So close yet so far...

yes... decided to call it a day even tho i'm just 2.5% from 199. everyone gng sleep liao... exp slowing to a crawl... might as well just take a break. i really hope the server stays up tmr... found a pt to train full day with, and we're even gonna invest pt bonus exp cards >< sians. stupid server check just now, else i'd certainly have lvled! end up i was stuck w/o a pt during 1.5x exp... towards the end finally managed to form a full pt, but HS makes a lot of diff yeah... plus half the time it was just a 3 man pt... zzzzzzzz

i'm expecting to be able to get something like 70-80% exp tmr if all goes well... unfortunately that means i'm putting my trickster on hold... wondering and doubting if i can gain enough TM lvls before the event ends... oh wells...

on top of that, i've got a test on monday to study for... and group presentationSSS to work on. haiz.

WTF is up with maple???

1st they give 'compensation' for all the down time by giving 1.5x exp, than they announce a server maintenance that eats up half of the 1.5x exp. gg lah. really crap...! i went on9, found that my bl was training with his friends and got last slot left so i joined them... we all got ready to chiong... i bought a 1.2x card and serveral of them bought 1.2x cards and even the pt exp bonus cards... train for like 1 hour than the notice pop up say got 3 hours of urgent server check. PRO. i was still thinking its 'safer' cos its weekday + they purposely give 1.5x exp slot... -.-'''

seriously if i wasnt that close to my goal, i wouldnt bother playing maple at all... managed to train till like 84% just now... so close yet so far zzzzzzzzz! if i can get a FULL day of lag free, crash free, maintenance free training, i'll be able to gain like 40-50% already....! sianz. back to trickster. everytime i maple, i regret doing so later on zzzzzzzzzz. but wat to do? i want my lvl 200 and be done with it.. the rest of the chars can rot as they are forever and ever...

anyway... made a mistake earlier on trickster... 3rd job is at lvl 130/120, not 140/120 as i wrote previously... f3. that means my main lvl is almost done liao... gng to hit lvl 129 already... so gotta rush hunter quests that give TM exp... wanna get my job change fast, gotta do it before 5th oct too to get the event rewards!

SSes and more

Oh yay... found this free application called Qumana that lets me blog from my mac... w/o having to use the troublesome blogger interface (with a photo uploader that... nvr works on firefox - my defualt and preferred browser). bad thing that i've noticed so far is that... when it allows me to insert tags, i can't see all the labels that i've already created on blogger :(

ok... wat's there to say... didn’t train much on hero... on mon only trained like 5% at LHC. went zak after that since there was, most amazingly no lag. luckily there was no hacker too... law managed to get his ACB (since he got the SOK from the event last time). i wanted ACB too but too bad it didn’t drop on the 2nd round. my pet managed to loot me a magic mastery tho... at 1st i wanted to throw it out cos i thought i had it on my evan already... thankfully i didn’t, cos what i had was flame wheel and not magic mastery! i'm kinda lazy to do the zak jq and got zak... so maybe i'll SOK that over next time too >< but 1st, i need to get my evan to 4th job f3


So on Mon night after the short LHC training i went bossing on my hero... scar/targa/krex/sg boss x2... for fun and for potions. Think the damage increase from the 2nd MoN i'm wearing helps A LOT. Didn’t exactly time, but i think the scar and targa run went much much faster. Actually i got the pendant expansion slot cos i got czak batch, but so far miss 3 weeks in a row already. 1st week internet tio cut halfway, 2nd week my dad bday, last week cmi cos of lag. Hope this week's run will go w/o a hitch... i do want my czak helm you know... ><

lvled my evan when hunting for paint yest... went from 114 to 116... just 4 more lvls to 4th job! was so blur lah... trained for over 1.5 hours than realised my int cape is still with my hero! train for 1 hour already than realised i didn’t use my SP... 9% increase in damage from dragon fury is A LOT of diff zzzz from like 50% 1hko to about 95% 1hko... guess it's been too long since i last leveled... i DID level like 2 or 3 weeks ago on my hero, but i only had to allocate AP (actually, i washed 3 points of ap too, with the free ap resets). My hero got too many SP sitting ard with nothing to do already...

