Aggraphine

ACMBlackCipher wrote: »

HuskyDM wrote: »

I would prefer is every boss had the same procedure to access it (clear times are another beast entirely). Let's say you just need to have the prequest done in order to access the boss, no keys needed. Why do we need the Eye of Fire for Zakum, the scroll for Von Leon, the Marble for Pink Bean, and the keys for Root Abyss? Why is Easy Empress only accessed via queue instead of being an option in her portal? If all you needed was the prequest then you get to their portal, choose a difficulty and there you go.

This would be nice. Unfortunately, they shoe-horned in "lore" for accessing bosses at the time. Like "summoning" Zakum, bypassing a ward for VL, breaking the barrier for PB (which keeps resetting after you break it by some magical power), etc. If those could be changed to a one-time quest-related mechanic, that would really make the whole bossing system more efficient. Let's not mention how Cygnus keys are a chore.

Hence what I brought up about simply making these things permanent etc items, like the dragon king relic for magnus and the certificate of the dragon squad for horntail.

ForPain wrote: »

"MMOs by nature are designed to be grindfests that waste as much time as possible?"

Oh boy oh boy do I have some news for you!

This is not the game, nor community, to try and tell people it's not designed to keep you online for as long as possible.

Let us, for the moment, ignore the dailies that can eat a solid two or three hours of your online time, depending on how quickly you can clear them out.

Have you never seen the relay events? Or sugar time events? One requires you to spend probably an hour just meeting the criteria for completion, then spend the next two hours waiting down four separate timers. The other is roughly the same, but differs in that you can run through the four times five times in one day. If that's not "designed" to eat as much of your time as possible, then what is?

Let's not even mention reboot.

ForPain wrote: »

I don't want the "Black Mage" content to fall behind as an old-timer and pioneer of Maplestory.

That's how stories work. You reach the end of one segment and it falls behind as newer segments are brought forward. Does reading a book upset you when earlier chapters "fall behind" as you make your way through the book?

The problem is that development decisions are for the most part(better than 90%) in the hands of nexon's parent company in South Korea. South Korea, according to Wikipedia, does not afford any sort of legal partnership to same-sex couples.

I'll agree that it would be a very minor change, and that it would probably take little, if any, work to actually enable, but the simple fact of the matter, unfortunately for you and everyone who feels the same as you, is that cultural differences are a thing, and you need to understand that not every country shares the same ideals as you or your own country.

On a personal note, I have never been able to see the reasoning behind people getting so up-in-arms and offended over the fact that <random foreign-made MMO> doesn't allow for same-sex marriage. It doesn't make you any less human that literally some random video game doesn't accommodate your sexual identity or orientation. Other than the armoria party quest, which gives onyx apples, there's really no tangible benefit to marriage in this particular game anyway, so I further see no need to make an issue of it.

Don't misunderstand me here, I'm not trying to shame or silence you for being gay. What I'm trying to say is that, due to cultural differences between, say, the US and South Korea, this may be a pointless tree to bark up.

MigiSouthpaw wrote: »

Aggraphine wrote: »

Spiders don't stack with use-tab drop coupons. You heard correctly. You can, of course, use both at the same time, but when the familiar buff refreshes it will overwrite the use-tab buff.

Oh... but decent holy symbol + 2x USE drop is fine?

I believe so, yes.