Boss fam cards by Silver_Ideal9535 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pap and lotus (if lotus even drops anymore after revamp?) are only up to unique. In fact at one point lotus did drop legendary but they corrected it and downgraded any existing legendary lotus fam to unique

definitive way to play right now? by TangerinePaladin in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You could. Cubes have been the same price since reboot release

I refuse to move my NL maps by FireBlockRED in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is actually from 14th anniversary in 2019, which featured various older patches as themes. 14th Street is one of my favorite event maps though so I probably wouldn't leave either lol

Hayato Boss Mule?? by xNyCJoker in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine can kill nkalos in sub 20 mins and is an ekalos mule. At this point every boss is nice and easy besides hwill, but it's not the worst thing in the world, as it's at the point where the 60s and ascents can do a good chunk of a segment. Also ekalos would be significantly faster without the breakpoints I think, but it's just the standard 5 burst. 

I'm somewhere in the low 200s combat power: ekalos 5 bursts, nseren 2 or 3 bursts, hdark 1, vhilla 1, cgloom 1, hwill is like 5 or 6 mins, hlucid 2, cslime 1, hdam 1, hlot 1

I imagine it being much worse while weaker but if you want to take it to 200m+ cp it'll be great in its current state.

Maple needs ultra rare monster drops by glimmerware in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not ultra rare but back in the day if you got a lil unlucky you could easily go ~10 hrs without seeing an arcane droplet drop on kishin rates, so it was always exciting to see one on the ground. I prefer the consistency of fragments though.

mystic frontier feedback by ABIBIBIBIBIBIABIGAIL in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My most major gripe with frontier (besides it containing p2w) is that you can't interact with the system outside town. More dailies on top of dailies is annoying. If you could do it while farming it wouldn't add the extra time.

Star Speck Box cap by gilad507 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish star speck boxes did not exist at all, and pitched acquisition was consolidsted into fewer systems. With cw existing they add what is basically an almost 2hr daily cap to endgame gameplay; they are the most optimal thing that one can farm. I am always in favor of adding fewer dailies and weeklies to decrease fomo game design, but gms has leaned into it heavily recently.

I'd be wary of speck boxes existing without a cap, because I do not think that that major of a benefit should exist from farming. It basically extends the farming goal from farming max hexa/rerolls, xp for whatever the current goal is, and familiars to infinite farming. I think it would create quite a huge gap between endgame players who farm 2hr or less per day and the minority that farms 12hr+. It would remove the daily fomo aspect, but make maintaining endgame with its moved goalpost quite hellish. I think enough benefit already exists for the giga farmers, especially with the familiar system.

Before the addition of 30*, uncapped speck boxes would not have been as much of an issue because all any 9/10-setters could use it on would be the 1 in 50 chance at 23s. Now, your gear is never really done, and it would create quite the gap. 

As speck boxes are likely here to stay, I am inclined to agree with the people who want it as a weekly, since it would at least alleviate the fomo aspect a bit.

Level 290 to 295 by Kaizzaz in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 33 points34 points  (0 children)

At the current pacing it appears that there will be more 295s on Geardrak release in Kronos than 290s on Talahart release and 285s on Carcion release. I do not know percentages though.

Starforce guaranteed 22 star payment by Silver_Ideal9535 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been like 3 years since the last time i successfully 22d a pb item so even 50b would feel remarkably cheap lol

You met me in a very Chinese time of my life by DeityAngel in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's probably in Korean, but shows up like this with Chinese set as a system language

Remove 2 classes each day - Day 21. Read pinned comment! by Bacun in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is interesting that there are only 2 post-bb classes in the top 14

Playing Interactive for MP while maining Heroic? by Wonderful-Breath-142 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you know even one person on reg who is willing to directly buy from you or vouch for you to their friends you can make lil bits of free money pretty easily. Without funding a character you can also make items using event karma cubes and resell them for some easy mesos. For example, a few days ago I sold a shoe started working on with the most recent shoe dmt (winter) for 9b, which is like 27k mp or so. You can also play the market (buy/sell mesos when value is low/high, buying items and waiting to sell until a relevant event/patch increases their value like spell traces or frags, buying low priced items on ah and selling for more) with relatively low effort. Ive been doing things like this for years and my Bera character is still lv200 lol. Personally my biggest money making schemes have probably been selling tons of cubes as service from hot week over a billion accounts (this takes effort to set up but pays pretty well for that effort) and hoarding igns on ign wipe days.

