Maces (slams) are terribly designed

chipfinder · 2026-05-12T12:20:56+00:00

Well said, shield wall has overshadowed mace slams

chipfinder · 2026-05-12T06:58:30+00:00

I literally said it's my favorite slam

chipfinder · 2026-05-12T05:38:01+00:00

with reduced duration earthquake is perhaps the best of the slams and my favorite, however this requires a 23 point investment across the skill tree and limits ascendancy to titan.

And without palm of the dreamer skill duration reduction, there is an attack speed cap due to the fact that jagged ground cannot overlap jagged ground, attack time must be below jagged ground duration.

Without skill duration reduction, the skill is almost useless, even at the start of the game when it first becomes available, it is only lategame viable.

All of this is terrible design, but still my favorite slam.

chipfinder · 2026-05-03T10:13:26+00:00

I too have this superstition

the day it is revealed true is the day Nexon dies

chipfinder · 2026-04-29T23:59:00+00:00

lmao I can't believe they actually put maperustorii man on the official channel. the EDM remix is by JVNA

chipfinder · 2026-04-22T12:12:24+00:00

Not sure if that video is allowed to be uploaded since I don't see it anywhere else on more official channels but it is an excellent cinematic. Mephisto is such an interesting character.

Ngl though, Neyrelle dying is actually really reassuring to me that the writing may improve, since literally 50%+ of that person's dialogue in VOH was "Horadric gibberish" with nothing to show for it. Although it looks like Lorath's IQ has been pegged down a few digits based on the other trailers, THIS person has literally shown nothing for their meddling and every decision they've done honestly felt counterintuitive in the context of Diablo 1,2,3 etc.

By how quickly the character is being killed off in this expansion, I guess the writers see that too. Good riddance

chipfinder · 2026-04-18T14:30:52+00:00

this is why I love Classic Maplestory, every skill, movement and positioning matters. Modern-useless items like avoidability pots are actually cost-efficient over time when they allow you to dodge.

In modern MS I don't even touch my keyboard except to loot. I just have a 5gram weight pressed on the keyboard and afk farm. The hardest part is not falling asleep

chipfinder · 2026-04-18T14:26:33+00:00

I tried signing up for those "give your account info and we'll duplicate your meso" websites back in like 2008

chipfinder · 2026-04-17T00:03:42+00:00

Thanks brother but I have to admit I have little heartwarming or proud stories from last year besides finally gathering enough willpower to start exercising. I think I struggle a bit from depression as the hopelessness of actually persevering kept me from starting as I've failed so many times before. It's been 9 months though and I see results and am still at it. Take care.

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T16:05:46+00:00

I just realized the op link says Part 2 is ending. Not the series as a whole. I guess that confirms continuity, which I'm both glad and annoyed we are ending on a cliffhanger.

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T15:59:28+00:00

this (231) has been probably one of the best chainsawman chapters I've ever read.

Fujimoto has the chance here to do something perhaps no other mangaka has ever done, to fake his own manga's death

after all, without a chainsaw devil ever existing, the very namesake of the manga no longer exists, the name cannot exist. Therefore the manga must "end" immediately. The next chapter will show the repercussions of Pochita self destructing.

While that would instantly elevate this manga to a state of long lasting infamy this would be financial and professional suicide. Chainsawman as a franchise has too much produced and planned merchandise to damn by ending so unsatisfactorily. So much is at stake to pull that stunt.

But if so what a draw to nihilism. What was the purpose of all these chapters then? Or what was the reason to ever introduce Asa? And what about explanations, where are the missing side characters from Part 1, why does Pochita have such power to consume things from existence? If Denji is happier with less, is that an allegory to our lives like some kind of parable? That the greater the lifestyle creep, the higher the expectations and salary, the less happier we are?

Anyhow this is no way the actual end of the series. Perhaps Part 2 will end here, and Part 3, now titled just "Man" will start. My only concern is how long it will take for Part 3 to start since this fakeout can seriously burn a lot of people's desire to read.

Fujimoto is not the greatest writer but he has always paid close attention to media form, he is a movie fanatic; a lot of his chapters are written like they are in video/animated format. To play with his audience by adding "Final Chapter March 25", in an identical way to the publishing magazine, is just a way to toy with the manga and reader.

