Wednesday, May 27, 2009

It is still a game after all.

As i was training one of my noobs. (My level 38 archer, anyone wants to help me please feel free to tell me. I will gladly accept. Hee)

I saw a very nice mega. A classic example of a very happy and joyous mapler who just enjoys playing maple. I decided to pm him/her to jiayou too. Not expecting a reply as I'm sure he would be flooded with private messages or BL or GL chat. But as you can see from the screenshot, he did reply me, which I think is really sweet.


I hope we can all follow his example. We all love playing maplestory.
Yes there will always be people out there to get on our badside. But always remember the reason we started playing maplestory in the first place. For most I hope its to relax, have fun and make new friends. Competition is always there in every game. Take it with a pinch of salt but do not get obsessed with it. This way I hope we can do our part to make the game we love playing an enjoyable one.

Let us all wish all Maplers in Maplestory a good and fruitfull day in Maple!
GO INSANITY! We rock! :)

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Compiled Guild BBS Guides v1.02 *Updated*

Hi fellow guildmates, with retrospect to MapleStory Episode 2's new events/quests/maps, here are some of the guides taken from our guild BBS (added in detail) to help you with some of the event/quests/maps:

[MapleStory World]
1.1: Elin Forest
1.2: Time Temple
1.3: Ellinia - Sleepywood Access

[MapleStory's 5th Birthday Anniversary]
2.1: Maple Chair
2.2: Maple Cape
2.3: Maple Leaf Equipment
2.4: Maple Equipment Drops

1.1: Elin Forest
To access Elin Forest, make your way to Ludibrium's Helios Tower. At the 100th floor, climb the stairs all the way till you enter a portal at the top. Once your inside the Time Control Room, climb up the small stairs to the machine and press up at the portal to be transported to Elin Forest.

1.2: Time Temple
To access Time Temple, make your way to Leafre's Cabin map (where the ship arrives every 15 minutes), climb all the way to the top till you see the Dragon Trainer. Double click on him and you will be transformed into a dragon.

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To fly, press Jump to do so.
To move, press either < > or the down arrow.
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Once you are a dragon, keep flying all the way to the extreme right and you will be taken to a second map. Keep on flying till you see the Time Temple landing place, press up on the portal to be transformed back into yourself again and you will enter the Time Temple.

Do the reverse to return to Leafre.
Tip by Pearl jie: Just move your dragon down to the clouds to return to Leafre immediately from Time Temple.

1.3: Ellinia - Sleepywood Access
Ellinia now has a direct route to Sleepywood. Proceed to The Tree That Grew IV, enter the portal at the top of the map and you will be taken to the next map. Move to the edge and jump off the platform to "fall" into Sleepywood.

2.1: Maple Chair
Maple Chair is the latest addition to the MapleStory chair series and it looks very good. How do you get it?

Collect sunshines from any monster and donate them to the NPC named Gaga inside the Maple Tree Hill map (accessed by talking to Gaga at all towns).

Double click on Gaga inside the map to check the growth of the Maple Tree and you will see the progress bar. If the Maple Tree is to fully grow, everyone needs to donate 1500 x 10 sunshines to Gaga (regardless of which channel you are in). Once the progress bar (or 1500 x 10 sunshines has been donated) is filled up, the Maple Tree will "explode" in every channel into golden and red maple leaves.

Loot just one golden maple leaf, talk to Gaga inside the map and you will get the Maple Chair.

(Note: Maple Chair is untradeable and has no expiry date.)

2.2: Maple Cape
Wow, Maple Cape! Cool.

How do we get this wonderful cape? Simple, this quest has 3 parts meaning each part upgrades your Maple Cape to add more stats.

1st part:
a.) Talk to Cassandra to start the quest. *Corrected by Pearl jie, thanks!*
b.) Find Dr Winston at the Perion area.
c.) Talk to Dr Winston.
d.) Find Arwen at Ellinia.
e.) Talk to Arwen and donate Snow Silks + Maple Leaves
f.) Find Francois at Ellinia.
g.) Talk to Francois and donate the Snow Silk Piece + Maple Leaves to get the first Maple Cape.

2nd part:
a.) Talk to Francois again "to repair your Maple Cape".
b.) Travel to Orbis to talk to Lisa.
c.) Donate Snow Silks + Maple Leaves to upgrade your Maple Cape.

3rd part:
a.) Talk to Lisa again.
b.) Travel to El Nath to find and talk to Alcaster.
c.) Donate Snow Silks + Maple Leaves to get your last upgrade for your Maple Cape.

2.3: Maple Leaf Equipment
How to obtain your Maple Leaf Equipment?
a.) Talk to Cassandra to start the quest for Maple Leaf Equipment.
b.) Donate Maple Leaves to exchange for the Maple Leaf Equipment.
c.) Double click on the Maple Leaf equipment to equip it.

