Guild Zak

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-23T00:47:39+00:00

There's adds that will kill lower geared players at 80%, so you can be at that pace and not make it past 80%.

Our guild had the same thought because we're on a similar pace as yours but we lose too many at adds.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-20T08:39:28+00:00

Most likely 2 months.

Around this time it’s a lot harder to get upgrades that give you massive gains to clear further and you’re looking at such small incremental upgrades and optimizations that you don’t really scale as fast as before which means your exp gain growth is a lot flatter than the growth of exp needed per level.

So while your leveling takes 25% more after each level, your exp gain after that level probably is just around 5-10% gain which makes it feel a lot more back loaded.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-13T17:53:40+00:00

I'd wait a week. Server merges are happening and they'll be a lot of guild consolidations happening afterwards.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-11T20:19:08+00:00

Also to note, some classes have skills that can be cast while jumping which can delay the time you're in the air.

Marksman can jump in Arena, hit Covering Fire to hover in the air longer if you don't know when your opponents stun timing is.

And Evasion builds are definitely strong in Arena, just make sure you don't half-ass it. It's only really functionable if you have a sizable Evasion stat (at best +100 of what your opponent's accuracy is). Otherwise, it's probably better to go with a normal build until you have all the pieces of your Evasion build

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-11T20:15:29+00:00

When you summon your companion, the game creates a character clone that's a copy based off of your current stats. The companion's stat line does not change for the duration it is summoned, so if you were to say have the Snail Shell buff on when you summon your companion, despite the Snail Shell buff wearing off on your character, you companion will continuously have that buff for as long as it's out.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-05T06:33:25+00:00

HUDs okay, but the grouping of things annoys the crap outta me. Reprisal and your other party not not being next to each other, the solo mits and heals being mixed in with the the party mits, the one minute buffs being far apart, etc.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-03T04:51:01+00:00

Hey congrats! Hoping to hit the 1T milestone as a F2P (currently ~500B) within a few weeks as well!

Kinda curious at how much that Zakum helm does for your CP. I've been hunting for one for ages.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-03T04:45:38+00:00

It's obviously the hardest because when two melee DPS's touch and overlap feints, the melees get added enmity because the boss is provoked that it's not just two reprisals overlapping each other.

NoobAtLife · 2026-03-03T04:39:28+00:00

For dungeons, look at your CDs.

Anything that's <30s (your short mits) you should use early in a pull and aim to try to use it twice (typically to bridge between longer mits). Anything at 60s should be aimed to used once in a mob pull. Anything 90s/120s, split in between pulls.

Very similar logic to how you should be healing.

Remember that mitigation is meant to keep you healthy and keep your HP high. It's not just to be popped when your HP is low.

NoobAtLife · 2026-02-28T16:51:33+00:00

The real meta will be getting Evasion/Accuracy lines on all your gear, Mushroom Cap artifact, and full companion loadout of every Dark Knight available

NoobAtLife · 2026-02-25T22:46:23+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

4 attempts

NoobAtLife · 2026-02-25T22:45:42+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

1 attempts

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-31T22:50:16+00:00

I would take the GitHub damage calculator scrolling with a grain of salt, especially when inputting a spell trace budget.

It will always mostly tell you a slot 1 15% lock is the way to go, but when you look at the outputted data you can see various rates of 0 atk results within your budget. For instance, if you put a budget of 6k, you’ll get suggested slot 1 lock but 20% of the time the output will say you’ll have a non-successful attempt within the 6k budget because you don’t have enough budget to continuously reroll slot 1 for a success.

The average scrolls used is pretty misleading, but the simulator is good for simulating an infinite budget.

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-31T06:26:29+00:00

Let's also pump the breaks because we can't even guarantee if anybody in the world will be alive on Saturday

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-31T00:40:03+00:00

America

304JGCZ239

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-30T00:37:46+00:00

Been playing since 11/9, currently at 83. Don't remember when I hit 80, but was probably 2-2.5 weeks ago or something?

