Bro no way is this the real Togain wtf

Don't give the developer your money though, he's a big ol' twat.

i was the one who came up with that but people started catching on. when there were 2x xp event i saw the opportunity and got a 2x ticket. 4x baby

@@RooseveltTruongonly 4x? Amateur numbers lol

its rewarding while not making it boring

True legends grinded 30-51 :')

@@RooseveltTruong liar

I love seeing you here after playing your game and it scratching the maplestory itch. I can see the heavy influence in your amazing game and its amazing to relive the experience.

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I saw that pic im like ouu an idelon player but here you ARE!

Miss the old Lavaflame2

one time i was at my friend house and he was doing said pq his opponent became afk for a while so i told my buddy to spam bomb on him while afk and the poor guy came back claiming his mom was on the phone with him my buddy and I laugh so hard that the opponent won the match because my buddy was't focus enough good time :)

Yeah I remember it I had so much fun doing it

It was a 1v1

ariant was multiple players per game, I played a lot and even made a perma L26 nightwalker to farm it

You could also go in with several people in a free-for-all (1v1v1v1 etc..). It was one of my favourites, if you were good you could absolutely zoom through levels and sell the chair for a load of cash

yep and people got banned over it I was one of those banned players. The ban took about a year to hit me for exploiting. This was the only pq I smuggled heavily and the only one I think nexon would take a heavy hand action on.

I'm glad someone mentioned Glitch OPQ! Surprisingly enough I did not get banned and abused this exploit pretty much from 51->70 because my router was right next to my computer which made the exploit really easy to do but definitely some of the fondest memories. It was so easy to get an OPQ party when you said you could do the exploit.

This should be top comment, crazy I had to scroll so far down to see this. Great work

I remember how glitched OPQ divided the community pretty heavily with the "ditch the glitch" movement. Great times!

@@TheTikeySauce Man I remember getting into an argument with someone because I was glitch OPQing my way to 70 and I remember him claiming "That's not right. That's not how the pros did it!" - we were 11 years old. I don't remember anyone getting in trouble for it though.

I forgot about this 😂

Definitely remember grinding stage 4!

Yay! The Unwanted Visitors event was my all time favourite until I stopped playing GMS after I guess the R.E.D. update (my last character was a Demon Slayer) and I really wished to acquire the armour sets just for the sick aesthetics! Also, the storyline was great and really made me think about the possibilities regarding time travel and its consequences (I guess that's a mild spoiler 😅). Sadly there aren't any available sources/PSs where we can experience the event again and that's a shame 😢 Best regards ☺️

@@BlazeElPadrino662 I'm so glad someone else remembered the event!! My Windia character still has the Time Traveler medal, probably the rarest thing I've ever owned to this day.

yeah met a lot of good friends through the r&j pq lol we used to grind it til it was nerfed

Stage 4 Was excellent for farming. No one has mentioned R&JPQ's final reward which was the Symbol of Eternal Love. A necklace that was much better than the Silver Deputy at the time. But it required completing 20PQ of Romeo and 20 of Juliet without errors. After Merging the individual rewards (Two necklaces) of each one, you could obtain the SoEL.

