The pain of an old school mapler now is having all these good memories

being stuck in Sleepy wood because you had no HP pots...

Not necessarily the most tedious, but definitely painful, was completing the 20 Slime free (random) hair quest, and getting an ugly hair or face.

133-221-333-123-111 I still remember this sequence.

I felt all of those in my soul

I remember when we had to constantly change channel just to find an empty one to start a PQ.

I remember chilling with my friends in Henesys market when someone used a Jr Balrog summoning sack and killed all of us. So sad 😞

Grinding octopuses with randoms at that map in kerning is my pre big bang memory and I will never forget it

Zakum jump quest was a nightmare. Also the one from sleepywood, where you had to get to the top to get the flower bouquet 😭

I remember when I grinded for months to get the materials and mesos so that I could give my Aran a cool wolf mount. Nowadays, everyone has a mount, but back then, you were basically a celebrity if you showed up with one.

I actually miss the wait times for the ships; Made a handful of friends while waiting and during the trips :')

another pain that i can remember is that assassins used to use summoning rocks to summon their shadow partners. those things were expensive asf

I can never forget those days where everyone was trying find a maple gf/bf. Than the family system came....adding people that are level 20 and they level up as your family gain reputation points and u can spend points for like 2XP or 2x Drop and TP to a family member

No lie even though it was very difficult at that time....maple was crazy fun to play and very party oriented :) i loved it.

Old Maple, best Maple. KPQ, auto-clickers, smuggling, 1 year of training to reach Lv.70.

Guys, i'm so grateful that after what feels like a decade, you are still producing passionate Maplestory content for new and old players like me. For me, Coppersan is now synonomous with Maplestory. Much appreciated, From an old Mapler in the UK.

The quest with the glass shoe, you got the shoe out of nowhere by killing the boars but i had no freaking idea what to do with it

I was super excited when I found steelys from fire drakes in perion. Super rare drop. I miss exploring elnath and ludi tower. going through all 100 floors was quite the trip. I remember iron pigs were like "late game" monsters way back before ludi or el nath even came out. I remember waiting for kerning pq and everyone tried to jump on the third sewer platform just for fun, and it was difficult without haste. I remember telling my friend he has no life because he was lvl 60, which i thought was extremely high. I also remember zakum being like extremely end-game content. Thanks for bringing back memories!

I appreciate how the game is a lot less clunky nowdays. I honestly feel like if kept the way modern maple works now but had some more group orientated content other than bossing that the game would eclipse old maple entirely. All it's really missing is the sense of community from back then.

I remember being friends with a lvl 80+ assassin, he never got 3rd job cus he failed the test so much he lost all his money lol

dying to balrog accidentally while trying to travel to another city... which already took 20 min I remember dying then trying to travel again it almost took me an hour to get to ludi

My most fond memory is being a Kerning PQ party leader. You would have to write down the names of everyone in the area and use the /find command to keep track of where they were in the PQ. If you saw they were in the exit stage you had to start clicking like mad to get in. After the PQ you had to run like crazy to get back to Lakelis to re-enter the PQ. The more PQ's you could chain in a row, the more rep you got as a PQ leader.

I honestly loved the 3rd job advancement, making/buying the dark crystal was a whole process in itself, finding the entrance, getting the quiz correct, and then fighting the shadow boss, it made 3rd job feel so epic. I remember failing the quiz the first time and feeling like shit, and while it forced me to get another dark crystal (rip mesos) it made getting 3rd job feel that much better. It's stuff like this that I really miss from modern ms and modern mmos in general.

It's been so long so I might've remembered wrongly. Back then, you need oxygen to stay in Aqua road and I died the first time trying to go across a map because I drowned... drowned...

I still remember the first day after the big bang update, the floors of every single map were just coated in potions and it BLEW my MIND, I was like "oooooooh yeaaaaaaaah" we were finally free lmfao

The Eos tower quests were a pain. All that effort for Eos tower scrolls >.

