I swear this has to be some rite of passage for new players in 2006-2008. So many people got stuck in Sleepywood because they were too low level and didn't have money for potions. I remember getting help from some level 40 spearman, the guy was basically a god to me.
I don't remember the sequence as much as the 5C9 combo puzzle just before Alishar (that is, figure out the correct combo of 5 boxes out of 9, by guessing one by one).
I can never forget those days where everyone was trying find a maple gf/bf. Than the family system came....adding people that are level 20 and they level up as your family gain reputation points and u can spend points for like 2XP or 2x Drop and TP to a family member
My most fond memory is being a Kerning PQ party leader. You would have to write down the names of everyone in the area and use the /find command to keep track of where they were in the PQ. If you saw they were in the exit stage you had to start clicking like mad to get in. After the PQ you had to run like crazy to get back to Lakelis to re-enter the PQ. The more PQ's you could chain in a row, the more rep you got as a PQ leader.
This is my most fond memory of it. I used to spend so much time at the PQ's, I was young and had no idea what I was doing. The overwhelming sense of community is what made the game for me, and the soundtrack of course.
Guys, i'm so grateful that after what feels like a decade, you are still producing passionate Maplestory content for new and old players like me. For me, Coppersan is now synonomous with Maplestory. Much appreciated, From an old Mapler in the UK.
yea ppl would use like auto clickers or w/e and whatever happened to "finding" people, typing in chat, /find (username) to see what stage they were at.
I honestly loved the 3rd job advancement, making/buying the dark crystal was a whole process in itself, finding the entrance, getting the quiz correct, and then fighting the shadow boss, it made 3rd job feel so epic. I remember failing the quiz the first time and feeling like shit, and while it forced me to get another dark crystal (rip mesos) it made getting 3rd job feel that much better. It's stuff like this that I really miss from modern ms and modern mmos in general.
It's been so long so I might've remembered wrongly. Back then, you need oxygen to stay in Aqua road and I died the first time trying to go across a map because I drowned... drowned...
Ages ago I trained with Fangblade around Kerning haha. I doubt he remembers my old alias though. One of my fondest memories was exploring Aqua Road with him and dying to a Bone Fish.
YESSS!! Omg some of my best memories was doing Kerning and Ludi PQ... I quit once they did Reboot update, by that point it was all solo grind based and lost all the party/social elements that made oldschool Maple so amazing... i still remember the Ludi PQ code 133-221-333-123-111 never forget ❤️
there was a glitch with transform pot from Christmas event, make u transform to Sophilia(aka god mode) u wont take any damage from anything, made zak jump quest super easy
I remember when I grinded for months to get the materials and mesos so that I could give my Aran a cool wolf mount. Nowadays, everyone has a mount, but back then, you were basically a celebrity if you showed up with one.
I remember playing a few years ago, and getting the Mimiana mount because I liked the look of it. Thing is, my wind archer's skills gave so much mobility, that the mount was actually obsolete for getting around any faster.
I never got to the point of using mastery books before big bang but i do remember skill specific mastery books that had a % chance to succeed. I think i have a few characters with them on aurora
I was super excited when I found steelys from fire drakes in perion. Super rare drop. I miss exploring elnath and ludi tower. going through all 100 floors was quite the trip. I remember iron pigs were like "late game" monsters way back before ludi or el nath even came out. I remember waiting for kerning pq and everyone tried to jump on the third sewer platform just for fun, and it was difficult without haste. I remember telling my friend he has no life because he was lvl 60, which i thought was extremely high. I also remember zakum being like extremely end-game content. Thanks for bringing back memories!
Jesus I hated all the jump quests lol. I got my cousin to do all of them for me. I was 10 years old (25 now :P)... so maybe my hand coordination was just bad lol...
I appreciate how the game is a lot less clunky nowdays. I honestly feel like if kept the way modern maple works now but had some more group orientated content other than bossing that the game would eclipse old maple entirely. All it's really missing is the sense of community from back then.
dying to balrog accidentally while trying to travel to another city... which already took 20 min I remember dying then trying to travel again it almost took me an hour to get to ludi
@@RainofLilac Ludi ship didn't have balrogs. Also when you did not click OK on the dying notice screen until the ship reached its destination, you would spawn in the destination city instead of the origin city ;-)
two horrible quests that come to mind are the one where you had to grind for Nependeth juice and the one when youre grinding Fire Boars for that flame feather.
that exhilarating feeling going down ludi tower for the first time expecting to discover fun new things only to be stuck in omega sector bc you don't have money for eos scrolls... that moment when you finally get your first gen 30 book... and it booms. then you get your second and it also booms.... contemplating what to do with life knowing you burned an atrocious amount of mesos on such a rare mastery book with a low drop rate by horntail... eventually i got it after the 4th one. running around NLC big ben tower and you stumble into a hacker with mob vac, somehow you become friends and lets you hit mobs for a bit until you get banned for a week by association god so many great and equally bittersweet fond memories... i'm glad there are those with kindred feelings as mine.
The biggest pain personally was the experience deduction everytime you die. The percentage is different for classes and the heaviest is warrior which is 10%. I was using warrior class and grinded for like 5 hours when i died suddenly and 10% exp was deducted, making the 5 hours of exp went into smoke.
