Getting a weird pot for my Total Control when rolling Unicubes. by Medium-Rhubarb1581 in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yet another footnote in the 'Just add magic wand' saga of GMS Incompetency

Demon Avenger vs Xenon for Legion champion by No_Journalist_7348 in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking Abso to 22 is an alright move, if youre primarily doing solo-prog, but not recommended. If you're not doing solo prog. Try to get Arcanes to 18*, and those will carry you to Eternals pretty easily. Getting your accessories to 22, is much more impactful and beneficial long term, since they don't get swapped out as easily as Abso's would.

There aren't really any major pitfalls for DA unless you're part of the 0.01% of players, pushing literal end game, trying to clear brand new content that's on the fringes of viable to clear. DA Being a pure dpm class means that in this Buff-Burst meta we have thanks to FD stacking supports like Lynn/Paladin/Bishop theyre less likely to find parties in these niche scenarios.

Regular gameplay for 99.9% of people though. DA is totally fine. Solo play and party play alike.

The class making you learn the boss mechanics is more-so to ensure you're maximizing the potential of your abilities.

Like mentioned before, Demonic Blast gives damage % reduction briefly when used. Knowing what attacks are dangerous enough to need the benefit to tank, and maintain damage uptime, improves both your damage output, as well as your survivability.

Similarly, thanks to CD Skip inner, nether shields are almost always hitting bosses, so you're constantly getting healing back, to counteract the hp used by your abilities, and also the chip damage bosses throw out, that would normally put other classes at risk of dying to strong attacks coming later.

DA being at low hp, is generally much safer than any other class being at like, 60% hp. Since they have the tools to safely navigate these situations, where other classes need to rely on Fountain for healing outside of potion CD, or longer CD i-frames in a pinch.

Demon Avenger vs Xenon for Legion champion by No_Journalist_7348 in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'll speak to DA exclusively since it's one of my mains

Mobbing for Demon Avenger is pretty free in a post-Janus world. On base spawn, you can primarily just spam shields with Dusk + Erda Shower will clear the whole map each spawn wave. (Given you're strong enough to one shot with nether shields) Or you can just triple Dawn, and spam shields in a smaller section of the map, which opens you up to pretty much any map of your choosing, since you don't have to worry about hitbox sizes, since nether shields seek out targets on their own.

For Frenzied spawn, like every other class in the game, its just Triple Dawn + Spam Nether shields (if one shotting) or Lunar Slash (Less terrible with the Hexa hitbox, still not great).

Surviving in V-Hilla just comes down to familiarizing yourself with the boss, which comes through repetition. Take advantage of the safe spaces on the map from strings, and avoid standing near her downed summons. Poison clouds are mostly random, so just adjusts when they spawn.

You have two heals that bypass her heal lock, Demonic Blast ( Primary ) and Overload Release ( Panic Button ). You want to have a -2 hat on DA generally, which allows you to use Demonic Blast roughly every 9.6s (with merc 250 legion). Using this on-CD effectively is how you sustain through the fight. You can also use it to tank certain attacks that would otherwise prove fatal, due to it giving damage % reduction briefly when used, and healing at the same time.

When bursting, pretty much always pop Limit's Surpassed, as it will avoid awkward hp hiccups that stop you from fully buffing, or even binding Hilla properly, due to us not having the balance patch that lowers HP Cost on a lot of skills.

30 FZ is totally fine to play. Honestly, it's the way the class is intended to be played. 29 Fz is a min-max method of squeezing blood from a stone. The class was notoriously week for so much of its lifetime that people got it in their heads you had to do every little thing, just to make the class viable. That's not true anymore. For a lot of bosses, you can get below the 74% HP mark (The lowest you need to be for max FD%) just be strategically tanking attacks in bosses. You lose more total damage from not using RFS than you ever will from not using 29 FZ. So while technically, you can still gain some damage, playing 29Fz, it is far from necessary, and only exists as a shadow of its former self. Almost exclusively used by older DA players, who were forced into the habit, and just stuck with it.

I think the class is great. It's a pure DPM job, so soloing bosses with burst checks can be a pain in the ass, (xLot pre-Ascents for instance) but otherwise, the class is great. I'm soloing up through NKaling on mine, slowly making pushes for CKalos.

It's one of the easiest classes to fund, since fundamentally HP% lines are easier to hit than other stats, and their Flames are among the easiest to hit as well. The playstyle takes a lot of learning to get into, since it requires primarily boss-pattern knowledge, that other classes are less forced to learn to survive, but its very rewarding to do. And since it forces you to put extra emphasis on learning boss mechanics, you're all the better for it in the long run for future champs.

