2011-04-20, 01:23 PM
Dusk Wrote:Bishops are clearly intended to be a support class, because Nexon thinks it's justified to make them do like 30% of the damage that everyone else does. There are just a lot of fundamental challenges to the existence of a support class in the game, and most of them have already been covered in this thread.
Recap:
- Can't have only one support class in a game with 20+ classes
- Supporting abilities aren't enhanced by stats
- Dumb health system
- Dumb boss design
- In order for support to be wanted, you have to make solo play much less viable for non-support classes
- Solo play should always be viable. No one spends ALL their time in an MMO grouped. Damage is way too big of a factor in any solo activity in Maple, though, and whatever a support class can contribute to or receive from a party does not balance that.
The things I suggested could have solved nearly all of those issues, and that was only thinking up a few interesting skills. Support CAN work, Nexon just isn't trying hard enough, and seeing by the attitudes of the people on this thread, I don't blame them anymore.
Of course, I know my suggestions will never actually be implemented, but support CAN work in Maple if you get a little creative, instead of destroying the benefits of other classes to make priests feel more important, they can increase the role of a priest to make partying more viable than solo.