2011-10-07, 03:24 AM
Battle Mages don't need buffed... There are too many of them (in JMS, at least) crawling around. If you saw my guild on JMS alone, you'd think they're the only class in the game because of how many people play it... (I mean, one could argue that that's irrelevant, but whatever. I don't think popular classes really need more popularity.)
I would vote Adventurers. Why? Not for Thief and Pirate revamps, but for reworkings of the classes. Most of the classes are fine in DPS as they are, but most of them can use a lot of fine-tuning to pick up the pace to look more glamorous in the eyes of people thinking about playing those classes. Right now, they see a Hero, walking at 100% speed, rushing, killing things with mostly only a single skill, then walking for 5 minutes to get to their next monster. Then they see a Mercedes, going at 165% speed, flipping around everywhere, showing off a large array of skills, and being a generally high-paced, stronger class overall. They'd of course choose Mercedes because it looks far more fun to play.
Also, I think Warriors and Vipers need an HP boost. I mean... Why should a BOW CLASS have about the same HP as us? Besides we (maybe not Vipers, but warriors) should have more HP, I think, because we're supposed to be tanks, right? Of course, MapleStory kind of kills the word "tank" in almost every way, but I think with all of the crap us warriors get (no avoid - hit by EVERY THING... All status effects, all damage dealt, etc.), we should be able to out-live a Shadoer. I mean, that's what we're supposed to do as warriors, right? But I don't see that happening when we have 15k HP and receiving 8k damage when we have almost no defense (excluding Paladins here...), no blocking skills and no avoidability skills... Yet Shadowers have Shadow Shifter, high avoidability AND Meso Guard, so they're taking less than half the damage we're taking while also remaining unharmed more than half of the time.
I would vote Adventurers. Why? Not for Thief and Pirate revamps, but for reworkings of the classes. Most of the classes are fine in DPS as they are, but most of them can use a lot of fine-tuning to pick up the pace to look more glamorous in the eyes of people thinking about playing those classes. Right now, they see a Hero, walking at 100% speed, rushing, killing things with mostly only a single skill, then walking for 5 minutes to get to their next monster. Then they see a Mercedes, going at 165% speed, flipping around everywhere, showing off a large array of skills, and being a generally high-paced, stronger class overall. They'd of course choose Mercedes because it looks far more fun to play.
Also, I think Warriors and Vipers need an HP boost. I mean... Why should a BOW CLASS have about the same HP as us? Besides we (maybe not Vipers, but warriors) should have more HP, I think, because we're supposed to be tanks, right? Of course, MapleStory kind of kills the word "tank" in almost every way, but I think with all of the crap us warriors get (no avoid - hit by EVERY THING... All status effects, all damage dealt, etc.), we should be able to out-live a Shadoer. I mean, that's what we're supposed to do as warriors, right? But I don't see that happening when we have 15k HP and receiving 8k damage when we have almost no defense (excluding Paladins here...), no blocking skills and no avoidability skills... Yet Shadowers have Shadow Shifter, high avoidability AND Meso Guard, so they're taking less than half the damage we're taking while also remaining unharmed more than half of the time.