MapleStory Iceberg: A Party Quest Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2023
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Corrections: I missed three small event PQs in this video!
1. Henesys PQ reskin for the v63 Christmas event, rewarded a temporary 20 attack and magic attack hat. • maplestory- how to hol...
2. Pumpkin carving PQ from 2008's Halloween event. • Video
3. The other event PQ from 2008's Halloween event. • GMS - Halloween Haunte...
Thanks to Arnah for pointing these out to me! 
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Bro no way is this the real Togain wtf
Don't give the developer your money though, he's a big ol' twat.
PQs were my favorite part of old maple by far... trading wins in Monster Carnival, memorizing the 133 221 etc pattern for Ludi PQ, even the lobby areas are iconic. Seriously, the sewers outside of KPQ are in the top 10 most iconic areas in video games, at least if I were to make the list lmao
I love seeing you here after playing your game and it scratching the maplestory itch. I can see the heavy influence in your amazing game and its amazing to relive the experience.
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0:00 introduce
4:15 KPQ - Kerning PQ
13:35 LPQ - Ludi PQ
32:18 GPQ - Guild PQ
42:23 OPQ - Orbis PQ
1:01:45 APQ - Amoria PQ
1:09:30 HPQ - Henessy PQ
1:13:06 LMPQ - Ludi MazePQ
1:17:45 PPQ - Pirate PQ
1:26:42 CPQ1 - Carnaval PQ 1
1:34:28 R&JPQ - Romeo and Juliet PQ
1:43:09 MVPQ - Mal Volance PQ
1:47:55 CWKPQ - CrimsonWood Keep PQ
1:56:28 Boss Rush PQ
1:57:35 EPQ - Ellin PQ
2:03:17 CPQ2 - Carnaval PQ 2
2:08:03 Kerning Subway PQ
2:10:15 Nett Pyramid PQ
2:13:56 DRPQ - Dragon Raider PQ
2:16:55 Spacecraft PQ
2:18:53 Alien Visitor PQ
2:20:28 Ghost Ship PQ
2:23:08 Hoblin PQ
2:27:11 Ice Knight PQ
2:28:45 Kenta PQ
2:30:39 Escape PQ
2:33:23 DIPQ - Dimesion Invasion PQ
2:38:44 Tangyoon PQ
2:41:16 Xerxes PQ
A 3 HOUR LONG MAPLESTORY RETROSPECTIVE BY TOGAIN SWELVE?? My friday plans are cancelled
For CPQ 30-50, after a while people was aware of leader kicking the party so they can farm the map alone, there was this trick that you needed to be aware of, every time u get into the map, u needed to have the party popup open, and if you saw you get kicked, you can immediatly create a party and you won't be kicked out the map, and then u can troll the opponent by adding strong mobs and %ATT reduction and KS your own leader to learn the lesson
i was the one who came up with that but people started catching on. when there were 2x xp event i saw the opportunity and got a 2x ticket. 4x baby
@@RooseveltTruongonly 4x? Amateur numbers lol
its rewarding while not making it boring
True legends grinded 30-51 :')
@@RooseveltTruong liar
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I just realized there was no mention of Ariant PQ! The PQ where you catch scorpions and beat another player by getting a higher score. It's how you got the Palm Tree Chair. Though I guess it might not count because I think it was 1 vs 1?
one time i was at my friend house and he was doing said pq his opponent became afk for a while so i told my buddy to spam bomb on him while afk and the poor guy came back claiming his mom was on the phone with him my buddy and I laugh so hard that the opponent won the match because my buddy was't focus enough good time :)
Yeah I remember it
I had so much fun doing it
It was a 1v1
ariant was multiple players per game, I played a lot and even made a perma L26 nightwalker to farm it
You could also go in with several people in a free-for-all (1v1v1v1 etc..). It was one of my favourites, if you were good you could absolutely zoom through levels and sell the chair for a load of cash
Gotta share this here. When pirate came out, me and some of my friends decided to smuggle a lot of rice cakes in Henesys PQ, so we could use them on our brand new pirate characters, and level up as fast a possible. Then, when pirate finally came out, I was not able to play that day/night (not sure anymore). My friends then decided to use the rice cakes without me anyway, resulting in them being a way higher level than me, and us being unable to do other PQs together on our pirates. I think this is where my constant feeling of being abandoned by people I care about started, lol.
these videos are actually amazing. i’ve rewatched the race to lvl 200 like 7 times. so well made thanks for bringing the memories back. can’t wait for dis one!
