Hey guys, its Strategic here and I just wanted to make a suggestion about the Almighty Ring dropped by Krexel. I was thinking about it, and I realized that if they were tradeable it would benefit the community greatly. Here are a few reasons why I think that making this ring tradeable is a great idea: First off: The ring is for level 30's, but the prequests require you to be at least 100+. Duku's are extremely strong, and no lvl 30 or any character near lvl 30 for that matter would be able to kill any Ulu City mob. Second Reason: Being able to sell the rings would add a valuable item to the marketplace. In my opinion, it is kind of boring to see the same old staple items being sold in the FM such as the same White and Chaos Scrolls. The marketplace has become a bit dull in my opinion. It would be quite interesting to see rings being sold for a high price as they would be extremely high in demand. Also, people would be able to sell their rings they get on their runs if they already have a godly one that they scrolled. It is hard to bring around a lvl 100+ and make them pay for Krexel service when they could just get a group of friends when they get higher lvl to go and kill Krexel for their own rings. Third and Last Reason: If one person were to scroll an Almighty Ring but get bonus stats that they did not want, they would be able to exchange it with another person to get a ring of their stat preference. Or, they could obviously sell it.
I thought the idea of the Almighty Ring was to have a reward for killing Krexel, like a Zakum Helm or Horntail Pendant. You could argue to make both of those tradeable with the same reasoning.
^Yes, that was the intended idea. The idea is to be an untradeable drop unique to Krexel, just like HT and zakum both have their unique drops. If you want to gamble for a better stat, you have to give up the one you already have. These are supposed to be one of a kind, but to implement that would've required more edits that would've pushed it back further- so it's as is for now.
I really like the idea of pro items being only obtainable if you kill the bosses yourself. However, I think that for this ring the situation is quite different: 1. The stats are not nearly as high as a Zakum Helm or HTP 2. People won't be able to buy these as a service because of the prequests. 3. I believe the reason most people prefer the way Zhelms are handled here because it enables low-level players to have the experience of coming along on the boss run, aka Nostalgia. Because this drop is entirely custom there isn't really any nostalgia in it. Also, what about people who can kill (maybe even solo) Krexel but don't have the money to use multiple rings as a basis for chaos scrolls? They won't benefit from multiple rings at all. But if they were tradeable, they could just sell additional rings to other players.
People don't need to buy this as a service - the ring is a nice extra for high levels and to help make Krexel a boss worth killing. Also, Krexel does some pretty nasty damage and I can see it killing off lower levels quite easily.
There are many spots where Krexel does not hit you. Also, he does 2~3k damage. That is less then zak, so that's like saying people don't need to buy zak helm service.
Yes, I was informed of the safe spots almost immediately after I'd posted my comment! Being an old-school Mapler and currently not having a 4th job character on this server, the only time I've killed Krexel is solo, on my GM, while testing. Apologies for my lack of knowledge there. As for the ring, it was, as I said, introduced as a nice extra for high levels and to make Krexel worth killing. You might want the ring at a lower level than you can complete the prequests at, but given that it's only +2 to all stats, I think it's reasonable to say that nobody should need it at lower levels.
