The HP changes won't be so bad if they implement the following changes too:
1) Lower PDR/MDR by a ton. With boss HP being increased past their 2 bil cap, these stats won't be needed to artifically increase boss HP anymore. When I last played Maple, these stats were a thing, although I hear that a few classes now have a way to ignore that stat. Not sure if ALL classes do, however.
2) Revamp the elemental weakness/resistance system. The current immunity/50% resist/neutral/50% weakness system is horribly outdated, in the sense that the vast majority of this game's mobs are in neutral, and the majority of bosses fall in immunity/resist. Not every major boss needs to resist everything under the sun anymore. Hell, they never did, but now it'd be freaking ridiculous with all these changes.
3) They're going to need to make rewards worth it right off the bat. The boss drops right now are basically going to be worthless for all the effort you need to put in to kill them, unless you spend a ton of effort scrolling/cubing it to the point where it's actually usable (in the sense that you're already going to need godly equips to kill bosses now). This is very bad in a game where every significant means of upgrading equips now relies on cash shop RNG.
- Perhaps make boss drops guaranteed to have hidden potential that starts off at Unique.
- Perhaps introduce a repeatable 'kill boss' quest that awards like 10-20 mil EXP or something, although obviously everyone would have to complete each boss' respective quest line to access these quests.
If they just slap on massive HP increases and EXP nerfs without anything else, then well, I'd say I was completely justifed in jumping off the ship after the Chaos patch last year.
1) Lower PDR/MDR by a ton. With boss HP being increased past their 2 bil cap, these stats won't be needed to artifically increase boss HP anymore. When I last played Maple, these stats were a thing, although I hear that a few classes now have a way to ignore that stat. Not sure if ALL classes do, however.
2) Revamp the elemental weakness/resistance system. The current immunity/50% resist/neutral/50% weakness system is horribly outdated, in the sense that the vast majority of this game's mobs are in neutral, and the majority of bosses fall in immunity/resist. Not every major boss needs to resist everything under the sun anymore. Hell, they never did, but now it'd be freaking ridiculous with all these changes.
3) They're going to need to make rewards worth it right off the bat. The boss drops right now are basically going to be worthless for all the effort you need to put in to kill them, unless you spend a ton of effort scrolling/cubing it to the point where it's actually usable (in the sense that you're already going to need godly equips to kill bosses now). This is very bad in a game where every significant means of upgrading equips now relies on cash shop RNG.
- Perhaps make boss drops guaranteed to have hidden potential that starts off at Unique.
- Perhaps introduce a repeatable 'kill boss' quest that awards like 10-20 mil EXP or something, although obviously everyone would have to complete each boss' respective quest line to access these quests.
If they just slap on massive HP increases and EXP nerfs without anything else, then well, I'd say I was completely justifed in jumping off the ship after the Chaos patch last year.