darkgrudge88 #General Talk

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Burning Characters and Quest-Doing Hey everyone. So I'm coming off of a one-year break, and I'm seeing that A LOT has changed - to an overwhelming extent. Most notably is this burning character thing. Mostly, when I create a new character after a break, I take it slow and just do quests (especially storyline quests). If I choose to burn a character I'm about to create, will I just level too quickly and out of the recommended level ranges for a lot of the quests? I'm worried that this feature takes the fun out of leveling. Thoughts?

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Returning - What all happened while I was away? Hey guys, Sorry if I missed some Basilmarket legislation that made these kinds of threads against the rules, but here I am making it anyway. Ignorance is kind of an excuse, right? I left in January of 2013. That Alice in Wonderland/Crimson Queen/Weird Clown pit in Sleepywood was the latest update, I think, and I think this is also the time when everyone was given a free 30-day teleporting rock? It seems so long ago! How much has the game changed since I've been gone? I'm aware that there are new classes, but are there any basic sentiments about those classes or any kind of revolution in terms of the overall community/maps? I thought I might return to Maplestory for a little bit since I kind of

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The Death of Two Things Okay, I recently came back from a long break from Maplestory, and I was wondering how two seemingly characteristic things appear to have vanished from the game. 1.) Channel 1 FM population. There were always tons of people buying scrolls, showing off chairs and mounts, buying NX, and there were even bots spamming their websites. Now it's at most 3-5 people - at least in Kradia. How are people even supposed to sell things? Is there a new place boasting a mass populace that I don't know about? Like the shift from Channel 1 Perion to Channel 1 FM? 2.) Hene hoes. I feel like they were the signal that the community of Maplestory wasn't dead. As long as there were people willing to just hang around talking about absolutely