missed the lvl up moment when i hit 116 :(

A curious thing happened yesterday... opps... i just happily uploaded the SS w/o editing... i hope he don't mind me posting his ign haha. i just lvled my evan when this guy who was passing by the map happened to see and grats me... after that he asked... well you can read the convo from the SS right? haha

its been so long since anyone last linked my hero to my forum username... no one ever asked for my evan or any other chars before IIRC. In fact, I only clearly remember being asked once on my hero, when i was lvl 14x or smthing and still training at duku. now that's a long long time ago... feels so nice to be recognised although the fact that i got stalkers is a bit scary haha. I mean, he even knew my hero just lvled o.o... Plus the only time I post my ign on forums is when I post an SS, and it's been a while since I last did that... Maybe he reads my blog too... If u're reading this, thks n u jy with ur hero too.

[ok... its not very convient to post pictures using Qumana... oh well, it still is a free program afterall... haiz... guess i'll stick to using blogger on chrome]

ah... lecture is over... guess i'll head home 1st and cont. the post later... gonna upload a bunch of SSes too :P been slacking off on the SS updates on my blog... its been so boring with just text and more text hehe... haven upload any SS to my FB in ages too.

Haven played trickster much, been on a bit in the afternoon to do some quests here and there... i think my dragon is now lvl 121 and TM lvl 99 or 100... smthing like that... still some way to go from 3rd job adv... oh well... one step at a time... ok... i'll go dig out some random maple SSes to post... i took a bit of SSes on trickster too, but i guess i'll put those on another post some other day.

Random SSes of me whacking in LHC with my BLs

 After the training we went for 2 rounds of zak...

 how to make ur robo animation stay forever - get stunned when you are using the robo skill!

 i love the animation of that mech skill, very elaborate and pretty.

Mech laser blast! 

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Welcome to the World of Lag

Epic lag in maple today.... czak was a big failure... use pot? lag. use skill? lag. Haven even scratch czak arms and ppl were tombing because of the lag... gave up shortly after we started.

I only learnt afterwards that there was 1.5x drop/exp... no wonder the lag was sooooo bad... but still, the lag didnt go away after the 1.5x event at 10pm so... yeah server fail.

Went training at LKC instead since czak cmi... gained a total of 10% in ard... 4 hours? not too bad, but than again there's like 1 hour of 1.5x... and of cos that's with a full pt plus HS. gonna try and rush hero to lvl 200 asap... jp promise i'll have his 20 megas if i make it (before they expire) on the 4th of Oct lol... i think that'll be a bit hard but... still gonna try and train the whole day tmr... might buy a 1.2x exp coupon and try to gain 40% exp tmr... not sure if i can do it or not but yeah.... gonna try.

Saw a noob bandwagon pala showing off his pathetic char handling skills with a video on youtube... so as i was hunting blue paint for the 'Picture of a Popular Monster' event quest, i struck upon the idea of making a video in mockery of those pathetic bandwagers. While i personally feel that there is nothing wrong with creating a UA pala... most of the ppl creating UA pala simply made it cos they heard it's powerful... they dont know shit about the job or their skills, then they go around PRETENDING they are a pro. -.-''' i'd vomit blood if ppl go mass bandwagoning UA heros too.

Was training my mech the other day and i really really craved training my hero... guess 1st impressions of the game stays... still prefer a warrior char somehow... demon slayer's coming in the future... but somehow i think mine will still end up stuck ard lvl 100 or 110... not sure if my plan to switch to pala after my hero 'ends' his story will work - they are still many fundamental difference between hero and pala, but hopefully it'll suit me better than my mech. i'll definitely miss my monster magnet for sure.

mech is fun alright, but i really dislike having to summon all that stuff... buffs i'm ok with it... but having to constantly summon the mosquito buzzer, the door, or the robot to make mob moves faster is really really tiring... really puts me off training the char... (or i dont use them at all when training... which happens most of the time simply cos i forget...)

ok, enough crap, here's the video.. its just random snippets of me hunting for blue paint. and since i'm just randomly hunting for some quest items, my char handling is as sloppy as sloppiness can be, and i'm sliding abt + lagging anyway. YES. its freaking LAGGING in the middle of the night. Hurrah for maple! i totally didnt know wat i was doing at LKC earlier on... the mobs that i rushed would bounce right back and stuff. Hurrah for lag!

truth to be told... i just haphazardly put the video together... still haven watched it in its entirety lol...

