I played this game since the launch. I never really cared whether Maehwa was top PvE or not. It was a mediocre class in terms of strength PvE and PvP wise. There was never a time when the kit of the maehwa was overpowered to the degree that it needed nerfs. But nowdays the class is just a joke. There is only 1 other non-iframe class that has no grab...which is musa which is in very similar shit position (I would trade the rabam arrow though as the mae rabams are shit in comparison). When trying to defend your spot on SE or any other late game spot you throw a dice and you lose if your opponent is a warrior, valk, guardian, tamer, nova, awakened lahn etc....
It`s just not fun to lose to a warrior with 50-70GS less just because he SAs into my block and shows me his grab resist ignore in action. There is no counterplay against that if you have no usable iframe..
So the obvious answer is just reroll...and I did that as well. I have yet to lose a duel on my awakened lahn for spot on SE as the duels go like dash, iframe, grab, gg...and that is fine but it is not fun. I also play awakening nova as that is the closes to what maehwa used to feel but it`s not the same.
I don`t want a grab on maehwa, I want a way to counterplay grabs like the iframe classes do. I don`t think that there should be any matchup that results in a 100:0 win ratio (and there are a lot of those if you have no grab and no iframes). Long story short..the balance patch made things only worse as other classes at least got buffed to mediocrity but maehwa is left in the dust. But all things have a positive..I have started to play other games as I have accumulated a very long backlog in the last 5 years, and I have stopped buying pearls as well. I was never a whale but for sure spend at least 2k EUR on this game. I would push my GS beyond 660 but there is no point since I don`t enjoy it as much as would be necessary to grind my soul out.
My point of view when i saw what they did (or not) with Maehwa :
This class was deleted some years ago.
It's a bug if some players are still able to play it.
The devs of this game are trash, they don't have a clue what they are doing.