Horrible quests? I can nominate 2: The Chaos behind Alfonse Green and the Nependeath Juice In search of the book of ancient (At least this gave you rocks)
what i still remember as a nightmare: 1) getting the mastery bks esp that maple warrior.. costs millions and billions of mesos and the success rate was not even 100% 2) pay 80k mesos to take the ship to orbis and then at the open deck and suddenly the balrog comes and kill u.. and then u have to spend another 80k to go to orbis again
@@James-wq5po oh no.. the horror of spending so much mesos and the skill books still failed 😫 maple warrior is too ex its like the price of those throwing stars
@@ableuchaenel5600 Well bad news is: as of today, i still owe my friend 7b mesos cuz all those mw30 failed, but good news is: thank goodness they dont play maplestory anymore XD
You should make more of these videos, and the longer the better! The nostalgia hits hard; great times made with more focus based on friendships and social construct. Games like these are what are yearned for. The harder the risk (longer to obtain something) the better the reward. Sadly games nowadays only base everything off a quick dopamine rush. Unfortunate.
I still remember the first day after the big bang update, the floors of every single map were just coated in potions and it BLEW my MIND, I was like "oooooooh yeaaaaaaaah" we were finally free lmfao
Old school Maple was an absolute nightmare in terms of advancement, but it felt so huge and magical. Me and my friend used to make trips to the Sleepywood Balrog just to take a look (we never got close to a high enough level to actually fight it!).
I basically went into maplestory blind, so I ruined my first i/l by giving him 20 str so he could equip a mace, and not putting any sp into magic guard.
I did the same for my Cleric. Eventually i made another cleric post BB and mained it for a while. Then the RED update came and ruined the class for me tbh.
I remember a trick in the Orbis tower, when going to El Nath. Once one was heading to El Nath and the ice start to appear in the tower, one could use a returning scroll to the nearest town, and then BOOM! got there.
Oh god. Thanks for bringing back old memories! I still vividly remember spending hours and hours looking killing fire boars for Arwen's glass shoe and doing Jane and the Wild Boar only to get unlucky... ):
One quest i remember as one of the worst was Mr. Shim's Request where you needed to get 300 bags of rice from Retz in Helios Tower. The drop rate was really low, and I finally gave up. Still have the 98 bags i collected in my inventory as a souvenir from the Maplestory i grew up with.
LOLL i forgot how bad it was....POINT ZERO ONE. training guides be like "yeah so and so map has a great EXP ratio, about 0.03% per monster for most unfunded classes"
Oh man I got another one. Going FM shopping, but needing to cc every time you went to another room, because you'd instantly d/c when you went into FM ch1 with all that spam haha
Alcaster's quest was living hell. If the walking around to different places all the time wasn't bad enough.. Than getting 20 luk crystal ores, power crystal ores, dex crystal ores and wisdom sealed the deal. For sure the most annoying quest. Second would for sure have to be getting peridots for Ultimate adventure questline.
I think the worst quest I remember wasn't quite in "old school" MS, but it was when Ultimate Adventurers/Explorers was a thing. The 30 Peridots you had to get in Leafre for this took SO long. I remember searching for WEEKS to get all of them. Additionally, the Nependeath quest to get the Bone Helm was insane early on.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that most of the skills back then were blocked off and you had to buy skill book as well as 20/30 skill books. I still remember having to search through FM just to find final blow for my Aran (a class barely anyone played). Not to mention having to find high defense skill book. Gawd old school MS was a nightmare for solo play. And speaking of skill books; poor Even and Dual Bladders back then; they couldn't get all their skills because some of them were cash shop exclusive. Now....as for quests that haunt me still, Temple of Time; you had to defeat 999 each of those mobs just to advance to the next room.
May 2003, I played with a school friend ( still befriend today 33y), Maple Story. I had no clue, that this game was all about chugging potions. We both made a Warrior and never spend a meso for potion or trained dex. Leveling together in Ellinia tree with the green mushrooms with lvl 22 to 23, which was a horrible experience. Only one mob at a time and we never used skills, because mana and pots..... that memories. But when I had my first level 200 DK, I was very proud of myself.... and later, I relized this waste of grinding time .... :D
I used to use scroll to nearest town to save money and time when travelling. Instead of using the cabs or town-specific scrolls to towns, I'll just travel halfway so that I'm near enough to the town I want to go to (usually the same region) and then use the scroll.
I don't remember any grindy quests, but I remember grinding for the Infinity throwing knives recipe. To this day I've not seen anyone else use them but me.
