Bring back Mini Dungeons

Bring back GTOP rank 2

 

YES pls bring them back, no reason not to!
sucks for new players when you can't train at the best map, and sucks for established players when you feel like you're griefing newer players by hogging a whole ch. ex: trying to train at CDs and half the maps are taken by bishop selling leech.

 

I'd rather see the top maps nerfed/other maps buffed to provide more variety instead of everyone hell bent on using the same maps.

The MapleLegends world is huge but most of it is dead due to unbalanced maps.

 

CD ratio: 0.089 exp/hp
beetle ratio: 0.019 exp/hp

CDs have an EXP/HP ratio almost FIVE TIMES that of another level 72 mob, and this isnt even counting the fact that CD literally multiplies when u kill them.

anyway, the reason there are so few meta maps is because in order for a map to be good for leveling, it has to meet very specific criteria. this varies, but the following principles generally apply:

-small > big
-dense > sparse
-good EXP/HP ratio
-good drops (hint: every mob dense map is a good drop map because of gachapon)
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the huge map rework(s) that happened a while back added new drops, new teleporters, and improved spawns in many maps. this was amazing, but pretty much all of these maps are still unutilized by regular humans. why? because they're still very bad compared to the best options.

maybe the best and simplest way to improve maps in ludi, leafre, orbis, etc without destroying their visual identity is to crank their EXP/HP ratios way up. this still doesn't solve the drop problem and the density problem, but it's a start.

thoughts?

 

Make almost all mobs of same LVL XP/HP ratio same-ish

If CDs are at 0.089 xp/hp then try getting all other lvl 72 mobs around the 0.07 and 0.08 range

Or even better, nerf everything down a bit and make most stuff accessible

Nerf CDs a bit down to 0.06 xp/hp and buff beetle to 0.05 xp/hp ratio, same with most mobs around

 

I agree that this is the best long term solution. I'm sure it would lead to new "meta" maps, and new opportunities for certain mobs to be considered unbalanced - but it would be a move in the right direction that could be adjusted over time.

However, in the meantime....

100% Agree. It really sucks when the maps you want to play on are full. Especially when it's someone selling quad petri leech for eight hours. Mini dungeons were a nice solution - as the limitations of only allowing the whole party in at a time really favored the casual player vs. the leecher.

 

1. really not enough time to individually test and handcraft stuff as trivial as midgame grinding maps. just need to make sensible changes, let us the players know, and we will do all the testing.
2. yes, and ratio is one of the important factors that goes into determining eph. i mention it because i noticed that specifically in that 7x range, the ratios for most mobs are pathetically lacking compared to a few star maps.

i agree with krythan tho, in the meantime the mini dungeons should be brought back.

 

If they had mini dungeons, bosses, and PQs not tied to channels they could reduce the server to 1 or 2 channels and it would feel way less empty and still way more playable.

 

yesterday I saw the lack of Channel for the first time, I like the idea of less cc (like 6) but it needs more alternative yes