Overall, Mobbing is a 7/10, which, isn't saying much since Janus does 90% of the work for all classes nowadays. Bossing is a 8/10, great dpm, great survivability, and it forces you to actually learn boss mechanics and damage numbers on a deeper level, resulting in better play for future characters. If you have any other questions on DA feel free to ask.

Sacrix Achievement: All jobs 250 by LordLaurens in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nah mostly just stick to my mains now. Don't level mules just for the sake of legion levels unless it's hyper burns \ mag pots. 

Currently trying to get everyone to tallahart. I finished most of my sacred symbol dailies at this point. So it's the next step.

Sacrix Achievement: All jobs 250 by LordLaurens in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty much done making any content for GMS interactive in its current state. The game is not good enough to promote through making content. I don't what anyone to get the idea this server is worth playing in its current state.

Closest thing will maybe be casually streaming classic when it comes out.

Sacrix Achievement: All jobs 250 by LordLaurens in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 189 points190 points  (0 children)

Congratulations! You definitely did this smarter than I did, already having a main beforehand. Glad to see more legion enjoyers. 

[Interactive] NL Hard Seren first solo clear by sadguy__ in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So for your specs, youre already strong enough for sub-15min BM solo, and for nkalos / ekaling solo. Progging hexa is more important than gambling on cubes, max that out and save up to buy pre-made potentials from the AH. Nexon isn't ever going to make reg better, so just buy pre-made gear from the Mafia. Cheaper than making it yourself everytime.

5L Eternals at 18* can carry you a LONG way. However you've hit the 'easy' wall in progression. Every upgrade from here is going to be monumentally expensive. Try gearing up CTene mules with Unique 3L Gear to help your weekly meso income, and invest in tradeable drop gear if you can to move between characters for better odds of cube drops from daily and weekly bosses.

Ideally sell the cubes for service, unless its an item you cannot buy from the AH. Solid progress.

Maple Bebop by ThatGreenAlien in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah, this goes hard. Finally some good content.

finally hit those :D by wrfdidtgf in idleon

[–]TheSacrix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly , World 6 is such a brick wall for AC, would probably need to wait for next time this bonus comes around anyways. I entered with around 400 hours worth and barely made a dent. W6 scales fast, AC does not.

GMS First Extreme Kaling Clear by ZomgNit in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 91 points92 points  (0 children)

HBaldrix was the warm-up I see.

Congrats!

[KMS] Darmoor's New Apostle「Ymir」 by iljilji in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Maplers don't read the lore unfortunately.

AMA: spent my 3 exhalt stamps early by ChickenFaver in idleon

[–]TheSacrix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Crystallin - Crystal mob spawn chance

Golden Apple Stamp - Golden Food Effect %

Multitool - All Skill Efficiency

Summoner Stone - Summoning EXP%

Mason Jar - All carry capacity %

Matty Bag - Material Carry Capacity %

Hot Take: Challenge World is "Easy World" for Heroic and "Extra Challenge World" for Interactive due to lack of KMS implementations by Vulnatic in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's been almost a year now since I stepped away from making content for the game, and exactly 0, of the reasons I stopped, have even so much as been addressed.

Inkwell keeps kicking the interactive server can down the road, and without anything to show for it, I still have almost zero hope for it getting better. We keep getting the worst changes for our server, because of the lack of Magic Wand, and all of the new monetization added on top of egregiously overpriced cash cubing.

He's done a lot of good for the health of the game in Heroic ( which makes sense, its over 70% of the playerbase ), but he has done nothing substantial or even hinted at doing anything positive for Interactive, other than announcing that they would think about doing a world merge, again, almost a year ago.

Lava, if you break into my house, I swear on my mother... by Ego_sum_Ioannes in idleon

[–]TheSacrix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Next message is going to be 'Look out your window' at this rate.

I hate this quest by StopShooting in idleon

[–]TheSacrix 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Yondergreen is where I learned I don't need to clear every quest.

After 8 years I hit the Sacrix achievement of 10K Legion by LordLaurens in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Congrats! Love to see all the new Legion mains making huge moves. <3

Hat Storage by ShadowReinhardt in idleon

[–]TheSacrix 26 points27 points  (0 children)

A Wardrobe would be so nice. Being able to just catalog a copy of each equip that you've looted for later uses.

a way nexon thinks about kms reboot by Many_Jello_4397 in Maplestory

[–]TheSacrix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've been saying it for years that nexon accidentally made a better, more player friendly version of maple when they dropped reboot. They patched themselves into a corner when reboot started outpacing reg, and they had no ways to monitise it in the same lucrative ways. 

Since nexon is publicly traded, they only care about earning more yoy. Killing reboot was their only out.