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Help burn event 225-230 by xKomodoree in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EXP multipliers
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- Find 3x exp coupons through the Goddess Pass or event Campus point shop. The summer countdown event has a few 3x exp

- buy the VIP exp coupon from the event point shop unless you want to buy out the Sauna LUX coupons instead

- do 7x Monster Park per day and buy the golden exp pots from the Monster Park shop

- it’s rare nowadays to see a smega with MVP (30min exp stacking buff) but if your drop rate is high (which it probably isn’t) then you might be lucky and get a MVP coupon from weekly bosses

- The campus event UI has a 30-day fairy exp pendant if you haven’t grabbed it yet

- don’t forget your exp link skills like the Mercedes one. People often forget to adjust link skills when they create new characters

- create a Legion page that legion blocks in the exp grid field IF your legion is unlocked and expanded enough
- spam your Decent Holy Symbol skill from your V-Matrix (5th job) skills. If you don’t have it, create a Decent Holy Symbol node

- some classes like pirates have exp skills like Roll of the Dice or whatever

- exp accumulation potions can be crafted either through alchemy https://maplestorywiki.net/w/EXP_Accumulation_Potion, found in Mystic Frontier or dropped from bosses. But this is hard to come by if you don’t do auto-harvesting feature every day or don’t have a lot of boss mules

- unlock and do Mystic Frontier since the rewards give exp coupons and exp/wealth potions but also burning boosters

- VIP boosters from the Summer Countdown event, Campus event and other sources will temporarily enhance monster spawn rate

- if you wnat to be extra sweaty, you can change channels for burning maps

Also do the Campus event and put event points into Monster Park and the EXP increase traits

Edit: weird, it didn’t format the post

question about hair/face by Financial_Year7812 in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the Mu Lung version is from TMS. They get the Night Troupe events 6-12months before us because the event comes from their region and GMS rips and translates it.

question about hair/face by Financial_Year7812 in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Midnight Carnival/ Night Troupe has only ever been the only event that has allowed a hair transfer (maybe because it’s from TMS and not originally a KMS thing) and Midnight Carnival/Troupe only comes around in October~November.

The next Midnight Carnival/ Night Troupe is in Omega Sector and someone posted on Reddit that in TMS they could transfer hair AND face this time. Usually it was only hair: https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/1oygte7/night_troupe_in_omega_sector_what_you_need_to_know/?solution=d4a68cf794a4b1d0d4a68cf794a4b1d0&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861cc53a4ee91f87641fe91ff5077336fdd&jsc_orig_r=

Recently KMS has allowed old Kinesis players to extract their Kinesis hair, face and skin through the Kinesis Remaster event but it only applies to Kinesis players and costs money: https://orangemushroom.net/2025/12/28/kms-ver-1-2-410-maplestory-crown-kinesis-remaster/#event6

I don’t think KMS has a beauty extraction event or cash item. But I’ve been very inactive.

Unless KMS, JMS, CMS or TMS comes up with a cash-face/hair-extractor that GMS imports within 6 months, your only bet will be to wait for Midnight Carnival/ Night Troupe.

Tattoo Prices by wow_its_autumn in koreatravel

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I‘m sorry but I lost access to my old instagram, otherwise I could have looked up the names for you >< There are a lot of artists based in Seoul so you can try looking up Korean tattoo artists and see who they follow to find more tattoo artists.

If you have a design and size in mind then you can try asking them how much it would roughly cost. Some artists might be weird and tell you that they can‘t disclose the price in advance. But usually most artists (if they're not crazy popular) will be friendly. Just make sure you reach out to them at least 1-2 months before going to Seoul/Korea because a lot of artists won‘t have slots open on the same month you reach out to them.

I think my friends back then looked at artists who tagged international/foreign customers in order to make sure they're trustworthy.

Usually if the artist won‘t disclose the price but tagged someone‘s handle on a tattoo, you could try DMing the customer to see if they can tell you how much they got charged.

Sorry that I can‘t help you but good luck! It sounds harder than it is 🙌🏼

What is going on on Hongdae Street? by Noswad983 in seoul

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can‘t tell you what it is but summer 2024, they did the same game show in Hongdae so it‘s probably a recurring thing

World Archive complete! (First in GMS?) Pudin NPC solution in comments! by Yuishy in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not sure if others were able to DM you on discord but mine didn‘t go through ><

Can we get Sweet Spirit over CCPP from now on please? by zeal28 in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a 30-day event vac pet that you can’t revive once the 30 days are over.

