[1.2.378] Magicians in Jump

Is Holy Magic Shell a self-buff only? That would be cool if it was a targeted buff that absorbed a certain amount of damage based on the Bishop's damage range.

Party skill. It blocks a set amount of hits.

It's absolutely critical for your role to be improved by your stats. Right now you can spend hundreds of dollars cubing your Bishop's gear and that doesn't make you any more useful as a supporter.

Why?
I enjoyed my Bishop just fine before. I'm all for any class that doesn't require massive amounts of funding to approach "fun".
Hell, my favorite part of my Battle Mage wasn't that I could quickly kill monsters, but that I was using multiple skills every minute.

The fact that I didn't find whaling on a boss while standing in one place is exactly why I enjoyed my Bishop and why I find the path F/P Archmages are taking to be so sexy: they require you to pay attention. I love the new Heroes for this same reason.

And, even if they were to make your stats matter to Bishops, the only thing it could possibly affect is Healing.
Making the success rate of Dispels, etc depend on stats would only serve to further imbalance the game.

Also, bossing in Maple is just too inaccessible for support to be viable. I find whaling on Zakum and Papulatus over and over again to see who can do it the fastest extremely dull. The bosses that actually have desirable drops require either massive self-investment or a guild/group of friends that have also spent a lot on gear upgrades. What with the huge amount of grinding it takes to get to 160 and how much time/money you have to spend on a "free to play" game to have adequate gear to deal with the bosses, it's pretty hard to find a sizable group of people to take on even the Chaos bosses, much less Pink Bean or Empress Cygnus. Since the game is centered around levelling and not bossing, it's really hard to justify a role that's only useful at bosses.

Then make bossing accessible.
Not fixing a problem because there's another problem is a horrible answer; fix both problems.
I also don't believe that massive amount of funding is required to take on every end-game boss; some just require bigger groups.

If taking forever to get to 160 is the problem, make it easier to get to 160.
Too hard to find a group? Develop a better system of match-making.
Group limits to small? Expand the range.
Group minimums too large? Let anyone run.
Not worth killing a boss? Change the way drops are given out.
If they game is too focused on leveling, make bossing more feasible.

Acknowledging that Nexon probably won't fix the issues in its game is entirely different from acting like the problems cannot be fixed.
Seeing how many people were eager to drop their ideas for revamping each individual Adventurer branch, it's clear that the members of this forum aren't entirely against dreaming.