1 year of voting

So realistically speaking how long does it take to get to PB level(and the appropriate gear scrolled) from first starting a character? I'd imagine most people wouldn't be doing PB after a few months of gameplay so realistically a year makes sense anyways as washing is a sacrifice made to boost long term end game. There'd also be nothing stopping you from doing literally all of the other content until you reached that milestone. You'd also literally have to play your character in order to get the point of being able to PB, unless of course your leeching; which then you'd actively be choosing not to play your character.
Also I thought Pink Bean hasn't even been added yet.

 

It'll take you over a year to get a BM to lvl 200 anyways.
Even with all the NX readily available to wash, with perfect gear, with a 6-man HT party that runs twice a day.
Just do $levels serperior and you'll see.

 

I hypothesize that staff might add some kind of HP equip / item when they release pink bean. They've done so for a lot of the other content that they add in. (For example, every event nowadays seems to have an event item that adds HP, when they added cwkpq we got MoN + pet equip HP scrolls, etc).

Basically this is an area of maplelegends that staff definitely gives some thought. Also, contrary to popular opinion, characters are in fact playable with substantial amounts of INT. You just need to build the character properly and have the right meta items.

For example:

https://forum.maplelegends.com/inde...riats-guide-to-low-base-int-mp-washing.32453/

 

Free 15k HP pog

 

Instead of having the devs add in a whole new system on top of everything else, if they wanted to change how long it takes people to wash it would be simpler to just lower the nx cost of ap resets. Everything stays the same except for the time it takes for you to get the NX to fully wash

 

Im always interested in more ways to make HP more available as it's such a terrible mechanic in the game. But there is also the line of making it difficult to get insane amounts of HP.

What about adding something to bosses that dont really feel worth your time.

Ie adding a chance for an untradeable ap reset to zak/krex/whatever boss drops. One that can be looted once by all party members, and limit it to 6 if possible to avoid mules getting it.(if it even drops)

im a big fan of adding ways to speed up HP washing that involve playing the game over voting.

 

The main issues is how to tackle it without invalidating the years of hardwork put in by older players.

I thought they did a great job combating that with anniversary event where ap resets were farmable albeit required work to be put in. Multiple LVL 30s in the same account clearing dailies and transferring the AP resets.

I thought the same model was gonna continue but isn't the case for summer event.

 

Something to keep in mind regarding HP washing becoming optional is that it needs to be done in a way that doesn't disregard all of the work that everyone in the past has already done. It's a very slow process overall, and it makes complete meta-shifts in how people gain HP impossible. So it makes it a very careful game in trying to balance.

Overall, HP washing has become heaps easier than it was in the past, but it's been done slowly over time enough that people don't really recognize how far it has come. Removing gachapon tickets from the Cash Shop allowed for people to vote on multiple devices, allowing people to save on an account for washing or have free owls/smegas for other purposes. Streaks were also added, initially increasing the NX gain to 6k per day and eventually making it 6.5k a day. TopG was also added as a voting option, increasing it to 7k per day. None of this made AP Resets any cheaper, but it did allow for more AP Resets to be received every day.

There was a time when staff proposed cheaper AP Resets, but overwhelmingly the community was against it. At best it'd be very controversial to push something like that through, and the same would go for increasing HP gains on levels/washes. It's just that many of the folks against it have seen these threads a dozen times already, and aren't likely to come out of the rabble without an announcement on the topic.

HP washing is something that's hard to approach. Doing it slowly is the option that makes the most people happy, though many of the folks just starting out would like to see it progress faster many of the options would cause a lot of chaos in places outside of the primary demographic. It's a difficult scale to balance when it comes to fairness for everyone.

 

Just throwin' a few ideas out there, and I have no idea how catastrophically bad these could be:

What if AP Resets were a rare Gachapon drop? (Encourages gameplay/grind?)
What if AP Resets only drop from obscure bosses that most normally wouldn't want to run? (Yay, variety incentive?)
What if AP Resets were purchaseable from a NPC at a high rate? (Yay, Meso sink...)

 

I like what I'm doing though, this fun. Very fun.
(Yes, I put 2 in STR by accident, that was fun too.)

 

I think the biggest misconception around HP washing is how much int you need. Unless you're actively trying to break the game with how much HP you want(Like 15k+ HP clean on a ranged character), having 200 int or more isn't the best option. 100 int with no equips should be enough to do every boss in the game when you reach the bosses' level, even if you only start putting int in at level 70 or thereabouts. 140 int with some equips should let you do anything very comfortably, even HT without Hyperbody. More int only increases the max HP attainable, but past a certain point it become detrimental in NX cost depending on the HP goal in mind.

 

The past 2 events have been incredibly generous for AP resets. The events used to be 1 reset = 1 raffle in pricing but now they’ve been roughly 5 resets = 1 raffle. If you farm the events hardcore you definitely don’t have to wait 1 year of voting to have a playable character. I also agree with Moob that people get such a misconstrued idea of how much int you really need. If you want to put 200 base int and break the game with your HP then it should take a long time. Although I will say AP resets from bosses and gachapon tickets are pretty good ideas imo. I’d even add NX dropping from bosses (area bosses & expedition ones) year round. I’m not sure which bosses I’d add resets to but krexel for sure is easy enough for anybody to kill and deserves something to help boost it’s drop table.