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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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
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.
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!
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 ❤️
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 ;-)
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.
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.
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.
A big pain for me was needing to go to the whale guy for a green chair that heals you 50 hp per a few sec , while later on every one got it from first or second in game quest.
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.
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...
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 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
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
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.
Weighted earrings from wild boars with a lukless cleric lol... I was a Henyhoe for a while until I was adopted by a warrior to tank for me 😁 Also, trying to hit jr. Boogies and neckis and Balrog on the ship!
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.
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"
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'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.
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)
i loved old school maplestory so much! and ofc we all remember the pain. i remember the pain in the 3rd job advancement when we had to drink soup to stay alive in EL NATH zone while answering the question, i remember checking the answers in google and getting anxious checking if the soup effect is coming to end, i once died because of it (was mage class, fire poison to exact) and had to buy the dark crystal once again i remember it was around 3 mill mesos back then which was a lot for me because i wasnt into trading in the free market rather questing and trying to complete all quests in game (including jump quests), i would return to maplestory if questing and party questing is still a thing now :P, but it seems like it isnt, sadly. but im happy to see that the one of the games is still fucking alive!!!!
IIRC you also didn't want to go above a level before your job advancement, otherwise you'd actually miss out on a skill point, so if you were stuck on your 3rd/4th job advancement, you couldn't actually go out to farm mobs or anything that gave you xp.
above the level of the job advancement didn't matter, I was 87 before 3rd job got released as well as several other hardcore players back then. Curryishot (the 1st person to hit the 100 mark in GMS) for example was already 10x and tiger was also 100 before 3rd job was released rl friend of mine ice mage was 95 (all the higher lvls were farming at cooly zombies then).
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)
the shook me to the core..but this is what made maplestory so great was the hurt you went through and seeing those drops and items was a very exciting thing you would party with random people cause it was a struggle by yourself thats what people remember from this game.
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.
The clip is just reminiscent. I remember how struggle was i when started with a bow man, arrow was so neccessary and rare back then. And it was so cheerful and proud when i got the tube, umbrella and the candy pop weapon. I just comeback and play new maplestory after like 10 years but the replacement is impossible, the old maplestory was the best back then. Thanks for the clip mate.
4:35 I never used those kinds of shops. Saw people hawking stuff in the free market with lots of @ signs to make their speech bubble taller. Happened in some other places too, but free market ch1 was always packed solid with players. Alternatively, there was basilmarket - like an ebay for stuff in MapleStory I guess, where you could auction something, or buy something at auction, then arrange to meet in game to trade directly.
oh man this gives me the warm feeling and memorys of doing the old kerning tower killing cds and bobas on a Friday after school ends what a nice feeling thanks for the trip coppersan
there was this one quest in showa town. You had to help out a crying girl and i remember the quest being so lengthy and costly only to get rewarded with potions!
Wow so many memories!!! 3rd job adv was a beautiful and painful thing. Still remember my first sin to 3rd job, almost cried lol. Watching ppl doing their 3rd jobs on the internet with Linkin Park BGM Love this kind of videos! If u can please make more like these
bruh slog from 20-30 doign kerning PQ felt like it took FOREVER And 30-70 was a lifetime. I didnt get a 100+ until they revamped the system and upped the XP Sauna made me laugh. i remember doing dexless thief and spending millions and millions on a good sauna robe, gloves and claw/stars
Oh nostalgia trip. Worst drug there is. FM if you got lucky and found someone doing a generous 1 me so shop. Hard to find items for quests? Remember the electrophants in nlc? Trying to get them to drop hyper glyphs was near impossible. The poor mages having to deal with no str till level 8. And oh man Endure used to be a budget skill. Them ol days
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.
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;
A real pain for me was the fact that my internet connection sucked back then, so getting to Orbis via the 30min boat ride was a total gamble, since the disconnect could occur at any moment. This meant that changing continents could take whole day for me, since usualy the disconnect occurred around 5 minutes left on the voyage. Also, if I recall correctly, doing Ludibrium quests were total pain for poor maplers back then, since using return to nearest scroll would take you to Omega sector below floor 50, and if you couldn't buy Eos rock scrolls, you had to climb half of the tower back, just to get on floor range to teleport back to Ludibrium, to get more quests for the tower.
