“Zero bind” is 2 skills: Critical Bind and Shadow Rain. Critical Bind is a 4 second passive bind when Beta (the girl) hits the boss. There’s a 40ish sec CD between Critical Binds. It’s a %chance of happening, Beta will keep trying to bind the boss every time you attack with her (that’s why you’ll see RESIST a lot when playing Zero, because that’s critical bind failing due to the critical bind timer). Shadow Rain is the skill everyone thinks of when they think of Zero bind. Shadow Rain is a 4 second bind without a bind timer. This skill is the reason why bosses can be bound for almost a minute. Theoretically, Shadow Rain can bind a boss forever if you could keep casting it, but you have a 5 minute cooldown between casts, nearly an origin skill’s CD. What lets Zero keep casting Shadow Rain is because it is CD skippable and can be CD reset. This means if you had a 20% CD skip IA and ~6% from artifacts, 1 in 4 Shadow Rains will have no CD, so you can chain them back to back if you’re really lucky. Sometimes you can streak extremely long and sometimes you won’t skip at all and be sad. Shadow Rain is also CD resettable, and Zero has 2 CD reset skills in their kit. Their goddess (2 min CD now) resets all of Zero’s CDs on cast, so starting your burst with Goddess also conveniently resets Shadow Rain. Their (3 min cd) is called Time Holding, this gives Zero 15 seconds of but also resets all CDs. So Zero will bind a boss with Critical Bind (4 seconds every 40 seconds), and Shadow Rain (1 in 4 chance to skip, and 1 reset guaranteed every 2 min burst, and 1 reset every 3 min when you need to ). Add a Bucc’s time leap for more bind fun. Zero isn’t LYNN, but still a 2 min power house utility class.
Just to reinterate how Zero chain CC can be put into action: Crit Bind 4s + Chrono Break/regular bind 10s + End Time/origin bind 10s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Crit Bind again 4s = 40s (if you space some seconds between each bind, it can reach almost 60s) Shadow rain can be resetted 3 times by Time Holding plus 2charges of Rhines Prayer, and Crit Bind has 37 to 40s cd.
Shade is definitely up there. Good utility, All 6th job nodes are good for their bossing. 2 min class. Steady damage. Auto debuff removal and a built in door every 30 min
Doc author here - def agree with your points high level that Zero is among the strongest if not the strongest class in Maplestory in 2025, and agree with your honorable mention list! Other contenders are still going to be imo Illium (in real bossing has the highest uptime of any class in the game, and its party is extremely undervalued), along with the classic Bishop and NW (Bishop still BIS support and NW's overall full rotation, burst damage, and bis precise mobility still makes it overall better in real bossing than most classes), and of course Demon Slayer as a mandatory champion legion mule for fam farming.
i just got my zero to 260 this hyper burn as my 2nd burn, was scared cuz of the combos looke daunting but man... after a while this class definitely might be a 2nd main for me. Got a cheap 22* on their weapon too this past ssf (1.8b total) so im siked to welcome the new year with a 2nd main ! Lynn
Though it’s counterintuitive to aim for the strongest class because balancing patches always tilt the game’s balance somehow. The desire to play the strongest class in the game isn’t all about clearing end game content. It’s such that we don’t have to fund 2x/3x harder to clear any particular boss. And I believe people who have played weak class can generally relate to what I said
Well I know my next hyper burn! Not that I'll get it past 220 so none of this will really matter anyways but still! Ty for the vid as always great info Duky 😊❤
thanks for the video I always wanted to try zero because their combo so cool but there one thing that make me dont wanna play the class (actually two 1. their questline (kinda long but after i tried do the 10-200 main quest on other class, surely zero questline wont be worse than that) 2. huge lv gap for their 3rd skill for every combo (maybe early skill combo only, had to feed them exp pots to unlock their full combo i will try zero after i finish my ds boss mule
I'm a Xenon I think is class its the best With a huge gap, he attacks from a distance, he does a lot of damage, he has the simplest and easiest defense and movements.
