Pap-ing as a Marksman!
So yesterday I finally hit a landmark in my Maple career and hit 4th job for the very first time! And as a Marksman! *proud*
So me being hyped and all, decided to go see what the deal with this whole "papping" thing was.
And I guess I'm doing something wrong, because I died on my first run ):
It's not a matter of my range, but rather an issue of maneuvering my character and the use of my skills. My range at level 120 is 50xx~79xx clean. So using a 12 atk Warrior elixer allows me to knock him back relatively often, I know the range isn't great but eh, I plan on updating as soon as I get some more funds.
So what I was doing was, I would hit him with US, then summon puppet, I'd then hit him with Snipe and then spam US (He was on the left and I was on the right). He kills puppet in a matter of seconds and then comes for me. I was using regular Elixers on my run instead of Power elixers and I think that maybe why, but here's the question:
How do you as a Marksman, Pap efficiently? Any advice is welcome and appreciated greatly
PS: I would like to thank Wenbodou for being a source of motivation to level, and a bigger source of information! ChibiCross for his insight and advice on all the Crossbowman threads, I know I never spoke to you personally, but yea I'm here reading And all the basilers who helped me along the way and get me to where I am. Thank you all! <3
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[quote=wenbodou]just grind at sage cats for pierce 20 while watching a movie or something lol[/quote]
Haha I actually found 2 at the same shop for 7mil each, so I bought both. If the first works, I'll sell the other for profit
Moohaha
[quote=MarieHawke]Congratulations on your first Pap run! It's fun, isn't it?
The only tip I can think of, from murdering my first few myself, is to use big potions. Using high-HP potions that will heal more than the damage you take (probably around 2.4k~2.6k) would save you inventory space and could also counteract lag, because you only have to mash Q or Page Down or something once.
also holy crap your damage range[/quote]
Yea it gets pretty addicting. Did another two this morning I get depressed after the 2 runs D;
Because grinding is NOWHERE near as fast. I mean 40% in under 15 minutes is overkill!
Really, pap is not that bad. Even with crappy damage, I soloed him at level 110 (with HP equips) (pre BB when level limit, took me like an hour LOL). Simple: Use cheese or something, so potioning is easy. Get some MP potions also, and bring a bunch. 1/1 eat mp, so you really don't need a strong MP pot. (sorcerers are good). When you get hit, use a potion. Attack with strafe. Stand far away. If he comes to you, cast puppet in his direction, then walk back a bit so you don't get stunned. Don't panic xD. Just use potion when you get hit, and you will never die. Once you can KB, just pin < and puppet > corner.
Now, I can kill pap in DOJO. 2 minute kill is nice with snipe
[quote=HammerTirne]This is basically what you just said : "My range at level 120 is like 1.5k-2k more than yours and I think it's noob damage."[/quote]
Well I know for a fact my range isn't spectacular, because if you look at the "Post your range" thread on Marksman, those people have ranges of 12k upwards while only being 10-20 levels ahead.
Now why don't you go and run your mouth off at them?
just kb <~~~ and when he 1/1's he uses that shieldy thing. That's when u use puppet all the way on the right. Saves a ton of pots
Thanks so much for the advice guys!
I soloed him, was pretty easy after reading what you guys told me!
I guess basil is where the rest of the morality of Maplestory lies huh?
Thank you so much everyone!
[quote=Zarenthye]You summon puppet in the far right corner and hit Papulatus to the left until he's out of range to hit the puppet. Pap's range is about the second floating platform from the left to corner where puppet resides, so after Pap is past that point it should be smooth sailing (besides the annoying bombs that he summons). After puppet times out, just go back to the right, summon it again and resume to barrage the blue blob with Strafes.
And just remember to use potions without restraint - Archers have too little HP to try and use pots at the best efficiency level 100% of the time.[/quote]
So I don't actually summon puppet ON TOP of him? I summon it away from him? To distract him from attacking me? Hmm, I should try it.
I have 4088HP if I remember correctly. Dammit Maple is offline, I wanna have a go at him again xD
congrats those guys you mentioned are so helpful !
ok first things first, your damage makes me look like a level 10 and GRATS on MM!
Scenario 1 "can't pin the paper" Recomended equip: those REx Earrings with 10%hp
puppet the corner and walk past pap he will be atacking the puppet you attack from the behind
rinse n repeat
Scenario 2 "i pinz him!"(knockback him with the 10k dmg arrow)
basically like everyone above has said
you puppet behind you to the wall and you attack him as he moves towards the other end
hp pots that i was/am using are the pink pops ( i forgot their names) and double, triple, quadruple potting