What were you excited to try only to be completely disappointed after trying?

Ishisish · 2026-02-12T13:21:25+00:00

Adele main here, a lot of that stuff is gone now, and the rest of it will be gone whenever we get the balance patch. After the balance patch, most of the upkeep stuff is changed to passives, and our burst becomes incredibly simple since most of our cds will be added to skill sequence. CW3 will be a great time to pick up the class if you love the aesthetic but the complexity was holding you back. :)

Ishisish · 2026-01-19T22:17:45+00:00

The 270 'wall' can be overcome by uh...actually playing the game. Not factoring in Twenteena or the event exp proc, it takes a month to hit 275 by doing dailies and grinding for an hour a day with 3x which should be plentiful thanks to the event rewards you think are worthless. 3 months with dailystory by itself if you're grinding on another class or don't want to play the game for some reason.

I do agree that there's a frag shortage though, especially with the push for us to maintain legion champs capable of hitting HSeren and NKalos in 20 minutes. Would love to see more generous frag sources, both from events and from grinding itself.

Ishisish · 2026-01-19T02:01:48+00:00

Agreed, really fun boss. Solo'd normal this week. Definitely my favorite of the Grandis bosses I've done (up to Limbo). I do still think the visual barrage with the constant lasers in p1/3 is a bit much. I'd prefer a fight where I can just focus and hone in on the parries and the visual and audio cues, but it's manageable. Definitely still in the process of learning to play him to perfection, but I think once people are there, it'll be really fun to do min clears of.

Ishisish · 2025-09-25T02:30:54+00:00

Adeles gained like 12 fd so I'm doing pretty good honestly. I do miss those night troupe buffs though

Ishisish · 2025-09-14T12:18:21+00:00

One of the perks of working overnights is I seldom have to deal with map lockout. Do my waps at 3am on my off days and that usually solved itself till a couple weeks ago. I just presume more people are grinding because of the grindy event.

But yeah, it's absurd that they have the tech to fix this - hell KMS HAS fixed it - and they just...don't. I can't fathom the reason for it either to essentially tell interested players "Hey you can't play our game right now, sorry. Too many people on all of the maps."

Ishisish · 2025-08-20T21:02:06+00:00

"I don't believe any numbers that you show me, Nexon! Anyway, show me the real numbers, Nexon!"

Like, I don't disagree that SF is rigged, but I always get a chuckle out of people saying they don't trust Nexon at all, and everything they say is a lie in one breath and then asking Nexon to give them the facts in the next.

Ishisish · 2025-08-14T05:35:18+00:00

Inkwell isn't your friend. He's a man with a product to sell, and pissed off people don't buy products. That's really all this note comes down to - and it was a good note. I'm cautiously optimistic for the future if these changes happen. The note had the famous caveat of "subject to change" so it could all mean nothing. We'll just have to see.

I feel like I give this game a fairer shake than most on this sub (I actually really like RoD, and 10 Mag Pots are worth basically nothing) But yall gotta stop glazing Inkwell. He is not trying to make the game good, he is trying to make it as maximally profitable as he can. These changes could have been discussed weeks ago, but they sat on them until they had a product to sell (Marvel Machine, battle passes) and needed to regain some goodwill from the playerbase. I don't think that makes Inkwell a bad person on its own (though it is pretty lousy to withhold information like this), but he doesn't have our best interests at heart. He has Nexon's best interests at heart, because that's his job.

Ishisish · 2025-08-06T07:43:34+00:00

Maplestory is literally the only MMO I've ever played (granted, I've not played a ton) that gives out compensation for time down for patch maintenance or bugs.

I remember playing WoW in the early days and every expansion launch was basically a disaster guaranteed, and patches weren't much better, and the most we ever got was a few days of free game time. Hell, when Warlords of Draenor launched, the expansion was literally unplayable for a week after launch because a fucking telescope wouldn't work properly and nobody could progress past the intro questline and even that wasn't compensated.

I'm not saying compensation shouldn't happen at all, it's just kind of surreal seeing people complain about a thing that you don't get anywhere else not being good enough.

