[1.2.378] Magicians in Jump

While I agree Bishops need to be able to carry their own arses, I think it is beyond silly that people find it strange that their DPS is (or should be) the lowest of all classes. I do belive Shining Ray hits several times, so consider AR your single target/bossing skill. You do not need to, nor will you, be a major DPS dealer to be useful. If you prefer to solo bosses, you simply picked the wrong class, easy as that.

I don't mind Bishops being the lowest DPS.

I do mind Bishops having 1/10th the DPS of a melee class. That's overdoing it a little, don't you think?

"LOLZ YOURE A SUPPORT CLASS!!"

If the game was properly designed to... support a support class, Bishops wouldn't level less than half the speed of other 4th jobbers. And even if we leveled faster, you're saying that 90% of our gameplay consists on party buffing and hanging on a rope? Because, spam heal? Oh, come on. It'd be more effective to give my pots to other people so they heal themselves. You know what people call Bishops now in LHC? HSers. They're not Bishops, they're HSers. Cause nothing else matters, really. Advanced Bless is definitely a nice addition for us, but giving Bishops more buffs isn't gonna fix them, because they still have no freaking gameplay outside of boss runs.

Maple is designed this way: No matter how many fancy party skills you have, if you can't hit something hard, you're being left behind.
Heck, even if you gave Bishops 200% HS for self and 150% HS to the rest of the party, they'd probably still level slower than everyone else.

Since Bishops have nothing special for them like DoT or Freeze, they could just give them a heck of a %boost to their few attack skills, which condense to Shining Ray, Angel Ray, and Big Bang. Even with a big %boost they'd surely still be bottom DPS, that's how much we suck, but at least we wouldn't suck that hard.

I mean, Holy magic is one of the strongest magics in most RPGs anyway, just let us have a powerful spell so we're not THAT much left behind. Watching a Bishop attack in LHC is like watching a kid throw pellets to a tank.

In any case, you'd still have the role to support. Cast protecting skills, dispelling, healing lagging people or those spamming skills, blessing, reviving, dooming (seems doable now), but you'd have something to do meanwhile. I mean, besides hanging on a rope and pressing 2-3 keys for buffs every few minutes.

A random example, I was leveling my Wind Archer to 120 the other day, and not having HB in certain party, a Bishop saved my ass with a rescue heal a few times. But then he seemed to lose motivation and just hanged on a rope for an hour or so. I missed the heals he could have given me while attacking and whatnot. Even unintentional heals I got when he was healing himself. Just an example on how Bishops could be even more useful supporters if given the motivation to be in the battlefield, instead of a rope. And as a Bishop, I wouldn't mind casting support spells 30% or 40%, of the time, if the rest of the time I could actually do something. THAT sounds like a supporting class to me, as opposed to a mule, which is the current state of Bishops.