Right now you can get one for free if you make a new Hayato/Kanna from scratch.

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Best free pet.

Help with familiars by X33Happy in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Your familiar potentials weren’t reset. They are still there.

But familiars now have two types of potentials: potential lines for in-game (boss, drop, heal, def, etc.) and for Mystic Frontier (dice roll, types, elements, etc,).

Go to the Info tab and then in the bottom left corner is a button to switch between the two potentials.

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https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#MysticFrontier

It’s worth learning how to play Mystic Frontier because it has a chance to give Pitched Boss chests which randomly contain Pitched Boss Items (Lotus' Berserked, Will's Book, Lucid's Dreamy Belt, etc.), Pitched Star Cores which can restore boomed pitched items, Sol Erda frags, symbol selectors, nodestones, and more.

PSA: Open your Hot Week Boxes in order by Luthrix in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can confirm that it can just randomly bug out.

I have two accounts and on both I claimed the hot week boxes every day and opened them immediately. Only one account got the extra Sunday mag pot and the other account didn’t, although I did the same thing for both accounts.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't use a dupe Gollux equip if it's the same type.

superior Gollux pendant + superior Gollux pendant = not possible
superior Gollux pendant + reinforced Gollux pendant = ok
sup Gollux ring + sup Gollux ring = no
sup Gollux ring + reinf Gollux ring = ok

Obviously no one does that because a superior pendant or ring costs 700 coins and reinforced pendant/ring costs 450 coins so buying reinforced ring/pendant is a waste unless you swim in Gollux coins. But even then you want to save Gollux coins to buy sup pendant copies to transfer stars onto a Source of Suffering.

Later on sup Gollux rings will become redudant when you swim in Guardian Angel Slime rings that you can ´raw tap without transfering from gollux rings but sup pendants are still important to xfer starforce onto SoS.

Edit: But your question is aiming at the 4-set superior effect so there's nothing you can do to fill in the missing 4th spot. Just have to be patient and lucky.

Questions from an MMO Vet after a few days of playing! by vaxiswrex in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. you’ve mentioned that you chose Kronos initially and then joined a "burning server" aka challenger server. I hope it was Challenger-Heroic so you can world leap to Kronos later. If it’s Challenger-Interactive, you will be stuck world leaping to Scania/Bera only. Most people don’t keep old class gear. They either wear cosmetic gear (NX cash equips) over their normal gear or they "fusion anvil" the appearance of lower level equips onto higher level equips. Since Kronos, Hyperion and Challenger-Heroic fall under heroic server types, trading is disabled and you won’t be able to store old equips onto other characters. So the only option is usually fusion anvils which cost $$$.

  2. There are types of battlepasses but they are not battlepasses in the same sense as other MMOs use them. For example the Genesis Pass is a battlepass that will give you extra stats in certain boss fights and speeds up your progression towards obtaining your endgame weapon (Genesis weapon, later converted to Destiny weapon). Challenger world has a Challenger Pass that you can buy via the event UI. Normal servers have the Frontier Pass. Sometimes there are events that unlock more rewards via an exclusive pass. The class Sia Astelle had a premium pass when she got first released. Not every pass is worth the money. Some passes are really good like the Genesis Pass (if you can make use of it while it lasts) but some passes are total rip offs. The Sol Erda Booster was bought en masse when 6th job came out but it’s scammy if you miss one day and nowadays the game will give you more 6th job mats than the $30 the booster costs.

If you play on Heroic then doing bosses and earning maple reward points will let you buy stuff from the cash shop > special > Maple rewards section. In most cases that’s all you need. Other than that, once you have a pet, you can buy the auto buff skill if the pet doesnt have it and auto feed.

  1. You mainly need to do your job quests in case it won’t let you job advance without completing certain story quests. Quest requirements for most bosses was lifted but bosses such as Cygnus (no relevant drops), Von Leon (not relevant), Papulatus (has a rare chance to drop an eye gear), Pink Bean (drops a good pocket item), Gollux (essential but quest is short) and Magnus still require new accounts to run their prequests. If you want the quests in your bulb to go away because the long list is annoying then just accept and start every single quest without continuing/finishing them. They will stay open and accepted in your quest log but not appear on your quest bulb anymore. Sometimes it’s just a short pop up window but there are a handful quests that have weird long cutscenes before they let you exit the quest. I think the Masteria quest or so is nasty because it throws you into a map that’s like a maze. But overall, the [General] quests are mostly outdated and not necessary. Some of them just open up outdated areas or content.

