2014-01-15, 02:20 AM
It's funny because a lot of these archaic mechanics are remedied by an NX solution.
Onto my main point:
Most of the stats in the game are beginning to be more and more useless. Accuracy is a joke and avoid was nerfed too along with the fact that there's a lot of unavoidable stuff anyway. WDEF/MDEF I could really care less when a boss does a % of my HP.
In fact, HP and MP are becoming trivial when bosses will either kill you in one shot or two. It's quite fantastic to die in less than a second with 60k HP. MP is a joke because there wouldn't even be a point where having more MP is good (for mages, it's literally an extension of your HP). Like, if I get 1/1'd and seduced at Chaos Zakum, I could use Hero's Will to break out of seduce and heal up... but Hero's Will requires MP which was already drained. So having 1,000 or 2,000,000 MP would have no difference in this case. If Magnus' balls 1shot me, what's the point of having 2,000,000 HP? Just what is the point of having your MP block damage for your HP when Magic Guard is a passive/toggle/pretty much never expiring undispellable buff? Why not just do away with MP altogether and just stick with HP since that's all it is anymore?
In most games, your mana/MP/SP/energy/power meter/magic/stamina/etc is something you carefully manage because it is usually a limited resource. When you run out, you have to rely on your own physical strengths usually.
In MapleStory, everything you could ever do arbitrarily requires MP and it's not much of a scarce resource as much as it is an inconvenient barrier. Attacking costs MP, Buffing costs MP, transforming costs MP, moving around costs MP. When you have no MP, what can you do? You literally can't even attack at this point. So when EVERYTHING IN THE GAME needs MP, why does MP even exist? It's always going to be full, if it gets low, it'll be topped off until it is full, and if you have 0 then for all intents and purposes you're Sealed. You could go up and whack an enemy for pitiful damage, or you would try to instantly replenish it with a potion, or you die... whichever's the more convenient and available option. Is there a way to manage MP in a way that you won't have 0? No because every action you do requires it. So "managing" a resource that's required to do anything that's easily replenished that can only be a problem when a boss specifically bones you and there's a potion cooldown is just a hindrance. An inconvenient barrier.
- Scissors for trading gear.
- Buff savers and auto-buff for obnoxious buffs (do I seriously need to buff a 20-30watk skill that's self buff only? why can't you just give me 20-30watk...).
- Pets vacuuming the floor of all the stuff you can only pick up every second or so.
- Inventory space for your untradeable/nonstackable/expiring items.
- Store Permits for old market system (a hired merchant probably costs less than the power needed to leave my computer on all night...).
- Teleport Rocks for old transportation. Pet-Ignore looting for stupid stuff like Unagi and freaking arrows that have no purpose anymore.
Onto my main point:
Most of the stats in the game are beginning to be more and more useless. Accuracy is a joke and avoid was nerfed too along with the fact that there's a lot of unavoidable stuff anyway. WDEF/MDEF I could really care less when a boss does a % of my HP.
In fact, HP and MP are becoming trivial when bosses will either kill you in one shot or two. It's quite fantastic to die in less than a second with 60k HP. MP is a joke because there wouldn't even be a point where having more MP is good (for mages, it's literally an extension of your HP). Like, if I get 1/1'd and seduced at Chaos Zakum, I could use Hero's Will to break out of seduce and heal up... but Hero's Will requires MP which was already drained. So having 1,000 or 2,000,000 MP would have no difference in this case. If Magnus' balls 1shot me, what's the point of having 2,000,000 HP? Just what is the point of having your MP block damage for your HP when Magic Guard is a passive/toggle/pretty much never expiring undispellable buff? Why not just do away with MP altogether and just stick with HP since that's all it is anymore?
In most games, your mana/MP/SP/energy/power meter/magic/stamina/etc is something you carefully manage because it is usually a limited resource. When you run out, you have to rely on your own physical strengths usually.
In MapleStory, everything you could ever do arbitrarily requires MP and it's not much of a scarce resource as much as it is an inconvenient barrier. Attacking costs MP, Buffing costs MP, transforming costs MP, moving around costs MP. When you have no MP, what can you do? You literally can't even attack at this point. So when EVERYTHING IN THE GAME needs MP, why does MP even exist? It's always going to be full, if it gets low, it'll be topped off until it is full, and if you have 0 then for all intents and purposes you're Sealed. You could go up and whack an enemy for pitiful damage, or you would try to instantly replenish it with a potion, or you die... whichever's the more convenient and available option. Is there a way to manage MP in a way that you won't have 0? No because every action you do requires it. So "managing" a resource that's required to do anything that's easily replenished that can only be a problem when a boss specifically bones you and there's a potion cooldown is just a hindrance. An inconvenient barrier.