General Paladin

Tips on getting my grimy hands on a purty Achilles 30 book? I guess this sorta applies to a bunch of mastery books, but, I haven't bought a skill book for my Paladin in YEARS (given that I hoarded everything EXCEPT achilles 30 pre BB when they were all like 2m each). I looked up where Achilles 30 drops and apparently it's solely from mystery books......seems a bit hard for me to believe I've been searching FM for a week now and I've yet to see an Achilles 30, and I'm not sure if I wanna play roulette with mystery books given how poor ingame I am. If one does show up how cheap would it be? Do you guys have any tips? It's literally the last skill I need maxed haha, and I guess the 50% success rate isn't very comforting either....

General Quests

I miss Skill Quests I know this is a bit of a rambling post but I really miss skill quests... lol I only managed to complete the ones for my Bishop and Paladin back in the day before they were removed, the effort it took for me was ridiculous, but it made me appreciate my 4th job skills a lot more, and some of them I actually enjoyed, haha The quest I had to do in Ludi for Resurrection was really interesting in that it had a nice storyline to go along with it, and you had to do quite a bit of traveling to get it done (And the really weird jump quest). It used to be somewhat of a community effort back in the day whenever a new bishop had to get Genesis from HTPQ. I also remember hunting for the Holy Grail for Divine Charge haha. Although far

General Paladin

Old paladin returning, tips on re-funding gears? So... I've been inactive for almost 2 years now, with on and off logins every 3 or so months (I've gotten around 7 AP resets so far =D) Is the gearing up process still the same as it was back then? As in, buying mass miracle cubes and hoping for %str stats, and then using equip enhancements. I do remember something about new scrolls that give +wattk to any equip but I have no idea how those work or whether it's feasible for me to obtain any. I'm currently at something around 85% str and I have no idea what my weapon attack is, but I have around 24k and 25k range with my 1H and my 2H swords..... Funding, zilch. lol. Which brings me to another point. Is there any boss raid I could farm for drop

General Bishop

Manon and Griffey Job Advance I know this is like vastly over asked but w/e So, I had an old friend ask me on FB today to help her kill Manon and Griffey for bishop job advance - She can't do it on her own because Manon and Griffey are inherently hard to kill for a priest, and she has an attack range around 5k. My paladin can do it no problem, but she told me that apparently killing Manon and Griffey is a solo job now. I've been gone from the game for almost 2 years now, so could anyone bring me up to speed on how I should do this? Thanks in advance for any replies, and sorry if I break any forum rules cuz Basil's rules are worse than a Byzantine conspiracy.

General Paladin

Coming back, need help on funding So, I essentially quit 7 months ago (Last June), and now that I've come back I need to refund myself....level 184 paladin I'm currently running around with 24.4k range clean with my 1H VIP, and 25.2k range with my 2H reverse nibleheim (30% boss) 88% str "unfinished" equips - 6% str 0 wattk 3 line epic timeless shield, 7 slots 3 line RARE 1H VIP sword, 1 enhancement - I've been unwilling to cube this because it has 15% def ignore somehow 3 line rare 15 wattk reverse gloves 0 slots 2% allstat 3 line epic spec goggles 1 slot 8 wattk 8% str PAC 0 slots Everything else is pretty much 12% str unique or something I also have a 12% str boots, I've been hearing a lot about 27 wattk shoes? I don't have a go

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Returning to Our Roleplay Roots I know that RP is a bare, trampled, starved, crushed, boiled, frozen, scarred scrap of fur in Maplestory, but I wish people would pay more notice to it. Whenever I see someone drawing comparisons between classes or trying to choose a new character, they see past the character's ideology and simply look at damage. "OMG WHAT IS THE BEST WARRIOR?" "UBER DMG PLZ" And yes, I know, nowadays class skills are so recycled that IMO the only difference between some classes are literally just the animations. But, have you ever played a class or chosen one because of the Roleplay? Say, the holy Bishop that keeps everyone in the party alive, even after death. (even though he dies after Czak dispels Magi

General Paladin

Bored random rant about Dispel So I'm at Pap in mu lung pq, and he friggin dispels, and it takes me like 10 friggin seconds to get all my buffs back up. Is it just me or do paladins have way too many buffs to keep up? we have, weapon booster, lightning charge, fire/ice/holy charge, power guard, maple warrior, combat orders, iron body, and power stance that's like 8 buffs! meh, it's bad enough at Czak, I spent more time buffing than actually attacking when it was dispelling every 10 seconds Czak would be dispel and I'd be like, ok, time to rebuff, so I get halfway through buffing and he dispels again and I'm like, dammit, restart. Then he dispels again! *rage*

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