2012-08-14, 12:42 PM
Saphien Wrote:The concept of "Glass Cannon" can not apply in a game like MapleStory. In any game where you can spam potions, you can not have a Glass Cannon unless you die in one hit.
In MapleStory, getting hit for 20% of your HP and getting hit for 95% of your HP is the exact same thing. Either way, you can pop a potion and you'd be right back where you started.
I beg to differ, time spent potting is time not attacking. If you have to pot every time you get hit to prevent death by the next attack, that means you're fragile, even if you have high DPS. Then there's pot cooldown, which prevents pot spam. You can bring all the DPS classes you want to Empress, but if they all die in one hit, whereas the Paladins and Shadowers are still alive, then the DPS classes that died are glass cannons and Pallys/Shads are tanks. The concept was clearer pre-BB when you had bishops dedicated to healing and Dark Knights solely for Hyper Body for the fragile Night Lords and Bowmasters but the idea of a glass cannon still exists.