Aran Advantage (Pros) and Disadvantage (Cons)

Pros:

- Has damage reducing skill (Combo Barrier) and healing skills (Combo Drain)
- Burn less health potions than most/all classes in the game because of Combo Drain.
- Strongest non-ranged class in the game.
- Tons of buffs that benefit both your damage and how little/how much you get hit.
- Some of the farthest reaching melee moves in the game.
- Due to the large lack of active buffs, dispel does not affect the Aran class as much as others.
- This is the only class that can freeze boss monsters!
- Combo Drain completely solves it. Arans should have no problems with HP.
- Smart Knockback aids all party members. Knockbacking boss monster means it attacks less.
- Can KB (knockback) almost all enemies
- Has elemental advantage against Fire (using Snow Charge)
- Tossed enemies receive additional damage, allowing faster kills
- Has a Rush-like skill at Second Job for easy mobbing
- Has a mobbing skill in First Job, and new mobbing skills every Job
- Has natural critical at Third Job
- Combo Ability increases WA with more hits
- High Attack Speed (Pole Arm Booster -3 slowness on Polearm)
- Combo Ability increases WA (weapon attack) with more hits
- Aran class excels at small, single-level maps with tightly packed mobs.

Cons:

- Unable to enter Warrior Training Center (Power B.Fore NPC) nearby Perion City
- Typical warrior accuracy problems.
- Lower HP than normal warrior.
- Constantly press ATTACK button to activate Double/Triple Swing (hurts finger)
- Unable to use ATTACK button in MACRO SKILL SYSTEM
- Need to constantly kill monsters to keep your combo up, else you lost all.
- You have to do quests for most of your skills. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th job)
- Aran pay more money if they want mounts. (Tamed monster to ride on their back)
- Low damage in First Job with no or low leveled Combo Ability.
- Critical rate and damage are low without high combo count
- Snow Charge does not freeze; training at high-leveled Fire mobs is a huge problem
High MP usage
- Spamming double and triple Swing consumes lots of MP.
- There is a chance where your attack misses the monster if they knockback you first.
Stun/seduce breaks combos
Certain boss mobs that Aran would normally excel at (Papulatus, Zakum, Horntail) turn out to be poor choices due to their ability to stun. However, if the party member consists of many high level Arans with Smart Knockback maxed, this will be a different case. If Aran constantly knockback those boss before they cast those combo-breaker skills, then those boss won’t stand a chance casting any spell at all! Ownage?
Slow leveling at higher levels
- The best exp/hour mobs tend to be ones that can be 1-2HKO’d.
- However, this class needs to have mobs with higher hits/KO to use their combo efficiently.
- This can lead to slower training and make it harder to reach higher levels.
Skills consuming combo
- Aran is limited to slight variations of double/triple Swing until level 200.
- The only time when Aran can use other skills is by using up the combo.
- Unable to spam a skill a certain skill unless you obtained sufficient combos.
- Most powerful attacks require a certain amount of combo hits before they can be used

1/9/2010 11:54:51 PM