Hi,
I am about to take another Maplestory break - there are things I love about Maplestory and things that I think drag down fun gameplay. I have visual processing issues so reboot is amazing for me - I don't think I could play on a regular server. I have been trying to switch mains but the problem is that my main was relatively far ahead of all my other characters (and I do enjoy it but I really wanted to play a cleric main). Having fragments only go one character is really hard - the drop rate is so slow that bringing up a secondary character is almost impossible and only getting fragments on one character is rough because my main is still the only one that can do decent bossing and I want to keep up with my friends but I also want to eventually get my cleric (who has WAY lower combat power and I need to get better gear) up to being useful. It is a catch 22 because if I focus on my cleric - I fall behind my friends - but if I focus on my current main - I will never catch up. Events only give sol erda which is an issue if you can't get matching fragments. My cleric is now 261 but without access to fragments - is just not going anywhere.
I now have every character 180 or above (and mostly 211 or below - with a few over 250 and one over 265)- which means burminators don't really do anything for me. It shouldn't be too long before all chars above 200 which means I probably won't ever get to do a Tera blink event (this past time I burned my cleric which was already above 200 - and found out you can't participate if your char starts above 200). Honestly it is hard because I loved some of the pre-200 content and I only used the zero 0-100 a couple of times because I wanted to do monster collection, finish some quests I hadn't done, and complete artifact missions but most of that is dead content too.
275 and above is pure grinding - 0-130 is pushed into 0-100, reina strait, fairy academy, gold beach and secret forest of ellodin which I have done so many times there are similar quests (mushroom kingdom, lion kingdom, tangyoon afterlands,...) that I no longer play for fun but just to get through them... 130-200 is mostly bonking, 200-210 is mostly exp voucher and events like midnight dream crusher. I have some quests I have not done that I will try to do but as someone who has played MS for over 20 years, loves the artwork, the lore - I get frustrated by the push to the same quests - the difficulty of figuring out where to grind (seriously - there is not a really good way to look at monster collection or familiars and figure out levels of mobs - or even a way to sort mobs in different regions - things have changed so frequently that most internet resources are outdated)
Anyway as a casual player (and by that I mean someone who has probably played 1-4 hours daily for the last 4 months at least) it is wearing. I get that there are bots - people who have different focuses playing but I would love to just have fun playing again. Which is why I will probably take a few months or a year off again soon so above 270 play becomes fun - another job comes out - or MS has some fun changes.