54:30 - This is TRUE and I'm surprised you mentioned it! Completing OPQ once would permanently reduce exp from ALL stages for the rest of that character's life. Ideally, you would rush as much as possible and wait until your late 60's to finish a full run. I currently play an old school private server where enough people knew about this, and the rush meta got so toxic (scaring away people who just wanted to do OPQ normally) that the exp penalty actually got patched out by the private server developer to incentivize full runs. I agree, stupid design choice, but it hardly mattered in the old days, because few of us noticed or knew about it, so many of us were doing full runs anyway!
Also you didn't mention Glitch OPQ probably because it was an exploit that didn't last long before it got patched out. I'll share my brief experience with it:
Once the function to pass party leadership was added, Glitch OPQ involved each party member turning off their internet for a few seconds, clicking Eak to clear Lobby, then passing leadership to the next member who would do the same, if I remember correctly. After every party member set up their glitch, everyone would get SIX Lobby stage clears in an instant, and therefore 6 times the exp from lobby for just an extra minute of setup. Leave PQ, rinse and repeat. I think this was only possible in Lobby because its clear condition didn't require having an item in your inventory, so you could pass lead with no extra setup.
It was an INSANE exploit for at least a few weeks.
yep and people got banned over it I was one of those banned players. The ban took about a year to hit me for exploiting. This was the only pq I smuggled heavily and the only one I think nexon would take a heavy hand action on.
I'm glad someone mentioned Glitch OPQ! Surprisingly enough I did not get banned and abused this exploit pretty much from 51->70 because my router was right next to my computer which made the exploit really easy to do but definitely some of the fondest memories. It was so easy to get an OPQ party when you said you could do the exploit.
bro 133221333123111 has been engrained in my mind for the last 15 years, I remember being 10 years old telling all of my schoolmates about LPQ and they just did not care lol
Such a throwback. You just sent me through a nostalgic journey. Lots of memories were made doing all these and this whole video brought em all back. All the friends (and enemies) made, all the (bitter) sweet moments, all the (struggling) progressions going through these as a kid back in the days. Really appreciating this content so much.
This serie of videos is something new, refreshing and a good look at the past, present and potential future. So much has happened in 20 years. There is a lot to talk about. I for example, would love a talk about the biggest patches/ game updates and what changed, went well and sometimes very wrong.
Thank you for all the time you've invested into these videos! I loved Ludi PQ so much that I had a couple of level 50 mules just to party quest when I was bored. Good times :') I was near giddy watching the beginning because I knew you were about to explain the JMS box strategy.
I just wanted to tell you, I've listened to this video over and over. Mic quality and the spread of music is so satisfying to my ears. As well as you narration and love for the game. Thank you for the video!
LOVE your content, dude! It's so well put together and I genuinely get so excited whenever you upload! I grew up in Europe, so as a kid I didn't have any way to play (except for changing my IP to USA thanks to my tech dad) but I always watched old 2010 Maple videos / edits / MVs in awe! They genuinely inspired my career as an animator and your content is a HUGE nostalgia trip! I got to play Maple later on when it was released here, but the community was already dying... Thank you so much for making these videos!
currently painting a mural and I've listened to your previous video like 5x now, thank you for your hard work excited to watch this one!
Extremely detailed and well done video. Always enjoy a nostalgia trip. I hope you continue to cover this series and content from old maple and its community.
Once again, another solid video! Bravo! I had flashes of memories as I was watching the video. I know this wasn't an easy video to make...but just know you work is appreciated! Thank you again!
woahhh so many memories!!
amazing vid! thanks for reminding us about all these good times. it just made me think again how much this game was a huge part of my life in every single step growing up
thanks for the nostalgia trip 😭🙏 I enjoy seeing the jump quest sections especially, would be fun to see even more of these. i will be looking forward to the next iceberg video!
This is some of the best content I've consumed on this platform in a long time. Thanks for capturing the nostalgia!