Don't you mean Balanced Fury, that one took me weeks of grinding in crimson wood keep and that was just for my nightlord it took another month or so to collect wood for my DK to make the fast speed pole arm?
oh man, I remember trying to advance on a warrior back in the day, couldn't hit the stupid monkeys easily because of acc. Also I miss making friends in the old PQs like kpq, lpq, and even lmpq. D;
I felt most of these too. Also, for quests, I forgot the name of it, but it was in NLC, and you needed 20 or 30 of something called hyper glyphs from electrophants. Finding just one of those was almost reason to announce it with a megaphone. Good times and memories though :)
i remember npcing a lvl 40 weapon gave like 200k mesos so i thought that was important to being rich enough to buy potions. monster carnival had an exchange quest which made this possible, and in those times droprate for equips were really compared to now. i think i never hit past lvl 55 since i was just questing around. reading their dialogues made the game interesting. i still regret choosing a fighter because i was told that they were better compared to spearman. even though the game was less populated after the big bang patch, i continued playing, i played dual blades since their release because sudden raid was very cool looking ability while reminding of dragon knight's dragon roar being a full map attack. i leveled doing pqs and after hitting the daily cap i did quests like before. being higher leveled means that there were more quests to do, but i recall that some quests had a limit as in, if you are too high leveled, u wouldnt be able to do the quest, very weird. i still think the old area of masteria had the best lore, being written by GMS, which i notice that there were many inspiration drawn from western media like TVs, something different from KMS's way of story telling. for me, masteria is just a memory left behind, maps gone from my server, and only to still exist in some quest logs. i feel like now, there are too many cut scenes and with how u need arcane force to train ure forced to do the quests, but before, questing was a choice, some which were abused for making meso like the 60% weapon attack scrolls for glove. game is fun to play still, just needs patience to boss for mesos on mules to progress... not boring if u ask me.
The Nependeaths quest in Orbis where you have to kill a bunch of Nependeath and get rare drops for the bone helm. Also the questline to get 60% glove attack scroll.
Anyone else remember actually seeing a GM? Those were good times, they would just appear as a little head to vibe. A homie got one of their hats once, but they had it removed from their inventory. Good times good times
I remember getting so angry at most of the jump quests as a kid, I only ever managed to finish the 1st one in sleepy (for ores lol) and the first two in kerning (for like 5k mesos and 2 fame lmao)
Holy crap I forgot about these. I played MS when the Server Mediah (Media?) first came out and moved there. I remember our strats to kill Zakum was to use Chief bandits blowing up mesos for dmg xD
All these negatives were positives to me. I loved how soul crushing maple was back in the day. Everything felt like a true achievement back then. Help from others was absolutely required, which means that you made real friends. Today, if it wasn't for my guild, I could go days without any interacting with anyone. Nexon walking away from party play and The free market dying depressed me so much.
I'm just getting back into Maplestory after about 7 years away from it. I'm finding it very watered-down and forgiving. I'm fine with it being a little easier to level up in early stages but it feels like the devs are making it very easy to progress and not get stuck. I thought one of the best parts of OG Maple was asking people for help when you needed it, it was part of the community experience. Now everybody just grinds in silence.
Sadly this is how most MMOs work nowadays, fast progression and hand holding. I guess that having to compete with mobile games that provide instant gratification meant they had to take away the grinding.
I still think about the friends i made there back then from time to time. Downloaded the game about a year ago just to see if any of them were playing still. 0 buddies online, 0 guildmates online lol
maple served a greater purpose for those of us who played when we were kids, back then social media wasn't such a big deal i don't even think cell phones had apps lol but the biggest part of maple was being able to meet and talk to people all over the world and there wasn't any toxicity or sweaty ppl how ever the youth now could never understand or respect this new age of tech they only use it for their own personal gain now games are just being made for the purpose of microtransaction, makes sense now not to care for gamers but for the lil kids who will have their parents spends 100$ on in game BS R.I.P OG maple
Waiting for the orbis ship to leave... My god. You can't even afk or else you'll risk losing experience to Crimson Balrog and start the whole process again.
There were actually different builds for mages, one of them was HELL build because you maxed your Max MP gain first THEN you put points into magic ball, you HAD to kill thing using Three Snails (You also had to HAVE SNAIL SHELLS) so you're farming red snails for looooong times and then farming orange mush/ribbon pig pain/10. Classic maple was a PAIN, anyway you put it, having to farm the SAME PQ from lvl 20-30 and then the other SAME PQ from lvl 31+ (I nver got into Ludi PQ so i don't remember what was the max level) and those were the ONLY places to really grind for EXP that were optimal, and people complain about how the grind was easier back then, i get it that the PQ and social aspect and whatever but i hated it, if i could enter KPQ solo and finish it solo i would, i hate the FORCED social aspect in games (early Safi'Jiva I'm looking at you), getting around was a pain, getting to level 30 was an acomplishment of at LEAST 8 hours and having 1 million meso was a sign of having no life. EDIT: Hell quests would be the Glass Slipper by Arwen and Kill 999 green/horny mushrooms for a measly amount of EXP
finding a party quest track in kerning or ludi and spam clicking the npc to "steal" the channel pq was bittersweet for me. it sucked having to waste time and track people, but it was fun stealing the channel pq. I was so good at re-entering the pq even though i was being tracked, I didn't have to use an autoclicker like other people. 9/10 I always got in with my team
being stuck in Sleepy wood because you had no HP pots...
Yup you basically were stranded🤣🤣
and you cant hit the jr neckie and they kept killing you 😭
Literally have to be a jump god to get out lol
I swear this has to be some rite of passage for new players in 2006-2008. So many people got stuck in Sleepywood because they were too low level and didn't have money for potions. I remember getting help from some level 40 spearman, the guy was basically a god to me.
