2014-03-11, 02:47 AM
SaptaZapta Wrote:One can safely assume that the top-tier bosses are never killed on less than 4x drop. So Nexon can set their drop rate to 1/4 of what would be "balanced", and all is well. People who kill on 10x drop will "only" get 2.5x a "balanced" amount, which isn't much worse than using 2x drop on other bosses.
And then people who kill it without drop multipliers will get shafted.
If you want to balance boss drops, make drop multipliers NOT work on them. However, this would absolutely never happen because one; people are too used to the drop multipliers and would flip pomegranate, and two; nexon wants money.
And for instanced looting... Well, I don't really think it's a problem in the long run, but when they release equipment and make them VERY expensive at first by making them exclusive, and then ruin the drop rate a year or two later, forcing prices to get driven down, then that is an issue in itself. But Nexon does that with every good equipment that comes out. They make it super exclusive through NX, and then milk it for all they can, and once they can't get anything else from it, they release new, better equipment, and throw it in teapots/marvel/gachapon/whatever they can. Once they're cheap, THEN they let the public get them via drops... Examples: Empress equips (emp impossible at first, get the equipment from gachapon/etc, then Empress becomes killable, CRA equips don't drop from CRA bosses, but CRA bosses impossible anyway, so only way to get them is from teapots, then when they make a lot of money from that method, finally they drop from the bosses, and now we have our Tyrant capes dropping as well).