Reduce the Spawn Timer on Blue Mushmom

Title.

Problem:

Blue Mushmom has an insanely high respawn timer of a whopping 23 hours (!).



Here is another level 90 boss-level monster, Snowman, and his respawn timer for reference:



The high spawn timer on Blue Mushmom is very problematic because it limits the amount of times that the monster can be killed to once per day, per channel.

Additionally, the experience reward and drop table for Blue Mushmom are very average, and are not rewarding enough in comparison to similar boss-level monsters to warrant the 23 hour spawn timer.

What compounds this problem further is that there is a quest requiring that a Blue Mushmom be slayed in order to complete it, called "Eliminating Blue Mushmom".



This creates additional demand to hunt and kill this particular monster.

On a server with a population as large as MapleLegends', it is unreasonable to tie a quest completion to the elimination of a mob (that potentially hundreds of other players will also be hunting for) that can only be killed once per day per channel.

This makes it so that a maximum of 8 different players server wide can complete this quest each day. And that doesn't take into account the boss hunters that wipe out multiple channels of Blue Mushmom spawns.

Combined with the fact that respawn timers are hidden and cannot be anticipated by players who have not already killed the monster, this leaves the only option for players wanting to complete this quest to actively camp out for an entire 23 hours at Blue Mushmom's spawn location.

That is an unreasonable request, and cannot be expected of the majority of the player base that has real world obligations, like work, friends, and family to attend to, not to mention their own bodily needs of satisfying hunger, thirst, bathroom breaks, and sleep.

I have personally been logging in for 3 days now whenever I am able (anywhere between 1-3 hour intervals while I am awake, in between ~8 hour blocks of sleep) for the sole purpose of checking Blue Mushmom spawns, and have not yet encountered a single one.

This is problematic.

Suggestion:

Standardize Blue Mushmom's respawn timer down from 23 hours to 3 hours to match those of similar boss-level monsters.

Reasons:

1. Other similar boss-level monsters are already standardized at a 3 hour spawn timer.

2. The drops and experience reward of Blue Mushmom are not rewarding enough to warrant a 23 hour spawn timer.

3. Blue Mushmom in particular has an increase demand to be hunted on account of a quest requiring its elimination to be completed.

4. The only guaranteed way of witnessing a Blue Mushmom spawn is to actively camp the spawn location for a solid 23 hour block of time. No content should be locked behind this requisite that demands real world obligations and bodily needs to be suspended for almost the entirety of a day.

If there is something I am not seeing about Blue Mushmom that justifies its 23 hour spawn timer, I would very much like to know what it is.

 

I understand that it is possible to find Blue Mushmom spawns, but my suggestion still stands.

I do not believe that this particular monster warrant's its 23 hour respawn timer.

As you've described, Blue Mushmom is a boss that "drops little of value, has no card, no exp, and used for a quest that has little of value and no exp".

Do you believe that a monster of this caliber deserves a 23 hour respawn timer?

Additionally, the fact that by your estimate a total of 2 players are hunting Blue Mushmom at any given time and it is still this difficult to find, despite being such an unrewarding kill, serves as evidence to me that the spawn timer needs to be adjusted.

 

So Blue Mushmom's respawn timer is so long, just for the sake of making the quest difficult? Is that what you are saying?

How would you respond to someone comparing the "eliminate blue mushmom" quest to the other boss-hunting quests like "defeat Faust" that require the elimination of boss-level monsters on a 3 hour respawn timer and also reward much greater amounts of experience, relative to their level range?

 

I do agree that variety is good, there is no need for all quests to be standardized.

Some of the quests in this game I admit do feel pretty generic, and very similar to other quests.

I just wish that if the goal were to differentiate this quest from some of the other boss elimination quests, a solution could be found other than allowing only one Blue Mushmom to spawn per day.

I have a character parked there that I log into throughout the day to just channel surf, hoping for a Blue Mushmom spawn. Its been days like this. It feels like a standstill in character progression. There are different, more fun ways they could implement variety into this quest.

For the time being, I will get on with my maple life and take iPippy's suggestion to try my luck after a maintenance patch. That seems to be the best chance at it.