I would like to suggest that if it's possible to make the Star of Maplemas Spirit drops at 80-100% ? Since a lot of people are unable to attend this really exciting Christmas Event at Christmas town. Assuming everyone wants the Star of Maplemas Spirit, and Christmas Event seems to be the most effective way to obtain these stars. With some improvements on the Star of Maplemas Spirit's drop rate, it would also be fair to those who's been constantly lagging/crashing out from the Christmas Event. Edit: Maybe it doesn't have to be increased to 80~100%, but a higher increased rate would be very much appreciated.
idk bout others, but the stars is really hard to grind. my class is a bishop and i spam for an hour with genesis and i only got like 80 stars. to reach 10000, it seems kinda impossible. like u need to grind an estimated 125 hrs non stop for it. if we play 5 hrs a day (400stars) it will take us 25days to reach 10000. here, just imagine those who cant even afford to play 2 hours a day due to work, life etc. and those classes which arent bishop or arch mage. they dont have the ability to mass farm and they definitely wont be able to get as many stars as bishop or arch mage as well. please re-consider by increasing the drop rate. thank you ~ @@
The Snowman boss has a chance of giving you 500 or 2000 stars as a reward from the christmas present box, which is a decent amount for a boss that dies rather quickly. We've already made changes to the amount of players that can enter the Snowman boss fight which should reduce the lag and crashes players experience there a lot. I know that monsters drops don't give as much, but as far as I'm aware it isn't our intention to have them be the main source for Stars of Maplemas Spirit. This because the monsters also give you a lot of Nervermelting Snow to summon the Snowman boss for a chance on more Stars. Personally I've obtained 23xx stars so far during this event, and I've only done a combination of grinding for an hour maybe and participating in a few Snowman bossfights.
well u know, at the same time, not everyone is joining the event. because some just basically dc-ed and crashes and some couldnt even join bcuz it keeps getting max capacity. give a chance for those that grinds as another option. like u dont have to increase it to 80% or 100% like the stated post above. just increase it to a decent drop that we actually can achieve the amount of stars by grinding before the event ends. because from what i calculate, if we grind non stop for 5hrs and by 25days the event is probably over already. or have an option to exchange 5 snow for 1star for example for an alternative. (this is acceptable because u only get 200 stars for 1000snow. while on the other hand, the player also have the option to gamble by contributing their snows snowman for a definitely higher amount of stars or other items) im saying this because i know plenty of people including myself, that put the snow in and then dc-ed when the boss spawn. and then we cant get in after that. that just discourages us to even contribute to put in snow.
I agree with Laws. I am apparently, one of those victims who keeps getting kicked out from the Event Map as soon as I tried to get into the map. Even if they set the star's drop rate at 50%, that's honestly good enough already imho. The reason I'm suggesting this it's because there are still most of us who suffer dc/crashes greatly from this event... Thus, causing most of us are unable to enjoy this event at all. But worst of all, people are getting reluctant to donate snow anymore due to the fact that the campers are taking up the event map and all. Tbh, I'm not really enjoying this event at all it's because of those people. They ruined it completely.... Plus, the dc/crash I get from entering the event map discourages me even more to participate this event.
Even though I am one of the players that can attend the event, I believe the rate should be a bit higher. Other alternatives to collecting these limited timed would be really helpful. Since trading isn't available for collecting them, I have to rely on the snowman timings to hopefully be available within my playable hours or grind 5 hours per day for the whole event. Making grinding a feasible method to getting the items would be an appreciated change
I totally support an increased drop rate for stars. I thought that the drop rate of candies from the Halloween event was perfect, and you were able to grind to get enough candies to buy everything you needed by putting in a decent amount of time. The only reason I am participating in the snowman fight is because it is the only feasible way to obtain enough stars to purchase all the items that I want. If grinding for stars was to be made feasible I personally would be participating in far far less snowman fights. If there are others like me this could additionally reduce the lag in that map and give the maplers farming for that red sock a better experience while also increasing the amount of snow for them.
