Why the Secret Spell Scroll system would have never worked.

That's partially true, but you certainly don't need a 600 attack weapon to hit damage cap. More importantly, it's not like these players using hacked weapons are causing you to do less damage. If you're really so concerned about your own damage that you're insecure about being beaten by people toting around old dupes, you might as well pick one up for yourself while they're cheap.

I have been trying to be as legit as possible in maple... and yes, they're cheap, but they are going to dissapear in some time(at least it's suppouse to).

You dont need the 600 att weapons to hit the damage cap, but you can sell them, dupe them, dupe more and more items, for make that possible... and again, this make the game disbalanced, and i am sure a lot of people think like this...

"Why do you need a squad to kill this boss when you have a 500atk more than everyone."

^ hacked items make the game a lot less funnier >.>, not a challenge anymore