MapleStory

[Chromer]

Re: MapleStory

What scrolls are they? I might want to buy them. I've been in a scroll frenzy ever since I found out how to actually use them last weekend. ^_^

[banditcom]

Re: Maple Story

Fixed the title.

[OniSplitter]

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Afro, once you max out SR and HS, most guides say you should max dragon (the ones I have read anyway.) ER is worth a few points IMO but wouldn't be worth maxing until later. I think the reason for dragon would be to be able to attack while still healing (plus only 5k for 5 minutes when maxed.) I dunno, I will probably end up maxing all but doom unless I decide to get 1 doom and sacrifice 1 elemental resist. Not really sure yet but I dont have to worry about it until level 92. Oh got my sin to level 32 today doing quests. xD

[evilbutterfly]

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I've been looking into Priest skills. Is resist worth maxing? It looks pretty decent, but I'm not 100%. Most magic isn't even elemental, is it?

Anyway, it looks like I can get pretty much everything. Doom is pretty much useless, and so is Dragon, right? It seems like I can max everything except doom and dragon and have 30 points left. Meaning, I can do something like 15 in each or something. Or, I could do 29 dragon and 1 doom, since dragon is surely more useful than doom.

Does that sound right? And if I don't get resist, that frees up 20 points that can go into doom or dragon or some other crappy skill.

IMO, dragon (and all the summoning skills) suck a big wang, and from what I've heard out of others, people who get them agree with me. Go find any video with an eagle or dragon and watch how slowly they attack. Yeah, it's 150 base attack, but 150 base attack every 10 seconds is terrible. You'd be better off just firing any other attack every once in a while than wasting a summoning rock on a dragon.

Doom seems pretty silly, but think about the uses. You'd be able to tackle big monsters without Guard or Hyber Body. It seems like a stupid extra cost, but think about the money you'd save on pots while fighting Thanatos or Gatekeepers. The only time you'd use Dragon would be for Zakum or other big boss monsters, and in such an instance you'd have a party doing damage for you so the dragon would be of little help.

Speaking of Zakum, resist helps a ton with him from what I gather. If I were you, I'd take resist way before even considering either Doom or Dragon. With resist you'd take like, no dmg from anything. XD

EDIT (after seeing Oni's post): "5k for 5 minutes when maxed"? HS says it lasts 140 seconds, which isn't even half that. Also, I'd say that neither of the skills are worth getting unless they're maxed out. I'd rather max resist than have only one point in Doom. At level 1 it only lasts 5 secs and doesn't even work half the time...

[Afrobean]

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Damn.

You guys both bring up good points.

I guess I'll put it on the back burner for a while. I'm still a long ways off from really worrying about doom or dragon. At least I already know what I'm doing right away.

1 dispel
2 dispel 1 door
3 HS
3 HS
etc. til maxed then the same for SR

That should be a good long time.

By the way, Noah, doom doesn't work on bosses. I'm pretty sure Thanatos is. What about gatekeepers though? Are they? Either way, I could hunt Lycans and WW by mass dooming them all. Sure, I'd probably need MG on in case it failed, but SRing a bunch of snails to death and getting good drops would own hardcore.

[banditcom]

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Dammit it didn't fix.

And Noah, eagles own. Their stun is great for soloing. Plus say you are trying to ks something or hit something first, you are guaranteed with an eagle, as it'll hit it the instant it spawns. From what I hear, the person doesn't even know it spawned if it kills it.. rofl (well if they aren't watching closely).

[evilbutterfly]

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doom doesn't work on bosses. I'm pretty sure Thanatos is.

In that famous Priest video they Doom a couple Thanatos and annihilate them. That's why I brought them up specifically. I'm not sure about Gatekeepers, but I'm guessing they don't count as a boss since they are the same level as Thanatos. It'd make it easier, soloing or in a party, if you had Doom to take out big things. I'd definitely come with and kill big things if you could Doom them for me. Tons of exp for killing a snail with tons of HP? Sounds nice!

EDIT: Jason, I've seen a Sniper using eagle at Bains and it was pretty lame. It attacks VERY slowly and didn't really help him at all. He could freeze the Bains with Ice Shot anyway and killed them way faster by himself. From what I could tell, the eagle only attacked if he was next to the Bains, and neither a Priest nor an archer/xbowman would stand next to enemies just so their stupid summoned critter could attack for them. Before seeing both, I would have been like OH YEAH GO WITH THE DRAGON! but now I'm like, meh. Clerics aren't made for damage, they're made for support, and I think Doom is a hell of a lot better supporting ability than Dragon.

[IAAW]

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YAY I GOT MAPLE STORY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About time, I need to work on my lvl 21 Warrior!

[Afrobean]

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Clerics aren't made for damage, they're made for support, and I think Doom is a hell of a lot better supporting ability than Dragon.

Definitely a good point.

Oni, do you have any points in Dragon? I'd love to see a cast of it sometime just to see if what Noah says is absolutely true about Dragon.

[Bahamut-X]

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I think I got a good scroll. Please tell me this is worth a lot. I need money badly.

[banditcom]

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I'm pretty sure you can sell for 350-400k in the game.

[Bahamut-X]

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Is that in FM?

PS What's the difference between the dollhouses in the dollhouse quest? I did it on my other character but that was by pure luck.

[OniSplitter]

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Nvm, your right, dragon is one of those gay skills that gets your hopes up by going up 10 seconds every level for the first few levels, then 5, then 2, then like 1, then -4. Anyway yes I have 1 dragon and yes it does attack slow, it just seems to me that if you had doom, it wouldnt be useful until max because of the success rate. Im starting to think max all, 9 dragon, 20 doom:

Doom:
Level 20: MP -50; Changes for 15 seconds, with 80% success rate

Dragon:
Level 9: MP -48; Summon a dragon with basic attack 96 for 50 seconds

80% success and 15 seconds seems pretty good while 96 basic attack for 50 seconds would be bad. Oh well guess I got some deciding to do... oh wait I forgot about a key detail. If we were to get Zakum any time soon, Dispel would be a must. Max dispel is supposed to be crutial to the survival of the party seeing as most of them have to use potions almost non-stop, it is easy to miss getting an all cure in there and dispel has such a huge range of effect and 100% success rate. Omg this is all so confusing. T_T!!!!


One last thing, anyone know if dark attacks are considered elemental?

P.S. Died today due to lag >.<
P.P.S. Jason died today due to a vac hacker who had all the clocks unexpectedly at the bottom of the zone. I almost died too due to fear of killing them just from hearing stories of people who got banned from killing other peoples' vacced mobs.

[banditcom]

Re: MapleStory

That was Pat.

[emccky]

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One last thing, anyone know if dark attacks are considered elemental?

i'm pretty sure I read on the boss of the pq that elemental attacks are non effective against it and the attacks that didn't work against it included: fire, ice, holy, and poison or something