2015-06-05, 02:32 PM
ShinkuDragon Wrote:i dunno man, the amount of cubing required is still overkill to get anything remotely relevant, and what do you wear in the other 2 ring slots besides superior and engraved gollux?
I'm just using cracked and solid Gollux rings in the other 2. That's the thing, my range is over 500k now unbuffed and... quite a few of my equips aren't that spectacular. I mean, I still have my level 115 Mystic Eye Accessory from Silent Crusade... granted it has 9% STR in potentials on it, but still, there are MUCH better eye accessories. Still got a pair of Revolution gloves, a generic level 140 set of boots (with 6% STR). Honestly the only real super expensive equips I even have are my Tyrant cape, Superior Gollux belt and pendant... and I don't even normally use the pendant because it makes me too over powered. And each of those wasn't even close to a billion mesos... in fact I think I got each one for around 500 mill... granted I had to be really patient to wait for those deals, but it was worth it.
It takes a LOT of cubes if you want Legendary potentials... but you don't need Legendary potentials... at all. The only reason for those is if you want to try and do chaos bosses... and even then only if you want to do them solo. I mean I did Chaos Vellum with another person and even at only 500k range we were able to kill it... granted it took ten tries and nearly the full amount of time, but we were able to do it with sub-Godly range.
If you get at least 6% in your main stat on all your equips and make it to at least level 200... yer gonna be able to easily wipe out any of the normal and easy bosses. The only bosses that haven't been nerfed yet are Arkarium and Empress... and eventually their easy modes will likely be nerfed as well. Granted there's newer, harder bosses coming out, like Princess No that came out last summer I think and there's the new Lotus boss. But older bosses are easy breezy now, you don't need much cubing at all.
You can also get cubes via crafting and by digging up rare ores, so there's no shortage of cubes. Likewise you can use spell traces to get really decent stats. And they do "spell trace fever" events every so often which increase the chances of success. That coupled with the new star enhancement system... yeeeaaah... really doesn't take much effort to hit the 500k range. The Star Planet 2x stackable coupons likewise work for characters over level 200, which makes it pretty easy to reach at least 220. The 2x coupons you can buy in the Cash Shop likewise now work for characters over level 200.
As far as the "economy" of Maplestory it's pretty stable, it's largely dictacted by Cash Shop equips, which fluctuate as they cycle through. Basically at certain times of the year certain CS equips are available through surprise boxes, so then there's a large surplus and the prices go down drastically, but then as the cycle progresses those equips drastically increase in price as they're not available again until another year or so.
Everything else is largely a moot point. It's not the "old Maplestory" where the economy revolved quite a lot around Godly equips and such. Those are still available of course, but they're not the proverbial bread and butter of the game so to speak.
Most Cash Shop equips, when readily available through surprise boxes, are anywhere from 10 to 50 mill on average. Once they cycle out they then progressively increase to 50 mill to 200 mill on average, with some more sought after equips spiking into the 500 mill to 1 bill range. Only incredibly rare event stuff like the Sword Art Online and Attack On Titan equips really wind up toppling over the 1 billion range.
All in all the economy of the game is pretty nice... not perfect, but it's pretty enjoyable.
KhainiWest Wrote: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.
Which would be fine if there were only 20 different Cash Shop equips to collect... but uh... there's hundreds and hundreds of them now. Collectively it would likely cost you TRILLIONS of mesos. If you want to "dress up" all your mules and androids then the game becomes "Pay To... uh... Accessorize", but it's not "Pay To Win".
And, again, you only need super Godly equips if you want to SOLO those new and upcoming bosses. Sub-Godly level equips and a party will do you just fine.
And story is actually pretty important... I mean... unless you just want a pointless exercise in OCD enablement. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind would want to play Maplestory to try and become "Godly" for the sake of bragging rights... I mean... it's basically a cutesy little children's game. It's fun... it is fun... the story arcs are a large part of WHY it's so fun. The library story arcs are some of the best, especially the story of how the Black Mage came to be. The new Black Heaven story arc is likewise loads of fun, especially the new side scrolling shooter part.
