Reg Server is in a really bad place right now. We have a bot problem which made things a lot harder for reg player to progress and we never got any changes to how we upgrade gear. A lot of changes that came for GMS during the Winter Update only really helped Reboot and left Reg's issues not addressed. I am tired of players in Reboot saying Reg is stronger than Reboot because "we got FZ" or "we got scrolling and bpots" or "you got meso market," They are only half right as we can potentially be the strongest GMS server, but it isn't something we all have access to due to bad RNG, inflation or poorly designed systems. We have a higher damage ceiling, but no real way of progressing without spending a lot of real money or supporting bad actors in the community.

Change Frenzy Totem/Chains of Resentment effects and Distribution to Reduce Inflation
Both of these items increase the spawn rate of monsters allowing for higher mesos, EXP and frags etc. with Frenzy being superior due to the ability to cast it and leave the lingering effects for 10 minutes. Players like having high spawn rate, but so far many bots or illegal farmers had taken advantage of this. They would share the same totem by having the guy with the totem boosts all these maps. These players would occupy every instance of Royal Library 4 or some dense map in Arcane River or other Grandis area and farm mesos and sell them or farm many accounts for Karma Cubes. Meanwhile regular players are struggling to obtain someone to boost their map and finding Chains of Resentment from Ride or Die is incredibly rare and the ones from Philo Books are incredibly expensive.

One possible solution is to remove the lingering effects from Frenzy Totem so it functions like Chains of Resentment (which has no lingering effect.) This would kill off Frenzy Service so one bot cannot boost hundreds of bots using one totem. To compensate for the loss of Frenzy Service, Chains of Resentment should have increased odds in Ride or Die from Kazax fragments or being able to buy it directly with coins. Other ideas suggested by the Reddit mod, Bacun, included putting it in as a prize for Mystic Frontier. Reintroducing Frenzy Totem in Philo/Marvel (without the lingering effect) would allow more players to get their own totems and not rely on service and make it less abusable by botters and illegal farmers.

A lot of the excessive meso in the market are created by these 24/7 farming bots with the help of totems/chains. These excessive mesos make it require more mesos to exchange for maple points for other goods. A player who can solo HSeren and below can only produce enough meso a week to afford a Bright Cube which is about 1B mesos. You need to get very strong for a single cube. That is a poor reward for you efforts.

Remove Perfect Innocence Scrolls
Most strong items in GMS become untradeable after equipping. Players need a Platinum Scissor of Karma (PSOK) to enable trade one time. Some of the most premium items such as Pitch, Brilliant, Eternals and Dawn Boss have a scissor count so those items can only be traded a certain number of times Innocence scrolls wipe out scrolled stats in an item so you can scroll it again. Perfect Innocence Scrolls does that and restores the Scissor Count. You can predict how bots farms can abuse this.

Bot farms have access to thousands of Karma Cubes (Bright and Bonus Bright.) from just logging into events. They equip the item so it becomes eligible for Karma Cubes and throw cubes on them. They would PSOK it for RP or spare some mesos to buy it with maple points and pass it. Once the scissor count is exhausted, they throw on a Perfect Innocence and they can continue the PSOK and karma cubing cycle. As a result, bots have can use bypass scissor limits and unleash their entire stockpile of cubes and flood the market with illicitly produced goods. These items undermine the value of legit items and just encourage more of this behavior when desperate players just buy them and the bot owners resell the mesos from those sales. Perfect Innocence Scrolls should be removed to prevent this kind of abuse. A good progression wouldn't need players need to pass their items through hundreds of bot accounts and certainly wouldn't need an item just to renew scissor count limits.

Introduce Magic Wand
Magic Wand was introduced as the answer to how to re roll potentials potentials since they got in trouble with the FTC with cubes. This system allowed users to reroll potentials and bonus potentials using mesos and functioned like Bright Cubes and Bonus Bright Cubes (allowed users to pick before/after potential results.) Price was based on the item's level and the potential rank and whether it was a bpot or pot with bpot being about twice as expensive.

Players are optimistic about this change because it gives players access to "Bright" and "Bonus Bright" cubing properties on demand and isn't restricted by the "Karma" tag. Players no longer have to pay for cubing services and trust other players with their items or buy service from bot farms. Also items that are always tradeable such as secondaries, low level earrings/pendants, unworm items can be cubed with the "(Bonus) Bright Cube" treatment.

We of course are not getting KMS's prices for their wand as theirs scaled with their maple market and came with the daily meso limit and boss crystal change. Even if a Legendary Bpot is 800M, it is still a step in the right direction since you are rolling a "Bright" version so there is no fear of losing damage which was undoable with the current Bonus Cubes we got. Getting Magic Wand isn't about cheaper rerolls, it is about being able to actually upgrade anything anytime and not rely on players or bots for cheap cube service and having a system you can get stronger without losing progress.


In closing, Reg is screwed and needs attention in order to attract new players or even hold on to what little players is has. It hurts me that hearing that Reg is the minority of the GMS playerbase and has little to zero say in its future since everyone plays Reboot which is no longer supported by KMS and other regions. Hearing the best option is to "play Reboot" or to just "buy cheap botted items from bot farms" since makes Reg feel like a joke. GOING WEST seemed to work well for Reboot, but does nothing for Reg. In order for Reg to thrive, players must be able to progress on and not have to rely on bots or services.