2011-07-05, 04:45 PM
I have a love/hate relationship with both maples, old and new, becuase both have their pros and cons.
Old Maple:
Pros:
1) The comunity was a lot better because there was less people and no one wasn't god tier (if you remmenber back in 2007, people made partys to kill pianus, now pianus is a normal LHC monster equivalent...)
2)All help was needed to do something for example before you could enter to a zak run no matter what class you were or how strong (obviously you needed to be capable of hit it), now you need to have connections and free channels ( now only hackers and lucky people can do horn tail and zakum is almost full everytime and don't talk about the solos)
3) there was a good balance between nx and mesos only users, Pets only picked up items and mesos and some people just scrolled their pet equips for speed, gachapon wasn't that game breaking because there still were the boss equips and other items that were profitable.
4)Becoming 3rd/4th jobber was very nice because you had the posibility to get some stable incomes.
5) omok and game cards parties.
6) Perion love.
7) Hackers didn't run the economy and were more "gentle" training on very unpopular maps (lucidas and DK hackers)
8) The variety of people from other countries (i still talk with some european friends)
Cons:
1) lol the stupid time needed for leveling (who remmenber training for 4 hours with a cleric to get lvl 51 from 50?)
2) The game content was very limited (it still is but who cares)
3)the game was a lot harder becuase the low availability of "good" equips.
4) Some classes were very boring and repetitive (high five Crusaders and WK)
5) you're alone sometimes and no one was in a map training
6) No good PQ and noob bosses (This problem is stil in the game until jump)
"New" Maple:
Pros:
1) The fast leveling (omfg 1-70 in 2 days thats awesome)
2) The elimination of pqs lvl limits( i still kpq sometimes on my aran lol)
3) The various ways to improve yourself (traits, lvling, scrolling, potential and porfessions)
4) The amount of people that is playing at the same time (no forever alone anymore, right?)
5) The increase in the amount of content
Cons:
1) Everything from Pros is a cons except 3 {1)the leveling curve was very very broken it is pretty easy to reach lvl 70 now days, i didn't reach lvl 70 until 4months of massive griding on old maple, now 2 days lol,2)C'mon nexon the pqs aren't a challenge anymore you can just recruit some high level friend and the pq will be a breeze, they could have made higher lvls pq to give same type of rewards but a lot better in stats, 4) Is true there is a lot of people playing at the same time but they aren't as nice as my old european and asians friends (hate you ip block) , North and Latin americans almost stayed the same some nices some a-holes and because of that you can be alone most of the time like a lonely wolf like someone said above, 5) There is a lot of content is true but almost everything is useless because of special areas like Jesters or MP3 and others are useless because they are (lol chryse)}.
2) The meso and nx balance almost no exist, if you have nx you can have a nice experience of the game if you don't well you have to be a no life player/merchant or exploiter, and it isn't because of cubes or vegas or nx pams, it is because nexon never released a meso equivalent for that (don't say white scrolls they are from gachapon) and don't talk about evan's skill books.
3) There isn't need of having friends in this game anymore unless you want to boss or enter to some content that need a partner (and only if you aren't very powerful)
4)The hackers run the game and nexon doesn't know anything about the game.
5) others i don't actually remember because i have to go to celebrate my 5th July (venezuela independece day)
P.D: To people who says that the game isn't as hard as before, try to create a new no overpowered charater without fundings, nx, empress bless and anything that connects to your other character and you will see that you aren't going to 1 hit ko things on lvl 1xx.
Old Maple:
Pros:
1) The comunity was a lot better because there was less people and no one wasn't god tier (if you remmenber back in 2007, people made partys to kill pianus, now pianus is a normal LHC monster equivalent...)
2)All help was needed to do something for example before you could enter to a zak run no matter what class you were or how strong (obviously you needed to be capable of hit it), now you need to have connections and free channels ( now only hackers and lucky people can do horn tail and zakum is almost full everytime and don't talk about the solos)
3) there was a good balance between nx and mesos only users, Pets only picked up items and mesos and some people just scrolled their pet equips for speed, gachapon wasn't that game breaking because there still were the boss equips and other items that were profitable.
4)Becoming 3rd/4th jobber was very nice because you had the posibility to get some stable incomes.
5) omok and game cards parties.
6) Perion love.
7) Hackers didn't run the economy and were more "gentle" training on very unpopular maps (lucidas and DK hackers)
8) The variety of people from other countries (i still talk with some european friends)
Cons:
1) lol the stupid time needed for leveling (who remmenber training for 4 hours with a cleric to get lvl 51 from 50?)
2) The game content was very limited (it still is but who cares)
3)the game was a lot harder becuase the low availability of "good" equips.
4) Some classes were very boring and repetitive (high five Crusaders and WK)
5) you're alone sometimes and no one was in a map training
6) No good PQ and noob bosses (This problem is stil in the game until jump)
"New" Maple:
Pros:
1) The fast leveling (omfg 1-70 in 2 days thats awesome)
2) The elimination of pqs lvl limits( i still kpq sometimes on my aran lol)
3) The various ways to improve yourself (traits, lvling, scrolling, potential and porfessions)
4) The amount of people that is playing at the same time (no forever alone anymore, right?)
5) The increase in the amount of content
Cons:
1) Everything from Pros is a cons except 3 {1)the leveling curve was very very broken it is pretty easy to reach lvl 70 now days, i didn't reach lvl 70 until 4months of massive griding on old maple, now 2 days lol,2)C'mon nexon the pqs aren't a challenge anymore you can just recruit some high level friend and the pq will be a breeze, they could have made higher lvls pq to give same type of rewards but a lot better in stats, 4) Is true there is a lot of people playing at the same time but they aren't as nice as my old european and asians friends (hate you ip block) , North and Latin americans almost stayed the same some nices some a-holes and because of that you can be alone most of the time like a lonely wolf like someone said above, 5) There is a lot of content is true but almost everything is useless because of special areas like Jesters or MP3 and others are useless because they are (lol chryse)}.
2) The meso and nx balance almost no exist, if you have nx you can have a nice experience of the game if you don't well you have to be a no life player/merchant or exploiter, and it isn't because of cubes or vegas or nx pams, it is because nexon never released a meso equivalent for that (don't say white scrolls they are from gachapon) and don't talk about evan's skill books.
3) There isn't need of having friends in this game anymore unless you want to boss or enter to some content that need a partner (and only if you aren't very powerful)
4)The hackers run the game and nexon doesn't know anything about the game.
5) others i don't actually remember because i have to go to celebrate my 5th July (venezuela independece day)
P.D: To people who says that the game isn't as hard as before, try to create a new no overpowered charater without fundings, nx, empress bless and anything that connects to your other character and you will see that you aren't going to 1 hit ko things on lvl 1xx.