Character worth

If barrage or bstep/SB did as much as triple throw or SoA, then we wouldn't see guild leaders going "sorry i'm going to take this NL or BM over your shad/bucc", and when I played, I saw it a lot.

If they did as much, i'd expect them to be changed to single target attacks then/

Yah mages are great for leeching people and quick leveling, but that's about it. You don't see many mages at boss fights due to their poor single target damage. If Nexon would cut back on the blizz/genesis/meteo spam damage, and up mage's single target damage, then mages would probably appreciate it. Overkilling a a skele by 40k damage is cool and all, but if I was a mage, i'd rather take away that 40k aoe and turn it into single target DPS.

Want to take that AOE away and make a DPS attack? Good, theres at elast 5 character jobs that fit that right now, feel free to make one of them instead of a mage. There is no point making mages like every other class in the game instead of making them mobber classes.

Guilds stack NLs and BMs because their damage is just ridiculous. Speed zak runs are nothing but a ton of them with apples.

The jobs that don't have good mobbing attacks have higher single target damage. Amazing.

Really, there isn't any confusion left in maplestory, if you want to train fast, you can make a mage, then there is a [roughly] sliding scale of decreasing your exp gain for more DPS, which is as complicated as a game like maple needs to be. If you don't mind training slower, but want to have a much easier time getting into bosses, it's not a big secret which classes to go for that either.