Should the Upgrade Curve Be Changed?

For anyone who is not aware of what I am talking about, it is the upgrade progression that maplers go through in MapleLegends. Essentially what the experience boils down to is this:
Players will grind a reasonable amount for their gear: a scrolled Zak/Scar Helm, followed by their Dex/Str/Luk Top/Bottom/Overall, followed by 12 - 14 Attack gloves, and then their choice of weapon which is probably something along the lines of a mid-maybe near end-game weapon. I consider this grind to be reasonable, meaning that the effort invested produces plausible gains relative to that effort invested.

However, beyond a certain point, when a player chooses to upgrade their gear even more, every further upgrade requires a cost that just... exponentially, really... exponentially increases a crazy amount. For what I'm referring to, its things like Chaos'ed capes for attack, Chaosed MoN, 15, 16 att+ gloves, weapons with 3 or more 30/10%s successfully passed. Before things cost 10's of millions, maybe few hundreds of millions at most, for you to progress in your gear to then meeting a giant freaking wall of needing billions for SMALL upgrades.

If you were to graph effort invested versus gains, it would look like this.

Essentially the effect is this for most players AKA sane maplers: the grind is not worth it. The grind is too unfun because the investment you get isn't worth it. This wall exists due to the sheer number of chaos scrolls and white scrolls, the most expensive, rare/hard to acquire, and risky components in the game, required to be used to upgrade your gear. This wall requires the craziest grind on part of mages/leechers for a long long time (or the occasional bonkers gambler), and lets be real, 99.99% of people don't want to do that.
(MapleRoyals also has this issue but is exacerbated that you can vote to win for the first half).

Now contrast this to something like DreamMS (disclaimer: I am not advocating for DreamMS style of progression).

This model has a more linear relationship between effort invested and the amount progression/gains you get for a longer period of time. However, in my opinion, this made the server too easy, and therefore too unfulfilling when you reach the goals you once thought were supposed to be difficult, because they weren't actually that difficult for a pre-BB server. This curve exists because there is immense ease of acquiring white scrolls and perfecting your weapon and other items and the result is that most players DELAY chaos scrolling until the very end. But as I said, in my opinion, this graph is too easy/too casual.

In my opinion, a curve that is less punishing would look like this:

Essentially this graph is more rewarding to more players while retaining the difficulty of the wall that exists afterwards. Delaying the wall, in my opinion, would prolong the gametime/period that most players find enjoyment in grinding MapleLegends.

Now the question is, how would this be achieved? I have one solution: lowering the prestigious coin value of Chaos Scrolls. (Though I would encourage any other discussions)
For many Maplers, the concept of the rarity of Chaos Scrolls and White Scrolls are tied together, meaning they are both equal in rarity and value (this exists in MapleRoyals, too).
Of course it is nostalgic that the two are tied together, but nostalgia value is arbitrary and subjective.

So what would the impact of lowering coin value of Chaos Scrolls do? Obviously the answer depends on what their cost is. I would propose the chaos scroll value go from having the market value of 93-ish coins (the value of Mysterious Pouch 5), to that of 30-40 coins or about 100-120mil.

Now what are the ramifications of this new cost for Chaos Scrolls? Does it become cheaper to chaos your items? Yes it does. However, with each scroll still bearing a cost of 30-40 coins, it is still something that must be grinded and/or is not feasibly something players should strive for until they have reached otherwise sufficient levels of gear. Cheaper chaos scrolls will reduce the value of many capes/gloves/facestompers. Yes, this is true, that would be the point, but it will reduce their value in such a way that the effort required to grind for these items is not such a massive wall. In perspective, what it really does is move the window of value of highly-chaosed items. I am not aware of the exact costs of capes right now, but I presume something like
7 att: 300-400 coins
9 attack: 700 coins
11 attack: 1300 coins
15 attack: 2000 coins
19 attack: your life savings
23 attack: every year remaining in your life
24 attack: the rest of your life, your spouse's life, and your children's lives too

But by moving the window, it would hypothetically look something like this:
7 attack: 150-200 coins
9 attack: 350 coins
11 attack: 500 coins
15 attack: 800 coins
19 attack: 1500 coins
23 attack: your life savings
24 attack: just half of your remaining life on earth

So yes, the reduced cost of chaos scrolls does indeed reduce the value of things like attack capes, but in perspective, it moves the window that is more friendly and accessible to more players. A player may see themselves forseeably grinding for 1bil for a 9 attack cape, that would be worth it for more people than it is to grind 2bil for a 9attack cape. This allows more players to forseeably see themselves engage in the chaotic game of gambling with chaos scrolls and thus be willing to interact with this economy even more.

TLR reduce the cost of chaos scrolls, game difficulty remains high, window is moved to be friendly to more players, and this wall of needing to grind billions for small upgrades is not so punishing, increases player retention and lifespan of gameplay

thank you for talking to my ted listen, phosisticated legendlers, am open to other ideas, but not your disagreement kthnxbye

 

It devalues their gear from 700 years worth of investment to 200 years. Perfected White Scrolled items retain all their value.
The rich remain super rich, but it also means that they have more opportunity to go even higher.

It should be obvious that while items like 15 attack or 17 attack pacs become more accessible, theyre still really freaking hard to get (all relative to a new cost of chaos scrolls)

Also, at one point, weren't chaos scrolls (white scrolls too) cheaper than what they are worth now?