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Welcome on Maple Mesos! Did you heard about Nexon Cash system? Basically, this system allows users to buy Nexon Cash with real money – this way you can obtain virtual game items that other player normally wouldn’t have. There are available cards with 5, 10, 25 or 50 dollars values. We can use this special virtual cash to buy items for out characters in games that support “Cash Shop”. This system is used also in other then Maple Story games like Combat Arms or Cart Rider. Well, our beloved Maple Story was first game with Nexon Cash system – it was introduced in the Korean version of Maple. In North America, Nexon Prepaid cards are available since 15 October 2008. Nexon Cash Cards are unavailable in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand or Quebec.

Features
* Join millions online playing free Nexon games and access enhanced game features with Nexon Cash
* Customize your characters with pets, threads, hairstyles, special items and more with thousands of items to create the virtual you
* This is an assortment item; card art varies due to manufacturer availability

Well, I’m familiar with Game Time Cards, these cards are used in MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) as one-time use code that allows to subscribe you to a certain game (like Warhammer Online or World of Warcraft) – but money cards, are something new for me…

Anyway if you love Maple Story and you are looking for additional items for your character – buy one nexon prepaid game card and the power will be yours!!

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Welcome on Maple Mesos. Today I would like to introduce, latest, fresh, fantastic, amazing, superb astonishing, most anticipated, better then others, cool, extraordinary, magnificent, marvelous heh….brilliant, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful + one and only!!!!

> Maple Story official commercial! Check it out!

(Maple Story Commercial)

Well, in my opinion it’s one of the best commercials related to games I ever seen. Hmm I saw also other cool commercial lately, but is for other MMORPG – World of Warcraft: Mountain Dew Soft Drink, where chicks are fighting in the store – it’s awesome too, just like series of other World of Warcraft commercial with MR. T, William Shatner or Jean Claude Van Damme (Mr. T with his legendary quote “Shut up fool” is really priceless).

What do you think about this commercial is it good? Im interested with your opinion!

Brunette chick is really hot :-) damn I must meet her!!

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Welcome on Maple Mesos. According to official website, Nexon is plaining to help us during our long and exhausting EXP farming. On official website we can find “Summer is here. It’s time for a break–from school, job, and even from the MapleStory grind!” They are sooo nice, well there will be 3 “breaks” (well they call them that way) every Friday which will be evenly broken up into sessions of 2x exp.

“This is the breakdown for your mini breaks: 6/26/2009, 7.03.2009, 7.10.2009, 7/17/2009, 7/24/2009 all at 9 am to 11 am, 2 pm to 4 pm, 7 pm to 9 pm!”

Well, they also write usual “bla, bla”

“For your leisurely pleasure we will have FIVE Fridays during which 2x EXP will allow you to level up in half the time you normally would.”

It’s always something, but I don’t understand why they just set 2x EXP ALL Friday? We are players and we are not handicapped!

“So, on Fridays from June 26th to July 24th, we’ll have SIX hours of 2x EXP fun!”

Well, I will probably log in, because I know that I have a lot of free time. Anyway I need to farm some EXP for my new Pirate character, he is “only” on 71 level so I’m prepared for long and hard leveling.

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Welcome on Maple Mesos. Today several tips to gain fast EXP. Check them out!

1. Higher Level Monsters and EXP

Try to pick more powerful monsters as your farming target. If you need 2 hits to KO monsters, you can always try to KO monster with higher level. When it’s possible, just switch farming to this high level monster. This way you will receive more experience points. It’s simple, but sometimes players don’t noticed that. Higher level monsters – more maple mesos and EXP!

2. High Spawn Rate-Key to EXP

Well, first of all you should check out spawn rate, and secondly train on specific monster. Spawn rate means how fast the monsters appear back into the same place. The faster it appears back – the faster you can earn more EXP. My first experience with spawn rate are connected to World of Warcraft, where I had few farming spots with good experience, gold and high spawn rate – these 3 things are most important when you farm EXP + killing speed.

3. Map with Minimum Distribution

Check out where exactly you can find your farming targets (monsters). If you need to walk to much, try to look other monsters or just change. Idea is to find place where monsters are close to each other, this way you + high monster respawn rate, you will increase you EXP income :-).

