make Enrage to be worth skill

Hero is one of the few classes to remain totally unchanged over the years. Reducing Enrage to 24 attack and removing cool down seems like it would just get Hero up to speed.

 

Make it a flat %str buff that scales for duration and reduced cooldown.

Immediate utility in that it doesn't compete with Rage, and it won't necessarily compete with MW20 as the better self-buff as you could technically rely on party members to MW20 you. It'll scale with levels and gear, rewarding end-game Heroes for investing in their characters/gears. It'll also be relevant for end-game bossing as it won't compete with higher value atk pots.

 

Enrage is supposedly one of the main skills of a Hero, with an interesting questline to unlock it.
Enrage 20 is locked behind zakum and Enrage 30 is locked behind Horntail.
It is sad to see that the supposedly main skill just gets brushed away.

 

possible change would be to lower enrage watk and make it stackable with rage/atk pots or make it %str or damage.

 

Is it not possible to make +% buffs additive? Echo stacks over +atk buffs because it is a +% atk. If mw was casted and enrage was a +% str buff, wouldn’t it be possible for it to be added to the total %str? Or does it face the same limitations in that only one type of buff may exist, with mw overtaking? Wouldn’t the solution then be to tweak enrage %str buff and make it better than mw so that it takes priority? It wouldn’t be broken because it would only apply to str and would be a self buff?

 

That was my suggestion - if it's not possible to make the % buff additive, then why not just make it a skill that competes with Maple Warrior in the form of a self-buff? Balance can be based around the duration and cooldown. It wouldn't even be a complete replacement for MW as it's only a bonus to STR, takes orb charges, has a cooldown, and is a self-buff? You could even give it a fun factor like a very small chance to crit? Idk.
It could give the small boost of damage similar to that of what enrage currently is with the ability to scale even greater over levels and with stronger gear, and it wouldn't be irrelevant during end-game bosses like Pink Bean where you're expected to be on apples.

 

Is mastery a "buffable" stat? If so, could we try that since we need to dance around the limitations of the game.

 

then how about making Enrage have the same function as Echo, but maybe have it give more % damage increase than Echo with lesser duration.
have something similar to the Angelic Buster Link Skill in Modern Maple if you guys know what im talking about, pretty much give a high %damage increase over a short duration of time.

 

There is one attack buff in the game I know of that stacks with other attack buff: Energy charge. That being said, I'm pretty sure it's a hardcoded piece of mess that isn't worth untangling to make one skill more useful (it's not like Enrage isn't good for anything, which is already more than what can be said for a whole host of other skills in the game).

 

Energy charge does not stack with other attack buffs, but I will happily take it if it was made to stack

 

My personal take wasn’t that Enrage is a completely useless skill but that it’s just comparatively lackluster and oftentimes made obsolete. In that regard, of course there are going to be some skills across all classes that are used less/never used because they get made irrelevant. However, when your class identity skills gets tossed aside by attack potions being made more readily available, it kinda feels bad.

My hope is that Enrage could be reworked to have more weight in class specialization as most other classes have received a few QOL tweaks here and there for better utility or competitive relevance. But on the other hand, it feels like the Hero class has been widely used as the standard metric for class balance and thus has not really seen any development.

As for all of the other ‘useless’ skills, I am 100% for reworking those for niche situations as well. For a game that is pretty cookie cutter dry like Maplestory, it’d be nice to see some variance.