Hokay so none of the maplestory wikis out there are actually very good like the information is mostly there but its not categorized or organized or hyperlinked the way it should be so it all sucks But I pretty much figured it out So there are still the main 5 classes Warrior who hits things with a big sword and is tanky Mage who is magicy and relies on HP Bowman type who uses bows weird I know and has high avoid ability but low actual defense and requires ammo which takes money and resources Thief whose your basic rogue archetype that's a mix of warrior and bowman in that you kind of split the difference between stabs and ammo powered throwing stars - you're super attack but also squishy and get in more close quarters so it's high risk reward And the pirate class which was added near the end of the last time I played a lot which is a lot like the thief but tankier and less of a focus on mobility and attack from the shadows and more on gonzo pirates of the carribean style action with cannons and swimming buffs and weird shit like that Now once you get up to level 30 or so you can branch these 5 classes into more specialized branches For example there's a pirate branch that's more swashbuckley and a branch that's more cannon based, or there's a warrior branch based more on really high dps and a branch that's based more on weapons with big range allowing you to hit multiple enemies at the same time with a single swing So that's the basics AND THEN THERES MORE Then there are a few different genres of what are basically class reskins. In general these genres of classes all fit some similar lore based theme that's ultimately unimportant (like the five original heroes who fought some great evil no one cares about or a revenge of the ancients type deal), but still roughly correspond to the same 5 classes. For example, I just started a dual blade character, which is a thief but with a focus on dual wielding stabs and not ammo based throwing stars, but if even more of a glass cannon than usual. There's a couple weird classes like I think Xenon that combines pirate and thief types and can wear both of their armors, and the mage based class that apparently CAN FUCKING FLY. There's also a nifty look beasttamer class that's not available outside of Korea yet. Personally though, the most interesting looking reskinned class that I would have done if I didn't already have a pirate character on this server is a pirate reskin, but instead of wielding guns and cannons, YOU PILOT A FUCKING MECH AND UPDGRADE THE MECHS ARMOR AND WEAPONRY WHICH IS FUCKING RAD AS HELL