Can you make a ctene boss mule/ Legion champion tier list? Would like to know how some of these classes perform towards the mid to end game before I invest super heavy in them
Zero main here (edit) 0. ZERO BINDS DO NOT WORK ON: gloom, black mage p2,3,4, all of kaling, MPE, gollux 1. steep learning curve 2. maple warrior stuck at 15% all stat 3. low culvert 4. beta is mostly grounded 5. ping makes it clunky 6. weak burst (bad for bosses like kalos) 7. forced regular bind when bursting (bad for party of 3 min classes) 8. can't get married in game 9. can't sell or do hand me downs for the weapon 10. excluded from night troupe (emblem) 11. nerfed teleport with massive delay that leaves you vulnerable 12. hard to do micro movements with (good luck in seren kaling and limbo, your tp is the perfect distance to get you killed every time.) (edit) 13. good luck getting a cd hat, you need at least 4 seconds for combos to feel smooth. ( yes i know we need 2 or 5 second, i tried 2, it's clunky af with my ping, 4 was smooth even though ego weapon cut offs benefits from 5 more ) 14. story is MANDATORY and takes HOURS to complete. without it you don't have an emblem AND you lose out on a boat load of FD from a passive that only unlocks once you've finished the entire story. 15. You need to stay on top of the boss at all times in order to be doing that dpm damage. Try mincutting V hilla or hseren as a zero. 6:56 if you wanna have fun, main something else. i would if i didn't have legacy items stuck on my zero. play lynn instead wink wink
i think the title of the best class in GMS cannot apply to classes that gain 0 fd from AS0. it just takes 1 kms patch to send the class to the gutter. AS0 advantage means you dont end up in the gutter if you get nerfed.
Lynn might be a fun class to play, but it's certainly not my favorite. My Khali happens to be the highest level and the most geared of my classes. That's also on regular/Interactive server. On Heroic, my highest and best geared thus far is my AB. I find both classes really fun to play, and that's what's most important.
Being stronger matters in the context of progressing faster cause you clear the bosses with 1. less failures 2. more parties and 3. clearing bosses earlier 4. its also cheaper to clear the same bosses.
obviously the answer is lumi. in reality its probably either xenon or night walker. but the thumbnail has a silhouette of zero so... edit: and yeah with your criteria zero makes sence.
Zero main here since forever. I always played Zero because i think its the most fun class to play and boss with, but i'm genuelly surprised that its so high on the dps chart. I always felt weaker compared to other classes with the same gear.
Hi Duky, frist, thank you for all the good content, you are a awasome person and your videos are make me enjoy this game more and more. Secundally, in the video "warrior Class Analysis" you guys said that aran is broken, after the remaster of the Aran, do you mantein your opinion about him ? a asked because a hyper aran and i'm very weak, so, a need to know if the problem is me or the class :)))
Talking about all the effort to get set up for the class to pop off is something a lot of people don't think about like Kaiser people like to say has good dpm but in reality its in the bottom 30% for dpm while being debatably the worst burst in the game. This is ontop of needing to get a con5, a 5sec cd skip hat aka triple prime and needing a shit ton of buff dura which only the top 0.1% if not less of kaiser players will have all this set up just for the pay out of bottom 30% dpm and debably worst burst in the game.
When you go over your leveling guide, can you also add in the amount of time it generally takes for you to level up? For new players it takes me a multiple days to multiple weeks to level up once at 260+ depending on how much time I have. Is this normal?
@Duky I thought about a friend of mine that played for a short period and got basically no achievements. So if you would remove all inactive players from the achievement list alot of percentages would be higher I think. So instead of limbo be ay 0.02% its probable closer to 0.05%. I cant imagine more than half of the created accounts still play
I main Nightwalker, and all I got to say is, that thief of Cygnus class lives up to its name. As a former astronomy major, all the Cygnus classes represents its stars and cosmos. For Night walkers I personally feel like it’s a descendant from Nyx the primordial goddess of night. Interesting right?
Its kind of bs that it takes thousands of hours and literal years of playing to get to the end game and you just kinda have to be lucky that the character you’ve been playing for years doesn’t get pushed out of the meta like DW
Sucks being a blade master. Literally not even once on the list. My dual blade main still feels more powerful than my shade though. Shade is good for that fox skill but its regular attack is weak.
“Zero bind” is 2 skills: Critical Bind and Shadow Rain.
Critical Bind is a 4 second passive bind when Beta (the girl) hits the boss. There’s a 40ish sec CD between Critical Binds. It’s a %chance of happening, Beta will keep trying to bind the boss every time you attack with her (that’s why you’ll see RESIST a lot when playing Zero, because that’s critical bind failing due to the critical bind timer).
Shadow Rain is the skill everyone thinks of when they think of Zero bind. Shadow Rain is a 4 second bind without a bind timer. This skill is the reason why bosses can be bound for almost a minute. Theoretically, Shadow Rain can bind a boss forever if you could keep casting it, but you have a 5 minute cooldown between casts, nearly an origin skill’s CD.
