2013-06-24, 05:26 PM
ZeekFox Wrote:Why? Because as far as I am concerned, Jesters wasn't so much the most popular because of a broken HP:EXP ratio. What made Jesters shine so much is that they gave the toughness and EXP of a 9X monster, while only actually being level 70. In all honesty, there wasn't TOO much difference in the 50K HP for 1325 EXP for a Jester and the 51K HP for 1260 EXP for a Slimy. Jesters is still better, yes, but the real problem is that a level 75 can't effectively hit level 93 monsters, whereas the Jesters offer no accuracy penalty. Thanks to power creep and the spread out spawn of most maps, a majority of level 70 players today are simply too powerful for your average level 70 monster and their 10-11K HP. Almost every class can achieve that with nothing but the level 60 gears Tot gives you. Nevermind the players who are prepared and have actual resources.
You can ignore the miss rate and go for the mobs anyway - I trained my Kanna and Luminous on mobs 20-30 levels higher, sucking up the 40-60% missrate to get better exp.
Jesters make doing that pointless, though, because you can deal much more damage to a level 70 mob.
I definitely miss the "train on mobs above your level" aspect Maple had back in the day - it's like a natural way of finding something that suits your character's strength and style. Mobs your own level are often easy 1hkos or 2hkos, whereas training on 4-5hkos is more fun and lets you actually use the combos of attacks some classes have. Optimising accuracy stat to let you train on higher level mobs is just part of getting good equipment...