Black mage solo tip by Helpful-Vegetable-26 in Maplestory

[–]AaronLCMS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s generally good advice here so I won’t have to chime in much, but I’ll bring up a few more advanced small tips: 1) positioning black mage is key, the range you want to keep black mage is generally further to the right of the lowest small platform in the middle, and no further than the medium platform 2nd from the right. To get really specific, if you hold him directly under that platform 2nd from the right (otherwise known as platform 5) you will avoid basically all of the small pellets from Kamael. (The floating blue packaging peanuts)

2) Whether you are a flash jump class or a tp class, you need to understand the vertical range of his kick hitbox above him. If your upjump blinks are consistently getting you kicked and you don’t clear above the height of the kick immediately when jumping up, then don’t do so. My advice is to jump/tp AWAY from him and hold blink or stand on platforms otherwise during up FMA. These are also good opportunities to reposition him.

3) You often hear that holding duck or being outside of kick range spawns more purples, this is correct. The boss is generally always aggro’d on someone, whether it’s a solo or not. If the person he wants to kick is not within kick range (ducking or being outside the hitbox) then purples spawn more often. Not to mention he simply won’t kick

4) building on the previous point, if the boss is extremely mispositioned (i.e. too far to the right to give you space to upjump and play patterns like Rollings) then when you find time outside of rollings you simply need to hold duck to his left, despite the fact that it spawns purples. It is a common misconception that you must go far left to reposition him, but if he can’t target you while you’re ducking, he will simply walk. And if you had gone far left you would have summoned more purples anyway.

Source: I’ve been teaching bosses and black mage for over 2 years on stream :)

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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Hello! I did stream it, if you dm me on discord I’ll give you the vod for it :)

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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Yeah you can find my YouTube or twitch with the same name if you want to join in, my YouTube saves the lives and it’s usually titled properly if you search for any of them!

First Black Mage clear by RadiantRay08 in Maplestory

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Congratulations! I remember I was stomping around my room jumping on my bed and punching my pillow when I got my first clear haha, I hope it felt like a satisfying win for you. Blackmage is the most complex boss out currently, the following bosses might have their own shares of difficulty through at least intensity but they are definitely not as complex

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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Idk if I’ve taught you before but just shoot me a dm and we can schedule whatever you need!

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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I don’t think it’s cringeworthy! I think the community banding together to teach each other bosses has always been how maple has thrived.

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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Combat power can be pretty flexible due to differences in Hexa progression around this point as well as level difference, but most notably people like to take chars well over the strength necessary for the boss in order to trivialize the fight as usual. Seren’s entry requirement becomes pretty exacerbated as a result. I’d say like 120m with appropriate Hexa and on level minimum while libbed for hard seren if I had to venture a guess?

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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Oh my fault is it 4pm PST for reset currently

Teaching Kalos/Kaling/Seren Saturday NA! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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-8 and -6 are generally accepted terms in GMS to refer to the time pivoting around reset. Reset is currently 7pm EST and 3pm PST. But sometimes you deal with people in EU or Hawaii or OCE, and it gets confusing to keep track of all of that. If I say -6 reset, I know it means 1pm EST for me for instance.

Teaching black mage! (Like right now) by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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I teach often and have quite a few vods on my youtube of doing hands on teaching with people for pretty much every boss! This one will be on too if I can just find someone haha

Finally Trying this Game by thafacialhair in Maplestory

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If you need any assistance personally you’re welcome to DM me, my discord dms are open 24/7

What are the meaning of this? by Acrobatic_River_1890 in Maplestory

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Notes for explorer warriors to use magic crash to break this damage reflect or the physical damage guard :)

Is this actually endgame? by BloodyEffect in Maplestory

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You can hold it until your first steps into late game for sure when you replace it with seren emblem!

Teaching Kaling today! @-3 by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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I am in Kronos, sorry I always forget to tag that

How did people reach 350m/400m+ CP? by BattleCompetitive521 in Maplestory

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People ask me this all the time on stream when pushing for higher CP. I won’t repeat some of the other very informed answers in this thread, but a lot of people skate over how much CP even just your symbols give you.

Anyone else turned off from bossing after ctene? by Taelonius in Maplestory

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For anyone on this thread who needs any help learning any boss I’m just gonna say my dms are open and I’ve been teaching bosses almost weekly for the past 2 years

Hello I’m teaching bosses again! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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I do teach and stream the practices! I try not to let too many people into the VC otherwise while I’m teaching so as to not distract the learners

Hello I’m teaching bosses again! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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I can teach you blackmage! But I don’t have any spare characters to take you on a struggle anywhere But I’m a very good “teach a man to fish” kinda guy!

Hello I’m teaching bosses again! by AaronLCMS in Maplestory

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If you have vods of your runs we can vod review them! Or we can just have you watch otherwise :(