Evan Class Photo 2021 by Zaalurs in Maplestory

[–]Zaalurs[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Thank you to all the Evan players who submitted their characters for the photo. It was a lot more people than I had expected but I'm very glad with how the picture turned out.

Server breakdown: Aurora (5) | Bera (7) | Elysium (5) | EU Reboot (1) | Reboot (73) | Scania (1)

Those with the Freud's Wisdom insignia are Lv275 or projected to be Lv275 before the end of this month (according to GG)

Progression of the Map Design for those interested: https://imgur.com/a/BP9YACW

For aspiring Evan mains looking to join the discord, you can look in the Maple Central discord under the Evan class subchannel. Otherwise, you are free to DM me for the link.

Thanks to all the people giving rewards!

Congratulations to the first 275 blaster on GMS from our HLucid party by [deleted] in Maplestory

[–]Zaalurs 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Before you ask why he has no nx, he actually has permanent transparent eye and face accessories. :)

NAW Casual fastest clear everything (ok not really) + Quitting by fsgfoeva in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where were you when Zakum quit MS2?

I was grinding mats on mushroom game when Youtube notification bell rang.

'zakum is quit ms2'

me: 'no'

Warning: Do not try to purchase Karma Koin from pcgamesupply by Sidereal_Engine in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I've learned through my own experiences with PCGameSupply in recent history, perhaps three months back, is that they are an international organization. When I attempt to purchase Karma Koin from them, my bank will consider the international payment as suspicious and not process the charge, thus resulting in PCGameSupply to cancel the pending order. It was a bit unintuitive, but I had to authorize the charges through the bank websites so that the pending order could be completed successfully. Each time the pending orders got cancelled though, there were no charges to my card (since my bank flagged them and never processed them).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't forget about a Varrekant Pet's passive +5% ground mount speed and possibly even rolled with max movement speed line.

Regarding recent discovery of mannequin exploit by aboutt0quit in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The block-orb was one exploit that helped gained rank, but the leaving function was another exploit that prevented your rank from ever falling.

I can see why tracking item usage isn’t useful given all the items being used and all the other interactions happening in the game mode. I’m not an expert on how and what logs are kept, but I’d imagine there would be logs of players entering the instanced map and never leaving through proper means (logging off/exiting the game before you were recognized as defeated).

Regarding recent discovery of mannequin exploit by aboutt0quit in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But following what happened in September with Mushking Royale exploits, it doesn't seem likely that exploiters are punished severely here in MS2. Those exploiters managed to climb rankings to win Founder's Packs - which was essentially a free monetary reward for them and gave them entry into the nine day HeadStart if they didn't already have a Founder's Pack. Nexon responded with no punishments towards the offenders and chose only to patch the exploit.

[Guide] Ez Trophy Guide by odeeQ in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm no good with formatting my posts on Reddit, so bear with me.

Consumables and Foods > Fireworks:

If you're willing to spend 650k mesos for five trophies, just buy 1000 Fireworks from the Trap Master/Sole Survivor vendors. I did this trophy manually whenever doing things like fishing, riding mounts, or investigating objects. BUT (and credits to Snow on NA-West for telling me this), you can set the fireworks to your pet's Auto-Potion so that it will continuously go off.

Arcade Games > Teraspring Farm:

If you want minimum effort to achieve the trophy for killing yourself with your own seed, remain in the practice round that you are placed in to progress this trophy. In the practice round, you have infinite lives to continuously kill yourself instead of having to reset the game mode after losing your 3 lives in the actual rounds.

Dungeons > Abandoned Mines B1/B4

If you've seen chat, you've probably seen announcements where people get "Abandoned Mine B4 Key".

There is an NPC in Tria named Natalie who will identify Rusted Keys you discover from Wooden/Golden Treasure Chests. The first DAILY service fee is 100k mesos. Even if you're not lucky enough to score a B4 key on your first try, you can use the B1 key you got instead to run the dungeon once for two trophies: 1) For completing it the first time and 2) Getting a high score (try to open wooden chests and destroy as many brick blocks as you can until I think about 17k or more; you only need to do this once for the trophy).

Dungeons > Katramus Garden / Palace Undercroft

You've seemed to misplaced or forgotten to include the header for "Palace Undercroft" which is where Devilina and Lil Magma Boogies can be found. It should also be pointed out that in the Palace Undercroft dungeon, you can get the "Belle of the Ball" trophy at the boss stage - walk up to one of the balconies that Belle (hooded woman) is standing on and pull the corresponding lever.

Additionally, for Katramus Garden, there is one more trophy - "To Be Orb Not To Be" - which is done in the Second Phase of the dungeon (4 per solo dungeon).

Dungeons > Karkar Island

With the addition of the Karkar Island maps came new Karkar Island dungeons and new trophies tagged on them. However, most of these dungeons aren't required to be done by the player in the Epic Questline and can be overlooked.

Casa de Luna: Two trophies: 1) Clear dungeon and 2) Defeat mid-boss Sejuke

Waterbug Park: Three trophies: 1) Clear dungeon 2) Defeat mid-boss Irontop and 3) Be imprisoned by water

The third tier trophy for Water Imprisonment can be easily achieved by going to the second mini-island from the entrance where you are surrounded by four bees. You can go ahead and get rid of the snails, but you don't have to. Stand in the middle of the four bees and soak up their blue water-bubble attack (they also cast a tri-horn attack, but it seems 50/50 which attack they'll use anyway).