Anybody else remember how hard it was to start a guild? I remember being so excited once I was finally able to create one

Old school Maple was an absolute nightmare in terms of advancement, but it felt so huge and magical. Me and my friend used to make trips to the Sleepywood Balrog just to take a look (we never got close to a high enough level to actually fight it!).

two horrible quests that come to mind are the one where you had to grind for Nependeth juice and the one when youre grinding Fire Boars for that flame feather.

I'd give so much to go back to the days of struggling for potions instead of doing dailies

Non-Universal Mastery Books. I remember always being meso broke and hunting for the right Mastery Books for my class was a blast...TT^TT

A very nostalgic quest was going to NLC to get the 60% GFA scroll to make some quick messo

Great times. The way to becoming a Bishop was BORING as hell.. also a real struggle lol

I listen to the old soundtracks (henny, ship to orbis, etc)when I play now, am I the only one who does that??

Hands down, worst old school quest in Maplestory was Shumi's Lost Coin.

what i still remember as a nightmare: 1) getting the mastery bks esp that maple warrior.. costs millions and billions of mesos and the success rate was not even 100% 2) pay 80k mesos to take the ship to orbis and then at the open deck and suddenly the balrog comes and kill u.. and then u have to spend another 80k to go to orbis again

I basically went into maplestory blind, so I ruined my first i/l by giving him 20 str so he could equip a mace, and not putting any sp into magic guard.

These things prepared me for real life.

When Bishop was the most OP class, when Warriors only had one attack called Power Strike until level 120 when they get Brandish.

PQ’s being the best source of xp and having pages of names saved to use as track.

Omgggg please make more videos related to old maplestory. These contents are so nostalgic!! Your awesome coppersaaan

I think the worst quest I remember wasn't quite in "old school" MS, but it was when Ultimate Adventurers/Explorers was a thing. The 30 Peridots you had to get in Leafre for this took SO long. I remember searching for WEEKS to get all of them. Additionally, the Nependeath quest to get the Bone Helm was insane early on.

Arwen's Glass Shoe and Blackbull's deed to the land. CHRIST

From a player who just started playing 1 year ago, this just hits my soul so hard. And also, a lot of respect to the old players!

I saw "old school" so I clicked. Hey you forgot intercontinental ship travel!

Nice video! Also when it comes to annoying quests, The Hero's gladius comes to mind. Also those deep sea Aqua Road quests.

Horrible quests? I can nominate 2: The Chaos behind Alfonse Green and the Nependeath Juice In search of the book of ancient (At least this gave you rocks)

wait you met your fiancée through maplestory?? i need a storytime ASAP

Walking from Kerning to Henesys was a pain without the mesos for a cab..

I remember getting so angry at most of the jump quests as a kid, I only ever managed to finish the 1st one in sleepy (for ores lol) and the first two in kerning (for like 5k mesos and 2 fame lmao)

IIRC you also didn't want to go above a level before your job advancement, otherwise you'd actually miss out on a skill point, so if you were stuck on your 3rd/4th job advancement, you couldn't actually go out to farm mobs or anything that gave you xp.

Every single one of these hurt me to my core. I can't

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that most of the skills back then were blocked off and you had to buy skill book as well as 20/30 skill books. I still remember having to search through FM just to find final blow for my Aran (a class barely anyone played). Not to mention having to find high defense skill book. Gawd old school MS was a nightmare for solo play. And speaking of skill books; poor Even and Dual Bladders back then; they couldn't get all their skills because some of them were cash shop exclusive. Now....as for quests that haunt me still, Temple of Time; you had to defeat 999 each of those mobs just to advance to the next room.

For players who don't know how hard it was levelling up back then, go to 3:16 and look at how much his EXP bar moves as he kills mobs lol

You shoulda covered the old party quests! I remember how difficult it was to find a monster PQ group. So we would alternate wins with each other and eventually the stronger group would just steal a win

The biggest pain personally was the experience deduction everytime you die. The percentage is different for classes and the heaviest is warrior which is 10%. I was using warrior class and grinded for like 5 hours when i died suddenly and 10% exp was deducted, making the 5 hours of exp went into smoke.

that exhilarating feeling going down ludi tower for the first time expecting to discover fun new things only to be stuck in omega sector bc you don't have money for eos scrolls... that moment when you finally get your first gen 30 book... and it booms. then you get your second and it also booms.... contemplating what to do with life knowing you burned an atrocious amount of mesos on such a rare mastery book with a low drop rate by horntail... eventually i got it after the 4th one. running around NLC big ben tower and you stumble into a hacker with mob vac, somehow you become friends and lets you hit mobs for a bit until you get banned for a week by association god so many great and equally bittersweet fond memories... i'm glad there are those with kindred feelings as mine.

the shook me to the core..but this is what made maplestory so great was the hurt you went through and seeing those drops and items was a very exciting thing you would party with random people cause it was a struggle by yourself thats what people remember from this game.

