2012-11-04, 11:59 PM
I don't see why everyone loves the old Maple so much. Only after coming back Post-mercedes when my lolEvan was hacked pre-potential did I realize how f'ucking horrible of a game Maple was beforehand. The only redeeming qualities were the epic boss runs and the community, which coughed its last, miserable breath with 4th job, while very little of the population ever made it to the higher end bosses.
I personally love the new experience rate. I'll go back to my Evan, a very versatile class in terms of experience gain. Back then they could only be beaten Archmages and Bishops in terms of experience gain because we could blast the hell out of platforms in mere seconds and then go kill BF in 4-5 minutes with a token Blaze.
1. Bigfoot every morning(This was when d/c hacking reached an all time high, and Bigfoot patrol took root in Demethos, so I was lucky to get 5-6 killed)
2. Earthquaked Gallops for 3-4 hours on x1.
3. Zakum
4. Skele'd with the guild using x4 family chain for 4 hours.
This was with the Pie+Cake bonus, Evan Trailblazer medal, and the Welcome back ring and I still had to bust my ass to get 120-140% PER DAY at the end of my career. Leveling isn't an accomplishment at that point, it becomes an obsession and it's f'ucking sick.
The new experience tables allow me to play all the classes I'm interested in, allows me to actually experience the game in its full, and there's nothing wrong with them. The problem with the leveling speed lies in areas such as LHC and SH(and RLH if we want to count events). If I recall, when Bigbang first came out and LHC wasn't existent in kMS, players at 199 still barely made 3-5% per hour. Seem's grindy as hell to me.
In every other aspect, Maple Story is just better outside of some questionable decisions by Nexon Korea as of late(lolBurster). We have an actual lore, love the revamped and new party quest, loving the new areas and BGM's, I honestly would not trade anything post-bb for anything pre-bb outside of potential and how easily abused it is by cubes. If Nexon ever released a server without Cubes/x2 I would glady leave Renegades even after all the funding I spent on this Pally/Archmage
Edit: I did forget to mention that I do strongly dislike how every boss is now. Soloing HT in 20 minutes is incredibly hilarious to me.
I personally love the new experience rate. I'll go back to my Evan, a very versatile class in terms of experience gain. Back then they could only be beaten Archmages and Bishops in terms of experience gain because we could blast the hell out of platforms in mere seconds and then go kill BF in 4-5 minutes with a token Blaze.
1. Bigfoot every morning(This was when d/c hacking reached an all time high, and Bigfoot patrol took root in Demethos, so I was lucky to get 5-6 killed)
2. Earthquaked Gallops for 3-4 hours on x1.
3. Zakum
4. Skele'd with the guild using x4 family chain for 4 hours.
This was with the Pie+Cake bonus, Evan Trailblazer medal, and the Welcome back ring and I still had to bust my ass to get 120-140% PER DAY at the end of my career. Leveling isn't an accomplishment at that point, it becomes an obsession and it's f'ucking sick.
The new experience tables allow me to play all the classes I'm interested in, allows me to actually experience the game in its full, and there's nothing wrong with them. The problem with the leveling speed lies in areas such as LHC and SH(and RLH if we want to count events). If I recall, when Bigbang first came out and LHC wasn't existent in kMS, players at 199 still barely made 3-5% per hour. Seem's grindy as hell to me.
In every other aspect, Maple Story is just better outside of some questionable decisions by Nexon Korea as of late(lolBurster). We have an actual lore, love the revamped and new party quest, loving the new areas and BGM's, I honestly would not trade anything post-bb for anything pre-bb outside of potential and how easily abused it is by cubes. If Nexon ever released a server without Cubes/x2 I would glady leave Renegades even after all the funding I spent on this Pally/Archmage
Edit: I did forget to mention that I do strongly dislike how every boss is now. Soloing HT in 20 minutes is incredibly hilarious to me.