2009-09-29, 03:06 PM
My friend brought me into this game in March '06. I made an Assassin and got it to 72 I think in... September. I got sick of having low HP ("I'll never be able to fight Pianus until like 150 or something crazy high like that!") so I made a DK. Made a bunch of friends on that thing and got it to level 106 by February '07. By then, we had gotten wind of 4th job skills that were a long time coming. I noticed that DKs were going to suck some serious ass (another misguided notion that made me change my class), so I went to Hunters, whom I had always liked anyway. I made Kaida on February 12th and got her to 141 by the time 4th job came out in January '08 (2x cards came out when I was 81, I believe). From January '08 to January '09, I stayed on Kaida and got her up to 167. I took a break from Kaida when Pirates came out to make a Buccaneer. Leeched it to 93 in about a week, then quit maple for a month or so out of boredom (and most my friends had disappeared). I get dragged back around early February '06, and I dragged Carlos back not long after I came back (he had quit because he got hacked). I trained until early April and got to 173 while Carlos' Buccaneer was in his 14x. He was starting to hate Buccs and was pining for the days of XBish again. So, on a whim, I said we should both make new characters together for some fun. So around early April, I made Kayako and he made Rafflesia. We hadn't intended to be so crazy about it, but we got up to 4th job in under a month without leeching a bit -- just by spamming 4x exp (and some 8x). We continued to train together and still train together. He's 170 and I'm 168. I made my Corsair because I thought they were a cool and versatile class -- I didn't expect them to be as powerful as they are.