Remove NLC Pots

I really think the discussion is over. Though I've already said that I think skills like Blizzard should be a drain on your wallet. You trade off heavy pot burn for extremely fast leveling. And when you're low on money, you need to rely on your other skills.

That said, I find it interesting that you seem to imply once elixirs and power elixirs become important again, it'll be a place where magicians will shine because they're so good at farming, right? So magician ends up paying more for their ultimates, but they can also collect elixirs the fastest... huh, I don't see a problem there.

 

No, not really. When you're leeching you aren't really playing the game. When you're a mage using skills like Blizzard, you're actually leveling up through your character's own power, not simply by hanging on a rope and getting credit for kills through some bizarre mechanics of "ok well you're on the same map, so I guess that means you put in effort to kill the mob."

What would be a more accurate comparison is when you go some place to try to power level when you aren't quite the level you should be. You'll burn through a massive amount of pots, but still get better % an hour.

As I've already said a million times over, they wouldn't be affected nearly as much, if at all. Thief and archer classes don't have nearly enough HP to be using honsters safely and efficiently. And a 4th job warrior will never use mana bulls. Worst thing that happens to them is they lose their honsters. It's a bit of a hit, but not nearly as much as to the mages. Ginseng root and ginger ale aren't even too useful for anyone except mages because the other classes don't need to take care of both HP and MP bars just to survive. Then there's sorcerer elixirs, which I'd say also need a price change. Of course, mages end up using those first, but archers and thieves will I think around 8x or 9x...

Anyway, I realize warriors can burn through lots of HP pots, but again, it's all your style and manner of training. Do you piss off every monster and lure them to the other end of the platform before starting to kill them? It's more MP efficient, probably a bit more time efficient too, but you take far more hits than if you mobbed a bit more conservatively.

Considering elixirs drop from many other mobs, especially lower level mobs and are given out in bundles from party quests, no, I don't really see a problem. It means you could find these potions from other players.

Also, I don't see how you're going broke unless you're powerleveling places you probably aren't ready for. For instance, black kents? lv 1xx priest should have no problem tanking the kents without MG with their defensive skills. Heck, if you even had invested in some HP gears, you could probably even tank himes without MG...

 

I'm not saying mages are good at farming items just because of their ultimates. Just saying that because everyone else screams bloody murder it's not fair to add gash items to mob drops because mages are best at farming!



I dunno, I guess that is probably true even 2nd and 3rd job, depending on type of mage an monsters what with their teleport and aoe skills. But that does mean if you wanted to farm items, you have to leave your hot leveling spots.

Still, on another low rate server, I knew plenty of priests that trained easily no problems after 9x and made money doing it. You just have to go to the right places. And maybe have HP gear if you can't survive 1 hit. It really isn't that hard.