Why dont you put a conversion for snow into stars for the people that cant do the boss, like 500snow=100stars or something like that, that way people have a choice of putting there snow into the blower, (risk of dcing and getting nothing) or they can trade snow in for stars, i know this will mean stars will be tradeable basically but you could always make snow non tradeable or something, just an idea.
On how many characters though? I personally have participated in about 10-15 total (counting for all of my characters, not 10-15 on one), 2-3 times didn't get any presents, have dc'd in others, and have yet to receive a single maplemas star. Maybe I'm terribly unlucky, but I don't think these should be the primary way to obtain stars when people can't even participate. I've grinded for 7+ hours and participated in snowman events and still sit at about 500 stars. I know for a fact with the limit removed I, and many others, will be unlikely to get presents at all because it will be back to frozen screens and dc. What is the suggestion for obtaining stars for these people when the only other option (as of right now) is to grind? They physically cannot participate because they have to hit (but can't because frozen) or they dc and are unable to get back in by the time the snowman dies (despite participating).
My guess is that you are unlucky, I have 7262 Stars of Maplemas Spirit now on my whiteknight. I started this event with 150 of them, and the majority of the stars I got is from Snowman, maybe 100 from killing monsters. I do think the droprate might need a little bit more tuning, but I'm also saying that you can easily get all the event items by joining a few snowman runs (assuming you don't disconnect, but we're working on that issue).
I guess I was just super unlucky then considering the amount of times I did join, but regardless I guess my (and many others') star count won't be increasing anytime soon. In my opinion, the candies for halloween were much easier to obtain, the prize requiremenrs were much lower, and there was a way to receive unlimited candies a day. I am totally okay with Christmas being more difficult, but I think that grinding should be a viable option. Since you can obtain a bigger chunk of stars, I agree that the drop rate should definitslt be lower than candies, but again it shouldn't be impossible. Good luck to everyone else who participates and I hope you guys don't dc or freeze! Note: I am on a pc, on a desktop, and physically corded to my router.
If you're DCing from snowman, I'd imagine you're on mac. I can multiclient characters at snowman on this shitty bootleg version of parallels, and despite my framerate becoming -4, I won't DC or freeze. It's still possible to get the hits in with the lag, just watch your snowball count. Without parallels, my framerate stay fine, but I'll randomly DC and freeze very frequently.
I have tried doing snowman fights on my mac as well as on parallels. In all of my snowman fights, I freeze, despite hitting the 1st 2 bodies, i usually freeze at third body and not getting a present at the end. I'm at the point of giving up going for snowman fights now because it's just impossible for me. I tried grinding for stars and the rate as of now makes it impossible for me to get what i want from this event. So, at least, i think the rate should be increased to allow more stars. unless something is changed with the snowman event, it just makes it even more difficult to get stars from presents if i freeze every single time i try to fight a snowman. NOTE: This only happened after the 100 limit was removed.
I agree with increasing the Star of Maplemas Spirit drop rate, the snowman is just not an option for a lot of people, we should have the option to choose if we want to fight the snowman or not, with this drop rate, we're forced to (and to get dced in the try), if we want to get some Stars.
I am sorry if this has been already proposed in other threads, but here are my two cents: What about Mom&Dad giving you an X amount of Stars as reward every time you help them? Since the quest has a 24 hours cooldown, and Stars are not tradable, it doesn't sound to me like an overly exploitable mechanics. Numbers could be set reasonably small, so that you could snatch - uh - maybe an extra item after a few days of daily activity? I don't know how the staff is planning to rework Event numbers or mechanics, but as other people said, right now the gap between people that can effectively farm Snowman and people stuck at monster grinding is far too wide. Thank you and keep up the good work!
I think modifying the amount of Stars that drop from monsters, to be in bundles of 10, instead of just 1 would be a nice solution.
Totally agree in the increase drop rates of stars. I have tried to attend almost 10 times of the boss snowman event, i dced almost twice for every time and i have only received 1 present so far. It is really annoying when u see ur friends get tonnes of stars/chairs/reward from the present while i can only grind from the monsters. Please increase the drop rates of maybe giving out presents for those who have hit the snowman 10times?