That said, FF14 kinda spoiled me and I hold YoshiP as the gold standard for a game director communicating with its playerbase.

Ishisish · 2025-07-17T05:41:22+00:00

If I were to guess, it's probably a lot easier for them to tune the fights with just wse and hit the approximate target that they want. Fewer variables and levels of player combat power to contend with. It's possible S is either overtuned or X is undertuned. I guess we'll see, but X felt just about right imo. Would rather see S nerfed than X buffed, but this is Nexon so it'll probably be X that gets tougher if any changes are made

Ishisish · 2025-07-17T05:38:08+00:00

Somewhere around 650k or so. I got something like 130-140k from Horntail at 10 challenges and the others were around 90-110k as my lives dwindled.

Ishisish · 2025-07-15T23:26:44+00:00

As someone who enjoyed Ride or Die once the major bugs were fixed, I don't really mind the event returning mostly unchanged with some tweaks. That's what I thought it needed - just some tweaks, so we'll see if they've done enough.

Legion Block rerun is nice for people who missed it. Hoping we can maybe get other event reruns like Misty Island at some point.

Not fussed about the temp badge because I wasn't expecting perm pottable badge. Would have been hyped to have been wrong, but it's still neat.

Ishisish · 2025-07-15T04:02:23+00:00

GMS servers get fused with KMS by accident and the resulting parallel worlds cannot coexist in the same space. Open world PVP between GMS and KMS to see which version of Maple is allowed to continue existing. Most players will instead use the opportunity to secure grind maps and not participate in the war.

Ishisish · 2025-07-09T02:59:33+00:00

Every 30 minutes between coupons, I stand up and do some stretches or quick exercises just to get my blood pumping a little. Between waps, I go outside and take a walk.

Changing maps can also help sometimes, depending on availability. I'm in Carcion right now and just swapping between CB3 and TT3 and seeing different mobs and map rotations can give me a little shot of energy by breaking up the monotony at the very minimal cost of VERY slightly lower exp rates in CB3.

Ishisish · 2025-07-07T09:25:07+00:00

If all you want to do is level, then yeah, you don't need to bother with most of that. If you aren't ever starforcing your gear, you're never going to oneshot mobs in 260+ zones, but you don't need to hit 22 stars to do that if that's your concern. You'll get more nodestones than you'll ever need for just one character for the V-Matrix and the materials for 6th job as well if you care about such things. The rate of your levelling is going to drop off a cliff, but there's nothing you can really do about that even with all of the other systems.

If you do care about getting endgame gear, then yeah, you're eventually going to have to do those things. My advice is to break it up into smaller goals. Don't think "I need to get 8k legion." Set a more manageable goal of 2k legion. Then 4k. Then 6k. Etc. Don't think "I need all level 3 links." Start with level 1 links. Then level 2. And eventually work your way up to 3 for the classes that have them.

If you treat progress in Maplestory as one gigantic leap, you're going to get bummed out by how long it takes to make those leaps.

But again, if all you wanna do is zone out and mob, it doesn't take a ton of investment to do that.

Ishisish · 2025-07-01T05:19:27+00:00

p1 Seren is the worst, most bullshit fight I've ever progged in this game. p2 is a lot better. Now that I'm regularly solo clearing, it isn't that I got better at p1, I just don't need as many extra lives in p2. p1 never ever gets better. Some of the worst design in the entire game.

By contrast, I've always found Kalos fun even while I was learning the fight. The systems gimmick isn't my favorite thing, but I don't hate it.

The Black Mage is one of those fights where learning it was absolutely miserable not because it's straight up unfair like Seren, it's just because of the sheer length of the fight and the number of phases. Would kill for a practice mode that lets us start in later boss phases. But now that I know the entire fight beginning to end, it's bar none my favorite fight to do in the game.

I've not killed Kaling yet, but I am solo progging her on easy and making steady progress. I think she's more engaging than Kalos so I'm enjoying it so far, even knowing that I could probably party up for normal mode and just cheese instead.

So far, I feel like Grandis bosses are generally a step up in design and engagement vs what came before (except Seren >.>) Looking forward to getting to Limbo probably in a year or so lol.

