[MSEA] December Events

December events pa la la!

1. Attendance check and grapes!
Hunt 30 Bunches of Grapes from mobs everyday and you'll have a stamp from Cassandra! Note not to log out before completing the quest, or the grapes will vanish poof and the quest will be automatically forfeited sob and you got to start over again.

Rewards!

3 days of attendance - Gape Belt, +300 HP and MP and + 2 WA and MA, limited time.

6 days of attendance - Grape Pendant, All stat +5, Weapon/Magic Def +50, limited time.

9 days of attendance - Grape Earrings, +3 WA and MA, limited time.

12 days of attendance - Grape Belt + Grape aura (WA/MA ATT +20 for 30 min)

15 days of attendance - Grape Pendant + Grape aura

18 days of attendance - Grape Earrings + Grape aura

21 days of attendance - Grape Belt + Grape Aura + Continental Scroll

24 days of attendance - Grape Pendant + Grape Aura + Energy drink (mobstar)

27 days of attendance - Grape Earring + Grape Aura + Choice of a 60% scroll

30 days of attendance - Perfect Attendance Medal, limited time

2. Start the artifact hunt

This quest won't be started until you go killing mobs and loot some enchanted rock looking thing.

Then, a lightbulb will appear and Gaga tells you that you need a permit to go artifact hunting! He talks a bit more, saying that he'll give you points whenever you hunt monsters and get the artifacts a.k.a. shiny rocks and you can trade these points for rewards.

 

5000 points - 2011 Artifact Hunter medal
10000 points - 2011 Artifact Hunt Gift Box
30000 points - 2011 Archaeologist Hat
40000 points - 2011 Archaeologist Face Paint
50000 points - 2011 Archaeologist Glasses

Set effects goes like this:

Moreover, be the top 10 and receive an even awesomer medal. The ranking for this is calculated on every Sunday 5-6pm, and there's 2X point on weekends apparently. So all the best! The points are shown at the top whenever you loot up a shiny rock.

At every stage, he gives you some kind of boost.
1000 points - 2X points
5000 poits,  Relic Cheer buff (WA5 MA10 Speed15) and a choice between the glasses and hat
Every 10,000 points - he gives you the 2011 Artifact Hunt Gift Box

The permit Gaga gives you will expire, so keep going back to Gaga when it does. Each permit you get is an hour!

2.1 Artifact Hunt Contest, 8 Mysterious Treasures
Shuang tells you to find 8 mysterious treasures hidden in the artifacts and return them to their owners. These mystical artifacts can only be obtained from the Unknown Relics (shiny rocks) and only those who checked then Artifact Hunt Contest announcement daily can participate. What does she mean?

When you've looted an shiny stone with a mysterious treasure in it, lightbulb will appear, and you are told to report to whomever and you'll get exp according to your level!

1. A Petrified Mouse to the Maple Admin
2. Gaga's Lost Glasses to Gaga
3. Cassandra's Ball of Crystal to Cassandra
4. Shiny Wrist Watch to Maple Admin/ then to Corba
5. Soccer Cleats to Maple Admin/
6. Book of Completed Quest to Maple Admin
7. Feminine Head Band to Manji in Perion
8. Old Admin Shoes to Maple Admin

That concludes all 8 mysterious treasures! Shuang will now present to you your very own 2011 Legendary Artifact Hunter medal.

Lastly, the Random Leveling Event!

Ok so the name is not really that, its just that if you're lucky, you'll have a chance to level when you pick up a shiny rock! Like this!

You'll get just enough exp to reach your next level. Sweet.

[MSEA] Chaos patch: Ice Knight Brr

 

The Ice Knight patch took an entire day, so there's reimbursement - 2X Exp & 2X Drop rate on 24th and 25th November, 2000 to 2200.

So Ice Knight mode is pretty fun, but it gets chaotic and messy at times and the Ice Knight blends in with the mess and the background. So look out for the blue label "Ice Knight" below the Ice Knight to figure its placing. Every other challenger in the map with you has a red label "Challenger".

So down the Ice Knight in 7 minutes and the Challengers win! I haven't seen an Ice Knight winning yet, and I haven't been an Ice Knight yet. So I shall wait!

I like events! So here's the Ice Knight Curse.
At 2pm, Cursed Knight will appear at Henesys! He'll mumble to you something about his fate and power and then curse you, after which you are led to Rosette in the Battle Square for more information.

