Item How to Mitigate Inflation: Offering Time-Limited CGS (From Olaf's Quest)

No matter how much people want to balance certain maps, some maps will always be better than others. People are always looking to optimize for the best/most efficient way to play the game. Right now, since it hasn't been too long since the drop rate adjustment/Rose Garden nerf, I think it's best to wait for things to settle down before considering something drastic like nerfing drop rates AGAIN. The leeching/farming meta is based fundamentally on how the game is designed, simply nerfing certain maps won't change it. What would actually kill it is implementing things like a cooldown for mage ultimates, changing the party exp system, nerfing Holy Symbol, eliminating (rather than reducing) the need to HP wash. As long as those systems are in place, leeching will continue to be a necessity. Nerfing certain maps will just make the game more tedious and more of a grind to play based on the way that it's currently designed.

I'm all for buffing maps that are underutilized, to give more players options as to how they want to play the game. I feel some of the late game maps (like ToT) have an underwhelming drop table considering how difficult they are to get to compared to maps like Ulu 1/Skele. And you can't even sell leech there due to the prequests required to access those maps. So there's realistically no reason for mages to go to ToT anymore except for questing and perhaps high level archmage grinding (a very niche activity) due to other maps being better for farming/leeching.

By the way, I often check Ulu1/IV2 to see how many people are farming at any given time and usually most of the channels are empty, with only 1-3 people farming each map at any given time. This should give you an idea of how tedious farming is for most people, despite it being considered one of the best ways to make consistent mesos in the game. I feel like Petris (at least) should be buffed to their pre-nerf spawn rate and perhaps the change to Duku leech could be rolled back as well. If leeching is going to be part of the game anyway, why limit people's options for how they want to do it? At least pre-nerf there were more options available. Now everyone just goes to Skele. I'm in favor of restoring Petri spawns (at least) to their former glory. #MakeUluGreatAgain

 

#MakeUluGreatAgain \(|)/

but if there's more new farming/leeching map have similar exp/loot efficiency with old leech maps, I'll happy to research how to leech on those new updated maps.