These videos are gold, cementing the history of maplestory and what made it great. I love love love watching these while grinding
there are pre-big bang private servers that you can play on to get a chance to experience some of the older PQ's you didn't try when you were younger
I remember when you had to be careful while killing monster in PQs as, sometime, their drop would fall offscreen and you couldn't complete the stage because of that
I just came back to playing maplestory this month (started playing in 2006), and i'm absolutely delighted by your videos!
Your videos on maplestory have been more helpful than any guide on RUclips in terms of making the game feel more approachable as a someone mostly blind to it. Out of context, so much about maplestory feels out of nowhere and disorganized, and I am still learning the mindset to have the most fun while playing. Everyone in beginner guides talk about optimization and things you HAVE to do or else you’ll be screwed, and it put me off from playing for a while. Something about seeing the more historical side of the game makes me more interested to explore the world of the game and worry about the optimization stuff later.
Great video as always, I'm surprised that you left out the glitch for Orbis PQ when there was a period of time where that was the fastest way of leveling to third job. It was patched quite quickly though and highly discouraged, but I had fond memories of abusing it before an official statement was released. Keep up the great work on these videos, the content is super nostalgic!
It's amazing hearing you talk about things happening during these PQ's. It makes it sound like you've experienced it happened just a short while ago. Thanks again for the great video!
Love your video’s dude, this will become the best maplestory nostalgic archive ever.
never got "good" at ms but enjoy the nostalgia of these vids and the fond childhood memories of this game
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
> 1:50 Sponsor
> 2:58 Sponsor End / What is a Party Quest?
4:15 KPQ / Kerning PQ / Kerning City PQ / First Time Together / 1st Accompaniment
> 12:12 Tracking
13:34 LPQ / Ludi PQ / Ludibrium PQ / Dimensional Crack / Abandoned Tower
> 29:30 Smuggling
32:17 GPQ / Guild PQ / Sharenian Ruins
42:21 OPQ / Orbis PQ / Tower of Goddess / Remnant of the Goddess
1:01:45 APQ / Amorian PQ / Amorian Challenge
1:09:30 HQ / Henesys PQ / Moon Bunny's Rice Cake
1:13:06 LMPQ / Ludi Maze PQ / Ludibrium Maze PQ
1:17:45 PPQ / Pirate PQ / Lord Pirate PQ / Herb Town PQ
1:26:41 CPQ / Carnival PQ / Monster Carnival PQ
1:34:28 MPQ / Magatia PQ / R&J / RnJ / RJPQ / Romeo and Juliet PQ
1:43:04 MVPQ / Mal Volance PQ
1:47:55 CWKPQ / Crimsonwood Keep PQ
1:56:28 Boss Rush
1:57:35 EPQ / Ellin PQ / Ellin Forest PQ / Forest of Poison Fog / Forest of Poison Haze
2:03:17 CPQ2 / Monster Carnival PQ 2
2:08:04 Abandoned Subway
2:10:14 Nett's Pyramid
> 2:12:33 Nett's Pyramid (Revamp)
2:13:56 DRPQ / Dragon Rider PQ
2:16:55 Spacecraft PQ
2:18:53 Alien Visitor PQ
2:20:27 Ghost Ship in the Sea Mist
2:23:07 Ice Gorge / Resurrection of the Hoblin King
2:27:10 Ice Knight's Curse
2:28:46 Kenta in Danger
2:30:39 Escape
2:33:23 DIPQ / Dimension Invasion
2:38:44 Cooking with Tangyoon
2:41:16 Xerxes in Chryse
2:43:51 Ending
(Other Possible Notable Mentions: Ariant Coliseum PQ, Hyperspace Cube, Commerci PQ, Erda Spectrum, Hungry Muto, Maple Variety, MPE, etc.)
This should be top comment, crazy I had to scroll so far down to see this. Great work
Im honestly surprised you didnt talk about the Orbis Glitch PQ runs, where it started like smuggling but you would have the leader hold onto the record and drop it while they unplugged their ethernet cable then spam click the guy to "complete" then plug their ethernet cable back in before they got d/c'd and it would give you clear exp for however many times the leader clicked. it was the fastest way to get from 65-70 but you had to be really discreet about it because other players could report you for it and get you in trouble/banned.
I remember how glitched OPQ divided the community pretty heavily with the "ditch the glitch" movement. Great times!
