Excess Monster Cards

I think not everything needs to be purchasable (though I know card services exist too, lol).

But personally, I'd prefer if cards remain largely something you earn on your own.

 

I would like to see, or something like that, or you give them to the NPC and the NPC gives you something in return

 

Making them worth NX would be nice. But is it any different from just increasing the rates of NX drops?

 

I personally think the Monster Book is something that each character needs to grind for themself. It's a certain right of passage to grind a character to a T10 ring, and is a mark of accomplishment as it represents a considerable amount of time invested into that character.

It would be cool if your 6th+ cards did something though.

The current "card buff" as seen in the game is cool, but I wish it was better. Imagine getting +15 speed from a card instead.

Every game design change is meant to encourage/discourage a certain behavior. Is this change meant to?

a.) Encourage players that are already grinding a map for hour (ex: petri cards)
b.) Encourage players who are grinding the 6th+ card on more rare mobs (ex: nest golems)?

 

pinboom nx farm

 

Beyond my original opposition on the basis of not wanting cards to be (conveniently) buyable like so much else in this game, I think I also dislike this idea because conceptually cards are supposed to reward you for hunting different things and introduce variety, even if only for a while.

Rewards for cards past the 5th are largely just rewards/buffs for doing what players are already doing (hunting high value monsters), so it's a little antithetical to the design to begin with.