MapleStory Iceberg: The Race to Level 200
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- One of my favorite parts of old school MapleStory. The race to level 200.
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you are singlehandedly saving an entire generation's memories
Time to archive this video!
well said. hard to describe my feelings as I watch this. I can close my eyes and be there, almost.
Very much so, we need this kind of content badly for these old mmos from the early to mid 2000's to archive older internet culture, I hope we get another person with the same level of passion as him to do the same to something like ragnarok online or tibia too. So much history and memories from that era could be lost.
Remember Tiger ?
@@nguyenluan-bm5usohhh I member
I distinctly remember Tiger had made a quitting video where he dropped his spear and sat in a chair until is expired. Not able to find it but remember it being a big deal on basilmarket forums.
Very late, but are you sure you're not talking about BSUCLA instead? That video is pretty easy to find on youtube if you just search for "BSUCLA Part VIII"
Random fact:
Fangblade really was all about the leveling, by power standards he actually was weaker than other DK's far lower leveled than him. He never put much effort into his gear.
In fact I believe the surfboard he's often seen with had to be donated to him by his friends/guild as an upgrade to his current weapon and even that took a lot of convincing for him to accept it.
I remember reading about a conversation he was involved in where someone was asking in guild if they should spend an extra million mesos (I forget the actual number, its likely far more) to buy an item that had a 1 stat upgrade over their current gear and Fangblade commented something like
"Why would you spend a million mesos to get 1 stat when you could just level up for free and get 5 stats" - Kinda says a lot about his mentality haha
what a chad mind set
damn he was based
absolute beast
What a gamer. Sounds like he just grinded and had his eyes on his goal without stopping.
Someone get fangblades opinion on 6th cap. “Why spend 50$ for a booster every month when you can just quit”
Thank you so much for covering a topic so nostalgic to me, and with such high quality and care! :) Please don't feel obligated to, but I'd LOVE a video where you cover the famous MapleStory players of the good ol' days in-depth. Wishing you the best! Hopefully you'll get more subscribers and views!
Yeah, and about those their top guilds if there are any info about them.
I always find it so funny how: 3d job dragon knight and priest loves each other. One cannot do enough damage and the other wants the healing and bless. Then comes 4th job and the bishop dealing massive damage while the dark knight wants none of that heal because of beserk.
Amazing video! I remember before FangBlade hit 200, he went around joining the top guilds like a kind of celebration tour. Each one gave him a gift. The guild I was in at the time (Imperials, which can be seen in screenshot of FangBlade hitting 200) gave him a blue surfboard.
Hi Keenan! You don't know me on this acc, but it's Dylan - burnedbyfire/Prohibits if you remember those igns LOL.
I physically need videos like this in my life, because there was so much history that I not only missed out on (I might have started playing GMS in 2006-2007), but so much that I've forgotten about in my own head. I STILL have a couple of the "road to 200" AMV videos that people would put out, that I used to be obsessed with 😭
Bless you for making these videos of my childhood 🙌❤️
what a great video, I'm actually speechless how well made this is, thank you so much for this
We need more of these super long documentary style videos, I love watching these while I'm playing LOL. Some ideas:
- A whole episode about maplestorys development / beta
- Full timeline of maplestory from start to present
- breaking down big bang / reboot / other major changes for the game
- Why maplestory 2 failed
- Hidden maps npcs and easter eggs from OG maple
- Maplestory OG culture, like drop games, faming, mules, megaphones, etc
There already are videos about this
I remember being there in Hene Hunting grounds 1 when Curry hit 200, my computer almost exploded from how many people were there. Such good memories, can't believe it's been over 15 years since then 😢 thank you for the nostalgia
Great video. Bigfoot/Anego meta was 100% a way to level at the time. if you were able to juggle Bf's in a corner you could open his hitbox. It was a large amount of exp for a very short amount of time. You could see people shoot up large levels with BF/HH hunts. the unfortunate thing was the around 6-12 hour spawn timer and too many maps to make it consistent outside of maintenance.
I LOOOOOVE this video. It took me back to those days and I really appreciate the work you put into it. I was in Broa's top 10 Paladins back during these times and I feel you underestimate just how bad they were at 46:22. I don't think even the most committed player could have made it into the top 5 as a Paladin lol. Gosh, incredible video. This really made my day. Like legit.