fr i remember finding parties just to grind stage 4 thought it was more popular

Some additional insights to PQ's within the video: 1. Nett's original pyramid also gave a regular (non-immortal) Pharaoh's Belt for the non-hell mode, but it was pretty useless as it only gave HP/MP, while the Immortal belt with its 1 atk/matk was a very popular chaos scroll item since there were very few alternatives to accessories with base atk (think of it as similar to the pink/purple gaia cape respectively for atk/matk). Any time you saw a base 1 atk on anything, it was chaos scroll time, and those items were insanely valuable. Also since the monsters were undead, this was the perfect time for a cleric to basically use a stack of coins to hold down heal to continuously farm the pyramid. Also very easy macros to afk farm it continuously as long as you occasionally moved to reset the 100 cast limit of the same skill. 2. I believe Rex's Perfect Earrings and trading in drops for the mount were added in a much later patch alongside an overall revamp of PQ rewards, with the original being a mad dash for drops as the boss died. The saddle drops a lot more often than the mount, which was almost impossible to get. Also worth noting this was the start of %hp as a regular stat on items, which was BiS for demon avengers when they came out. 3. CWKPQ was the core of the old guild experience, as something that gave insane rewards, but was super hard to organize given the huge number of people needed. Also that prequest was literal hell to go through for how long it took, including lots of rare drops and jumpquests. Think of it as the OG Gollux prequest in a sense, but the reward was so worth it. Selling runs for mark of naricains were a super big deal (as were carries to any other boss I suppose), but it would always be a fight over whether to sell runs, or if someone gets to try and roll the legendary 11 atk/16 stat high quality Mark, versus the pleb 9 or 10 atk. Key highlight was the mage boss casting zombify on everyone, which means that a cleric casting heal instantly wipes the entire party (yes, as a bishop, we literally unbound heal for the duration of that fight and were forced to use hp pots for the first time since level 30). 4. Also prior to CWKPQ, it was relatively hard to get a good pendant, and many people would be stuck with Spiegelman's or other low level item until they got carried through CWKPQ by their guild. Silver Deputy Star was like 50m back then due to being fully tradeable, which was similar/more than a zakum carry and thus not really affordable for most casuals. The quest to get one yourself required a headless horseman pumpkin and bigfoot's toe as a drop, neither of which you were killing before mid 4th job. Back then, bigfoots (and to a lesser extent headless horsemen) were tracked on a timer to an insane degree, with notorious hackers in big servers calling themselves the "bigfoot police" literally dc-hacking anyone who attempted to kill one besides them. This was due to the insane RMT profits from leech exp potential (using a low level character with powerguard) instantly being worth 2 full levels to a lower player (i.e. going from level 50 0% to 51 99.99% since you were capped to not be able to level multiple times back then). Considering no regular level 50-100 could even come close to damaging those monsters, you needed to somehow locate one and get a high level friend to kill it for you, and I don't believe the etc. quest drop was even 100% drop rate, so you might need a few. 5. The original Alien event is perhaps one of the biggest and most elaborate events in semi-early Maplestory and definitely deserves a deep dive if anyone can dig up the old info. Sadly I didn't play for most of it and only came back in the final few days to get the Time Traveler medal (+10 atk/matk which was the absolute BiS medal for a long long time). Brief summary based on the fragmented pieces I remember: One day at the start of the patch, strange "alien" mobs start appearing in maps across the world, and they are completely invincible, and iirc everyone just had to deal with them slowing down exp rates for a few days until the event started proper. From there, Dr. Bing starts his questline as you work your way through an exceptionally long but arguably one of the best written stories in the game. The entire event happened in multiple waves, with new updates every week or two that unlocks more of the quest chain. Eventually you obtain (temporary) Alien armor that allows you to defeat the aliens in regular maps, and I want to say these equips could be upgraded via event scrolls, with you needing high upgrades to do the final PQ (I want to say you got severe stat penalties for each missing/unupgraded piece, but don't remember clearly). Final PQ had various