Originally Posted by
Jedward
Reality: As only street has said, not everyone spends 100% of their time at those monsters.
At low levels, many, many characters simply do their storyline quests. I think you forget that Flaming Golems and Mixed Golems are good experience, as are Cool Jellyfish.
2nd job: The old standbys are still there (CDs, Kitties, Luster Pixies) and are being trained at! I was training my 50 Fighter at Lusters while looking for beauty coupons, and I ran into characters everywhere. Not to mention the theme dungeons: Mushroom Kingdom, Kerning Square and even Chryse are still getting hits. The fact that Xerxes and Pepe can be soloed now helps with this, because that means afforadble, easy-to-get glasses and weapons.
3rd job: Yes. I do admit that I spent quite an amount of time in Aliens. But you know what exists? MONSTER PARK. It's only for 35 levels in 3rd (and I will say that I think Nexon made a mistake making that gap, although the only solution would really be making a fourth monster park portal), but it's a good 35 levels. By farming tickets while grinding you can spend a significant amount of time there. And if you can solo the park well enough, then that gives you a fountain of equipment (that come pre-potentialed 100% of the time) and experience. Not to mention it's a party play zone. Besides that there are also Dual Ghost Pirates and Gigantic Spirit Vikings, Master Death Teddies and Grims, Violent Boars (heck, they made Ellin Forest a theme dungeon), etc. There's still some variation here.
4th job: LHC, sure. Yeah. Neo City says hi? Dragon Turtles and Cornians? LHC is not the best place to be. In fact, if you can't get a party together you might as well not go to LHC at all, which has been the situation for me sometimes. And again, Monster Park exists after 135, which is a great place that has some diversity to it. There are even parks all the way up to 200.
High-end 4th job: I agree with you here. Besides the 165+ parks, bossing and Future Ereve, there really isn't much. I do keep wishing they would make more content for this level range.
tl;dr: I'm not disagreeing with you. I think that the monsters you listed are overpowered, and I'm also guilty of spending a significant amount of time there. I just think that you need to widen your view and lower your expectations a bit. Not everyone in MapleStory plays like an optimist would, which is what you seem to be targeting here.
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