4. Map with Safe Platform, while AFK

From my knowledge, many players lose EXP, by death from one reason – AFK (away from keyboard) on a platform, because they did not know a enemy could either spawn there or getting hit by monster spell attack. (range attack). That’s why, you should try finding a map that has a safe platform for you to rest when you need to AFK. Well, while playing in MMORPG, sometimes you need to answer the phone or to have “bio break”, in Maple Story when you die, you lose 10% of experience so it can be really frustrating.

5. Complete Quest for more Maple EXP.

Check as often as you can your quest log as you level up. For each level, there are many various quests with various requirements. Basically there are two types of quest, repeatable and non-repeatable, first one you can complete how many times you like, just visit NPC to take/finish it. Second one is unique, so you can only complete it once. Anyway repeatable quests are good way to earn faster some EXP, not only in Maple Story, but also in other MMORPGs such as Lord of the Rings Online or World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online etc.

6. Try out Party Quest.

There are various party quest at Victoria and Ossyria Island. One of these PQ is Kerning Party Quest, available in Kerning City, Victoria Island. Party Quest is good way to earn very fast some experience points. This way you can earn also much more maple mesos then doing training. PQ also awards players with valuable treasures along with potions or ores which you can then sell it in free market to gain additional maple mesos to payback the mesos spent on this quests. This includes Zakum PQ, Ludibrium PQ, Henesys PQ, and others.

7. 2x EXP options.

If you wish to level up faster, you can always try to play during Holiday Sessions. This way you will receive 2x EXP (double EXP) and 2x DROPS (double chance for a rare item to drop) events. Other way is to buy 2 x Exp card, for the real money, but it’s your call. I prefer to buy these improvements, but only if I’ve got more time for Mapling. So if you know, that you will play more in the future, buy one card.

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Welcome on Maple Mesos – Blog! Today I would like to add short list of basic terms, used in Maple Story.

Mapling – It’s the games way of talking about your adventuring. Mapling mean “playing in Maple Story” – you can travel, farm Maple Mesos or doing quests – it’s all Mapling ;-)

* CC – It’s short therm – Change Channel. If you ask someone to CC, don’t worry. If someone asks you to CC, they want you to change the channel you’re using so that they can continue training in peace, or for whatever reason they have in mind. Well, if someone is nice, you can CC.

* KS – Kill Stealing. It’s when someone in Maple Story of a higher level comes by where lower level characters are training and kills your opponents. It happens, so you can politely ask them to stop, or ask them to change channel, again do so politely.

* Mush – Another short term, this one is from word – Mushroom. In Maple Story, there are lots of mushroom enemies, and varieties of them. Well, if you like mushrooms, after Maple Story, you will hate them probably ;-). I wonder who is responsible for these at Nexon?! You can meet green mushroom, blue, orange, horned, yellow etc. Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms and mushrooms + thousands of mushrooms. Whatever…

Well, I must admit Mush is shorter word then Mushroom. Ok who want to mush in Maple?

* Pots – It’s short form for potions. In Maple Story Potions are, in a sense, a life blood for your character. Like in other MMORPG, you need them to help out your character during tough fights or during normal game. Pots in Maple Story, are extremely important, because if you die – you will lose 10 % of your experience and on higher level it’s.

* NX Cash – Well in Maple Story there are mesos (normal maple money) and special NX Cash. You can use it to buy special items you can’t get otherwise. They made up this money, because you can only get them, by paying them normal cash. Yeah – dollars or pounds. Anyway you can get that way, very cool Maple items. When you don’t have Maple Mesos, you can always get some NX Cash for real money.

* NPC – It’s short term from Non-Player Character, so all the characters in the towns that just stand around or move a few feet. You need them for quests – talking to NPC at the right time is how you start quest and stuff like that. In all MMORPG NPC can give you, quests, rewards like Maple Mesos or you need to speak with them while doing business on Auction House. What else about these NPC in Maple Story…Well, they have limited action and you don’t need to talk to them, if you don’t need quest, or if you are not ready for one.

