I know that my aran is way better than my soul master after 3rd job. A soul master was better than an aran 1st/2nd job, but a fighter and an aran should put an aran on top.
Pros of arans:
Cons:
Anyways, there are more pros and cons, but I don't wanna think of them. So, I'll leave off with my final opinion formed from playing a class based on heroes and playing an aran. Arans > Heroes.
Pros of arans:
- Great skills
- Combos required (no real stand and spam skills)
- You get stronger the more you combo
- Fast training
- Power
- Not too expensive (well 7x at kents is still really expensive, but I have gotten down to about 150 ice cream pops per hour at 85.)
- SE helps a lot more for arans than it does to heroes
- Attacks out the wazoo
- Early mounts, like Cygnus
Cons:
- 1st/2nd job is boring as hell
- Expensive equips and scrolls
- You can't get the best skills in 1st/2nd job until a certain level
- Lose a lot of potential if you can't combo
- Feels weak early on
- Your fingers hurt from all that button pressing
- Lower HP than other warriors, but better than ranged classes
- Double/Triple swings move you into monsters and those invincibility frames wear off quickly so you take damage that way, this is useful though if you are knocking the mob back because you move with the mob. This is really only a problem before you have smart knockback.
- You always open with a regular attack.
Anyways, there are more pros and cons, but I don't wanna think of them. So, I'll leave off with my final opinion formed from playing a class based on heroes and playing an aran. Arans > Heroes.