difficulties where you kill the Supreme Alien, who turns out to be Dr. Bing (quest NPC who runs the dungeon) from the future. Of the course the plot twist (spoiler) is that the "aliens" are future maplers who are wearing that armor in an apocalyptic future (note that each alien type is class specific, i.e. mage in full mage alien armor looks exactly same as a mage alien mob). Effectively Dr. Bing's hubris in designing his original time machine and associated inventions cause the apocalypse, so he comes back in time as the Alien to destroy his own inventions, quite a fascinating plot twist and it really brought together everyone in the maple world into a narrative unfolding in real time with actual consequences to how the game is played regularly (such as people complaining about being unable to grind effectively). Last thing worth noting is that that during the final stage of the event, you put on your alien suit and go back in time, effectively becoming an "alien" to play the opposite side of the quests you did in part 1 of the event (iirc you needed to build some undersea cables in part 1, in final part you go back and destroy them etc. Original part you collect minerals, now you go steal them back as an alien.). For each one of the repeatable missions you complete, you get a few alien core/pebble things. If you use a few hundred, you could extend the duration of your alien armor for a few days/months, and for some ridiculously high number (a few thousand iirc), you could make one piece of your alien armor permanent, but you would effectively need to grind those quests 24/7 in the few weeks they were available to get everything permanent. Even today, each world likely has a few pieces of permanent alien event armor lying around as perhaps one of the rarest anvils to exist. Also a lot of people VIP teleport rocked one of the alien PQ cube maps since it looks cool as a great place for scrolling back then. In all difficulty levels of the PQ, you could get a common but untradeable chair drop, alongside increasingly high visitor items (i.e. 1st unwelcome visitor tier accessories/weapons, 2nd unwelcome visitor tier, 3rd unwelcome tier, final unwelcome tier, and the level 127 VIP visitor tier). I believe these didn't have any stat requirements, and basically became the absolute BiS high level "maple" weapons for statless builds, in addition to possibly being the highest attack equipment in the game (in addition to being fully tradeable). The PQ also became semi-permanent for a few months after the event ended, during which there was a weekly (?) lockout to run with high 4th job team to try and farm VIP equips, which sold for hundreds of millions split between the team. Sadly I never got 4th job to join that before it ended, but it was perhaps the best meso earning boss during that era. 6. The cooler version of Ice Knight PQ was the PVP version (added one or two patches after the original PVP came out). This was effectively the first version of the later boss v player mode, where one player controls the boss and tries to deplete the collective player's lives. Of course, PVP in its first iteration was hacked to hell and back, with no delay attacks basically meaning that one player could walk up to the ice knight boss and one shot it, giving a win to the players, with similar hacks being used to kill anyone who walked within range of you in regular PVP (iirc it didn't apply to aoe, so you had to teleport/flash jump around to get people within smack auto attack range, so it became a game of tag in a sense). Frustrating but certainly memorable in its first iteration despite awful balance. 7. During the original release of Lionheart Castle, in addition to the incredible fun of party zone grinding together, there was an event where everyone got invitations ever :45 (i think) to fight against Prison Guard Ani and get rewards (think of it as the OG Inferno Wolf). Treasure boxes for participating here were incredibly valuable since they offered equip enhance scrolls and potential scrolls among other items. 8. R&J PQ was indeed dependent on which side you entered to see which marble you got. Yes, you needed to run back and forth across town to check both PQ rooms to find people, and I did get the eye of horus. Also worth noting is that for a few patches way later on post-BB, the roid room in R&J PQ was unironically the best grind spot in the game, so the PQ became filled during 2x events, although no one ever finished the PQ. It's also relatively interesting to see which ending you get, since best ending (angry frankenroid where you get the letter and manage to sneak up on him in that mutae room) gives you bonus exp for saving/rehabilitating the mad professor, whereas iirc he offs himself in the worst ending and the exit NPC is his body....rather dark.

