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Would someone translate that picture please? =D

Hadriel

Would someone translate that picture please? =D

Hadriel

That purple one? I don't know if there's anything beyond what we've been talking about as I believe someone has already summarized it and said that it just talks about the revamp and the 50% thing has something to do with Henesys Club members.

2 and 3. Cygnus overreacts to seeing Shinshoo hurt and possibly dead, she starts crying and the overflow of emotions releases her latent powers. How much emotion have we ever seen Cygnus show? and now with the World Tree residing in Shinshoo's gem, and she gains her power from Shinshoo, it's very likely that she gained more power than usual. The power causes her to transform magical girl style

I want to point something out, here. What happens to World Tree if Shinsoo dies? Afterall, it's in her gem, and it seems to have been damaged in the battle.

Ereve has been attacked before, but her Knights have always managed to fend it off, and then comes someone who is too powerful for them to fight, who kills someone dear to her. It seems clear that her first thoughts would be "We need to get stronger, I need to get stronger"

What I still don't realise is how comes that Ereve, which, according to a quest for Cygnus Knights I remember, is protected by a magical shield which doesn't allow evil individuals related to Black Mage to enter the island, keeps costantly getting successfully attacked and penetrated. Individuals such as Baroq (Master of Disguise of Black Wings), Black Witch, Hilla and now Damien were able to enter the island without any issues.

That was explained with both Baroq (who, maybe, thanks to his appearance-changing abilities, was able to not be detected) and Black Witch (she used Dunamis, a Cygnus Knight, as a means to introduce a curse to Ereve, which likely also allowed her to enter the island easily).

In the Black Witch quest, you also read about that invisible barrier. There, it only says it protect the island from curses, but I'm pretty sure someone (maybe Neinheart) said that it also prevented those individuals from entering the island.

How did Hilla and Damien successfully enter, though? I remember Hilla used her transformation ability (she didn't use her true form in Ereve's conference), so that might have prevented her to be detected by the barrier (even though it wouldn't explain how comes it didn't detect her evil power). But.. what about Damien? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Hopefully the storyline makes sense, as several things aren't quite clear to me.

I want to point something out, here. What happens to World Tree if Shinsoo dies? Afterall, it's in her gem, and it seems to have been damaged in the battle.

I said the same in the video thread, I think Damien just wanted to kidnap the world tree and now the Black mage has the power of the three transcendents.

Spent the past few hours trying to get the hair I want from that Amoria quest before I remembered they're going to just run create-a-new-wind-archer events when it goes live, soooo, blah. >_>

Hmm, perhaps my old theory of Cygnus herself becoming the one overpowered class to rule them all when it comes time for the Black Mage to finally be released as a boss isn't so farfetched now that she actually has powers.

Yes because after, what, two years(?) we finally have some high level content again, that excuses EVERYTHING Nexon has done since practically Future Ereb was added. If you want to add Aswan to that, okay, but even Aswan and the Future were basically a year apart. Two sets of content for high level players in the last two to three years. Certainly some hard work there!

They went through the effort to make it easy to hit high level, but then they gave you no reason to want to be high level. There's a significant lack of content for high levels, and the little content we do have lasts a very short time in comparison to the amount of grinding you have to do after all the actual content is done. At 9-10 years old, there's absolutely no excuse for the game to be this devoid of high level content.

Do you ever stop complaining about nexon? It comes to a point where people's problem with nexon becomes constant bitching and moaning.
Can't we all sit and eat cotton candy and be friends?

Do you ever stop complaining about nexon? It comes to a point where people's problem with nexon becomes constant bitching and moaning.
Can't we all sit and eat cotton candy and be friends?

Do they ever give me a reason to stop complaining about them? No. They do nothing except ruin this game, and people take it with open arms. It's disgusting.

I agree with Polantaris. All of my high levels - even my Hayato, which I love to play very much - are at a stand still and I never want to touch them, because there's no reason to. There's nothing interesting at all. All I ever do in Maple anymore is level up new characters when they're released, because that's pretty much all that happens anymore. There's not really even a reason to get past level 120 on more than one character.

Normally I'd agree with being tired of constant revamps/new classes, but Cygnus Knights have been completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things for a long time now. Be it through Mihile, Blessing being given through every character(although Cygnus gives a slightly stronger and easier to obtain one) and most UA skills becoming entirely useless when 4th job comes around.

