2012-03-08, 07:56 PM
Eos Wrote:I'd prefer make the damn game challenging again, properly distribute content, challenge, skills, and experience, add in more content to fill gaps (yes they've done better than when we just had Leafre, but they still need a lot more).
In an ideal game they'd have several areas that look and feel different with mobs that have approximately the same hp:xp ratio but are better suited for different party paradigms to encourage true diversity.
Some crude examples being different layouts for different skill's AoE ranges and mobility patterns, different elemental affinities. Obviously making the monsters stronger so they're more inconvenient to solo if you're not godly would help too.
Throwing more levels up there won't do any good if you don't have any way to get them but grinding the same old crap. They need a massive overhaul of a sort they're not willing or capable of doing.
Requoting because this is the only worthwhile solution.
My personal answer to OP is the same as Green4Ever's: how about no. I quit this game years ago and have been satisfied ever since that one of my biggest accomplishments was reaching 200 when it was actually a challenge. Raising the cap to 250 or whatever would ruin all that, and not just for myself but the thousands of other players who've since quit under similar circumstances.
The bottom line though, in the end, is everything Eos and others have been saying: the particulars of leveling up are so polarizingly different from the rest of the game in terms of "challenge" or "commitment" that things just need to be overhauled and a balance restored. GMS had a time when it truly was an amazingly fun, challenging game, a golden age that ended in the latter part of 2009. At this point, either fix the gross imbalances or screw it.