Who or what inspired you to play your class?

I chose the warrior class because I've been interested in swords for awhile now, and I chose page+ because the ability to use elements seemed alot more fun than orbs and all that stuff fighters+ get.

Hmm....

Getting my own boat, cannon, octopi, armby of bomb dropping birds, massive damage, floating, being unique, and being a PIRATE!

Guess which class I am?

However, when I saw this vid, i almost made a brawler

[video=youtube;_A42BNSmlZ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A42BNSmlZ4[/video]

The guns, and the fact that i can ride a battleship

I usually play as a warrior in most RPGs, so heh. And since I've played several games involving elemental weaknesses and all that garbage, I went more into research and decided to choose the path of White Knight, and eventually Paladin. I don't regret that choice one bit. God I love whacking stuff around with elemental attacks.

Choice of weapon was Blunt Weapons because I love big weapons too.

And as for an inspiration.. back in the older days, Mondays was #1 Bello, and the highest Paladin as well. Miss having you around, bro.

the ice. no, really, it was blizzard.

When a friend of mine first introduced me to Maple, he showed me the 4 classes we had at the time, and I saw that the Mage could use lightning so I said "I want a Mage!" so he helped me with getting to Lv.8. So after advancing he showed me his character(a Warrior, with messed up stats of course, we were like 11) but while he was playing an Assassin came by and killed a few monsters (this was in the summer of 2005, so there wasn't really any KSing problem yet) and I was like, WOW that looked AWESOME. So when I finally got to play the game at home(although I had crappy internet until early 2006, so it took long) I made a Thief (of course, with messed up stats, although I didn't know that yet). After a while, I started youtubing for thief videos and I saw a Chief Bandit using Assaulter and such and I went like WOW again. So I decided to quit my 10 STR 12 INT Assassin-Rogue and made a Bandit, but since I used all my character slots in Bera and didn't feel like deleting anything I went to Broa, where I still am today.

For my other characters it was a little less complex. I made my Gunslinger because I liked the way it looked and I heard that they weren't based around damage all the time, but more around speed, which was nice. And at Tespia I got to play a Bowmaster(I still reported bugs) and I liked it, but didn't want to get to 120 for just Hurricane (I didn't really like most of the other 4th job skills, even though they're usefull) so I made a Wind Archer. For Aran the ring was enough motivation.

The fact that my class is all-around superior. Why would I settle for anything less?

When I was first was introduced to MapleStory, I looked at the four classes. To my middle school brain and my inner Naruto fanboy around then because I was just discovering manga, a class that could throw shuriken and kunai seemed absolutely cool and sounded actually pretty innovative. Even just reading about the gameplay on the website fascinated me enough. And watching videos about early dexless sins and the people who I talked to in real life about MapleStory really helped me support my decision. Today, I still like my NL; not for those reasons of course (particularly the LOLNARUTO bandwagon) but that it's a nice gameplay style I'm comfy with, and that's it.

IF, MapleStory ever allowed 14 letter IGNs, I would make a slinger in a heartbeat for the sake of being a guy running around with guns named "SmoothCriminal".

All my original characters were made because I thought they sounded cool. There wasn't even third job back then.

Just the thought of being able to be a new, good class inspired me on Grapist.

I wanted a class with fast attacks and mobility.

 Two few vids that inspired me

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Made whole bunch of newb characters that i didn't like with crappy igns. Then i found the awesome pro-ness of having 1 word/2 word no numbers or leet igns.

Took my cousin's level 23 archer into my bowmaster cause i wanted to use inferno (LOL i know right? But that was back when inferno did platform burn damage that was taken out and we got lolinferno). I didn't get bored, i just didn't want to be pressing one button forever as my main attack, not to mention the crappy HP that archers have. He's my bossing mule for now.

Too few buttons turned into OMG hella buttons, i.e. the buccaneer. Made this guy when they came out and haven't looked back since. I don't fall asleep training anymore cause i have to abuse the iinvincibility frames They also had good HP AND pretty attack animations.

Aran now just because their attacks are pretty and new and it being my first 3rd job character i've made without the help of my cousin

All my other mules were essentially mules. My Bishop was supposed to be an HS mule, but my guildie leeched it to a bishop so w/e. I might think about using it as a bosser if i can learn to pot right and get it a zhelm/scarlion hat.

My motivation doesn't come from people,but merely by how nicely the skills look animation wise

First time, I simply wanted a class that was both new to me and (at the time) rare to find. I was having fun with it, oh so much fun~

I kinda wanted to quit at 3x because it got really difficult for me to level, and this was before places like Amoria came out. My main inspirations at the time were my friend Dan (danw06) and Omar/GunsRus2, now known as oMarvelous, who were two of the nicest archers I had ever met. I kept going because of them and realized how much I adored the archer class.

After I lost my character to a "hacker," I nearly quit GMS because I was in no mood to start over, especially after having gotten so far on a class I loved so much. And then I saw Retalion's video and boom. Decided not to give up on the class I loved. Soooo here I am now. In other words, he's one of my main idols. (I'm sure he's sick of hearing this from me by now, lol)

Hmm....

Getting my own boat, cannon, octopi, armby of bomb dropping birds, massive damage, floating, being unique, and being a PIRATE!

Guess which class I am?

However, when I saw this vid, i almost made a brawler

 Spoiler

[video=youtube;_A42BNSmlZ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A42BNSmlZ4[/video]

Only after having a high level buccaneer do i realize that that video really sucked, lol. Somewhat good for it's time, but his control is abysmal by todays standards. The only saving grace is the editing. >_>

I made a crossbow wielder because I wanted a ranged character, and was too cheap to make a sin and hunter. Hooray for cheap x-bow gear.

I made a bucc because they're attacks look awesome, and they are a well rounded class. Also when I saw their party buffs I knew they would get into boss runs.

