2009-09-27, 02:20 PM
Cyanne Wrote:.
I agree with most of this post, except I don't think 3rd job was very balanced either. MS has never been well-balanced. The closest we've ever been to having a balanced game was when the skill updates rolled around.
3rd job was ALL Dragon Knights and Hermits and Priests. Seriously, Crusaders fit about where BMs fit now in terms of DPS, but without a buff like SE. Snipers were okay, but not played as much. Rangers were inferior to Snipers in pretty much every way. They were both well designed classes, though. F/Ps could train fast, but had pretty much no means of damage output comparable to any other class on bosses or poison-res monsters. CBs were terrible except for the fact that they had ME. Apples pretty much made that useless.
4th job was horrible when it initially came out, but balance updates have made Marksmen and Shadowers much less useless. I agree that they are the two most well-designed classes not counting the Pirates, but they were pretty awful at first. It really bugs me that the "best" classes in the game are almost always the ones that only have one awesome attack that they spam over and over again.