What lets Zero keep casting Shadow Rain is because it is CD skippable and can be CD reset. This means if you had a 20% CD skip IA and ~6% from artifacts, 1 in 4 Shadow Rains will have no CD, so you can chain them back to back if you’re really lucky. Sometimes you can streak extremely long and sometimes you won’t skip at all and be sad. Shadow Rain is also CD resettable, and Zero has 2 CD reset skills in their kit. Their goddess (2 min CD now) resets all of Zero’s CDs on cast, so starting your burst with Goddess also conveniently resets Shadow Rain. Their (3 min cd) is called Time Holding, this gives Zero 15 seconds of but also resets all CDs.
So Zero will bind a boss with Critical Bind (4 seconds every 40 seconds), and Shadow Rain (1 in 4 chance to skip, and 1 reset guaranteed every 2 min burst, and 1 reset every 3 min when you need to ). Add a Bucc’s time leap for more bind fun.
Zero isn’t LYNN, but still a 2 min power house utility class.
Get a zero plus a kanna and the boss is bound forever. Bonus bucc to reset vanq and shadow rain and a LYNN to awaken !
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The strongest class was the friends we made along the way
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I agree, Lynn is definitely one of the classes in the game
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Just to reinterate how Zero chain CC can be put into action: Crit Bind 4s + Chrono Break/regular bind 10s + End Time/origin bind 10s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Shadow Rain 4s + Crit Bind again 4s = 40s (if you space some seconds between each bind, it can reach almost 60s)
Shadow rain can be resetted 3 times by Time Holding plus 2charges of Rhines Prayer, and Crit Bind has 37 to 40s cd.
ps: shadow rain bind is on the second part of the skill animation, so you kinda space some seconds anyway
Rhines prayer like all the other goddess rn have only one charge now
Shade is definitely up there. Good utility, All 6th job nodes are good for their bossing. 2 min class. Steady damage. Auto debuff removal and a built in door every 30 min
Doc author here - def agree with your points high level that Zero is among the strongest if not the strongest class in Maplestory in 2025, and agree with your honorable mention list! Other contenders are still going to be imo Illium (in real bossing has the highest uptime of any class in the game, and its party is extremely undervalued), along with the classic Bishop and NW (Bishop still BIS support and NW's overall full rotation, burst damage, and bis precise mobility still makes it overall better in real bossing than most classes), and of course Demon Slayer as a mandatory champion legion mule for fam farming.
Man that's crazy. Lynn's the goat now. Here I thought Thunder Breaker was amazing. Time to make the true goat.
I do agree. Zero as a class has gotten stronger than ever before, even now. (I do main the class)
Happyville music made this whole video, thanks for the nostalgia!
I played zero and got stuck on one of the acts for like 6 months still till day have no idea how tf to get out of the quest
i just got my zero to 260 this hyper burn as my 2nd burn, was scared cuz of the combos looke daunting but man... after a while this class definitely might be a 2nd main for me. Got a cheap 22* on their weapon too this past ssf (1.8b total) so im siked to welcome the new year with a 2nd main !
Lynn
Lynn is one of the classes of all time
Love the videos! I still cant believe that Lynn is going to get that op
Beginner is the best class
Though it’s counterintuitive to aim for the strongest class because balancing patches always tilt the game’s balance somehow. The desire to play the strongest class in the game isn’t all about clearing end game content. It’s such that we don’t have to fund 2x/3x harder to clear any particular boss. And I believe people who have played weak class can generally relate to what I said
Gotta love Lynn, met a friend on Scania that apparently plays Lynn as their main too, lmao.
"Lies. All lies!!"
(Zero main hoping it stays unpopular/hidden 💔)
Damn i always wanted to play Zero just so i could dress up both a male and a female char at the same time lol. Maybe next Hyperburn ill do Zero
Please no. We already have enough of those people, the trick is getting old now.
@@fabuloushostess6171 bro shut up who cares what he does
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i agree with u on big burst class on solo play but for party pairing a big burst with dpm work really well
Well I know my next hyper burn! Not that I'll get it past 220 so none of this will really matter anyways but still! Ty for the vid as always great info Duky 😊❤
Thank you for the video dykey
thanks for the video
I always wanted to try zero because their combo so cool but there one thing that make me dont wanna play the class (actually two
1. their questline (kinda long but after i tried do the 10-200 main quest on other class, surely zero questline wont be worse than that)
2. huge lv gap for their 3rd skill for every combo (maybe early skill combo only, had to feed them exp pots to unlock their full combo
i will try zero after i finish my ds boss mule
If you havent used your Tera Blink yet, put it on your zero, the story quests felt so much better with all abilities unlocked
I'm a Xenon I think is class its the best With a huge gap, he attacks from a distance, he does a lot of damage, he has the simplest and easiest defense and movements.