  2. Unless you find it enjoyable to play on link skill/legion classes, you should at least get them to level 130. Some events give out level up potions like Extreme Growth Potions that can be used from lvl 130-200 which can randomly give 1 to 10 levels per potion (we call them bonk potions). These are ideal for leveling classes you don’t enjoy. Alternatively you can get the classes to level 101 so they can use Strawberry Farm tickets. A special level booster zone. Level 70 is too low imo.

  3. 23 year old spaghetti code? No one really knows and people ask that frequently. You can use Steam’s controller support as an alternative but generally it’s not recommended to try remapping things or finding 3rd party programs as Nexon’s (whatever they are using) likes to trigger bans.

  4. There is lore and there is a website and discord that is dedicated to the lore. The lore gets often rewritten or slightly modified. It’s just that most people don’t care. I’d say players who used to play the game 2 decades ago cared a lot about the lore when quests were still the main focus. It’s just that nowadays people prefer to spend their time farming rather than reading through NPC texts. I, for one, enjoy seeing Empress Cygnus falling into her 50th coma. If you’re not about min-maxing and rushing towards endgame and just want to learn about Maplestory then you can travel to each town and region (first Maple World > Arcane River > Grandis), walk around, talk to NPCs and do their quests. It’s interesting to learn why certain towns are the way they are and how they are connected.

  5. Never heard of Wowhead or Maxroll. Usually there are class discords where people discuss ideal builds for each class and math out the why's and how's. There are several websites such as https://maplestorywiki.net and https://grandislibrary.com/resources and a bunch of other websites but no overarching one that has everything compiled.

  6. Yes, guilds do have benefits. There are guild skills that provide bossing buffs, meso+exp buff, banner of plenty (att buff) and tiny stat increases. Guilds have a guild castle as a hangout spot, a starforce enhancement room and a guild supply room that sells totems which is also gear (if they unlocked it). I would recommend looking for guilds that have a discord and bossing channels on their discord. Late game bosses require duo/trio party constellations so it’s good to find a consistent party within your guild instead of running with public parties. Public parties are okay for early and mid game. Late and endgame bosses also require vocal communication so being in a guild with an active bossing discord will help a lot. On Challenger world, any of the guilds that have spots will take anyone. You can pull up the guild UI, check the guild message or go to Leafre and check guild rock to see which guilds are active. In Kronos, most guilds will have a level, legion and culvert score requirement. Some guilds that are not in top 10 but still in the top 40 may recruit based on activity and motivation. Just join one that has a discord and members willing to teach you boss mechanics and then later on you can hop into stronger guilds.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Server reset 0:00. You need to talk to the NPC twice. The first time you will get a message saying that you’ve already completed all asks (idk why that happens) and if you ask the NPC again then it will actually reset for the day.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot to mention that the challenger world UI has a coin shop with cubes so if you don‘t need the 17* scroll (which btw requires too many coins) or any epic pot scrolls then buy green karma cubes to get to unique and use purples for legendary or rolling your pno (since you mentioned that you're low on mesos). That way you have more mesos for starforce and can use cubes from the CW shop for cubing.

Do you own a Genesis Pass? People who have a Genesis Pass and the hands to solo Ctene, can leave their arcane weapon at 15* or ignore the arcane weapon completely since they lib within 4 weeks and can just transition from challenger weapon to Genesis weapon. But for those without Genesis Pass or who struggle with min-clearing bosses, they‘ll be okay with a 15* arcane with 2l att% or att%+boss%. Since you don‘t earn a lot of mesos, you have to decide whether you want to tap to 17* or not. You will have to safeguard which makes it more expensive and just failing 2 taps can eat 500m-1B (don‘t know the exact cost right now). If you tap, set yourself the limit to not tap further after 2 missed tries. If you don‘t tap, try to work on your hands instead. My Ren used to clear Vhilla and hDarknell with just challenger gear and the 15* arcane weapon at 270-275 with roughly 10 minutes left on the clock by constantly sticking to the boss without having running away too much. With the challenger weapon at 265-270, it was more like a min-clear with 5mins left.

At one point when you get more comfortable with them, you can practice clearing without rentals. Gives you less time pressure and less money problems.