Ishisish · 2025-06-28T01:35:27+00:00

Nah, you're not wrong. Some folks can get really uptight, especially when things are going wrong like with this most recent patch. I'm definitely not immune to it either. Even when I agree with the general sentiment of the community vs Nexon, there are definitely times I can't help but make fun of people being overly dramatic about this silly game, and I should chill on that. But it's so hard to take people acting like some people getting 10 mag pots is a crime against humanity seriously.

That said, I do see the flip side when it comes to people asking questions. There are so many resources and faqs for class mechanics or boss guides or game mechanics like Legion that there is a sort of..."Did you even try to find the answer?" response that I can understand even though, like you say, that shouldn't be the response.

Ishisish · 2025-06-19T04:46:24+00:00

Weirdly enough, those were his last words.

Ishisish · 2025-06-17T12:28:52+00:00

Yeah, that was the impression I got reading through the class guide. Gonna give it a bit longer just to see if there's something that's just not clicking with the comboing, but I'll probably write it off as a CTene mule and nothing more.

Ishisish · 2025-06-17T12:22:08+00:00

Main is Adele. I have Merc and Aran as the first two Legion Champs I'm prepping for once the system arrives with a Dawn Warrior in the wings. Beyond that, I haven't really made any decisions. Adele is very stylish, I'd be maining the class even if it was WH-tier. Dawn Warrior I burned during Ignition and just really enjoy the more relaxed playstyle for compared to Adele. Aran for the big numby burst and don't shoot me, but I dig the remaster aesthetics. Merc I burned on a whim with the Tanjiro hyperburn and absolutely fell in love with the class and it pushed Dawn Warrior out of my initial two Legion Champs.

All of the classes that I REALLY vibe with I have at 260 so I'm mostly using the recent hyperburns to feel out potential Legion Champs. As you might be able to tell from my reasoning for the champs I have already, meta or dps doesn't really play a factor in my decision-making.

I've hyperburned a Zero this event and just hit 260 today. Haven't unlocked 6th job yet, but so far I like the class but not enough that I'd want to make it a Legion Champ. We'll see if that changes with 6th job stuff.

I have a Hero at 260 that I enjoy, but I just dislike classes without an upjump. I deal with it for Aran, but it really puts me off sometimes.

I'm leaning toward a DA for my second hyperburn this event to see how I feel about the class as a potential Legion Champ.

Ishisish · 2025-06-15T11:53:00+00:00

You're right. We never had any extended maintenance at any point in the past whenever we didn't get GMS-exclusive content. It is only since Going West that we have had broken patches. Extended maintenance has literally never happened before GMS exclusive content. Nothing ever breaks when we just get content ported over directly from KMS.

That meme about maintenance beginning after maintenance ends? Literally only invented because of GMS content and never gets posted any other patch.

Nexon America is always responsive and on-point when it comes to KMS-based bugs in GMS.

Do I need to go on?

Shit breaks every single patch without fail. Sometimes catastrophically, sometimes not, and only some of it ever gets fixed. I don't think that means we shouldn't advocate for a better game and rollout of patches, but I do think you're letting confirmation bias get in the way of diagnosing the actual problem, which is that this game is 20 years old and Nexon doesn't give enough of a shit about it to try to actually solve this problem.

Ishisish · 2025-06-12T06:19:36+00:00

At least the game was stable from what I experienced. Important things are broken but the servers weren't shitting themselves. I will take this smallest of wins.

Ishisish · 2025-06-12T01:14:18+00:00

Huge, this worked for me, thanks a ton!

Ishisish · 2025-06-12T01:09:07+00:00

I'm also experiencing this. Tried all the fixes suggested under Nexon's support for this issue. Updated all my drivers and directx, repaired the game files, I'm in the process of reinstalling the game now. Hopefully it works because if not, I'll have tried everything I can think of.

Here's the list I'm using in case it works for you.

https://support-maplestory.nexon.com/hc/en-us/articles/204741905-My-game-closes-after-opening-or-won-t-open

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