@@TheTikeySauce Man I remember getting into an argument with someone because I was glitch OPQing my way to 70 and I remember him claiming "That's not right. That's not how the pros did it!" - we were 11 years old. I don't remember anyone getting in trouble for it though.
I forgot about this 😂
Amazing video! Love the depths of these videos 🙏 bringing our childhoods back one video at a time.
I really enjoy these maplestory video essays. They are amazing to listen to while I'm working or grinding other games. Please never stop!
On top of that, they throw me back to when I used to play this game with friends.. I wonder, where are they now? XD
Really appreciate your videos on old school maple, its been such a throwback and i've been watching it with my maple buddies lately 😭😭
the PPQ quest from guon did involve PQ monsters though! I distinctly remember trying to do it outside and it never counted and the npc you enter from for MPQ did relate to which marble you got at the end ^^ where Juliet gave you alcadnos and Romeo gave zenumist.
Incredible research and editing! Ah so many memories for my best friend and I. Countless KPQ, LudiPQ, CPQ, OrbisPQ, smuggling tix, tracking, you have it all there. My buddy bought a lvl40 Assassin to play LPQ while I was a 31 Bandit grinding in the Cave of Evil Eye. So many characters, guilds (and drama). Ultimately I got banned for joining a party who glitched Romeo and Juliet PQ and poof goes my 82 Chief Bandit. 🤣 Stepped away from the game for years and now back in with that same friend, he's a 272 NL, and I'm a 272 Shadower, using the same character names from back in the day! The game has clearly changed a lot from the nostalgic content, better in some aspects but a loss of unity and collaboration from the early days.
Thanks for making this. I had the Receiver N headset but could not remember exactly how I got it, only that I was from an event. Watching your video trigger a long lost core memory I had so thanks for that!
Such a great vid, as usual.
I was WAY too young to do this, but I remember a friend's older brother used to "smuggle" the OPQ completion EXP.
The party leader needed to receive the EXP from the NPC, quickly disconnect the internet, and assign someone else as leader before reconnecting. Then the other leader does the same until all 6 are done. You would get insane EXP from that.
1:26:43 that transition was FIRE. appropriate for that pq. That pq was intense and a bloodbath. I remember fondly the close battles my team-- consisting of my cousin, brother and myself had vs other teams. The trash talk, the tbagging, the wins, the loses, even the strategy of assigning a capable mobber to the bottom (myself a pirate bralwer at the time), everything was great about that pq. Wasn't even pvp in the literal sense but boy was it in spirit. I probably did hundreds of those within my time playing maplestory. And everyone one of them was fun.
Very well researched and detailed. Keep up the great work covering oldschool Maple! 👍
I rewatch all your maplestory videos man amazing content! can't wait for the next one but don't burn yourself out!
Man what a throwback. Thanks for the vid and nostalgia! Love all the warrior struggles, my first character was a hp warrior since i didnt want to die 😂
Bro i know the pains of editing, so when i saw this almost 3 HOUR LONG VIDEO, i had to watch at LEAST half of it to give my respects for such great video, i'm watching it all btw :3
the amount of effort you put into these is insane! truly a passion project
This high quality stuff guy, very happy to have stumbled upon your channel!
Really enjoyed Ludi and Pirate PQ. Great job covering all of the old party quests Togain!~ 😇
Amazing video! but I have some things to add
1. R&J PQ at some point in time was used to grind at the room where there's gas rooms that require a mage and a thief, 4 people would just get to this room and each one takes up a side (top left, bottom left, top right, bottom right) and since the monsters scaled to our level, and the exp too, grinding here was much better than completing it (at the level 70-140 range I think)
2. In the new alien visitor PQ, there's this rare alien fragment helmet, that is SUPER rare, and can be hammered up to 22 times or something stupid like that? and I've seen a screenshot of one of these helmets with a stupid number of weapon attack and all stats... this might be the strongest helmet in the game even to this day? I would love a fact check, it might be stronger or as strong as the eternal helmet (or it CAN be with the right scrolls)
3. There's a PQ or maybe it was an event that I never see anyone talk about... ariant PQ is what I remember it being called. and this might be the first PVP in maplestory. You enter in at level 20ish to 30, and you compete against 1 other player, in a small ariant themed map. The goal is to attack scorpions and lower their HP enough to be able to use the nets given to you at the start of the PQ to catch the scorpions with. The person with the most scorpions caught wins obviously. I don't remember the rewards and if the loser gets anything or not but what I do remember is that I was much worse at english than I am now so I had no idea what to do... and I just ended up killing everything and losing every single time and being confused as to why I lost.. lol
4. You didn't mention that the reason for some PQ's lower popularity might be due to their location, since back then you had to travel for R&J for example, which would take forever since you had to take the 15 minute plane to orbis then another plane to ariant then walk to magatia (not sure if the camel taxi was available at the time).. so doing all that and then having to backtrack to henesys when you're done so you can hang out with friends? isn't really worth it.
