Rebalance Snowman PQ

Wait til we tell 'em about the Jr. Wraiths that it spawns. I do agree the summons can easily become a problem if you dont quickly take high ground and secure both sides, especially the teleporters. But I also like that sometimes you just need the party to peel for each other. I'd rather lower quantity of spawns than their quality, personally.

I agree with much of the qol stuff (visibility, hitboxes, platform). The insane healing is likely a measure against muling/hiding, but it really just stops a weakened squad from having a chance at being a hero. I'd nerf/remove that and likely buff the total health in return (and consequently reduce the threshold for wraiths and control reverse).

The biggest issue is still that it's all or nothing rewards. You either kill it (which we only did once after probaly like 5-6 hours of grinding), or you afk for 6 minutes and only fight the first half of b3. Getting to 60% on b3 is pretty free once you know how to not die to the first summon wave, and only takes a couple minutes to get there. Even a full clear run can be completed very fast, only a couple minutes longer than our "active" period on stall runs. But why go for 30% or the clear if we have to risk our "virtually guaranteed" 60% reward?

I don't think I want the snowman to be too easy to kill to make the runs that go deep feel better, but the ground floor in rewards for bad runs and average players is currently non-existent, to the point that I won't likely run it until this is addressed.

 

Finally, someone made this post. Get to work Kim!!

 

I agree with moving npc to increase snowflake visibility, however I believe full clear is meant to be very difficult (wait till you get to reverse phase lol) this wouldn't be a problem if rewards were given as intended

 

On top of the rewards being glitched at the 60/30% marks, I don't think the NX option is even working... The times I've chosen it I don't believe my nx has gone up despite it saying so.

 

+1 specifically for suggestions 1, 4 & 5.

Implementing just those three alone would take it down from near-impossible to hard-but-achievable at least for parties who know what they're doing.

Would also like to suggest rewarding some low amount of presents for failed attempts that reach 3rd body. At least so that it's not "all or nothing"

 

I think QOL changes like 3, 4, 7 are well warranted, but we should be careful about hastily making content easier, especially in a game where skill-based gameplay is already rare.

It's highly unlikely that players have already managed to achieve optimal execution and strategies, so it's unclear where the ideal balancing point should lie.

An alternative approach would be to give players more power via opportunities for skill expression, e.g. instead of reducing the boss HP, add weak spots, improved sniping spots, or collectable damage power-ups.

I've found content like this and demon tower extremely refreshing and engaging for both sweaty and casual players and it would be a shame to see it overly toned down and clears become too easy.

Fixing the partial reward system would definitely be good too though. I'd also love to be able to see each other's HP through the party HP window so we can make smarter strategic decisions as a team.

 

the visibility of all the snowman's attacks need to be improved asap. I feel like almost all of their attack indicators blend in with the background or are so small you need to pay attention to every pixel

also I don't know if it's intentional or not but there are hidden walls that block your attacks from going through and I don't think that should be a thing

 

You know what I would go as far to say if you beat the PQ then you should get a guaranteed raffle ticket. As someone that's semi active and becomes active when a event comes along especially during the holidays when I finally have time off. It's incredibly dis-heartening knowing I have to min-max the event enable to have a chance to get a raffle ticket and then pray to rng ontop of it during PQs for a possibility to get a ticket. Let me have some fun let us not forget the best part of maplestory was the social aspect of the game and not trying to min-max every single little thing.

 

From what i understood and fix me if i worng, have to end the timer w/o die at 60% what lead ppl to wait 4-5 min ish and then start att , imo needed to get reward even if you fail at 60% hp no matter the timer