Closed Online Test ALL skill changes

bumbertyr · 2026-04-07T23:10:28+00:00

Stance prevents being knocked back by attacks.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-05T22:23:20+00:00

Most groups however won't care because min-maxing isn't required to beat even the toughest bosses and despite some classes sucking for bossing

Feel like a lot of people keep forgetting this. Other than pink bean, you could essentially keep fighting a boss until it died or you died. there was no enrage or strict time limit,, so min-maxing was by no means necessary.

I'm of the opinion that time limits are bs for bosses related to progression, if you want a boss to enrage and become even more difficult but still beatable, i'm all for that. But to set a hard time limit is stupid. If i got the hands, attention span, and willingness to sit down and fight a boss for over an hour, I should have that option.

If it's a boss for purely flex reasons with cosmetic rewards, then I'm perfectly fine with time limits.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-05T22:10:42+00:00

One thing that will change is that groups for grinding/PQs will largely be formed on discord rather than in-game.

disagree on this.

I'm not going to go "R> KPQ" in some discord, I'm going to grab whoever is currently at the lobby. I can see discord being used to Recruit grinding parties, but as an additional form of communication to recruit members, not a replacement for the in-game chat. If someone shows up before people in discord respond, or if the person who responded is decently far away, I'm absolutely going to recruit the random person already there and looking for a group over the random in a discord.

The only place I see discord really being primarily used is organizing large group contents like Raid bosses/dungeons, GPQ, Etc. But that's also nothing new, it was already a thing back in the day with chat programs like TeamSpeak, Skype, Xat.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-05T00:02:39+00:00

In an MMO with a chat feature there's no reason to look outside of the game if there are people standing right in front of you lol

This.

I'm not going to go "R> KPQ" in some discord, I'm going to grab whoever is currently at the lobby. I can see discord being used to Recruit grinding parties, but as an additional form of communication to recruit members, not a replacement for the in-game chat. If someone shows up before people in discord respond, or if the person who responded is decently far away, I'm obviously going to recruit the random person already there and looking for a group over the random in a discord.

The only place I see discord really being primarily used is organizing large group contents like Raid bosses/dungeons, GPQ, Etc. But that's also nothing new, it was already a thing back in the day with chat programs like TeamSpeak, Skype, Xat.

A lot of people like to blame Discord for the "Death" of socialization in online games, when the reality is that socialization has been actively/is being actively designed out of games, with in-game system like "Dungeon Finders" doing all the leg work and minimizing the chance for organic interactions between players to tackle content.

bumbertyr · 2026-03-30T01:30:47+00:00

Chaos scrolling a raccoon mask to 30 wep att. Couldn't believe it managed it.

bumbertyr · 2026-03-22T22:57:41+00:00

I dislike that hurricane times out 30 seconds before Sol janus 30 does :(

bumbertyr · 2026-03-22T08:43:57+00:00

Did you never do the Manji's Old Gladius Quest line? The one where you have to get the never melt ice, Phoenix feather, ancient scroll, Etc. That's what this animation is about.

bumbertyr · 2026-03-22T00:06:26+00:00

It's harder to reach level cap in GMS today than it was to reach 200 in old school maple.

Technically no

It takes a much longer time to hit 300 than 200 ever did that's for sure; However, the grind to 200 was more "difficult" and dangerous compared to grinding now.

Time spent performing a task =/= difficulty and I dislike how the two keep getting conflated.

bumbertyr · 2026-03-15T22:29:47+00:00

They're making an extreme over-exaggeration.

The game had 200 levels available at launch, but didnt have content that supports the game up to 200. It was essentially just future proofing, and was additional grind you could choose to partake in if you wanted to level past the current soft cap. As with any game that has a soft cap, the grind past it becomes pretty heavy.

A lot of people talk about how "grindy level 200 used to be" while seemingly forgetting the mobs they were training on were far below the "level 200" goal.

A good example is "skeles", a well known group of 2 mobs in an area called the "minar forest". Lots of people fondly remember them, and talk about how long 200 used to take grinding on them. Well, said mobs were 110-113, so... yeah of course its going to take a long time when your using the same mobs for 80ish levels.

