Nerf Boss Leech

[dumbz]

Low level players can leech bigfoot, anego, pianus, and other bosses just by hitting it once with the help of maple pops. With the 60/40 exp split, the leecher leeches ~1.3m exp from a single bigfoot, ~600k exp from pianus, ~1.8m from anego, while only dealing 1 damage to it. I think this is too op.

Maybe add a level check or damage check for leech.

[manfroy]

+1 especially cause top 4 pirates abused it

[WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW]

just remove maple pop from game!!

[manfroy]

On 2/25/2022 at 2:54 PM, WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW said:

just remove maple pop from game!!

that does nothing but increase the levels required to leech, you can still leech

[halfway]

 kinda too late for that since people already abused it with exp coupons

[WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW]

On 3/21/2022 at 8:47 AM, halfway said:

 kinda too late for that since people already abused it with exp coupons

that's not a valid reason for arnah, anything can be retroactively nerfed (squid heal, multiclient, etc)

[Nexon]

Nah, I think it's fine. To me leeching is part of the nostalgia experience. Besides, with how hard the game is a little bit of leeching I am totally fine with. In the end it doesn't make much of a difference. 

[Kradia]

Currently, the leech conditions are the following:

1. Deal at least 1 damage to the monster.
2. Be within 5 levels of the monster.
3. Be within 5 levels of a party member that fulfills 1 or 2.

Only one of the conditions must be met to share a cut of the Party EXP.

The only condition allowing boss leech and other similarly broken strategies is the first condition:

1. Deal at least 1 damage to the monster.

The way old private servers used to deal with boss leech was to completely remove this condition, so it no longer is a possiblity to leech from anything simply from damaging a mob. You would have to fullfil either the second or third condition.

That is a solution.

But the better solution would be to change the first condition into a percentage based minimum. Something like this:

1. Deal at least 5% of the target's total HP.

No low level character is going to deal 5% of Anego's damage, but if they do it will take a long time and insane amounts of resources. This counts for every other boss too. This would also limit the Hime leeching strategy best known with Priest, where you have a low level Priest tagging all mobs for 1 damage and having another, high level character killing the mobs to leech the low level character.

Edited April 12, 2022 by Kradia