Level 70

Well, I finally made it. A fair bit longer to do than I had originally planned, but at least I made it.

I haven't actually done the 3rd Job test yet, as it was already late when I finally reached my level, but I should be able to bang it out tonight - I'm already in Victoria to do it.

Scrolling had its ups and downs. My glove ended up as a +6 atk (1 scroll worked, the other failed). My red katanas were wondrous failures (2 87s, 1 86 - no scrolls worked in the first 3 slots on each). I kept the 84 katana clean to hopefully resell it with a bit of profit and the others I'll just try to unload for whatever I can get.

My bottom failed all 10%s in the first 5 slots and only 1 60% worked in the last 2. My top succeeded in 2 10%s in the first 6 slots, and still has one slot left. Scrolling tops and bottoms is not a huge deal, but I might try to find a second bottom and see if I can scroll it a little better. I have an extra top with average stats - so I'll resell that one as well. I haven't scrolled my level 70 shoes yet - but that will be just 100%s for speed - so there's no chance of failure there anyway.

I do find it funny that despite my continued playing, I am losing ground on the global rankings fairly quickly. The last time I posted, I was in the 59xxx range. Now I'm sitting at 61xxx. Its not surprising really - my whopping 3% gains on nights that I play is really nothing special - and since I don't play every day it is even less impressive.

Well, congrats to me. Time to get back to work :)

One more to go

Well, I finally reached level 69. Now I'm on the home stretch to reach 3rd job.

I'm fully prepared to advance. I've got 1 set of pants, 2 sets of tops (1 with an extra point in dex), a pair of boots, and several red katanas (84atk, 86atk, 2x 87atk and a scrolled 96atk +5 str). I've got a 4atk, 2 slot Dark Husk to finish scrolling and 2 more glove attack scrolls to burn on it.

I'm keeping my shield and crusader helm for the 70s and I'll see what to do when I hit 80. I've been training mostly around FoG, with some Red Drakes, Zombie Mushmom sprinkled in. With the addition of Korean Folk Town last night - I decided to head over there and run through the quests. So far that's earned me just under 10%, so that's not too bad. The monsters over there are tougher than they are worth for me (especially since I don't 100% hit the tigers...), but it is a nice change.

One thing I have noticed is that my ranking overall seems to continue to dip down. I don't know if this is just a fact that there's too many people above me to actually maintain a steady increase or if its evidence that there's too many hackers - but I really don't care.

Hitting level 70 is still probably a week or 10 days away, but it will be nice to move onto some of the really nice moves that a crusader has access to.

In guild news - my guild is now 8th overall in Guild Points - mostly because they are almost always running a guild party quest at any given time. Reaching 1st is still a long ways off - but we should be able to reach 7th in another couple of days - weather permitting.

Well, that's about it for now.

Long time no see...

Well, I have finally returned to playing Maple Story after a few months off. In the last 2 weeks, I've been getting re-acquainted with the game and to my pleasant surprise found that most of the people who had also taken breaks have returned! So - I finally have some people to party up with again.

In other news, I've reached level 67, and I'm just over half-way to level 68. My money is hovering around 13mil - thanks to some timely selling of items with the help of a friend. Other than that - I've started training at Forest of Golem, as well as trying out a variety of other creatures.

I've taken down a few Zombie Mushmoms - which was a nice trial to work at. I've even been involved in a few failed Guild Party Quests.

The image above is recent - but not the current state of my character.

Zombies, zombies and more zombies

Not my most up-to-date picture, but close. I'm actually at 1mil exp or so. Not sure what my current ranking is - but I'll check it later.

I've been spending the bulk of my time at zombies recently and have found it nice to be earning a steady return of money from fighting them. Just checked last night, I killed just under 1000 of them (995 or so) and gained 522 teeth and 5 drops (a green seraphis, a red arten, a black yellow-lined boot, a jacker and a white polyfeather hat). They're all NPC drops - but I'll leave them up on my sale thread on Sleepywood for a few days to see if anyone's interested.

Next up, I'll actually track how many unagi/mana elixirs I use and the equivalent exp and such. That's if I remember to of course.

Other than that though - zombies will be my recipe for a little while. I might head over to Victoria to finish up the Taurospears, but that's pretty much it.

Level 65 and some more

Well, its been a few days since my last update - mostly because I can't grab a picture of my character's ranking and I'm too lazy to post if I don't have one.

Anyway, over the weekend I finished off level 64 and managed to get up to 30-40% or something like that into level 65. I spent almost the entire time at Zombies and I'm pretty impressed with them.

I am, however, officially broke - as I've bought my last 60% glove attack scroll for level 70 and I haven't managed to sell anything of real worth in quite a while. I also bought a bunch of 100% shoe speed scrolls to increase my training speed when I don't have an assassin to train with. This gives me a +7 speed snowshoe, a +5 speed regular warrior boot, +10 speed from my cape and another +8 speed if I want to use my bone helm instead of my crusader.

Zombies are the menu for the rest of the level most likely - since turkeys have screwed up the hectors screen and I'm not likely to be hunting the cerebes horns I need for the level 65 cape quest any time soon...

I have an unofficial note saying that I've won the UnCon for the Core Colliseum on the Wizards boards - which is nice and goes well with my recent promotion to elder in that forum. In addition to my characters there, I am working on writing up a campaign for real life - though it may be a while before I get through it all.

Aside from all of this, I've been struggling with my poker. I'm hoping I can turn things around, but it will be a long road to get the bankroll back up to a reasonable amount.