Were Cygnus Knights some sort of beta for future rebalancing?

It occurs to me that a few things that were changed between adventurers and Cygnus were similar to changes in later balance patches.

• Brandish coming down to third
  
• BW got Ifrit -> AMs got summon of their own element instead of inverse, Fire Strike is similar to FD/ID which was brought down to third job in Jump
  

These are the ones that came to mind, there might be others I'm forgetting.

Is this a co-incidence or was there some set of ideas going around in Nexon Korea's office?

Pretty sure Cygnus are used as a way for people to enjoy a class. Sort of like a test of the game.

I think it's more likely that moving skills to lower jobs is just a general pattern for Nexon when redesigning classes that Nexon began doing with the introduction of Cygnus Knights. Because of the way higher level skills completely replace lower level skills in MapleStory instead of complementing them, it wouldn't be as exciting if Nexon only did extensive revamping of lower level skills, because higher level characters would never use them. Moving Fire Demon to 3rd job is just a way for Nexon to reuse an existing graphic and mechanic, and introduce a newer, better skill at the same time.

Ck will get a real revamp in no time... now CK are less played...

Ck will get a real revamp in no time... now CK are less played...

ultimate system is making them more "useless" now people are looking at them just as mules

just try to remember before NW was a popular job before it.... now everyone is making DW because they level fast and they're trying to get their buff

oh well I play on my wind archer almost everyday and alot of people ask why I dont make a new char... but I dont want to... I like how wind archers are...

also I have a stupid question...

 Spoiler

who is supposed to be Eagle Eye? because the description says it was a hero but the female "EE" shares the same clothes as irena... so Eagle eye= youger irena(irena can use wind piercing without eagle eye).... or maybe irena is a EE sucessor... or irena is just cosplaying as eagle eye... oh god o-o

If Cygnus were any way of rebalancing, Nexon did a really bad job since Nightwalker DPS was about 3 times higher then a Blade Wizzard back in 2009...