE that sticks around much like a Fire Mage, and his skill icons are hilarious so I like him without even using him (The game tells you when you reach the level req for skills and gives you a giant version of the icon on the screen).
We'll see how it goes. Unfortunately I have work tomorrow, so it's likely there will be a Lv.120-200 video before I get anywhere near 120 because GMSers are grind whores (no offense, but I saw that Lumi stuff).
As a note: I didn't really pay attention to this thread before now. I don't like spoiling the class before it's released for the most part...because half the fun in it is finding out about the class as you go, so I deliberately avoided most of this thread. I saw a couple posts here and there that I responded to (like the boxes), but I stayed away from as much class detail as possible.
Overall I find it a very interesting class, and above all, it has something MapleStory has needed for a long time: Class variance. There's so many skills, and the way it's built up you cannot possibly max everything. I believe you may be able to get to the end of every tree, but you'd have to be at least 245 or so. You need at least 190 skill points to get to the bottom of a single animal's skills (and the final skill). I think it's 180 for the Bird and Cat, however combined that's still 740 skill points. At 250 you'd have 750, but that's not including the first ten levels which don't have any points so really the max you get is 720. Even if you could get to the bottom of every animal I don't think each tree MAXES at 190/180 points, but I could be wrong I haven't done the math yet. Regardless, even at 200, it gives so much potential in a single class, and while I'm sure there will be the "do this" build people will make up, there are still other options available which is very, very good.
I haven't seen anything of the mysterious boxes that supposively give SP. I've only noticed picking up RED's D cubes and some event item that gives free RED coins. It seems that concept was abandoned in the middle of CMST, or JMS decided to not use it, which I am happy for because it sounded dumb as hell. Maybe they do still exist though, I haven't really paid too much attention to my items yet.
Overall I like the Panther the most, because he has great mobility while doing some mean damage output, but the Bear will obviously be the best for bossing because the panther's attacks move you around too much (at least so far). You don't unlock the bird until 30, and the cat until 50, so I don't really have much to say about them yet. I haven't put any points into the bear yet either, however that's mostly because you lose all your mobility when you switch to him which would just make it too annoying to train with. That being said, I've seen some people with him and he seems pretty decent for DPS. He can...I think fart a fiery AOE that sticks around much like a Fire Mage, and his skill icons are hilarious so I like him without even using him (The game tells you when you reach the level req for skills and gives you a giant version of the icon on the screen).
We'll see how it goes. Unfortunately I have work tomorrow, so it's likely there will be a Lv.120-200 video before I get anywhere near 120 because GMSers are grind whores (no offense, but I saw that Lumi stuff).
As a note: I didn't really pay attention to this thread before now. I don't like spoiling the class before it's released for the most part...because half the fun in it is finding out about the class as you go, so I deliberately avoided most of this thread. I saw a couple posts here and there that I responded to (like the boxes), but I stayed away from as much class detail as possible.