Idea to facilitate Washing: make Base INT a minor part of the Weapon Attack formula.

The only inadvertent downside to this idea is that you'd also be buffing every class (outside of mages) slightly due to the free ~40 INT from their pendants and helms.

 

Another positive outcome of this is that Maple Island content would be made a bit faster for both mages and all the INT mules as they won't be stuck doing 1-2 damage.
I would also be interested in seeing iies's attack damage on a snail if these changes were to be made.

 

I dislike this idea because HP washing already allows people to break the game. Ranged classes are supposed to be glass cannons. Making HP washing easier by making this type of change just makes it easier to reach higher HP thresholds these characters should never be reaching to begin with.

 

There is a difference between glass cannon and not able to take a single hit though. I hate hp washing too. Give every class the minimum to not be locked out of any content and even remove hp washing is what I wish for.

 

https://forum.maplelegends.com/inde...washing-to-be-optional-on-maplelegends.26370/

If you reference this guide there are only 3 bosses you cannot do if you do not HP wash a single point. Vergamot's attacks are all dodgeable so it's doable and Toad was never meant to be done by ranged characters. That leaves us with pink bean which does have the highest threshold. Akash's guide has no mention of event rings which provide an additional 500-600 HP at the moment. This would bring the minimum HP of any ranged attacker to 7.3K. That leaves us with a 4.4K differential, which requires 245 fresh washes to achieve. This would require you to level up with an average of 154 total int (not base) for 190 levels which means you can probably get by with about 70-100 int + some moderate tier int gear. Although training with 70-100 is not what I would call easy, it's also not what I would call difficult.

This also ignores the fact that staff has stated one of their goals for 2021 is to introduce more ways to get HP into the server, so we will have to see what they come up with. If they are successful in introducing more gear it just makes washing that much more optional and reduces that int threshold I mentioned above.