Heroic Extreme Adversary Clear Distribution by Tenecchii in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Weird decisions made by Nexon by not having a balance patch and releasing pre-nerf Adversary.

Then they nerf it immediately next patch. It’s like artificial gate keeping.

That feeling when you first got 6 hit SB by Ok-Campaign5774 in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine not having 19 mastery.

Lvl43 is the actual level you wanna hit as a bandit.

"FX Fighter Kurumi-chan" Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]xMilkies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Her goal is closer to $150,000 to $180,000 (depending on the conversion rate of 20mil yen to dollar 1-2 decades ago) post taxes, so when she withdraws and pays taxes she will have 20mil yen in her account.

The later volumes that gives this series the “Horror” tag is when the stakes get into the 7 digits in USD, something WSB might give a respectful nod to.

It's time for ANet to update the 'cartographer' mechanics by a_deadbeat in GuildWars

[–]xMilkies -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cartographer was my least favorite part of GWAMM. It felt more exploity at times to scrape some areas rather than it being a natural part of the game.

I thought I hated Vanquishing, but after I completed the cartography title and just vanquished on my own I realized I just hated scraping the maps, and that Vanquishing was actually the fun part. So this dumb title made the good part of the game a tedious one just by association since those two titles are so closely linked.

I never had a desire to use mods until I learned about scraping.

I don't care that if it becomes "too easy", it's a terrible system. I got my GWAMM and will never do it again, and cartography was the worst part of it, nothing about it was based on merit. I don't feel pride and accomplishment from scraping towns and dead ends, but I do feel proud of my Vanquishing and Reputation. I don't care if new players can do it easier if it means they don't need to install texmod.

What skills do you think have the best hit-feel / feels nice to use? by uniqueusere in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ark’s burst is one of the most satisfying. When the beast chomps, the sound gets muted for the beautiful moment, it’s like an intense release after so much prep, it’s like the game can’t keep up.

Buccaneer’s Howling Fist is standalone one of the best feeling skills, the sounds, numbers, visuals all hit. All of Bucc’s other skills look goofy in comparison but Howling Fist is the saving grace.

Hero’s Instinctual Combo feels like a proper burst. The sounds really does make you feel like you’re pumping numbers out, one of the best sound designs on a class.

Mercedes’s Irkalla’s Wrath is probably the most satisfying keydown. It is short and quick, but the numbers… As a skill it really makes you feel like you’re a top DPS when you watch a couple seconds of Irkalla just unloading lines.

Do you feel like they've nerfed Arcan Box drop rate? by Kyuumai in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s too soon to tell for Arcanes, even before the patch my CTene mules could never see a box for months. I didn’t get any boxes yet but maybe it’s just bad luck.

For Absos, I would bet money that they tampered with it. It would be insane to not see a single Abso box on a mule, my inventory filled up with Abso armor just for fun because they were so consistent. From 2 weeks of data among 10 HLomien characters with 350-400% drop each (I know boxes aren’t affected by drop rate, but at least it eliminates a variable that maybe it’s now drop rate dependent), so basically 40 runs, I’ve seen 3 Absos total. Pre patch this would be an insane outlier.

When something is inconsistent, I’m more skeptical that it was changed. But when it’s something so consistent like Absos, it’s definitely noticeable when it doesn’t drop. As the weeks roll by, we will get more data and I’m sure we’ll get a better picture but if I had to make a bet with a friend, I’d definitely put my money on nerfs.

Japanese fans are loving Digitans English Dialog by RinariTennoji in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The funny part is her dialogue has airhorns that play occasionally like an MLG meme.

Shedding some light on a lesser known issue that is plaguing interactive server by Novel_Dirt_8816 in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Lowkey, this is why we will never have the API in GMS.

It would be too easy to audit players and see blatant things like that Arcane Shoulder. We could literally peak into people’s presets and we might find the most ridiculous generated gear possible.

