Lozmaster Wrote:If they did as much, i'd expect them to be changed to single target attacks then/.
If they brought down the number of mobs it hit to 3, and spread the damage throughout the bstep then maybe..... Look at it like this, in my shad video, me and a 16x shadower (andypandyz) both used apples to kill pap, and it took us just over 6 mins. A single apple'd NL can do it in the same amount of time. Okay... so that NL puts out double the single target DPS, do I train twice as fast as that NL as a shadower? no....... I don't.
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.
Mages get benched from boss runs because of their damage. To be honest I don't even think the aoe damage should be taken away, paralyze and chain lightning should be buffed or mages should get a party buff that helps more than one other class.
The jobs that don't have good mobbing attacks have higher single target damage. Amazing.
Maybe you should double check marksmen then. One of the best mobbing skills in the game that doesn't belong to a mage, and single target DPS almost equal to NLs/BMs.
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.
Bucs and shads don't train any faster than NLs, but get stomped on single target DPS.
Grog Wrote:I've been thinking about this. I always used to bash on Nexon for having the most unbalanced classes I've ever seen in an MMO, but now that I've thought about it, they're not unbalanced at all. Corsairs and NLs are the two hardest-hitting classes, but just look at them; they take hits like little girls and have no variety in their arsenal of attacks.A shadower taking half damage compared to an NL doesn't mean the shadower should have to dish out half damage as well. Even with mesos gaurd, shadowers still get two shotted the same as an NL, they just don't have to wash. A buccaneer's HP isn't much higher than an NLs is, but same thing, does about half the damage.
Seems balanced to me. When Aran is released that'll all change. ;~;