2016-06-09, 01:08 PM
I'll throw in a random opinion of my own that doesn't really flow with the current coversation -
The thing I miss the most was having rare drops -- chaos scrolls from area bosses/certain mobs (artifact event!), old monster book cards, mastery books from specific mobs/bosses, etc. I'm pretty sure it was that aspect that got me addicted in the first place.
Everyone hated the old mastery book system. I've only ever heard complaints about how hard it was to get (and pass) a specific skillbook. I always thought it was a brilliant system -- spending time hunting for those skillbooks was an enormously meaningful upgrade in most cases. Yeah, sometimes you'd get unlucky and it would take several expensive skillbooks to get it to pass. But that made it all the more awesome of an achievement.
One of my best memories from pre-bb was having to go through seven (or was it eight?) SE30 books for it to finally pass. I still have the screenshot saved of when I finally got one to work. I was so proud of finally being able to max that skill.
I'm sure a lot of people on this forum remember how I used to post my daily chaos scroll drops. Drumming bunnies, zombie mushrooms, tae roon, seruf, king sage cat, snowman, etc. I made well over 500k nx through MTS just from hunting them. I absolutely loved keeping track of the boss spawn times, randomizing channels so it was difficult for people to follow you, optimizing what order you did the bosses in.
When I was bored of that, I could go and hunt monster cards. Which had a drop rate low enough that grinding long enough to have one drop was actually an accomplishment. This was, by far, my favorite aspect of Maplestory. Staying up to odd hours, waking up extra early, just to hunt bot-catching mobs for a chance at getting their card. I still get excited when I think back to how it felt to have some of them finally drop. Still sad about never having gotten any of the Goblin King cards.
Leveling was never a priority to me. It was something that just happened over time, explicitly going out to train on my own only during the 2x events.
The thing I miss the most was having rare drops -- chaos scrolls from area bosses/certain mobs (artifact event!), old monster book cards, mastery books from specific mobs/bosses, etc. I'm pretty sure it was that aspect that got me addicted in the first place.
Everyone hated the old mastery book system. I've only ever heard complaints about how hard it was to get (and pass) a specific skillbook. I always thought it was a brilliant system -- spending time hunting for those skillbooks was an enormously meaningful upgrade in most cases. Yeah, sometimes you'd get unlucky and it would take several expensive skillbooks to get it to pass. But that made it all the more awesome of an achievement.
One of my best memories from pre-bb was having to go through seven (or was it eight?) SE30 books for it to finally pass. I still have the screenshot saved of when I finally got one to work. I was so proud of finally being able to max that skill.
I'm sure a lot of people on this forum remember how I used to post my daily chaos scroll drops. Drumming bunnies, zombie mushrooms, tae roon, seruf, king sage cat, snowman, etc. I made well over 500k nx through MTS just from hunting them. I absolutely loved keeping track of the boss spawn times, randomizing channels so it was difficult for people to follow you, optimizing what order you did the bosses in.
When I was bored of that, I could go and hunt monster cards. Which had a drop rate low enough that grinding long enough to have one drop was actually an accomplishment. This was, by far, my favorite aspect of Maplestory. Staying up to odd hours, waking up extra early, just to hunt bot-catching mobs for a chance at getting their card. I still get excited when I think back to how it felt to have some of them finally drop. Still sad about never having gotten any of the Goblin King cards.
Leveling was never a priority to me. It was something that just happened over time, explicitly going out to train on my own only during the 2x events.