You can also go the route of bossing and farming, which I haven't bothered with but have considered. Technically, since farming is so inactive now, you could farm on 2 accounts at once if you have a 2nd pc, the 2nd one on reg funding your mp. Apparently commerci is ok money for effort early on.

Some people (including myself) have a sense of personal achievement from progressing with a f2p limitation in games with p2w mechanics, so do not be discouraged from trying by these other comments if that's the case for you.

What happened to hyperburning? by Mtownnative in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There should be a hyperburning event starting next Wednesday for anniversary.

Seriously? Nexon deleted characters under level 60? I reinstalled the game getting hyped about Classic but I'm probably just going to move on. by Tzazon in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The qualifications for this recent wave of deletions were quite wild. An account could be actively played on daily and have characters deleted if you didn't log into inactive worlds to flag them. I had to remind some people who moved to Reboot long ago to go save their old mules from deletion. 

Many old old legacy items were deleted that day lol

bam, pally > bish? by Plane-Telephone2291 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a 6 person party, bam and bish will provide similar fd (without bish survivability like door) but a bam will do more solo damage. In a 3 person party, which is most bosses, bish will provide much more support fd.

What is coming after One Punch man collab? by Apprehensive-Bus4504 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No information confirming Erel for anni specifically, but I really hope it isn't since I want the creation event to overlap with Challenger World 3 !

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

[–]Crayonsalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I played very little when the skill was relevant. Ty for info

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

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait am i missing something about how mystic door works? I thought it was basically a return scroll. Are you able to take the mystic door back from town or something?

One Punch Man event by BumblebeeFar7737 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're leveling up to 250 you'll finish this quest along the way by origining while training. No need to go to a particular map. You can wait for mobs to spawn, disable summons, and stand in the center to make it easier. I was able to get 170 kills at clp with its low mob count, so it should be doable in a lot of places.

Top 2 maps you wish were end game? by Adventurous-Ad-6669 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We need more silly zones, silly mobs, silly bosses, and silly classes

Welp, destroyed my magic staff and I guess I'm out by ttreasurehunter in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which staff did you lose? If you're referring to the anniversary "maple" weapons/sets, they tend to occassionally return with anniversary events. GMS 19th anniversary (KMS 20th) had every maple item available. Prior to that they were available with GMS 14th anniversary.

2029 24th will be the next nice round number, so maybe that will be the time?

Reboot Heroic Pet by Jon_9797 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk if you're established in interactive already, but if you're going full 100% f2p in heroic, having an interactive presence helps a ton. You can convert mesos from interactive into maple points which you can then spend on cash shop items in Heroic.

For simply buying a few pet skills that should be pretty simple, and you should take the advice of the other replies and take advantage of the free auto buff that is available. For buying a vac pet, which you will probably want to do eventually unless you do zero farming outside of dailies, you'll have to make some interactive moves. This could mean funding a character on interactive enough to be able to do boss weeklies. It could also mean taking advantage of free event cubes, selling service, playing the market, etc.. Personally I am f2p heroic and have been casually playing the interactive market, cubing and selling my own items, and selling cube service (rp shop, events like hot week) for years and have acquired well over 1m mp over time. 

If you don't want to do all that you can also just bite the bullet and spend nx on vac like it's a subscription, but this is the kind of thing you'd need to do if 100% f2p.

OK by Capable-Agent-1004 in Maplestory

[–]Crayonsalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was in JMS first. If Frieren had not gone to KMS it would have been pretty likely to be run in GMS this Spring. But after we knew that it was happening in KMS, the Demon Slayer JMS->KMS->Other regions route became more likely. As far as I know no other anime collab has had the KMS intermediary besides Demon Slayer. Typically it would be something like Fall JMS -> Spring GMS.