Mysterious .. + 7th Anniversary Video

While I agree maplers are a lazy breed, this statement is wrong. Yoy cannot in a million years manually match the pick up speed of a pet. If you loot every single drop without a pet your exp gain will be cut tremendously. That aside, the other pet auto functions are more of a lazy solution for stuff you could do yourself.

I'm rather aware. But do you know why it's like that? Nexon purposely did that so:

Customer response: Oh, I can't pick up as fast as my pet. I'll just spend approximately 20 dollars or so to buy a pet, get a pouch, some other sh`t, oh, let's throw in a name-tag too!

Now, mind you, since all of that expires every 3 months, they might be paying around 80 dollars a year just for all of that. I'm not going to get into details since I'm thinking of the essentials (Meso Magnet, Item Pouch/Bag whatever, Wings Boot, etc). Not like you'll need to pick up the sh`t Mesos that drops anyways. Items, yes. Most likely scrolls, equipments, etc. Most people won't care for ETCs unless it's for forging.

I know Bishops out there that can play to 150 without spending a penny on this game, one who is currently on my BL (who then quit after reaching 17x or so). But other than that, other functions of gameplay such as attacking-speed and etc shouldn't be affected at all. I can still spam Triple Throw like crazy without the use of NX, no change. Only thing that is mostly affected is probably shops, which you cannot do unless you have NX, period. Merchanting is significantly harder and almost impossible without a shop though.