Nexon Is Giving Away Millions Of Mesos A Day! :D

Not really. The game is more play to win than pay to win at this point, largely with the introduction of Star Planet, Reward Points and the Rewards Shop. You can get a 1 hour 2x coupon every day from SP with only 45 minutes of effort (playing One Card), along with around a 1,000 RP. So then on weekends when they often do 2x events they stack and you can get hours and hours of 4x in order to power level super fast. And the points can be used to buy red and black cubes, protection scrolls, safety scrolls, pets, pet equips, water of life, pet snacks, etc, etc, etc. They also increased the drop rate of cubes from all the bosses as well as made most of the bosses MUCH easier, especially the "easy" and "normal" modes. And you also get RP from killing bosses.

Because max level is at all relevant at this point. Also if I recall the rewards system is pretty limited, as other players were frothing about it until I gave them reality lol.

So no, you really don't need "billions". In fact the price of most Fafnir equips has dropped drastically in the past year. Warrior set is the most expensive and you can get the top for around 15 mill, the helmet, sword and bottom for around 200 mill or so (for clean ones). There's likewise level 140 equip sets now which drop all over the place which have very nice stats. Gollux stuff you can likewise get mostly for free just by playing; other than the higher level pendants and belts. You can easily get a full Gollux ring set with just a twenty minutes of effort a day over the course of a few months.

Clean equips were always easy to get, it's the cubing, scrolling and the attachments that made the cost. You certainly weren't paying 300-600 dollars for clean equips. I mean seriously, go look up any website that sells equipment, prices have barely changed regarding good gear.

At this point you only need "billions" if you want custom, fringe, off the wall equips. Like a Lightning God ring... it's not any better really than Gollux, but it's worth billions simply because it's incredibly rare. Likewise certain Cash Shop equips are worth "billions", but mostly incredibly rare stuff like Sword Art Online equips, hairstyles and such.

Pretty sure the new top tier bosses are BASED off that sh`it, they always have been, focusing on the top, well, 10-15%-tile.

So basically certain aesthetics in the game are still incredibly hard to get... but they're not actually needed at all in order to play the game.

You mean like..I don't know, chairs were back in 2009-2011? You act like things have changed, your perspective is limited because of your position in those time periods.

You can easily reach the 500k range with about a year of effort if you start out fresh with nothing, playing for at least a few hours on a regular basis... and that's more than enough to wipe the freakin floor with almost every "easy" and "normal" boss presently in the game... playing solo. Only the "chaos" bosses really present any kind of uber challenge... and they're not actually necessary for... well, anything really. I mean, there's no story parts or anything you're missing.

You used to play maplestory to experience content with friends, then NX became a necessity, so everyones goal was to become self sustaining using the game. Chaos bosses used to drop equipment that was..chaos tier pretty much, now what you're telling me is all those bosses are useless? So even the end-game has become insignificant? With the population dead, there isn't a market even for the clean gear so I guess the only purpose is to, well, enjoy yourself.

For all regular quests, Friend Story, the library stories, and all the other story arcs... you honestly don't need to be even remotely "godly" as far as equips... the dumpiest of equips with around 3% potentials in your main stat will be MORE than enough to handle all those.

Why do you think the story arc's are so relevant? They literally FEED you the equipment to get through those arc's, those are hardly an accomplishment.

The only point or purpose to even try and get over 500k range is simply bragging rights, same with leveling past 210 (and there are only a few link skills that even require that to max out).

Efficiency for self sustaining service. That's the reason people get high stats, the highest actually, so they can do the NEXT big boss and be on the forefront, by themselves to maximize profit. Also level 180+ was worthless back in my game time as your relevant skills were maxed out (Well depends on class, but for the dark knight, after 180 you were pretty much just rounding gimmicks off)

I think most people like yourself either haven't played the game much at all in the past two or three years... or you just hang out in Henesys all day long and don't actually play... at all. ಠ_ಠ

You're right, I dropped the game because I recognized it was dead, that the population was gone and most people have or were moving on. Now if you want me to bring people into this thread who play actively everyday and are in the top 1%, by all means they can repeat what I have said. You cling on this first hand experience as if you have to play to understand how the game works.

I'll just say this much, 10b mesos is $10, how many days do you think it would take me to make 10b? I can tell you on my salary it probably take me 20 minutes.