What happened to you, Jay & Alex? >:(
@squid3921 Man, life can be pretty crazy sometimes. Lol
Cory and I still play but Alex has dropped Maple entirely, though we consistently try to persuade him back. Hahah
@@Orrador Good to hear you're all alive. We were never on the same server (Khaini pride) but thanks for covering KMS2 and MS2 beta back in the day. Shame GMS2 was a later big bang'ed version. You're not forgotten lads!
Holy crap that's a ton of nostalgia. As someone who did play the beta and also looked at rankings pretty frequently, seeing the old spots, the updates, the names on the rankings, this video definitely hit a spot xD
I saw curry when they were still in the 30ish range once, specifically remembered the name, was so surprised to see it on the leaderboards later on ^^
this was really fun to watch, a trip down nostalgia road, seeing all the exp rates is not something id ever seen before since i only reached level 62 in vanilla maple
I love that you're going to make different videos about the topics in the iceberg. The iceberg video was one of the best videos that I've sat and watched full attention from start to end in a long time. Early days of Maple are some of my most core memories of being in my teens. I still play til this day, on Reboot now though. I remember when I played in Scania trying to track down CurryIsHott and whispering him and he would actually respond and was super nice. Excited for the next video!
Im happy I made the top 5 rank in maple and that some people still remembers me. Nice video
you never reached level 200 LMAO who u
@@DirtyFan2 The guy in the video. Who u?
@@Thiefwriter Yeah but this guy is not the guy in the video 🤣
Very cool video!
At 40:50 you mention that Bigfoot was most likely killed by classes like Hermit, it was actually very difficult for Hermits due to how Bigfoot's knockback mechanics were and how hard the touch damage hit, almost a guaranteed 1 shot unless they were heavily HP washed. Bigfoot after being hit would have a slight invincibility frame where it couldn't be hit again immediately, making it almost impossible for a Hermit to knock it back enough to pin it in the corner. Bigfoot was actually mostly done by warrior classes that were able to utilize rush and pin it in the corner easier while also having enough HP to tank the high touch damage.
I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I seem to recall some leech / boost strat involving bigfoot? I think a War would give you the HP boost and you'd hit it once (somehow, don't recall the details tbh) and it would get you like an entire level lol. My memory isn't great and I don't recall if I ever actually did the boost at any point but that sticks out in my mind.
@@PurpleDragonSpike Power Guard leech! Page & Fighter could learn a damage reflect skill called Power Guard at level 31 which didn't check accuracy. The leech seller would bring a level 31 Warrior mule, get it to suicide into Bigfoot & then you'd gain EXP. As long as you were level 26 or above.
fun fact in kms a bowmaster was the first lv200
Seriously incredible stuff, I'm honestly speechless at how knowledgeable you are with classic maple. You are the hero we needed!!
Few notes I'll add to this! Hot sands was best exp for melee when it was vic only. Had great drops from torties and had best spawn.
Also Tiger HATED fighting for areas to train at. And him being on the Scania server there was plenty of competition. He was at lucida because there was no one there so he had the spawn all to himself. Fun fact this is why he went to gobies. Gobies aren't nessisarily faster than squids. But virtually no one was at gobies so that's why Tiger preferred that to squid.
Also bera had a fairly decent shot because it launched about over a month after Scania but it had a TWO WEEK double exp event to help players catch up!
Also hp washing was invented by Tiger! It was invented a bit later so no one really did that yet.
CHief bandits were great at level 70 because of meso explosion... However as they leveled their utility started to demish. See they actually were not that good at mobbing because band of thieves was actually a terrible skill.. Also assaulter did slightly less damage than savage blow. So actually aside from meso explosion their damage didn't really improve from second job to third job. Chief bandits would soar from levels 70-110ish but after that the other classes could kill faster than CBS could drop mesos.
Also there was a brief moment in time where Suuushi was number 1. Tigers character was completely gone from the rankings either from character deletion or from ban. The name Tiger was taken by a black female character that made it to the grand level of 12. Eventually Tiger got his character back and did eventually go on to reach 200 albeit much later.
