As far as I can tell I have to get it from killing the rabbits. Is this something that's super-rare like Arwen's Glass Shoe? Because I really don't care to mess with them. The spawn sucks, the XP sucks, the maps suck and they are strong vs. Ice and I'm an IL Mage.
I want to get the hell out of Shitamachi - I friggin' hate it there.
I forgot. I wasn't able to play today, but for those of you on JMS it was free 2x XP from 8-9 (it just ended) Japan time for "National Sports Day"...yes, a national holiday designed to get people up and out and athletic, they gave you a reason to sit in a chair in front of a computer for an hour.
They've got another one if you missed it. It's on the 4th of November for "Culture Day"...I assume Showa will be packed with people being stereotypes of Yakuza gangsters. Same time, 8-9pm Japan time.
The new Maplestory book is out: (it's 7 pixels bigger than the max, sorry LOL)
Like the previous books it just looks to be an encyclopedia. No useful information that you could not get dynamically from Hidden Street or any of the Japanese sites like Harry's or Drop of Maple.
But it is collectible. Like many of these Japanese gamebooks, it's a full 8.5x11" format, so there's going to be big artwork as well as maps. It doesn't have useful information like how to make a character that's awesome, where to train, scrolling ideas, play strategies, techniques. It's just a reference book.
So if you're a collector and have a Japanese book store near you, the ordering info is as such:
ISBN：4-7758-0485-5
If you want to buy it directly from Japan somehow (no idea how you'd do that):
It's 1500 yen, so that's about $15 in USD. Expect to pay a lot more at a Japanese bookstore. Still, if you're a collector and like the artwork, it's worth checking out.
I'm going to skip ahead...way ahead to my 20 DEX Fighter (with 100 Accuracy) here. All of this "Hey, why not have 70 DEX for a Warrior" stuff...come on. Please. Stop. It's like saying a level 30 Bowman needs 70 STR for better bash damage with a bow. Or a level 30 Mage needs 70 LUK for Avoidability. Or a level 30 Bandit/Assassin needs 120 DEX for more Accuracy.
If you took a bunch of DEX, cool. Live and learn. But as you'll see Warriors don't need a lot of DEX. I am not special. I am not funded. I did THREE Warriors all with 20 DEX on a brand-new server. No one helped me. No one Blessed me, no one partied me, no one gave me money for equipment. I don't even HAVE the best equipment. I don't even have all of the equipment for my level! Anything I have for Accuracy is done with CHEAP-O 100% scrolls FFS!
It is absolutely NOT difficult nor out of the ordinary to keep DEX low on a Warrior. Adding DEX you don't need just massively handicaps you due to lower damage. It makes you need more hits to kill, eats all of your potion money and makes levelling longer. Going Low-DEX is easy. It's noobish. Adding a bunch of DEX you don't need...that's hard. That requires some pro skills. You're increasing your workload and flushing your profit down the toilet. You have the Accuracy to hit monsters you're unable to damage! Getting to 50, 60, 90...whatever with 70+ DEX. If you did that, God bless you. That's a hard road to hoe.
Again, before I get started let me say again that this is easy. If I can do it, you can do it. You all play more than I do. Warriors don't suck. They don't "slow down", they don't have gaps. All of these negatives portrayed upon Warriors is because people simply took too much DEX. No one would argue that Bowmen taking extra STR, Rogues taking extra DEX and Mages taking extra LUK is pointless and harms your damage potential. The logic isn't transitive to Warrior? COME ON!
Without any further ado, here's GaijinSmash, a level 43 Fighter: ( Collapse ) There is no combination of a Warrior with 60-70 DEX (or more, LOL) that will ever be more powerful than this build. It will never be faster to level, never be richer, never do more damage. It doesn't matter what that Warrior scrolls for whatever, I can scroll the same stuff too. I can hit what they can hit. In fact, what they can hit, I can damage. They can't do crap to it. Monster DEF gets high as levels go up. So let's kill this dumb "take 3 STR/2 DEX every level until 30 then take 4 STR/1 DEX forever" thing and relegate it to the rubbish bin with things like Mages that take Claw before MP Increase.
You CAN do this. Easily. I did friggin' THREE of these in 6 weeks playing way less than any of you do.
So I started on the Keyaki server in JMS at the end of July. I tried to get as many characters as I could up and running during the inital event and then move from there, keeping them at relatively same levels.
What I've done is taken current info on my character and put it out there. The good, the bad, the ugly, who, where, what, why, when, how much, so on and so forth.
So, without any further ado, here's my LUK Bandit on the new server ( Collapse ) So hopefully that was interesting. Bandits are really fun. If it piques your interest or sparks your imagination in any way, comment and I'll tell you what I know or why I did it.
BTW, when JMS gets an update, don't forget GMS is going to get one right afterward...so if someone wants to download the contests off of the FTP server for Mapleglobal...
And for everyone to consider, #9 is very interesting. Change in the UI and an alarm is added? What sort of alarm, like "OMG U R GUNNA DIE" alarm or "BEEP BEEP YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR 1 HOUR AHOLE, PUNCH THE MONKEY TO WIN A FREE IPOD NANO AND TURN OFF THE ALARM" alarm or "hacking botting is boring, wake me when I'm done" alarm or "oh someone entered my map and I better quit hacking alarm" alarm...^^
I wonder what the other modifications mean? Better damage? Worse damage? The ability to equip more items outside of your class?
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Sound interesting.
And as always if you wish to improve upon the machine translation and manually translate it better, feel free to do so.
EDIT: We're back online as of a few minutes ago (2355p PT), but everyone must be overloading the server because it's ultra-slow.