This video alone made me want a shadower.[video=youtube;vK8_iluqBvU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8_iluqBvU[/video]
Still keeps me going to this day.

This video made me make a white knight to 119 alone.[video=youtube;JqFoWdpRFto]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFoWdpRFto&feature=related[/video]

Google. I found Hidden Street, looked up the skill pages and thought that the archer skillset was pretty nice. Kinda ironic since I assumed that the low number of buffs meant that it's not the sort of buff-reliant squishy class which I usually avoid. Boy was I wrong. But by the time the squishiness really kicked in, I'd gone too far with it to be bothered to change class.

I tried all four classes pretty much equally back in BETA and eventually decided to try an archer. Picking the subclass was a quick decision to the presence of LaHire/HaLire.

No regrets today, even though I was sidetracked at some point.

My first choice of class in beta maple was a i/l wizard. got it to lv 45 and found it hard to keeping it alive with the massive MP drain skill and MG of course. and don;t forget mp pot cost double as much as HP pot. I have to live with high def equipements to take hit with out MG. and pretty much messed up the max MP skill at 1st job. and then I starting to do some research and back in 2005 cleric was the one who able to make some decent mesos from litterally "looting" the mesos from monster. and guess what? I made it to lv 50 and have enough money to start a guild call "BambooGarden" <- if anyone was in this guild and know who BambooStory is please PM me I miss you guys. And this is my first character made all the way to 3rd job after a year of fun training. until later in in 2006 a bunch of ks sin show up and starting to declare guild ks war. and then I made a hermit. but was illegally playing.. and then quit for long while. after 4th job released. and I didn;t know going to boss run was so important or w/e I made a Shadower. because I just hate "slow" so yeah so far til today. enjoying this game in peace with new friends.

Oh the reason I made a shadower was I watched some 4th job shadower video I just fell in love with assassinate I can;t help it.. its sooo pineapple sexy

Well if you mean my very first character which was an I/L mage on ems. I made him because my friends told me there were three mages: F/p's, I/L's and Clerics and I was always attracted to the mere concept of magic. I hated poison, I loathed being a support character, so I/L it was. I remember my very first maple half an hour where I couldn't figure out how to continue XD. You know the platform where you first started out before the training camp, right before you got that apple costume? You had to double click a person and I only single clicked rapidly, crawled in every direction, tried to hit hidden blocks like on Mario and then I just gave in and asked my friend on MSN. (Nexon should change clicking to double-clicking :3).

I continued making mages on maple island and was smart enough to pick magic guard over magic armour but got both bolt and claw on my very first mage. I was confused with the space but luckily went to ellinia right away while trying to talk to everyone in lith harbour (<3 Paul). My third mage, I enjoyed maple island way to much, reached more the lvl 13 and was my main in EMS (lvl 37 ftw :O). I started a sin as a fun character thereafter because I liked their speed and jump attacking, made him 36 and finally got a GMS account from my friends .

After my EMS experience I made a Cleric, cause supporting seemed more important then in other MMORPG's I'd played, this was around the ariant/annerversairy patch. I made him my main and also made another sin as a fun character and a Hunter on advice of my friend who was a hermit and wanted SE. I continued making more jobs and quitting them at lvl 50 or something (stuck with my cleric till highest lvl that time 63 ^^).

A new job, a new chapter begins. I've always been someone to stick with the news on games, so it didn't take long before I found out about the pirate class. They both seemed pretty awsome to me at first, but I took brawler over slinger cause 1st and 2nd job looked a bit more appealing (not dmg wise). At the same time I made a slinger cause I was just such a job hopper. I made my brawler in demethos and my first slinger in Broa I think. I was amazingly suprised by the fastness of a gunslinger. I loved him so much that I took him over my brawler and remade my current one in demethos.

Such fun continued in second job, where I felt pro soloing 480 cp or something while maneuvring trough the mobs in room 4 with summons up with my just gotten recoil at 49 or so. I got into a bit of a slum at 5x, where mp3 didn't provide much challenge on the bottom platform and way to much challenge at upper platforms. Quests and PQ's have pulled me through since I was always a questing wh0re (did every quest on my cleric below lvl 40 requirement and a lot over that, have the quest medal on my Corsair and continues to do every new quest chain). At 6x I discovered the awsomeness that was wind raiders. I felt extremely pro when I first reached them and got a way better %/hr. Around that time we got the Explosion event (75% exp needed to lvl) and the rep system which pulled me through c-2/wind raiders.

I reached 80, had internet issues for a few months and got to around 94 with HH, memory monks and again wind raiders. Internet got fixed and so did my lvling slum, I went power lvling on HH which I now was great at finding one (Ofcourse time zone and demethos helped with that hehe). I reached 115, made a blaze wizard on the way to get me pro blessing, glaze capsules (mabye I made him earlier, can't recall, at least it was when the cygnus patch came), time pieces and a ksing mule for obvious reasons. I now made some great friends and (shout out to annie aka Sukkmyheal) which pulled me through these lvl's since she duo'd with me at skeles for free usually (only paid 10 mil once iirc). I reached Corsair, got the cannon glitch and I now realize that I completly went off-topic...

Well my greatest inspiration was basically the class itself since it had so many 'fun' skills like recoil, fake shot, recoil, ice splitter, hypnotize, grenade, air strike. Yes, I find immobilizing mobs funny XD. That they were damage power houses I've now experienced for myself (<3 cannon), but it hadn't been part of my motivation untill around 5x or so since I didn't know that they were.

Though, if I had to pick a person who has inspired me it had to be Keikotan for being so powerfull and great at controlling her character. I admire your determination and will to be the best corsair that you can be. Props to you and I hope you make 200!

TL;DR: Keikotan