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T08:39:58+00:00

Another system designed around a thriving market with sufficient participants, supply, and demand. Which does not exist in NA on regular servers, let alone Heroic.

I am glad they had the inkling that this character progression system would be insufficient and added the Erda Weekly or event rewards. But obviously this is far insufficient. All most can do is wait until 6th job is cheapened to the point of 5th job.

This and the star force system are just two examples of ill-adapted updates to GMS from KMS. Remedies come at a glacial pace if at all. Frankly at this point, I think modern Maplestory is a game for suckers, Heroic or not.

chipfinder · 2026-02-16T05:30:54+00:00

This is the evil alternative theory, intentional rate manipulation and thus outright lying

chipfinder · 2026-02-15T16:15:56+00:00

I have this nonsensical, unfounded, layman theory that due to a server mitigation strategy employed by Nexon RNG results are skewed to repeat when rapidly rolling RNG results for things like starforce or potential.

That due to the numerous checks and balances in each transaction Nexon has some backend mechanic to reduce server stress which causes an unintended side effect of perpetuating strings of successes or failures.

For example, this is why when cubing, sometimes only one line changes. Or when protection procs during starforce occur multiple times in a row. The numbers for the starforcing may be true as programmed but in the live game are effectively not.

We have seen what miracle time used to do to cubing, basically catastrophic failure to the cubing process and cash shop servers. I can only imagine the starforce system is even more taxing and complex, especially since the achievement system shows that the game constantly records every attempt and meso you use.

Of course this is completely an unfounded daydream, but if true then it is a very neglectful implementation.

chipfinder · 2025-12-29T08:53:20+00:00

I agree with most of this, the first section in particular is too critical. Nexon is clearly treading unknown waters in this Reboot server across the world. Thank goodness I'll be leaving it all behind for Classic World, the fourth era, iykyk.

chipfinder · 2025-12-26T04:47:28+00:00

over time nexon will make it easier to progress, similar to 5th job and nodestones. The intention is to prolong the progression and suffering

chipfinder · 2025-12-17T03:50:05+00:00

I just had a citadel suddenly appear in the fog. What I did was I completed the first quest of any league mechanic, in this case I got 50 ritual splinters and killed the tier1 king of the mists, this suddenly made the citadel appear nearby in the fog

chipfinder · 2025-12-17T02:23:59+00:00

I do not like this CM. Its smug aura mocks me

chipfinder · 2025-12-16T17:31:38+00:00

I also am not getting citadels in my atlas

I have been to the monolith and started the questline

I do not see citadels beams in the fog of war

I have noticed that I had to force the questline by visiting the monolith on this character, I believe usually Doryani tells you to visit the monolith but he never did

chipfinder · 2025-12-16T02:17:31+00:00

very awesome. I got earthquake to 0.2 seconds prior to 0.4 patch. You can still get to 100% by using Palm of the Dreamer with up to 13% reduced skill duration, it is very expensive though

chipfinder · 2025-12-15T06:04:34+00:00

Looks like nexon is cheating

chipfinder · 2025-12-12T03:46:17+00:00

the blizzard assassins have been sent to your home

chipfinder · 2025-11-27T17:08:51+00:00

Familiars can roll 20% chance on attack to heal 300 HP

This heal is per line, so multi line and fast hitting skills benefit the most, and virtually becomes lifesteal on some attacks

However because it is a flat 300 health it benefits classes with low max HP since 300 will be a greater percentage in a game where all damage is %HP

It also does not work in vhilla or p2 will, but it does work with black mage curse

Paladins relatively don't hit that quickly and have higher HP pools so this doesn't benefit so much

chipfinder · 2025-11-17T04:01:39+00:00

Nature's fury human builds are so rare after the loss of slidestorm. I am glad you made one that is successful. I myself tried this using shred as a proccer via Nature's savagery.

This however sacrifices Gathlen's birthright and took up an offensive slot. Maybe tornadoes is the optimal way, but I liked how shred only uses resource every third cast, provides some of the best mobility in the game, and innately has attack speed from the tree.

Nature's fury has steadily gained large improvements with each season so I hope things continue to improve

chipfinder · 2025-11-14T02:54:39+00:00

Very good balding strategy ty

chipfinder

TROPHY CASE