31/1 - Characters' max level is increased to 250!

[Zerard]

What a surprise, it sucks.

Not surprised.

[Lumin]

Maybe there will be a lv 250 boss (Black mage?) in future, so that every 1 level above 200 gives you 2% chance of hitting it ?

[Curtiss]

Am I seriously one of the few people who thinks most things are actually better now? This is not regarding levelling up but more to how there's so much more I can do now if I have time to kill in the game rather than log in and say "Whoo, I have four hours to...do nothing but train!" It's still somewhat true now but I have a bunch of quests to complete still with ToT, deciding how to make a decent shoulderpad and farming Drill Hall 1 for items to get crystals at least.

Also, I think I did hear from somewhere else that the new hunting ground sucked so I'm not surprised.

[Fenne]

Hahaha no AP or SP for leveling above 200 nevermind guys shut it down this update is balls

Yeah this is what I was thinking. My guess is they will add in SP when 5th job is released and also uncap AP from 999.

[Nion]

Wow, that's horrible.
This is the first time I expected more for a 180+ area. :/

[LiquidSwing]

Spoiler

I think it's great that the level cap is being raised. I might even start up a new character myself.

A lot of us have complained about the lack of good, end game content, and this is our answer.

Sure, we complained about the endless grind back in the days of 2005-2009, but most of us here are unanimously in agreement that those days were much, much better than the Maplestory of today. The challenge and the worthwhile competition was what made it fun. And I frankly can't wait to relive that.

No, it is not unanimous. There is just as many people on this site who feel endless grinding back in the day was garbage.

The "challenge and worthwhile competition" is not what made maple fun. It was your friends and good times had with your friends while playing that was fun.

also increasing the cap to 250 is not real end game content, its literally worthless numbers that contribute nothing but prestige. real content is new bosses, new party quests, new continents with stuff to do with your friends. not this stuff, where you just train to 250 for the sake of it with the maps they just nerfed.

in saying that, its obvious they will include more maps to train on past 200, but for now they have not added real end game content.

What a coincidence! I've just saw a video of the +180 Root Abyss Dungeon just now



What a surprise, it sucks.

>that terrible map layout
>that terrible spawn and spawn rate
>18k exp and 16k exp for the two gargoyles

oh my god lol. my sides have ascended rofl

[Kabanaw]

Yeah this is what I was thinking. My guess is they will add in SP when 5th job is released and also uncap AP from 999.

I really, really have no idea why they would increase the level cap with NOTHING else. For the next whatever amount of time a level 250 is mechanically the same as a level 200. Why would they do that?

And furthermore, why are people still going to race to 250?

[Tukkun]

Leveling from 200 to 250 is purely for ranking purposes. And to lose some lives. Just imagine that you continue to gain EXP after Lv. 200.

[Kaasoljoyyx]

I really, really have no idea why they would increase the level cap with NOTHING else. For the next whatever amount of time a level 250 is mechanically the same as a level 200. Why would they do that?

And furthermore, why are people still going to race to 250?

People can get a head start if they want to. Look at how many people leveled past 70 or 120 before 3rd or 4th job were out.

I think if they put EVERYTHING into 1 giant patch, it would be a giant overload of content. Think if that happened in GMS and how many potential bugs, exploits, hacks, etc could happen. If I'm not mistaken, we had a giant giant patch once before and it didn't go too well.

[Chilly]

I really, really have no idea why they would increase the level cap with NOTHING else. For the next whatever amount of time a level 250 is mechanically the same as a level 200. Why would they do that?

And furthermore, why are people still going to race to 250?

This is my biggest gripe, not the amount of EXP or anything else. This is like the infamous bridge to nowhere except there isn't anyone on this island, let alone 50 people. People have said multiple times in this thread, "But it's coming!" Sure, we can (hopefully) expect content, much like the bridge can hopefully expect a greater population as a result of less barge travel, but wouldn't it be smarter to have level 201+ function as a necessity rather than something merely cosmetic and hoping for the best?

As I said in the other thread, we are going to have some 2-4 months of revamped Cygnus while this bridge sits idle? Even though they obviously could put some content into the game with the new classes, it just feels like time wasted. How about you put those Cygnus (and any other new classes you have up your sleeves) away and focus just on this? I wonder what would be accomplished.

[Curtiss]

This is my biggest gripe, not the amount of EXP or anything else. This is like the infamous bridge to nowhere except there isn't anyone on this island, let alone 50 people. People have said multiple times in this thread, "But it's coming!" Sure, we can (hopefully) expect content, much like the bridge can hopefully expect a greater population as a result of less barge travel, but wouldn't it be smarter to have level 201+ function as a necessity rather than something merely cosmetic and hoping for the best?

As I said in the other thread, we are going to have some 2-4 months of revamped Cygnus while this bridge sits idle? Even though they obviously could put some content into the game with the new classes, it just feels like time wasted. How about you put those Cygnus (and any other new classes you have up your sleeves) away and focus just on this? I wonder what would be accomplished.

Agreed. Just increasing the cap while making EXP nerfs AND doing nothing else looks awful, even if we know that something interesting is happening on the 21st of February that could help mitigate this somewhat.

[Kabanaw]

People can get a head start if they want to. Look at how many people leveled past 70 or 120 before 3rd or 4th job were out.

I think if they put EVERYTHING into 1 giant patch, it would be a giant overload of content. Think if that happened in GMS and how many potential bugs, exploits, hacks, etc could happen. If I'm not mistaken, we had a giant giant patch once before and it didn't go too well.

It's not like they had to make 200+ content or new skills or anything with this, but they really should have added something. Why not make it 2 AP a level? Why not just give someone +.2% damage every level past 200? Anything to benefit people for leveling further besides the allure of future content.

[Curtiss]

It's not like they had to make 200+ content or new skills or anything with this, but they really should have added something. Why not make it 2 AP a level? Why not just give someone +.2% damage every level past 200? Anything to benefit people for leveling further besides the allure of future content.

Actually...thinking about it, it's entirely possible that Nexon is so used to seeing people level up without any new content to try out that they don't even feel the need to rush. Mind-blowing, isn't it?

[Grey]

This is pretty much sums it up for me:

People can get a head start if they want to. Look at how many people leveled past 70 or 120 before 3rd or 4th job were out.

I don't really see the big deal in Nexon raising the level cap. I also don't see why everyone is so caught up in trying to get to the level cap. I understand that, as the cap, it's a pretty good, and very... well, final, goal, but the game itself doesn't push you into getting to cap. There's nothing special about getting to the cap, well, besides finally attaining it, I suppose, and besides rankings, I suppose, there never has been. When it was 200 (It is very weird talking about our present in the past tense), you got a medal, you got echo, you possibly got a mount.

There's even less reason to get to the cap now. Take now for example, you don't have to be 200 to get all your skills maxed, the highest bosses are 190, you only have to be 190 if you don't want an accuracy penalty, killing those bosses is another story, I admit, and I feel like Hypers are more of an extra reward for doing extra leveling than a necessity. After the cap is raised, you don't even get SP or AP, and you certainly don't get anything just for being 250.

As stated many times before, Maple isn't one of those games like WoW, there aren't all these amazing things you can do once you hit the cap; for Maple, the cap is just an arbitrary level, that, if you so choose, you can possibly reach; it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to hit it, and it doesn't have to be easy to get there. This is also why, I'm sorry, but I feel that complaints of lack of end game content are pretty unjustified. Instead of asking why there isn't anything to do once you're at cap, perhaps the question you should be asking is why you're at the cap in the first place, and this extends to earlier levels to, if there's nothing to do, why did you work to get there in the first place? Take me, for example, now all I really do, and want to do, is kill bosses, so basically, all my reasons for leveling to 200 are pretty much so I don't suffer accuracy penalties, and so I don't lose EXP when I die. Now that there's a new cap, well, I'd definitely love to hit it, and I'm probably gonna be training the instant we get this patch, but, I don't have to be 250 right away.

I also fail to see why having extra SP means Nexon should've had 5th job to use up those SP right away. I mean, 3rd and 4th job didn't come automatically as soon as people got to 70 and 120, so it's not like having extra SP is really anything new.

That isn't to say that I don't sympathize with you and wish there were more things to do, but, I'm also content to just get on Maple, chat with friends, sometimes do events, sometimes do bosses, sometimes train.

[Kabanaw]

^^^ I agree with pretty much all of that. But then, I also would have liked it if the level cap were 70 before 3rd job and 120 before 4th. I would always like it if there's real content for levels you're gaining.

Actually...thinking about it, it's entirely possible that Nexon is so used to seeing people level up without any new content to try out that they don't even feel the need to rush. Mind-blowing, isn't it?

Oh yeah, they definitely didn't NEED to make any content. People will keep going just because.

[DireInferno]

I just made a new Maple Account since Nexon deactivated my high level one-- I guess I didn't use it for a while and they were cleaning up-- and then they reactivated one I shut down myself so I'm starting over. I'm hoping leveling is made too easy but it seems like it now. Some people I was familiar with got to the high 100s and beyond in less than a month. Maybe this greater level cap will deter some of these crazy power levelers from hogging all the good training spots.

[MorbidMagus]

People can get a head start if they want to. Look at how many people leveled past 70 or 120 before 3rd or 4th job were out.

The difference between then and now is that back then leveling past 70/120 still offered you HP, MP, SP, and AP. I was 14x almost 15x when 4th came out. It was a matter of saving the SP you got. It also made that hard work "worth it" in a sense because you still were getting rewarded for your efforts.

It's rather demotivating to see that no such thing is currently in place. Making the idea of 5th job and other interesting concepts seeming less likely.
Not that I'll ever make it past 200 in the first place, but still

[Spadow]

Currently the number 1 player on the rankings is a Xenon at level 207. Second is another Xenon at level 205 and third is the original first level 200 player who is now level 205. He is a Hero.

[Arrol]

Wow, you KMSers got some real old players.

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