History Characters / MapleStoryOne

!!!Voiced by: Yohei Matsumota (Japanese, male), Creator/TomoyoTakayanagi (Japanese, female)

* LifeDrain: Lord of Darkness passively provides this, Dark Third takes this UpToEleven for its duration.

* MoreDakka: Hurricane and Arrow Blaster, Covering Fire to a lesser extent.
** Taken UpToEleven with 5th job skills.

* OneHitPolyKill: Piercing Shot, their best mobbing skill, gets stronger when it attacks more enemies. High Speed Shot takes this UpToEleven

* TheGambler: They gain the Roll of the Dice skill, which gives them a random buff depending on which number they roll (unless it's 1...) Taken UpToEleven in the 4th job where you can roll TWO dice for more buffs. Hyper Skills can take it UpToEleven even more by adding the [[AwesomeButImpractical chance to roll 7]] And 5th job takes it a step further by giving them a ''third'' loaded die to use, which lets them roll whatever number they want in addition to the other two.

* StanceSystem: The Falling Moon stance reduces attack power, but increases critical rate and the number of hits attacks make while the Rising Sun stance increases attack power and attack speed instead. Equinox Cycle stacks both effects together and makes skills alternate between their Rising Sun and Falling Moon versions. 5th Job's Celestial Dance takes things UpToEleven and summons a phantom of the player that uses the opposite stance skills when the player does, essentially allowing them to use both stances at the exact same time.

* FantasticNuke: Towering Inferno, which creates a towering pillar of fire at your location. Cataclysm takes this UpToEleven by dropping a large fireball to burn all enemies in area.

In the ''Cygnus Returns'' update, they are the second Cygnus Knights class to receive a major rework, losing their famous TransformationSequence and having their FairyCompanion downgraded to an AssistCharacter, but getting a BattleAura, ScarfOfAsskicking, NotQuiteFlight and ''[[UpToEleven even more]]'' [[MoreDakka dakka]] to compensate.

* MoreDakka: The pre-revamp version of this class was based on the Bowmaster, so this is to be expected. Post-revamp takes this UpToEleven by adding a passive that gives a chance to fire an extra homing arrow with ''every'' attack. Stormbringer also allows them to summon even more arrows alongside them. Combined with Song of Heaven's extreme fire rate and you have a class whose dakka can only be matched by Night Lords, Bow Masters, Corsairs, Wild Hunters, and Night Walkers.

* DoppelgangerAttack: Shadow Servant is comparable to Adventurer Thieves' Shadow Partner except the Shadow Servant mimics all actions of its master after a short delay rather than instantly. Taken UpToEleven with Shadow Illusion, adding two extra servants.

* ShamuFu: Can throw [[ThreateningShark sharks]] made of [[RuleOfCool lightning]] at high levels. Gets taken UpToEleven in their rework, as they gain a lightning shark punch (1st job), somersault kick (2nd job), uppercut (3rd job), charge attack (4th job), tthe ability to summon a giant whale (Hyper Skill) and finally the triumphant return of the ability to throw a shark as a long-range projectile (5th job).

* CastFromHitPoints: Seems to be a central game mechanic for this class. The Demon Slayer has some skills that drain some HP in addition to Demon Force, but the Demon Avenger takes this trope UpToEleven having HP as the primary stat, damage done based mainly on ''current'' HP, and having almost ''all'' his skills drain his HP.

* BladeSpam: Sanrenzan and Blade Flash are powerful and rapid sequence attacks which as mentioned in the SpamAttack entry, encourages the palyer to ButtonMash whenever possible for maximum damage. Shinsoku also qualifies, having been reworked into a keydown skill like Xenon's Beam Dance. Hitokiri Hundred Strike takes this UpToEleven, unleashing sword strikes all over the screen and leaving most {{mooks}} dead on contact.

** Hawk mode tends to be written off due to its low damage, but its high mobility and wide area of attack means a Beast Tamer that puts the extra work into Hawk to make it work will be rewarded with map clearing that surpasses even what Leopard mode is capable of.

!!!Voiced by: Yohei Matsumoka (Japanese, male), Creator/TomoyoTakayanagi (Japanese, female)

!!!Voiced by: Yohei Matsuoka (Japanese, male), Creator/TomoyoTakayanagi (Japanese, female)

** Champ Charge: Each animal attacks in sequence, with the last one doing a big finisher.

* MagikarpPower: "All SP+" bonuses, which have mostly become worthless in modern Maple Story due to how quickly classes gain SP finds a niche use wtih Beast Tamer, who needs all the SP she can get. Stacking enough All SP bonuses can make the difference between Beast Tamer only being able to master two animals to being able to master three animals.

* PointBuildSystem: With over 70 skills divided among the four animals, Beast Tamer is the closest thing Maple Story has to a build system, as once she stops getting SP at level 200, there's not enough SP for mastering all four animals. The ''Destiny'' update helps out by allowing her to continue gaining SP until level 250, but it will still take quite a while to master multiple animals at that rate.

* PointBuildSystem: With over 70 skills divided among the four animals, Beast Tamer is the closest thing Maple Story has to a build system, as once she stops getting SP at level 200, there's not enough SP for mastering all four animals.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Resurrection slowly became one of these as the game became more focused on bossing. It became less and less likely that players would be partying in a situation where the ability to revive on the spot would prove useful, as most boss content adapted death counters, which count when the unit dies rather than when they respawn, so Ressurection doesn't do much that simply respawning manually would do anyway. There have been attempts to rectify this slightly, and now at the very least Ressurection grants the revived player brief invincibility they wouldn't get if they respawned. "Destiny" attempts to sweeten the pot even further by granting the revived ally up to 25% bonus damage that is only applied during boss encounters.

