Suggestion for next patch and my opinion on the last

Gonna write something constructive for once, let's start.

Last patch brought us some really good *late game content*, good grinding spots, new boss run, finally bot dex 60 became farmable from a map where u don't need to lose your sanity to farm one (YnP) so at least these additions got me hyped enough to play again.

Ok Sean, that's rly nice man but where's the catch?

-the issue is that this patch was delayed for far too long. Had this patch been rolled out maybe 1 year earlier server would be able to maintain a high pop for far longer, why? Many people from back in the day (Launch) complained about how the server went on for many months without any content addition and late game became boring to them.

Most of them probably thought that HT would be never taken down so after doing some zak runs or hitting high levels there was pretty much nothing left for them to do.

Of course all the staff has been pretty busy I assume, we all have lifes to tend to but ultimately for me this delay is what brought a low playerbase.

According to Kim she prefers this little playerbase, although it's hurting the server's economy and the community in the long term because from now on, every player lost will be affecting the server's playercount.
I don't have statistics or logs to back my words of course, but im kinda sure that newcomers are less than people quitting, feel free to argue with me on this.

Anyway, even though it took a long time, I have to say thank you for the last patch and shoutout to poof for all the Nx additions in the last months, they all are amazing.

so what is my suggestion and what would I think would help the server in the long term, maybe even attract more players or quitters?

Add more late-game related PQ's.
Buff PQ exp rate to 1.25/1.5

PQ's PQ's PQ's mapler's favorite way of grinding (certain levels)[(at least of many]

Basically what happened back when there was no content, people did LMPQ as their last one, then went on to WS, WR ,Himes, Newts, BF's and Skele. Im pretty sure I included most of the maps you would find a 12x person grinding. So the only thing left for them to do was painfully grind on these maps alone and IF they were lucky they had a bishop friend, bought leech or were smart enough to go bishops as 1st char. After they were done grinding what? The ultimate challenge was zak only, do it over and over again, you get a nice helm, skillbooks ok done bye.

what legends really needs right now are the PQ's the high levels are missing out. For starters you could at least remove the level limit for kpq/lpq so us slackers who sit on fm most of the time can go help, meet new people and have fun. Im gonna say that APQ would be greatly welcomed especially among high levels since apple's would help reduce HT ttk drastically and i think its in the plans as far as I have heard? Im not sure.
My next up on the list would be CWKPQ but I think MoN might render HTP useless for certain jobs and create a gap of power. Those are only 2 PQ's that come on my mind right now, since we didn't have much content in EMS either, feel free to suggest any other you know and want to be added.

TL;DR
Delayed content dropped playerbase, economy hurts due to this,
most of the high level players i've known left simply because there was nothing left for them to do, PQ's forged friendships and were the most fun we had and is what I as a player since launch am missing right now.


again thank you for providing us an amazing server to play on and I hope you continue adding awesome content. Sorry if something doesn't make sense but it's 5 am for me and im kinda tired so feel free to discuss below

ps, some slight bonus exp events might help as well, maybe every other weekend x1.15 bonus exp or something

 

well i certainly hope it wont turn out like ToT then, will it include a high lvl PQ?