CongaLyne Agreed, the progression is already very fast.
Hell it was already very easy/fast when I started the server 7-8 months ago. Now everything is even easier. Many early/mid game gears became much easier to craft/enchant, including gray wolf. Making Depth armor got easier, refining is easier thanks to hammer change, gaining reputation is easier, eden coin farm is much easier, early leveling has become faster. All the classes got stronger after the multiple class balance updates which also made things easier. And there's likely more changes like these to come, every other week we get another update that makes the progression smoother for newer players.
I'm not complaining, these are all good changes. But this server is already one of the most easy/casual servers I have ever played. People acting like new players will suddenly have no way to play the game if geffenia receives a small nerf are being overly dramatic for no reason (or intentionally missing the point because it's not really about new players and it's about their own farm speed there). Geffenia Doping wasn't popular before and all the new players were doing just fine. This strat doesn't even benefit all the new players anyway, only biolos, and new players feeling obligated to start the server with a biolo even if they don't like it wouldn't be a good thing anyway.
And again, biolo, or doping itself, are not the problem. The only problem is geffenia itself, it's how a legacy map that even 2nd classes can farm trumping almost all the endgame maps in farm speed (with 1 or 2 exceptions). With inflation to boot because of how the income is fully raw zeny. It's a small problem though, getting blown out of proportion in this thread, just a minor nerf/adjustment would be enough to fix it and it wouldn't be a big deal for new or for old players.