On the other hand though CWKPQ has such good BGM that I used to do the jump quest that leads to the place of the PQ entry, JUST TO HEAR THE MUSIC. Mind you I SUCKED at and HATED jump quests lol... (RIP the strongest and scariest moving pillar that ever existed that you would poop yourself if it came FLYING AT YOU IN THE SPEED OF LIGHT AND YOU HOPE YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT SPOT TO NOT GET HIT WITH 90348707321087401 DAMAGE lol)
Another great video bro! I hope they make some of the old PQs into weeklies/dailies for symbols or meso
This video is extremely valuable for me as someone who only played BigBang era maple as a really young child. I've never had any nostalgia for PQs because my brothers never played with me much, and I didn't know how to converse with other players because I was barely literate and didn't know any of the acronyms people used (since everyone typed in 1337 at the time) so I never had much interaction with other players. It's so interesting to see this side of the game that I only ever experienced as that thing that an npc would tell me their questline was the point of, which signaled to me I needed to abandon the quest.
Brings back so much nostalgia.
For your next video, it might take awhile to get all the videos, but a video about the history of all the changes in job skills.
Loved watching this :) I'd be very keen to see something similar on the history of bosses
Great content as usual, Thank you for the hours of entertainment and memories!
Finally another video, loves these ty
EDIT: Yes I remember doing both R and J PQ so you would get both the exchange materials but never got enough runs in to get the Eye of Horus
This really brought me back. I practically lived in KPQ/LPQ as I kept rerolling characters. If you need video ideas, I think a series on the bosses would be neat
Such a good video. Would love something similar but for theme dungeons or bosses. Even a video on just all the major patches of maple story would be so good to see how the game grew
awesome video. looking forward to trying out some of these in the next sixth star objective, even if we're all massively over levelled at this point :3
42:00 I also saw someone drop one of those massive spears in the FM back in the day, but I never saw it again and never knew wtf it was. It's legit something I've thought and wondered about since I saw it in-game (pre-big bang patch). I even tried googling it a few times but never got any relevant results. Seriously blew my mind seeing that spear again all these years later. 35:36 I remembered it having slightly more detail, and with a purple orb/jewel between the wings, but it's still such a cool looking item.
Amazing job on these “nostalgia” Maplestory videos. I am always very critical of these types of videos because people usually make them for clicks and don’t care about accuracy - I didn’t hear a single thing wrong in this video. Most people who make these types of videos make shit up or are just flat out wrong, and that’s definitely not the case here.
Nice work. Keep it up!
I did a LOT of R&JPQ good times! At one point we figured out grinding the Roids on stage 4 was better XP then clearing the dungeon, the 2 weakest or the two with the least AOE would go to the top platforms while the strong took the bottom for more mobs, we would let people afk in the center just so we could get more XP even some times my buddy would kick people from the party so we would have the full map to ourselves..... Maplestory was cutthroat.
Loved the video so many good memories! Someone had to do it and I appreciate the effort and love you put into making this video
Thanks for uploading this video! So much nostalgia. I played all PQs, except for Alien Visitor PQ (200+). I wish PQs were a thing again.
The buff at 2:32:15 actually exists in Twilight Perion, used by the Sinister Steel Mask enemies in FES4. An annoyance for my low crit-rate legion mules that would grind there for the last few levels to 200
So how I remember Orbis PQ , they called it the glitch PQ. Where you would clear the first stage and then clear the Storsge room. Then smuggle out the pieces until you had 6. Then you would go back in and drop a piece for each player and theyd all bring up the dialogue box and clear the stage 6 times. Then youd give all the pieces back to the smuggler, rinse and repeat. And it was the fastest way to get from 51-70. Also you had to have not cleared the PQ or your exp would be decreased.