Been there, done that.
133-221-333-123-111 I still remember this sequence.
omg
I don't remember the sequence as much as the 5C9 combo puzzle just before Alishar (that is, figure out the correct combo of 5 boxes out of 9, by guessing one by one).
Ludibrium was so beautiful :(
@@Zubberbilly Ludibrium was a hypnotizing place for me when I was a kid. Someone had a brilliant idea bringing such a toy town to a game.
@@TheNarghes yes, omg haha
The pain of an old school mapler now is having all these good memories
;(
Old school maple story was more fun!!
Lol this comment cracked me up and then I immediately got sad
@@sjoannepGoogle MapleOdyssey. Should be the first website
@@backtre8776go on google and look up MapleOdyssey
I felt all of those in my soul
How do you have the mushroom icon in your name?
Dat is dope as fck bro die mushroom
I remember chilling with my friends in Henesys market when someone used a Jr Balrog summoning sack and killed all of us. So sad 😞
Or the PQ in kerning and Ludi
Someone did this one time in reboot and summoned the horse knight mobs from ludi in leafre with afking players lmao
Oh my goodness I used to do that :D
@@Loopie131 damn whyyy
LOOOL omg i almost forgot about this. Haha good ol days
Not necessarily the most tedious, but definitely painful, was completing the 20 Slime free (random) hair quest, and getting an ugly hair or face.
AHAHA yeaa this! So many ppl had to hide behind those full face hats (andras/marbas, etc). Until they started giving out random beauty coupons
lol i remember getting an orange bowl cut and being traumatized
So many deleted characters lol
@@mikeylorenzio2076 my friends and I called this the Rock Lee (from Naruto)
@@ZachDxn hahahaha, too accurate 😂
I can never forget those days where everyone was trying find a maple gf/bf.
Than the family system came....adding people that are level 20 and they level up as your family gain reputation points and u can spend points for like 2XP or 2x Drop and TP to a family member
wasn't it 1.2x tho lol
@@iburstabean You have excellent memory sir.
@@NoName-de1fn i played a lot more back then than i'd like to admit ;_;
I want my life back! XD
1.2x after big bang, and 2x before big bang
Omg that felt like a fever dream
My most fond memory is being a Kerning PQ party leader. You would have to write down the names of everyone in the area and use the /find command to keep track of where they were in the PQ. If you saw they were in the exit stage you had to start clicking like mad to get in. After the PQ you had to run like crazy to get back to Lakelis to re-enter the PQ. The more PQ's you could chain in a row, the more rep you got as a PQ leader.
You could also sell tracks for 50k, who use it to advertise to get into a party lol
yo i just wanted to get on the 3rd sewer platoform
Yeah I wonder why didnt put that one in.
S>TRACK
This is my most fond memory of it. I used to spend so much time at the PQ's, I was young and had no idea what I was doing. The overwhelming sense of community is what made the game for me, and the soundtrack of course.
Guys, i'm so grateful that after what feels like a decade, you are still producing passionate Maplestory content for new and old players like me. For me, Coppersan is now synonomous with Maplestory. Much appreciated, From an old Mapler in the UK.
Yea Amen..
Reminds me so much of my childhood , cuz Id much rather play maple then go socialize with friends 😅
I remember when we had to constantly change channel just to find an empty one to start a PQ.
Yup and having to click really fast just to get in a pq !
yea ppl would use like auto clickers or w/e
and whatever happened to "finding" people, typing in chat, /find (username) to see what stage they were at.
J>PQ Have two Tracks KPQ
Now: no player in channel 1
those were the days
I honestly loved the 3rd job advancement, making/buying the dark crystal was a whole process in itself, finding the entrance, getting the quiz correct, and then fighting the shadow boss, it made 3rd job feel so epic. I remember failing the quiz the first time and feeling like shit, and while it forced me to get another dark crystal (rip mesos) it made getting 3rd job feel that much better. It's stuff like this that I really miss from modern ms and modern mmos in general.
It felt like getting into a fraternity. Like you were the older cool kid in high school now
It's been so long so I might've remembered wrongly. Back then, you need oxygen to stay in Aqua road and I died the first time trying to go across a map because I drowned... drowned...
You're right I remember it as well
I still have the Oxygen Tube Cape on my Bishop xD
Yea the potion shops sold some sort of bubble that you had to activate to breathe underwater
Grinding octopuses with randoms at that map in kerning is my pre big bang memory and I will never forget it
Caution falling down.. good times
Ages ago I trained with Fangblade around Kerning haha. I doubt he remembers my old alias though. One of my fondest memories was exploring Aqua Road with him and dying to a Bone Fish.
I actually miss the wait times for the ships; Made a handful of friends while waiting and during the trips :')
For real made too many friends that way
always waiting inside the ellinia-orbis ship and seeing a vacant 4x3 matching card game because the owner mastered the one turn win techique
No lie even though it was very difficult at that time....maple was crazy fun to play and very party oriented :) i loved it.
Yup I’m a adult now and it’s still my favorite mmo of all time!
