As many of you know summoning your very own MVP is quite easy these day with the Geffen permanent summoner. I Know most people love it, but I dont. Here are a few reasons.
- Item rewards dropped by the MVPs are really worth close to nothing these days. MVP drops used to be a primary source of income for some of us, but there is not point in hunting for it. Zeny is hard to come by these days and with 'rares' being as common as jellop..........
- MVP cards on the rise. Over the last month or so, I've noticed a sudden influx of mvp cards on the market. Not saying its a bad thing but too much of one thing is never a good idea.
- Does not encourage partying and people dont bother hunting the map spawn mvps since its easy to just summon them.
- This feature really makes me feel that iRO is loooking like a PServer day by day. What next neon colored sprites and wings for everyone?
I play on Valkyrie and this is just what I've felt on this server over the few months since I started playing again. This isnt a rant, just wanted to know if anyone else shared these tought.
1.) MVP'ing is still profitable, just the right ones. Most MVPs drop "worthless" items that don't sell for much. It's not the summoner's fault.
2.) MVP cards on the rise? Really?
So, cards drop at 0.02%. You have to be VIP so that's a 1.5x drop rate boost, which does or does not affect card rates. I'll assume it does for shiggles. HE Gum also said to not affect card rate, but I'll assume again for shiggles.
0.02*1.5*3 = 0.09% card drop rate (assuming that VIP and HE Gum do affect card drops)
You have to kill a MVP 1111 times for a card to drop. With a cool down of 10 hours, that's 463 days.
Ok, so maybe a single person has 3 chars that can MVP, it would take 154 days, assuming the person consistently MVPs every 10 hours.
Again, this is all under the assumption that HE Gum affects card drop rates, but I always read that it doesn't. The numbers are already horrendous.
I didn't even mention the reagents needed to summon the MVP's. The desirable MVP card droppers, such as Tao Gunka, Maya, and GTB, require RARE drops to summon. You really think somebody can get their hands on at least 1111 gem stones?
Sure, some MVPs are easy to summon, like Mistress. 4 rough winds. Big deal. Her card is trash anyway.
3.) The reason people don't hunt MVPs in the wild is because they're camped like hell. People using convex mirrors, 150's killing MVPs in a matter of seconds. That's why people don't even bother hunting Orc Hero, Moonlight Flower, etc.
4.) Yes, RO is becoming babyRO. Leveling is becoming too easy. Upgrading is becoming too easy. MVP summoner I think is fine just because of the 10 hours cool down and the reagents you need to summon them. They put a lot of thought I think about the reagents needed to summon them. Like for Tao Gunka, everybody wants his card. I think it was smart to make the reagents Gemstones instead of Stones which were so easily obtainable.