They don't even serve as an "easy mode" anymore because of the constant revamps the other classes got, making them stronger and faster than the Cygnus Knights even with the bonus experience and AP. Tempest job advancement levels put the nail in the coffin.

I dislike it when Nexon constantly shoves revamps at us and act as if its content, but when its needed, you can't really complain. At this point, I'll say the same thing about every class anyways thanks to Unlimited updates making this game so drastically pay2play for your average player(the one who doesn't throw a couple grand at Nexon).

I think Nexon went in the right direction of making the revamp related to higher leveled contentwith an awesome quest line.

Am I the only one who thinks this is one big set-up?


I mean, Future Ereve is supposed to be a dream. But what if that was just to fool us into thinking it wasn't really going to happen so that when we found the world tree everything would seem legit and while Cygnus gets a power-up in the mean time and stays good continuing to fool everyone she will suddenly have a heel face turn and blow up everything.


Or am I overthinking things.

Am I the only one who thinks this is one big set-up?


I mean, Future Ereve is supposed to be a dream. But what if that was just to fool us into thinking it wasn't really going to happen so that when we found the world tree everything would seem legit and while Cygnus gets a power-up in the mean time and stays good continuing to fool everyone she will suddenly have a heel face turn and blow up everything.


Or am I overthinking things.

There's still the possibility that Alice (The World Tree) is kidnapped and Cygnus and her (Newly powered up knights) go to find her and get trapped anyway, but story-wise it's unlikely to happen exactly like in the dream as the future Henesys situation basically spells game over for the Maple world.

Considering that everyone knows about the dream, four of the five heroes and a replacement for the one that died are here, the Resistance is around, etc., as soon as Ereve falls from the sky and lands near Henesys, everyone will launch a massive invasion.

So no, unless the Black Mage is planning on exactly that (I don't think Wizet's writing staff is that clever.), we're not going to see Arkarium's false future of Cygnus getting killed by the heroes play out.

Maybe the story will go just like that. The Black Mage and his underlings are trying to make the false future into a reality and is up to us to prevent it from happening by rescuing Shinsoo and Alice.

Makes a lot of sense and sets the scenario for new party quests and even a new area to be released.

I just want to know what they'll do about DW and Mihile. It's just doesn't make sense why they would do that.

And I find it annoying that the classes are going to be revamped one by one and not as a whole... Hopefully UA skills will also be revamped.

Do you ever stop complaining about nexon? It comes to a point where people's problem with nexon becomes constant bitching and moaning.
Can't we all sit and eat cotton candy and be friends?

The worst part is that their rage is misdirected. Wizet is the one they should be complaining about when it comes to Maple Story. Nexon just hosts the game.

Nexon Korea also hosts Elsword, which isn't even half as pay2win as Maple Story. Vindictus/Mabinogi Heroes, where pay2winning helps, but the weapon protection items don't work when enhancing weapons from levels 11-15, meaning you're completely on your own. (Read: Farming trumps pay2win.) Used to host Lunia, which wasn't very pay2win at all, and so on.

Elsword and Vindictus/MH also just got new high level content for their Winter updates.

So yeah, blame Wizet, not Nexon.

Do they ever give me a reason to stop complaining about them? No. They do nothing except ruin this game, and people take it with open arms. It's disgusting.

Except that not everyone does. You also skipped over Evolving World. You can argue that if you want but it is 100+ and level scaled to 200. Dimensional Invade PQ which everyone seems to skip over. Even if it is just killing over and over it's still technically high level content since it's for 140(?)+. Also I think you and Link are just nit picking and looking for the big picture rather then the small things. My guild and I find enjoyment in the small things rather then the large content. As disgusted as I am with Unlimited and as much as I believe it ruins the game I'm still going to keep playing because of what maple means to me and the fun I have with it. Sometimes I just do quests or just random boss runs for the hell of it. Not everything needs to be "180+ high level die in 1 hit boss run". I enjoy Sakura Castle. I wanted Fantastic Theme Park. I can't wait till the China World Tour is made into a Theme Dungeon as well as Night Market. I can't wait to mess around with Evolving World. I still enjoy Pantheon and Hellisum. I still do Azwan, I still level up random characters for no reason other then to just level them up, and to top it all off I can't wait for the Farm System. Why? Because it's a distraction and something fun to do, no other reason then that. I know this is a cliche line but if you're really getting this pissed off and are this angry with NEXON and Wizet then just quit.

The worst part is that their rage is misdirected. Wizet is the one they should be complaining about when it comes to Maple Story. Nexon just hosts the game.

