I've played ALL except 12 of those games, in either trials or as a subscriber (I'm old )
Not one of those games comes anywhere CLOSE to the MS grind. Nowhere close at all whatsoever.
The game I've played most is FFXI, which is notorious for the tough grind, and even that doesn't compare at all (unless you compare leveling all jobs to 75 to leveling one class to 200 in MS)
Maple Story has THE WORST grind of any game that I've ever tried. And I've tried a LOT of MMOs.
Japanese Maple Story has a 1.5x base exp more than the other versions, and I wish GMS would follow suit.
Pretty much agree on what you say. Repeatedly killing the same thing over and over again, going to buy pots, spam skill button again. This is the main reason i quit. Maybe other people have different opinions though.
The grinding is bad but the awesome combat system balances it out. In my opinion it has one of the best "grinding experiences" plus it gets alot easier and funner after lvl 50.
did you seriously just say that?It gets harder and harder and harder.
Dude, did you just seriously say that? LMPQ,OPQ,and maybe LPQ give awesome exp. Partying(as explained earlier i belive) is awsome exp. Also MapleStory has no skill difficulty. I enjoy it when i wanna check up on the awesome community. Oh and the forums don't cuss or use much racism. You just looked at the first post didn't you. I apoligize i know were you are coming from but honestly maplestory is a good game i won't watch you say it's inferior...
"i have a lvl 26 maplestory warrior lvl 9 asda story archer and a adventure quest mage lvl 15 and my xfire is my bro's"
In every MMO's forum there are going to be some haters and lovers both on extreme sides of the fence... The haters saying stuff like "The grind is terribl! The graphics are kiddy! OMG A 2D MMO LOL???" and the lovers will be like "MAPLE THTORY IS THE BETHST GAME EVA!!!" no matter what... But the fact that these lovers exist is reason enough to just let it lie. In my opinion, all MMO's have a bad grind, but in this very thread someone admitted to being level 97, so, it can't be THAT bad if at least someone still enjoys the game after getting to that freakishly high level. As for me, I have like 13 MMO's on my computer because I have attenion span of a tampon. So anyway, that' my 2 cents. Maple Story is as fun as anything else in its own right. And the grind is a grind like any other grind.
AHMEN! Ha couldn't help myself... The grind is bad but get some friends people. Oh and dash, the people spelling like that ARE the kids.
"i have a lvl 26 maplestory warrior lvl 9 asda story archer and a adventure quest mage lvl 15 and my xfire is my bro's"
Psh you think Maple Story has the worst grind? Lineage 1 has been out since 1998 and not 1 person on record has reached max level, that is 12 years people. And lineage 2 is almost just as bad with its grind, Maplestory is nothing compared to that.
Too bad..... MapleStory is second to Lineage for grind!! Wait, am I wrong? Not sure I remember correctly that there was another one game that had huge grind. What was it?
Anyways! Oy it'll be faults when the Big Bang is on way! Of course Nexon doesn't care about players' NXs. That's their loss.
Too bad..... MapleStory is second to Lineage for grind!! Wait, am I wrong? Not sure I remember correctly that there was another one game that had huge grind. What was it?
I played Lineage at the beta and just after launch. It wasn't really that grindy. You didn't get quest telling you to kill 10 orcs, but some npcs bought their seals.
But is it less grindy when you get quests to tell you what to do? I leveled in a pretty normal speed. It might of course have gotten worse later. Lineage 2 on the other hand is really grindy.
I always thought it had a horrible grind. I mean sure it isn't as bad as Lineage 2. But at least Lineage 2 had pvp that ended up making the grind a little more worth it in the end. Compared to what, grinding more? Not really my style.
NO! Silkroad online wins the most grind award. SRO was one badas MMORPG when it first came out tho and that make me wonder why the dev's let a good MMO go to shit, why do they do this bs?
I always thought it had a horrible grind. I mean sure it isn't as bad as Lineage 2. But at least Lineage 2 had pvp that ended up making the grind a little more worth it in the end. Compared to what, grinding more? Not really my style.
L1 had PvP. The worst grind I did in the game was crafting elf stuff. But of course, it was my second MMO after Meridian so I might consider it a lot worse today. But I had pretty fun for a while.
But the time to make a max level tone in L2 is forever.