Party oriented is what made it great and worth it
@@Munards yes sir
YESSS!! Omg some of my best memories was doing Kerning and Ludi PQ... I quit once they did Reboot update, by that point it was all solo grind based and lost all the party/social elements that made oldschool Maple so amazing... i still remember the Ludi PQ code 133-221-333-123-111 never forget ❤️
Zakum jump quest was a nightmare. Also the one from sleepywood, where you had to get to the top to get the flower bouquet 😭
there was a glitch with transform pot from Christmas event, make u transform to Sophilia(aka god mode) u wont take any damage from anything, made zak jump quest super easy
Sleepy Wood Flower was easy actually.... Zak one... you drop and you are basically dead if you are far in but thank god i did it in first try
Those were fun
I remember when I grinded for months to get the materials and mesos so that I could give my Aran a cool wolf mount. Nowadays, everyone has a mount, but back then, you were basically a celebrity if you showed up with one.
I think the same way with the explorer mount; silver mane and red draco (? im not sure 'cause wasnt high enough then). 50m was a lot back then
When the hobgoblin pq mount dropped for me back then I felt like a God
I remember playing a few years ago, and getting the Mimiana mount because I liked the look of it. Thing is, my wind archer's skills gave so much mobility, that the mount was actually obsolete for getting around any faster.
@@takatamiyagawa5688 just like mounts these days
Non-Universal Mastery Books. I remember always being meso broke and hunting for the right Mastery Books for my class was a blast...TT^TT
I never got to the point of using mastery books before big bang but i do remember skill specific mastery books that had a % chance to succeed. I think i have a few characters with them on aurora
ahh yes.. killing zakum on my Aran just to learn that bear skill lol.
S > SE20 200m or offer
another pain that i can remember is that assassins used to use summoning rocks to summon their shadow partners. those things were expensive asf
not when you fully completed the Alcaster quest line.
@@TheRealPulverize no you still needed the rocks, completing the questline just allowed you to buy the rocks from Alcaster
@@JeffDays correct, but 5k each. The cost became 1k.
I was super excited when I found steelys from fire drakes in perion. Super rare drop.
I miss exploring elnath and ludi tower. going through all 100 floors was quite the trip.
I remember iron pigs were like "late game" monsters way back before ludi or el nath even came out.
I remember waiting for kerning pq and everyone tried to jump on the third sewer platform just for fun, and it was difficult without haste.
I remember telling my friend he has no life because he was lvl 60, which i thought was extremely high.
I also remember zakum being like extremely end-game content.
Thanks for bringing back memories!
Old Maple, best Maple. KPQ, auto-clickers, smuggling, 1 year of training to reach Lv.70.
Great times. The way to becoming a Bishop was BORING as hell.. also a real struggle lol
Hands down, worst old school quest in Maplestory was Shumi's Lost Coin.
Yeah screw that quest🤣
omg that quest is a total nightmare
dang i remember that jump quest. i remember ppl training when they got to the last map inside the train
Jesus I hated all the jump quests lol. I got my cousin to do all of them for me. I was 10 years old (25 now :P)... so maybe my hand coordination was just bad lol...
I listen to the old soundtracks (henny, ship to orbis, etc)when I play now, am I the only one who does that??
I work 3rd shift and I play it on a playlist while I'm working.
Nope l do too
I do
I appreciate how the game is a lot less clunky nowdays. I honestly feel like if kept the way modern maple works now but had some more group orientated content other than bossing that the game would eclipse old maple entirely. All it's really missing is the sense of community from back then.
so agree i miss the community the most!
The quest with the glass shoe, you got the shoe out of nowhere by killing the boars but i had no freaking idea what to do with it
arwenn in elinia :)
ARWEN GLASS SHOES
I never got the shoe until way after big bang when the quest's prizes were useless
Damn glass shoe never dropped😐
dying to balrog accidentally while trying to travel to another city... which already took 20 min I remember dying then trying to travel again it almost took me an hour to get to ludi
I forgot, did the Ludi ship had a cabin or was that only from Victoria Island to Orbis?
@@RainofLilac Ludi ship didn't have balrogs. Also when you did not click OK on the dying notice screen until the ship reached its destination, you would spawn in the destination city instead of the origin city ;-)
@@VliegKunstenaar yeah I only died once I think, and it was because I lagged right when I was about to get back in the cabin 😂 ah the good old times
I remember being friends with a lvl 80+ assassin, he never got 3rd job cus he failed the test so much he lost all his money lol
two horrible quests that come to mind are the one where you had to grind for Nependeth juice and the one when youre grinding Fire Boars for that flame feather.
or the glass shoe
@@Xgarbil Definitely Arwen's glass shoe. I remember it took me a few days of grinding to get it.