Weirdly enough, she tells you to try an Ice Knight match and have fun. All you have to do is be the Ice Knight in the Ice Knight mode. Sounds easy but not really. Many just went in and once the game starts and they weren't the Ice knight, they left and repeated the cycle. I only got to become the Ice Knight at literally the last minute, 1459. Whew.

Pretty worth it to get. Website states that this event lasts till 31st December so have fun getting it!
Sadly, the rest of the events debut on 1st December, or need cash. Well, at least my Wind Breaker is coming along nicely. Chaos Warrior Challenge completed!

[GMS] MapleStory Legend Trailer

How cool is that?! I especially love the part where all the different classes are there in one line!

[MSEA] Extractors and what-nots

Exactly! What's cool about Alchemy is that Alchemists can extract their own Item Crystals and build extractors!

For Alchemists to extract crystals from equipments, its the tiny little blue square button on the extreme left of the inventory. For now, I can only extract level 50 and below items. You'll need 10 Basic Item Crystals and 2 Marjoram Seed and Flower Oil each. And tada, you'll get your extractor, in your Set-up slot.

The extractor lasts for only one day, so use it wisely! Double click it in your Set-up slot and you'll get a pop-up asking you how much you want to charge people for using your extractor.

You'll get your profit as people use your extractor. So there, happy extracting!

[MSEA] Technological Age: Herbalism and Alchemy

There you go, Saffron, Master of Herbalism.

For herbalism, you'll be given a shovel for you to dig up plants with!And your first task is to gather Clary Sage from Saffron's Herb field, which is to the right of the map.

So once you have Clary Sage, Saffron will teach you how to extract oil from the herb! So you gotta go back in to get another Clary Sage and get a Basic Herb Oil Bottle from Nack, the happy NPC ready to serve your profession needs!

Its like a witch stirring the contents of her cauldron hoho. Well, complete the quest and you get a Saffron's Herb Bag 1, a useful tool for you to store herbs that you dug up. By the way, Grant will give you a ticket to go to farm herbs from Saffron's field. Same goes for miners out there, but note that you can only go in once!

And rewards for reaching Level 7 Herbalism by 30th! (I just barely made it)

The Master's Herb Bag 1 can store up to 4 items and the golden shovel looks pretty cool. Whee.
And next, presenting to you.. Ally and her big book of Alchemy!

So just go on and make some stuffs! (The Profession key in your key config)

I must say I think the potions and things you can make with Alchemy is really cool! And there's still the extractor thing and fusing thing which I am currently still too noob at it to make sense of it.

So there, go on and explore it! But I must warn you, Alchemy is super expensive, because when you craft potions, you'll need 25 or 50 Basic Empty Bottle each time, and when you accumilate them, they cost a bomb!

So my Alchemy level has reached 5 and as promised, here's the prize.

[MSEA] Technological Age: Mining and Accessory Crafting

So before this Technological Age patch, you should have already received a lightbulb on your head telling you to see someone in Ardentmill, so here's that person! Tada!

Talk to him, and he'll tell you more about the professions you can choose, particularly the combination. So for my Wind Breaker, I chose Mining + Accessory Crafting cause I want to reserve Herbalism + Alchemy for my main!

Light bulb appears again, tells you to reach Lv. 7 by 30th November and get an awesome gift!

" Upon leveling your harvesting profession level to level 7 you will receive the following rewards.

1. Herbalist – Special shovel and herb bag.
2. Miner – Special pickaxe and mineral bag.

Upon leveling your crafting profession level to level 5 you will receive the following rewards.
1. Alchemist – Secret Potion Recipe & Energy Drink.
2. Blacksmith – Lv. 110 Glove Crafting Recipe & Energy Drink.
3. Accessory Crafting – Lv. 110 Face Accessory Crafting Recipe & Energy Drink."

So really, Cole gives you a Pickaxe, and he teaches you to press the harvest key to mine. And then he sets you off on your first mission, to mine Faded Silver Ore at the next map through the portal on the bottom right!

Next, you'll move on to smelting! Go back to the map and mine a Faded Silver Ore, and open the Profession thing using the Profession key. And get a Basic Mold from Nack too.

Haha I think its really cute! After you're done, Cole will give you a Cole's Mineral Bag 1 for you to put your mined items in. And you're done!

Next, we shall learn Accessory Crafting with Intaglio(cool name)!
Its not much, as long as you have the necessary items you can craft any accessory from the list! The necessary items are like plates and ores, which can be gotten from mining and NPC Nack, the guy who sells everything haha.

