KMST 1.2.425 - Mikhail

Are they slowly turning the monster carnival guy into a bad guy? It kind of seems like they're going to end up revealing him as the black mage which would be enough to make me never want to think about Maple Story again.

I think he's good, but his moustache is evil.

This class also has crazy Critical boosts, 130% Holy Charge, Advanced Final Attack, Advanced Sword Mastery, +70 STR clean (Regular Training, and another +40 in 3rd job), Power Guard that gives 60% Status Resistance, Auto Recovery, and an even better version of Metamorphosis.

That's before you consider their actual attack skills, which are better than most warriors from what I can tell.

This class completely obsoletes everyone else. It adds everything that's good about warriors, mashes it up into one class, and says "FUUUUUCK YOU" to everyone else, "Did you spend 6 months working on that character? A year? More? LOL TOO BAD HERE'S SOMETHING WAY BETTER THAT INVALIDATES ALL THE TIME YOU SPENT!"

The better version of Meta is just Enrage from Heroes. It's just a mashup of Heroes and Demon Slayers, with some Dawn Warrior skills, from what I've seen, nothing they have is better than the original skill, though they may get it earlier, but such is the spirit of a Cygnus class, and the only new skills they got were the ones previewed in the Inkwell's Diary entry, Soul Assault and Shining Blast.

This doesn't invalidate the time I spent, I greatly enjoyed playing my Paladin, my Demon Slayer, and my other classes as well, and I have a feeling I'll probably enjoy Mikhail as well. I wouldn't worry about it too much, there's always something better, something new, and while the old stuff looks less appealing, it's not like people are gonna drop all their warriors to make Mikhail, at least not permanently.