How to upgrade your Maple Leaf Equipment?
a.) Talk to Cassandra to activate the Maple Syrup quest.
b.) Donate maple leaves to exchange for a maple syrup.
c.) Double click on the maple syrup to "upgrade" your Maple Leaf equipment.
Warning: The Maple Syrup has a 50/50 chance to either upgrade or downgrade your Maple Leaf Equipment.
Note: The Maple Leaf Equipment has an expiry date and the quest to obtain it is repeatable.
Note: The Maple Syrup Quest is repeatable.

2.4) Maple Equipment Drops
Refer to: http://forums.asiasoftsea.net/showthread.php?t=617199

Author: Moo2

Thursday, May 21, 2009

MapleStory v0.73

The link for the newest manual patch is up on the MapleSEA website.

Latest version is v0.73 instead of the expected v0.72.

You can download the patch from this link:

http://bayou.asiasoft.net/MapleStory/Manual/MaplePatch00070to00073.exe

Have Fun!

Guild Insanity Rox!

Monday, May 18, 2009

New Patch Information for v0.72

Patch information for MapleSEA v0.72 released on MapleSEA website. As it is quite long, I have decided link to the post instead of re-posting everything here:

http://maple.asiasoftsea.net/news_events/view/patch_notes_for_version_072/

Knights of Cygnus will be released in early june. Let's look forward to it.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

For those who think that the MapleSEA server check will finish on time

Well, here's an update:

Dear Maplers,

There will be a Server Check on 13th May 2009 from 0700hrs to 1400hrs (+8 GMT).

Please note that all worlds game service will be affected.

Kindly log out from the game service with the above mentioned timing.

We thank you for your understanding.

Update: The server check has been extended to 1600hrs (+8 GMT).

Update: The server check has been extended to 2000hrs (+8 GMT).



- MapleSEA Administrator (quoted from http://maple.asiasoftsea.net)

Guild Insanity Rox!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Try This!

Ok, was surfing around the Internet, looking for interesting stuff about maple... and just happened to read on playpark about how sites are "honoring" the Konami code by delibrately putting easter eggs on them, unlockable by pressing Konami code!

For the younger generation, the code is a cheat code entered into Contra (a Nintendo NES game) during the loading screen, so that you can have 30 lives instead of 3 miserable lives!

The code goes like this:

*up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A

(*directions)

Some sites with this easter egg, that still works, are Facebook and Google Reader.

Now... try it on this Guild blog! Just enter the code... and keep pressing enter to fill your screen with cute little MapleStory monsters! Be careful, it might get too cramped up to read anything afterwards. =)

When that happens, press F5~!

Guild Insanity Rox!

- Images of monsters are copyright of Nexon and Wizet, I got them from http://mxd.766.com/ (china website), maplestory database system. Please drop me a comment if you need them to be removed. The easter egg script was modified from http://www.cornify.com/, the way it's used here is inspired by http://www.speccedforawesome.com/forum/. -

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Some Guild Bitesized Updates (2 May 2009)

(Moo: sorry to stray away from my usual guides :P)
  1. Alfred89 has become an Archmage (I/L). BabyFr3sh has become a Priest. Ronieobb has become a Crusader. Congratulations to these new 3rd/4th jobbers!
  2. Elnovo and elnova are getting married tomorrow @ Channel 13 Wedding Town, 9pm, support their wedding by leaving your IGN in their guild bbs thread for invites. Congratulations to these newlyweds-to-be!

Friday, May 1, 2009

An Alternative Cleric/Priest Guide Part 1: The Cleric

Hi fellow Insanitiers! Once again, here's another MapleSEA guide by me, this time its an updated guide on the Cleric/Priest which was previously posted on my blog over at Absolutely Daniel Yoleh.

Well, lets first start off with the Cleric for this guide, yes the most popular party member of all times (Ok, I'm biased)!

Skills Available To The Cleric:
Bless, Heal, Invincible, MP Eater, Teleport and Holy Arrow

Bless enables additional weapon defence, magic defence, accuracy, avoidability of 20 to either the Cleric himself or the whole party when maxed. This skill is an important party skill as warriors depend on it for additional accuracy when they are low dex builds, for the Cleric himself, the additional avoidability helps by letting the Cleric avoid attacks or touch damage dealt by monsters once every now and then.

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? Yes.

Heal does what it says, recover the HP of both the Cleric and all party members within its range. Heal also deals damage to undead monsters, but note, when any party member/s is/are in range, the damage dealt on monsters will be reduced significantly (the number of undead monsters being dealt damage will reduce proportionately too) as the party member/s has a priority in being healed.