LKC Exp Bug Fixed!

Wow... totally didn’t think they would fix it... but they did. A pleasant surprise for once... czak tmr, hope everything goes well so that i can get my helm. The LKC bug fix does make me a little more tempted to play maple... but than again, i'm craving for trickster even more... heh.

hmm... on 2nd thought, maybe i shd not train hero tmr... save on charms since i'll probably tomb in czak ><

Von Leon downed!

Did two rounds of fame trading with law and flame.

Chars that pass 50 fame mark: i/l, hero, mech, evan. phew, my sis's i/l got 55 fame already

Chars in need of fame:
nw nid 6, bam nid 47, aran nid 43, wh nid 3, db nid 30, SM nid 3

SG/MY National Day Event Stats:
Times done quiz: 33 rounds, 20 chars = 660 times

Glassed chars and stats:
Hero 3x (2 boom)
Mech 2x (1 boom, 1 3-liner)
WH 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3-liner)
bam 2x evan (2-liner)
aran 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3 liner)
NW 6x (2 boom, 2 2-liner)
DB 3x (2 boom, 1 2-liner)
SM 3x
Semi abandoned I/L 1x
Storage DB 3x
Aran3 1x
Abandoned FW 3x
Storage bam 2x
Storage sin 1x
Storage page2 1x
Abandoned sin 1x
Abandoned cleric to be 1x

Chars that will/might be trained in the future and want 3 liners: hero, db, bam

Boomed: 11
2-liners: 6
3-liners: 3
Total no. of potential scrolls used:20

went to hunt dews on sat... managed to get 2 in 4 hours, super lucky... tho after that didn’t get anymore le...

sun went to chiong LKC, managed to get like... 5% after training the whole day -.-''' the stupid server crash + rb made me lose 1hour worth of training haiz. trying to chiong to lvl 198 but its so hard... like 0.5-0.6% exp per hour? like not much diff from pre-big bang zzzzzz. hope they fix the LKC pt bonus bug, that'll really help speed up my training.

got bored after grinding like 4 hours last night and went Von Leon with my bl. ad hoc pt of like 13 or 14 ppl... not bad, we managed to down with 18mins left on the timer. i was impressed that we even managed to down.... at the beginning we only have 5 members, not even enough to enter -.-''' than after waiting like 1hr managed to get a lot more ppl to come... else sure can't down de. didn’t loot tio a single thing, not even a money bag lol. died 5 times and used up the 5 free charms from event... gd thing nvr lose any exp lol. no SSes, Von Leon is quite hectic and there's the stupid SS bug anyway... f3 didn’t use that much pots, cos u can't spam pots anyway since there's a cd timer on pots. really need a bunch of warriors rushing anyway the mobs fast, we managed to let VL heal up quite a few times >< the damage reflect is a killer, as good as once reflect starts, attackers are 100% dead... so yeah, magic crash is impt, but hard to keep an organised bunch of crashes too cos there's jail - where u get sent to another map, you nid to hit the boxes and get a key to go out the portal back to the boss map (and loads of deaths). yeah partly cos of jail you don't use pots that much? my ad hoc expedition had 5 crashers, but still not enough cos ppl die/get jailed a lot... once you can get a bunch of crashes gng tho, the vl hp goes down real fast. definitely good to go VL when u are 200 or just lvl so u don't have to worry abt dying and can just spam attacks all the way... we had dk as rusher, but not quite enough... got once he couldn’t manage and the mobs went running amok... in spite of the rest of the warriors joining in to rush, we couldn’t make it in time and VL healed from like 25% to 75% sighz... that was like 30mins into the fight >< so from 75% to 0% took us 12mins only... the boss hp itself isnt much, its all the stuff like having to keep the golems away that makes the fight troublesome. once ur pt can get the castle golems away all the time, downing the boss is will be quite a fast/easy affair. easy cos... so long as you don't care abt the exp lost/reached lvl 200 already/have 0% exp, you don't need to worry about dying since you can re-enter the boss map even after you die. not like other bosses where you have to spam wheels... ><

getting bored of maple and thks to all my friend's urging, i went to dl dragon nest last night. haven install yet... and i'm wondering if i shd train hero, or play DN... haiz... still got that 1 free ap reset that expires on 2nd sept f3 -.-''' wanna wash hp with that but really hard to lvl by than...

haiz. k, that's all for now... tata

Bugs and more bugs

Loads of bugs around... trained at LKC during the 1.5x exp and managed to gain slightly more than 1%... and went 1 round of zak after that...

Loads of bugs... chars below lvl 15 can enter the fm, but they cant get out... LKC bonus exp bugged so you actually receive lesser exp than what is stated on the side... wonder wat tmr's server check will fix.

Urgent Server Maintenance on 19th August 2011

Dear Maplers,

Please be informed that there will be an Urgent Server Maintenance for ALL worlds on 19th August 2011 from 1000hrs to 1200hrs (GMT +8).

Game Service for ALL WORLDS will be down during stipulated maintenance timing.

Please log out before this period to prevent any game disruption.

Thank you.

– MapleSEA Administrator

sighz. the 50fame requirement is really really stupid. thks to law and flame for trading fames today... currently only my hero, evan and mech meets the 50 fame requirement lah zzzzzzz. nw nid 19, bam nid 40++, aran nid 43, wh nid 31, db nid 30...guess i'll be trading more fames over the next few days...? law and flame got chars that nid fames too, tho probably not as many as me... i wonder how many fames my sis's i/l has... she's starting to play it back whenever she's sick of studying so yeah... ><

Still no luck with the quiz today... all i got was junk and more junk.
SG/MY National Day Event Stats:
Times done quiz: 28 rounds, 20 chars = 560 times
Glassed chars and stats:
Hero 3x (2 boom)
Mech 2x (1 boom, 1 3-liner)
WH 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3-liner)
bam 2x
evan (2-liner)
aran 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3 liner)
NW 6x (2 boom, 2 2-liner)
DB 3x (2 boom, 1 2-liner)
SM 2x
Semi abandoned I/L 1x
Storage DB 3x
Aran3 1x
Abandoned FW 3x
Storage bam 2x
Storage sin 1x
Storage page2 1x
Abandoned sin 1x
Abandoned cleric to be 1x

Chars that will/might be trained in the future and want 3 liners: hero, db, bam

Boomed: 11
2-liners: 6
3-liners: 3
Total no. of potential scrolls used:20

LKC

Asiasoft surprised me (pleasantly) today when they fixed the dc bug in the middle of the night. For once they resolved it rather quickly. But than again if u consider how long they already extended the patch...

Wonder if i shd just do a mad dash in hero to 200 or do a side track and get the soul driver quest done. I think just rushing to 200 would be better, since the soul driver quest is gonna take weeks n months to finish... Wonder if I'll side track a bit halfway through though. At least I must lvl up before sept when my free ap resets expire. Gonna have to train another 30.3% more. Gonna party up with my bl n guildmates to train tonight... See how much exp I can get per hour. Soloing there doesn't feel any faster, tho you might feel happier since ur exp obviously moves more per kill. For ppl with noob damage like me tho, we take so many hits to kill that there isn't much diff whether I'm whacking at TT or LKC. So it'll only be the pt bonus exp that's gonna make a diff.

Okays. That's all for now. Off to sch for class.


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Lion King Castle...

After waiting for over an hour for the auto patch to finish + work (numerous hangs and aborted attempts in the middle), i finally got my maple patched...! the game itself is even more bugged than the patching process. horrid disconnection issues, dc every 3-5mins... another whole day urgent server check + maintenance tmr?

