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Whats wrong with Beast Tamers?

I quit at about the time Zero came out and hardly got much info on Beast Tamers, their skills looked pretty flashy and seemed to have variety but ever since I came back I've yet to see a level 100+ beast tamer.

Could someone give me some information on beast tamers and why they're so underplayed?

August 19, 2014

8 Comments • Newest first

Lohd

I love playing my BT even though it's quite weak, but it's so laggy especially in Bear mode, it's unbearable.

Reply August 19, 2014
Elufu

[quote=JVIaplevoyager] and hawk is mostly useless.[/quote]

Except, party summon and door completely makes up for it. In fact, it's highly appreciated among my friends.

Beast Tamers are a great support-class but nothing more.

Reply August 19, 2014
JVIaplevoyager

They may suck at bossing, but they're a fun class to play with a large variety of skills. If you want to have fun with the class, play bear and leopard. You'd miss out on the cat buffs, but leopard is really fun for training. Cat gameplay is extremely boring and hawk is mostly useless.

Reply August 19, 2014
VietUA

[quote=m4plegeek]I am a level 205 Beast Tamer

[b]TL;DR:[/b] BORINGGG
[/quote]
idk how u do 205 and be bored

Reply August 19, 2014
TurtleSlaves

[quote=m4plegeek]I am a level 205 Beast Tamer, I started this character without much knowledge of maple and picked it up with a friend for fun. I'll try to give you an accurate depiction (:

Beast Tamer's don't have good % damage, meaning that even if you are funded you won't do nearly as much damage as most other classes. [b]TL;DR:[/b] so pretty much they have lower damage than many classes.

They also don't have great mobility or dodging skills. For late game bosses, you need to be able to dodge a lot of their skills. Not only are beast tamer's melee range, both of their main skills require them to sit in ONE spot and channel their attack. Even bosses like gollux begin to be tedious because of this. This also means your skill that does the most damage (fishy slap) can barely be used because by the time you start channeling it you have to stop it to dodge an enemy attack. [b]TL;DR:[/b] they are bad bossers

finally, they are boring as heck. The only 2 viable modes for late game are cat and bear. for cat form, you pretty much just afk support. for bear form, you pretty much use your fart skill (ew) and throw down lil' fort, then use either your autoattacks or your fish. There is really no movement or fun skills, you just stand there holding/pressing one button. even the two late game skills they get (table flip at 180ish and group bear blaster at 170ish) suck because they have such a long animation that you could do more damage using your regular attacks. [b]TL;DR:[/b] BORINGGG

Hope this helps (:[/quote]

Hoooooly, I really appreciate you writing that for me, I was actually planning to main a class similar to wind archers but I guess Beast Tamers aren't the class.

Thanks for the info! really helped

Reply August 19, 2014
VietUA

PETA stopped them

Reply August 19, 2014
Coolerino

they are satanists

Reply August 19, 2014
Green4EVER

Because they suck. They have good support buffs and are okay at training but that's really about it. Good luck trying to kill a boss that actually matters.

Reply August 19, 2014 - edited