Musa is my favourite class.

I've started to play with it as my first character and immediatly loved the design. Things got very well for me, untill arround one year ago.

At the time when Musa was strong the meta was grinding aakman and hystria. Other popular grind spot at the time was Gahaz, and polly wasn't even reworked yet. Musa awakening was solid in pvp even without a grab for the ability to zoom zoom, pick a fight and run. However getting caught was your deadline but it wasn't so easy to catch.

Why is musa not good anymore?

The first hit is the addiction of the succession skillsets among all the characters. Succession provided extra powers to many characters while adding little to nothing to Musa. The nature of the succession skillsets being easier and the fact some classes benefits immensely from it already put Musa into the bottom list.

The second hit. The averange gear score of people that are into PVP. Things quite evolved compared to a couple years ago, Musa is a very strong character in early game when your enemy DP is arround 300. Later on expecially if using awakening (which is my favourite) the damage scales terribly, there's no accuracy modifier on skills which kills it even more. The top PVP builds are all arround evasion, and awakening musa can't even hit them. You have a slight better chance at PVP with succession but it's kit is very limited. Generally not having safe opening in PVP and relying only on stub arrow and dragon bite makes the PVP match up really hard. The few Musas you see arround are all tryhards and probably really good at it, the class concept revolves arround knowing and punishing you enemy mistakes, give to those musa players a good bread & butter class and they gonna stomp everyone after suffering for so long. As you mention the "hit with the arrow and run" it's not really a possible way to engage a fight with people that knows what to do, but on lower levels matching with new and unaware players.. musa is a noob stomper.

The dead blow. There are flashy classes that gets close to musa speed and gets the job done better in PVP and PVE, people following the new metas and musa got left behind, even from the devs which doesn't really bother fixing his kit a bit, or giving him some tools to handle those hard times. Recently we had a slight buff on PVE skills, but that doesn't fix the core problems of the class that is just dated and definitively needs to get revamped.

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I turned off my brain and rerolled to a modern meta class, it's infuriating how easy it's to play now for me, better trashloot, better pvp... at the cost of saying "see you later" to my favourite char.

I keep the reroll coupons in my storage, if they will ever make it decent again i'll immedialy go back to main it, nothing i played got close to the fun i had with my musa back then. Well, it's my main lifeskiller char now D: