Attendance Taking Event Round 3

Reminder to all: Attendance Taking event (yes, its just a repeat of the earlier one) starts TODAY. yes NOW. gogo get your cakes NOW. at the end of 10 days you 'll get to pick either the crystal chair or the bday cake chair. speak to maple admin than grendal the really old  in ellinia everyday for 10 days to get the final chair.

lazy to upload my own SSes so bleh. mech needs 3 more lvls to hit 70... wonder if i can do it later... or maybe i'll head off to bed 1st. gonna try and get mech to 4th job asap. which would make it my second char to hit 4th job if the plan succeeds. yes... 2nd char only. how pathetic. (i wouldnt count my 120 SM, since KoCs dont have a 4th job) even flame's evan has hit 4th job long ago while mine is still stuck at lvl 114. and now i've stocked up soooo many dews for my evan to use... like almost 2k dews. abt 1k of each type -.-''' at the rate i'm going i'm nvr gonna finish it.

same goes for HS... i haven done any properly updating in days... ever since before saigo went on holiday. back packing in japan like OMG! can u like pack me in ur suit case with u lol. speaking of which... none of the other hs-sea mods are alive. chaos is here in gms so saigo's gonna focus on the gms database after this... sighz. which means i'm on my own now... which is fine considering that apart from some skill changes i really cant say that i've helped much. only thing was that i didnt disappear like the rest did. simply missing in action. okays. i made myself a promise to finish up the boss WA/MA and WD/MD changes before saigo's back from his backpacking. trouble is, i forgot when he'll be back... so i guess i'd better get creaking REAL soon ><

okays... shall attempt to get my 3 lvls so that i can play with the 3rd job skills.

oh yes... before i go... another reminder: there's the gaga hot time event thingy this sat. the boxes will be given out at 2pm sharp (you mustnt be in cash shop/mts or on any form of transportation). log in earlier to prevent cases of not being able to log in and... pray that you wont dc :P

k... off to train my mech!

What I've done...

Didnt post although i had wanted to.

It all begin on friday just after midnight, when my guildee suggested we try zak. it was almost 2am... so i thought i'd give it a go.

Blah. all 4 cc had ppl waiting outing side the altar. We gave up...

Pissed at having traveled all the way to zak for nothing, the next day after server check i went back for revenge....

Things were bad from the start. my sis's dying lappy took like 1.5hrs to get maple installed and patched (patching x2). Than i finally formed my own expedition and got going...

Bad move, the patching took way too long, there were ppl waiting outside zak already... after waiting 1.5-2hrs i finally got in the altar... by than is was afternoon like 3 or 4pm already... my guildee started complaining abt the lag.... ><

Arms was fine, i keep worrying abt whether my nub damage will allow me to finish zak in an hour... but in the end, maple decided it for me


b1... about halfway through, i went out of tanking the body cos is had super WD up... Than i got stunned... for as long as 2 mins... pg etc... my buffs were all running out. When there was a break in stun i rushed back to body to tank in the hope that i'll stop getting stunned. i was wrong. still stunned, i could only watch as i got knocked around hopelessly, taking the touch damage from zakum. Combo timer ran out... than it all happened... a silent killer... the lag... with my char still stunned, i saw my hp drop from almost full (34k) to 1k. and than it immediately tombed. GREAT. I was stunned all along so i couldnt tell from my attacks, the mobs were still flying about wildly so it didnt look like it was lagging either... and no, no animation for 1/1 and heck i was tanking body dammit... and 1/1 would leave me with more than 1k+ hp anyway! STUPID LAG!

That really really pissed me off. my 1st ever zak run ending in epic failure cos of the incredible lag. Wasted several hours, 1 eye of fire... and 1 safety charm. I still stand by the fact that i HATE going zak.


Didnt maple the entire weekend after that. Went to read naruto instead... finished all 526 chapters of it now. Finally went back to training my mech late last night... after flame n law dragged me to scar/targa with them. Mech lvl 52 now... lazy to post SSes as usual, haven even posted my SSes of bam hitting 3rd job on my facebook lol.

Mech is really pawnzor... and i really <3 my lvl 19 bof. my mech has DOUBLE the attack range of some guys i id mcpq with earlier even tho i didnt prepare any eq for me mech. oh well, i did get a wa52 gun from scrolling the king pepe gun with the king pepe scrolls tho. SUPER lucky, 6 slots passed! it certainly made up for my mistake in forgetting to take the boxes and capsules for revo gun and exp. Was so depressing to see ppl speed lvl with the capsules which i forgot to take zzzz. Didnt have much use inv space that time so i left it till later to take... only that i forgot to take it on the last day of the event haiz. sianz. and i chiong wh to lvl 70 for the box, thinking that it was the same box as the one i missed out... only to find that this gives lvl 50 mech parts instead... oh wells.

Now skidding ard in el nath killing hectors... much slower exp than drakes... but drakes is kinda... crowded... maybe not at this time tho, but i feel a bit sick of all the rude ppl i encounter there... and after training bam and WH there... bleh.

maybe i'll head over to ludi instead... or something...

MSEA epic fail as usual

Warning: You may this post as a random, and boring rant.

Patch, server down, minor patch... bugs... hackers...

delays in releasing the patch notes, than subsequently (always) updating the patch notes...


30 fame requirement that will do nothing but force legitimate players to buy fame... those hackers are like an organisation, with many comps hacking+botting at the same time. they just need to spend a bit of time using their chars to up each other's fame... whereas like all my new chars have less than 10 fame -.-''' zzzz


lie detectors... its just not gonna work in msea. i can imagine ppl will be spamming lie detectors at other players in maps like mp3 to steal the map -.-'''
or at the other party who is trying to bot zak for example. zzzzzzzzzzzzz

either way, i'll have to clear a slot for lie detectors for sure...


Than there's the English School Party Quiz event. The NPC goes:

Hi, I'm Mr.P. Do you think the English hard to study?

Are you bawling and rolling in laughter now...? if you think that's intentional... than perhaps you shd read the notices they post. just to quote a few examples...

Please be inform that a Minor Patch will be required to update your Game Client version from v1.06.1 to v1.06.2
It shd be please be informed, for those who didn’t realise.

ok, the 'til' is probably just a typo... but i can't help but say that just about every sentence in the patch notes is phrased in a... strange way. can't they get someone with better English to write the damned thing?
Due to popular demand by Maplers since December 2010 til now, Permanent Decorative Cash Item Sales is BACK!

and it shd be, from Dec till now. if they want to use the word since, there's no need for the 'till now'.

We hope this clear up some misunderstanding on this issue.

It shd be 'we hope this will clear...'

the above was only taken from the minor patch notice, and reading a bit of the patch notes...

Singlish is fine in casual settings, like chatting with friends on facebook or forums... or writing personal blog entries.. i use Singlish a lot more than i'd care to admit... but for God's sake, get someone who can write in PROPER English to do the site announcements! And get a spell checker.


they repeated so many events over and over... the golden temple, monster box is back for the Nth time... gacha stamp... mini dungeon crystals... pathetic lack of creativity really. merely repeating those events that earn them big money like the gacha stamp and monster box over and over. over and over. Anniversary celebrations? this year was the worst ever. the drop rate of the eq boxes was crap, and there was not other way we could get our maple eqs. the boxes were pretty much monopolised by hackers or something? i didn’t get more than 10 boxes despite training for hours... items from the boxes was also rather lousy. didn’t get the eqs i wanted. aw come on! kms had such exciting anniversary events... jms has nice events too that really really temps me to play back... if not for the language barrier haiz.

GMS has gotten chaos patch already... and than we're finally getting mechs... i'm gonna give $$$soft another nickname. i'm gonna call it phail$oft.

EDIT:
bad news for some ppl, saw this post in the forums (pala's mystic bar, posted by WadIsMyName):

The New Boss Re-Balance has already been implemented as tested by me during scarlion today.
Before patch scarlion B3 deals me only 1 dmg (body)
After patch scarlion deals me 70-100+ dmg (body)

the changed info was already in their patch... so if they didn’t remove it later on... i believe the change will still be implemented? let's see... another patch to change it back or just go ahead with implementing the change or...? the guy who posted this is a pala tho, so he's got WD aplenty. saw some posts in the GD... seems like the boss damage got increased already.

i'm afraid i can't help but agree with what this guy says though:
Originally Posted by BanglaSin:

im not an elite myself but i do agree bigbang has removed the challenge in most bosses.


Papu. no chance of dying as long as HP above 3k. body 1 for range attackers just stand far and keep knockbacking. Bombs deal less than 1k, compared to 8k dmg before bigbang. papu = baby boss now


Scarlion and targa - b3 body damage from 7k to 3k. range attackers now wont die, can hug body even. no need to find a warrior rusher.


anego - no 10k touch and 18k slap damage. gun from 5k damage reduced to 2k damage. anego is just a free bunch of exp. really no challenge since bigbang arrived.


samu - i heard lightning from 8k damage reduced to 2k, no chance of dying = no challenge.

BGA - no more 18k touch damage - reduced to 3k damage. any job can solo it now with sufficient damage. no challenge too, and good bunch of exp.


experience coming from 15x NL. Honestly the bosses have became easier but i wont want them to be as "imbalanced" as before.

imbalanced meaning ranged attackers such as NL BM and captains need to wash hp and get HB JUST to survive.


and i want my DHB back (although i know its impossible)

v1.06 - full of problems... as usual

as expected, the patch was full of problems. didn’t plan to patch today, and at the rate they are going, i wont get to even if i wanted to.

Aquila down... than minor patch... and patch note updated...

Updates:
Boss Monster Re-Balance will not take effect during Mechanic patch and delay until further notice. Thank you.

and than the minor patch:

Minor Patch on 06/07/2011


Dear Maplers,


Please be informed that there will be an Minor Patch on 6th July 2011 from 2030hrs – 2200hrs (+8 GMT).

Game Service will be down. Please log out before this period to prevent any game disruption.

Please be inform that a Minor Patch will be required to update your Game Client version from v1.06.1 to v1.06.2
Please be aware that you will need to auto-patch to v1.06.2 after the Minor Patch on 6th July 2011.


Minor Patch update include:
• Fixing of Keyboard Setting Bug


– Maple Administrator

hurrah for MSEA!

forums also down... i bet most of the lie detectors will be used for all the wrong reasons (like stealing legitimate player's maps etc)... whee!

MapleSEA v.1.06 - Mechs and more

ok, so the mechanics patch is scheduled to be done soon. barring any extensions... knowing msea + AS tho, there probably will be. anyway the patch notes were finally out this morning... thought i'll discuss the patch notes in brief here.

For the full patch notes, please see HERE.

1) Mechanics are here blah blah blah... another new job as well all knew already. nothing much to say here.

2) Mech support event, resistance rings, boxes and capsules... the usual stuff.

3) Evolving ring event is back. those who missed out on the earlier ones, go get urs now and quick. char who have the ring in their inv already will not be able to do the quest. you have to xfer the ring out... i'm probably not gonna get any ring this time round. got enough rings already.

4) Attendance check event is back, once again a re-run of the previous event, giving the same two chairs over a 10-day event. The difference is that you get to pick one of the two chairs... meaning that you can only get 1 of the chairs per char and not both (since there's only one round of it this time!).

5) Monster box event - another old re-run event. for those who want to 'donate' acash to $$$soft only.

6) Sheep ranch event - sounds fun and worthy of a few rounds of my time. i wonder what kind of reward you can get though. if the rewards are lousy, i'm not gonna be doing it beyond the sake of trying it out and taking a few SSes.

7) English school party quiz. sound fun, the rewards aren't bad... except that they are time limited. cos of the time limitation i probably can't be bothered. masks with 4wa or 4ma (lasts for 30 days) and medals with 2wa and 4ma (lasts 60 days) aren't too bad tho.

8) perm cash shop items. if u wanna decorate ur char... its not too bad a deal... that is IF u wanna spend the acash tho...

9) Boss mobs revamp! this is the point of... anger for many i guess...
current scar b3 stats
Weapon Att.:3,990
Magic Att.: 3,957
Weapon Def.: 570
Magic Def.: 1,020

new scar b3 stats
W.Att : 5985
M.Att : 5936
W.Def : 1197
M.Def : 2142

so from 4k wa to 6k wa... i'm actually glad for this change tho. scar/targa is getting too easy now... and krex that hits me for 1 damage? that's such a joke! as if krex wasn’t easy and boring enough before big bang already... hopefully this will lower the number of ppl scarring and targaing. the skill books from those bosses were getting worthless way too fast. not to mention that pots are sooo cheap nowadays f3. elixirs and PEs from the fm are like cheaper than honster from NLC! wat the hell! no more buying of honsters... i'm gonna dig into my stock of elixirs and PEs... even PEs are cheaper than honsters... like wut! didn’t realise it till last night. slow, i know.

10) MoN - new ones will become one-of-a-kind... something that shd have been done from the start.
CWKPQ becomes an expedition. watever... it just means we don't have to use zak or watever expedition when doing cwkpq.
Lie detector now on sale again. like wat i said to my guild mates some time back... needed to sort of help with the hacker situation. but we darn need a freaking SOLUTION... not a round about. knowing msea ppl, there's gonna be hell a lot of misuse coming up >< haiz.

11) Gacha stuff. like watever.

12) Cash shop update... like watever.

Rawr

Rawr... rushed ludi pq with flame for the cracked glasses the yest and the day before... but it boomed with pot scroll... both of out glasses boomed -.- wasted the time and effort haiz.

mech is coming out tmr... i'll probably make a mech tmr, late a night where there's hopefully fewer ppl around. or i might wait a few days before i make one... idk. hope there'll be a free slot given... else i'll have to... buy a char expansion slot? >< i want my mech with my hero for ease of sharing items... in future there's things like the bm legend and warrior resistance chars too... my hero acct is already reaching the max 15 chars... i guess those will really have to go with my NW or smthing... and i want a pala UA with SM... rawr... the max of 15 chars in 1 acct is NOT ENOUGH! i think i'm up to like... 11 chars in there already? RRAWRRRR which reminds me... i shd still go out tmr... needa get a bit of acash to buy the char expansion slot. i'll have to find stuff to xfer to another acct so that i can delete and remake a char or smthing... i already dumped all my skill books to another acct but my use inv is still full or scrolls! >< wanna make a flairgrave, pot scroll it, hammer 2x with the free gift i got in all the wrong accts, and than dump in 60%s... oh and i got 2 free cubes too... problem is the lack of dragon carabella in the market. yest did an owl search (the free items once again) and found none. later on a shop sprang up (thks flame for letting me know) selling at 200m... kinda steep... mts i saw one for 14.5k tho, tempted to get that >< oh wells. i'll restrain myself for a while longer and see how it goes. want a flairgrave mainly cos it is tradable. since my hero is reaching the end soon and i hope to train a pala next time... making another reverse for my hero seems... not very wise (plus, i dont have enough tp). sighz... why the freak are dragon spirits/scales such a rare drop item... u need 20 each to make the sword too at that!!!

okays... that's all for now... gonna... cont training my evan. in desperate need to get rid of all the dews my hero got from bossing lol. wat a nice way to motivate myself to train my evan. lol.

Are you ready for mech?

Mech is coming out in like 2 days! Are you ready for mech? Excited? or cant be bothered?

i'm all ready for mech... nope, didnt prepare a single pirate/mech eq, but i've finally trained my bam to 3rd job and gotten the ring and box... so that i can concentrate on my mech later on. i dont think my mech or any of my resistance will make it to 4th job any soon. still have to train my hero to 200 and that's taking a really really long time. wanna play a pala too, esp when UA comes ard... been wanting to play pala for a really long time, in fact i have two lvl 30 knight created long long time ago. wanted to play palas way before the dual charges or big bang changes were known, but nvr found the time to do so. my hero will always still be my main, and i wont train other chars much till my hero reaches the end in terms of lvling up...

all the new classes/jobs are more over powered than the previous one... mech is a super over powered bad ass who takes barely any damage cos of its super high def, but deals TONS or damage. played a mech merely to 4x in jms before i could not long stand the lag + my exams started. its... ok, fun but nothing too special in the early stages... definitely over powered tho. with 0 bof, all clean eqs, i could 1hko all the mobs i was hitting, something my bam cant do -.-'''. guess my mech will be kicking ass with lvl 19 bof and wa12 gloves... that's ALL the eq i have for my mech tho. its ok... i wont be training it to 4th job anysoon i guess, and even then i'm not really rich enough to go buy superb weapons for my mech. slowly it does...

well that's all for now. going grind ludi pq with my bl for the glasses to potential. tata!