So that's all for Mining and Accessory Crafting! I do believe its rather easy to reach Level 7 and Level 5 respectively, so all the best!

[MSEA] Super Fight

Happy 11/11/11 today!

Since its such a special day, MapleSEA is having Hot Time! Remember those times where everyone would wait expectantly and it will lag so terribly and many will dc? Its back!

On 11/11/2011 at exactly 2011 (8.11pm), there's a Super Fight Hot Time! All characters logged in at that minute will receive a Gift Box and you've got till 2359 to open it! So what's in it?

An SP reset scroll, and 1/2/3 Gallant Emblem for you to switch with NPC Larson at the Battle Square (Go to Battle Square via Maximus in all towns). Lucky people get extra things!

Well, it failed so it was postponed to 12/11/11, 1430. Sadly, I missed it!

So here's 5 things about PvP:

1. EXP
You seriously get alot of exp from the 10 minutes that you are in the Battle Square. I haven't really compared the exp from Free-for-all (FFA) Team -match, but it makes your characters super easy to level.

In addition, there's 1.5x exp till 30th November from 1400 to 2100. FFA till you happy! No more need to ks people's map!

2. Its something NEW!
Finally, you can slash something that isn't a monster!

3. The POWERUPs!
Don't get me wrong, I hate it when you get turned into a monster when you pick up the random box, but its awesome when you pick up the "Power" power-up. As long as you monopolise the "Power" and take advantage to spam KO people, you'll rank up high! Instead of the normal HIT and COOL, you'll get lots of CRITICAL and event EXECELLENT!

4. I'm a Shadower so I can Boomerang step + Assaulter combo!
Well, there are some jobs to really look out for, e.g. Battle mage. Ooh I hate it when your character gets pushed around and fly around and get stunned and all. But that's PvP for you.

5. Battle points get reset every time you log out, so note that you've changed your BP for Gallents at the BP Exchanger before logging out!

Happy PvPing! Don't get bored of it so soon! I will though.

[MSEA] Battle Mode FTW

Except that it keeps dcing every other minute. But its so awesome I'm serious. Blog about it again soon!

[MSEA] Chaos is here to stay: EXP TIME!

Well, who's up for lots and lots of EXP?

Part of the Chaos Madness Event is the Boom Up EXP Event! (19th Oct - 30th Nov)

Different level range will be getting the respective bonus EXP as below:

Lv. 1 – 29: EXP +100%
Lv. 30 – 69: EXP +50%
Lv. 70 – 119: EXP +20%
Lv. 120 – 200: EXP +10%

That is, during a specific timeslot, weekdays 2pm to 5pm, weekends 12pm to 5pm.

And then there's the November School Break Celebration - 1.5X EXP and Drop Rate Event!

1.5x Drop rate:

1.5x Exp:

Whee! And because of the 10% EXP boost to Cygnus Knights character, whenever my Windbreaker levels it gains an additional 10% EXP? Which means I only need 90% to level up.



And I agree with some who say on the forums, Cygnus Knights highest level is 120, so why speed up the process? Maybe to get more people to be interested in starting Ultimate Adventurers? Well, it does benefit me, cause I'm trying to get my Windbreaker to level up 40 times under the Chaos Warrior Challenge!

For that, speak to Gaga and he'll tell you to level your character by 40 times by 30th Nov. For levels below 40, you gotta level to 80. From 41 onwards, you are to level 40 times. So the easiest would be leveling from 40 to 80. The rewards are to die for! Plus they are tradable once within the account.

Source: http://maple.asiasoftsea.com/news_events/view/chaos_madness_event/#5

Well, although the KoCs' rewards ain't all that great, I can't say I'm not having fun spam leveling.

Happy leveling!

[MSEA] Chaos is here to stay: Halloween Event Part III

We're down to the last quest: The Last Halloween Night!

What to do? Once you enter the portal, you'll see Maid. She'll tell you that Joey is waiting for you and tells you to hurry along to find him. (Frame room, middle portal of narrow corridor, then click the drawing of Sophilia)

And wow fat load of gifts you get! And no sacarsm intended!

Sweet, except that I already have a wa4 Witch's Deep Purple Belt from last year's Halloween Events.

I like the ring though, the zombie looking thing looks really cute. Hmm Zombie Army. Maybe when you press a little button zombies will appear and surround you!

There you go, Oliver's Chair. It looks like a demon slayer, with its wings and all, eh? Haven't been catching up on news in other servers though. Maybe I shall!

Happy Halloween!