Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap

Here's how "hard" old Maple was: My highest characters ever were a 57 Cleric, then a 64 NW, then a 60 Aran. Then I got hacked because Nexon's PIN system was flawed and they switched to PIC. Back then, I couldn't even get to 3rd job because of how bad this game is. I'm impressed with the great "sit around and not get bored grinding on Maple" skills you and Eos and many others had back then.

Shortly before BB, like during the Halloween and visitor events, I managed to get to 107 on my Aran through increased patience. Today, my Aran is 171 thanks to the new curve and the return of ridiculous multipliers I had back then during my Aran's third job (welcome back, over 6 times the original exp ). Honestly, I can't reach 200 because my interest and patience with this game ran out a long time ago.

Every point (except one) you're making has been addressed in detail by someone so far but you keep saying the same things. The one thing that hasn't really been touched on is how you're talking about Maple's fake difficulty when dealing with bosses, which is kind of a difficult problem to tackle. Bosses in MMOs have to be difficult enough to challenge players, which can be done in tons of ways like dealing a ton of damage but having little health or dealing little damage but having tons of health or whatever. I know my examples are cliche, but the problem with Maple's bosses is that they ran into a problem once potential came out. If you're making items available that make players significantly stronger then you have to have stronger bosses, right? But potential isn't something that's required in-game. You can rant all you want about it being required because other people having it but if someone were, say, to have amazingly scrolled equips (normal scrolls can all be acquired naturally, and it's certainly possible to have an amazing piece of equipment without using potential or cash items, the chance is just significantly lower and time invested goes way up without the use of items like pam's song) it would be perfectly possible for them to go the entire game, ignoring most "big" bosses like Horntail or Zakum until they were highly leveled enough to take them on. How do you handle those players who choose to not take advantage of the potential system? Nexon can't just ignore them because they'd essentially be forcing players to pay to have enough damage to win. They can't scale bosses back for those players because it would ruin the game, anyone who did take advantage of the system would automatically be ahead.

What they did was introduce methods of making players work together during bosses, which was probably also an attempt to bring the community a little closer again. If you're fighting a boss that can cancel weapon attacks, their reasoning was that we'd want a mage along just in case. But what happens if we just buff ourselves to hell and back? The boss can dispel us, keeping us on our toes, which is most likely also the reasoning behind damage reflect. The problem is that while keeping things like these in, they also wanted to provide enough of an incentive for players to buy NX and use the potential system, so they buffed up bosses regardless, which honestly at this point feels a bit overkill depending on what you're doing. It leads to some rather bad situations, like the speculation that Emperess literally couldn't be killed because they coded her that way so when the next tier of potential was released players would buy it. I can't speak for the truth of it, but Nexon's credibility in this particular situation isn't too strong.