Also to further fuel the speculation of Tiger account sharing. Talking so some of his friends at the time and people who bossed with him Tiger alwaysss whispered. He never talked out loud. Idk maybe the celebrity didn't want people to twist his words or something... Untilll the rumors of the account sharing started popping up. I remember going down to aqua road to watch him grind. And one day he was very talkitive. Told people what % he was at. The attack on his spear etc etc. Almost like a different person.
yoooo this video was so in-depth and informative to people who may not know Maplestory's history that well. Would love to see a race to 250 and race to 275 video in the future :)
YA
200 was the race that mattered. MS was still one of the top 3 games played which imo makes it a huge achievement. It's insane going on these days and seeing how far it's fallen. I was so surprised by how many servers were deleted.
The other two races were a bit faster tho😂 just one minute video
Seeing that curryishot was so well liked for being a pleasant person makes me really happy, I was there when he climbed the rankings but I knew nothing about the guy, so my feelings on him, as well as the other high rankers, were neutral at best. But hearing how well liked he was made me actually cheer for him in this video, despite knowing what the result would be.
Note on 40:34 - People most likely didn't grind Bigfoot pre-4th job because it was extremely risky compared to Himes. It was a fast moving boss mob that dealt enough touch damage to 1-shot Archers, Thieves, Magicians through Magic Guard, as well as lower-level Warriors without Hyper Body, so one mistake would be devastating. It being a public boss also meant that someone could come in and attack it to briefly change it's aggro and prevent you from knocking it back.
I was also born on September 29th, although 2 years after you. Happy early birthday!
Amazing video as always. These blast-to-the-past OSMS documentary videos are really interesting because as a small child I was only playing without knowing even a bit of what it has to offer or what was happening. Heck, I picked page as my 2nd job. I wasn't a masochist or anything like that, just didn't know any better. Level 36 was my breaking point, before I decided to open a new character.
The reason Chief Bandits were not up high in the ranks but Hermits were, is because getting to Chief bandit alone was a feat in itself, it was statistically the slowest leveling experience up to 70. Considering CBs had to single target as a Melee only really sucked it was comparable to the way Beginners level. All that aside once you do finally hit 70 for that sweet Band of Thieves, you find out quickly that it doesn’t even start with its mobbing potential. At level 1 you could hit 2 monsters at once and it would very slowly increase through levels until cap. So as a CB you were not even efficiently mobbing until 80 or so.
Also band of thieves was super weak lol the best way to level was killing much higher mobs with meso explosion, but it was also very expensive
Big true I played a chief bandit as my first character befor 3rd job was a thing , definitely one of the worst leveling experiences ever lol
Bruh hermits were just as bad if you were poor.
You know how shit a feeling is when every bandit/hermit pre 60 is? We both suffered bro LOL. Couldnt ever make money cause pots + refilling the shitty low level subis were too expensive
@@Ghost1170 lmao no, Sin's/Hermits were WAY better without meso's and with a lot of funding they were extremely strong. The cost of refilling stars isn't the same as actually doing terrible damage.
@@HiImRawr bruh, I struggled way less getting a chief bandit than I did a hermit. You dont need money to auto attack. You need money to auto attack as a sin. What? Even if the process is slower, you win out at a net positive if youre making money. Making money in old maple was literally a time waste unless you hacked. That shit was cancer
Fantastic level of research and the constant EXP growth of the top 5 on the left side of the video is a great detail. Old Maple Best Maple.
I always remembered that Tiger was level 160 when I started to play but I couldn't remember the year because I was so young back then. I'm very happy to learn that it was around August 2006, or v0.28. Crazy how new the game was still.
Only 5 minutes into the video but it’s incredible how thorough you’re being and how much I’m learning already
Great video, looking forward to much more of the MapleStory Iceberg!
The only thing I don’t miss is not being able to afford potions but once you got past there, old MS was so fun. Dexless warriors and trying to get accuracy was a fun challenge.
Brought back so many good memories playing this game. Even some from after big bang, racing to 200 in new world releases, the 250 race and community, tower of oz discoveries. Great job on the video :)
thanks for making such videos, it's a treat to walking down the memory lane. also would you make more videos perhaps something related to releases of regions(or maps) over the time, events (in-game or irl events, guild meetups) or the transition of maple's economy (trader) from f2p to p2w? i feel like if anyone were to do it, it has to be you.
