APQ (Amoria Party Quest) is pretty outdated at this point and can definitely have changes done to it to bring it up to modern MapleStory, including its prizes.
Requirements: Minimum Level for Entry increased to level 200 and you must be Maple-Married!
The other requirement is that you must enter as a party of 2, 4, or 6 instead of only a 6-man party (no separated couples allowed!, but of course you don't have to enter with your spouse's character).
Rewards at the end will be client side since this is always a more than one person thing to do everyday.
Also, the limit will be changed from every 6-hours to once per day clear.
The quest will have a complete overhaul where when you enter you will be placed in a room with four portals.
One will lead to the boss directly, which is the most important bit, the other three will each lead to a puzzle-type of room in some way with a maximum of 2 players at a time in each room (so a 6-man party can do all 3 puzzles at the same time).
Each time you clear a puzzle room, the difficulty of the boss goes down by 1-stage, decreasing the difficulty and HP, but also the rewards at the end. So this works like Gollux with the four difficulties of Easy, Normal, Hard, and Hell.
The prize box at the end will drop Love Coins, increasing the amount based on the boss' difficulty and drop rate of the individual. With a chance to drop Onyx Apples that increase in chance with boss difficulty only and a very rare chance for a couples chair that can seat up to a total of 2-characters on it.
The prizes you can redeem with Love Coins in a special shop will be things like (examples):
~ Level 200 Badge (Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Medal ((Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Pocket Item (Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Ring (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Level 200 Face Accessory (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Level 200 Eye Accessory (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Onyx Apple
~ Special Chair 1 (Seats up to 2 characters)
~ Special Chair 2 (Seats up to 2 characters)
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Hat
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Overall
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Gloves (Bracelet)
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Cape
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Weapon
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Shoes
These items will have their own and very powerful set bonus as well!
Examples for set bonus rewards:
~ 2 Set: +5000 HP/MP and +50 All Stats
~ 3 Set: +25 All Stats and +30 Weapon/Magic Att
~ 4 Set: +20 Weapon/Magic Att and +10% Boss Damage
~ 5 Set: +10% Boss Damage and +30% Ignore Enemy Defense
~ 6 Set: +10% Boss Damage and +5% Critical Damage
~ 7 Set: Be in a party with your Spouse for +5% Critical Damage
(Clarity: Need to have the full equipment set and be in an active party with your Spouse's character for an additional +5% Critical Damage.)
If you have the complete Special "Cash" Outfit set equipped, you have a special effect when near your spouse-character.
I have long thought that Nexon needs a better system than MVP Gold/Diamond/Whatever and that a subscription method with lower bar for entry would be a better system so while I might not entirely agree with this idea I do think it is something Nexon could experiment with again.
We actually had a battlepass event a few years back and I wonder if it would be worth Nexon's time to see if doing this more regularly would be better for player's wallets and Nexon's income.
A battle pass needs to keep free players coming in every day to create player interactivity which helps boost players to spend money on the game, plus time investment to a game usually nets some kind of real money purchase from players that normally would spend nothing.
This is the importance of a free track.
Since GMS Bishops can hit 0 attack speed and KMS Bishops cannot, whether they have that extra -1 Attack Speed does not matter in KMS, but it does for GMS.
It be nice if you gave GMS Bishops in the Destiny Update to keep their -1 Attack Speed on the new Level 140 Hyper Skill's Passive so that we Bishops can keep our current Inner Ability and still solo-cap our attack speed.
(This skill currently gives -1 Attack Speed while in Bossing Mode.)
Also, reminder to include passive 100% Stance for Beast Tamers in the Destiny Update as well for all of the animals!
Gollux Equips all being the same colour gem makes it hard to see which is which at a glance. So I think their gem colour should match their aura colour.
Cracked: Purple Gems to Orange Gems
Solid: Remain as Purple Gems
Reinforced: Purple Gem to Blue Gem
Superior: Purple Gem to Green Gem
This way it will be much easier to see what equipment is what at a quicker glance without needing to hover over the item to make sure it is the correct equipment.
They told us initially that the 2x Special Drop Coupons are a low-popularity item, but then they review the PURCHASE RATE and tell us the PURCHASE RATE of the item...
This is nice and all, but I still want to know the POPULARITY RATE of the item.
How many people out of the total amount of players bought this item?
I knew from the beginning they slipped the item in at the bottom of the post hoping no one would notice. The reason for the removal was always about the balance of the game and I am surprised the item was not removed years ago to be honest.
Next time, when you do stuff like this Nexon, you got to come up with a solution that introduces something positive when taking something away that players like. Like you could introduce 30 minutes Wild Totems (in addition to the already 120 minutes Wild Totems) to the game with Small Wealth Acquisition Potions as something for players to be happy with (and gets more players coming on and playing as well which is also good for the game long-term).
~ It helps everyone be able to slowly grind each day of Maple in small 30-min chunks at a time and not upset the game-economy since it is more options to grind, but not giving more than what the game already gives. (And it makes Reboot players happy.)
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You are shooting yourself in the foot when you deliver bad news to players without something good to go alongside it. You got to be thinking more ahead when you do stuff like this.
