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Bishop is SUPPOSE to be at the bottom of the DPS chart.
You're an utility support character, no other class can revive an entire party like Mercy's "heroes never die", and no other party can spam party heal without potion cd restriction, along with a 50% bonus exp buff like a cherry on top.
I don't normally make references to other games, but imagine playing League of Legends and pick a Soraka who not only heals everyone in a party including herself, has a party revive, and tons of party buff, with passive incoming damage reduction. AND NOW, according to you, who thinks that Bishop shouldn't be at the bottom of the dps chart, "Soraka" now does more damage than your own adc.
You're comparing an all in utility character to a Thief class who's suppose to be doing burst dps damage. What the hell???
Let me put it this way, if Bishop's DPS is on top of the list right now, every player would be making a Bishop. Because on top of all those utility and survivability, you now deal more damage than the people who were originally designed to do damage. Do you think that would make sense??? The only reason why Bishop wouldn't be played alot by then is because of its bland skill set which makes Bishop a little boring to play. But who cares about that when you can "never die" and "every teammate loves having you", since not only are you now the support, you're now the carry as well.
Going back to your 2nd statement, I picked Phantom because he was originally fun, the skill stealing, the variability of his stolen skill, and the high dps back then which comes from his main "auto-attack" skill Mille Aiguilles. But now if you look at his kit, what part of what makes Phantom a "Phantom" is left? Nothing, your stolen skill are always the same few "meta" stolen skill from the explorers, if you swap a skill you have a 30 second cd before you can use the skill. Your own skill on the other hand doesn't make up for the damage to catch up with all the other classes; so now you not only lost what makes Phantom a distinct character, your damage is now also crap when compared to another class who can probably do the same stuff as you, but BETTER. And most of all, Phantom is super reliant on buffs; if you use all the buff on a Phantom, your damage range will sky rocket, and sometimes be more than double of what your base damage is. So what is bad about that? Imagin you have to constantly buy buff freezer because you died at a boss and didn't want to die again because you were too busy standing still at a single spot buffing yourself. If you look at some other class who aren't as buff reliant, not only are they already doing more damage than a buffed Phantom, they're also "forgiving" when they die to a boss, meaning they can sometimes fight the boss without the buffs, or because they only have a few active buffs since most of them are passives, they don't have to be standing still at a single spot for over 10 seconds just to rebuff. My own character as Phantom, has to stand still for approximately 15 seconds just to have all the buff animations played out, and approximately half of that that time if I was hanging on a rope, and I am pretty sure not all bossing locations have a rope for you to hang on to.
So I don't understand your statement, "as a bishop player, stop crying", that statement itself does not make sense, because you're made to be a utility character who does low damage and in turns, you help your team, that is the ESSENCE of your character. If you said "as a dual blade player, stop crying" because dual blade for some reason is now terrible to play as, THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE, but is that the case??? NO, Dual blade not only has super nice flashy animation, his damage is ridculous too, along with the super nice AOE mobbing skills. The only thing I can think about as a CON for dual blade is the super boring early games, and the not so great survivability during some 1-shot bosses, which is basically the same as a phantom , but that seems balanced since you have massive damage skills already. (This is outside of this topic but, alot of the old classes who didn't undergo revamps have this early game boring stage at this moment, it can't really be fixed as either Nexon completely revamps the character, or just leave it as it is. This is due to the fact that the old maplestory have really slow leveling stage, players are stuck at 2nd or 3rd job for a very long time before 4th job when compared to right now. Which means the developers wants the player to use the skill all the way until they are super super bored of it before it will never be used again since it's a "1st job" compared to "2nd job" or "3rd job" compared to "4th job". This problem was solved very well on many new characters such as Ark or Cadena, you would notice that even when these characters are passed level 200 they are still using active damage skills from their 1st or 2nd jobs, but when you look at old characters that aren't revamped, the only skills that you would use from 1st or 2nd job are the utility ones or active buff ones)
Your 3rd statement, "chart doesn't dictate how good a class is, you do". No, NEXON dictates how good a class is, and the amount you WHALE dictates on how good your class is when compared to PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T WHALE AS MUCH AS YOU. The chart is made to compare each class when they're at their "nude" state. Meaning that if I had no equips and external damage source at level 200, and you had no equips and external damage source at level 200, which one of us is doing more damage? Or my equipvalent equip as its best compared to the same equip but in your class at its best, you get the point. The chart doesn't dictates anything, it is an representation of recorded data of the current classes' DPS meaning Damage Per Second, nothing more nothing less. You doing more damage an soloing Lucid simply because you whaled more than me, or have better equipments than me, or better potentials. If another class who is on the same "equip level" as you are, you will for sure be doing much lesser damage than that other class, but Bishops shouldn't be comparing that since you're the only utility class other than Paladin (Although Paladin is slowly turning to a dps character), which means your class is what keep your teammates alive during super hard bosses, and keeping your teammate's damage at their best, meaning you shouldn't be crying about dps in the first place since your character is DESIGNED TO HAVE LOW DAMAGE.