The only thing I remember about iliketoks was a mega where they explained their name was I Like To KS (Kill-steal).
Loaded with nostalgia, good presentation and good storytelling. You earned a subber, my friend.
This brings back so many memories. I remember when Perion used to be the FM, when FM didn't exist. I also remember the summer events when they gave tubes and maple weapon drops. I remember a lot of people were grinding at bubbling's for the maple shield. Good old days. Pig beach was my favorite spot to chill at.
great video! im an old school ms player now im 37 i have some screen shots of me following my fav top players. just an extra info. there was a couple players who reached 200 before fangblade 1 from scania and 1 from broa but they were unranked players. not sure why they got unranked. but the one from scania was a bishop
big foot was insane, in broa there this "big foot police' where you're not allowed to kill big foots, (they dc hack you @@@@) it was probably the best exp source at that point. people were selling bigfoot carry (the mexican big foot police) xD
Fangblade, he quit MS after 200. I lost touch with him but he did interact with guild at times. But, he was so focused on leveling that he had zero time for social stuff. Once he hit 200 he was so burned out he quit never to return. Occasionally he'd stop by to say hi but, eventually he just stopped all together. I dunno what happened to him. I hope he's well.
I remember Fangblade from the good old days that getting to lvl 200 was an achievement and a miracle, reaching a certain lvl to get to orbis and try to get to el nath just to get stuck in the tower. Same as ludi, good old ludi PQ and CCing to find an empty ch in order to grind the pq. Hell, even trying to get to Leafre was a goddam challenge back in the day.
Bishops spamming genesis boosting low lvl accounts.
Damm I miss those days.
This is truly a beautiful historical record of so many people's memories. I've been watching youtube since 2011 and I've never felt such a strong emotional desire to give thanks to a creator. Thank you so much for making this video. I think I'll come back to this for years to come.
45:25 "Novinha" is bugged when you say it. Im a little sad that She got 4 place, because she is the only brazilian in the race to lv 200 (Fun fact: Novinha is a slang to yong girls in brasilian portuguese)
Tons of work went into this vid and it shows. Keep it up dude you're killin it with these.
Looking forward to maplestory iceberg series! The research and detail these videos go into is very impressive
The Deep Gorge era was my era in MS. I was in Bellocan and I was the highest level I/L mage on the server. I trained in squids with my friend who was a crusader, or my friend who was a priest. Sometimes we would train on gobies with our friends who were crusader/priest, but my internet connection was really bad and if I disconnected I'd often respawn on gobies and die without my magic guard (although we did try to coordinate them killing the gobies with me respawning). The only person I know who regularly trained on sharks was my F/P mage friend who I think was the highest level F/P on the server at the time as well.
I can't believe how good your channel is. You need way more subs
really hope you blow up big with these vids, so much research put into this and the iceberg video. Genuinely enjoyed, cheers.
Well done. Can't believe how much research you did for this. I remember soooo many of these players.
What a fantastic video along with your iceberg overview. I didn't pay attention to all of this while playing so it's so much fun to hear about it now. Thanks for making these videos :)
Great video dude, this was very nostalgic. I didn’t start playing MS until the start of 2008 but man does this bring back memories of the time, wondering what everyone is doing nowadays, including my old guild mates. I want to say I made it to level 80-100 something pre-BB as a White Knight in Bellocan. I will say while I think WK/Paladin was an underrated class and mostly just not as popular, I will admit we weren’t secretly super good or anything, I wish lol. Shoutout to my old guilds Peace and Jr. Carnage. Thanks for the memories
Not sure if I missed it but I would've liked to see you touch on the hero class and how Novinha broke through the ranks, eventually taking 4th place in the race
sick vid, good times.. our kids will never experience a game like this ever again, shoutout loop, kor & philzor; Broan legends x
Keep making these videos, they are a great amount of obscure-ish information about MS and the beginning time period. It's also a great listen.