One more thing – I suggest to DO NOT BEG FOR THINGS! Some players will kill in a sec, because it’s really frustrating when someone is begging you. Remember, when you die, you are looking 10% of your experience so begging is really dangerous. Don’t beg for Maple Mesos or items, it’s really pointless…

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Welcome friends on Maple Mesos Blog. Today I would like to add few words about tips for Maple Story.

Remember my friend, if your Hit Points (HP) are low, find a safe place where you can “rest” and restore your health. To do that, you need to be stationary. In this way, you can avoid losing 10 % of your experience points (Exp) should you “die” due to loss of HP. In Maple Story you need to be very careful, in other hand you will lose time and health ;-) (real one)

Well, to easy gain a lot of experience points at the start of Maple Island is by fighting monsters called the Shrooms and the Orange Mushrooms. If you are already on Victoria Island, the Slimes and the Stumps.

You need to improve your accuracy in hitting your enemies, you should raise your DEX if you are a warrior, bowman or a thief. You are a magician? Increase your INT and LUK. Each class has important and less important stats, try to think about that.

Pick up and store a lot of ores which you may find in the game. Ores are very expansive and rare, you need to to improve your in-game equipment.

To acquire armor and weapons, there is a requirement of every 5 levels.

After level-up, you will receive 5 Ability Points (AP). Each AP point can be used to increase all your primary stats like HP, MP, STR, DEX, INT or LUK. However, most of gamers that you use your AP only for your STR, DEX, INT or LUK since your HP and MP increases automatically when you level up your avatar.

Enemies may drop a common item like a snail shell or it may also drop a rare item like an axe. Some monsters even drop 2 different kinds of ores like mineral ore and a jewel. Stay focused and collect all kind of staff from your enemies – you want be rich or not?

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Welcome on Maple Mesos. Today I would like to introduce Pirate job (or path). The path of the Pirate will probably one of the most popular in MapleStory. Yarrr so read these stuff matey and know more about this awesome job!

What is sooo cool in Pirate?!

- Very, very, very fast attacks!
- Awesome abilities, as well as getting a mob attack during first job
- In the Brawler job, the user has physical mob attacks
- Brawler have higher HP than Bandits and higher MP than warriors
- At the beginning, pirates have great dash ability that can accelerate Pirate’s movement speed
- Gunslingers can hover in the air for a short period of time

What is really annoying…

- Gunslingers do low damage, so be prepared for that…
- Pirate little bit difficult to get used to
- The pirate equipment IS expensive, you need a lot of Maple mesos!
- Brawlers lack the mobility of Bandits, and also must be closer to attack enemies

Well at their 2nd job, Pirates have two options to evolve – Brawler or Gunslinger. Brawlers are melee, close-ranged fist fighters who deal great damage and have nice amount of HP, but they must get really close to their enemies, that’s why they are reviving a lot of damage during the combat. Gunslingers are faster and ranged attackers, but their shots tend to be weak due to the lack of criticals that an Archer or Assassin has. Well, you can’t pick 3rd job, its forced depending on what has been already chosen, Outlaw from Gunslinger and Marauder from Brawler. For the 4th job, Pirates have the choice – Corsair or a Buccaneer. Personally I like very much Pirate job, it’s my kinda a class. Fast, aggressive and created for attack! Oh yeah, there is nothing better then being a pirate ARR!!

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Welcome on Maple Mesos – Blog. According to very popular website, gamershell.com, all MS players will be able to play in the Halloween themed section of the Nexon Cash Shop. Nexon also informed that in celebration of the Halloween holiday they will add very large new continent of Masteria with the terrible Phantom Forest and a haunted house filled with ghosts and wraiths. Well, house is called the Prendergast Mansion, so if you are really brave you should visit this place.

Anyway check out this video, it fan video related to Halloween.

I hope you will like it. Anyway Halloween special is in Maple Story is always massive amount of fun ;-) i remember my first Halloween in MS, it was around 2 year ago. Well there was really a lot of fun and laugh with my guild mates. Anyway don’t forget about guilds in Maple Story, they are really important place for every online player.
See you next time mates on Maple Mesos – Blog,
Scary Halloween!!!