[KMST] [1.2.375] Monster Park

A thing I love from Maple Story is how pot-friendly it is. What annoys me of games like Ragnarok Online, is that if you start playing on an official server and have no funds, you will have one hell of a time making your pots last you. You won't enjoy your skills because you worry too much about MP, and often have to stop grinding to sit and auto recover hp/mp. It's boring, it sucks.

Potion spamming is just annoying, though, even if potions are cheap. Potions shouldn't be something you need to train. Having unlimited HP/MP makes things easy, but it is also what makes the game extremely bland and why it's necessary for them to come up with "fake hard" bosses. Look at 2d action RPGs like DFO and Elsword. You can't spam pots in those games, yet you're not waiting around for recovery. Make it so that players can actually last a minute or two (or longer if playing a defensive class like a Paladin) without using potions, and so that they can choose gear and skill options that improve their recovery so that they don't have to deal with downtime. I think that's a much better means of restricting players to monsters their level than the current massive drop in accuracy. You're getting hit too much and you have to sit for a couple seconds (really, you shouldn't need more than 15 seconds to heal to full)? You're adventuring in a place that's too hard for you. Also, it'd be nice to have more stopping points so people don't feel like downtime is downtime. In DFO, that's when you clear a dungeon and you go back to town and turn in quests. In WoW, you heal rapidly when out of combat, and there's quests to turn in, so you don't feel like you're sitting around waiting to heal. In Maple, you barely heal at all out of combat and training is just non-stop combat, so people obviously don't want to be sitting around healing. Get away from the pomegranatety outdated model of grinding from back in the Everquest days that Ragnarok followed and Maple still follows.

Giving Bishops more experience from Holy Symbol solves nothing. It makes Bishops level at the same pace as everyone else without improving their abilities at all. The party experience formula should just shift back toward being more evenly distributed. This game is shifting away from being a pure grind and finally getting more interesting content, so people shouldn't be so concerned about leeching anymore. Like I said earlier, support is extremely difficult to fit into the game without massive changes, so if Bishops are to be changed, they should just be changed to be equal damage dealers. Your primary role should be improved with better gear. Buffs do not scale with gear.

(Sorry for long text walls, I've tried a lot of MMOs and watched them evolve over time, and I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't)