2016-11-25, 09:14 AM
The gap in Maplestory pre BB was way too big to be positive and is done in the most nonsensical way possible.
From level 60-70, it's a grueling and soul-crushing experience for most players. You've pretty much maxed out all your useful skills and are just filling in the random crap you didn't bother to add points into, stat points barely did anything. The gear you got was overall useless and the PQ's at the time were more for potion gains than EXP. Then when you hit level 70 a random threshhold is hit where the game sorta became fun again, and then when you get to level 76+ depending on your glass you go through an insane leveling spike until you get about to level 90.
For most classes you hit a huge wall right here, the biggest wall the game had at the time, where you don't -really- need the rest of the skills for many classes and leveling up does very little to change the pace and nature of the game, and even LESS content is directed towards this area. If you can literally claw and bite your way to level 120, the game once again hits a fun threshhold and you can enjoy the game for a bit longer, until you reach the point to where you max most of your ''important'' skills...but 4th job did it worse by requiring many classes to fight endgame bosses for a chance at getting their skill books which required disgusting levels of high-gear, connections with a good guild, and required them to take you on good faith knowing you were at a skill-level disadvantage and that you were taking loot that they themselves sought after due to it being so rare.
That was a huge problem pre-bb and you cannot deny that Pika. You can say you prefer a poorly thought system if you like but that doesn't mean it wasn't a poorly thought progression.
From level 60-70, it's a grueling and soul-crushing experience for most players. You've pretty much maxed out all your useful skills and are just filling in the random crap you didn't bother to add points into, stat points barely did anything. The gear you got was overall useless and the PQ's at the time were more for potion gains than EXP. Then when you hit level 70 a random threshhold is hit where the game sorta became fun again, and then when you get to level 76+ depending on your glass you go through an insane leveling spike until you get about to level 90.
For most classes you hit a huge wall right here, the biggest wall the game had at the time, where you don't -really- need the rest of the skills for many classes and leveling up does very little to change the pace and nature of the game, and even LESS content is directed towards this area. If you can literally claw and bite your way to level 120, the game once again hits a fun threshhold and you can enjoy the game for a bit longer, until you reach the point to where you max most of your ''important'' skills...but 4th job did it worse by requiring many classes to fight endgame bosses for a chance at getting their skill books which required disgusting levels of high-gear, connections with a good guild, and required them to take you on good faith knowing you were at a skill-level disadvantage and that you were taking loot that they themselves sought after due to it being so rare.
That was a huge problem pre-bb and you cannot deny that Pika. You can say you prefer a poorly thought system if you like but that doesn't mean it wasn't a poorly thought progression.