Not so AFK Hurricane

The general consensus among BM players and top end players is that the removal of AFK Hurricane has hurt their position as a top tier class. Staff has determined AFK Hurricane to be an abusable strategy and does not want it in the game. Is there any way we can find a happy medium between these two camps?

In the current state of ML, Hurricane cannot be used in a macro; which makes sense since it is a skill meant to be held down. Other attacking classes will macro 3x of their main attacking skill in order to either chat in game, multiclient with another character, or take the opportunity to take their hands off the keyboard for a moment. BM currently does not have this luxury without external means. For example, let's say it takes you 30 minutes to kill the pirate boss in cwkpq; that's about 28 minutes of holding down Hurricane. Any release to stretch your hand or chat will likely get you or your party dispelled. As this can be both annoying to you and your fellow ranged attackers, BMs will generally be silent during cwk and rarely bring mules.

With the above presented, my proposal is to slightly recode Hurricane such that it can be used in a macro and have the macro command for Hurricane be "Press and hold Hurricane for 1 second." The goal of this change is to disuade the current meta trend towards "foot pedal bms" or players secretly abusing unintentional methods of starting AFK Hurricane. Hopefully this is possible to code in this version of Maple.

TL;DR Make Hurricane able to be used in a macro. Hurricane in a macro acts as "Press and hold Hurricane for 1 second"

 

Not sure what the goal of this comment is other than to really showcase how poor BM's alternative is. 31% loss means that a bm does nearly 50% more damage using Hurricane when compared to strafe. Suggestion stands.

This is a fair point, but this would generally lower the quality of life of playing a mostly social game. Also why hurt the quality of life of 11 classes when you could adjust 1?

 

Definitely a valid perspective to take on the subject. Unfortunately mechanical or illicit alternatives will become the norm if staff does not give in-client options. Ex. Staff implementing multiclienting restrictions in boss rooms led to players with access to multiple computers gaining an advantage.

 

I love cherry picked arguments like this. If you think the purpose of mentioning CWK in this post was to complain about how "difficult bm is in cwk" please check your reading level and refrain from replying further.

For those of you who do need further help understanding the post; the point of a 3 second Hurricane macro is meant to create equity in class balance (giving all classes the opportunity to use their strongest attacking skill for a brief moment without holding a button) and reduce the trend towards mechanical (foot pedal/2nd computer) or illicit (client modification / external program) tools to create a similar effect to the original AFK Hurricane.

 

Thank you for providing a complete lack of constructive criticism on this forum topic.

Just an FYI, not being able to provide mules to the rest of your party is a disservice to party composition in CWK. As BM, if I have access to a bishop and an SI mule, but can't functionally utilize them for my party to the same degree as other classes then I am at a disadvantage. In addition, in 3-5 man cwk compositions, mules are a necessity.

I'll agree with you that solo clienting bowmaster is easy mode for cwk when compared to MM. That is not the topic of this forum post. Therefore, unless you have actual input regarding the suggestion presented here, please do not reply.