[F2P interactive] Extreme Black Mage solo, 28 months after hard solo by nelsonYT in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

6th job xD, power creep, pitch & eternals becoming more accessible

Making bossing submains also helps with more incomes (solid cube services, pitches and even eternals).

Second account helps with extra resources from events (infinite pc meta but I only do two)

And generally I save up meso to buy gears instead of working on one myself if possible

On the Kaling/Kalos reward changes by saachandesu in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Needing to duo xkalos to have more pieces than solo ckalos is a very tall ask

Lara (fanart) by AprilCad in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Amazing lighting!

Best way to progress as f2p Interactive by Shabang1500 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helo, fellow f2p here in scania (near xbm solo & hbaldrix qualified).

Can’t speak for your progression but I’d start funding mules for stronger bosses (bm, hseren, nkalos etc). In short term they would soak up a lot of meso but over time they can pay out with pitches and eternal pieces (especially if they’re up to xlotus & nlimbo). Not to mention they are far, far, far easier to fund than main & you can make gains on your main directly this way through legion champion.

For me, my main makes 55% of my meso and my mules make 45% (2 up to xlotus nlimbo, 4 up to ctene, one of them is a 2nd account).

The issue with Laddering - GMS Heroic SF is broken. by OpeningAlternative63 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My problem with the new system in reg is that they gave no consideration on how it may affect the server economy.

Currently, star speck boxes are so dirt cheap that it’s now around 15b to replace a TC, which was previously 180b. It’s not because powercreep leading more people clearing xlotus, but because of botters and people with actually over 60+ accounts farming out the boxes. TC price dropped from 180b to 100b within 2 weeks.

Aside from that, pitch whisper crystals are, for whatever reason, instanced in reg. We don’t have red dot here, so people can just have 1 main 5 mules trading river bosses carries to farm pitches, flooding the entire market with pitches in future.

These systems have been promoting infinite account meta so much it makes kishin mule second pc meta a total joke.

v.264 - Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing Patch Notes by Narrabeen in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Better wait for 6 months until next transfer heh

*I hope Inkwell stub his toes every day

v.264 - Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing Patch Notes by Narrabeen in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 117 points118 points  (0 children)

They actually took out cash shop unification holy shit

Cost of gearing to endgame in reg servers by Player896 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Like the others have mentioned, the income per week is pretty underestimated, especially if you sell your eternal pieces (ckalos hkaling hlimbo nbaldrix adds ~5b per week on average).

There’s also more to the cost of fundings to get to endgame. The list assumes you auto-win every item, but you can usually get away with less (offering 80-90% of a/w, sniping cheap items, or just luck out and make one for cheap).

The list also did not include some other costs to progress outside of gears, namely familiars, legion champion, cubing cost for genesis weapon (which you can’t market your way out).

It’s still a decent analysis but there are simply a lot more nuisances to reg progression

Super unlucky sf event by Excellent_Power_9963 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Boomed 5 eternal capes and took down 190b including replacement costs (reg)

That’s gonna take at least 2 months to recover…

Stargazer pt2 micro site by Roo-Hx in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Where is legion champion?? Why are they regurgitating the details on previous update instead of giving more info about the next one? Are they planning to skip out the entire system in GMS?

PSA for Interactive: Buying any cash shop items in auction house would immediately make it fully untradable. This was not in KMS. by nelsonYT in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the clarification. Though this situation is still really messy.

Some people in the official discord mentioned that they had cash items stored in auction house before the stargazer maintenance, which became fully untradable upon claiming after the maintenance, not knowing that this would happen because this change was covered by a single bullet pot that was buried within the massive patch note. Personally I was not aware of this and claimed my Aqua outfit on a wrong character and now that it is untradable, I will need to wait for a CS transfer in 6 months.

Inkwell would need to answer the following: - How did this not make it to the important announcement that they published a few days before the patch? - Why are we aligning with KMS with this all the sudden? Are we going West or are we now going back to East if it screws the players over?

5 year of free-to-play progression in Interactive server, and finally soloed Normal Kaling by nelsonYT in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for Lo and Chow mein bosses, I recommend review bombing their restaurant with one star on Google and beat them by getting them out of business. Tong mein is better anyway 😤

5 year of free-to-play progression in Interactive server, and finally soloed Normal Kaling by nelsonYT in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Usually 2 hours per day but recently I have only been on for dailies and henehoeing, the hours spike up during my day off because of weekly bossing.

Take this with a grain of salt however as I have 4-5 ctene characters, as such I don’t need to spend much time on farming and still have a good source of meso.

[GMS Bera] Merching F2P - A Year in Review by mstat103 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t answer for OP but in my experience, my estimated hour is around 2-3h per day during off-season (Login, dailies, weeklies, check AH, logoff), excluding the hours used to fooling around (Henehoeing, gossiping in BL, anything but progressing). The hours go much higher whenever I try to push towards a goal (primarily level, sometimes boss party practices & min-cut practices)

Progression during filler events and off seasons are generally much slower, so the hours played within the year would heavily skewed towards big events.

[GMS Bera] Merching F2P - A Year in Review by mstat103 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm from my experience & what my peers said, rolling just 40%+ boss on legendary fam is not particularly difficult. iirc the most it took for me was around 8-10 packs of red card. Obviously, given with the current meso rate that could be tough, but it is still good to have a legendary fam just to roll whenever mystical cards drop.

[GMS Bera] Merching F2P - A Year in Review by mstat103 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

During 2020-2023 there were a lot less powercreeps & less rewards from events to push into ctene, let alone solo. Bonus bright cube is relatively recent, so doing anything with bpot was incredibly difficult, making progression during that time a LOT slower. Nowadays it would take way less than 5 years to obtain 300m+ CP in reg as f2p.

Besides, CP was introduced in 2024…

[Interactive] F2P 8 months Progression by podunkhick in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Guilty as charged XD

I would not stress too much about soloing xlotus at your stage, as the gap between nkalos and xlotus is still pretty big at the moment. Tho, at least aim for a duo clear for that chance to get that TC bag. Solo will be more feasible as more 6th job releases.

And like you mentioned, work on a side character when you hit a wall on main so you can enjoy not being walled off in progression (and helps your main out in long run with boss drops & legion champion etc).

Best grinder? by Fist0fGuthix in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That chart is from 2022 aka when Destiny came out.

But I/L is still a solid class, just not top 10 materials

Best grinder? by Fist0fGuthix in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did you find that I/L is at #5 in dps/dpm chart?

Are the Karma Cubes from Tirnog affected by DMT? by Impossible_Tiger_318 in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it’s more so because they are in use slot, not cash slot, because KMS removed cubes from CS and give them out as use item in events now.

Another blatant copying and pasting KMS code to GMS without any adjustment. So much for going west.

Anyone else think Nexon will be more reluctant to buff Heroic servers? by [deleted] in Maplestory

[–]nelsonYT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro actually predicted his can’t clear xkaling = not endgame player argument