Xenomata

Well... when I think of both classes, they both have their own fun ways to combo around the map...

TBH, I'd say Thunder Breaker. Not becayse Hayato isn't good or anything, but because Thunder Breaker can maintain their maximum number of achievable buffs while Hayato's Willow Dodge is a really iffy buff that isn't exactly easy to maintain for the damage it gives him. In comparison, Thunder Breaker mostly just has to maintain a steady "combo" to keep their Lightning Counter up and the boost of damage from comboing skills together and using... whatever the giant red tornado is called.
Though on another TBH, I don't remember TB all that well. Though I did level up Hayato lately, and I personally feel he has TOO MANY attacks that can all still be utilized well into 4th job, where Thunder Breaker has just enough attacks to do everything they need to do.

Before you keep reading, if you somehow made it this far without closing the window thinking it's just some attention-seeking complainer, please understand that I'm just here to vent at nothing, largely because of personal roadblocks that keep me from being able to express, vent, or even seek help about my own personal frustrations and difficulties. I'm not making you read this. You don't have to read this at all. In fact, it's probably better you just stop. Close the window. Go to another section of the forum. I don't want help. Not from the people who would ignore me any other day, not realizing I'm here. You don't owe me anything, you don't get anything from riling me up or trying to "comfort" me. I'm just here to vent because I don't have anywhere else to vent. Does that sound sad? Are you insulted? Because I'm beyond caring. I probably won't even come back to this thread again, and if I do it's because I want to check for spelling and grammatical errors and insult my past self.

I don't want help, and I don't need help. "Help" wouldn't help anyways. I don't need therapy, or to talk to someone. I am overfilled with a lot of... emotions that I don't have a way to empty out, and I'm not comfortable hoping to look for a website that "specializes" in anonymous venting. It just doesn't sit well with me. Plus I've done this twice in the past and nobody has told me to stop yet. And look, no matter what I say here, don't let it impact what you say to me otherwise. Conversate me as you normally would. I don't want special attention just because I accidentally set off some "feel sorry for me" or "hate me" triggers. Just let me have my moment and let's move on.

I mean, I am speaking as someone who, on one side anyways, is filled with ideas. Thought. Opinions. And who especially wants to share them with others, especially if it is a subject he is most interested in. It sometimes becomes overwhelming how much is in my head.

But on the other side, I am completely aware of how pointless it all is. Either people don't agree with me and do little to help form more agreeable ideas thoughts etc, or I'm simply ridiculed. That is, assuming I even get a response. This will sound absolutely pathetic, but that makes it really hard to respond back, or even want to keep posting thoughts.

And unfortunately, I know it is completely pointless. It's not like I can actually make an impact with no more than simple thoughts. It's not like I can ever hope that, since we are in Maplestory and themeing is good, someone at Nexon sees my idea and thinks it's good enough to discuss with the team. No, I can't even hope anyone leaves false hope they will consider it, or even say "we can't do that". I'm just left ignored, again.

Someone might wonder" WTF u talking about, you don't post crap here". Well, news flash, I DID used to post here with ideas a lot more. Back on the old forums. When I was younger and stupider, but most importantly, when I didn't realize how pointless it all was.

I'm more than certain now that back then I wanted attention, to be told that my ideas were good, help me form new ones, and so much more gay crap like that. But now, what do I have to hope for? I haven't felt joy about anything I thought in a long time. I've not cared about the opinions of others for a good while. Hell, I don't even like most of the people anyways. Everyone I once "knew" is gone now. They don't appear here anymore, and they don't miss me. I wasn't anything to them, not when they had actual friends who they could be with. I wouldn't even know what to look for if I wanted to talk to them again. And while I've had my moments with the new crowd, I know when I'm not wanted.

...I should mention, I was diagnosed as being depressed years ago (when I was 15 or 16 I think. I'm 19, almost 20, now), and that has mostly gone away, but depression has left it's mark on me.

I've become a lot more cynical. I am very mistrusting of others, even my own family. I'm brutally honest about everything, with no regard for how the other party might feel, and usually wind up stopping people from talking. I do not speak up, ever, especially not for my own sake. People have made so many assumptions about me, and all I can do is play along because I don't have the heart to speak up. But worst of all, I've stopped expressing myself. If I'm in emotional pain, I hold it in until I am by myself. If I'm angry, I simply go off and bottle that anger up. If someone is abusing me physically or mentally, I don't do anything to stop them, let alone show I'm in pain.

I know why. It's because I feel inferior to everyone. EVERYONE. And nobody, no matter how much I hate them, should be bothered by me or my own pathetic problems when they probably have their own problems to be worrying about (reminder, you don't have to be reading this). I've stopped caring what others think of me, but I wind up caring too much how others should be.