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... ):
5:44 There was a weird quest from Showa town which asked you to defeat Mushmom. Problem was, it was a lv40-or-below quest, and beating Mushmom at lv40 seemed impractical. Theoretically, you could party with a lv60-or-so player and have them do it for you, which is an interesting game mechanic, but I suspect the lv40-and-below thing might have been a bug, and maybe it should have been lv40+.
Maaaan the zakuum prequests. I totally forgot about that. Also that NLC guild party quest where you needed 2 of each class was incredibly hard to pull off. You needed many many friends
I was always poor, which made leveling take so much harder. Luckily I was a spearman and not a magician so I just attacked without skills if I ran out of potions lol
Not too old school but I missed when planning travels was a thing - friends would come up to me and ask what is most optimal path from a town to another, taking in account of ship cost/possible tp from quests/etc. It saved me a lot of mesos throughout the years from different periods of mapling
I remember I had a level 51 Fighter named akumario. I was so hype to reach that level (thank you CPQ days) and after that I didn’t know what else to do to grind to the 3rd. Lol rest easy akumario
I remember when 4th job came around & in order to get the Smokescreen skill on my Shadower I had to go hunt monsters for hours upon hours just for it to drop. Loved it
5:50 I think there were at least 2 reasons for handing your login details to a Zakum quest service to carry your character through it. 1. Difficulty of the jump quest component. 2. As alluded to at 1:12, with insufficient accuracy, your attacks would consistently miss monsters. You could boost accuracy by putting points into DEX, but in the damage formula for warriors, DEX contributed 1/5 as much to your damage as STR. So, the strategy was to put as much into STR and as little into DEX as possible. There was something similar for thief-classes, but I can't remember the difference. As mentioned at 1:38, you could use gear with accuracy boosts to compensate for lack of DEX on your character, and the Zakum Helm provides a pretty big boost. Problem is, warriors would want it long before their level was actually high enough to handle Zakum, hence, employing a service to carry your character through the quest, and obtain the Zakum Helm, which binds on pickup. I guess reason 2 doesn't require sharing of login details, and this can all be bypassed with scissors of karma, but that's a cash item. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. A friend of mine who was a lot better in Maplestory used such a service from sleepywood.net (I think), but I never did it myself.
Late reaction but i bought a zakum service with acc login, and they also traded HP gear to my account to make it to 2k HP (3.2k with HB that was neccessary)
Also I remember everyone hid in the underdeck of the ship that brought you from victoria island to ludibrium as there was a balrog killing everyone not capable of killing him xD
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.
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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
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 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
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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 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
@No Name 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
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.
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 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
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!
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 ❤️
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
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😐
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.
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
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!
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
Old Maple, best Maple. KPQ, auto-clickers, smuggling, 1 year of training to reach Lv.70.
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
A big pain for me was needing to go to the whale guy for a green chair that heals you 50 hp per a few sec , while later on every one got it from first or second in game quest.
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
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.
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
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 :(
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!).
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
The Eos tower quests were a pain. All that effort for Eos tower scrolls >.
Anybody else remember how hard it was to start a guild? I remember being so excited once I was finally able to create one
Omgggg please make more videos related to old maplestory. These contents are so nostalgic!! Your awesome coppersaaan
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
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 🤣
Great times. The way to becoming a Bishop was BORING as hell.. also a real struggle 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
Nice video! Also when it comes to annoying quests, The Hero's gladius comes to mind. Also those deep sea Aqua Road quests.
PQ’s being the best source of xp and having pages of names saved to use as track.
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
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!
Weighted earrings from wild boars with a lukless cleric lol... I was a Henyhoe for a while until I was adopted by a warrior to tank for me 😁 Also, trying to hit jr. Boogies and neckis and Balrog on the ship!
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
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
These things prepared me for real life.
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'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.
