Ever since we "Went West" GMS has avoided some changes that happened to the game such as the daily meso cap, sticking to cubes and keep Reboot the way it is. We fiercly opposed the idea of having a limit of mesos being farmed, the ways cubes were obtain, and the mesos multiplier being removed in Reboot as we saw it as slowing the way how Reboot operated with less mesos brought in, but right now, I don't see GMS Reboot or Reg being able to survive future content being developed for us.

BPot Issues in reg: Reg has the original scrolling, potential, bonus potentials, flames, souls and star force of course. While Star Force is considered universally hated due to booming and needing to find spares (especially Pitch, Brilliant, Eternals or anything considered difficult to source,) Reg has Bpot to deal with it and it is not friendly. Some might think it is simple as regular potentials but with a wider pool of lines with smaller values, but it is much more difficult to get anything good. Regular potentials have the option to roll with Bright Cubes (Black Cubes) and they allow the user to pick whether they want to keep their result or roll again, theoretically, allows to them roll to perfect lines without worrying about losing a decent result. The cash shop only regularly sells Bonus Glowing Cubes (the old Green Bonus Pot Cubes.) These cubes are incredibly risky as every roll throws out your previous good roll in hopes of getting a better one. Even our other upgrade systems have some sort of safety net like our cash scrolls to protect items from booming (Primes scrolls,)using returns scrolls to min max our ICOG rolls as well as Black Flames which is universal to both servers.

The reason why Reboot has an easier time finding good potentials is because they got a higher meso multiplier that allows them to throw more Bright Cubes at their item. They can essentially cube something 2 or 3 lines to 2 Prime without worrying about going from 1/2 lines to nothing. Reg does have that for potentials if you ignore the fact that mesos is becoming less valuable due to farming so mesos don't get you a lot in turns of cubes and only mainly whales benefit from pretty much any imbalance, BPOTs are hard to roll because Bonus Brights aren't common enough and Bonus Glowing are our primary options.

Getting to 6L lines on items is extremely difficult to the point that merchants or any smart players cube accessories to 3L Bpot anything instead of cubing for 3L LUK/DEX/INT/STR then going for Bpot due to them knowing well they won't find 3L Bpot of their stat, but anything else. So a Thief class who rolled 3L INT% Total Control would trade a Mage who roll 3L LUK% BPOT on an item they want. During this trade, they don't bother with looking at the main pot as that is "easier" because reg potentials have a "Black Cube" while BPOT just doesn't have it regularly.

During times Glow Bright Cubes are available, they are pretty much only available in major update attendance and are limited in quantity. A normal player has the opportunity to empty out the boss coin shop for 30 cubes and the attendance one another 30. This is extremely little since you are pretty much not going to get anything good out of it. The only real way to benefit from this is you buy service from people (which is expensive and sketchy and works best with unused items unless they want to pay 4k for a PSOK between every trade for used items as well as degrading the scissor counts etc) or make multiple emails to bypass the limited quantity by having multiple people/accounts help you.

Story 1:Let me show you a story on how terrible BPot cubing is for an F2P player. I've personally been working with the latter option to work on my items. The reason my item Arcanes/secondaries are 2L bpots is because is because is because I did 10 accounts worth of attendance just to work on a single item. Back when Bonus Bright Cubes weren't available, I was able to 2L ATT% Bpot 3 items including 2 arcanes is because i tortured myself to do 10 times the dailies and boss carries just to have extra cubes. It was frustrating working on my Claw, and Dagger and Shadower shield and watching my Bpot go from 1L ATT% to garbage. Somethings I would cry and ask myself to settle for 2L DMG or a line of DMG and ATT knowing it is still hell. Eventually I got them to 2L ATT% and it was HELL. Some items were stubborn like my Arcane Dagger which took a year of work with my 10 accounts using the Maple Gift/Fairy Bros Cubes with whatever major event's boss coin shop while my claw and shield took half the time. This was during a time when Inkwell didn't put RP Bpot cubes yet and the event bpot cubes didn't allow you to pick before or after. You know if your item upgrade system is flawed when it takes you nearly a year to finish an item on 10x F2P speed. This is nothing compared

Recently with KMS ditching cubes, all cubes from events have been turned to their Karma forms so that they only work on items that are untradeable. We just finished our 20th anniversary which was pretty much a copy and paste from KMS's 21st anniversary with its Bpot cubes (non karma as this was that period when mesos were used on pots but not bpots yet.) Our previous major event only had Karma Bonus Bright Cubes while our recent one copied one the regular Bonus Bright Cubes. Moving forward from Stargazer/Next, GMS is most likely gonna stay with with receiving the limited supply Karma Bonus Bright Cubes in Reg. The reason this is "fine" in KMS is because they already have Magic Wand which allows them re-roll Bpots and reg Pots like a regular Bonus Bright Cubes and Bright Cubes and not having to worry about tradibility or limited supply of cubes. Sure the meso price for using wand is expensive, so Karma White Cubes is just a steep discount for recubing their own gear while it just hurts the chances of reg to making anything good where the user only pays the usual reveal pot fee and not the wand's reroll fee that is nearly 200m per bpot roll on stuff like 200-250 items. GMS just being limited to Karma Cubes while they don't have a reliable way to rerolling BPOTs without the risks makes it harder to progress.

