Pickpocket change

Hello mooplers,

Currently chief bandits pickpocket skill is in a rather poor spot as the mesos generated cannot be used to meso explode due to the low meso count per drop and because of this the only use for the generated mesos is to pick them up. To get an idea, roughly netting you about 50-250k meso per party member for boss runs or 1m extra per hour when grinding depending on a lot of factors.

However,

Whenever mesos are being picked up (or anything really) it has the potential to disrupt other actions such as attacking or using potions since only one action is able to be performed at once. And since mesos are split between party members using pickpocket during a boss run has the potential to disrupt your less optimal jobbed teammates potion/skill use which could be considered less than ideal.

So,

I suggest the current cap of 200 mesos per drop to be increased to 4000 mesos and the chance of mesos to drop to 3% (at max level pickpocket), the minimum amount dropped could be increased to 200 mesos. For example if you deal 5k damage currently you have a 60% chance of getting 50 mesos which would turn into a 3% chance of 1000 mesos.

Overlapping actions would become much less of a problem due to the lower count of meso stacks dropped while keeping the total amount generated the same, but this also means the mesos dropped can actually be used to meso explode with for a small damage boost, especially at a shadowers early/midgame where they cannot generate as much damage yet through their other skills.

I'm mostly posting this to gather opinions but if this were to be considered for implementation that would be cool too ^_^. In that case please also consider https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/meso-explosion-knockback-direction.51386/

Thank you for reading and please let me know what you think.

 

No this is about reducing "lag" with the added benefit of giving meso explosion more use outside of third job grinding.

 

I don't see why, lowering the amount of stacks dropped is also beneficial to prevent overlapping actions while grinding.

 

First off, a bit offtopic, but since the sweeper nerf where your pet can no longer loot items while in dark sight it is ok imo for thieves to leave their item magnet on as long as they enter dark sight as the boss goes down (I've made this a habit and it works very well). You only need to make sure you are not seduced at that point which is only possible at some bosses. This works nicely at bosses where you might want to loot summons drops like at Core Blaze.

Your pet looting mesos counts as an action for everyone receiving the mesos, which due to mesos being shared among party members is everyone in your party in the same map any time you loot any amount of mesos. The high volume of mesos currently looted through pickpocket makes this an issue which this suggestion could somewhat alleviate. The same principle applies to grinding where you cannot cast a skill at the same time your pet is looting items/mesos making for less fluent gameplay.

 

Any skill, even basic attack or using a potion/pet autopot counts as an action which can be interrupted.

Outside of pickpocket it is also very noticeable at the CWKPQ bonus stage when people are looting the mesos and you are trying to open the chests.

I guess it's kindof like snowshoes vs non snowshoes on anything but ice where some people don't notice the difference but it is definitely there.

For reference here's what blowing up 20x4k bags looks like, it seems like a decent dpm increase to me but after seeing xiaoyaoz do some calculations on this it turns out to be a rather small dpm increase. Regardless, if considered too much of a buff I would gladly give up IED in favor of this more active gameplay.

 

Shadowers are very much fine imo, could just use a bit more interesting gameplay.