I can't even bring myself to pretend to be someone I'm not on the internet. Yeah, sounds weird, right? Someone on the internet whose online persona is pretty much the same as their IRL self? Well guess what. Everything I have said, everything I have ever felt, everything I ever thought? That was me. Not Xenomata, or Xatuish, or any other name you know me by. That was me. Nothing about "Xenomata" is "inspired" by anything, because "Xenomata" is just me. All "Xenomata" is is a name. What? That isn't anything to be proud of, you should in fact feel proud you can maintain your online selves. Me, I can't even hide behind some name I thought sounded cool when I was younger.

For someone who believes that anything in the digital world is just as important and meaningful as it would be if it were in real life, you can imagine I've been hurt a lot. Yet I still pretend that everything is fine. Yeah, I'm a really bad pretender, aren't I? If I hate you, I don't exactly sugarcoat anything I say. Hell, even if I like you, I don't treat you any better? Huh, maybe that's why I'm still friendless to this day, with my only friends being... nobody actually.

Maybe if I bring it up enough it will annoy you enough to just exit the post? YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE HERE READING MY RANT. I'M JUST HERE TO VENT TO NOTHING. I DON'T CARE OR EVEN WANT YOUR ATTENTION. NOTHING IS STOPPING YOU FROM LEAVING.

So I ask again, why do I even bother? If I am such a stereotypical basket case of a depressed, angsty teen who wants to watch the world burn, why do I keep having so many idealistic thoughts of ways to help others, to improve on something, and to help bring people together? It doesn't make sense, everything about me contradicts something else about me. I don't care for friends, but I desire companionship. I hate everyone, but I get joy from helping others. I say I'm fine, but I'm crying while saying it. About the only non-contradictory thing about me is that YOU STILL DON'T HAVE TO BE READING THIS.

Hell, as much as I like to rile people up just to see them react, I don't actually like doing it. I mean, yeah I'd want you to leave because you don't need to keep reading this, but I still don't like watching people suffer on my behalf.

I hate myself so much, but I'm not even depressed. I know what depression feels like, you can't tell me "you are depressed", even though you really shouldn't because you don't have to be here. I can still derive joy from things, I can most definitely bring myself to be motivated about things, and I don't want to kill myself.

It's boggling how I haven't just quit the internet, what with not being able to maintain a fake persona and feeling inferior to everyone, shrugging off compliments and being hurt by insults. Is that normal by the way? Because I almost always ignore compliments, but insults hurt me a lot more than they should, even if they are joking. Also jokes, what's up with them? I dunno, I do know however that I take them too literally. It's probably not odd, then, how I have no sense of humor, besides satanic humor that kills the mood every time and just makes me feel bad. By the way, *honk honk* if you are reading this, you are really wasting your time! *honk honk*. That was me making a joke about how you should leave if you are still reading this.

Wait, if I keep doing the "you really should stop reading this" thing, people are going to respond with insults and "helpful advise" specifically to spite me. Oops. Wait, who do I think will even read this??? It's 4 am PST, nobody is going to be on the forums looking through Rants and Raves at this hour. They'll be doing something more worth their time.

You know, this has all been improvised. I've just been steadily spilling my guts out with no real direction. Though I guess that's what a rant is, huh? I'm pretty much done venting though, largely because I'm now tired and need to go to sleep. I don't feel any better though. I doubt I ever will, even if I come back here to vent again. Yeah, I've bottled up a lot of hurt and angry emotions. Sigh... why can't I be one of those mindless goons who express their emotions with their chuckles and their knuckles? Venting won't do me any good like this, not if all of my anger, sadness, and guilt exceeds anything a human should ever have to experience. Then again, I guess I'm not a human anymore, just another example of what a human should never be. Ugh... my self-worth is so low, I can't even think of any other creature I can be on equal level with...


...so anyways, for those of you who skip to the last paragraph because reading is hard, hi! Don't worry, you aren't missing anything. Though I will say this was a lot shorter than I thought it would be. But don't you have some ribbon pigs to kill? Specifically of the Mutated variety? I hear the familiar is pretty good! Wish they'd update the familiar system though, I like it a lot more than I should!

I could do without a reminder of how copy-pasted Jett used to be.

