Oh. Well. That wasn’t what I expected to do.
This is my thoughts and experiences of basically being a new player to MapleStory. And hoo boy, did I have thoughts. Some much more life-crisis based than others!
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This was a very entertaining video, the thought I'm left with is that I'm glad you played it so that I don't have to. That being said however, I do regret that I didn't get to play this in it's hayday; I've heard a fair bit about it and I do feel I missed something special.
Post endwalker is being really really slow so I don't blame you for taking this aproach, I'll keep following the channel it means a lot for me.
Anyway, I never played this game so it serves me as an introduction for me
I hate to ask, but I kinda feel like it's almost required of me, cause I don't wanna be following/subbed to terrible people, is there anyway you could let me know who those people you found out were shitheads are privately? I won't make a big fuss about it or anything, but if I'm around them, I'd like to not be, that's all.
when i just started, I posted on reddit asking questions and for help. got like 40+ down votes for a harmless question LOL
I find that looking for a guild with a discord is a lot better than asking the general community
Wassup man. In the glossary of terms you were talking about you got a couple things slightly wrong so I will help out a bit.
When you were speaking about "MSE" what you really meant was WSE. It stands for Weapon/Secondary/Emblem. A subtle difference to be sure, but that's the general term. Those pieces of gear can gain (importantly) PERCENTAGE attack. This is extremely important because in addition to your weapon gaining you attack with its base stats, bonus stats (flames), and potentials, ALL of your other gear pieces begin giving attack as you star force them past 15*. This multiplication of your attack gives you a ridiculous power boost.
Also in general star force > potentials > flames. Star forcing gear you're going to keep for a while is a larger power boost (especially with a good W/S/E) than getting to 2 line main stat at legendary potential in most situations.
As for not knowing what CRA is or why it's useful… Here's the rundown.
CRA gear (specifically the top bottom and hat (for most classes, you can ask me about the exception if you're interested)) is considered BiS (Best in Slot). This means it is better than anything else in the game, and can be freely spent on without feeling like you'll replace the piece soon. This is technically no longer true as the newer bosses have been introduced and Eternal gear exists now… But… Yeah if you're at that point you don't need guides. Those are the most endgame bosses in the game. It's gonna be a couple years before you get there.
Anyway back to why CRA is important:
1. It's BiS for 99% of players as explained above
2. The REASON it's BiS is because of 2 things. The set effect (the weapon gets replaced later but 3 set is still better than the later options) is great. The other issue is that the gear sets that come after it (AbsoLab, Arcane Umbra) use OVERALLS as armor instead of top and bottom, meaning you lose an equip slot that has its own star force and its own potential lines. Not worth the tradeoff even with the better set effect.
3. Being that CRA equips are level 150 gear, they are excellent for using as fodder for the transfer system, where you can transfer the epic (only epic, it'll go back down to epic if it's higher) potential and star force to a piece of gear 10 levels higher. The AbsoLab set is your next goal for progression, replacing your shoulder, glove, shoe, cape, and weapon (giving you 5 set abso). Given that the AbsoLab gear set is level 160, your CRA weapon will transfer quite nicely. Generally what you'll want to do is star force your CRA weapon to 16* and then transfer it to AbsoLab. This saves a lot of cost as acquiring CRA weapons is much less time consuming and much easier than getting backups of AbsoLab gear, and being 10 levels lower also makes them cost less to star force anyway. Just do remember you lose a star when you transfer, hence getting the CRA weapon to 16* first rather than 15*.
As for the other equips, a lot of the boss gear that the weekly bosses drop is in the 140 level range, and there are some random pieces of level 150 gear that bridge the gap from random stores or bosses (hard ranmaru actually drops a few of them I think) to AbsoLab. The idea here being you get, for example, pensalir shoes from mob drops in the arcane river and before, star it to 16, transfer that to the antique root boots, star them once more, and then transfer them again to your AbsoLab boots. Hey presto, now you have 15* AbsoLab equips. This can be done for most of the AbsoLab pieces.
As for how to acquire AbsoLab gear, there are two places to get them. The Dark World Tree and its associated boss Damien, and Haven (the Scrapyard) and its associated boss Lotus. Normal mode of both bosses drop cursed stones and s grade energy cores respectively, and the weekly quests that you get in those areas reward the common version of the stones and cores. Those will both be combined over the course of several weeks into coins, which are then used to purchase AbsoLab gear from the coin shops in each area.
The Hard mode versions of both Lotus and Damien (sometimes referred to by players together as Lomien) have a chance to drop instanced AbsoLab weapon and armor boxes, the use of which give you one piece of gear from the set for free (your choice of armor, the weapon box only gives the weapon and some classes only have 1 weapon option).
The process for buying the next set of gear is similar but for the bosses Lucid and Will (sometimes called LuWill) and these grant the Arcane Umbra set. Be warned, arcanes take a lot of money to get and enhance. They are level 200 equips and thus there is nothing that can be used as fodder material to transfer up to them. If they boom from star force, you will have to acquire more from boxes (quite rare) or building up the butterfly and spiderweb droplets from the bosses to buy another piece from the coin shop. This is why it is not recommended to push arcane gear past 17* until almost every other gear piece is 21* or 22*
As for your complains about resolution and the issues with the UI, the good news is they're working on it. The UI is being worked on for future updates and with the release of New Age, more resolutions and the options to scale the UI to your resolution are being introduced. Give em some slack, this game is built on spaghetti code from ancient times, and only fairly recently even went to a 64 bit client. Yeah, that's right. For almost 18 years the client couldn't support more than ~2 Gb of RAM usage and would frequently crash from memory leaks.
I can't believe the Reboot server is the place to be in MapleStory now. Honestly gives me some hope to wanna go back and restart playing Shade or Bishop again.
Im an endgame reboot ms player and I gotta admit that a lot of ms players are elitist lol
sure 6k legion is 30 characters at lvl 200, but it's also 42 characters at lvl 143, so not that bad
Just in time for my seasonal return! Awesome video! It's nice to hear a newer persons experiance with the game. You really don't notice how much goes unsaid in a commuity till someone brings it up.
Wait omg i was in Fallenstars
Hey man, as a 280 Dual Blade main, I think I know the Dual Blade "guide" you're talking about. I agree that the video provides very misleading information about our class and I personally dislike the video a lot. If you got any questions about dual blade and our playstyle feel free to ask
Not sure why my comment didn't show up, but I recommend checking out grandis library for better guides
Make sure to take a break when you get to the WAP grinding stage, that shit will hurt you if you go too hard. Love the vids wesk <3
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Let's just appreciate how much a lot of time he puts in these awesome videos to make our day, huge respect! 😍 😍
My first experience with mmo were ragnarok online and it felt so weird doing it on my own. so glad i know more people that i can play together.
Depression brought me back to MS this week!
As someone who recently picked this game back up and has been enjoying it, I get it! I think nothing in this you said was explicitly wrong, I disagree with the severity of some of the complaints, but they're still there. I got bored of the gameplay of FFXIV and now that endwalker is done I'm okay putting it down for a while. Sometimes I just want to jump around a silly little mushroom game.
I think the thing with MapleStory is that if your goals are to get through content and grind like most mmos, it's bad. But I play it like a fidget toy while I watch my shows or listen to podcasts. It relaxes my ADHD brain a bit which is nice.
MS is the reason i never once changed my google avatar to this day since 2006. you didnt need to sell me on nostalgia* at all. og khaini4lyfe.