2012-11-14, 03:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-14, 03:49 AM by IllegallySane.)
Endgame Wrote:Oh no. Maplers know how to play their game much better than WoW players know how to play theirs. (And it's not like WoW is that much more complicated. It's just, you know, better designed.) I know this from firsthand experience.
Rather laughable. Do you have pure facts that Maplers know Maplestory better than WoW players know WoW? I myself have stories of Maplers that can't do the Zakum quest at all, and needed someone else to do it for them. I can even recall players that didn't know X maps/monsters exist. It's all opinion right here. Sidenote, Maple is ridiculously simple when you can pretty much sum up training in 7 words or less: Skeletons/Scarecrow/Jesters/MP3/Aliens/LHC/Stronghold. Gearing up is summed up in one word: Potential. Saying WoW isn't that much more complicated is pretty silly in this sense.
Most WoW players are incredibly pineappleing stupid, whereas about every Mapler these days knows how to look up proper builds online at the very least.
How do you know that? And it's very hard to screw up a Maple build nowadays, given you will pretty much max nearly everything anyways due to how many skill points they give you. It's only a difference of what level you max it at; as far as you know that Mapler over there didn't max their weapon mastery until nearly 3rd job. Hell, as a Phantom I recalled once or twice that I stole a Hyper Body below level 20 and a Magic Guard below 15, and yes I made sure the player was at least 3rd job. Perhaps you met with WoW players of the bottom of the barrel, because every game has terrible players, no matter how popular or even obscure.
I can recall an I/L Mage back in Scania who'd go broke training even when armed with NLC pots (pre-Big Bang). HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK??
No, seriously, which playerbase is known for dying by standing in fires/poison/black puddles of death/bright circles in the ground/other obvious things that will kill you if you don't move out of them? (Hint: Not Maplers.)
Which playerbase is known for dying by still attacking Damage Reflected bosses after the DR symbol is up? Hint: Not WoW players. Also, I've had my share of standing in fire, despite also being aware enough that I'm usually already moving away from the ground hazard. The same can also apply to Maplers because everyone has died at least once to obviously telegraphed attacks that will strike X part of the screen.
.....And that's why I quit WoW. I couldn't get into a competent guild because I joined too late, so my raiding mostly consisted of me dying because of other people screwing up. Me actually reading up on Elitist Jerks and learning how to optimally play my class and watching all the Tankspot videos meant nothing because most people I grouped with aren't even aware of such websites, and went for whatever equipment raised their Gearscore more instead of the gear that is actually optimal.
There's your problem, sir. You were in a bad guild. You're biased towards bad WoW players because your guild consisted of bad WoW players. The bad apples have spoiled the bunch. Same can be said for Maple. Terrible guildies = Maplestory players are bad. I can do insane troll logic too.
WoW bosses would wreck Maplers? Ha. Pit a party of average WoW players against Magnus and they'll have the death count down to 0 in three minutes. Moving out of the way of things that will kill them is kind of their weakness.
This reeks of so much bias it hurts. And I'm very sure even the average Mapler will die very quick to Magnus as well, so it's a moot argument. Seriously, if you want to bash WoW players come up with more convincing arguments.
I like the fact that you think you're the one that has THE TRUTH on the matter. Both Dark Link and I are WoW players as well, while still playing Maplestory. It's quite easy to pick apart your argument using Maple examples to refute them all. Responses in bold. I won't deny there have been some really bad WoW players, but again I can say the same for Maple.