Ask a Warrior Thread.

Hi everyone,
I haven't played in what feels like ages, I think the raising of the level cap was just hitting the KMST servers at the time. I ended up stopping at 187 I think it was and just had a few questions before I get completely lost.

-From what I've been reading, mastery books are sold by NPCs now? I had already passed all my other mastery books sans Maple Warrior and Hero's will (if that one even had one). Since the dark knight branch was thoroughly redone, do I still need the mastery books for these new skills or will the skill cap transfer over?
-Is the stronghold still the best place to grind until eternity?
-I glanced over the skills a few times and is stance really at 100% now and passive? That's huge!
-How are bosses nowadays? I see pictures all the time of max damage characters just solo'ing everything it seems. Are these the top 1%'s or is it easier to hit the damage cap now?
-Similarly, have guilds gotten more useful?
-It also looks like dark knights have a lot of room to max out skills (using this as a guide: http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-Gu...e-280.html). Is this a suitable one to follow up with?
-Is there still an hp cap? Way back I remember 30k before hyper body but I can't recall off the top of my head it ever changing?
-I guess most importantly, do people still play/enjoy the game?