Why Beginners aren't pointless

maybe you missed the part in the video where she mentions Maplestory is only a game.

but, ahah, vri nice video. (:

She's not treating it like one.

It's not about having an advantage; there are other ways to have fun in this game than being the best at killing things. For that matter - do Pages have any advantage over Fighters in 2nd job? People still made Pages in Beta. Are you saying that they were playing the "wrong way?"


You have no pineappleing idea what you're talking about. Ask anyone in Bera if they think IronArrows is an attention whore guild.

It's funny everyone in this topic knows all these "other ways" and will not bring any of them up. Pages have different skills than fighters, that is an irrelevant example.

And what if I wanted to add LUK to equip say a Diamond Dagger at level 50?

Then you should make a Bandit.

Warriors can equip Beginner-only weapons? Since when?

Already went over this.

So by saying Nexon made it possible to level a Beginner past level 10, and then went on to add Beginner-only equipment, that means I'm giving them too much credit?

I highly doubt that Nexon made it possible to mess up and miss the job advancement. Rather, they didn't go through the effort of making it impossible. As for the weapons, it's called a joke.

Also, who seriously follows these guides anyway? Following what everyone else does doesn't sound all that fun to me - I'd much rather experiment with classes to see what I find more fun. If you seriously care about "your character will suck if you don't follow them" then you're obviously playing Maple as an obsession and not as a game.

Anyone that isn't a moron or an attention whore will follow those guides, even if they don't even read them and follow them unintentionally by using common sense. If that doesn't sound fun to you, you are playing the wrong game. Doing the same repetitive task that everyone else does is what this game is about. I am Maple Story player, and you feed off of my attention. If playing the game like it is intended makes me obsessed, you are something much worse.

When/if you get to level 200 are you going to just log off and never play your character again, or are you going to stand in crowds of people using special level 200 skills and riding Red Draco?
Is that not "attention whoring", as you put it?

I don't do such things with the skills I have now. I doubt that being level 200 would make me behave any differently. And yes, it would be.

Give me an example of a situation where a level 15 Warrior wil be able to kill monsters of the same level in the game dealing more damage than a level 15 Magician.
By this logic, we should all be playing one class.

No. You're comparing two classes with different skills to a classless character with no advantages (but there are many!!) provided as of yet and a Warrior.

I like the boardgame Monopoly. I tend to play as the Hat. The Hat is smaller than the Car and thus can be harder to pick up - am I playing it wrong?

All Monopoly pieces are exactly the same aside from physical appearance. All of them are Beginners. There isn't a time limit on turns unless there's some competitive Monopoly league that I haven't been informed of. There are horrible analogies, and then there is this one.

People who think it's wrong to play a class just because it's weaker are idiots.

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No one brought up damage besides the beginners themselves. The single advantage that everyone knows about but doesn't dare mention, the reason that they play (DEFINITELY NOT ATTENTION WHORING) doesn't have to involve damage. Ex: A boss, PQ, or event that requires beginners or gives rewards based on the amount of beginners.