Initial Event Feedback

I've yet to see a notice for it, and I don't believe it had been spawned prior to the maintenance post patch (at the time i think maybe 5-6 people total had donated puff to the NPC).

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Current Bit Puff progress here :

 

maybe it requires a human sacrifice

 

Maple staff suffering from success: event so good people cant farm puffs.

This is also the most fun ive had. I love the tower, APR, raffle, BUT what I'm most impressed by is having the axe throwing quest be an alternative to people that dont wanna tower. So well thought-out event! A+ 100%

 

Reposting my feedback here.

Usually I wait until after the event to give my feedback, but I'm really unhappy with the current event and wanted to rant about it ASAP. Usually the events on Legends are quite good. I don't think I've seen an event this bewildering since summer 2017. I'm surprised some of this stuff made it to live, especially given the two month delay. There's a lot of small issues like some of the cosmetic items being broken or already available in the cash shop which make the event feel very rushed but I want to focus on bigger issues with the reward structure of the event.

I do not understand why it was decided that Maple items should be obtainable primarily from level-locked PQs. What was the intention with this? Is the idea that everyone would roll a bunch of new characters if they wanted to get them in the event? I can only guess that the staff have decided to fully embrace the MuleLegends reputation with this one. Or is the idea that only the dwindling new player population should have direct access to them? It seems like every year the way to get these items becomes more and more Byzantine. The upgrade system had its own set of issues but at least then the items were available regardless of level. I would honestly have preferred if the whole system was scrapped and replaced with the vanilla GMS system where Maple items were dropped from mobs during the event.

The event JQs/PQs are pretty fun but I don't like how they are the only way to earn event points and raffle tickets. The raffle-and-points system that has been the core of every event for the past few years now is not perfect but at least it feels well-integrated into the game. With this event I've been grinding out magician dodge training over and over and asking myself why I can't earn points from bossing and grinding. I also find the demon tower JQ to be really tedious and just not fun to play. I probably would've enjoyed it more if it wasn't the core of the event I guess. I will add that I'm really impressed with it actually being implemented though--as usual the coding side of things is top notch.

Lastly I want to talk about the raffle. I don't like how the raffle tickets are obtained, but I do think this raffle is a lot better than raffles in the past events. The issue I generally have with the raffles is that they tend to favor muling over farmable event points. Last event, for example, I really wanted an event chair. I did the event every day on 2 characters and ended up buying the chair from somebody. I also really wanted those all-stat earrings and was not able to get them. I would have rather had the option to farm the raffle repeatedly on a single character rather than rolling a bunch of event alts... MuleLegends strikes again. Anyway, this event lets you redeem points for chairs directly, I really like that. I don't mind the raffle for being a glorified rare gachapon ticket but I do feel that it often heavily incentivizes muling.

Oh, and this is a silly thing, but I would like to be able to use the long jump and axe throw outside the event... lol.

Anyway, to summarize: I don't like how many of the event systems require muling and are generally far removed from the rest of the game. I would like to see event points and maple items drop from mobs and maybe an alternate way to earn raffles. I think the best event system was the one where you could earn a capped amount of points per day from doing any boss. The absolute chaos of a 30-man Zakum run is easily the most fun I've had on this server.

 

I really just want to participate in the event, earn these items, scroll them, sell them, whatever. I'm not really interested in making a bunch of mules and dying intentionally to keep them at PQ levels. It's cool that it's an option but I don't get why the other methods for earning these items had to be removed.

 

It'd be cool if the puff daddy progress increased for every Demon King death. I'm trying to farm more APR here!!

 

I have spear if you want to buy

Ign: Watetsu

 

best raffle method yet

 

I think the Tower PQ is op, if anyone wants to try and run this for 30 characters for the span of the event, I can imagine them being able to make a good amount out of this event alone.

I suck at Tower PQ so I will probably only run this on 1 or 2 characters though.

 

Yeah I liked but also hated the demon tower at same time. It's stressful, I'd say, but maybe that's on me LOL. I also liked the possibility of skipping demon tower doing the left side party quest, but I felt the raffle ticket rate was low. I'd enjoy if there was an way to farm raffle tickets on mobs aswell, maybe blocking multimage farm somehow, so we could do different things when we are stressed with demon tower f5555555

 

Same, I actually like that the maple weapons are locked behind PQs rather than BPQ like last year.

New players are now able to earn the equipments themselves rather than being forced to purchase from veteran players who are able to get deeper in BPQs. Not to mention the artificial supply cap previously as maple boxes were directly competing with 30% scroll boxes.

 

Ye stone that must not be named.. (cough balrog seal stone) jokes aside

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I have turned off anti-virus settings to install the app, I can't seem to even get the client to even open, like I click it and it doesn't open, restarting, reinstalling, refreshing wine wrapper do nothing.

 

You might have better luck asking elsewhere. Have you tried using the compressed version? For me normal version crashes and wont even open but compressed one runs just fine

 

I think in terms of sheer amount of effort put into an event from an art design this is one of the best ever and the staff's hardwork can in no way be diminished in that regard. I just have always been a terrible platformer and this event is the opposite of something I am good at because in alot of events I am more of a monster farming type person than a PQer or platform jump quest person. So selfishly, I would prefer the reverse of an event like this but its so cool to see how everyone is excited and more of a social aspect involved but admittedly I am getting way less prizes this time around. At least there are regular PQs to run with some maple item prizes which is cool.

One future thing that would be cool for staff keep in mind. Maybe have whatever the "cosmetic currency" is for that event have a way to slowly get raffles as well. It seems like most people get their cosmetics/pets they want for the event and then its largely a useless currency after that.

 

when you don't know how to do it it seems boring, but when you get the hang of it and find the right parties it gets to be strange the difference of how easy it is