2009-12-02, 01:02 AM
This thread seems a little weird to me. Everyone's getting bashed for playing the popular classes, and it seems like people can't "love" a popular class... that they must be playing it only because it's popular. Well... Let me say, when I first started MS, I made a cleric to fund a "low-dex" White Knight. 4th job wasn't even out.
Before level 40, I was already in love with that cleric, and I'm almost 160 and still going. To this day I can't even put my finger on why I love this class. My class has SERIOUS weaknesses, though.
I REALLY love to boss on my bishop, though, both solo and partied. I'm not too proud to be pure support. Sure, I'll cast AR when the DrK wants to Zerk, but if there's no DrK it's better for me to heal everyone anyway, save them a bit of DPS. In all honesty, it's just as fun. Heck, I like being in seduce party at HT. It's more challenging and more fun. It makes you feel useful when there is something only your class can do, i.e., keep people alive during seduce. It's a neat feeling.
I boss a ton, both with friends for no profits (helping guildies get Zak helms, say), and in larger for-profit groups. Profit isn't the main focus for me, the main thing being to have fun and to take down something with friends, to feel like you accomplished something. I will say, though, that profit is a good thing to me. I don't sell leech, so money for potions, equips, and Gen30 is a welcome thing. I'd rather boss for my money (since I was going to boss anyway; I'd be bored of this game without it) than farm Harps or Wolf Spiders for hours.
And I am continuing my White Knight, too... I love Paladins as a class and can't wait to play one. But I won't really want to boss on it. I find attacking at bosses pretty boring unless there's a lot of skill required. If I ever make a DPS character, it'll be a corsair. I like trying to dodge attacks just because I can, even though my reflexes kinda suck.
Side note, having trained with a shad and an NL of similar levels, I would have to agree that 30% faster is a fair number. More once the turkeys are gone.
Before level 40, I was already in love with that cleric, and I'm almost 160 and still going. To this day I can't even put my finger on why I love this class. My class has SERIOUS weaknesses, though.
- No mob skill in between strong, slow Gen and pathetically weak, short-range Shining Ray.
- Near-inability to solo bosses due to terrible DPS. It took me an hour to solo Pap at 138. AN HOUR. Even an archmage could do it in half the time. And I got max Dragon, too.
- Lack of freeze, stun, or seal makes us very vulnerable while we are casting Gen. I actually use a near-comparable amount of potions as my I/L AM training partner, simply because I get lasered by the Skeles so much. That will change when I 1hko, but even the godliest bishop has a good 40 levels of casting Gen without 1hkoing Skeles.
- Constantly begged to sell leech, give leech for free, and "train" with people in the late 11x/low 12x who can't keep up with Skeles at all. It makes me feel great to help people out now and then, but I like getting good exp too, and I can get a good three times the exp training with another 2hko magician than I can essentially-leeching a 12x who can't clear the bottom.
- I don't solo. At all. It's just not fun to me anymore. I love this class as a party class. Heck, once I 1hko and soloing technically becomes "better", I'll probably still party. It's fun!
- Affording Gen30. 'Nuff said.
I REALLY love to boss on my bishop, though, both solo and partied. I'm not too proud to be pure support. Sure, I'll cast AR when the DrK wants to Zerk, but if there's no DrK it's better for me to heal everyone anyway, save them a bit of DPS. In all honesty, it's just as fun. Heck, I like being in seduce party at HT. It's more challenging and more fun. It makes you feel useful when there is something only your class can do, i.e., keep people alive during seduce. It's a neat feeling.
I boss a ton, both with friends for no profits (helping guildies get Zak helms, say), and in larger for-profit groups. Profit isn't the main focus for me, the main thing being to have fun and to take down something with friends, to feel like you accomplished something. I will say, though, that profit is a good thing to me. I don't sell leech, so money for potions, equips, and Gen30 is a welcome thing. I'd rather boss for my money (since I was going to boss anyway; I'd be bored of this game without it) than farm Harps or Wolf Spiders for hours.
And I am continuing my White Knight, too... I love Paladins as a class and can't wait to play one. But I won't really want to boss on it. I find attacking at bosses pretty boring unless there's a lot of skill required. If I ever make a DPS character, it'll be a corsair. I like trying to dodge attacks just because I can, even though my reflexes kinda suck.
Side note, having trained with a shad and an NL of similar levels, I would have to agree that 30% faster is a fair number. More once the turkeys are gone.