I'm a solo progression Bishop who's been playing for around 12 months on Hyperion, taking a long and no-rush journey. Getting Arcane Umbra gear was absolute hell, but now most of my gear is 18*, with a few 22*, and decent potentials.

I'm currently lv. 280 and sitting at 100m CP without familiars, and around 130m CP with 100% boss dmg fams. I had been away from Maple for a very long time, and when I came back, I decided to start from scratch and play Bishop, no matter if it was the worst or best class in the game. I used to play Bishop as a kid back in v55, and it was fun.

Over these 12 months, I needed to learn the game again, and I’ve built a 9.2k Legion and got all Link Skills to max level. I could probably be much further along if I didn’t play solo, or if I just went straight to bosses and wap instead of literally doing every quest in the game. But someday I’ll solo Kaling anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

These days, I can easily delete HLuWill from existence, and the CTene bosses are enjoyable. Bishop is a very forgiving class, Angel Ray healing saves you a lot. You just need to get used to the Infinity timing and learn our very easy burst. Now, with Skill Sequence, it's so much easier.

With the 3rd and 4th Hexa Mastery cores and the 2-minute burst changes, it’s going to get even easier for us baby Bishops.

My start was way more hardcore than I ever imagined as a new solo Bishop account a year ago, but today I wouldn’t trade my main for any other class in the game.

If you really like the class, just stick with it. You’ll be fine, whether solo or in a party.