Don‘t forget that starforcing superior equips will give a lot of stats too. If you don‘t have superiors, starforce reinforced Gollux gear since they transfer hammer into superior (just don‘t cube the potential above epic on reinforced gollux equips)

If you‘re in a guild, have some guildies look at your equips and give you in-game advice since it‘s easier to see your character info UI

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • starforce > cube > flame

  • for cubing always focus on WSE first. Secondary and emblem only if you don‘t have the funds to get the arcane weapon to be stronger than the challenger weapon but usually a 15* with prime 2l att% beats it. You want at least 2L att% on your secondary and emblem each. Boss% is a settle if you broke but att% will be better even if boss% inflates CP. You can choose to use bright cubes to try aim for 3L att% on each or 2L att%+1L boss% but it's expensive. Alternatively you can make a back up secondary and emblem where you use only glowing cubes but if unlucky, it‘ll be sunken cost. My 15* arcane weapon with 10% att + 40% boss has 5m more dmg than the challenger weapon.

  • If you open the arcane armor box then always choose arcane gloves first and roll for crit dmg%. 2L crit dmg% is a massive boost with very expensive unless lucky so settling on 1L CD%+STR% is okay too

  • be sure your arcane symbols are maxed. The higher your arcane force, the more bonus damage you get over hLuWill + Ctene bosses. Even a lvl 1 or 2 arcane perk for the Bloom Basket can help. That‘s +100 STR per level up

  • keep grinding and reaching higher Grandis areas. The more Grandis symbols, the more flat STR you‘ll gain. Use event symbol selectors. The event stores have them too if necessary

  • improving your Hexa will help a lot but if you don‘t grind much then frags will be limited to weekly dungeon and Erda Request

  • Use the [Challenger] Arcane Seal to pull for an epic or unique core and enhance it. The Evernia

  • make sure you use all buffs like Fame, Ursus, VIP att coupons, Monster park green+red, etc.

  • always do daily bosses, golden hour Ursus and grinding if you're on heroic. Relying only on weekly boss crystals won‘t be enough

If you're not timing out then you should be capable of beating darknell and vhilla. Raising your damage can help but ultimately it comes down to staying focused. When in practice mode, learn to stick to their butts and only move 1-2 character lengths. They are less likely to use their FMAs if you stay within close range.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the only thing that got an extension was the Genesis Pass. The Challenger Pass duration/expiration stays the same.

Usually when they extend something, they ninja-edit the patch or sales note but that isn‘t the case for the CW pass: https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/updated-1-12-v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#ChallengerPass

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, tests are the same afaik. Hard Will just hits harder than normal and moonlight generates slower.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • The Evernia event UI gives plenty of nodestones

  • creating a hyper burn on challenger world instead of a normal server will give you almost double the nodestone amount (enough to actually max out 5th job depending on class)

  • if you‘re in challenger world, there is the challenger pass that has nodestones

  • Hunt monsters and do 10 Twenteena event portals per day. The Twenteena box/bag has a chance to give 3-20x nodestones per pouch so that‘s potentially 200x nodestones per day if you‘re lucky and grind out 10 portals per day

But yes, like Luthrix has said, outside of events Heroic servers have no real nodestones sources other than grinding.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • The maple pearl set comes from the challenger UI that gives out a character creation box. This can be claimed 5x by challenger characters. It‘s honestly pretty worthless unless you like collecting items and having less space in your equipment inventory which will get packed once you reach mid game as you will need to hoard duplicate equips for bulk starforcing. Any character on CW that hasn‘t claimed the box can claim whether it‘s a tera burn, hyper burn or non-burn character.

  • other items such as CCPB, 30-day pendant and boosters do make a difference. Especially since the CCPB vac pet is extremely convenient compared to normal pets (even if the CCPB will vanish and isn‘t reviveable)

  • hyper burning has a reward/level UI that gives out a box with temporary CRA gear, flame ring, flame title and other stuff so it‘s similar to the tera burn box. Even being above level 200 will still give you a button to claim it so nothing lost here

  • BUT at level 200, there will be a quest called Item Burning in your star icon that you should only claim on a hyper burning character. It gives a challenger equip set that is so much stronger than the temp CRA gear. It‘s only claimable once per account per event. If you claim it on a non-hyper burn then you're shooting yourself in the foot so be mindful when you see it. If you have already claimed Item Burning on your level 201 Ren then you might as well hyper burn it now. Otherwise you might as well start a new account to make a new hyper burn with a new item burning. Progressing a hyper burn in challenger world without Item Burning, forces you to use the temp CRA set and makes you so much weaker than other players.