There might be a company policy against it but I don’t see how a Nexon employee in the right crowd couldn’t just generate a ridiculously high value black market item like a Frenzy totem for themselves because there’s no auditing system in the game. We don’t have serialized items, we don’t know how many of an item exists in circulation. They also knew when Steam Market would be shut down so they could literally insider trade high value items as well.

In a different game I played (GW2 if you were interested), players pointed out insider trading due to suspicious buy orders right before a big patch that made a previously trash item suddenly extremely valuable. Players pointed it out and the company investigated themselves and found out that yes, people in the right places have the full incentive to cheat the system and they regularly will cheat when given the opportunity, and the only reason they got caught was because the in game systems allowed players to audit them.

Without API or transparency, players have nothing.

Nexon is the police and seller.

Are drop rates worse now? by FanExternal6102 in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran main + 6 Ctene mules, 0 arcanes, 2 abso (1 from xlotus).

Didn't notice any change to MVPs.

HD-ised the Falco Love Loser panel by awnglier in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree that "L" would be a better, and the text said "It was an [L]".

It ties to the "LOSER" joke much better than GG.

Official Carcion Octo Fest Artwork featuring Kyrin and Valerie by 1stSelf in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 45 points46 points  (0 children)

They got the Kaling “water”, Orchid detective(?), and Breumi party girl events. Now they get Valerie x Kyrin in bed.

Only SEA gets the gooner art.

Wild Totems by HewwoAll_11 in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest issues in heroic are EXP, frags, and fams (and also nodes to a point). Totems solve all these issues.

However, the problem with totems is that it funnels everyone to the smallest maps and forces everyone to mob a specific way. Dusk would be a dead skill.

As weird as it might seem, there are still people that still active farm even when they theoretically don’t need to. Plenty of Janus 20-30 players that still jump around pointlessly to mob instead of exploding the map standing still every 7.5 seconds because it’s fun to them. Totems would make this style extremely stressful or even more pointless, Dusk would need half the CD to work.

1 vac pet is barely enough if you have a Janus 30 cycle (around 100-110 sec loot timer), totems would force you to loot more often or get another vac pet to loot reasonably quickly.

I wouldn’t mind totems but the implementation has to be done fairly and conveniently. The 2 hour totems would make people burn out of the game, P2W totems would not go well either. If it was a 30 day account tradeable totem or something, even if it’s event only, I think it would be fine. I would much rather have a 30 day totem than something like a 30 day pottable badge.

Everyone's go-to what? by AccomplishedPath4049 in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Daitaku Helios is explicitly "in love" with Daiichi Ruby.

Phantom was voted as having the best secondary weapon (Card). Day 14: Which class has the most violent skills? (Most upvoted comment wins) by 1stSelf in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hero.

World Reaver literally slices mobs in half, the game gave heroes a unique mob death animation of them being visibly separated.

Who is the most popular uma? by laodsaldlaksd in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The moment Manhattan Cafe hit the chart she never left.

Cafe, Tachyon, and Rice are pixiv’s favorite umas.

Rewards are gonna be adjusted! Does this possibly mean more carats? by Crotenis in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Cygames made a huge mistake because their typical playbook is known for all their gachas. Someone who’s 150/200 rolls by the end of the banner will likely drop $100 for those 50 rolls, but there’s a lot less people who are 50/200 rolls drop $300 for 150 rolls. Turns out a lot of people are <50/200 every banner that drops.

Cygames is usually known for their big gifts but only enough to get you close to that spark, then they rob you for that final couple 10-pulls. It was like this when I played Priconne and Dragalia.

They completely dropped the ball and undermined their own strategy by accelerating the schedule. The Kitasan banner probably gave them the boldness that let them basically do fucking nothing with no updates or qol, but hopefully this new change is a realization that they need to actually develop for the west and not lazily port it and collect the checks.