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)
omfg i completely forgot about having to sit in a chair for a while to regain hp and mp
Holy cow. It’s wild to see you still making videos. I remember seeing your vids years and years ago when I played OG maple
i loved old school maplestory so much! and ofc we all remember the pain. i remember the pain in the 3rd job advancement when we had to drink soup to stay alive in EL NATH zone while answering the question, i remember checking the answers in google and getting anxious checking if the soup effect is coming to end, i once died because of it (was mage class, fire poison to exact) and had to buy the dark crystal once again i remember it was around 3 mill mesos back then which was a lot for me because i wasnt into trading in the free market rather questing and trying to complete all quests in game (including jump quests), i would return to maplestory if questing and party questing is still a thing now :P, but it seems like it isnt, sadly. but im happy to see that the one of the games is still fucking alive!!!!
IIRC you also didn't want to go above a level before your job advancement, otherwise you'd actually miss out on a skill point, so if you were stuck on your 3rd/4th job advancement, you couldn't actually go out to farm mobs or anything that gave you xp.
above the level of the job advancement didn't matter, I was 87 before 3rd job got released as well as several other hardcore players back then. Curryishot (the 1st person to hit the 100 mark in GMS) for example was already 10x and tiger was also 100 before 3rd job was released rl friend of mine ice mage was 95 (all the higher lvls were farming at cooly zombies then).
@@TheRealPulverize Ah, then I misremembered, thanks for informing me!
I saw "old school" so I clicked. Hey you forgot intercontinental ship travel!
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)
Reaching 84 was my glorious day... goosebump all the way through the video :,)
Thanks Coppersan!
the shook me to the core..but this is what made maplestory so great was the hurt you went through and seeing those drops and items was a very exciting thing you would party with random people cause it was a struggle by yourself thats what people remember from this game.
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
Walking from Kerning to Henesys was a pain without the mesos for a cab..
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.
The pain from like level 30-35 you can’t really use your new skills from 2nd job cause it was too weak 🥲
every training guide: "you can put 1sp in your mob skill for fun, but you want to max mastery ASAP" HNNNGG
@@oatsgoats39 why must you hurt me more 😭😭😭
I was expecting to see people spamming @@@ in perion when you said 'trading', that was way more painful than those shops.
The clip is just reminiscent. I remember how struggle was i when started with a bow man, arrow was so neccessary and rare back then. And it was so cheerful and proud when i got the tube, umbrella and the candy pop weapon. I just comeback and play new maplestory after like 10 years but the replacement is impossible, the old maplestory was the best back then. Thanks for the clip mate.
Every single one of these hurt me to my core. I can't
O god this video hurt my soul🤣🤣🤣🤣
Rly felt these but they were also part of what Maple so great, finally getting past these was such an accomplishing and satisfying feeling
4:35 I never used those kinds of shops. Saw people hawking stuff in the free market with lots of @ signs to make their speech bubble taller. Happened in some other places too, but free market ch1 was always packed solid with players.
Alternatively, there was basilmarket - like an ebay for stuff in MapleStory I guess, where you could auction something, or buy something at auction, then arrange to meet in game to trade directly.
HP washing and the insane costs of dexless items for assasins.
oh man this gives me the warm feeling and memorys of doing the old kerning tower killing cds and bobas on a Friday after school ends what a nice feeling thanks for the trip coppersan
That FoG video brought back memories. Thank you :)
there was this one quest in showa town. You had to help out a crying girl and i remember the quest being so lengthy and costly only to get rewarded with potions!
Wow so many memories!!! 3rd job adv was a beautiful and painful thing. Still remember my first sin to 3rd job, almost cried lol. Watching ppl doing their 3rd jobs on the internet with Linkin Park BGM
Love this kind of videos! If u can please make more like these
bruh slog from 20-30 doign kerning PQ felt like it took FOREVER
And 30-70 was a lifetime.
I didnt get a 100+ until they revamped the system and upped the XP
Sauna made me laugh. i remember doing dexless thief and spending millions and millions on a good sauna robe, gloves and claw/stars
Oh nostalgia trip. Worst drug there is. FM if you got lucky and found someone doing a generous 1 me so shop. Hard to find items for quests? Remember the electrophants in nlc? Trying to get them to drop hyper glyphs was near impossible. The poor mages having to deal with no str till level 8. And oh man Endure used to be a budget skill. Them ol days
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😂
Didn't even watch yet but I already know this video will be awesome. The nostalgia videos are always so good.