In the past, I used to play on a server in Thailand. During that time, I leveled up using Party Quests up to level 70 across 10 different classes to earn money. Afterward, I power-leveled a Night Lord through Exclusive Content Maps. For example, at level 70, I trained in Zipangu, and at level 120, I trained in the Golden Temple, which was an exclusive map in my country. I accumulated money through Shamos PQ until level 140, and then I remained at the Temple of Time until the server closed. Currently, I've returned to playing on the SEA server and reached level 261. It's a sweet and fortunate memory for me, having pushed through that era, even defeating bosses as far as Zakum and soloing Papulatus.
Absolutely love your videos. Been playing maplestory since I was 4 or 5 (24 now) and I just got back into it for the 100th time recently. Love watching these videos along side of it.
Screw reboot progression series, these videos are WAAAAY more entertaining.
I had a screenshot of a lv 92 cleric from GMS beta on my old computer. This was at the zombie lupin tree. Her name was urbanxstylez
I still remember their IGN to this day, 18 years later because I remember being in such awe. It's equivalent to seeing the greatest marvel of your life, whether it be a UFO or a shooting star IRL, esp as a kid. I was only a level 4x cleric. This was during a time when all the zombie lupin and wraith channels were occupied lol
Hey Togain, I think a great video or at least something I would be extremely excited to watch would also be the race to 250 and 275!
Hey man, been big fan started watching since the reboot progression series. this video got me readdicted to maplestory. This video was so well put together and so motivating to come back. Thanks for the content
1:22 this gives me so much nostalgia man..
Nice Video, gave me some flashback memories of seeing the news whenever something changed during those times.
Anyone remember Stephen (I think), a lv120ish cleric? I remember he was one of the few players that could take on Crimson Balrog on the Orbis ride before 3rd job was released.
Same guy + brother of the guy who played Suuushi
curryishott had his friends continously force d/c me because we got into an arguement where he said there were tons of well known asian actors in america. He got really salty after a few people took my side in the arguement. I wasn't able to log on without d/c'ing within the first 10 minutes for an entire month. And even after that people still force d/c'd me and mass defamed me.
That guy was such an asshole
I didn't start playing Maplestory until 2008, so I missed all of this stuff. I came rougly about a year before Big Bang. I remember Evans at the time being a big deal the EXP loss was brutal, the monster bags with the Rogs were evil but funny.
Tiger legit was hacking . I remember seeing him clearly doing the auto loot/auto vac hack. Right when he dropped off the number 1 there was a huge anti cheat update which made most hacks become detectable . Towards the end it was so blatant Tiger would CC. People using the ./track Tiger which is the same as PQ tracking back in the day. To find him outside the playable map hacking mobs up.
Korwyn/Looped were Broa legends, I think Korwyn may have been deleted though. Thanks for this video, I rarely comment on videos but thank you for this. My nostalgia fix is fulfilled for now.
Looped had the best fashion. With the bunny pet
@@Noahtheorigianl BRUH YES! I always looked up to him and thought he was so cool.
These days, the level curve is much more generous, and the regular events and boosters make reaching level 200 very achievable. I generated a new character on Hyperion over the weekend and reached level 200 in les than nine hours of playtime. Just goes to show how much this game has changed over the years.
That’s crazy, I grew up and went to elementary school with XNickSwiftX in the video at 39:21. That is so crazy to see him in this lol. Haven’t talked to him In like 15 years, wild blast from the past
i played during this era, and i remember this race pretty well. i too thought tiger was cool af as a DK. unfortunately looking back on the game it is everything wrong with MMOs: out of touch game dev, pay2win gacha, absolute korean mmo grindfest. i think it's unfortunate you never got to experience JMS, it had a strong but small english community and had many of the updates that took years or at least half a year to come to GMS. honestly most of my time spent in the game was cheating and using it as a social game; didn't cheat in JMS i felt it was disrespectful, but also it was easier to grind because of more areas, and the community was tight knit. the game starved you of items; never gave you anything cool or good forever and when you finally got it, at least for me the chase was never good enough. i do still remember the aliases that were my friends during that time, and their avatars when i look them up are pretty visceral, sometimes i wonder what they're doing in life. good effort to keep these lost memories, to me this game is pure nostalgia and not so much anything else.
i'd also like to mention that cheating in those days (might still be true somewhat) was so commonplace even people with NX would be cheating constantly. i had some NX and no one ever touched me, GMs were always absent and legitimately did nothing. it was like the elephant in the room for like 1/4 (maybe more maybe less) of the community. GMS was never a priority for the company and is seen as purely extra income so of course they would do nothing.