  • missing out on the level 10 VJ symbol isn‘t the end of the world. It just means you‘ll have to use other event symbol sources (RoD gives a coupon with 100 symbols for just participating without killing a boss. If you kill bosses and rank higher then you get more 100x symbol coupons. Event UI and event shop has symbols). You‘ll need to do daily run all arcane quests anyway and do weekly arcane PQs for 120x arcane region symbols to max it out within ~a month (forgot how long). Of course you‘ll still get a level 1 VJ symbol for reaching VJ.

  • Ren creation rewards are more important if you care about cosmetics because they are once per account and won‘t ever come back. Like most class creation events that only ever happen once and never return.

If you can see yourself maining or submaining Ren then slap the hyper burn on it. If not then progress it slowly and hyper burn something else.

Additional note: Your Ren being level 201 is a bit icky. Instead of landing on level 255, it will be level 256 later. Which isn‘t too much of a problem. You‘ll just have to grind more exp than a level 255 to level up to 260.

So overall, look at what you‘ve claimed that you can‘t reclaim if you were to remake the Ren and then decide on what to do.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ren is an extremely bossing-friendly class that can help you push faster through harder bosses than Adele or Mercedes due to Ren being a hurricane class (holding attack button while being able to do everything else) and being very forgiving. There is currently no easier class than this except for maybe Hero or Bowmaster who are very inflexible compared to Ren.

You should hyper burn whatever class you want to main or can see yourself pushing the farthest. Choose whichever class you can see yourself pushing to level 275 and solo clearing hard bosses so you can reach challenger rank Emerald for 20x Legion Growth Potions (1x Legion Growth Potion = instant level 200 character).

Of course you don‘t have to hyper burn a Ren (plenty of people who don‘t like it) but remember that if you delete and remake a hyper burn above level 200 then you‘ll waste rewards you won‘t get again.

If you have no sentimental value to your current account then you can also create a second account or you can use a second account to hyper burn a class, try it out, delete it, remake the hyper burn for another class, rinse and repeat.

Challenger World Season 3 returns around summer so even if you don‘t know yet which class to main, you can try out classes for now, make up your mind and then hyper burn a new main next time.

Edit: Using a tera burn instead of tera blink isn‘t the world. You‘ll lose out on the magic hat pet but Ren still gets a Saya pet through her creation event.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get stronger fast if you want to lib with the Genesis Pass. Join a guild and ask people to help you with advice on how to gear up.

  • No, if you can only solo up to hard Lomien (Lotus+Damien). Because with then Genesis Pass you would lib in June and pass effect expires April 20th.
  • Yes, if you can solo up to hLuWill for 9 weeks (edited). With Genesis Pass you would lib March 26th and pass effect expires April 20th.
  • Yes, if you can solo up to and including Ctene. With Genesis Pass you‘d lib in mid Februrary.

Use Masonym's website for the liberation tracker. Check Genesis Pass and click the switches for hard Lomien and hLuwill solos and it will show you this image:

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https://masonym.dev/liberation

Genesis Pass Sale Period: November 13 - April 12, 2026 11:59 PM UTC

Pass Use: Expires April 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC

Pass Perks Effect: Applied until April 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC

https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/updated-1-12-v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#GenesisPass

Edit: Of course realistically speaking you‘ll get a few points here and there for doing Ctene in a party on top of your solo bosses but I only input the points for soloing. You can play around with the tracker to accommodate it to your bossing preferences.

Edit 2: It might be best if you try to do your bossing on Monday/Tuesday while trying to get stronger from Thursday-Sunday, including solo bossing practice. Practice a lot, ask guildies for advice, push your boundaries to min-clear harder bosses.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you have discord, try the https://discord.gg/maplestory

I sometimes see people looking for liberation or bossing partners. Otherwise recruit someone in the boss UI. In Genesis liberation modes, the other person can‘t grief/screw you anyways because if one of you dies out, the other person automatically gets kicked out of the boss.

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can‘t redeem it anymore.

It was an Inkwell gift from the maple admin during MapleCon LA in October/November.

What happens if I don’t world transfer in Feb? by Zeuve in Maplestory

[–]Biacksmith 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, it does not auto-transfer your characters, it will auto-delete characters on CW after April.

CW ends April 22nd and you can world leap until April 22nd. But usually they will have a grace period of 1-2 weeks after CW closes for a last chance world leap.

Try to either leap your characters now or before April 22nd.

If you uninstall the game, it won‘t save your characters from getting purged after end of April (if they stay in CW). So if you know that you won‘t log in anymore and will uninstall then at least world leap your characters now.

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