!!!Voiced by (cutscenes only): So Yeon (Korean), Creator/SarahWilliams (English), Creator/NanaMizuki (Japanese)

* DamageOverTime: As one might expect from a user of fire magic, Blaze Wizards can burn enemies with their skills causing them to take extra damage over time, as well as explode on death.

* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Each one of them gains a skill that allows them to pull in monsters towards them, Combo Fury for Heroes, Close Combat for Paladins, and Spear Sweep for Dark Knights.

* AnAxeToGrind / HeroesPreferSwords: Though additional passive boosts for using an axe greatly favor choosing axes over swords.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Spending combo orbs on special combo moves is usually considered impractical compared to simply keeping the combo orbs for their stat buffs and using basic moves instead.

* MagikarpPower: Fairy Spiral, while a weak 2nd job skill meant more for positioning, is extremely fast and has a decent attack range. A Wind Archer who puts in the extreme amount of work to make it do decent damage will find it can become a mobbing skill far more efficient than their actual 4th job mobbing skill.

* BlackSheep: Each of them is wildly different from others of the same Job, each also being the only member of their Type.

* GunFu: A prime offender.

** They are ostensibly meant to use all four elemental attacks in a cycle, as evidenced by them continuing to get attack buffs in later advancements, but it's generally considered easier to just alternate between lightning and holy for the sake of building the Elemental Charge buff, the additional damage each element does for attacking enemies afflicted with the previous element generally not worth the fact that Fire and Blizzard still hit fewer enemies than Lightning and Holy even in later job buffs. This mechanic managed to be so impractical that the "Destiny" revamp throws it out alltogether making Paladins a purely Holy elemental warrior.

* ImmuneToFlinching: While this is hardly a unique thing for a warrior, Mihile is notable in that his Knight's Watch Link skill is a 100% knock-back resistance buff when used by other classes, making Mihile the only decent source of knock-back resistance for classes that don't get any.

* DifficultButAwesome: While the concept of parrying attacks means a Mihile player has to be paying a bit more attention than usual, the rewards are well worth the effort, with each successful Royal Guard creating not just a progressively stronger attack, but also granting Mihile a brief window of invincibility that lasts just about until the next Royal Guard is ready. As long as the player doesn't miss a parry; a skilled Mihile can spend more time completely invincible than they do being vulnerable!

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: As he was designed prior to the Cygnus Knights Revamp he was initially only an upgraded version of the original Dawn Warrior. After their revamp, Mihile keeps some of his skills that he shared with the original Dawn Warriors but was also given Royal Guard and had Shining Buster Replaced with Radiant Cross to differentiate himself from other classes.

The Cygnus Knights are overhauled in the ''Cygnus Returns'' update, starting with the Thunder Breakers before moving on to the other classes. They can now reach the same level cap as the other classes and gain a fourth job, but lose their AP advantage as well as the ability to [[NewGamePlus create a Cygnus-enhanced level 50 Adventurer using a completed Cygnus Knight]].

In the ''Cygnus Returns'' update, they received a major rework, using new buffs that allow them to attack with the power of the [[{{Lunacy}} moon]], the [[ThePowerOfTheSun sun]], or both, changing their attacks depending on which one they're using.

* MoreDakka: Each job advancement allows a Blaze Wizard to have one more Orbital Flame on screen at a time, and Dragon Blaze, which assaults a single target with a rapid barrage of FireBalls.

* DifficultButAwesome: Although meant for large boss attacks with easy tells, Royal Guard can also parry contact damage from standard mobs. As the range and power of the counter attack grows the more its used in quick succession, mastering the tricky art of spamming it on mobs can give you a spammable attack with the power and range to rival most classes' high cooldown full screen attacks, and it reaches this potential in ''third job'', when those other classes don't even get their full screens until 4th!

* StoneWall: Extremely high defenses and HP, offset by extremely low MP, below average base attack and above average mobility.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Reserruction slowly became one of these as the game became more focused on bossing. It became less and less likely that players would be partying in a situation where the ability to revive on the spot would prove useful, as most boss content adapted death counters, which count when the unit dies rather than when they respawn, so Ressurection doesn't do much that simply respawning manually would do anyway. There have been attempts to rectify this slightly, and now at the very least Ressurection grants the revived player brief invincibility they wouldn't get if they respawned.

!!!Voiced by: Lee Ho-san (Korean, male), Kim Eun-ah (Korean, female), Brent Mukai (English, male), Valerie Arem (English, female)

!!!Voiced by: Kim Eun-ah (Korean, female), Park Seong-tae (Korean, male), Creator/SarahWilliams (English, female), Creator/SeanChiplock (English, male)

!!!Voiced by: Park Seong-tae (Korean, male), Kim Eun-ah (Korean, female), Creator/LucienDodge (English, male), Creator/SarahWilliams (English, female)

The ''RED'' update gives Explorers a plotline.

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* SkillTree: Enforcing the build analogy, Beast Tamer's skill page can be arranged in a tree view and certain point investments in an animal are required before you can move on to the next skill in the tree.

* GradualGrinder: Starts off slow, but by end game they gravitate towards long combos after getting all of their stacks and charges.