[1.2.326] (4) Really last chance!

It isn't balanced? Drks have not only a higher damage multiplier to lessen the gap, they have a skill thats downright required for a majority of end-game bossing, and no longer suffer from the Zerk threshold,(can't stand next to a Bishop, not being able to take a hit with 50%- HP, etc etc)

Higher mastery and being able to ignore defense(especially since it can play a much greater role this time around) is also superb.

I don't think being Balanced means everyone does the exact same damage.

I somewhat agree with you.

But i do believe the game should be balanced in accordance to tiers: tiers that represent the importance of character traits in maple story. The higher up or more valuable a lacked trait is, the greater other traits should be to balance it out.

If i had to look at the general traits of everything in the game, i'd have a tier list like this:


-Top Tier-
Single Target DPS-1st

-Upper Tier-
Mob DPS -1st
Party Damage Support-2nd


-Middle Tier-
Party Survivability Support - 1st
Range -2nd
Survivability - 3rd
Mobility - 4th

-Lower Tier-
Money Saving


Currently, some classes have middle tier abilities in spades while lacking upper tier ones, like shadowers, arch mages and DrKs, they all have great survivability, and the Shads/Mages had Mobility in spades too where DrKs had Party Survivability Support. However, all three where infamous for lacking good Single Target DPS (until recent patches)

So they had very high amounts of middle tier abilities, yet only lacked one, and it was enough to make their popularity drop. What went wrong? Their advantage in middle tier abilities DID NOT justify their severe lack of higher tier ones; namely damage.

In order to succeed at balance this time, this means closing the gap DrKs have, it doesn't need to be eliminated, they can lag slightly behind. but now knowing the value of class traits now: means that this gap should be relatively small... the people just currently have doubts that what has been done for their damage so far is enough to make that gap small enough.