Dual Blades are WAYYY far away. They aren't even on the radar for content. Evans are the only mages that are able to boss; that's good enough for me. They are by far the best mage class in maplestory. And not by a little.
Also, evans have more and more frequent job advances. Their final one being at level 150, that would definitely help with motivation in late levels, on top of already leveling fairly fast.
cronnoponno Wrote:The only thing that seems desirable for an Evan is magic resistance, and even then, it wouldn't be necessary for anything but pink bean(although it will most likely be the godliest lifesaver in neo tokyo if we ever get it), the rest of their skills, while unique(I agree with that), are only mediocre. Their niche is what makes them an overall useless class in the larger scale of maplestory. They have some support skills, but dont' excell in it. So a bishop will almost always overule them in that. They have more attack on single target mobs than mages, as well as the ability to reset their element, but that doesn't do much because attackers can easily out-damage them still. They can max all of their skills, but that doesn't do much if their skills lack in anything excelling. If killing wing works on bosses, then what I say is completely null and void, as this would obviously make Evans the most kickass class for bossing as we know it, they also could justify it working on a boss, because arans can apparantly freeze a boss with tempest so they should be able to inflict status effects on them.(the same goes with ghost lettering)
Onyx blessing is a good skill, but it only works for magic attack, for 60 seconds, and doesn't compare to an onyx apple(unless it stacks).
How can you compare an ITEM with a SKILL?
Evans just sound like they're ''decent'' in every single feat in maplestory, but as cool as this sounds on paper, in reality this is their biggest downfall. The only thing that makes the Evan worth playing would be their magical resistance skill, and that's IF you get lucky enough to manage a PB battle, and the only partys that aren't already good enough to beat pink bean without some sort of defense will obviously be a mediocre party themselves, and your chances of meeting inexperienced parties will be even higher.
A mage at low 13x hitting a single mob for 90k isn't useful?
So, Evans are fun, that's the best thing to them. They are mages that are incredibly exciting and fun, their attacks feel pretty new, they have such a large variety of attacks, but I could care less about the dragon, if anything I'd rather the dragon wasn't there and my character would just cast the spells himself, because the dragon doesn't even look that cool to me(but it's not bad).
Well in any case, any class can be argued to be ''useful'', but we'll see how ''useful'' Evan is when they're never invited to any HT runs or Zakum runs, and all the Evans will be doomed to the same life AM's are doomed to exist, I guarantee you it will end up this way.
The only way this will happen if biased people like you are running the squads.
Also, evans have more and more frequent job advances. Their final one being at level 150, that would definitely help with motivation in late levels, on top of already leveling fairly fast.