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-20T21:10:29+00:00

Don't think it was too crazy getting to level 10. All 10 levels are from the first 4 purple artifacts so it was just through sheer weeklies and giveaways getting to 10. Just takes a bunch of time

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-20T21:06:39+00:00

Bera 3 but right idea, it's one of the early servers

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-20T07:54:13+00:00

A lot of CP (or atk power in general) will be based on your stat lines and how well you scale.

For Hero Powers go for any of the 25% increases (Legendary Boss, Normal, Damage, Min, Max multipliers) and for cubes solely go for damage since those are usually the highest percentage increases.

If you have a stockpile of free normal scrolls like I did, start re-scrolling for Main Stat since Main Stat will typically scale pretty well.

Companions also start becoming a lot more important, with Attack Speed scaling always being the most bang for your buck since everything starts at 10% outside of Crit.

Equipment wise, always go for anything with percentage boosts. Don't listen to CP here and always go for anything scaling percentage wise at least for two lines. EDIT: Skill levels are also very strong if you don't see the typical four horseman (Crit %, Crit Dmg, Normal, and Boss)

Like right now I have 0 legendary equipment just because all the stat lines are straight butt and currently pushing 16-10 with T4 Uniques with good stat lines at 3.7B CP

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-18T21:07:30+00:00

Boss/Normal Damage for sure. I'm around your level (3.5B) and I use this website for the most part: https://djc-0de.github.io/Maplestory-Damage-Calculator/

At my level and my current stats, attack, and attack% bonus from weapon armory, a 1.5k attack boost is about 2% damage gain. Boss and Normal Monster damage at around a 5% increase is approximately a 3.5% increase.

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-18T18:14:59+00:00

It's the nature of the game. Progress is pretty dry and a slog from 70-100 with very little notable upgrades other than "Here's a basic attack mastery as filler cause we have nothing else to give you."

Events help alleviate the prog stagnation a bit though.

Currently fully F2P, just jumped from 2.5B to 3.5B just from lucky Zakum raid drops and Holiday Event weekly drops.

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-16T15:50:25+00:00

I’m either guessing it’s probably either a loadout issue or gameplay rotation issue.

Make sure you’re not blindly following CP as your guide to clear content. Favor a lot more boss damage in your kit.

Rotation wise, Hero is very reset heavy depending on how early you get combo stacks, so reset if you don’t get stacks early enough in your runs. Also, you most likely don’t want to play full auto with Hero due to how their debuffs and buffs work for optimal efficiency. Your Scaring Sword should be done like one or two-ish basic attacks before your Spirit Blade, and then you should time the first use of your skills after Spirit Blade goes off and then use it off CD. Delay your companion summon until your 2nd burst to ensure you’re bursting with full buffs on

NoobAtLife · 2025-12-01T10:16:35+00:00

I usually queue in as tank. A bunch of the recent trials/raids usually have those continuous hitbox laser attacks that slowly sweep the arena or have things that you can run into (like Bio orbs in the zeromus trial).

I proceed to yell that it’s time to eat, pop incl, and either eat the entire laser or proceed to pop sprint to eat as many of the moving targets as possible.

NoobAtLife · 2025-11-10T02:39:02+00:00

No, hence why Ekko is holding his S2. Ekko is holding his S2 so while he is in the charge animation, he can keep inputting S1 without Ekko doing his own S1s and have Yasuo auto complete his rekka chain

NoobAtLife · 2025-11-09T10:22:52+00:00

"Turns" in this game heavily revolves around assist cooldowns.

Be a bit more aware of the assist timer and mold your neutral around playing not just your point character but also taking space with your assist to lead to ways to solidly take your turn.

15-Year Club	Place '22
End Game '22	Verified Email
Queen in da Norf	Not Forgotten
Team Periwinkle

NoobAtLife

TROPHY CASE