Something I've always wanted to see are other smaller features of previous content/events that really changed the game or had a huge impact/interesting stories to tell, versus just the big/major revamps/entire removed areas that we can see off patch notes. I know it's hard to find those OG maplers who still remember stuff like this, but man it would be nice to see. 1. For instance, messed up EXP formulas making singapore maps and haunted mansion incredibly good for farming pre-BB (since mob exp for everything else got nerfed by 50% or more), with even high level 4th job players camping level 70 twisted jesters for 1325 exp, while mid level players will sit in a tiny room waiting for 3 scarecrows to spawn since it's still better exp than regular mobbing. Same with truckers, MP3 ghosts, etc. 2. The constant crashes during the rollout of Big Bang, which led to the near impossibility of getting the 1st Evolving Ring, since very few people could remain connected to the game for a full hour each day. I somehow miraculously got it, but lost it to a hack later on...RIP. 3. During the Tempest patch, a new accessible level 100 set was released which you needed to farm a ton of coins for. A few patches down the line, common gift boxes that dropped from mobs could be opened to get tempest accessories at always epic potential. Tons of people farmed stashes of the Tempest equips by hoarding event coins from shop, then suddenly everyone has 6% stat earrings and pendants for free so the stash became worthless. Yes, I lost a lot of meso on that. 4. Hot time events meant you had to be logged in at that exact minute during a 2x event (where lots of people were crashing), but they used to give a "I'm a Lucky Guy" medal to like one guy per world (later events gave like 5-10 iirc), cue RMT and anvil services to spread it around. Also later hot times gave really good untradeable scrolls, so I had like 20 mules collect them to scroll my main's tradeable items. They also gave a tradeable level 30 potential-able heart around that time (beryl i think?) and I stashed a bunch since people keep booming theirs. 5. Similarly rare flex items were gachapon rat mouths/smiley masks, twig noses, etc (especially the tradeable versions of these, which were perfect scrolled using white scrolls since they were some of the only tradeable face accessories at the time). Then another event down the line basically gave BETTER twig noses that actually gave like +4 or +5 of one stat at common rarity(versus OG that gave something like +10 avoidability or accuracy only), so they went from a prestige item worth hundreds of mil to a bil, down to common items worth 4-5m at the time. 6. When Magnus was first released, the boss was literally designed as a honey trap to catch hackers (including setting up a literal event in patch notes about special world's first medals/titles for those who killed it first). It was statistically impossible to kill, and GMs watched each kill to ban anyone who killed it illegitimately. Of course they kept it secret for a few weeks after a bunch of RMT'ers spent thousands buying these illegit tyrants that got deleted. Definitely considered a super rare nexon W in dealing with hackers considering there was a reputation of them not fixing anything. Later on in that era, they imposed timers that if a boss died before X time left, it would not give drops and auto report you. However, they didn't remove that for months, so even when legit players could kill bosses, they still needed someone to go in, die, and sit there waiting until time passes so they could start the boss. I believe this was also the time when there was a hack released that allowed people to force Tyrant equips from a box that was meant to give them at 0.00000000000000001% rates, so suddenly market is flooded with them via RMT for a few days before they were removed. 7. No boom hack on enhance scrolls means you see 534 atk stonetooths and similarly high attack red cravens from rampant duping which all top RMT players seemingly had. Didn't get removed for ages, and perhaps some still might exist even now. Lots of salt nexon didn't ctrl+F for impossibly high stats and delete them. Also there were days when random channels crashed every few minutes since it meant some hacker was duping their stashes of BiS gear or 999 white scrolls etc. 8. One maple anniversary allowed you to sell maple weapons you got from drops to get maple leaves to buy other stuff. Cue hack where you could literally use basic cheat engine to sell arrows for bow instead, thus entering a few weeks where 1% clean slates and chaos scrolls were like 10-50k each. Market was literally bought out of 8atk work gloves and any 1atk accessories (including mechanic parts) since everyone was rolling them until they boomed from the clean slates. 9. Nebulites were one of the worst systems ever, since they dropped like candy during that alien 2.0 event, and then proceeded to lower drop rate by 99.9999999999%. Supposedly they drop from any mob, but in 2-3 years of playing, I never got a single one. Thus, nebulite boxes went from dirt cheap during the event to dozens of mil a piece just to get a D rank. At that point, A and S ranks are completely unobtainable for anyone not RMTing or spending multiple bil on each, when they were reasonably affordable when boxes were a common drop from wolf spiders on release. Revamped quest in the new alien digger tunnels in NLC (which was a common grind spot for a while, with a weird boss thingy at the end) only gave you like 2 nebulite coins a week, which you could use to buy a D rank every month or so. 10. A feature on all the OG maplestory TCG items obtainable from Mysteria would be fascinating, particularly the manuals to get stuff like stormcaster gloves (the cooler work gloves that every OG pro had), balanced furies, crystal ilbis, among others. Also insanely strong potions from the robot in NLC, where you needed etc items from trading card packs just to get a single use pot...including 1337 matk for a few seconds. If you go really far back, there was a tradeable gachapon item called an Android Booster, which you could collect a ton of to get a set of android gear (I want to say these were also some of the only class-neutral pants at the time, so they were used as hyperbody rental pants for classes without class pants). Considering how old and p2w it was, definitely another rarity of the game (and also a plague on gacha rolls). Also the very fact that borrowable sharp eye gloves/hyper body pants existed....(if you rented the item and bound the skill, you could still use it after giving the item back). One step up from the true OG days where people brought full +HP scrolled Ribbon Pig Headbands/Pig Illustrated mace into zakum carries so they could tank a hit.