Super interesting! I'd be very interested to see a video about the current race to 300
Oh god...the Jr. boogie. How dare you make me remember those.
Man, I REALLY enjoyed this video! Fantastic fucking work. I've watched it like 4 times already. Love this type of content.
Holy shit. I can remember when ludi was released and NLC. Having dates for these release times is crazy!’ There was a glitch in the game for awhile where the boomers in NLC split constantly. And being the 50ish spearman I was, I was almost able to grind to lvl 70. I remember the maps being absolutely jammed to almost d/cikg. But never having enough mesos made me quit that character 😢 lvl 67 was the highest I got in GMS.
I was today years old when I realized curryishott was curry is hot, not curry i shot.... im fucking dumb
insanely high quality videos. thank you for making these.
You brought back memories. I remember the rumor about the top players. A lot of conspiracies as well. Too bad bowman didn’t get a lot of love in the race. I remember that bowman gear was super expensive and weren’t as good till 4th job came out which improved a lot of the class. I only managed to get to lvl 70 and finished my job advancement to ranger before I switched to mabinogi. Also I was from the windia server.
When you find out that Tiger was 4 people one of them being Jon Zherka the UA-camr…
Makes sense because you would have to be grinding 24/7 to hit it that quick and he even said he did it hacking
such a high quality, well edited video. great visual and explanations along with rich history of the game. you are doing an incredible job!
And in MapleSEA we had the legend MrYanDao
What I would give for an offical classic server, me and a bunch of my friends will always talk about what we would do, what classes we would play, ect. but alas that probably will never happen given current nexon. Oh well, least i got fantastic videos like this to fuel my cravings.
I do remember Tiger being one of the few people with an Eclipse and I also remember the free market price for this weapon being stupidly high so its a good possibility. The other thing could be the lack of mobility that Dragon Knights/Beserkers had and how short our AOE range was compared to something like a Hermit's
can't thank you enough for keeping a part of my childhood alive
Love the videos!
Makes me think about osms where the top 1 was a chief bandit around level 15x and then the server was closed.
bros bringing back memories with these happy bday btw!
Amazing video!
If you ever get the chance, maybe you could make a video about the Bigfoot leech phenomena, or add it to whatever video that compliments that topic.
Its amazing I remember Fangblade's little Crusader helmet when I sporadicly went on the website so many years ago. What a nice little memory.
wow.. I see myself. I am Maxwell xD. I trained mainly on Hot sands back then
I remember seeing archers using hurricane at PAP to just bring in the dmg like a waterfall and it amazed me. literally some of the funnest best moments of my life came from the Early days of Computer MMORPG like MapleStory and RuneScape, Endless Online and DarkEden. as kids we were spoiled with the amount of awesome and Populated MMORPGs that were available to us on low end potato computers. we were blessed.
LightOne got done so fucking dirty in this vid
MapleStory's very own classic version, just waiting to be released and played.
this video is goated. would love to see more content of old GMS like this!
if I died and had to relive life I'd start with trying to remember to build a lukless mage in maplestory
I'm a KMS player and your videos are fun to watch, as we play the same game (almost) but what happened ingame are totally different!
Begging this game to make a classic/oldschool version. Private servers are nice but it always feels lacklustre if it isnt apart of the maingame
Loving these iceberg videos. Hoping you’ll do some more in the future! Maybe one on class viability?
You forgot to mention that in Europe Maplestory ItzMjauz was the only person EVER in Maplestory history to reach level 200 as a Hermit. (Beating both Tiger and Suushi the true OGs) The game still being in 3rd-job patch. This is the biggest achievement this game has ever seen.
highest lv is Beta is TehSpearman, u literally had a pic of him in your other vid, showing lv 120. I remember running into him in Perion
Damn, this took me on a trip down memory lane. Well done!
What a cool video, thanks for the nostalgia man!
Awesome vid, really intersting to look back at this era of MS
Love the long videos man. Great job!