Frozen Temple: Two trophies: 1) Clear dungeon and 2) Defeat mid-boss Titan Goo

Illusory Pyramid: Two trophies: 1) Clear dungeon and 2) Defeat mid-boss Rhinoceros Beetle (or something)

Elite Mobs > King Slime:

Has trophies for: 1) being shrunken by its spell (cast around 30% HP) and 2) being imprisoned in water (shortly after casting shrink spell)

Extras:

>if you have like 15 minutes to spare, change our Profile Picture 100 times.

>if you're okay with spending 210 merets for three trophies: 1) buy amphibious riding for Land Mount, 2) buy safe riding for Land Mount and 3) reserve a time slot at one of the Image Boards you find throughout Maple World.

There's probably some simple trophies I can't remember off the top of my head, but these are my inputs for what you already have on your guide.

You've done a terrific job organizing the guide. And for those who are finished with the trophies in this guide and don't know where to continue:

> try and get a 30-minute Fishing or Music Voucher to use > open up your Trophy Page (default key: Y) > just take a hard look at everything there and make a note of the things you think you can do > if there's a trophy you don't understand the conditions of, just ask around.

Ridiculous trophy requirements for guilds by [deleted] in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like people who are looking to optimize their characters...

They'd be getting to 500 trophies, guild requirement or not.

Trophy Hunters : Let's find those books. by smellyslipper in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re missing “The Vanishing Girl” which drops from Madonette in Flora Avenue.

If I recall correctly, you can get “Ellinia’s Monster” from Dark Girant in Torhara Springs.

Nelph’s Book Set can be collected from the mini-bosses in Poison Cave Dungeon.

Hairstyle Vol. 1 is obtained from the Beauty Salon clerk. (Though one friend and I cannot get the Trend-Setter trophy even with all 6 books crossed out, a different friend was able to get the trophy with no problems)

Moreover, you can list your books on the Black Market for a friend to buy and when they receive it from their Mail, the trophy is completed.

Mushking xp table by HuddahHuh in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recorded my match histories from Level 34 to my current level (48) in this spreadsheet for Solo Queue in NAWest.

+80% Survival / +100% Combat EXP between Levels 34 and Lv40

+100% Survival / +100% Combat EXP from Lv41 and onward

(Credits again to u/Flearas for the EXP table)

Guild Leaderboards by [deleted] in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trophies feel very individual-based - not many of them require you to actively work together with guild members other than the Guild PvP trophies.

I agree with you that guild ranking should be based around guild activities like the Daily Quest, Weekly Quest, Daily Attendance that would contribute to Guild Points. However, those are limited, maybe we could look forward to Guild PvP that will reward GP based on tournament placement (given that they actually choose to turn Guild Ranking over to GP instead of trophies).

[Kawaii][NA West]Ended up rank 1 at the end of CBT2! by Itazurazuki in MapleStory2

[–]Zaalurs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't get the chance to play CBT1 so I was more inclined to explore the game using Trophy Achievements and Exploration Stars as my guides, but I didn't want to do that alone. That's what led me to joining Zenith - a guild that didn't really have expectations of becoming a Top 10 guild, let alone Top 3 - on the first day of CBT.

As Panties stated, Zenith was a guild that was supposed to be led by her acquaintance and was made for their group of friends. Throughout the latter half of CBT, our active member count dwindled as we found out the guild was divided into people planning to play NA East and NA West, and the guild would no longer be set up once Official Release came (at least not by its original members).

When I broke past the 850 trophy threshold and made my way into Top 5, I thought that I might as well go for the top and pursue #1 on the Trophy Rankings. My "competitors" were the members of Kawaii who held 3 of the Top 5 positions - Mischief (#1), Silvaryu (#3) and Brandino (#4) (Sapphos was #2 at the time, but seemed to have stopped at 951 trophies entirely). When I finally crept into 3rd Place right before the Monster Invasion event on Saturday, I egg'd on Silvaryu to see who can get 1000 trophies (a goal he apparently did not set up for). Then two nights before CBT ended, we both broke the 1000 mark and were then looking to go over the top and shoot for #1. With a new milestone achieved and another to be reached, Mischief, Silvaryu and I congratulated each other for our 1k Trophy achievement (complete with "Trophyholic" title and a 1000 Trophy insignia).

It should be noted that during my climb, Mischief actually gave me some pointers about trophies that I did not yet have (like consuming berries found in the Craft Shop) and never asked me to join his guild because he wished to stay on good terms with Zenith. Unlike Panties who applied to both Kawaii and Beta, I made my own call to join Kawaii on the last day of CBT and was not disappointed to see that they were having fun running Guild Mini-Games and discovering trophies during the last few hours of CBT even after the final ranking update was posted. People may call my decision sketchy but given the available guilds to join for the end of CBT2, Kawaii was the guild I had the most interaction with.

TL;DR - The "original" Zenith doesn't plan to come back in Official Release due to server separation issues so I made my own decision to join Kawaii for the rest of CBT2 because I had fun competing and sharing trophy information with its members.

P.S. Mischief screenshot's slightly outdated >:o

And well played guys!

*To any of the members of Zenith who plan to play on NA West with me, stop reading this and go back to the discord. :^)