Can you make a ctene boss mule/ Legion champion tier list? Would like to know how some of these classes perform towards the mid to end game before I invest super heavy in them
Zero main here
(edit) 0. ZERO BINDS DO NOT WORK ON: gloom, black mage p2,3,4, all of kaling, MPE, gollux
1. steep learning curve
2. maple warrior stuck at 15% all stat
3. low culvert
4. beta is mostly grounded
5. ping makes it clunky
6. weak burst (bad for bosses like kalos)
7. forced regular bind when bursting (bad for party of 3 min classes)
8. can't get married in game
9. can't sell or do hand me downs for the weapon
10. excluded from night troupe (emblem)
11. nerfed teleport with massive delay that leaves you vulnerable
12. hard to do micro movements with (good luck in seren kaling and limbo, your tp is the perfect distance to get you killed every time.)
(edit) 13. good luck getting a cd hat, you need at least 4 seconds for combos to feel smooth. ( yes i know we need 2 or 5 second, i tried 2, it's clunky af with my ping, 4 was smooth even though ego weapon cut offs benefits from 5 more )
14. story is MANDATORY and takes HOURS to complete. without it you don't have an emblem AND you lose out on a boat load of FD from a passive that only unlocks once you've finished the entire story.
15. You need to stay on top of the boss at all times in order to be doing that dpm damage. Try mincutting V hilla or hseren as a zero.
6:56
if you wanna have fun, main something else. i would if i didn't have legacy items stuck on my zero. play lynn instead wink wink
lynn was such a breath of fresh air after beast tamer
Made a zero from scratch because of you. Hopefully, it works out gameplay is fun, but confusing, I die a lot
This current HB i did a zero, main swapped and no regrets at all
i think the title of the best class in GMS cannot apply to classes that gain 0 fd from AS0. it just takes 1 kms patch to send the class to the gutter. AS0 advantage means you dont end up in the gutter if you get nerfed.
ZERO MENTIONED!!! It's so fun. Highly recommend it- 280 Zero main on reg
Lynn might be a fun class to play, but it's certainly not my favorite.
My Khali happens to be the highest level and the most geared of my classes. That's also on regular/Interactive server.
On Heroic, my highest and best geared thus far is my AB. I find both classes really fun to play, and that's what's most important.
Whats going on on with the corsair? I love to play it anyway so much but still wanna ask if it gonna get buffed as well?
Yes it will
Being stronger matters in the context of progressing faster cause you clear the bosses with 1. less failures 2. more parties and 3. clearing bosses earlier 4. its also cheaper to clear the same bosses.
The difference is not big enough for it to matters in all 4 of your points...
5. Burn out at 263 bc the class feels so sht to play
What @Hondaddy said is right
@@Duky Id say that for ppl not really looking to get to the much later game stuff it matters more. Think its worth mentioning.
Finally someone giving lynn the recognition she deserves
At which point does the whole consecutive Zero boss binding affair kick in? From the start or is it much later? Also, obv Lynn best class.
It’s like every few seconds within a 40s window I think
Zero is the best class because one hair/face coupon gives you both a male roll and a female roll.
obviously the answer is lumi.
in reality its probably either xenon or night walker. but the thumbnail has a silhouette of zero so...
edit: and yeah with your criteria zero makes sence.
Lynn was my main, but now is Night Walker.
Damn, Lynn really do be the strongest in 2025
Where did you find the link of the dpms ?
I'd say Illium is just slightly less OP than Zero, those two classes are broken af
Glad to have another Lynn believer
Didn't finish the video yet but I agree, LYNN!
Zero main here since forever. I always played Zero because i think its the most fun class to play and boss with, but i'm genuelly surprised that its so high on the dps chart. I always felt weaker compared to other classes with the same gear.
It got buffed a lot
Zero looks fun but hfs my teensy tiny brain cannot comprehend how to play it at all 😐
I dunno if you're 6th job yet. But that's the turning point for us. Go from bottom to top
fun class to play = easy and low iq req
Hi Duky, frist, thank you for all the good content, you are a awasome person and your videos are make me enjoy this game more and more. Secundally, in the video "warrior Class Analysis" you guys said that aran is broken, after the remaster of the Aran, do you mantein your opinion about him ?
a asked because a hyper aran and i'm very weak, so, a need to know if the problem is me or the class :)))
Yeah it’s not broken anymore XD
Talking about all the effort to get set up for the class to pop off is something a lot of people don't think about like Kaiser people like to say has good dpm but in reality its in the bottom 30% for dpm while being debatably the worst burst in the game. This is ontop of needing to get a con5, a 5sec cd skip hat aka triple prime and needing a shit ton of buff dura which only the top 0.1% if not less of kaiser players will have all this set up just for the pay out of bottom 30% dpm and debably worst burst in the game.