Haha skull helm my fav ❤️
How about the omega sector one?
or The contract for Bull forget.... Glass shoe
From a player who just started playing 1 year ago, this just hits my soul so hard. And also, a lot of respect to the old players!
that exhilarating feeling going down ludi tower for the first time expecting to discover fun new things only to be stuck in omega sector bc you don't have money for eos scrolls...
that moment when you finally get your first gen 30 book... and it booms. then you get your second and it also booms.... contemplating what to do with life knowing you burned an atrocious amount of mesos on such a rare mastery book with a low drop rate by horntail... eventually i got it after the 4th one.
running around NLC big ben tower and you stumble into a hacker with mob vac, somehow you become friends and lets you hit mobs for a bit until you get banned for a week by association
god so many great and equally bittersweet fond memories... i'm glad there are those with kindred feelings as mine.
wait you met your fiancée through maplestory?? i need a storytime ASAP
The biggest pain personally was the experience deduction everytime you die. The percentage is different for classes and the heaviest is warrior which is 10%. I was using warrior class and grinded for like 5 hours when i died suddenly and 10% exp was deducted, making the 5 hours of exp went into smoke.
Dying at 90%+ made you so mad you just quit training for the day😂
I'd give so much to go back to the days of struggling for potions instead of doing dailies
I struggled so bad to get pots I played a mage I couldn’t even attack because no pots god the struggle 🤣
The Eos tower quests were a pain. All that effort for Eos tower scrolls >.
Horrible quests?
I can nominate 2:
The Chaos behind Alfonse Green and the Nependeath Juice
In search of the book of ancient (At least this gave you rocks)
A very nostalgic quest was going to NLC to get the 60% GFA scroll to make some quick messo
Dude yes that quest. Felt rich after found someone who want to buy GFA scroll 🤣👌
@@AreRicX Yup. Thoes were the good days
Creating new characters just to reach lv 35 to get that GFA 60% 🤣🤣 anyone else did that
@@caschew yoo dude same xDD just to sell them to made some money
y’all remember grinding monsters at that secret haunted house in NLC, ya me too
When I made my first mage I accidentally put all my points into magic guard, so I had no attacking skills...
Hahaha hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The loading time and lag was... oof. It’s painful to think back on it, ahahaha.
what i still remember as a nightmare:
1) getting the mastery bks esp that maple warrior.. costs millions and billions of mesos and the success rate was not even 100%
2) pay 80k mesos to take the ship to orbis and then at the open deck and suddenly the balrog comes and kill u.. and then u have to spend another 80k to go to orbis again
Yup I used🤣 to love watching the high levels fight balrog on the ship
@@Ronin-kk4bt omg how were the fights? i scared for my life and super broke so immediately after the ship set sail i straightaway hide in the cabin 😂
yes, f**k maple warrior 30, it was 1.2b each back then and i used 17 of them, all failed >_
@@James-wq5po oh no.. the horror of spending so much mesos and the skill books still failed 😫 maple warrior is too ex its like the price of those throwing stars
@@ableuchaenel5600 Well bad news is: as of today, i still owe my friend 7b mesos cuz all those mw30 failed, but good news is: thank goodness they dont play maplestory anymore XD
Anybody else remember how hard it was to start a guild? I remember being so excited once I was finally able to create one
You should make more of these videos, and the longer the better! The nostalgia hits hard; great times made with more focus based on friendships and social construct. Games like these are what are yearned for. The harder the risk (longer to obtain something) the better the reward. Sadly games nowadays only base everything off a quick dopamine rush. Unfortunate.
I still remember the first day after the big bang update, the floors of every single map were just coated in potions and it BLEW my MIND, I was like "oooooooh yeaaaaaaaah" we were finally free lmfao
Unfortunately it got worse after that :(
I saw "old school" so I clicked. Hey you forgot intercontinental ship travel!
Old school Maple was an absolute nightmare in terms of advancement, but it felt so huge and magical. Me and my friend used to make trips to the Sleepywood Balrog just to take a look (we never got close to a high enough level to actually fight it!).
I basically went into maplestory blind, so I ruined my first i/l by giving him 20 str so he could equip a mace, and not putting any sp into magic guard.
I also messed up my ice mages stats so bad I was so weak it would take 9 hits just kill one monster🤣 man no magic guard? That must of been hell
I did the same for my Cleric. Eventually i made another cleric post BB and mained it for a while. Then the RED update came and ruined the class for me tbh.
@@SkrymNV that’s rough :( i never mind when they change the look of skills tbh, i like a nice refresh every once in a while
Can relate so much! Jump quest pains me the most, especially when missing the last platform and have to do it all again. Ouch!
Elina jump quest 😂
I remember a trick in the Orbis tower, when going to El Nath. Once one was heading to El Nath and the ice start to appear in the tower, one could use a returning scroll to the nearest town, and then BOOM! got there.
Oh god. Thanks for bringing back old memories! I still vividly remember spending hours and hours looking killing fire boars for Arwen's glass shoe and doing Jane and the Wild Boar only to get unlucky... ):
You remember the jump quest to get some roses to the guy in lith harbor? I believe his name was John. Damn i hated that jump quest.
These things prepared me for real life.
Omgggg please make more videos related to old maplestory. These contents are so nostalgic!! Your awesome coppersaaan
I remember doing KPQ and one person would be AFK in the beginning in the first stage with the tickets.
Arwen's Glass Shoe and Blackbull's deed to the land. CHRIST
Oh oh, the RNG of the Icarus cape. Praying you got the speed one. PAIINNNN
One quest i remember as one of the worst was Mr. Shim's Request where you needed to get 300 bags of rice from Retz in Helios Tower. The drop rate was really low, and I finally gave up. Still have the 98 bags i collected in my inventory as a souvenir from the Maplestory i grew up with.
