This is how the game works. I'm pretty sure some of you have played this with other people when you had nothing better to do.

It starts out with someone asking a "Would You Rather Question". Then the next poster will answer, and post a question of their own.

I'll start off...

Would you rather....

Hear everything everyone is thinking, or Say everything on your mind?

• One Attempt: 40 million mesos
  One chance to obtain a Zakum helm.
  No other attempts, whether you disconnect from the game or die. Recommended only for experienced players.
  

• Two Attempts: 70 million mesos
  Two chances to obtain a Zakum helm.
  No other attempts after your second run, whether you disconnect from the game or die. Again, recommended for experienced players.
  

• Three Attempts: 90 million mesos
  Three chances to obtain a Zakum helm.
  This is the most recommended package, as it gives you more than enough chances to obtain your Zakum helm.
  

• VIP Helm: 110 million mesos
  Unlimited chances to obtain a Zakum helm.
  This is the best option for people with slow computers, bad internet connections, or people who just don't trust themselves at Zakum. With this package, you have the option of having a trustworthy member of KFZ go on your account and obtain your helm for you.
  

• Skillbooks: 10 million mesos
  Join us to get your skills! The deal is, however, that you come and you pay for your own pots. You will not be resurrected upon death, and there's a slight chance you might not have a party, depending on room. However, the 10million mesos is a one-time fee, and you may continue to join us until the skillbook you're looking for drops. \o/
  
  Zakum drops the following skillbooks:
  
  Advanced Combo
  Advanced Charge
  Angel's Ray
  Triple Throw
  

• At least level 50.
  

• Must be on-rankings and LEGITAMITE. No hackers/scammers allowed.
  

• All Zakum Pre-requisite quests must be finished prior to the run.
  

• Warriors/Thieves/Archers must have a base HP of 1950.
  Magicians may have less due to Magic Guard.
  If you're in need of more HP, contact us with your HP as of now, and we'll try our best to gather HP equips to make up for the difference.
  

• Item Pouches and Meso Magnets must be OFF for the duration of the run. A pet may be kept out for Auto HP/MP.
  

• When Zakum dies, DO NOT loot anything until told to do so. Buyers will be called out in an orderly fashion to loot.
  

• Any misloots will be fined. 100 MILLION MESOS for Zakum Helms, 50 MILLION MESOS for skill books. Don't risk it. Failure to pay up will result in... well... something really bad.
  

• On the day prior to your run, defragment your hard drive. This will make your computer run noticably faster if you have not performed one recently. To do this, on Windows XP, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter. Then hit 'Defragment'.
  

• About 30 minutes before the run, restart your computer. Upon reboot and before opening MapleStory again, close all background programs, such as AIM, MSN, iTunes, etc. As well as those, close any anti-virus or anti-spyware programs. Don't worry, you won't get any viruses while at Zakum. =P
  

• Warriors/Thieves/Archers shall bring 500+ Melting Cheeses in order to assure survival.
  Magicians will need to bring 500+ Ginger Ales.
  

This is a topic which I've been mulling over for a long time and I'd like to hear others thoughts on the subject.

As we all know, a Paladin only reaches "equality" with other classes in regards to damage when the monster they're fighting has a weakness to Holy. The reason is obviously two-fold, Holy Charge being the strongest of the charges at 140% and the weakness itself adding at 50% damage bonus (at max level charge).

While I am mostly content with being only able to bring out my best damage on monsters with weaknesses to our elements, I do not find it fair that our job should be relinquished to a single type of monster. (I realize mages have the same general issue, but with their ultimates, I feel the issue is more that they need a higher level monster to compete with bishops at skelegons.)

With that said, I have thought of two possible solutions to even things out:

1.) The first solution begins with reducing the percentage of Holy Charge from 140% to 120%. Next is a power boost to the attacking skills of a Paladin: Blast increased from 550% to 650% and Advance Charge would be increased from 350% to 410%.

For this solution, the attacks are scaled by the amount that Holy Charge is reduced and rounded up to the nearest 10% so that the damage output when using Holy would be essentially the same or slightly higher. I left Lightning Charge as the highest percentage increase as it is the charge that has the fewest monsters that are weak to it. Likewise, Holy is made equal to Fire Charge because of the larger quantity of weaknesses for those two. They are most likely to be the main charges for a Paladin. Needless to say, Ice Charge remains the weakest due to its capability to freeze.

