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Dawn Warriors have a lot of potential because of the amount of lines they dish out.
I like how you picked two classes with similar attack stances haha.

hayato if you want a unique playstyle with lots of mobility. we have good amount of lifesteal so you never need any pots while training. however we have a difficult time taking down bosses since shinsoku isn't that great for a bossing ability
dawn warrior is more of heavily hitting class while just standing in their place; however it's tricky to use rush correctly

[quote=Envoys]just so im clear we're talking about dawn warrior and not mihile right? because i know theyre similar.[/quote]

Playstyle wise the two classes are entirely different, even though DW is supposed to be a pupil of Mihile.

If you have fast and stable internet connection like @Lmaonade200 said, maybe then you could consider between the two. Dawn warrior is a stance based class so switching from the two stances could make you lose a lot of dps due to the slight pauses.

Hayato seems to be funner. Although both shouldn't be considered spammy classes, Hayato definitely has more attacks to use, and hitokiri strike is BAWSS.

Dawn Warrior and it is by no means weak, because of Elemental Resistance, it has the potential to pass Hero and Dark Knight in terms of damage on bosses, and can possibly match or outdamage Paladin, as a warrior class it deals the 2nd most lines per second behind Kaiser (not counting Zero), and comes with a slew of useful tools too such as elemental resistance debuff (the only one in the game I might add) and a bind.

The misconception of DW being weak needs to go, with the recent buff to its stances and main bossing move it's actually really good if you can control it, the only thing weak about a DW is that you need a fast and stable internet connection to use its equinox properly

My vote is for Hayato.

I'm not biased here or anything.... but I find DW quite immobile. your attacks kind of stick you in place. I like how with Hayato, every mobility move also does damage. Hayatos are sucky bossers tho, and never get any attention from nexon bcus they just copy paste any updates from japan ms. I will say, spamming Hitoriki strike on bosses is enjoyable.

I enjoy both of those classes a lot as well, but if I'd have to choose I would go for Dawn Warrior.
They got better damage and support, and having flash jump as well as rush really can be a life savior at some of the endgame bosses.

Honestly they are both very similar in terms of bossing unfunded and mobbing. Shinsoku = moon careening dance lol.

If say go with dw if you enjoy more simple play style and hayato if you enjoy more complicated playstyle cause of all the skill linkages. Both also have ways to trigger iframes I believe (I know about dw, but not sure about hayato). I guess it also depends on what kinda maps you like training on. Bigger maps are better for hayato, but smaller ones for dw, although both are amazing at mobbing, just in different ways.

If you are funding for damage on these chars I recommend the class that deals more lines of damage, that being dw ultimately.