Old School MapleStory

[Drackorn]

Who remembers old time Maple, before Pirate Class. When it would take you weeks to level up .... and there was always other players around, no matter what map you was in.
Party Quests were hard to do, not for lack of players, but for always full and another party using it. Having to look out for players returning from party quest, then quickly quick the NPC to start, to try and get your party in haha

The Good Old Days, anyone remember,?

Now i just got to lvl 40 in 2 and a bit hours ....

[bumbertyr]

taking weeks to level up at the low levels stemmed from a lack of information about the game as a whole back in the day. contrary to popular belief, 30 could be achieved fairly easily if one was straight grinding. It became even easier in year 2 with the addition of Ossyria, Ludus Lake, Aqua Road + the Deep Gorge. By 2008 120 was easily attainable due to the broken exp rates in the Masteria region.

Doing party quests actually more often than not hindered character leveling due to the time spent finding a party, finding a channel, then the chance that you would lose your channel to another party. It could be faster if you had a group of friends that all got on at the same time and locked down a channel to pq on, but that's an elitist mindset which a majority of the playerbase didn't have.

Also trust me, the exp slows down. I'm currently level 250 and I'm gaining exp at the same rate as a level 191 Pre-bigbang.

[CherryKakyoin]

Lv 40 in more than 2 hours is painfully slow for current MS.

Idk what's with nostalgia players that think slow = better

[Robka]

Originally posted by CherryKakyoin:

Lv 40 in more than 2 hours is painfully slow for current MS.

Idk what's with nostalgia players that think slow = better

Quality over quantity. The game was better in it's early time, before bigbang. It was much more exciting to team-up for bosses. Today I have seen, you can solo Zakum like taking candy from a child. We were going 50 players for zakum fight that took like 1-2 hours. That's why everyone pretty much quitted at 2012, so as I did. Great memories, but painful to look at it's current state

[CherryKakyoin]

Originally posted by Robka:

Originally posted by CherryKakyoin:

Lv 40 in more than 2 hours is painfully slow for current MS.

Idk what's with nostalgia players that think slow = better

Quality over quantity. The game was better in it's early time, before bigbang. It was much more exciting to team-up for bosses. Today I have seen, you can solo Zakum like taking candy from a child. We were going 50 players for zakum fight that took like 1-2 hours. That's why everyone pretty much quitted at 2012, so as I did. Great memories, but painful to look at it's current state

Again, idk what are you talking about, the fact that you take way longer to level up does not mean the game had more quality, as a matter of fact, people did not level up because they never even played the game lol most of the time they were just waiting for the PQ to free up, in the meantime they just talked to other players.

People just remember fondly the slow level up because they were doing anything but trying to get exp, talking to people is something that is not unique to the game