Background: I have never washed a character. My first character was an archer that I started back in 2018 and eventually reached 170, and currently I play a Night Lord nearing 180: arguably two of the most HP-gated jobs in the game. In 2018, being unwashed archer was very discouraging. The furthest you could realistically get was Zakum and Krex, while relying on HB to do anything else; obviously not ideal due to dispel and other mechanics. I ended up stopping play all-together, since it seemed like my other options were to play jobs I wasn't interested in, or start the long grind again while washing. It has improved since then, but I think it could be improved even more. I think the majority of players agree HP washing isn't a good system. The first step to making a rogue or archer shouldn't be "make a mage" or "sit on your account for a couple of months to vote for NX, so you can afford leech because your character with 150 base INT can't participate meaningfully in anything." This isn't compelling gameplay. I'd go even further to say that HP in general is very uninteresting mechanic. Just another number to be above before you can participate in something. And while currently it's finally realistic for jobs like rogue and archer to participate in more than Zakum and Krex, it's still too slow. For example, my NL is sitting at level 178 currently, and I have 11,500 HP. I can HT comfortably, and with some HP gear I can even do Shao. But I don't have anymore repeatable HP quests to do, so I'm gaining about 30 HP on average a day. This is still very discouraging. I'd like to do other content, like Neo Tokyo, Toad, or even Von Leon. But at this rate, that would require potentially 3 months or more of questing, and that's based on every day play. To further the problem, most BiS gear in the game doesn't have HP. I've actually reduced my HP by over 500 points because I upgraded my gloves from OPQ gloves, my eye accessory from ludi glasses, and my pendant from MoN to HTP. And I could reduce it further when I eventually swap out earrings or rings, adding more weeks of potential HP quests. And that doesn't feel good. I was actually enjoying the leveling experience on my NL up to a point. I was grinding, able to do PQs, I started doing area bosses like HH around 90; actually playing the game. However now, even though there's still content to do like HT, it does feel bad knowing I have so much time ahead of me before I can experience more of what Royals has to offer. Now my thought is more, "I guess I should have just washed after all." But that isn't the kind of game I want, where you hang on a rope from 1-135, or just give up on doing certain things with some jobs for months while your HP increases by 30 a day. Leeching should be more for people with extra money, not mandatory in most cases. I think the repeatable HP quests you can do is a good solution. It feels more "Maplestory." Traveling around the Maple world and questing, grinding monsters. so TLDR: I'm offering this feedback: uncap it even further. Maybe instead of it being completely repeatable, it can be done 3 times a day; near 90 hp a day on average, for a time. Maybe even add some HP increasing potions to rewards for Tokens of Teamwork; PQs could use some more love.
Staff's previous response to this is that they're gonna keep the quest as is, and add more ways to get HP instead, with the most recent ones being rose garden hp potion,
I never washed any of my chars (except shad), I got a NL, BM and some easier chars hp wise (bucc, drk, pali), I can say that the current situation is 100% good enough. More diversity would be more fun, and I do think it is something that should happen, but the current situation is quite good. The cap gets you to around 13-14k hp on a NL if we include olaf, elinia and some gear (the one you already have, not things you work specifically). This is enough for most content in the game, Then if you grind daily, you get around 1k a month on average, so in 3-4 month you can do everything on the game. I don't think there is a problem with that, this is balanced, hp is part of the royals balanced, some.class have it easier, some classes don't.
You can scroll your pets to get hp; master colector isnt so hard to get and gives 500 hp or go to the next one which gives 1k ; you can do some washing just with extra int from zhelm belt and pendant; can get some extra hp on rose garden. While still no ideal its not as hard as before to get hp with some work ,dont really need to leach all the way.
I only washed my BM up to 21k but with this quest of Olaf + Ellin + Magatia + Rose Garden +Equips, it has been rewarding, you can even go further, if you don't lose faith, you get an auf +800 hp/mp that they give you, so cheer up, patience is a virtue. today got 30k hp
