EXP nerfs in the current KMST Patch.

I don't mean to direct this at you, but you're the most recent post that said this that I've noticed.

I don't want to be an pimento, but I'm really sick and tired of people blaming GMS's fucked up EXP issues on MS as a whole. No other version still has party play LHC(unless it's that far behind on updates), and at least half of Stronghold isn't either in most versions anymore. No other version has broken Aliens, except maybe CMS (or whatever version it was that got new LHC), and it's possible they don't have the same EXP issues. Most versions don't even have EXP cards anymore, even JMS re-got rid of them.

It's really quite annoying to constantly see people blame the entire game, all versions included, for GMS's problems, then acting like these EXP changes are the best thing to ever happen because of GMS's pineapple ups. Other versions are going to become terrible because of this. Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised if GMS does something to make matters worse on their hands and make it, once again, too easy to get high levels in comparison to other versions.

I'm sorry but making a higher cap AND reducing EXP gain is the worst couple of ideas I've seen from Nexon in a very long time. Just when I thought they were trying to make the game less grindy, and actually finally start to work towards giving us some real content, LOLNOPE. Instead the game becomes a hundred fold more annoying and grindy. How is this a welcome change? I just do not understand it in the least.

Wow! This is the first time someone made a nice, well thought out, intelligent argument to something I posted on a maplestory forum :O

Getting back to the topic at hand, I've always really hated LHC. I mean, I enjoy the idea of a party play aspect, but it still felt grind-y to me, plus a lot of the people there were just rude (or maybe I've just had bad luck)

I also really wish that all the monsters of a similar level had similar exp/hp ratios, that way there's much better variety on where to train and people don't have to fight for a channel in one particular map during 2x. It also would help those with crappy computers to not deal with the amount of lag that they would have to face when training at an extremely crowded and popular map, like aliens. This is a big reason why I avoid training there altogether on my lower level chars and instead train on the less popular maps.

I totally respect your opinion about how this is the worst couple of ideas, though IMO, I actually prefer having a greater sense of accomplishment of getting my character to the next leveling "milestone" and slowly, but surely getting to max level and getting to meet new people and make new friends along the way
I'm not saying it's the best thing to happen to maple (as there's a few other areas in the game that needs work) but it would be nice to not see a notice about someone new hitting max level 5+ times in one day