I remember so many of these fondly! The reason me and my friends grinded the PPQ hat was because we leveled at really different rates and still wanted to play together.
Wow, watching MapleStory video with ragnarok online’s song, two of my favorite games, nice work 😂🎉
Old Maplestory content has me nostalgic as hell. But when you play the music for River Belle Path omg it's nostalgia shivers for me!
Love these videos, keep them coming! Cannot wait for the next one :D
This was beautiful. I always reminisce about 2006-2008 MapleStory because it was my introduction to a true MMO. Social aspects, and a seemingly endless grind, and meeting friends along the way.
Returning to GMS on Reboot allows me to relive some of those memories through nostalgia but pre-bigbang GMS will always have a place in my heart.
I can't believe you never ran Romeo and Juliet, my friends and I would run it almost every day, we spent countless hours on Stage 4 grinding XP
fr i remember finding parties just to grind stage 4 thought it was more popular
Awesome video, fantastic work! Would've been cool to see you talking about Ariant PQ as well, minor and irrelevant as it might've been even for its time lmao
Regarding RNJPQ, if no one else has mentioned it, yes, starting from Romeo's side or Juliet's side determined which marble you got.
I'm also surprised no one mentioned how stage 4 of RNJPQ was actually crazy good EXP if you took advantage of 2x EXP events and had HS and a 2x coupon. I went from like level 90 to 120 in a couple of runs just grinding in that room with my party for the duration of the PQ using stacked EXP rates and it was the best EXP around at the time.
But MAN, THE SPACECRAFT PQ... better known, probably, as Unwanted Visitors! The VIP weapons that you got from it were so broken for a while while also being very rare, it was nuts! I remember the event itself - maps were dark, like a perpetual nighttime, though I think this was just in the Henesys area. There were aliens around everywhere and it was honestly the coolest implementation of an event I ever saw because it did feel like a real alien invasion went down in the game and they never actually physically changed the maps before for just an event, as far as I know. They've never made an event like that since. It was GREAT. I remember the PQ itself being hard to navigate and easy to die in as well, you had to really know what you were doing.
It was also, AFAIK, the only way you could get the Time Traveler medal, which gave a WHOPPING 10 Attack, which was HUGE for that time.
This was a great video! Such a nostalgia trip since I was playing since before Ludi even came out. I did NOT expect MVPQ to be in here, I even forgot about it until it was mentioned and it slapped me right in the face with a memory I never realized I even had.
Definitely remember grinding stage 4!
Yay! The Unwanted Visitors event was my all time favourite until I stopped playing GMS after I guess the R.E.D. update (my last character was a Demon Slayer) and I really wished to acquire the armour sets just for the sick aesthetics! Also, the storyline was great and really made me think about the possibilities regarding time travel and its consequences (I guess that's a mild spoiler 😅). Sadly there aren't any available sources/PSs where we can experience the event again and that's a shame 😢 Best regards ☺️
@@BlazeElPadrino662 I'm so glad someone else remembered the event!! My Windia character still has the Time Traveler medal, probably the rarest thing I've ever owned to this day.
yeah met a lot of good friends through the r&j pq lol we used to grind it til it was nerfed
Stage 4 Was excellent for farming. No one has mentioned R&JPQ's final reward which was the Symbol of Eternal Love. A necklace that was much better than the Silver Deputy at the time. But it required completing 20PQ of Romeo and 20 of Juliet without errors. After Merging the individual rewards (Two necklaces) of each one, you could obtain the SoEL.
great and informative video! but i think you might've forgotten Ariant PQ? From I can remember it was a PQ between lv21-30, competitive FFA with a lobby system similar to carnival PQ, and revolved around who could "catch" the most mobs, similar in mechanic to a stage from ellin forest PQ. I remember mages dominating this PQ because of their innate mastery and stable/high damage, allowing them to weaken the mobs consistently without accidentally killing them.
Absolutely loving these icebergs thanks for doing these for us
I’m pretty sure I fell asleep watching this 5 times already. just finished it today. Awesome video
Man seeing this can make me cry, I miss old maple so much, it's a part of my childhood that will never be forgotten. Coming back from school just to play throughout the evening and make gains and talk with friends was the highlight of my day, although my grades suffered I wouldn't have done it else.