I find the grind horrible. I like the combat though. It's different than all other games. Even Guild Wars, my favorite game of all time, was "click" bash through 1+2+3+4 at strategical times. Or if you were a Monk, you played the red bar game. (Which I did quite frequently.)
All in all I will never play retail Maplestory because of the 0x XP.
maplestory was more of a social game than a MMO for me. The only reason I played it for so long was to party up with friends and go on a killing spree. Soloing this game is boring.
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I've played ALL except 12 of those games, in either trials or as a subscriber (I'm old
)
Not one of those games comes anywhere CLOSE to the MS grind. Nowhere close at all whatsoever.
The game I've played most is FFXI, which is notorious for the tough grind, and even that doesn't compare at all (unless you compare leveling all jobs to 75 to leveling one class to 200 in MS)
Maple Story has THE WORST grind of any game that I've ever tried. And I've tried a LOT of MMOs.
Japanese Maple Story has a 1.5x base exp more than the other versions, and I wish GMS would follow suit.
Pretty much agree on what you say. Repeatedly killing the same thing over and over again, going to buy pots, spam skill button again. This is the main reason i quit. Maybe other people have different opinions though.
did you seriously just say that?It gets harder and harder and harder.
Dude, did you just seriously say that? LMPQ,OPQ,and maybe LPQ give awesome exp. Partying(as explained earlier i belive) is awsome exp. Also MapleStory has no skill difficulty. I enjoy it when i wanna check up on the awesome community. Oh and the forums don't cuss or use much racism. You just looked at the first post didn't you. I apoligize i know were you are coming from but honestly maplestory is a good game i won't watch you say it's inferior...
"i have a lvl 26 maplestory warrior lvl 9 asda story archer and a adventure quest mage lvl 15 and my xfire is my bro's"
AHMEN! Ha couldn't help myself... The grind is bad but get some friends people. Oh and dash, the people spelling like that ARE the kids.
"i have a lvl 26 maplestory warrior lvl 9 asda story archer and a adventure quest mage lvl 15 and my xfire is my bro's"
I would play Maplestory if I had one of those hacking programs. But since I don't have one, I rather not waste my time.
Psh you think Maple Story has the worst grind? Lineage 1 has been out since 1998 and not 1 person on record has reached max level, that is 12 years people. And lineage 2 is almost just as bad with its grind, Maplestory is nothing compared to that.
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Too bad..... MapleStory is second to Lineage for grind!! Wait, am I wrong? Not sure I remember correctly that there was another one game that had huge grind. What was it?
Anyways! Oy it'll be faults when the Big Bang is on way! Of course Nexon doesn't care about players' NXs. That's their loss.
Hmm, Lineage 2 maybe?
I played Lineage at the beta and just after launch. It wasn't really that grindy. You didn't get quest telling you to kill 10 orcs, but some npcs bought their seals.
But is it less grindy when you get quests to tell you what to do? I leveled in a pretty normal speed. It might of course have gotten worse later. Lineage 2 on the other hand is really grindy.
I always thought it had a horrible grind. I mean sure it isn't as bad as Lineage 2. But at least Lineage 2 had pvp that ended up making the grind a little more worth it in the end. Compared to what, grinding more? Not really my style.
Pandora Saga worst part is the mobs are strong and the pots are espensive so you have to sit after every kill
NO! Silkroad online wins the most grind award. SRO was one badas MMORPG when it first came out tho and that make me wonder why the dev's let a good MMO go to shit, why do they do this bs?
L1 had PvP. The worst grind I did in the game was crafting elf stuff. But of course, it was my second MMO after Meridian so I might consider it a lot worse today. But I had pretty fun for a while.
But the time to make a max level tone in L2 is forever.
I find the grind horrible. I like the combat though. It's different than all other games. Even Guild Wars, my favorite game of all time, was "click" bash through 1+2+3+4 at strategical times. Or if you were a Monk, you played the red bar game. (Which I did quite frequently.)
All in all I will never play retail Maplestory because of the 0x XP.
Boom!
I don't think the grind is that bad. I find it less painful than most games i played <_<;;.
If your not happy with just hoard killing monsters, you can just go and do party quests...or quests at all.
maplestory was more of a social game than a MMO for me. The only reason I played it for so long was to party up with friends and go on a killing spree. Soloing this game is boring.