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12 year history of the game ruined due to autoban The autoban system really doesn't do anything to stop the actual hackers but can be triggered by glitches, including lag, as I found out a few days ago. Autobans can't permaban you but it may as well for all the hassle you'll go through trying to fight the ban(if it's a temp ban it'll likely take longer to challenge/appeal than the ban will last anyway), and players labeling you a hacker anyway. And during the biggest event the game's ever had? I could see that it was going to be a mess so I stopped after the initial tickets. I summed things up here from my past week of personal experience dealing with this and why I chose to walk off from the game permanently. My entered character is probab

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I dont know what the plot is anymore Between Nexon not filling in a lot of details, some obvious retcons and many other things... I have no idea what's going on anymore. I get that some time in the past, the White Mage became evil and turned into the Black Mage, recruited a bunch of generals and tried to conquer Maple World. He was sealed away by the 5 heroes. Or was it 6 heroes? apparently, it was really 6, and one was just forgotten. Roughly 900-1000 years later, the Black Mage begins his return as his general re-emerge. Or was it 100 years? The story can't seem to decide. Even MapleStory 2, which is supposedly set before the Black Mage, has massive modern cities with cars. Athena Pierce was just a child when this happened, and she's stil

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We have too many attack skills The recent resistance revamp, I had to use the SP resets and I noted that Mechanics have way too many attack skills- at least triple the amount you will ever need. And in 4th job you're just going to use Missile Tank with siege mode or laser anyway, siege mode does so much damage that it's not worth summing Bots N Tots. That's just ignoring the fact your hotkey settings will get quite crowded with a mechanic because of all their skills. My bowmaster, I use Hurricane for single enemies, and usually Arrow Rain for crowds or enemies one level below me(and if I got into Battle Arena I have to use Arrow Rain because Hurricane doesn't work). Broiler Shot is only useful on crowds in front of me, and is so slow that o

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a warning for those who do surveys through Nexon for Nx The Health Guru site links under Radium, the ones that offer 32 NX to view a page, are unsafe. The Health Guru website's been compromised. Twice now I've had the page redirect to a bogus malware scan page, which will attempt to install malware on your PC. The Health Guru site's had its ad banners compromised, I'd suggest avoiding them to be safe. The 200 or so NX a day you may get for viewing those pages isn't worth the risk. If you are on one of their pages and get this redirected popup, close your browser totally, restart and clear your cache. Run virus scans to make sure nothing was installed.

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Im going to miss Red Leaf High Now that the game is down for the update, Red leaf High is over with. I went from level 170 to 193 from this event, doing the free daily key, whatever NX I could get from surveys(usually enough for 1 to 3 keys per day from watching videos and visiting sites for 32 NX each) and I bought a 10K NX card which got me 27 keys. This last day I managed a nice 6K NX off some surveys which got me 16 keys. I probably could have got to 195 if I'd realized sooner that buying keys in batches of 10 gave a free 11th key. The people who spend lots of money on NX cards probably did better than me in that regard. I did lose 2 keys though- died on one at the 3rd round, and the game crashed on me in the first round of another key.

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Im going to miss Red Leaf High Now that the game is down for the update, Red leaf High is over with. I went from level 170 to 193 from this event, doing the free daily key, whatever NX I could get from surveys(usually enough for 1 to 3 keys per day from watching videos and visiting sites for 32 NX each) and I bought a 10K NX card which got me 27 keys. This last day I managed a nice 6K NX off some surveys which got me 16 keys. I probably could have got to 195 if I'd realized sooner that buying keys in batches of 10 gave a free 11th key. The people who spend lots of money on NX cards probably did better than me in that regard. I did lose 2 keys though- died on one at the 3rd round, and the game crashed on me in the first round of another key.

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Showa bosses are now unkillable All I know is, when I was in the level 150 range I could go to Showa, kill the 2 bodyguards easily and not have too much trouble with the boss. I go in today at level 189, and the first bodyguard is basically unkillable. Every hit that doesn't miss stuns me, constant re-stuns while stunned, and barely getting to move long enough to kit for more than 500K of damage before being stunned again. I had to get over to Konpei and leave. I don't see how this guy is killable even with all cures, because you're stunned again too easily. You'd need a full party to even have a chance, and I saw NOTHING about any sort of overhaul or changes to Showa's bosses. Anego wasn't altered, but a boss that I had no trouble with at

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I cant get into the game. Server check message I tried to log on last night, after almost a 2 week break, and Hackshield won't connect to the server so the game won't start. After a couple tries the client forces me to download and install a full update(clueless as to why) which takes almost 3 hours. That presumably downloads and installs... and now I get that little white pop-up with the server check message, even though the site says nothing about the game being offline. Then I check Nexon's forums and see people having login issues, mostly PICs not working. So great. I have to uninstall and reinstall this game from a fresh download, see if that somehow fixes anything, but I'll likely miss ou ton the bonus EXP because Nexon can't make thi

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I cant get into the game. Server check message I tried to log on last night, after almost a 2 week break, and Hackshield won't connect to the server so the game won't start. After a couple tries the client forces me to download and install a full update(clueless as to why) which takes almost 3 hours. That presumably downloads and installs... and now I get that little white pop-up with the server check message, even though the site says nothing about the game being offline. Then I check Nexon's forums and see people having login issues, mostly PICs not working. So great. I have to uninstall and reinstall this game from a fresh download, see if that somehow fixes anything, but I'll likely miss ou ton the bonus EXP because Nexon can't make thi

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Im officially done with earring crafting I've crafted- and fused- about 200 pairs of Half Earrings so far, and out of those I have got 3 that had excellent potential, and of those 3, only 1 has actually sold. No one even wants 6% earrings anymore, people won't buy below 9%. I have a 6% INT and a 6% INT/6% LUK earring that no one wants. Checking prices in FM I see that 6% pairs have gotten cheap, even the 6% DEX pairs aren't more than 20 mil. Just today I crafted 16 pairs(which was 6 total trips into the intermediate fields for bronze ore, plus the intermediate crystals I had to use), and of those 16 crafted, 1 was potential. I fused them all, got 1 potential pair out of those 8 fusings, and it was junk. Then I fused it with another potentia

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Ive had my fill of Miracle Cubes I bought a Falcon wing hat with potential, got some more NX through those "surveys" and have cubed this thing 5 times. Each time, the potential gets worse and even more useless. I started with a 120 DEF/3% DEF rating, and now I have 2 lines that add accuracy. Accuracy. The one stat they should just remove from the game because it no longer does anything. I know I'm not spending out of pocket by earning survey NX but really, this is kind of bad. If I had bought an NX card and bought 5 cubes I'd be beyond annoyed, because i have to believe they've set this system up to give bad potential on most resets. I'd rather just buy another scrolled potential hat and not worry about these cubes.

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no enemy Hp bars, cant mine, games sluggish Ah, more of Nexon's goofy nonsense. I know the game worked right yesterday but today, I can't mine rocks at all. I get that stupid "you cannot collect it yet" message almost every time, and when it does seem to try to work, I get the first frame of the chipping animation and then it stops. Enemy HP bars aren't working at all, and the game's frame rate is just spotty at best even in areas it shouldn't do this. And this isn't new because I had this problem one day last month. Just as well, I can use a few days off from the game. I'm bored busting my butt to mine ore, refine crystals and raise my other character's levels up to craft earrings and fuse earrings, just so I can spend a month &q

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