Story 2:Here is a more recent tale of Bonus Bright Cubes being only good in large quantities and how having a locked item takes forever. Back in Dreamer/ Go West 2024, I got my hands on a Mitra's Rage. This was my first time getting access to both a large quantity of Brights and its Bonus counterpart. My plan was to use use all the cubes from my alts to finish my cube using the Red cubes first followed by the Black/White Cubes. I was able to get 2L ATT 1 IED mpot and 2 non prime ATT% lines with a LUK% line on the bpot within half of the 190 Bonus Brights available. Since it was the first I worked with Bonus Bright Cubes, I was able to "greed" to see if 3L ATT% Bpot was a thing, but i got better but also lost nothing. During this time, my main account didn't personally work on the Mitra's Rage's bpot as I was still working on my Genesis Dagger which I had for 2.5 years aleady and no sign of 2L ATT% Bpot. Up from then until now, I was able to actually make 2L Bpot for 3 Pitch Items as well as 2L ATT% bpot a RFS from Milestone to now using all that "manpower," but during that time my Genesis Dagger's Bpot remains cursed and its year 3. During my dagger's suffering, I was able to 2L ATT% 2x times and somehow 3L 2x pitch items while my own item is still at 0-1 good bpot lines. I don't think I am lucky, I just was working on items that were transferrable with the best cubes and had the ability to switch hands 9 tiems while my dagger's bpot is terrible with a whole character's worth of work. This story and the previous one shows that you need a ridiculous amount of cubes get something good in reg.

I have a feeling 6L as well as 25 stars will be the required norm to be able to take on KMS's upcoming content. Just a week or 2 ago, 신해조 (shinhaejo) became the first player to turn his Genesis Dagger into a Destiny Dagger. This was shortly followed by 후닝, a strong NL, 글자네무삭제 the giant PC Cafe owner who mains Kain and 팡이요, the Adele main (there might be other giga whales in KMS who did it but this was the small list I know from the biggest KMS streamers/whales.) All these players pretty much did not 5L'ed their items, but must had rolled 6L'ed on EVERYTHING as well as aiming for the highest flames and rolling 6s on ICOGS. I seen Shin's items and his items as of now are at least 25 star (due to them having a 30 star cap which we are getting soon.) The only players I know that as crazy as these KMS players are Bane, Swirled, Sunny and Morals. If 6L 25 stars, perfect ICOGs gear is needed to complete PART 1 liberation of Destiny which consists of a -80% FD Hard Seren , a CKalos run with 3 lives and Hard Kaling with +20% FD all while solo, one can imagine what is needed to solo Part 2 which is Hard Limbo, Hard Baldrix and a third mystery boss. If this content was created by Kim Changseop assumes all the regional servers aren't Reboot and they all have near perfect control on Bpots and other enhancement servers, GMS stands little to no chance to what future content we are getting. In Reg, we cannot get "perfect" Bpots so we cannot reach our ceiling due to fear of losing our 2L/1L for a zero-liner and Reboot has a lower ceiling due to having safety and abundance for most of its meso based enhancements but has trouble progressing past that due to Reboot restricting trades so spares for rare items and the FD passive being inferior to what Bpot could offer. I feel like most future content is not made for the players but specifically Shin and the other streamers who spend more on an item than an exotic car or luxury apartment (an English KMS streamer said something like Shin financed a single item and it costed nearly 199k USD or 1.8M USD which is beyond wild.)


If Nexon is serious about GMS being able to progress and that Destiny weapons aren't a fantasy, they would have to offer us players in both Reboot and Reg a better route to help us progres by helping where each server struggles in.

For Reg Server: From my past experience and from my guild's and BL's cries, having permanent access to White Cubes/Bonus Bright Cubes or something similar. Even adapting KMS's wand feature might help as it would provide a meso sink and also allow F2P to participate in Bpot cubing. Reg/Reboot initially rejected original wand idea due to meso cap and removal of in games cubes and loss of its NX option (reg server.) Here is some things that can be added to our "Western" version of wand to make it more favorable

-Keep existing cash cubes and adding Bonus Bright Cubes in the game for whales who have money to cube whether they are low or mesos or just too lazy to farm/merch.
-Keeping Solid, Hard and Mythical would allow cheaper cubing for those who are just cubing for mules and don't want to splurge


Here are some options for how GMS's Wand feature could be based on:

1) The wand's prices matches KMS's and GMS doesn't get a meso cap
2) he wand's prices matches KMS's and GMS gets a meso cap
3) The wand's prices is multiplied to account for GMS Reg's "inflation" from spawn enhancers like FZ and Chains
4) The price fluctuates similar to the Meso Market


For Reboot (Controversal)t:
https://forums.maplestory.nexon.net/discussion/35163/30-star-force-limit-is-more-difficuilt-in-gms#latest

TBH, I feel a lot of Reboot's problems is from it being "unique" and not being a trading server. A lot of storage issues and shortage on certain equipment because you cannot trade or store equipment. Just enable trade for the server and treat it like a normal. This should solve Reboot's "Pitch Problem" and "Hoarding GSRs and KTs for SSF."

To address the damage deficit, Bonus Bright Cubes for mesos would be a lot better due to higher ceiling and the similar control to Reboot rereolling reg pots for mesos.

Reboot has a feature Reg can benefit from and vice versa. In the end there really shouldn't be two distinct server types, just 1 type that works.

This is what I can think of that would help both GMS servers so that future content is doable and to help alleviate the existing progression issues in both servers. I am not biased for either servers; I just want to see both of them thrive. I don't want to see future content that is unclearable for us because GMS Reg cannot reach its full potential due to its horrible bonus cubing system and Reboot is missing FD from its passives and own equipment problem prevents its playerbase from progressing. I hope Inkwell and the GMS team will address our servers' shortcomings and would remedy them even if it means copying KMS and adding a small twist to it to make it better for the players.