11. I'd love to see a review of all the crazy types of scrolls that existed in the old days before the new star force/spell trace system came in. I remember there being the 9th (?) anniversary maple scrolls that gave the most atk and stats in the game, with those eventually becoming a top tier gachapon prize worth a bil or more. There was an age where events allowed you to trade in 10% regular scrolls for a 15% untradeable version that had a little gold star on it. Tablets that only worked on durability items, the original age where people boomed their perfect equips using 70% and 90% potential scrolls or 80% equip enhances. The release of no-boom Advanced Equip Enhance scrolls that were a guaranteed star up (as long as you bought enough cash shop items that refunds you the scroll if it fails), also these were the de-facto trading currency when dealing with items above 2b, ofc tons of scams where people substitute regular AEE that do boom. The really old days where white scrolls were the most expensive item ever (like 300m), and then a christmas event comes out where you can trade in gold snowflakes for one. To get gold snowflakes, you need to give etc items to a NPC to fill up a gauge (which is world-wide), and then once it hits 100%, trees in every ch explode with blue (normal) and gold snowflakes. I managed to camp enough trees to get my first white scroll on day 1 and sell it for my first 100m, since after that, all channels had hackers that vac hacked all the gold ones instantly (but they were nice enough to let the plebs fight over the regular blue snowflakes for regular event items). 12. OG Witch Halloween events were awesome, including giant talking witch hats with event-shop item-specific chaos scrolls to roll for your own level 10 pseudo-zhelm, red tokens to farm with no limit that drop from all mobs, and 4th job mages spending all day farming evil eyes and green mushrooms....? Yup, in addition to no level limit on token drops, there was a cooking event where you traded in specific monster's etc drops for a food item. Combine mushroom item and evil eye tail (or something similar), and you get a witch's stew, which was the best commonly available atk pot (iirc +40 atk) that were used for standard boss runs across the game. 13. Never forget the terrors imposed by the wild hackers and blazed wizards that occupied every single training map with full map AOE no delay hacking damage without getting banned for months. Game was literally unplayable in both these eras: wild hunters could make familiars attack on no delay that bypassed level based accuracy, i.e. buy a temple of time familiar on a level 10 wild hunter, and it would do 10k damage to all mobs on map 10x a second to instantly level up. Similarly, blaze wizard's fire orb they cast as regular skill had weird properties with collision detection. Not a programmer, but it would effectively hit the entire map somehow, and every Chuchu island location (iirc highest area then) was filled with them. 14. There was once a weird glitch in reboot where you could do something similar to overflowing the meso limit with the number of cubes you bought so you got mesos instead of spending them. I remember I used that to perfect inner ability on a mule alongside perfect potentialing all equips just for the lols. Obviously it got patched and all characters were literally stripped of all equips except a clean set of pensalir gear. Still got to keep the perfect legendary inner ability though. 15. The true OG Neo City was arguably one of the coolest areas ever, completely with a full storyline about fighting these angelic beings that controlled the battleship mechas etc. There was also an era where mecha mini-bosses would spawn and drop "The Energizer" which was an incredibly useful standard atk pot used around that time. God knows how many Neo City revamps there have been since, but that first time walking through the leafre portal is unforgettable. 16. A full on feature of the quests needed to get 4th job skills would be fascinating (alongside the overall way in which skill books worked). Starting with needing one-of-a-kind etc books dropped from CWKPQ and the like (such as Bishop's black book) which starts the quest for Resurrection, needing Horntail PQ for Genesis, getting SoK-able skill books from Zakum for Angelic Ray, etc. Each quest has quite a story (such as resurrection being an invisible floor jump quest....fun). Similarly, originally skill books dropping at tiny rates from specific mobs only, thus making some super cheap (

On top of that, they throw me back to when I used to play this game with friends.. I wonder, where are they now? XD

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