Argent

Inventory management in general needs a massive overhaul.

The system they are using should probably at most flag account for further review, building a case against the player and perhaps even taking snapshots of the player's activities when it detects hacking. The system could notify GMs to come take a look at a player or talk to them (Nexon needs to figure out how to get around the player/gm detection thing hackers have) and then either warn or ban the player. Then implement the 3 strike rule for permanent bans.

Arwoo wrote: »

Just wanted to let you guys know that we hear you all on the nerf to these rings. We've forwarded the contents of this discussion to our teams and we will see where the discussions lead.

Good to see at least one of the poorly thought out changes in this update being flagged for reconsideration. I suppose this is easier to tackle since it is relatively minor compared to some of the other problems.

I'm excited to see how much more suffering Maplers can take.

Some of the arguments against Haku I've seen are:

1. It gives too much attack to mages in the party.
2. Physical-based classes don't get any attack buff.
3. New content and bosses were being designed around parties having the Haku buff.
4. Kanna already has a bunch of good support skills and a support class shouldn't do decent damage.
5. The overall number 19 ranked Kanna can solo Normal Damien in 5 minutes.

And my response to these are:

1. Definitely arguable since Haku was originally a self-buff. This change still only gives mages a buff though.
2. Same as before, but if party members were to get anything, a final damage buff would be nice.
3. If Nexon actually did that, then they have yeah change needs to happen, but again shows a lack of proper testing and balancing before going live with changes.
4. Having decent support skills shouldn't prevent a class from doing damage, especially when the game is played solo primarily.
5. How is a top player with 13.5m+ clean range soloing Damien even an argument in the first place?

Nexon could have blunted the outrage to this change by providing a video of their test Kanna with before and after clips that showed the damage output was still comparable. But, we have already seen the effects of this nerf in TMS when it first appeared a month ago; players reported their damage dropped by over 50%. Now, a few players in GMS have simulated the new change and they show similar results with a drop of 50-70% in damage.

If the GMS or any team is testing these changes prior to deployment, the effects should have been easily seen has extraordinarily heavyhanded. Even then, TMS has had the patch for over a month so being told that Nexon will continue to review and gather data after these changes are implemented in GMS is somewhat insulting. The data should already be available and should be being used to roll back the changes in TMS instead of pushing them to other regions.

We are told the Nexon does listen and yet our concerns are unaddressed.
We are asked to wait, to let the team monitor the situation, to trust.
Considering Nexon's history, trust is not something the players have a lot of.