2.) The second solution has multiple options to accomplish the same goal. The overall idea of this solution is to increase the percentages of the three charges from the third job. In all variations of this solution, I would have the end result be as follows:
Lightning Charge - 145%
Fire Charge - 140%
Ice Charge - 125%

[INDENT]a.) The first way of doing this is to just add a percentage boost onto the skills via Advance Charge. In addition to changing Charge Blow, it would now increase the percentage of the other charges. Each of the ten levels of the skill would add an additional 2% to the damage multiplier of the charges. In this way, it would still matter if the charges had been maxed (both because of the percentage and the weakness multiplier).

b.) The second way is by having Holy Charge serve as the change for the other skills. Each of the twenty levels of the skill would add and additional 1% to the other charges. In this method, all the charges would reach their maximum potential at the same time.

c.) The final way I have thought of is to have a new skill created that only requires one SP and has the SP automatically added when the skill is gotten in the same fashion as getting the mount/scrolling skill. The skill would add the extra 20% onto the charges. Since the skill would be adding a large damage increase, the quest to receive it would need to be rather difficult (though hopefully not overly so).
[INDENT]Alternatively, it could be a multi-level skill that requires doing many quests to get all the points. Perhaps a 10 level skill where the quests can only be done once per level, such as the first point at 120, the next at 121, and so on to 129 where the skill can be maxed. Each level would add 2% as in the Advance Charge scenario.[/INDENT][/INDENT]

And that's all I have to say about that for now. What do you think, fellow Paladins (and non-paladins who feel our plight )?

I don't keep up with what's going on in Maple really, sorry. I asked this question over a month and a half ago on Sleepywood but nobody knew. Are these eyes out yet? I really want them for my future pirate ._.




They're called Male Face 14, and in Bannedstory they are eyes 00020017

I hunt Manon and Griffey. A lot. Day in, day out, double drops, months on end. I'm sick of getting some of these skill books and selling them for 100k or less. So I'll give them away. I get a lot of this pomegranate in multiple on a nightly basis, and it just wastes my space.

Just leave you name here and you'll soon have as many as you need of:
-Ice Demon 20
-Hamstring 30
-Holy Shield 30
-Guardian 30
-Achilles 30
-Phoenix 30

I'm also willing to give away
-Divine Charge 20
-Taunt 20
-Blind 30
But I don't get those nearly as often.

Minor limitation:
I'll only give stuff to people who'll actually use the book at some point in their life.

Other option:
If my shop is up, and there's something from the list there, just buy it, drop your name here, and I'll reimburse you.

Well, I'm getting a new comp soon, and XP isn't being sold anymore =/. So, I guess I have to get Vista =0. Is there anything bad about Vista+MS.

...Did I just open a dark hole up? =

Resolved! See posts by Soapy.

My dad bought a computer which came pre-installed with Windows™ Vista. Sure enough I had some Vista related problems...

First thing I did was set up some basic things (like remove all that crap they toss on there and install Firefox and Foobar2000).

Then I installed MS, it was all good. Until I noticed I was getting a really low frame rate. Sure enough the frame rate was averaging ~15 in an empty FM room. So I logged off (of MS), installed the most up to date graphics drivers and updated to Vista Service Pack 1. Which did absolutely nothing (maybe ~1 FPS faster on average).

So I tried to observe where it lagged the worse (Zakum Body 3 was the worse with a low of 1.27 FPS for more than 5 seconds - I lived!). However on the boat ride to Orbis inside the boat I was able to get 40 FPS (amazing!). There were no NPCs, portals, monsters, or people. So obviously more objects is a lower FPS. What should I do? Should I go steal my sister's Window XP CD, download all the drivers, and install Windows XP? Or should I just give up and toss bananas at random pedestrians?

i recently bought a name tagged item off someone. is it possible for me to buy a name tag from cash shop and retag my name on it? will it replace his name with mine?

Does anyone have an approximate idea on how much bandwidth Maple Story uses per hour? I'm asking for two reasons:

1. I use Rogers Internet at home and there's a 60 gig limit per month on internet usage. Any additional gigs costs $2, which I don't want to pay.

2. My University campus internet only allows a 500 MB per day. I want to know if it's possible to play MS once I move on campus.

Today, I was training at Wolf Spiders, as usual.
Then ZeuSpr0, a level 140 bishop comes in and start ksing.
So we end up KSing each other for 1 hour, and then I find an ilbi.
He says that he'll buy my ilbi and to meet him in FM.
He buys my ilbi with his mule, but doesn't pay completely...
telling me that I have to go see his bishop for the rest of the money.
So I go back to Wolf Spider Cavern to see his bishop, and he pays me the rest.
Then he says that he wants to buddylist me.
I say no...
Since he's been KSing me for an hour, I didn't feel like buddy listing him.

So he buddy requests me, I reject it.
He buddy requests me again, and I reject it.
Then he did something hella weird, he autoclicked buddy request and I dc with no error message. Now I'm scared that I'll get hacked. Someone help me please.
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