How does it work?
(Legend: ">" denotes heal)

Healer > 5 Undead Monsters (100% Damage on all 5 Undead Monsters and full recovery on the Cleric)

Healer > 1 Party Member > 4 Undead Monsters (Reduced damage and only applies to 4 monsters, full recovery on both the Cleric and party member)

Healer > 2 Party Members > 3 Undead Monsters (Reduced damage and only applies to 3 monsters, full recovery on the Cleric and 2 party members)

Healer > 3 Party Members > 2 Undead Monsters (Reduced damage and only applies to 2 monsters, full recovery on the Cleric and 3 party members)

Healer > 4 Party Members >1 Undead Monster (Reduced damage and only applies to 1 monster, full recovery on the Cleric and 4 party members)

Healer > 5 Party Members (No monsters get healed, full recovery for the whole party)

The amount of HP healed depends solely on skill level and a bit of the Cleric's HP.
The amount of damage dealt depends on both skill level, intelligence and magic attack.

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? Yes.

Invincible reduces weapon damage (it has no effect on neutral/magic damage) dealt by monsters on the Cleric (example being the Yeti's groundslam, touch damage dealt by monsters, etc) by 30% when maxed. This is an extremely essential skill for the Cleric as it helps reduce pot consumption by a significant amount.

Take note that this skill only works for the Cleric himself and not the party!

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? Yes.

MP Eater is very useful during your entire Cleric and Priest journey, but, when you advance on to a Bishop, it is no longer useful because your core skill - Genesis consumes insane amounts of MP per cast.

Mp Eater has a set % success of "stealing" MP from a monster until the monster has no more MP. Even when you are healing a group of monsters, MP will only be "stolen" from any 1 monster until it has no more MP, then the next monster will be the target.

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? Yes.

Teleport is a very useful skill, it lets you move across maps quicker though at the cost of MP. When this skill is maxed, you use less MP per cast and travel a greater distance.

Teleport also lets the Cleric avoid some magic attacks cast by monsters/boss by tele-ing away from the attack.

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? Yes (Very very useful for GPQs too).


Holy Arrow is the Cleric's secondary form of attack against monsters be they undead/neutral. It does significantly low damage even at high levels and will be replaced by Angel Ray when you advance on to a Bishop which does higher damage and knockback on monsters.

Conclusion: Should this skill be maxed? No.

And now on for the skill builds:

#1: All Night Long Party Cleric
Lvl 30: +1 Tele
Lvl 31: +3 Heal
Lvl 32: +3 Heal
Lvl 33: +3 Heal
Lvl 34: +3 Heal
Lvl 35: +3 Heal
Lvl 36: +3 Heal
Lvl 37: +3 Heal
Lvl 38: +3 Heal
Lvl 39: +3 Heal
Lvl 40: +3 Heal (Maxed)
Lvl 41: +3 Bless
Lvl 42: +3 Bless
Lvl 43: +3 Bless
Lvl 44: +1 Bless, +2 Invincible
Lvl 45: +1 Bless, +2 Invincible
Lvl 46: +1 Bless, +2 Invincible
Lvl 47: +1 Bless, +2 Invincible
Lvl 48: +1 Bless, +2 Invincible
Lvl 49: +3 Bless
Lvl 50: +3 Bless (Maxed)
Lvl 51: +3 Invincible
Lvl 52: +3 Invincible
Lvl 53: +3 Invincible
Lvl 54: +1 Invincible (Maxed), +2 Teleport
Lvl 55: +3 Teleport
Lvl 56: +3 Teleport
Lvl 57: +3 Teleport
Lvl 58: +3 Teleport
Lvl 59: +3 Teleport
Lvl 60: +3 Teleport (Maxed)
Lvl 61: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 62: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 63: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 64: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 65: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 66: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 67: +1 MP Eater (Maxed)
Lvl 68-70: 8 Free SP, allocate to any skill.

#2: Battle The Undeads Cleric
Lvl 30: +1 Teleport
Lvl 31: +3 Heal
Lvl 32: +3 Heal
Lvl 33: +3 Heal
Lvl 34: +3 Heal
Lvl 35: +3 Heal
Lvl 36: +3 Heal
Lvl 37: +3 Heal
Lvl 38: +3 Heal
Lvl 39: +3 Heal
Lvl 40: +3 Heal (Maxed)
Lvl 41: +1 MP Eater, +2 Invincible
Lvl 42: +3 Invincible
Lvl 43: +3 Invincible
Lvl 44: +3 Invincible
Lvl 45: +3 Invincible
Lvl 46: +3 Invincible
Lvl 47: +3 Invincible (Maxed)
Lvl 48: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 49: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 50: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 51: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 52: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 53: +3 MP Eater
Lvl 54: +1 MP Eater (Maxed), +2 Bless
Lvl 55: +3 Bless
Lvl 56: +3 Bless
Lvl 57: +3 Bless
Lvl 58: +3 Bless
Lvl 59: +3 Bless
Lvl 60: +3 Bless (Maxed)
Lvl 61: +3 Teleport
Lvl 62: +3 Teleport
Lvl 63: +3 Teleport
Lvl 64: +3 Teleport
Lvl 65: +3 Teleport
Lvl 66: +3 Teleport
Lvl 67: +1 Teleport (Maxed)
Lvl 68-70: Free 8 SP, allocate to any skill.

Like this guide? Feel free to leave a comment or two.