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;
A real pain for me was the fact that my internet connection sucked back then, so getting to Orbis via the 30min boat ride was a total gamble, since the disconnect could occur at any moment. This meant that changing continents could take whole day for me, since usualy the disconnect occurred around 5 minutes left on the voyage.
Also, if I recall correctly, doing Ludibrium quests were total pain for poor maplers back then, since using return to nearest scroll would take you to Omega sector below floor 50, and if you couldn't buy Eos rock scrolls, you had to climb half of the tower back, just to get on floor range to teleport back to Ludibrium, to get more quests for the tower.
I found your channel through your nostalgia series. I subscribed! Keep it coming
The loading time and lag was... oof. It’s painful to think back on it, ahahaha.
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
Will never forget when i first defeated balrog in the ship and all the ghosts who had died and noobs came out and congratulated me xd
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... ):
5:44 There was a weird quest from Showa town which asked you to defeat Mushmom. Problem was, it was a lv40-or-below quest, and beating Mushmom at lv40 seemed impractical. Theoretically, you could party with a lv60-or-so player and have them do it for you, which is an interesting game mechanic, but I suspect the lv40-and-below thing might have been a bug, and maybe it should have been lv40+.
Think ill be needing counseling after this it all comes back now 😭
When I made my first mage I accidentally put all my points into magic guard, so I had no attacking skills...
Hahaha hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The worst quest I get in mind is the one where you have to farm 20 Lunar dews and the bonus quest tho...
But I really damn feel that
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 😂
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.
Maaaan the zakuum prequests. I totally forgot about that.
Also that NLC guild party quest where you needed 2 of each class was incredibly hard to pull off. You needed many many friends
I was always poor, which made leveling take so much harder. Luckily I was a spearman and not a magician so I just attacked without skills if I ran out of potions lol
y’all remember grinding monsters at that secret haunted house in NLC, ya me too
Haha so good moments ! I remember getting to lv 70 was my dream so i could get flash jump and shadow partner 😂
Not too old school but I missed when planning travels was a thing - friends would come up to me and ask what is most optimal path from a town to another, taking in account of ship cost/possible tp from quests/etc.
It saved me a lot of mesos throughout the years from different periods of mapling
Oh the pain of not being able to jump down back then
I remember I had a level 51 Fighter named akumario. I was so hype to reach that level (thank you CPQ days) and after that I didn’t know what else to do to grind to the 3rd. Lol rest easy akumario
I remember when 4th job came around & in order to get the Smokescreen skill on my Shadower I had to go hunt monsters for hours upon hours just for it to drop. Loved it
5:50 I think there were at least 2 reasons for handing your login details to a Zakum quest service to carry your character through it.
1. Difficulty of the jump quest component.
2. As alluded to at 1:12, with insufficient accuracy, your attacks would consistently miss monsters. You could boost accuracy by putting points into DEX, but in the damage formula for warriors, DEX contributed 1/5 as much to your damage as STR. So, the strategy was to put as much into STR and as little into DEX as possible. There was something similar for thief-classes, but I can't remember the difference.
As mentioned at 1:38, you could use gear with accuracy boosts to compensate for lack of DEX on your character, and the Zakum Helm provides a pretty big boost. Problem is, warriors would want it long before their level was actually high enough to handle Zakum, hence, employing a service to carry your character through the quest, and obtain the Zakum Helm, which binds on pickup.
I guess reason 2 doesn't require sharing of login details, and this can all be bypassed with scissors of karma, but that's a cash item.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. A friend of mine who was a lot better in Maplestory used such a service from sleepywood.net (I think), but I never did it myself.
Late reaction but i bought a zakum service with acc login, and they also traded HP gear to my account to make it to 2k HP (3.2k with HB that was neccessary)
Also I remember everyone hid in the underdeck of the ship that brought you from victoria island to ludibrium as there was a balrog killing everyone not capable of killing him xD
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.