I honestly believe you over-exaggerate and, brutally honest, do not understand the class at ALL.
First off, Suborbital Bombardier was literally a copy-paste of Corsair's Eight-Legged Easton, but for the longest time without hyper skills or any of the updates that ELE received over time. It wasn't even the best 4th job skill at the time.
Second off, I can't recall a single person who thought the old Jett was even fun, let alone any good, myself included. And I have yet to hear a single person who misses the old Jett, probably because NOBODY misses the old Jett. If you were to put the Old Jett in Maple now, even if you updated the skills to modern standards, Jett would be laughable and ignored. The class had no redeeming qualities, and it didn't take anything from Bucc or Corsair that would make her unique.
Third off, it's not "dashing around", it's combo dashing RAPIDLY to get to where the enemy is, forcing them in front of you with Cosmic Upheaval if need be, and then to use Planet Buster, Falling Stars, Starfall, or if all those are on cooldown, Backup Beatdown. Two of the four are POWERFUL skills, one of them is surprisingly powerful and effective and comboing to get to even more advantageous placement, and the last is a skill that starts weak at first, but gets improved the moment you start getting hyper skills for it.
Third, while I don't know what world you are in, it took me, a Reboot player where all the enemies take longer to kill, almost no time to get to level 150 as a Jett. I won't claim I didn't spam Starfall, because I did, but my eyes are still sore from all the spamming and I did revert to the classic "position, reposition, kill, repeat" movements. But it took me, keeping in mind I am only a casual player who plays for like 5 hours a day, about 3 days total time, and most of the time was spent doing theme dungeons and quests. I say "total time" because I only played Jett when I was done on other characters, so I only got anywhere from 2-4 hours playtime on Jett a day. No EXP buffs, no burning, not even EXP related link skills. Just my own abilities and, after 4th job, Starfall. Oh, and like 2 hours of 2x event, but I spent most of that time trying to get a Mr. Ali familiar.

I admit Jett does have some damage problems, but she wasn't designed to be a heavy damage dealer. And you know what, I honestly believe that's fine. If you want damage, then you clearly should be playing something like Aran or Dark Knight. But she is probably the queen of mobility, and I do not say that lightly. She makes up for her inability to finish battles fast by getting to the next battle faster than any other class, when she isn't forcing the next battle faster than any other class. In the old days, all she had was whatever could be lifted from Buccaneer and Corsair, of which she probably got the worst of both their kits at the time.

Also, I'm not a Jett "main". I prefer other classes over Jett simply because I've become invested in those classes long before I played Jett again.

Again, I don't think you understand Jett at all, and I think your favoring old Jett means your own playstyle does not mesh with the Jett we have now.

Just like to chime in again, half the time I can't even tell if a (obviously decked out in Royal/All Star hairstyles and looks) boy is a girl, and some girl looks go for more of a tomboyish, if not downright boy-looking, style. Some CS equips that are quite obviously dresses can still be worn by men, as can obviously masculine outfits on girls.

That's not because Nexon supports gender identity, it's because the CS items don't have gender locks on them. There are still CS Items being released now that do have gender locks on them, even if they are the most gender-neutral items in the game.

Won't say I pick a side again, but apparently gender doesn't even really matter when the manliest looking of men can wear, and as a result look like, the female character Orchid, or a pink kimono and a long-haired wig that confuses the gender completely. A female character can look like a man just by wearing the right clothes and hair. That's the power of being a very anime game.

The real question is, does that make a difference to you? Does it support or go against your views of if LGBT marriage belongs in an MMORPG where everyone looks like 5 different special snowflakes and one Card Battle anime? It's still up to you, interpret what I say as you will. Just remember, I don't give a crap, single 4 lyfe.

Okay, I think we need to clear something up here.
Starfall? Good skill, right? The best?
You are comparing a FMA with almost 1500% per attack, three times, on up to 15 enemies, that also has the action speed of most other attacks in the game, with much smaller scale attacks, one of which is a pummeling attack that can do about 225% per attack 3 times (after hyper) every 0.3 or 0.2 seconds on up to 6-8 enemies directly in front of you, or a rapid fire skill that does something over 300% per strike.
You are all being spoiled by Starfall basically. There isn't THAT much wrong with Jett's damage. The problem is that all of your minimum standards have been shot all the way up by this one skill, and I know for a fact you will all overreact to when Starfall gets a cooldown because "it's Jett's only good skill!". Bullcrap it is.

Jett should not be able to 2 hit or 1 hit an enemy just because they have a spammable FMA. No one should.

Its2Sharp4U wrote: »

When I played Jett, I honestly though that most of the skill casts take way too long. They need to be MUCH MUCH SHORTER.

But that's just my opinion.

This I agree with. Not only that, but Jett is currently the only class* who's Maple Warrior still has a cast animation. Even Hayato and Kanna don't have cast animations on their MW.


*Not tested on Beast Tamer