Rewarding Skill, Emphasizing Risk/Reward, Current SP Problems and How to Fix it

[Reika]

It isn't the monster rank that needs to be raised, its the difficulty of the monsters at 10 ranks higher than you. Also some monsters are just plain more difficult than others. they should give monsters more abilities like they do the mongrels, gnats, moles, etc. Monsters in general besides mongrels and gnats need more HP and evasiveness to make them harder to kill if they are far above your rank.

[Rentahamster]

It isn't the monster rank that needs to be raised, its the difficulty of the monsters at 10 ranks higher than you.

It's not the monster rank that needs to be raised. It's the dlvl cap. You get more and more SP for higher rank mobs up until you hit mobs that are 10 ranks higher than you. After that, you don't see any additional SP gains.

By increasing the dlvl cap to 15 or 20, you are allowing parties to fight mobs that are 15 or 20 ranks higher than you, and naturally, are tougher and harder to kill.

Monsters in general besides mongrels and gnats need more HP and evasiveness to make them harder to kill if they are far above your rank.

Since the dmg and evasion equations in this game rely so heavily on rank difference, they already are pretty hard.