I don't understand why people say Old maple was so much better

Yes, the potential system is BS. That is a much bigger change to the structure of the game than 2h 50s were.

Mmm hmm. This caused the NX ratio to go haywire, because everyone and their mother saw how it's possible for them to get uber stats by just throwing mesos/money at their items and thus demand skyrocketed while supply remained about the same. It's never easier to get mesos by selling NX cards, when $25 can net you half a billion mesos easy; it's one of the biggest cursed blessings ever. If you play solely as a normal player you're screwed, as NX is harder to make when everyone is buying NX and driving up inflation. If you're a person who has a job, he or she can just throw money at the problem to win the game. By either selling NX cards for mesos and then buy all their godly gear, or buying a cheap 3-liner and just cube it until it's a 3-line unique, the NX person wins either way since potentialed gear is everywhere and far easier to find AND make than godly scrolled gear, it's just finding a person willing to pay for it.



Pretty much all people who are loaded to the brim with NX in Maplestory: