Big Bang - Initial Thoughts

[TaerkDS]

Now that the Big Bang patch has been released in Global Maple Story, what are your initial thoughts or feelings as to the changes? Things that could be changed?

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In my case I felt quite disappointed when as a Chief Bandit, my skills were reset (somewhat) and I put points in Shadow Partner but then found out I could not buy summoning rocks from Alcaster.  

[BlackFireEX]

It is a pity that Alcaster's quest was resetted and that now the rocks are at high demand now. Prices are double than what they're bought at from the NPC.
There will be a full SP reset though, so all is well for that.

Back to what I was hoping they'd fix was, APQ and DCing at bosses. (All that I can think off the top of my head)

Edit; (After reading Derimed)
I don't play because I want to level up to 200, but I play because there just those friends, you know? Be optimistic and just play the game as it is because nothing in this world, is free nor flawless.  

[Elektro7]

I was kinda annoyed for the first 5 minutes when my guild disappeared, but I knew better than to think the guild was actually deleted or anything.

So far, it's pretty awesome.
Although I think the max level should be raised, now that it's so much easier to reach 200.  

[veffanculo]

I've gotta be honest...I haven't touched MS since mid August and even then, I had no clue as to what "Big Bang" is...From what I see, they're adding 2 new jobs/classes...I'm guessing that's not all there is to it, since there's a big hullabaloo about it.
Anyone care to further inform me?  

[phillipo]

veffanculo

I've gotta be honest...I haven't touched MS since mid August and even then, I had no clue as to what "Big Bang" is...From what I see, they're adding 2 new jobs/classes...I'm guessing that's not all there is to it, since there's a big hullabaloo about it.
Anyone care to further inform me?

They added two new classes, changed nearly every skill in the game in one way or another, merged some skills, added a couple new skills to some classes, changed a lot of maps, added/removed some features, changed almost every damage/stat calculation in the game, changed the exp curves, and I'm sure I'm missing a handful of things.

See Here for a list of a good number of the changes.

My thoughts:

As a player who played from Beta until quitting two years ago, it's tempting me to play Maple again. I got to 138 on my Dark Knight, but I was 134 when 4th came out. The skills they gave Dark Knights in 4th made it feel like my efforts were wasted which is why I quit 4 levels later. But now, I like how they've tweaked and merged some of the skills. Maybe it's just because I was never a hybrid, but it feels like I'm playing a whole new character now.

And this is saying a lot since I vowed to never touch Maple again after finding out my DK's godly Blue Whitebottoms and Brown Work glove had been stolen off my pirate character while I was away for a few months.

One thing I don't like is the new accuracy curve. My hermit is now unable to scratch the few things I would train it on before, and I'm afraid to see what my DK can't hit.

Overall, many of the updates were greatly needed. But will it be enough to keep me in the game personally? Right now, I'm wanting to go back. But in the end I probably wont feel this way after a few hours of grinding. And even so, I might not even attempt to go back until they resolve my customer support ticket (which is currently being looked at (apparently)) and give me my damn equips back.  

[PuhTieTow]

not a big fan of the map changes.
Not a big fan of the monster levels. Not many places to train at anymore.  

[Elektro7]

CherryUndies

not a big fan of the map changes.
Not a big fan of the monster levels. Not many places to train at anymore.

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You're kidding, right?
If it's around your level, it's at the very least passably training.
Some places are better than others, just like pre-BB, but that there are less places to train? Are you insane?  

[ValhalIa]

BB just hit MS europe 4 days ago. Even though we still have many bugs I like it so far and I didn´t get lost as much as I though I´d get when I first heard about the map changes.

The worse glitch at the moment is that everyone is missing skill points on their charas and even though we got a Hot Time event to obtain a SP reset scroll, the event only lasted for one minute making the Scroll only available for one character per account. The scroll also didn´t return SP from removed or altered skills, so that some people can´t use their higher level skills now.

I am also a bit sad sad that they changed the family system. No more 2x exp/drop for yourself or the party.

I love however the new experience curve and that the damage range for players increased. I can also take more damage now as it seems that the defense rate increased and I don´t die on monsters like Manon or Crog with 1 hit. Since we had a 2x exp/drop event on the weekend, I lvled my Ranger from 92-108 in two days. I´ve never lvled that much in such a short amount of time especially in the higher level rank. Hopefully I can make the 4th job advancement for the first time soon, unless the missing SP bug is still not fixed and the job constructor won´t let me advance because of my lacking Skill points.

Funny is that our BB is almost entirely the copy from MapleSEA, but therefor we got as addition a lot new Maps to explore than we had before, like Malaysia, Ninja Castle and Neo Tokyo.
As a side effect of the copying, we don´t have our Cash Trade Button anymore either, which only affect me as i can´t buy Cash Items with Meso anymore. Our lovely Pigmy also got replaced with the Gachapon.  

[Imaginary Fox]

I'm still kinda glad I quit when I did years ago. I still love the basic concept of the game- cute platforming with RPG classes- but everything else about the game was terrible. The community was horrible, people KSed everywhere, the marketplace was overinflated and really hard to use, and you have to grind severely to get anywhere and if you happened to mess up and die you lost hours of work. Plus you had to keep resupplying yourself with items like arrows or stuff for skills or whatnot. It seemed like the game was about impossible to get anywhere with at a casual level without spending a lot of NX cash. I wish it'd just get a core redo. I remember taking like 2 years to get a lvl 60ish Hunter and a lvl 30ish Cleric. I kept seeing the level cap go up and up and dispairing at how I was supposed to ever get good equipment. And OMG scrolling stuff was horrible.
Anyway I got the bug a little bit from playing their Facebook game, but I'm glad that one is really simple. Though I wish it had other class choices.