Warrior Not for bossing
I have never "bossed" and I do not see myself ever bossing. I like training, usually on my own.
I like something that can clear maps fast...
whether its using brute power or their excellent skill sets that allow them to do such that.
Someone who can solo dimensional invasion (up to the boss), my kaiser can do that right now but idk i feel something is missing.
It's hard to explain, I wonder if anyone is like me out there. I feel something is missing in my maplestory gameplay.
I play right now a 147 Kaiser, and I find myself having to spam hp pots often... Whether in dimensional invasion and especially mp3. Which I don't necessarily like. And I'm not entirely convinced that its the best all around Warrior class that fits my play style.
I also have a 107 Paladin, and I like it survivability, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about the same range and lack of variety on all of it's attacks.
I also have a 100 Hero, and I'm not sure about the clear time of maps compared to other warriors.
I also have a 120 Dawn Warrior and I love it's natural defense, but will the damage be as good as the Paladin or Kaiser?
I also have a Dark Knight in the making, level 60, but I stopped.
Maybe Hayato? Or a demon class?
I'm looking in the future maybe level 130-150+ Which warrior fits my play style?
Or maybe I've spent too much time on Warriors and the play style I described is actually a different class...
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Hayatos can boss, but it's a different style of bossing. Most classes make bossing interesting whereas bossing with a hayato is dry. Conversely, clearing maps with a hayato is great and allows for a lot of creativity and precision while other classes are quite spammy. Hayatos can be spammy if they want to be/ are too lazy to train hard some days. Anyways, when a hayato bosses, he/she pretty much spams hitoriki strike and freezes the boss til it dies. It can be quite boring but it can also be really easy since [i]most[/i] of the bosses in ms are affected by this. They wont attack you, run away, or cast moves like damage reflect (as long as you can keep up a steady stream of hitoriki strike). If you can't, they will most likely wreck you since DR is an insta-death. Hayato does heal like 1/30th of it's health if one of your atks crits. (For ex. If you use sanrenzan, it attacks in 3 stages/swings. If you crit with any of the lines per swing, you gain 1/30th of your health. But if one swing gets lines of numbers and all crit, you won't gain 3/30ths of your health.) It's nice because with innate abilities, stance, and hitoriki strike buff, you are at like 90% crit rate. Just a phantom link skill could bring you to 100%. So my point is basically that Hayato's are not bad at surviving. It's easy to dodge most attacks since the mobility skills are quick and sustained. this may be tmi
Honestly, warriors are meant for bossing. Mages and pirates are great for training.
Yeah like most of the other replies, if you just want fast map clears, doesn't get better than Zero. I also found hayato quite fun despite the fact that they don't have a flash jump. In terms of damage though, DRKs are on the top of the list right now, funded or otherwise.
make a zero, you can clear through maps so fast especially if you have good control, survivability is realy high because each time you switch between alpha and beta you get a new hp bar and the old one regenerates on its own without pots, training is really easy as well I got from 100-180 in 3 hours with a 2x quest booster card
IMO it has to definitely be aran
Once you hit 170 your mobbing potential goes through the roof (due to beyond blade), in terms of pixel range and damage and mob count
I'd try other classes. You can if anything make a ton of mules and go out of your comfort zone by trying every other style of game play. When you find a class that works for you, main it . I used to be into my hero way back in the day (back when brandish was their main skill). From time to time, I would get bored then quit him and try out a completely different class. After playing as every mage class, a corsair, every adventurer warrior class, all of the legends classes (link mules), every new class (with a link skill), I've realized that I was much more into ranged attackers and from that point on have been all about the archer branch
if u don't like spamming pot why did you quit DrK at lvl 60?
I think dawn warrior will fit you best if you want a simple mobbing class (spams one love for mobbing, but the move doesn't get boring). If you want a bigger variety of attacks go hayato.
I wouldn't recommend demonslayer only cause my experiences with them have been pretty bad. I can't seem to enjoy them in di, can't even clear the last stage with the tower using 20% and 18% str gear at lvl 145... Maybe it's just me playing ds wrong though.
Aran... maybe...
DS would work as well, demon cry takes the map to hell.
Hayato and Dawn Warrior are fantastic mobbers but are worrisome in the damage category. If you're funded enough you should have no problem clearing DiPQ though.
I solo DiPQ easily on my lvl 150 Paladin. With having to gain the Blast buff and then 5 charges, it doesn't really get that boring. And when you're bossing you use Threaten and Magic Crash and the resurrect skill, so it never really gets that boring.
Hayato- great mobbers, high mobility (both vertical and horizontal) lacks single target damage (until they get full hyper on Shinsoku) and later on has 90% crit chance 100% of the time; however weak against damage reflection due to battle stance. Doesn't rely on HP pots as much as other classes since Hayato has lifesteal built in.