Awesome video! keep up the good work. Loving the maple talk
Loved the video! Would love a video about theme dungeons like the first mushroom kingdom!
The best video I've watched of maplestory in a long time!
Great video, so much nostalgia. For MPQ on EMS at least it was fairly popular post big bang, but you would almost never finish the PQ, just stay in the neo huroid room and kill them until time ran out. They had pretty good spawn and normal xp rates. I think post big bang the neo huroids were level 95, so it was popular from ~85-100, but my memory isn't the best. No idea if it was popular pre-bb though, probably not on EMS as everyone would go to Singapore ghost ship maps instead which I don't think GMS ever got.
The EMS guy fawkes PQ was wild, I had totally forgotten about it tbh, only came for one event for a few weeks AFAIK and was never re-used.
There was also the gold riche PQ where you just killed golden hogs for the whole time which was insane xp from like level 15-40. As far as I know, that was only a one time event as well, I remember it being roughly around the time pirates came out in EMS, which was after knights of cygnus in EMS (wild I know, striker existed before the other pirates were added). I remember it being like 2 hours at most to go from 15-30, when normally at that time it would take more like 20 (at least for me, I was fairly young at the time).
I would be interested in a video about all the ways EMS differed from GMS and the other versions in terms of the order in which content was added. The getting striker before other pirates thing was the most egregious one that I can remember, but I am sure there are other examples. Would totally understand if you don't want to though, would probably require some deep research, especially since you played GMS yourself.
The EMS meta was really different for some level ranges, we got most of the region exclusive content from all other regions, except GMS weirdly. we never got LMPQ, and we got Jett (RIP) 2-3 years later than GMS (I think, my memory is pretty fuzzy on exactly when it was added to GMS). We did instead get Singapore fairly on in the games lifecycle, and later Boat Quey Town which is very good for the LMPQ level range, which changed the meta completely. It is a very nostalgic area for EMS players because you would spend a ridiculous amount of time in Singapore on the way to 3rd and 4th job.
Later on post big bang we got an area called Veracent which had insane spawn and XP rates for level 100+ from what I remember. The EMS meta was just very different from the GMS one I think, especially around the time pirates and knights of cygnus were added, when the two versions really seemed to diverge. Unfortunately most of this content was remover when the EMS servers merged with global a few years ago, which is pretty sad as I'm sure a lot of the areas are very nostalgic for EMS players.
I also remember that shortly after big bang came out in EMS 2x xp was stuck on for around 2-3 weeks, dunno if that happened on any other versions.
EMS in general was also around 6-12 months behind GMS for most updates. Looking around the internet it seems like EMS was barely documented at all, so it is hard to verify a lot of this stuff.
Sorry for the long ramble, that guy fawkes PQ bit just awakened the EMS exclusive memories.
This series is amazing!
So much effort and quality, thank you for these videos.
Thought about doing quests iceberg?
You are an amazing person and I thank you for making us such an amazing content!
Took me quite a while to realize the 'talk to npc' button functioned as an auto clicker.
I got right up behind the pq npc so nobody could double click me (though right click and 'whisper' could let you have a ctrl+c list of people to track)
Felt so good to run circles around a party leader that had kicked me.
Love these long form videos i hope they never stop
Thank you for making these videos man
Wow this was a huge throwback, very nice stuff. CWKPQ was a massive group activity for my friends and I especially when people paid pirate players to just show up since the job was relatively unpopular and rare to see in the higher levels around the time of release.
By the way, you missed another event PQ, i believe it was the Olivia PQ associated with the Haunted Mansion in New Leaf City, i only vaguely remember it because of the really creepy iconic chair that people could get from it.
Edit: Technically there was an El Nath PQ too for some skillbooks way back in the day.
The Eliminating the Pirates quest has to be done in 1 of the hidden rooms of the PPQ. You didnt have to kill the mobs, only hit them once before they despawned for it to count.
Thanks for this video, you are cementing my favorite game history.
Thank you for bringing the childhood back, looking forward for more, and more xD
This video was awesome, learned so much about PQ's I never did in my life
One small Tidbit: Mark of Naricain could be scrolled in EMS back then with Chaos scrolls. I had a 22 att myself - no way a HT Pendant could ever come close!
