Update MapleLegends Spring Major Update

Good insight as far as common spots in Legends weren't in GMS or weren't common in GMS.
Most iconic GMS training spots to me were:
Grim Phantom Watch parties - Usually DK on top going in a circle with a priest and a hermit at the bottom mobbing, or a fire mage mobbing bottom solo, or if you're a crazy guy with mesos then an archer named LightOne
Viking Parties in Warped Path of Time 4
Squids Parties
Goby Parties
Zombies 1-4 with 2 and 3 being the most desirable
Hot Sands
Bains before Zak


By parties I mean 6 man things where everyone attacks a certain spot and an HSer runs around. If there were somehow a revival of that it could be interesting. Otherwise making GPW somehow viable could be cool. I think a lot of the reason these maps and monster go outdated isn't necessarily the spawn but their shapes and platform layouts get outdated over time. There's a lot of walking and map cycling in GPW or there's unique platform set ups in viking parties compared to flat, accessible, and campy maps like Gs2. I don't know if buffing spawns can fix that but I liked Alyosha's comment about GMS spots being under used or that they're replaced by non-gms maps already.

 

At the end of the day it comes down to EXP per HR. The problem with the outdated GMS maps is that they are inferior on two fronts, mob quality and MAP layout.

Not only do the monsters in the GMS maps give LESS EXP per monster HP, but the map layout also makes it so that you spend less time doing damage and killing mobs and more time travelling.

This isn't something that can't be fixed - you could just OVERBUFF the monsters in terms of EXP or Spawn to compensate for the fact that you would be spending more time travelling and not being able to hit them as often in a map with a better layout such as GS2.

Personally, I would prefer that outdated maps be made viable by buffing the items it drops. It would be amazing balance to have maps that are good for farming exp, and maps that are good for farming mesos, but not maps that are good for both at the same time (like mannequins).

 

Teleports could be added around some deep ludi maps to keep the killing going, that along with a slight buff to exp and to give them a purpose would make them pretty cool.

The crack to summon Pap could be added to drop tables, maybe as a slightly difficult drop like Cornian Dagger/Marrow. Along with that the cooldown for getting the free crack could be made to be like 48-72 hours or the freebies could gotten rid of entirely. A marginal increase to Pap's exp, like 10-20% along with making him drop an average of one or two more pieces of equipment could make him more sought after. He's decent already, but compared to other stuff he's only alright. I'd kill him more often if there was more of a reason to be in Ludi. Right now there isn't much of a reason to leave the NLC/Victoria/Leafre region, so I don't usually go there late game.

It would be a more unique experience. Spend an hour farming 2 cracks, hopefully get ~15-20mil exp doing that, then go kill Papulatus a couple times for some nice loot and 7-8mil exp.

The exp would be decent overall for people early in 4th job. Pap giving more drops would help establish him as a decent boss to do daily. A lot of people lose money killing Zakum, but he's some of the most viable exp for bossing classes.

But then again we have Ravana soon, if he's around the skill level of Pap but more available then RIP Pap. I'm also gonna NPC all of the helms I get for fat cash.

 

Not sure if it was intended along in this transition fix but I'm pretty sure this change affected gobies as well. IIRC once the house was destroyed, gobies would spawn instantly allowing you to hit the gobies once they spawned. However now there's a small "delay" from when the house is destroyed to when gobies are spawned to when you can attack the gobies.

 

Goby Nerfs part 4.

 

I know that many people think mages are too powerful and don't need any buffs. However, it's disappointing that Infinity didn't get buffed. As it stands, Infinity's active duration is 40 seconds, but it's cooldown is 10 minutes or 600 seconds. The active time is less than 10% of the cooldown time. Some people argue that having that much free MP for mage ultimates is too powerful, but this skill requires that you invest 30 SP into the skill. It would go a long way to improve quality-of-life for people who MAIN mages, if the cooldown was decreased to 5 minutes with a 60 second active duration. Another solution could be something like increasing the active duration to 2 minutes, while maintaining the 10 minute cooldown.

 

What's even better is that the skillbook costs a couple million mesos.

You can get about 15 free casts at max level.

On a bishop that's 52.5k free MP. On an AM that's 105k mp.

With 30k MP on a mage Mana Bulls heal 18k MP for 2800 mesos.

That means by using Infinity 30 and casting an AM saves around ~16,333 mesos. A bishop saves 8,166 mesos.

They can cast it 6 times per hour. (That's probably the most unrealistic part of this, I hardly ever remember it exists.)

So overall AM's can save 98k per hour using Infinity, bishops can save 49k.

So if you pay 2mil for it, it'll take 20 hours of grinding on an AM and 40 hours of grinding on a bishop in order for it to be worth it.

2mil isn't even that much money. Over the course of a career it could probably save like 20mil at the very most.

 

Not even 10% of the mp usage is pretty laughable... plus I hear it doesn't even keep MP intact when taking damage through magic guard. That makes it a lot worse than I already thought too. Plus the 30 skill points is the main cost issue... Never was a fan of infinity.

I was hoping Mana Reflection damage could be buffed as it can be seen on hiddenstreet.net. 10x damage reflected as opposed to 2x damage reflected at max level would make the skill... somewhat noticeable.

It would also be great if the AM summons didn't cost double MP since element amp doesn't affect them.

And last, element composition is complete garbage, especially considering that it doesn't work with ele wands. Definitely needs a buff.

 

Any dev-thoughts on also buffing Inferno for archers? The buff for Arrow Eruption/Rain has been great, but in contrast now Inferno feels very weak even when considering it's stronger against fire weak monsters.