“Josh wouldn’t it be a fantastic idea to start writing a maple autobiography”

“Why yes it would be quite nice to put all my memories onto the screen for others to read and maybe learn, but I wont finish it and it will just get lost in our pile of shit to do”

So I made a compromise with myself, I said that i would not do it in chronological order but in an as it comes to me fashion.

And so without anymore of my ranting I’ll begin.

My very first memory

My very first memory in maplestory would have to be how i picked my class – 6 years ago in mid September my little brother showed me a game he was playing called MapleStory – I had played this game while it was in BETA but it was now released with a new server called Bera – I had played a few classes in beta so i had a little understanding of how the game worked and so I created ThatWasMyKil in Bera I set out with the goal to make a mage, this was reaffirmed when I was killing green snails and a level 8 mage top dropped – it sealed my future from then on I would be a mage.

I Spent about three days on maple island – it was very different back then, Mages had a hard time getting to 8 due to A. not having any points on str and B. not having any beginner skills. There was not auto stat adding and thus to speed things up I put 5 points on Str and Dex making each 10(I would later change both to 4) but in the end I made it to level 8 and made my way to Victoria Island, but that’s for another day.

Feel free to leave comments and questions  if you want to hear a specific story next.

And the fact that you pot lock with the combo of her attacks makes this boss very hard and in need of lots of team work and its not something that you can just brute force though – I ended up using 10 wheels its not the safest place for mages!!

Other then that I have been using the sidekick system to power level my Thunder Breaker on my main account for the + magic attack on my bishop. I’m not sure if Nexon knows about this but a 120 Cygnus can side kick with a lvl 10 and the party exp will leech them to 50 in about an hour, So my Thunder Breaker is 51 as of today hoping I can get it to 70 today and do the next advance

Heres a picture of some friends sitting and waiting in Horntails cave for the people in there to finish up

You start of as a you so in the online game

Lets just get this out of the way, games with multiple controls never work well with a touch interface, that said a small screen also doesn’t help.

Now that that’s out of the way lets have a look at Nexon’s offering to the iphone/ipad Maplestory: Thief Edition, well first off we can assume this will be more of these coming out (if this one does well) one can only assume that there will be an Edition for all the classes, or the 4 main ones.

So whats good and whats bad, well yes the jump and attack button are next to each other and i often find myself jumping at monsters, and the controls are quite clunky but what do you expect from a IPhone/Pad game – also as you could understand this game is quite intense on your iphones system so don’t expect to get hours out of it, and with no online or blue tooth connectivity its more of a standalone app. but putting all that stuff behind us, i have played it for a few hours now and its quite enjoyable, they game keeps it simple enough for some one that has never played before to be able to pick it up and go – but has features like scrolls to enchant your equips and is customizable enough to keep the most veteran of maplers happy with what they payed for.

So at 5.99 AUD 5 USD it seems like alot, its more then you will pay for alot of the other apps, but frankly i have played this game for about 2 hours now and im not that far in, compared to say toy robot series that are like 30 min each and 3 or so games, for $2 each i think its a good deal.

So why don’t you try it out!

Battle Mage:

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=27459

Wild Hunter:

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=27453

And that’s all i will be covering regarding this matter. maple news is such a pain to cover

So Josh! you might say lets see you do better, wheres your maple news site. and i would reply – i cant find good writers, and i don’t want to be doing all the articles. so then came my idea to make maple story podcasts, some say this was doomed from the start, why? well if you cant find anyone to wright for you why would they talk? well sadly that fell though as well, i remember talking to spadow about it and asking if he would come on, his reply was “i don’t like podcasts” well that was crap. Although there is a small niche group that enjoy reading my blog that number is small compared to the amount that get drawn in by the latest news sites.

Take the picture to the left, the Alexa rankings for spadow’s and savages site. both dwarfing mine. what i find interesting is that spadow’s site is falling since he started talking about things other then maple. will this be his downfall?. i say no, his site does not have a large regular reader base. let me break down his site trends.

1. KMS has a new patch

2. Insonya/mazefind/spadow posts about it

3. filters down though to southperry/sleepywood/basil and ellinforest

4. wave effect takes place, with small amount of hits from people that are eager to view then a few hours/day later the the wave comes in and the rush of hits come.

wait a few months and it happens again…I think i have lost my train of thought, so i will end up here with the following..

1. How many of you think the maple news articles are crap

2. How many of you would like to read/listen to a maple story news site/podcast

So guys take it easy i’ll see you in a few days, think i will make a video, and i also need to update the equips page on the site.

Watch these on youtube for HD