Reaching 84 was my glorious day... goosebump all the way through the video :,) Thanks Coppersan!

Wow so many memories!!! 3rd job adv was a beautiful and painful thing. Still remember my first sin to 3rd job, almost cried lol. Watching ppl doing their 3rd jobs on the internet with Linkin Park BGM Love this kind of videos! If u can please make more like these

Rly felt these but they were also part of what Maple so great, finally getting past these was such an accomplishing and satisfying feeling

i loved old school maplestory so much! and ofc we all remember the pain. i remember the pain in the 3rd job advancement when we had to drink soup to stay alive in EL NATH zone while answering the question, i remember checking the answers in google and getting anxious checking if the soup effect is coming to end, i once died because of it (was mage class, fire poison to exact) and had to buy the dark crystal once again i remember it was around 3 mill mesos back then which was a lot for me because i wasnt into trading in the free market rather questing and trying to complete all quests in game (including jump quests), i would return to maplestory if questing and party questing is still a thing now :P, but it seems like it isnt, sadly. but im happy to see that the one of the games is still fucking alive!!!!

The loading time and lag was... oof. It’s painful to think back on it, ahahaha.

When I made my first mage I accidentally put all my points into magic guard, so I had no attacking skills...

Oh the pain of not being able to jump down back then

You should make more of these videos, and the longer the better! The nostalgia hits hard; great times made with more focus based on friendships and social construct. Games like these are what are yearned for. The harder the risk (longer to obtain something) the better the reward. Sadly games nowadays only base everything off a quick dopamine rush. Unfortunate.

there was this one quest in showa town. You had to help out a crying girl and i remember the quest being so lengthy and costly only to get rewarded with potions!

Ohh man those days of training at pig beach for the leather to craft work gloves, and when an iron hog spawns everyone just hops on the rope and hopes that a pro will come and kill it

Coppersan over here hitting me with nostalgia. Whole reason I started MS again after a decade of not touching the game.

Will never forget when i first defeated balrog in the ship and all the ghosts who had died and noobs came out and congratulated me xd

That FoG video brought back memories. Thank you :)

I was always poor, which made leveling take so much harder. Luckily I was a spearman and not a magician so I just attacked without skills if I ran out of potions lol

oh man, I remember trying to advance on a warrior back in the day, couldn't hit the stupid monkeys easily because of acc. Also I miss making friends in the old PQs like kpq, lpq, and even lmpq. D;

Think ill be needing counseling after this it all comes back now 😭

A real pain for me was the fact that my internet connection sucked back then, so getting to Orbis via the 30min boat ride was a total gamble, since the disconnect could occur at any moment. This meant that changing continents could take whole day for me, since usualy the disconnect occurred around 5 minutes left on the voyage. Also, if I recall correctly, doing Ludibrium quests were total pain for poor maplers back then, since using return to nearest scroll would take you to Omega sector below floor 50, and if you couldn't buy Eos rock scrolls, you had to climb half of the tower back, just to get on floor range to teleport back to Ludibrium, to get more quests for the tower.

Maaaan the zakuum prequests. I totally forgot about that. Also that NLC guild party quest where you needed 2 of each class was incredibly hard to pull off. You needed many many friends

Also I remember everyone hid in the underdeck of the ship that brought you from victoria island to ludibrium as there was a balrog killing everyone not capable of killing him xD

omfg i completely forgot about having to sit in a chair for a while to regain hp and mp

The clip is just reminiscent. I remember how struggle was i when started with a bow man, arrow was so neccessary and rare back then. And it was so cheerful and proud when i got the tube, umbrella and the candy pop weapon. I just comeback and play new maplestory after like 10 years but the replacement is impossible, the old maplestory was the best back then. Thanks for the clip mate.

