2010-07-11, 12:58 PM
Dusk Wrote:It's not hard to introduce a "greater evil" into the mix. Look at WoW. At the end of W3, you had King Arthas fusing with the Ner'zhul as the Lich King and he became the strongest, evilest thing ever...and stayed that way for years as they released WoW and the first expansion, and wasn't defeated until the second expansion came out. But now with Cataclysm coming out, they're bringing back pineappleing Deathwing from W2, who has apparently gotten much stronger in the years while everyone forgot about him. And who knows? In a fourth expansion, they could bring back something else and call it the new greatest evil.
Was there even a mention of a Black Magician in the early days of MapleStory? I don't seem to recall hearing anything about such an entity until around when 4th job was coming out. I'm pretty sure there was a time when Zakum was THE ultimate boss...forever.
That depends. You can't compare Maplestory's lore to WoW's because the Warcraft universe already had a buttload of people capable of tearing the world asunder. Deathwing is one, but people in that game still have yet to properly fight Kil'jaeden (you only fight him when he was halfway summoned), Sargeras, the dragons in the Emerald Dream, the old gods, and then we have the Titans, who can even overpower gods. Deathwing is nothing compared to what is still available from the Warcraft universe.
The Black Magician has been emphasized for quite a while now; there were classes created because of the Black Magician and then there's the fact he not just tore the world apart but he changed monster levels and their power. I don't recall mentions of beings with similar calibers of power as the Black Magician, although it may be partly due to me not completing all the Maple quests there are.