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I don't see anything wrong with this. I'd just Family all my friends for mutual benefits. What's all this T> leech for points thing?

Isaac, I don't understand why you want Monster Book so badly, either. It looks like a tedious collection process for no interesting rewards, and this is coming from a quest hoar. Quests at least make you move around and do something besides farm monsters.
2x2x2 = 8, dude.

If you want to know why I want it, really, it's not so much for regular monsters as it is for Masteria monsters. I'd be pretty disappointed if Masteria monsters didn't get cards.

But really, I don't know if you're familiar with Bestiaries but I've always found them fascinating. I have an enormous book of legendary creatures right across the room here, and it's never dull to read. I just like that kind of thing, so I think having passages for monsters in MapleStory would only enhance the game experience. I mean, why do you think Pokemon was so popular? It was the "collect them all" mentality, the pokedex is what drove people to play, not badges or beating the elite four or any of that.

As it stands now, if you want to play maple, but you don't want to train, what do you do? Hunt some random monsters for a drop maybe, sit around and chat with buddies, hunt infrequently spawning bosses in hopes of a drop or just for the excitement of fighting a boss. Now, searching for monster book cards is an option. To me, the monster book gives areas that you wouldn't necessarily visit a use again. I like the mansion, I really do, but it's way below my level range. I feel like I'm wasting time by being there. But, if they have the possibility to drop cards, then that's an excuse to be there and that makes that area useful again. It gives you a reason to go back to all those low level places that are currently useless to you.

And it's not like you have to hunt for them, either. You can find them just walking around. Odds are one will drop for you eventually, and as I've mentioned before, they drop at a higher rate from low level monsters, so everyone can at least get the Snail/slime/etc. cards.