This video unlocked memories i even forgot i had, i remember scrolling a little bath towel on my dexless assasin for soooooo long.
For players who don't know how hard it was levelling up back then, go to 3:16 and look at how much his EXP bar moves as he kills mobs lol
LOLL i forgot how bad it was....POINT ZERO ONE. training guides be like "yeah so and so map has a great EXP ratio, about 0.03% per monster for most unfunded classes"
@@oatsgoats39 LOL yeah ikr, even at that level you'd have to kill 10,000 monsters for a level up
I remember my sister farming 20 pig head for a quest, the droprate is so bad we have to wait for 2 hours for her to complete it
Oh man I got another one. Going FM shopping, but needing to cc every time you went to another room, because you'd instantly d/c when you went into FM ch1 with all that spam haha
Alcaster's quest was living hell. If the walking around to different places all the time wasn't bad enough.. Than getting 20 luk crystal ores, power crystal ores, dex crystal ores and wisdom sealed the deal. For sure the most annoying quest. Second would for sure have to be getting peridots for Ultimate adventure questline.
I think the worst quest I remember wasn't quite in "old school" MS, but it was when Ultimate Adventurers/Explorers was a thing. The 30 Peridots you had to get in Leafre for this took SO long. I remember searching for WEEKS to get all of them. Additionally, the Nependeath quest to get the Bone Helm was insane early on.
I still remember farming for 8hours non stop at sky nest to get all peridots lol
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that most of the skills back then were blocked off and you had to buy skill book as well as 20/30 skill books. I still remember having to search through FM just to find final blow for my Aran (a class barely anyone played). Not to mention having to find high defense skill book. Gawd old school MS was a nightmare for solo play.
And speaking of skill books; poor Even and Dual Bladders back then; they couldn't get all their skills because some of them were cash shop exclusive.
Now....as for quests that haunt me still, Temple of Time; you had to defeat 999 each of those mobs just to advance to the next room.
May 2003, I played with a school friend ( still befriend today 33y), Maple Story. I had no clue, that this game was all about chugging potions. We both made a Warrior and never spend a meso for potion or trained dex. Leveling together in Ellinia tree with the green mushrooms with lvl 22 to 23, which was a horrible experience. Only one mob at a time and we never used skills, because mana and pots..... that memories. But when I had my first level 200 DK, I was very proud of myself.... and later, I relized this waste of grinding time .... :D
I used to use scroll to nearest town to save money and time when travelling. Instead of using the cabs or town-specific scrolls to towns, I'll just travel halfway so that I'm near enough to the town I want to go to (usually the same region) and then use the scroll.
Haha so good moments ! I remember getting to lv 70 was my dream so i could get flash jump and shadow partner 😂
the old school quest i remember the most is the in the wedding place getting 25 slime etcs to change your hair style
I don't remember any grindy quests, but I remember grinding for the Infinity throwing knives recipe. To this day I've not seen anyone else use them but me.
Don't you mean Balanced Fury, that one took me weeks of grinding in crimson wood keep and that was just for my nightlord it took another month or so to collect wood for my DK to make the fast speed pole arm?
oh man, I remember trying to advance on a warrior back in the day, couldn't hit the stupid monkeys easily because of acc. Also I miss making friends in the old PQs like kpq, lpq, and even lmpq. D;
I felt most of these too. Also, for quests, I forgot the name of it, but it was in NLC, and you needed 20 or 30 of something called hyper glyphs from electrophants. Finding just one of those was almost reason to announce it with a megaphone. Good times and memories though :)
As soon as he said trading , i immediately remembered uhh “B>steelies 11m” when they were 7m ish
Sold that shit for 1,111,111 -_-
RIP
@@velfcookie4734 also, the tax system omg. it was already so hard earning money, and then there was tax on top of it..
i remember npcing a lvl 40 weapon gave like 200k mesos so i thought that was important to being rich enough to buy potions. monster carnival had an exchange quest which made this possible, and in those times droprate for equips were really compared to now. i think i never hit past lvl 55 since i was just questing around. reading their dialogues made the game interesting. i still regret choosing a fighter because i was told that they were better compared to spearman. even though the game was less populated after the big bang patch, i continued playing, i played dual blades since their release because sudden raid was very cool looking ability while reminding of dragon knight's dragon roar being a full map attack. i leveled doing pqs and after hitting the daily cap i did quests like before. being higher leveled means that there were more quests to do, but i recall that some quests had a limit as in, if you are too high leveled, u wouldnt be able to do the quest, very weird. i still think the old area of masteria had the best lore, being written by GMS, which i notice that there were many inspiration drawn from western media like TVs, something different from KMS's way of story telling. for me, masteria is just a memory left behind, maps gone from my server, and only to still exist in some quest logs. i feel like now, there are too many cut scenes and with how u need arcane force to train ure forced to do the quests, but before, questing was a choice, some which were abused for making meso like the 60% weapon attack scrolls for glove. game is fun to play still, just needs patience to boss for mesos on mules to progress... not boring if u ask me.
