I totally agree with TimmyGMS. Nexon I have been an old player of ms for years and a few years ago I quit my endgame bowmaster which had a sengoku badge. After 1-2 years of quitting I finally came back to the game after having graduated from school and I was excited to play another class instead of my old one. One of the biggest demotivating factors of this was the fact that I had to come back a big disadvantage already compared to my bowmaster as my bowmaster had a badge but not my Hero. I honestly dont think its fair for half the population of Maplestory to have a badge and for the other half (new players, people who want to try a different class) to not be able to have access to that anymore. At the end of the day a badge is simply a piece of equip and with you guys removing badges for new players, you are unbalancing the game. Why should new players be punished with a deficit of a lot of stat and attack just because they are new to the game? That just makes a lot of new players not even want to play after hearing about it. The whole point of Maplestory is to progress is it not? So why do you think by removing a piece of gear from new players tab and giving them a unpottable badge with at most 10 stat and 10 atk vs old players who have a badge that gives them around at least 5000 stat (as Timmy mentioned) as being fair? You are already destroying the progress of the new players by removing a piece of equipment which has no special power except giving a player some more stats and weapon attack. Now I know what you guys are going to say and I know its because you guys want to make room for the genesis badge. But think about most of the population in GMS. Out of 100% of the total population I daresay over 99% of them wouldnt bother to touch or do the dark boss set mainly due to how rare and expensive it is. Just because of that reason they should have no way of getting a pottable badge when others have it? Its just simply not fair. I personally do not think the badge is broken at all. If anything releasing the badge again will make the game more balanced than right now. And lastly if you honestly cannot allow badges to be released again I only ask for 2 requests:
1) Please let people who previously had or have sengoku badges to transfer the badge to another character. Since we were able to transfer emblems I dont see why we shouldnt be allowed to transfer badges. My suggestion is to switch the primary stat of the badge according to their character over to their new one. For example if I have a 30/11 dex badge as a bowmaster I should be getting a 30/11 str badge upon transferring on my hero.
2) Increase the rate of dark boss items and the genesis badge. If you really cannot release the badge again im afraid this is the only way that will help out everyone on this situation. Because the genesis badge is already a really low chance to get it would definitely help balance the game and close the gap between players with the sengoku badge and players that dont because right now we can see a huge inbalance between the 2.
