Before Maplestory became godstory, and survivability was hard to attain because the potions at the time sucked, I really liked clerics. Why? I couldn't afford good pots, and spamming Unagi 7 times per hit was a serious waste of time for my dps, however when I had a priest with me to spam heal, I didn't have to worry about getting damaged faster than I could pot.
Now, however, power elixir's are extremely easy to get, and even then I could get potions that make most bosses pose little threat to me. However, I still like bishops for holy symbol, because sometimes bosses give me good EXP, and to add HS on top of good EXP boosts is something I really like.
My first character was an I/L, and I was really sick of Bishops stealing my spotlight in just about everything I could do, but they got massively screwed over. Now people can just nxhoar and get pets to autopot for them, and dispel can't even dispel the worst status effects in the game. On top of this, Bishop Hater's(I consider myself a bishop hater) are continuing to basically tell them ''get back in the kitchen'', even when their kitchen role has been robbed from them. I do not agree that Bishops need a better 1vs1 skill, I think they should have to rely on the support of an attacker, while they themselves serve as support for that attacker. So instead of giving them crappy solo skills that are mediocre compared to other classes, they need to make their support skills much more useful, starting with dispel being able to remove Zombify/Seduce. I'm sure they're creative enough to make bosses challenging without just saying ''GIVE THE BOSS 100BILL HP AND MAKE IT SPAm SEDUCE LOLOLOLOl'', they did it with Astaroth..
They also need to change the EXP ratio, does anyone really even care if someone leeches anymore? This is post-BB, leveling isn't even worth bragging over any more. The leech ratio was originally made to prevent people from losing their sense of perfection for spending more time on this game, right? The ratio is not needed, I miss the good old days where people actively searched for priests because they were a serious benefit to the party, but the priest got an equal chance at getting good EXP. My friends always told me they would party with a DK at himes, even if their level was really inferior because the DK had use for them. Now when I join party's, I hear ''Don't use Bless noob bishop'', ''HS NOOB'', and they're fine with the bishop camping on the ladder, because the attacker's get more EXP.
