Revamp how monster cards are collected?

To share my experience, I have one character with T10 before CWK cards were added and another character with T9 after CWK cards were added, both of which are Shadowers.

The one with T10 took about 3 months of daily 3-hour sessions, using a mobbing skill that hits 4 mobs, though I started from T3 when I began that journey.

The one with T9 also took 3 months with a similar playtime, but I started with a fresh account. What made the second one faster despite starting fresh was the addition of CWK cards. There were mobs that mixed with others, and chances are you'd complete the set of a mob and 1-2 cards for the other. Staying to hunt may frustrate you if cards from completed sets keep dropping while none from the incomplete ones. The CWK card sets made it sufficient that I could just skip the last mob in that area.

So, I’d say it comes down to a bit of strategy in how you card hunt. Sometimes I just hunt a card or two in an area and move on to prevent boring myself, then revisit it later when convenient to finish up the remaining cards. I also change up the sets I choose to hunt based on what has dropped accordingly. This approach made it feel like it wasn't actually that long to complete each set and kept me going.

 

It's called Monster Book Ring for a reason. Something named Quest Ring may or may not be introduced later.

Even if there were such quests, it would be harder than you thought.
You can check the current PQ boss card seller for an example.

 

I enjoy the card grind. Have a 100% book and done t10 grind many times. Sure some sets will be unlucky and take an hour+, but as you pointed out some sets will take just a few minutes. It averages out in the end. And if anything, it's easier than it ever has been to get t10 as more and more sets are always being added while t10 still only needs 300 sets.

I also do believe that there is a substantial amount of exp being left on the table by staying only at the meta grinding spots and only branching out when the card mobs give virtually no exp for your level. Challenged characters specifically can benefit from changing their grinding habits.

 

worst case just grind 1 card set a day. you will have t10 ring in less than a years time. if you want to speed it up do 2 sets a day. i do not recommend doing more than 5 sets in one day as you risk major burnout. made that mistake a few times and ultimately slowed myself down more than had i just got less card sets a day.

the monster book isnt hard. just a bit tedious. but what in this game isnt? with enough effort all goals will be achieved.

 

My strategy is basically skip mini-bosses and skip low spawn monsters. Start from low level regions and make you can one or two hits the monsters. One region at a time. Have speed potions.

 

There are 457 sets available
You could skip every mini boss and PQ and still have plenty of other mobs to hunt because bosses only make up 60 sets

The first 5 tabs (red, orange, light green, green, light blue) alone is 292 sets

While I do agree card hunting sucks ass, I think the idea that we should make it easier because bosses are harder to hunt is kind of nonsense

 

10 all stat is already giga busted on the server

 

As others have mentioned, it can be tedious but not its really not that terrible. I enjoy carding and help friends/alliance with it whenever they go out to hunt. What helps is the monster book guide (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ohipSCqwiyyOdqNTWrTzDNGUtYJOojfk9qbVHSl70l0/edit?gid=0#gid=0) which tells you how to efficiently get your cards.

Your suggestion to tie it to quests...Theres alot of (lowlevel) quests that obviously overlap with the mobs youd want cards from. Why dont you just use that? Save the mapleworld whhile getting cards, gachas, nx... Some do have good rewards, but exp-wise theyre obviously gonna be terrible exp at higher levels.

If you REALLY hate it, you can always ask people to help or...pay people for it. Card service does exist, but comes at a price of roughly 1mil/card (i think this is current market value). Its not that different from paying for leech really, like for the people who hate grinding.

Anyway, best advice I can give is to 100% skip (mini)bosses cuz the respawn timer and campers just arent worth the effort. Theres enough sets in the game to skip all of em, so do that.

 

i bought alto fo cards. for easy to grind or weak monsters it was 500k per card. for more annoying monsters it was 750k. for end game monsters such as deep leafre 1mil per card.

 

Card hunting really isn’t that hard, I was able to finish it solo with a good amount of washing int. Just take it easy, and go for monsters you can 1-2 shot and you’ll get through it fine. If you can’t 1 shot or 2 shot anything, put it off until you can again. Though I will say every PQ set and most area bosses and mini bosses are cancer to finish. Other than those, the system really doesn’t need any adjustment imo, especially since it is getting easier and easier to finish with new sets getting added periodically.