Current state of KMST JOB Balance

I sometimes forget not all of us were playing maple back when magician summon control was essential to successful zakum runs. Over time as attackers got stronger, the need for summon control and chief bandit bombings diminished.

I doubt that developers held a support role in mind for a class providing mob control at zakum pre 4th job.

I/L (thunder spear/slow at pap?) and F/P mages were designed for attacking roles with no skills
to provide for partying while priests were for support with skills such as heal, hs, and door.

Although now, I think that bishops play a hybrid attack (angel ray being increased to 900% in chaos) and support role similar to battle mages/evans.

Archmages are currently the only 4th job mage class without any support skills (excluding maple warrior).

I loled, Archmages only party skill is Meditation, and Mob Control, lolno. Whether intended or not, the original manifestation of Archmages skills was always the ultimate trainers; we lack this ability now, and have not been compensated with any necessary niche in maple story bossing situations or training situations, right now the role of the 3 adv class as a whole is very ambiguous.

That wasn't evident until nlc pots and during 4th job testing, most of the mages were considering cl/para first.

You can even see this with the early 4th job vids in kms showing archmages training with chain lightning/paralyze, summons, and ice/fire demon.