In conclusion,

See the thing is about buff over revamp, you have to consider a character's "overall" when you ask for a revamp.
There are 6 heroes of maple; Aran and Evan got a revamp because they were the OG of OG. In terms of timeline, if there's even a chance of Phantom getting a revamp, it would be along side another old hero which includes Mercede, Luminous, or Shade.
Also considering the player base; nexon has to consider how many players are going to get all the skills the moment they release the change, aka the high level players when compared to people who never even touched phantom at all.
So to my personal opinion, asking for a buff is way more realistic than a whole revamp of skills. (Considering Phantom, a character that's suppose to be "fancy" and "flashy" got some of the most generic 5th job and hyper skills.)

I have been playing maplestory for a very long time, and I have been a Phantom main.
Due to the fact that majority of the time the game is mostly PvE instead of PvP, people sometime wouldn't realize how much damage they do compared to other; in another words, there is no comparision to know if you're doing super well or super bad.
The recent burning event let me made an new Ark character, and I have to say that if it had my current Phantom's gear, it would be on a whole new level; its mobility, dps, skill animation. (Yes, I do realize Phantom is a 2k13 old and Ark is a new character). Playing Ark made me realize the huge damage potential between my class and some of the others.
And this was proven in the most recent PvP mobbing mode Brawlosseum. I have never got to 2nd or 1st place in any match up; if anything, I am getting number 1 counter from bottom most often. So I thought to myself, maybe its the gear difference. Yes, better equips does make the damage difference, however I have realized that some of the people having way worse gear than I am are out mobbing me by a whole mile. Perhaps Phantom isn't designed for mobbing, then perhaps single target dps like bossing? Well, if you look at single target bossing skills, nothing probably comes close to Angelic and the two shuriken throwing thief classes.
In the current dps ranking in KMS, Phantom is placed 2nd last right above Bishop. BISHOP!! BHISHOOOOOPPPP!!! Like bruh, my thinking is that Paladin is suppose to be near the bottom since "heros never die". But instead, this guy is 10 ranks above Phantom in the dps chart. TEN RANKS!!! A tank having 10 ranks above a class that's suppose to be dishing out tons of damage!!!
Bro, what? You have a class that's fully contained with damage skills and you're getting caught up by support utility class!!! You can argue and say that "Phantom is more versatile and can steal skills from all explorer". Alright lets be honest here, by this point in game, you're always going to use the same few dps buffs from the few explorer that's always the same, there is no such thing "versatility" anymore on Phantom, he is just another thief class using explorer buffs and having bad damage from his own main skills. (And I don't know why nexon wouldn't let you steal hyper from blade master).
In the end, I don't think my message would have gotten through, this is just me being angry and throwing my fustration online.
Also another weird question if anyone can answer; why wouldn't nexon remove the cd on decent skills on V matrix? I'm running out of key's on the keyboard to put all these skills in since you can't put them in macro.