This is a one of kind, next level MapleStory content. 💪
The expansive voice, the rich script combined with the small details explaining and covering each and every small element of the PQ, the length of the video which I have never seen a nearly 3h MapleStory content video, the small references jokes, the sponsor at the beginning which you seem passionate about and not some trash game that pays you well, the research done on eras of the game well gone a decade and a half ago which transcended GMS into other regions like JMS, the background music, the separation between legacy versions of each PQ and much more which didn't come to my head - all make you a content creator with a potential for being a legendary status in a very short period of time. GG man, waiting for the next piece of art 👑
I remember making most of my long-term in-game friends at Kerning PQ. And roasting people that weren't paying attention at the barrels. They usually became friends too.
Must confess now that it's been 15 years - I definitely used an auto-clicker to get in, but at that point it was the only way to beat everyone else that was using it
54:26 I can confirm personally that this is true. At the time, I used to do rush Orbis PQs, but one time I ended up completing the full PQ, which led to me receiving reduced EXP in subsequent runs (with a friend at the time asking "Why'd you have to do full PQ"). I can't remember how much it was reduced by, however.
58:30 Kang Wong-Ki sure had a sense of humor back then.
1:23:58 Correction on the quest Pirate's Map: You had to defeat the "Lord Pirate's Devoted Kru/Captain" for the map pieces, the same ones that were found in the stage with a 1-minute timer.
1:27:14 Not true, Map IDs starting with "9" are almost always from KMS. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are usually non-KMS though.
1:41:30 It did indeed, Romeo would reward Zenumist Marbles and Juliet would reward Alcadno Marbles.
1:52:47 Margana is/was immune to Holy, not weak to Holy, meaning Holy attacks dealt 1 damage to her.
1:55:54 CWKPQ wasn't really replaced back since Tynerum Altar (the new version, formerly Crimsonwood Altar) coexisted with it, and was created by KoreaMS for reasons unknown, and closed shortly after. Ironically, Tynerum Altar still exists in GMS only, while other regions closed it as well. In addition, the original CWKPQ was closed in March 2016 with Nexon leaving an announcement that it would be reopened "later this year". Sadly that never came to fruition even 7 and a half years later.
1:58:22 Interestingly, the mysterious man in the black robe was Kirston, the same NPC you talk to in order to summon Pink Bean, and he's also relevant in the Pathfinder storyline + remastered Explorer storyline.
2:16:16 Sky Scale, and most other ETC drop items like the Hobb Warrior's Mark, were added in the Jump / Ascension update.
2:17:12 The Visitor event was actually unrelated to Masteria, though they did make a few references to it in the NLC alien invasion storyline in 2012. The event was also in JapanMS. As for the original event PQ, the stages were in random locations each time, but you had to clear both minibosses (based on Aran and Evan) in order to face the final boss.
2:28:57 Almost all of the PQs mentioned in the video still exist in GMS, they're just inactive since nobody bothers with them.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ariant Coliseum in the video, it was a good alternative to Kerning PQ back then. There was also the PQ required for Horntail as well as Mu Lung Dojo, which could be done with a party of up to 6 at the time.
I was doing the Eos tower challenge for the 6th job event, and I was reminiscing the mysterious element maple use to have. I remember Eos tower had almost 100 floors, and it was a challenge to now only go down, but to get back up. And the OG maps had so much more depth vs current day maps.
The bit about rush OPQ exp being reduced only happened after some time as a way from Nexon to nerf it because they couldn’t fix smuggling. This was the reason OPQ died although some people still did it. Shortly after, LMPQ was added and that became the new meta for those levels.
You’re making videos that people never knew they needed 🙏
'I'm sure you knew what CPQ was when you opened this video' I have never played MapleStory in my life good sir
If you guys really miss og pqs i'd recommend cheking on private servers (cough cough MapleLegends), i was just KPQing in 2023 with my warrior :)
In Romeo and Juliet pq you gained an item at the end. You needed 30 and 30 to get the pendant of the pq , starting the quest with juliet would give you her item and starting the quest with romeo would give you the other item you needed for the pendant
In R&J, most parties didn't go for clears. The real attraction was the mobbing in stage 4 being extremely efficient, So much so that groups would just go in and run out the clock grinding