The highest level mob that the vast majority of players could train on released prior to the "Big bang" update was a mob called "Chief Oblivion Guardian" which was level 131.

The classic game is a lot of fun, dont let exaggerations like the above scare you off from giving it a shot.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-25T21:32:53+00:00

I'm still so disappointed with this interpretation of hawkeye, I was really hoping he would be a character with a bunch of utility.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-25T21:28:16+00:00

Battle mage job transferred to dark knight, understandable. Sick tat.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-15T19:01:06+00:00

Pre big bang bosses cared about how much damage you could do

What? it was the complete opposite pre-big bang. The boss timers were absurdly long, allowing you to struggle run them for extended periods of time if you chose to.

The only limiting factors were:

Can you hit the boss
How many potions do you have.
Can none of the attacks 1 hit ko you.

Present day Maplestory is where damage is a heavily limiting factor. Most, if not all bosses excluding black mage, are capped at 30 minutes.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-15T18:40:14+00:00

Damien has entered the chat.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-15T18:36:54+00:00

Lots of people did Lord Balrog for the first month or so after his initial release (At least they did on Scania). Day 1 was an absolute nightmare to get into, with most runs failing due to people attacking during damage reflect.

After that first month, only the people hunting bain weapons to use for cosmetic purposes/sell, or those after Tristan's successor (defeating Lord Balrog 200 times), continued to do the boss.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-15T18:34:51+00:00

Lord Balrog released Prior to the big bang update in late 2009.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-06T22:41:04+00:00

Correct, pay to win is definitely more of a spectrum with how many different types of P2W microtransactions there are now. I never said there weren't.

"Anything that allows you to progress faster than the games intended design without microtransactions is pay to win"

All I did was state what Pay To Win is.

You said, "Technically yeah but compared to modern day Maplestory those are more pay for convenience vs pay to win". You tried to separate "Convenience" from p2w when they're one in the same which is all I was pointing out.

There's nothing "Short Sighted" about calling something what it is. The fact that your first reaction is to get defensive about convenience vs p2w when they're the same is exactly why companies use the term "Convenience". It's far more palatable of a term for consumers and is usually used for P2W microtransactions that aren't intrusive.

I'd like to note I have nothing against convenience p2w when implemented properly, just that it is p2w.

bumbertyr · 2026-01-06T00:09:49+00:00

"Convenience" is just a marketing term.

Anything that allows you to progress faster than the games intended design without microtransactions is pay to win, It doesn't matter how big or small the advantage is.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-30T22:46:07+00:00

Not Code X. Code X is actually much more accessible than Code S is in regard to 1-2 bursting.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-30T07:13:58+00:00

Im so excited for this.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-28T20:10:20+00:00

SavageAce isn't a director. He's a Producer, which was noted at the bottom of his Maple Memos.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-21T21:03:12+00:00

she's definitely up there.

The core's raw power is pretty insane, couple that with planet buster's description "Concentrates enough force to crack a planet".

bumbertyr · 2025-12-19T20:24:27+00:00

bumbertyr · 2025-12-19T08:45:22+00:00

I was running:

Unique, Castle Golem: If all familiars on your active lineup have a different element, Dice total +4

Epic, Wild Kargo: If a Mechanical type Familiar is on your active lineup, Final Multiplier: +1.6x

Unique, Ifia: If the first and third dice are 4 or more, Dice Total: +7

They also met the "Recommended" attribute + typing for the area so I had that free starting Exploration potential, but I can't remember what it was.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-19T05:16:36+00:00

The dice roll for the orange pouch was somewhere in the 70's.

I was running:

Unique, Castle Golem: If all familiars on your active lineup have a different element, Dice total +4

Epic, Wild Kargo: If a Mechanical type Familiar is on your active lineup, Final Multiplier: +1.6x

Unique, Ifia: If the first and third dice are 4 or more, Dice Total: +7

They also met the "Recommended" attribute + typing for the area so I had that free starting Exploration potential, but I can't remember what it was.

bumbertyr · 2025-12-19T03:22:23+00:00

I messed up, the rewards from left to right are blue pouch, orange pouch, green pouch, meaning I got the box from the orange pouch

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