>>748269359
Hunter

>>748269359
OP did you forget your password? Or are you asking me to take an epic leak on your face?

Since they announced the founders packs I started to get sus that Nexon is doing their old thing again. By the time Frieren set dropped it pretty much confirmed all my suspiciousness. This is still a company that has weekly/biweekly 8 hour maintenances with game breaking bugs that also messes up patch notes. Things have felt off since I heard about Forgotten Hollow. The Classic team is simply out of touch plus understaffed and underhanded. Classic maple deserves a better treatment. Take the game down for a year or two and work with the community to see what is a good change and what isn't. Both this shit and WoWf look like dogslop.

>>748271203
The idea of the founder's pack is fine but not having access for the lowest tier is beyond retarded. I'm fine with the collab stuff too if only because it's always supposed to be Classic+ and not completely old school Maplestory.

>>748271203
>Things have felt off since I heard about Forgotten Hollow
forgotten hollow looks good. big zone, diverse layouts, mobs, plenty of different platform arrangements. good at a couple level ranges. music is pretty decent, the new/modern mishmash art style is admittedly not as good as the old stuff, but it's acceptable. overall no red flags and seems like a step in the right direction for future new content.
>underhanded
might want to check the definition on that
>>748269359
priest or dk

>>748271569
>forgotten hollow looks good
It's modern maple in mindset. Wide open flat maps that are boring as fuck to look at but "muh grinding efficiency". No thought about where to stand or where gives you the best spawn coverage, just get a party to cover each platform and sit there and spam attack.

>>748272049
>Wide open flat maps
Anon all the popular maps in both OSMS and in Classic's closed betas are "wide open flat maps"

>>748269359
Not too sure. Warrior was my first ever class and I'm considering that for nostalgia's sake, but going Thief -> Bandit for the Savage Blow memery again sounds fun.

I'm honestly still undecided. I/L looks great at third job, but second job seems a little weak now that the meta seems to be low spawn rates and each player only being able to hit 1-3 mobs at saturation.

>>748272163
Not him but I personally always go grind through the Ant Tunnel maps while picking up the warning sign quests which takes a shit ton of platforming, rope jumping, and walking on even terrain uphill or on small platforms with ropes to jump through. Also loved training in Monkey Swamp on Artale and spent 40-60 just in those maps just jumping between platforms and climbing ropes.

>>748272805
The problem is that Nexon fucked up the XP curve past level 50 mobs (probably because early on they didn't want people to hit 70 before third job was ready) so you get dogshit XP for the amount of damage you're putting in, and they "fixed" this by turning grinding into mobbing which requires very boring map designs and lots of mob spawns.

It's kind of absurd that modern maple grinding is sitting in a flat map and jumping 50 feet between platforms to clear 20 mobs every 5 seconds. It's ludonarrative dissonance, early game mobs barely spawn and are expected to be killed 1 at a time, while late game mobs spawn endlessly and have 50 million times more HP.

>>748269764
shiteater
>>748271203
based
>>748271327
shiteater
>>748271569
shiteater
>>748272295
shiteater
>>748272805
shiteater

>>748269359
Either Spearman or Bandit. Still not sure.

>>748269359
zakum class
second job zakumgawd
third job zakumwhalegawd
fourth job zakumwhalepazegawd

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i wanted to buy mushroom package but they haven't really said shit about release so far
orbis / el nath?
last minute improvements from the last beta test?
content roadmap?
PQ still nerfed to hell?

literally waiting on day 1 release before deciding to buy into the "founders" pack...

>>748269359
I decided not to play it
The play test was all the experience I needed. I never got to 3rd job before big bang as a kid anyways I'd just explore the world of MapleStory and make up pretend stories in my head while goofing off with friends I met in game like we were playing on the playground.
A literal simpler time.

This cash nostalgia grab isn't going to be anything like the authentic experience.

>>748276643
They already mentioned it won't release with Orbis or El Nath.
The rest of the stuff is valid though this shit is getting shadier by the minute. I went from being willing to drop $100 on a potential founder's pack to just waiting out the first day while I see the news of how the game is at the closed launch.

>>748276793
>isn't going to be anything like the authentic experience.
I don't think there was ever a point where they mentioned it being identical to old school maplestory
In fact they outright stated the opposite saying they're planning on just using its philosophy to continue quests and create new areas.

this didn't really end up the way i thought it was gonna end up so i'm not gonna play it. it looks really mediocre and almost none of the changes make any sense

>>748277405
Did anyone ever play MapleStory for the story? It's shit and not in any redeemable way.
MapleStory just had an aesthetically pleasing vibe, and was free.

Now playing old school RuneScape thats a game with quests , story and lore that hooks you in and I didn't even play RuneScape as a kid. I remember telling my friend how ugly it's graphics were and couldn't understand why anyone would spend money monthly to play that

>>748277951
There are entire maps and mechanics dedicated to Maplestory's story in modern Maplestory yeah

>>748278343
You answered a question anon didn't ask lol

>>748278692
You asked if anybody played Maplestory for the story anon and the answer is yes, to the point where they have entire maps and mechanics dedicated to it.
Autism is a hell of a thing

if classic flops then i will actually try out modern maple with angelic buster cuz i see that bitch everywhere

>>748278728
>You asked
I made it explicitly clear that I'm not the person you replied to in my first post.

>>748277951
RuneScape didn't even have that much of an overarching story until later in its life, it was moreso a bunch of individual questlines that had their own areas and characters. Which does work much better in an MMO because you don't end up with the problem of having to keep inventing bigger and bigger badguys out of nowhere. Really, the only thing that makes RuneScape's "story" work is that its the only MMO without dogshit quests.