Monthly Archives: November 2007

 

After ’scaling’ the wall on which the 3rd job adv house (I like to call it the ‘G house’)  I arrive in front of it.  Not that I can do the 3rd job, but I was there because of  my boringness.(is there such a word? o.0)    And when I enter and click on Tylus, the 3rd job adv instructor, this is what I saw…

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Weird, right? o.0

This reminds mw of another equally strange incident, early this year.  I remember that I was slacking in Orbis when this guy jumped pass me, proudly saying the f-word, with a traditional Chinese character instead of the f.  In other words, we have <chinese character> u c k .  Sadly, my computer crashed quite some  time ago, so I do not have the screenshot with me.

Well, I hope that the gms will get rid of this very irritating bug. 

I was scooting around crunchyroll.com one day, when out of curiousity, I decided to search for ‘maplestory’.  And guess what I found…

 

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I was quite shocked to find out that Nexon has branched out into the anime scene.  And so, I watched the 1st episode of this relatively new anime.(currently 3 episodes only.)  Here’s the synopsis… (taken from crunchyroll.com too)

 

TTen years ago, the World Tree that protected peace and order of the world was being targeted by an evil organization called the Zakun (in Mandarin pinyin, it is za1 kun1 tuan2). The Human race led four other races in a fight against the Zakuns. In the end, the World Tree activated self-destruction to protect itself. However, the other races thought it was the Human race that destroyed the World Tree. Since then, a never-ending war between the different races began.
Ten years later, the main protagonist, Al, determines to revive the World Tree. Al and his companions begin their journey to seek the seed of the World Tree. At the same time, the Zakuns

This anime has quite an interesting storyline.  However, from the quality, I can tell that Nexon did not put much effort into the production and only wanted to use this anime to attract more people to the actual game.  In fact, you can say that this anime is just simply blending all the monsters, maps and places into one and conjuring up a storyline to go with it.  Don’t waste your time on this anime; there are much better ones for you to watch. 

Talking about crunchyroll, some people call it the Asian youtube’ but it is actually an upsize version of youtube, with better organization and other stuff like groups.  Oh yes,  if you are a member of crunchyroll too(like me!), get someone to invite you to the maplestory group!

With the release of the new patch, the gms have given us their Christmas present!  For with this new patch comes a slew of never before-seen updates, especially the 4th job!

For the 4th job,  I can’t really believe that we are ahead of some servers.  This is just too kewl~! =)   All the best to everyone(including me) and I hope we will all achieve 4th job one day! X)

In regards to the alphabet quest (talk to maple admin and she tells you to collect letters from certain monsters, so that you form the words “maplestory”, “asiasoft” and “nexon”), for those froggies in the well, the alphabets are selling like hotcakes in the free market, from 200k-500k!  However, I advise you not to buy them; firstly, it spoils the fun and secondly, 200k-500k is quite a hefty price to pay for an alphabet!  After the patch, I remember that I was one of the first to log in, but already there were some enterprising people selling the alphabets in the free market.  After 1 whole day of hunting at the forest of dead trees, I only received a pathetic 2 As and 1 E.  ARGH!!!!

Also, with this new patch, a new boss monster has been unleased…

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I was like ‘WOW!!’ when I first saw the picture.  After some research(aka checking out the MSEA website)  I realised that this was none other than the Horned Tail boss monster, probably hidden in a remote corner of Leafre?  I have heard some rumors that you will take an INFINITY to kill the tail, so please beware.  And all the best to the extremely brave and (stupid?) who wish to take on the Tail.

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Along with this patch also comes the monster riding system, which is currently used only by a privileged few…

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I’m that guy with the flame golden circut to the left.  This monster riding is really cool; I wonder how those pros get it? o.0

SO, overall this is one of the most useful patch ever! x)

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In this picture, some cash items I have bought 90 days ago have just expired. WAAA!! *grabs tissue*

These have made me realise something:  Those items, although they made me look cool, were TEMPERORY, meaning that after a pitiful 90 days, they disappear into thin air.  And so I question myself:  What is the use of those white elephant clothes?  Is looking cool for 90 days worth the cost I paid?  (9k cash)

That is the sad thing behind cash items.  Although they make us go ‘WOW!’  when we see them, we always forget the sad truth that they act as white elephants and will always disappear one day. That is what makes the cash shop so successful and to keep that wow factor there, the gms constantly add more white elephants into the already highly-populated white elephant cash shop.

I’m not trying to say that we should boycott the cash shop; all I want to advise is this:  Before you buy the cash shop item, ask yourself:  Is it really worth the _______ a-cash* I have to spend for this?  What will I gain from the item?

* Or NX-cash in Mapleglobal.

You can say that this blog was dead for a period of more than 1 month, before I decided to revive it again.  It seems like my motivation to post had weakened(thanks to some other games which distracted me from mapling), but now I have decided to come back and post again.  In theme with my previous post, I will be talking about OPQ.

I had been pqing for 7 levels before i decided to train at the dead mine instead.  I did that because the experience given was just too little. (I had received an ‘exp-cut’ because I did a full pq before.)  Over these 7 levels, I have met many new people(good or bad; cute or ugly) and here is a list of things I(and probably many maplers) hate…

  • A leader who always misses- I usually gives the leader a couple of chances as I know how difficult it is to be a successful pq leader and how frustrating it is if the members ‘mass-quit’ . However, this does not mean that I will hang around with a ‘confirm miss’ leader all day, waiting for him to successfully go into pq. (That is TOO time consuming!)  A piece of advice to all potential leaders:  If you don’t think you have the skill to be a leader, DON’T BE ONE!
  • ’sure in’ members- How many times have you seen this?  In channel 1, there’s this high-leveled pro saying ‘I WAN RUSH/BLEACH*/FULL PQ MUST SURE IN@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@)  This is even more common in ludibrum pq.  This is a message for everyone who commonly says that:  I don’t agree with saying ’sure in’, for every leader is human and they all make mistakes(especially when trying to enter pq!)  Further more, entering pq is not as easy as you think!  And if you are so demanding and think that getting into pq is a piece of cake (we can infer that from what you have said)  why not create your own party?  Anyway, I have tested and found out that even though  you say sure in, there are still a lot of chances of ending up with a leader who cannot enter the pq.  Also, many leaders now prefer NOT TO add those who say ’sure in’.
  • Irresponsible leaders-  There is now a function which allows the leader to appoint a new leader with a click of a button.  This function has often been abused, especially when the leader is in ‘dire straits’ :He keeps missing, people mass quit the party and in order to get himself out of the mess, he transfers the leadership to the highest leveled player.  This is very irresponsible.

 

* The name of this kind of pq varies from server to server.  It is called super-rush pq in Aquila; I’m using the bootes name as I am in bootes.

Phew!  You have come to the end of this wordy entry.  Thanks for reading! =)