2013-06-23, 04:46 AM
[MENTION=12524]Maryse[/MENTION]; The road to 250 sounds so much worse than the road to 200 because of the numbers but way back then the exp per mob was absolutely awful and everyone was stuck at Skelegons until Himes were released... then everyone was stuck at Himes. I'm willing to bet that FangBlade's grind to 200 was much worse than the grind to 250 will be for us. (Not sure how the math would be so I'm just guessing here.)
I think it took like 12 full hours of grind for me to level at lvl1xx ish... It was soooooo boring and I had the luxury of being a Chief Bandit + being incredibly rich so I zoomed through the levels with just Meso Explosion... before 3rd job, it was walking slowly to each mob with Savage Blow and you were forced to train on stuff you can 1-shot because of the mana cost + waste of time. I can't imagine the pain at lvl100-lvl200 of monotonous 2nd/3rd job training.
Everyone remembers and idolizes FangBlade because back then, levels actually meant something. Being just 10 levels higher than someone else was a huge deal and hitting 3 digits on your level was something to throw a party over. Then you look at the rankings and see people twice your level and you realize how much more dedicated they are to leveling. The upper echelon of Maplers was based almost solely on your level because it showed how much time you've put into the game. Like, just being lvl100 gets you into Zakum runs because finding anyone at that level on a specific class was so rare. Nowadays it's not levels but range and damage that people watch for. All you see on youtube are 5 second solos of random bosses because that's all there is to marvel at... the damage. Being lvl200 is a given at that point.
However, in the era of where levels was what you watched for, FangBlade would be what everyone would talk about because he was #1. It's sorta like the limgoon of pre-bigbang I guess.
Even if FangBlade doesn't care about it anymore, he's more of a figurehead and a representation of an era most veterans remember fondly. It's not really about what he thinks of it since he doesn't even play anymore, it's more for everyone else.
Though I have to say that I don't particularly care about it but I can understand the feelings of many maplers. It's something you just have to respect.
I think it took like 12 full hours of grind for me to level at lvl1xx ish... It was soooooo boring and I had the luxury of being a Chief Bandit + being incredibly rich so I zoomed through the levels with just Meso Explosion... before 3rd job, it was walking slowly to each mob with Savage Blow and you were forced to train on stuff you can 1-shot because of the mana cost + waste of time. I can't imagine the pain at lvl100-lvl200 of monotonous 2nd/3rd job training.
Everyone remembers and idolizes FangBlade because back then, levels actually meant something. Being just 10 levels higher than someone else was a huge deal and hitting 3 digits on your level was something to throw a party over. Then you look at the rankings and see people twice your level and you realize how much more dedicated they are to leveling. The upper echelon of Maplers was based almost solely on your level because it showed how much time you've put into the game. Like, just being lvl100 gets you into Zakum runs because finding anyone at that level on a specific class was so rare. Nowadays it's not levels but range and damage that people watch for. All you see on youtube are 5 second solos of random bosses because that's all there is to marvel at... the damage. Being lvl200 is a given at that point.
However, in the era of where levels was what you watched for, FangBlade would be what everyone would talk about because he was #1. It's sorta like the limgoon of pre-bigbang I guess.
Even if FangBlade doesn't care about it anymore, he's more of a figurehead and a representation of an era most veterans remember fondly. It's not really about what he thinks of it since he doesn't even play anymore, it's more for everyone else.
Though I have to say that I don't particularly care about it but I can understand the feelings of many maplers. It's something you just have to respect.