Still, i bore with the constant need to log in for a while... and whacked a few mobs at LKC.
Here are some observations:
1) the mobs there do not display their level for some unknown reason... only the mob name
2) the mobs are auto aggro. they will whack you as long as you are in their range even if you did not whack them.
3) cos of the auto aggro, that place is pretty deadly for mages with the current dc issues. you start getting whacked the moment you log in, not very high damage, but say 1k or 1.5k magic isnt very nice for mages w/o magic guard (when u just log in)
4) the purification tokens drop very frequently. i managed to get 4x of them in about... 40mins. maybe that's like 20+ mins of play since i spent alot of time logging in.
5) the reindeers in LKC have pathetic magic attack, so stand abt an arm's length (well just stand far enough so you wont get the meelee damage) so that they will use their magic attack on you. the reindeers hit me 1 magic damage all the time, while the blood reindeers hit me 1 or some 2 digit number...

All the mobs at LKC are basically... mini bosses (yes, 30% boss damage weapon users, u guys are LUCKY!). So while the spawn of mobs isnt all that great, they give pretty nice exp (40k a piece and above, soloing exp)... PLUS its a party bonus area, where you get 50% exp per pt member you have, so its a max of 250% exp. The bosses there have really thick hp... with my pathetic noob damage, i take like 40+ hits w/o enrage to kill the mobs in the 1st map... and ard 27 or so hits to kill with enrage. i only took a look at the 1st few maps... some of the tougher mobs i take over 50 hits w/o enrage for me to kill o.o

For heroes training there, get your mouse ready and put your cursor near the top right hand corner of the window where all your buff icons are. The spawn at LKC isnt much, rarely can you get groups of 3 mobs... but you do get 2 mobs together quite often... so that means you have to switch between using enrage when facing a single mob, and turning off enrage when there's 2 or more mobs ard.... and do so fast to ensure efficient training. well... that's all i have about LKC for now... here's some SSes...

arghs... the stupid SS taking bug is back. didnt know till i checked my SSes while uploading... sighz. fail$oft = epic fail. wat else is there to say? too lazy to go crop the pictures or watever. not like they are gonna look any nicer after i crop them. 

Saw the following bug reports in forums... epicfail$oft.

pala CO dc bug STILL around. its been there since the 1st big bang patch. till now... o.o

guild skill bugged

world map bugged 

multi pet skill which is supposed to be fixed according to patch notes is still there

evan recovery aura skill bugged

chars below lvl 15 that were in fm are now stuck in the fm... forever...? (cos of the new rule...)

SS taking bugged...

and of cos... who can maple with all that constant dc????

No luck with the quiz today... all i got was junk and more junk.
SG/MY National Day Event Stats:
Times done quiz: 27 rounds, 20 chars = 540 times
Glassed chars and stats:
Hero 3x (2 boom)
Mech 2x (1 boom, 1 3-liner)
WH 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3-liner)
bam 2x
evan (2-liner)
aran 4x (2 boom, 1 2-liner, 1 3 liner)
NW 6x (2 boom, 2 2-liner)
DB 3x (2 boom, 1 2-liner)
SM 2x
Semi abandoned I/L 1x
Storage DB 3x
Aran3 1x
Abandoned FW 3x
Storage bam 2x
Storage sin 1x
Storage page2 1x
Abandoned sin 1x
Abandoned cleric to be 1x

Chars that will/might be trained in the future and want 3 liners: hero, db, bam

Boomed: 11
2-liners: 6
3-liners: 3
Total no. of potential scrolls used:20

ok, that's all for now... wonder how long they'll take to fix the dc issue. nite nite.

Von Leon Out TODAY!

Yes, Von Leon will be out TODAY! that is if the patch doesn’t take overly long... apart from the main content patches, there's a couple of other changes too... shall summarize what excites me in this patch.


Patch notes are available here
For the main content patch, there are 4 major things that have been added:
Von Leon &amp; Lion King Castle
• About Lion’s King Castle
• About Von Leon Expedition
• About Von Leon Equipments
• Ani Raid! (Level 70 and above)

Cygnus Knight &amp; Ultimate Explorer
• The Awakening of Cygnus Knights
• A New Alliance
• About Ultimate Explorer

Floating Island – Chryse
• Discovering The Mysterious Floating Island – Chryse
• About Saving Chryse
• The Final Boss

Guild System Revamp
• Requirement of Guild Creation Revised!
• Guild System Interface Revamp!
• New Guild Points (GP) System!
• New and Better Guild Benefits!

