My review of Mystic MS

Disclaimer: I've previously played Royals, Legends mostly (classic servers)

This is gonna be my unbiased review of Mystic MS.

After playing Royals for more than 4 months, I was tired of the grind, hp washing, leech story, mulestory etc. While the community at Royals was top notch, it's definitely gonna be the thing I'll miss the most there.

I discovered Mystic MS from Gtop100 because it's right below Royals and Legends and figured to download it and see what's up. I've never played a v83 version before. I've heard a lot of people say it's no longer "nostalgic", but I'm willing to give it a try. It's been about 3 weeks now, so here are my pros and cons.

Pros

- Fast leveling from 1-120 (can be done in 3-4 days) so you can get to bossing. You're giving a regressive leveling multiplier
Lv. 10-30: 5x
Lv. 31-120: 3x
Lv. 120-150: 2x
Lv. 150+: 1x
, you're also giving "Board quests" where you eliminate 100, 450 monsters to gain an insane amount of exp, you also don't need to kill 100, 450, because each kill = 3 count. You can also do PQ rotations starting at 70, where it can get you to 120 really quickly, no more grinds!

- GREAT community! Everyone I've met so far are super friendly, helpful and are trying to have a good time instead of going "hardcore" or take things seriously.

- Quality of life improvements: all those things you would usually complain about MS are addressed, certain skills are reworked (archers can jump attack, get a mini flash jump etc), teleportation locket (lets u go anywhere with @ goto ), @ finexped to find parties to boss, @ whodrops among some really nice commands. see https://sites.google.com/view/mysticms/home

- Not pay to win, you get NX by voting but these are not in any way help u get any unfair advantage.

- Built in game play to promote PQ, Bossing, so there are ALWAYS people around looking to play together.

- Dev is a one man team working to address bugs, adding new content.

- AFK system: one click to the market from anywhere, and if you're lv 120+ you can afk there to get mystic leaves which can be used to trade for various important items.

- No need for HP wash, as bosses drop orbs to increase your HP and you get equips to increase HP. By by AP washing.

- Great discord community.

Cons

- One man dev team. While Mystic is a great dev, this work can be a lot on one person and it's the single point of failure, so I hope he gets some help.

- Game will disconnect you quite a bit, especially during boss runs. (though when you reconnect, you usually get transported right back to the boss map and resume, the community even waits for you to reconnect before they kill the boss so you get the exp <3)

- Economy is a little weird, Chaos Scroll seems to be the most sought after item and people actually want to trade in that instead of mesos.

- Skill books are extremely expensive.

- Some class inbalance. DK are the most sought after (where they get paid to join raids).

- PQ runs are fast and fun but they're modded a bit too much that takes the fun out of them, but not a big issue, because after a while PQs get old.

- Risk of wipe. This server was in alpha, beta, earlier this year, but that's not to say this current launch won't get wiped, so it has less of a long term stability as other established ones.

Anyway, just wanted to say Mystic for doing such a great job on this server, as someone new, I believe in the potential of this server and hope to see it succeeds!