Change can be hard to adjust to... but I feel your staring a gift horse in the mouth.
This patch brings:
-very nice power creep through familiar potential -check
-over haul of a really neglected old familiar/codex system -check
-Revamp of an old boss -check (I rarely run gollux any more, just felt like a waste of my time. But now I want to much more rewarding for killing him on your main than getting a buddy to carry you to farm rings and earrings for mesos lol)
My personal opinion is they need to tinker with gollux's hit box his expanded attack range and what not as something is not quite right about him, but the increased difficulty is welcome. Reg. servers gollux gear will always be available and reboot just party up... can't do it alone, well get a partner. The update itself is amazing, just glitchy and bugged and many unintended everything but all that can be fixed up with just shine and polish. As long as we get back whatever was lost in the roll backs and fine tune the familiar drops and making sure all familiars for the badge sets are obtainable in game then all good!
So calm down, yeah it is sad we have not had a roll back in quite a few years, let us hope we don't get another. They are devastating, but as long as they get this maintenance right this time and don't poke the bear that is the community right now, it will be A-ok.
But yeah this is their fault for not having proper patch testing on a closed test server, but this is their error that has inconvenienced us and they know that. So like I said I can't see their aim as to poke the bear any more but more to appease it with action that will hopefully sit well with the community.
Remember as with any major content patch and this game, especially for a non-kms hand me down patch but a unique gms content patch like this, has always in the past been quite an ordeal to iron out >< history repeats itself lol. everyone has seen the legendary double maintenance meme.
back in the blizzard entertainment days of Diablo 2. They added an extra equipment tab to the game eventually because people were tired of dropping and losing their gear on the ground when equipment swapping. it greatly reduced gear swapping scenarios and their loss of equipment.
I am suggesting the same thing, but with a twist. Please add an extra equipment tab that is specifically designed for DROP RATE & MESO increase only accessories. So 9 slots and what ever piece of drop rate/meso gear you place in, only the drop rate/meso increase will be used passively while you continue to gain the full benefit of your normal bossing attire on your main equipment tab(meso and drop gear potential lines do not apply when worn in main equip tab). So you can equip all your drop rate/meso gear in to a special equipment tab that will passively apply your drop rate/meso increase at all times and no need to gear swap any more last second in a boss fight or when training.
Benefits of this suggestion:
-saves people from losing their items when gear swapping.
-provides a convenience to all maplers.
-provides an incentive for all players to get a set of drop/meso gear if they don't already have one ("there are many who do not")
Pitched boss set is supposed to be hard to get so keep that as it is.
And just why would someone think it's good idea to add coin reqs on gollux sf, since there's so much finished gollux items around anyways that would only cause huge instability to game.
There is already a kms update patch coming that is increasing the drop rate of all pitched boss accessories.... prolly by not enough though lol
there are already a circus of people who have 22* gollux. I been hearing expressed concern over the gollux rework may make it harder for attaining the gollux gear or hurdles being added in the form of adding a coin cost to star forcing gollux gear like the masteria set. which is largely unpopular 99% of the player base if not 100% hate that change. plz don't ruin gollux gear and if you are going to go ahead ignoring your player base and doing it any way, then make all dark boss accessories a guaranteed drop from their respective boss. so we can cheeply acquire and sf the dark boss set and do away with gollux all together.
star forcing is bad enough with meso cost alone, this whole idea of requiring coins on top of mesos is a terribly unpopular idea with your player base. your entire player base hates it (aside from maybe a couple lunatics) and people are fearing u r going to add a coin cost to star force gollux gear as well. If you are looking to anger your player base, bringing potential changes like this is defintely gonna cause a mass upset.