There's nothing much to explain about these... since all that needs to be explained has already been done on the msea website itself.

Von Leon and lion king castle is naturally what excites me the most. Chryse is only for lvl 55-70 chars, and like... NONE of my active chars fits the bill... UE i wont be in a hurry to make... i really wonder how crowded LKC will be and how long the patch will take... oh wells, i gotta wait in sch all the way till 5:45pm for a talk... and my only class today ended at 11:30am. sighz.

Other interesting points to note in today's patch:
3 master monsters added, and you get a bonus for partying up to kill master monsters (30% per pt member, max 150% exp bonus)
fairy's pendant is back once more for the rest of the month
the tomato event that i saw in youtube in other servers is out for the 1st time in msea...

this part of the patch notes have quite some interesting things...

7. [Bug Fix and Changes] Bug Fix and Changes

1. New World Map features

• Search function to find specific maps and monsters.
• Search function for monster recommendations to find monsters near your level.
• View Entire World/View Other Regions.
• Boss monster names are now included in the list of monsters when mouse over the maps they are located.

Finally we get the revamped world map! i was quite disappoint to see that we didn’t get the new world map in big bang. really love the revamped world map when i played jms, tot it came with big bang but apparently not. i like the view entire world/other regions feature the best. now you can check out the mob lvls in other places so plan where to train at, w/o having to go the hidden street or go to that region in game to check...
2. 50% EXP increase when using Surpreme Fishing Bait (For Fishing Assistant Use Only) during fishing
    Obtainable from Cash Item “Fishing Bait Can For Fishing Assistant Use Only”
doesn’t affect me...
3. Elemental Wands and Staffs bonus attributes restored when using elemental attacks at reduced rate before Big Bang.
don't have any ele wands so...
4. Change in Expedition Time Limit on Horntail and Zakum
    Zakum Expedition : 50 minutes
    Horntail Expedition : 1 hour 15 minutes
doesn’t affect me either...
5. Improved Item drops from Expedition Bosses!
    Various new rewards are added to Zakum, Chaos Zakum, Horntail, Chaos Horntail and Pink Bean Expedition!
i wonder wat's added?
6. Lie Detector Test Enhancement

1. Purchasing Price reduction to 1,000 meso
2. Rewarding amount is the same as purchasing price when successfully used on a botter
3. Repeatedly failed Lie Detector Test at an abnormal rate will result in permanent suspension

finally! however they didn’t say what's the abnormal rate... if the rate is too high it wont be useful in catching those hackers either... at least its better than what it was before though.
7. 50 fames requirement to:
• Exit Leafre Town
• Transformation into dragon to Time Temple
• Enter level 68 and above mini dungeons
• Exit Kampung Village right portal to higher level maps
• Enter Entrance to Ulu City from suburban Area 2
• Enter Ninja Castle Hallway from Inside Ninja Castle
• Enter Parking Lot from Near the Hideout
• Enter dungeon maps from Path of Time
• Enter Bigger Ben Lobby from New Leaf City (clock portal)
GGGGRRRRRREAT.. now you need to get 50 fames for all your new chars -.-''' which means that my mech needs to get more fames -.-''' i wonder if my evan even has 50 fames -.-''' seriously i dont understand why they do this.get 50 fames is child's play for those hackers... but for those of us playing and trying out all the exciting new characters, it is HARD to get 50 fames! Instead of deterring hackers, this is only deterring legit players. thank $soft. i mean really, thanks...
8. Minimum of level 15 to enter Free Market Entrance
crap... i think my ores storage char can't enter the fm now... not that it really matters, i just need the char to be stationed at el nath to convert my ores to refined ores/jewels
9. Multiple pet features (Bug Fixed)there was a bug? no idea.... anyway sadly only my alien pet is alive now

hmm... that's all there is to the patch... more chairs released in gacha etc... hmm yes, i've got stuff to add to HS now... loads of stuff &gt;&lt; sighz.