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How about a Monk? like a pure monk...back when I was playing not only did I dont get much hunts I also sucked, XP

It was quite a few years back, but I found a couple of ways to get good hunts though...

If you got some spare money, you can like help out some newb and get em to your lvl, time consuming, but it worked for me.  Cause back at my time, normally I can never find or have a decent hunt with my pure monk, he just kill stuff way to slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.  I invested quite a bit on a few ppl, became awesome friends, helped my guy out nicely, and there I go.  Almost always able to get em to help me with hunts and eventually I can bash decently well =D But by that time I got bored and just decided to help ppl out instead cause it actually pretty fun.

Or you can always get a few friends irl or online to play with ya, I'm sure they'll be more helpful than random dudes.

But yeah, I agree with the other people, this game gets kind of boring after a while where you cant find ppl to hunt with or you get fed up with ppl thats better than you that keep on pissing you off, lol

Anyways, I dunno about now, but back when I did played, this game was pretty nice although its 2D it has something that other 3D games doesnt, like a community LOL and politics and all that stuff, a lot of the other 3D games I've played. You're most of the time solo-ing cause you can buy potions or can easily form a party with random warriors or a bashing priest, Haha

Last thing, regarding to the title, the most unbalance game ever? I guess I have to agree to a good degree.  A pure monk back in my days, without becoming a druid, was painful...You're usually weaker than any other master monks cause most of them are warrior/monk or soemthing like that, so they all those nice attacks while the only extra thing you get is whirlwind attack, which isnt strong and you take away your hp while...you're attacking 4 ways and most likely if you do that you'll die right after if you dun have dion on.  Which usually not all monks have it, at least not those that are supported by another account and friends that leeches them. 

Nice isnt it?  And further more, your master weapon is in the strongest master quest (at least to me), so you're basically stuck with weaker attacks, suicidal attack and weapon that have very lil differences between other master monks...for the majority of your time.  Isnt that great?

Well yeah, you might be thinking that subs vs pure, subs should be better since they got better skills right? But if you compare it with other pure classes, like warriors, monks get a crappy suicidal attack (which is retarded it attacks 4 ways, if it actually hit 4 sides, you should be telling yourself, why the hell did I do that? I'm already in deep shit yet I just blew away most my hp) while the pure warriors get some actually useful skills.

All this talking of the old times makes me wanna see how the game is now, Haha,

^Well, it is true. I used to have a Monk, and I wasn't exactly a priority in parties. And pure monks don't get many benefits as well. I was going to become one, but as I noticed, by talking to some of them, pure monks simply were not worth it. Actually monks were one of the toughest, if not the toughest (in the leveling sense) path in the game, simply because you can barely solo anything, it's pretty hard to find parties and you have (yes, I know you don't actually have to do it, but it is almost an obligation for any monk) to find lower-leveled monks to teach dugons. Most monks sub to Rogue or Warrior paths, which are the ones from which you can get the most benefits. I do think that they should redesign the subbing/mastering system in a way to balance the classes, and giving more benefits to non-popular paths.

Well, trust me, you won't want to see how the game is like now. Like they said, 80% of the population is made of Masters. New players have a pretty hard time finding parties and actually socializing at all. To make it worse, you don't really need a tutor to choose a class anymore, so this widens the void between new players and veterans. Not to mention that roleplaying now is scarce, most people are playing this game simply for the action of hacking/slashing, it's simply losing its roleplaying essence and the inheritance left by David Ethan Kennerly.