I was expecting to see people spamming @@@ in perion when you said 'trading', that was way more painful than those shops.

y’all remember grinding monsters at that secret haunted house in NLC, ya me too

I felt a bond with alot of player back then. When you meet a random high level character and they gave you 10,000 mesos when your starting out. It meant the world to me as a low lvl player. I tended to pay it forward to all the new players as well/

The worst quest I get in mind is the one where you have to farm 20 Lunar dews and the bonus quest tho... But I really damn feel that

Holy cow. It’s wild to see you still making videos. I remember seeing your vids years and years ago when I played OG maple

When you were on the ferry that took like an hour and got killed by the balrogs and had to start it all over again…

oh man this gives me the warm feeling and memorys of doing the old kerning tower killing cds and bobas on a Friday after school ends what a nice feeling thanks for the trip coppersan

I'm here for the nostalgia content! MOAR PLS!

I remember being the party leader during old school pq. It was so stressful 🤣🤣

This was super nostalgic to watch xD. Most painful thing for me was going from henesys to sleepywood and dying to the evil eyes cuz they were way too high lvl for me then getting stuck at sleepywood because you cant climb back up… had to wait for a high level (which was like.. 2nd job) to come be a security guard to take u back up

Man, I was like 15 when I first started playing. Now I’m 27, it feels just like yesterday I first logged in. Tons of great memories, it won’t ever be the same.

The accuracy thing is supremely undderated. Having to spend hundreds of thousands of mesos to get equipment with dex was such an integral part of the game. You feel like you won the lottery if you used a 10% scroll for that 10 dex boost

I remember I had a level 51 Fighter named akumario. I was so hype to reach that level (thank you CPQ days) and after that I didn’t know what else to do to grind to the 3rd. Lol rest easy akumario

Maple is one of those game that "less is more". From simple time but great fun to so many thing to do but it all feels like a chore and you are alone most of the time with no one to talk to. Props to coppersan for sticking around though. Good times.

The pain from like level 30-35 you can’t really use your new skills from 2nd job cause it was too weak 🥲

I remember a trick in the Orbis tower, when going to El Nath. Once one was heading to El Nath and the ice start to appear in the tower, one could use a returning scroll to the nearest town, and then BOOM! got there.

I remember when 4th job came around & in order to get the Smokescreen skill on my Shadower I had to go hunt monsters for hours upon hours just for it to drop. Loved it

There were actually different builds for mages, one of them was HELL build because you maxed your Max MP gain first THEN you put points into magic ball, you HAD to kill thing using Three Snails (You also had to HAVE SNAIL SHELLS) so you're farming red snails for looooong times and then farming orange mush/ribbon pig pain/10. Classic maple was a PAIN, anyway you put it, having to farm the SAME PQ from lvl 20-30 and then the other SAME PQ from lvl 31+ (I nver got into Ludi PQ so i don't remember what was the max level) and those were the ONLY places to really grind for EXP that were optimal, and people complain about how the grind was easier back then, i get it that the PQ and social aspect and whatever but i hated it, if i could enter KPQ solo and finish it solo i would, i hate the FORCED social aspect in games (early Safi'Jiva I'm looking at you), getting around was a pain, getting to level 30 was an acomplishment of at LEAST 8 hours and having 1 million meso was a sign of having no life. EDIT: Hell quests would be the Glass Slipper by Arwen and Kill 999 green/horny mushrooms for a measly amount of EXP

Shoot!! Orbis PQ!! Somemore you need to unplug the modem thingy to do the glitching xD damn, my mum almost disown me for doing that everyday!! Felt it hard, awesome video xD

Oh nostalgia trip. Worst drug there is. FM if you got lucky and found someone doing a generous 1 me so shop. Hard to find items for quests? Remember the electrophants in nlc? Trying to get them to drop hyper glyphs was near impossible. The poor mages having to deal with no str till level 8. And oh man Endure used to be a budget skill. Them ol days

Thanks for bringing me back through memory lane