This whole video is just: I want it to be easier to find good supports. Please play Zero in my party, I can't clear Limbo
LOL W rage bait, that’s a good one
Do you know whats gonna happen with the Zero liberation(not working over 2 month)?
Idk what you mean
the best class is the one you spend the most money on.
Zero is legit . Strongest punch king and mulung in scania is a zero so crazyy
Based on ur criteria i think the best class is Mercedes . Crazy damage super fun huge support and untouchable
Merc off spirits dpm is actually doodoo
@JYJY1028 I think m3 and m4 will help alot with that
lynn~ but i'm going with marksman/crossbow coz i had a good friend playing it during yesteryears ago who is not playing the game now~
Just don't nerf him, he was my main forever
When you go over your leveling guide, can you also add in the amount of time it generally takes for you to level up? For new players it takes me a multiple days to multiple weeks to level up once at 260+ depending on how much time I have. Is this normal?
Zero also allows the party to break the attack speed cap with their aura, no need for green pots. Way better support than Lynn fr
you act like green pot is hard to come by
@@OsmosisMaple It's not, but it is more convenient
@@OsmosisMaple pretty sure he was being sarcastic, and was just trying to point out a party buff that duky probably missed to say in the vid
I promised i tried playing zero but my tiny brain can’t comprehend 😭
Someone say blaster?
Yo LYNN is lowkey OP AF
Called it!
Zero nerf next on the list for sure
Pathfinder is the best class, Mr. Bean.
The video has everything to do with Lynn
You can see the percentage of people that got a certain achievement but how many accounts (players) dont even play the game anymore?
Yeah so it’s even less in reality
@Duky I thought about a friend of mine that played for a short period and got basically no achievements. So if you would remove all inactive players from the achievement list alot of percentages would be higher I think. So instead of limbo be ay 0.02% its probable closer to 0.05%. I cant imagine more than half of the created accounts still play
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Hi Duky. Which class is the best for solo play?
Zero main here, we are weak - buff zero.
I was hoping for you to say Lynn! Today’s a good day 🎉
What's the new blaster comboing that's going to boost it so much?
Lynn is actually pretty good man.
if zero that broken will it soon be nerf it? once it nerf many zero will quit??
Who knows
In fact my dear friend, Lynn is a class
I main Nightwalker, and all I got to say is, that thief of Cygnus class lives up to its name. As a former astronomy major, all the Cygnus classes represents its stars and cosmos. For Night walkers I personally feel like it’s a descendant from Nyx the primordial goddess of night. Interesting right?
Yoooooo! Lynn!
Link to the dps chart?
Description
Lynn definitely :) Best support
Its kind of bs that it takes thousands of hours and literal years of playing to get to the end game and you just kinda have to be lucky that the character you’ve been playing for years doesn’t get pushed out of the meta like DW
Which character would be best for solo bossing?
Yeah, i agree, lynn :)
We all know that bucc is the best class in maple no cap
Mercedes mention is at 9:04 for everyone asking
Isn’t all boss has bind resistance?
zero has crit bind that has diff bind resistance timer and shadow rain bind that has no bind resistance
Battle mage. Okay now I’ll watch the video
Hell yea, I love Lynn!~
No joke here blaster is best class in dps chart now better than cadena
I instantly hyper burned a Lynn after watching this
Didn't see that coming, Lynn ftw
Buggin. Yato bouta be up this year. YATO GOT THE NEXT 10 YEARS LOCKED DOWN FR
Agreed with Lynn
Agree, Lynn is the best class
Sucks being a blade master. Literally not even once on the list. My dual blade main still feels more powerful than my shade though. Shade is good for that fox skill but its regular attack is weak.
Lynn is always in hlimbo pt. has to be best class
A 24:33 minute video about why Lynn is the best class? 😮
how is bucc?
Goodge
It's wild hunter bro every day we've spent being abysmal dogshit is a day nexon spent cooking the best rework in the game
I'm calling either NW or DS.
Edit: So I was wrong. LOL
LYNN. w vid as usual
Best class Phantom 2025!!!
For the glory of KAISER!!!!!
lynn lowkey the goat