Nexon Korea also hosts Elsword, which isn't even half as pay2win as Maple Story. Vindictus/Mabinogi Heroes, where pay2winning helps, but the weapon protection items don't work when enhancing weapons from levels 11-15, meaning you're completely on your own. (Read: Farming trumps pay2win.) Used to host Lunia, which wasn't very pay2win at all, and so on.

Elsword and Vindictus/MH also just got new high level content for their Winter updates.

So yeah, blame Wizet, not Nexon.

....Wizet IS nexon, they merged back in 2005...And that's not entirely true as Nexon, such as NA, aka the CEO's, are the ones who determine what is important or not. And as many sources on this website show, money is more important to them than anything. Wizet cannot develop or moderate the patches properly when the bosses essentially say "spit out the content already so we can focus on more ways to get money".

So it's not misdirected at all.

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php...uld%20Know

I don't think it's necessary to elaborate between Wizet/NA/NK

Except that not everyone does. You also skipped over Evolving World. You can argue that if you want but it is 100+ and level scaled to 200. Dimensional Invade PQ which everyone seems to skip over. Even if it is just killing over and over it's still technically high level content since it's for 140(?)+. Also I think you and Link are just nit picking and looking for the big picture rather then the small things. My guild and I find enjoyment in the small things rather then the large content. As disgusted as I am with Unlimited and as much as I believe it ruins the game I'm still going to keep playing because of what maple means to me and the fun I have with it. Sometimes I just do quests or just random boss runs for the hell of it. Not everything needs to be "180+ high level die in 1 hit boss run". I enjoy Sakura Castle. I wanted Fantastic Theme Park. I can't wait till the China World Tour is made into a Theme Dungeon as well as Night Market. I can't wait to mess around with Evolving World. I still enjoy Pantheon and Hellisum. I still do Azwan, I still level up random characters for no reason other then to just level them up, and to top it all off I can't wait for the Farm System. Why? Because it's a distraction and something fun to do, no other reason then that. I know this is a cliche line but if you're really getting this pissed off and are this angry with NEXON and Wizet then just quit.

I'll say it for the hundredth time. Tiny pieces of content here and there DO NOT excuse everything else.

Look at other MMOs, especially any good MMO worth playing, and you'll see games thriving with new MONTHLY content. MapleStory gets bi-yearly content, if that, now. Especially considering the massive amounts of money they make off of cubes, there's no excuse at all.

It's funny how the defense against people being annoyed with updates is always "JUST QUIT!" Ever consider that I have essentially quit already? I've said this in other threads. That doesn't mean I can't hope and hope for them to turn it around and get annoyed when they don't. Call me a masochist, I don't care. MapleStory used to be fun, it used to get content with every major patch. It doesn't anymore. How do I not have the right to be annoyed about that? I've been playing MapleStory since the beginning, it's very sad to see the game be raped instead of just dying. I would have much preferred this game to die in its prime instead of wither away with constant bullshit updates and bonuses to money whores.

You're very much allowed to enjoy older areas, but where exactly is it written that we should be forever doomed to have no end game content? I'm not taking 140-160 content here, I'm talking about content for 200s. There is none. Hell, there's nothing for Level 170+. There's just one pretty small area, Stronghold, and that's it. Nothing you mentioned would be suitable content for a Level 170+, except maybe Evolving World, but I have no idea how viable that is for a very high level. Even if it was very suitable, it doesn't matter. Two areas is ridiculous for a nine year old game. At what point do we deserve high level content in a game that's been around for nine years? Why is that such a goddamn terrible thing to ask for? I constantly bring this up because no one ever gives me a good answer. I get bullshitted, I get attacked, I get flamed, but I never get an answer.

Also I think you and Link are just nit picking and looking for the big picture rather then the small things.

How is that such a terrible thing to look for? The big picture shouldn't be something you nit pick for, it should be smacking you in the face. You're the nit picking when you're trying to excuse them with little crap content that you pointed out in your post. All of the areas you posted are NOT what we've mentioned at any point in time. None of the areas "[you're] looking forward to" are high level areas except for the Evolving World, and that may not be very much of one either, that remains to be seen. This game is NINE years old. It should be overflowing with content for all character levels. There should always be something to do. There's not.

and most UA skills becoming entirely useless when 4th job comes around

This. I really hope they revamp the UA skills because wind pierce is basically useless for archers. pomegranate needs to be fixed