The Nependeaths quest in Orbis where you have to kill a bunch of Nependeath and get rare drops for the bone helm. Also the questline to get 60% glove attack scroll.
Those time lvling in party quest is really awesome.
Anyone else remember actually seeing a GM? Those were good times, they would just appear as a little head to vibe.
A homie got one of their hats once, but they had it removed from their inventory. Good times good times
As someone who played since v0.13 I felt this in my bones. Not missing it at all.
Did any one remember when there was no free market? And perion was the place to be for buying and selling things?
Coppersan over here hitting me with nostalgia. Whole reason I started MS again after a decade of not touching the game.
it sucks now, completely diff. not that it shouldnt progress as a game, but the balance wasn't found - it feels completely diff now.
Remember having to ask a warrior friend to get skillbooks from that elnath pq? Pepperidge farm remembers.
I remember getting so angry at most of the jump quests as a kid, I only ever managed to finish the 1st one in sleepy (for ores lol) and the first two in kerning (for like 5k mesos and 2 fame lmao)
Holy crap I forgot about these. I played MS when the Server Mediah (Media?) first came out and moved there. I remember our strats to kill Zakum was to use Chief bandits blowing up mesos for dmg xD
omfg i completely forgot about having to sit in a chair for a while to regain hp and mp
Just missing the ship to go to Orbis... Had to wait T^T
And it costs 80,000 mesos. Painful.
All these negatives were positives to me. I loved how soul crushing maple was back in the day. Everything felt like a true achievement back then.
Help from others was absolutely required, which means that you made real friends. Today, if it wasn't for my guild, I could go days without any interacting with anyone. Nexon walking away from party play and The free market dying depressed me so much.
The rides from each island taking along time
I'm just getting back into Maplestory after about 7 years away from it. I'm finding it very watered-down and forgiving. I'm fine with it being a little easier to level up in early stages but it feels like the devs are making it very easy to progress and not get stuck. I thought one of the best parts of OG Maple was asking people for help when you needed it, it was part of the community experience. Now everybody just grinds in silence.
Sadly this is how most MMOs work nowadays, fast progression and hand holding. I guess that having to compete with mobile games that provide instant gratification meant they had to take away the grinding.
I still think about the friends i made there back then from time to time. Downloaded the game about a year ago just to see if any of them were playing still. 0 buddies online, 0 guildmates online lol
Damn, the nostalgia - before Ludi, before Windia, before 3rd jobs. Shoutout to the Scania Perion CH7 goons
maple served a greater purpose for those of us who played when we were kids, back then social media wasn't such a big deal i don't even think cell phones had apps lol but the biggest part of maple was being able to meet and talk to people all over the world and there wasn't any toxicity or sweaty ppl how ever the youth now could never understand or respect this new age of tech they only use it for their own personal gain now games are just being made for the purpose of microtransaction, makes sense now not to care for gamers but for the lil kids who will have their parents spends 100$ on in game BS R.I.P OG maple
When Bishop was the most OP class, when Warriors only had one attack called Power Strike until level 120 when they get Brandish.
Waiting for the orbis ship to leave... My god. You can't even afk or else you'll risk losing experience to Crimson Balrog and start the whole process again.
Nice video! Also when it comes to annoying quests, The Hero's gladius comes to mind. Also those deep sea Aqua Road quests.
The music alone hits me right in the nostalgia feels.
i remembered back when monster carnival was just released, the only thing my archer could do was to smack mobs with bow
6:37 omg! i answered those 2 questions right the first time! 15 years later! my wisdom is insane! haha! also loved the mom part and mesos loss hahaha!
Getting to lvl 70 hermit was such a good feeling!
There were actually different builds for mages, one of them was HELL build because you maxed your Max MP gain first THEN you put points into magic ball, you HAD to kill thing using Three Snails (You also had to HAVE SNAIL SHELLS) so you're farming red snails for looooong times and then farming orange mush/ribbon pig pain/10.
Classic maple was a PAIN, anyway you put it, having to farm the SAME PQ from lvl 20-30 and then the other SAME PQ from lvl 31+ (I nver got into Ludi PQ so i don't remember what was the max level) and those were the ONLY places to really grind for EXP that were optimal, and people complain about how the grind was easier back then, i get it that the PQ and social aspect and whatever but i hated it, if i could enter KPQ solo and finish it solo i would, i hate the FORCED social aspect in games (early Safi'Jiva I'm looking at you), getting around was a pain, getting to level 30 was an acomplishment of at LEAST 8 hours and having 1 million meso was a sign of having no life.
EDIT: Hell quests would be the Glass Slipper by Arwen and Kill 999 green/horny mushrooms for a measly amount of EXP
I still remember farm coconuts from Florina Beach to sell them and buy potions as a Thief xD
You forgot about freaking summoning rocks to use shadow partner and summons lol that was a pain
finding a party quest track in kerning or ludi and spam clicking the npc to "steal" the channel pq was bittersweet for me. it sucked having to waste time and track people, but it was fun stealing the channel pq. I was so good at re-entering the pq even though i was being tracked, I didn't have to use an autoclicker like other people. 9/10 I always got in with my team