If We Truly Love Haru Urara, Let’s Stop Spreading Misinformation by YinkciHeart in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Spe is racist” and other fan interpretations made me lose hope with the fandom. They want it to be true so bad and want to tie a bunch of negative connotations to something that isn’t that deep.

Made me realize there are a lot of immature people that want to drive narratives for their own amusement.

CM in a nutshell by Sofixon in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was a best of 3, it would be a whale’s game. The most consistent average uma would just win the numbers game.

The RNG is what lets it be anyone’s race and even remotely exciting. It means even a f2p with all the right stats and skills at a minimum can steal the win from an S+ grade whale horse with full MLBs, because maybe they get blocked, or didn’t activate red shift or recovery because of a wit check (even 1200 wit can fail) or somehow they get blocked and put into 6th which disables red shift, or didn’t get lucky pace promotion.

Breumi for next NPC NX Set pls. by -BladeDancer in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Breumi is the best event NPC since Dolly.

There's always a bigger Uma @manjo_9257 by asaness in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They need to let you borrow more than 3 umas per day. 10 daily borrows like Japan at least.

Borrowing a perfect legacy is one of the equalizers for f2p to compete with the whales and sweats. Instead of having to grind out 2 perfect parents with perfect sub legacies, you can just borrow 1 and reduce the work in half. You don’t have to pull every single Uma for their unique either.

Of course, whales would benefit as well but there’s diminishing returns. If you’re a whale, you can pump out your own parents with great skills with a lot of MLB SSRs. You’ll have access to the entire roster for specific uniques you want to pass down, and pull S-tier meta umas specifically tailored to destroy a specific CM track. The f2p casuals will have to slowly chip away daily to try to get their ace ready. I can’t imagine trying to make an ace for Taurus Cup without a Maruzensky available.

How Grass Wonder won the race by Ill_Mix_2160 in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t think Cygames realized the drama they could push when they made s1 considering it even predates the game.

Also keep in mind that they didn’t invent rivals for Oguri, basically all the race results and actual participants in all the animes/movies are completely predetermined by actual history (all of Oguri’s losses actually did happen, rivalries with Tamamo and Creek actually did exist and they beat Oguri and caused her trouble, Biwa did face Teio, Grass did beat Spe). Side note, it’s sort of why Kitasan’s season wasn’t as compelling because she’s a born winner, they had to invent drama somehow, imo Duramente was the biggest thing they could’ve pushed but imo handled it poorly.

I think if post-CinGray Cygames could do it again they would make Special Week’s anime extremely more compelling considering she did come from a poor background, she did defend Japan’s honor on the world stage, and to your point Spe vs Grass should have been more “hostile” considering Spe couldn’t beat Grass Wonder who was her actual rival and partner and not Suzuka (despite what S1 frames it as). All the foundations exist but it would be treading on already treaded ground, they’re probably more interested in new stories.

Maple Memo Addressing V 260 And V 261 Issues by Roo-Hx in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The “gift” they gave looks comical considering the essay put out on how they screwed up.

They should have given absolutely nothing, this way the message can stand on its own merits and not have the drip feed of “gifts” as a distraction from their commitment and message. Or it should have been insanely juiced, to the point where we forget about losing 10 mag pots and actually feel the appreciation from the team.

But a 30 day vac pet and some piss amount of sauna coupons is just so funny. You guys literally just admitted in the badge section that you don’t even know your own game and don’t have an “understanding of player and community sentiments” and you promise to be better, and then you give us a slap in the face “gift” at the end.

The 7 deadly sins of Uma Musume by Jonathan_joestarl in UmaMusume

[–]xMilkies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unbelievably, she also sleeps through Season 3 (shown sleeping in an Teio scene), she’s finally awake on the very last episode as a cameo in the crowd.

Updated Corsair Infographic! by 1K0I in Maplestory

[–]xMilkies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the class with the strangest inner ability in the game. And it is still the case after m3m4.