Who or what inspired you to play your class?

As in, your favorite or strongest character (main). Back during the pre-4th job era, probably when Amoria first came out. There was a Hermit by the name of Riptor. He was my bestfriend on Scania. Of course, he eventually quit because people said his damage sucked, and he had complications with his girlfriend. We still talk, but only on MSN these days.

Then there was Suuushi. Suuushi was a huge inspiration to me. I saw the character hanging out at FM on multiple occasions, and after the Suuushi-hacking crap, I think somewhere along that time, I made a female-Sin just for fun. It was for fun, like I said. Never did I realize it would become a Hermit, and eventually advance to a Night Lord. -shrug-

Pictures:
Riptor is on the very left


Suuushi (pre 4th job)


Good times. Oh, how I miss MS before all of these attack-stats hoars.

I wanted a fast warrior.

Oh look. Chief bandits.

Battleship Cannon.

I like crossbows and guns. Guess which classes I have.

Lukavi, he was a 5x Page when I was low 3x and he offered to loan me a well scrolled Titans (something like 71 atk) if I got to level 40. He also helped me find a clean Golden Mole and scrolls for it.

My first character ever was a cleric (back on BETA and when I started on Windia as well). My inspiration was, after reading a little on each class, that cleric was the only class able to heal (which was awesome coming from other RPG's mentality)

My F/P was made because I felt that my priest couldn't really hold his own when not partied and I wanted to be able to deal single target damage and solo.

My inspiration for my hermit was my friends that were always flash jumping around and showing off.

When pirates came out, my main inspiration was just to use a gun. After I caught a glimpse of the massive damage they could do about 6 months after their release, that was part of my inspiration. Now its all the high leveled Corsiars of Bellocan and SP that inspire me to keep going

[COLOR="Green"]I wanted to be a White Knight, becasue everyone was a Sader or a DK. And so I made one.

As for picking a Warrior in the first place, the race between Tiger and Fangblade did that.[/COLOR]

I picked a mage because I liked magical happenings. I picked an FP because poison sounded AWESOME. Motivation then was EluNirvelli. Then I realized my stats sucked. I made a hermit-to-be because my friend did, but I last-second decided to be a bandit because Savage Blow was AWESOME. Since then, the person that was my motivation was Touzokouu, don't think any of you know him her. I've almost caught up to him, I think.

I made my Hero very recently. I knew I wanted to make a warrior, and I had a few friends on BL to inspire me

I made my hermit/night lord because i thought that assassins were the ones who used daggers. After i 2nd job advanced, i was too lazy to make a new character. For the record, i wasn't stupid- there was little/no guides to help me choose back then, and i didn't read what the job instructor said.

After my nl got hacked i made my marksman because i thought that both bowmasters and marksmen got hurricane, and marksman had cheaper weapons with more attack. I figured that it was a no brainer. I still regret making a marksman, but i'm 165 now and there's no turning back.

I was such an idiot...

I swear I remember a thread like this being posted once before, may be wrong though, can't be arsed to search for it.

Regardless, I dunno who to choose. Only reason I went I/L was because my IRL friend who played a cleric at the time told me that I/Ls could mob while F/Ps were more for 1v1 (This was before Ludi/poison builds were considered). I liked the idea of mobbing over 1v1 and since he was a cleric already, I/L was the only choice left for my magician.

When my wizard was 4x or 5x I think, I started noticing these speedy dagger users that could hit 6 times with a single attack. My 15 year old self was was mesmerised by the numbers as they stacked on top of each other in rapid succession (I don't think any other class branch could do this until 4th job, not that I had any idea about 4th or even 3rd job at the time). I wanted to be able to do that as well, and I had seen the Cass equipped on someone else and had liked it over the Reef Claw. Thus my STR bandit came into being.

Finally when pirates came out, I wanted a ranged class, that was all. Gunslingers were the natural choice. Got it to lolsair, hated it for causing me to forsake my archmage, my first character. Am going to start playing it again soon though once archmage starts 100% 1hkoing skeles (very close), as my first character is now becoming the character it should have been from the start.

I have had no role models that weren't randoms I saw while wandering the Maple world.

During beta, a friend suggested that I should become a mage. Played for three hours and got bored quickly, not to mention the fact that my brother disapproved of me secretly downloading MS onto his computer.

Eventually my little cousins started playing, and they encouraged me to start playing again. One of them idolized Tiger and had a Spearman and Cleric, and the other was a Sin, so I became an Archer. Of course, as I made my way into 2nd job, I started getting the 'lolArchers suck' comments, particularly from the sins. But being the stubborn [censored] that I was, I continued onwards as an Archer, if only because I tried out my cousins' characters and quickly became bored. I guess I stayed with Archers because I had to constantly think on my feet more. And the whole 'Archer Pride' thing that the community used to have back then. All this was about a year before 4th job.

I was forced to quit MS right when 4th job was finally released, and just recently came back about a month ago. I now switch between a Wind Archer and a Crossbowman as my mains, and eventually plan to start a Hunter when the Adventurer rings make their way over here. (Watch me get like four or five critical rings, two of them reserved for the future legends. >_>)

I made a slinger cuz i wanted a good attack class. theres too many bowmen and too many sins, and i dont really like the gameplay of a xbow, and i didnt want a warrior cuz i didnt want to have to fart around with accuracy equips. so the only choice left really was a slinger. i also wanted to make a dit, which i did, but then i got bored of it after i maxed SB, so i quit it after 6x. so now im pretty much slowly leveling a slinger (8x right now).

A bandit was hauling ass at Alishar.
I had to have one.

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No, but seriously, I just wanted something that moved like an overcaffeinated lemur.

Then, I discovered flash jump.

MAGIC? ICE?
SIGN ME UP.

Pretty much.

Well, first time playing Maple in Beta I went with Spear-Warrior, but not knowing about how to put stats I messed up and had some LUK as well as INT, so by level 25, I was suffering with insufficient stats to wear gear and deal average damage (Yeah, I screwed up my stats that much). When maple officially released into oMS, then I went with a thief because they seemed like a fun class to play (Yes, real fun existed back then) so I went with that and got the fun that I wanted.

Though over time and until now, I really regret choosing this forsaken class due to a large number of factors which shall not be mentioned here least I turn into a Nostalgiapapaya about today's world.

Winwy, SunnyDelight, and Keturah were my inspirations when I created my Bishop.

I wasn't really inspired by anyone when I made my Corsair. I just liked the skills when they were first undergoing testing in KMS. If I had to pick an inspiration, it would be Shrapnel from KMS (blitzkrieg) on these forums. His C-2 training video was what sealed the deal for me on Corsairs.

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