IImaplers Wrote:Spending precious time and money on something only for it to completely backfire on you is what I'm talking about. If the value of ele wands staves was drastically lowered with a supposed change of their bonus of +25% element to say +5% of an element, that would qualify as an example. It just shows that all the hard work in obtaining/scrolling/etc. ele wands/staves is for naught. Who wouldn't be mad in that case? Maybe Swordstaker is the only one who wouldn't.

I gotta backtrack and say that I slightly misunderstood the poster I quoted. I thought that she was referring to the elemental bonus on the wands/staves themselves possibly getting lowered, but I realize she meant the mage skills themselves. Nonetheless, it's same concept, though I wouldn't quit if ele weps remain untouched and the skills nerf is not severe.

iamflip Wrote:I'll rescind my last sentence then lol.

But my point still stands that you're just taking it waaaaay too seriously. :|

LittlePrincess Wrote:I don't think you really mis-addressed the issue. Effectively for you (and probably most other high level mages) it's the same issue. But this is an issue that a different version of maple story tried to address (did SEA make the wands/staffs first?) and it turns out KMS had a different solution. It would be silly for Nexon to implement KMS's fix as is without adjustment because now this item creates imbalance. (Not that it ever stopped them before - look how long it took to add the penalties.) But I don't think the change will be as drastic as you suppose. Currently the wands/staffs are rare and expensive. So naturally they should give a good boost above the normal level. But a reasonable solution might be to make adjustments such that a mage that does not use this wand would get 10% less damage than what KMS has while a user of this wand would get 15% more damage than what KMS has. In that way you provide balance (which was the original point) while still maintaining the special bonuses that have been implemented in our version.

IImaplers Wrote:Wait a sec. You think dieing makes everything you did in life backfire on you? And you think I am the one being contradictory? My stance is that I value hard work, and I expect something in return for my hard work, and for it's value to not be taken away whether it be figuratively or literally. The work I put into this game is what I value, and I expect just rewards like most other people who play this game, and I expect those rewards to be given now or in the near future. I don't care what happens to maple far down the road. I know what is inevitable and what isn't.

Coogi Wrote:I'm surprised on how some of you guys take this game so serious...Seriously, it's not a big deal...

Random_Overlord Wrote:Reguarding balance as the key issue in their statement, let me note that the Bowmaster job is outmatched overall by the wild hunter job.

WH's get the same skills, the same basic idea as a bowmaster, but instead they use a crossbow with a higher damage multiplier.

I feel they might take the time to change this, because as it is right now bowmasters may become the lowest tier of the archer base.
You do know that Final attack does not cause delay and works with hurricane now right?
On a side note, the issue with cooldown times for the Mage's ultimate skills may stay the same.

Why?

It's all due to the balance of the game. As I'm sure, Nexon has known for years that the mage jobs were very overpowered with their ultimate skills. A cooldown was needed, and was suggested millions of times before and this patch is them telling us: "We agree, no one should be able to spam a skill equivalant to a nuke every second and potentialy use it to harrass other players."

I'm glad they're opening tespia as well (Hope I get in... ) this may kill off potentialy game killing glitches that may make it into the real servers.
Watch them pull a 5day before patch tespia
Nexon did imput that some ideas may not take place in the update. I think that some things like the nerfed 2x experience options may be kept on our end due to the fact that the average high leveled mob in the Big bang update has the same experience rates, but 3x more Hp. Even if the leveling rates have been halved, thats still a large number of experience to get if your past level 140 and getting 5k experience from a mob that has over 250k hp does not help.
I have to agree here, Nexon nerfing the 2x exp coupons would mean less proffit for them
Other than that it seems like a well writen "We love you guys" blog post from the dev team.

rayhovite Wrote:You really think so huh? Maybe I should chillax on the analysis bit then.

But I will say... Jamie's mini-rant was HOT. omg jamie marry me in-game plz

AzureKite Wrote:I'm thinking our adventurer rings won't get nerfed as well. Just have a feeling.

SwordStaker Wrote:Who's taking what seriously This is SP it's not serious here just buisness

Coogi Wrote:There's a few people here ranting like hell like it's fraking politics.

SwordStaker Wrote:You must be reading me wrong. I was saying what was said by me and you was contradictory. Your sorta right about that death. Not so much backfire but what your saying is that you worked hard to get what you got but if its just taken away whats the point. That can be applied to life. You work hard get as much luxury as you can and then one day it's all taken away. Sort of the same concept.