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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: Age of Reckoning or World of Warcraft) – but money cards, are something new for me…

Recently Maple Story’s Trade System was established, in which we can purchase game items with real Nexon and sell items for NX. However, only Nexon from the pre paid cards can be used in this. I think these gift card are the best way to go because they work in the Maple trading system, cash shop, and have the ability to gift others an item from the cash shop. You should know that buying buying directly from nexon through paypal only allows you access to the cash shop without the gifting option or maple trading system. Of course Nexon Game Card can be used with other Nexon games like:

Dungeon Fighter Online
Combat Arms
Mabinogi
MapleStory iTCG
Pop Tag!
Vindictus

If you are looking for more information about Nexon Pre paid Game Card, you can check out other sources. You can buy Maple Story 25000 Nexon Cash Prepaid Game Card or Maple Story 10000 Nexon Cash Prepaid Game Card

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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If you are familiar with World of Warcraft, you can remember special Mountain Dew soft drink related to this popular MMORPG. Official name was “Mountain Dew Game Fuel for World of Warcraft”. There were 2 flavors, the cherry-citrus tang of Horde Red, or the smooth wild fruit taste of Alliance Blue. These soft drinks were available only for players in United States. If you have friends in US, you can always ask someone to buy one box of these.

Oh, one more thing – from September 30 – October 7, 2009, all first time shoppers at Maple Story Europe will receive special 50% of the amount that they spent during the entire event period back in Maple Points! So if you are hungry for more in-game shop items, now is your chance to get them for less!

PS.
I don’t remember other products related to other MMORPGs, but for World of Warcraft they probably release soup, special oven or some depression pills for hardcore gamers ;-) Well, after I “broke up” with World of Warcraft I sure needed one box of these…
Don’t forget to get longer break after long playing sessions in Maple Story or in World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI Online or any other MMORPG. I played also in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning but I left this game pretty fast – it’s maybe ok but still unfinished in my opinion.

Anyway have a break from time to time for your own good – its only a game not second life!

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> 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. Simple, fun and short. Hmm I saw also other cool commercials few months ago, but for other MMORPG – World of Warcraft: Mountain Dew Soft Drink, where chicks are fighting in the store in Alliance vs. Horde struggle – 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). Check youtube and find them :)

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

You can check out another interesting Maple Story commercial (18 XII 2009  — A legendary hero has returned)

(Maple Story Commercial Aran introduction)

In this commercial we can see Aran, legendary hero from the past, who fought the Black Mage with the four other legendary heroes, but was sealed in ice by the Black Mage. He awakens to the call of a girl Lirin, and finds himself on a Rien island. Aran is using special unique feature, the Combo System. Combo counts are generated by hitting monsters with polearm. Aran gets four job advancements like Adventurers. Legendary Heroes classes are new feature in Maple Story. There is also second Legendary Hero called  Evan himself who is a farm boy, but one day he comes into possession of a baby dragon called Mir or third one called Magician Hero who fought against the Black Magician along with Aran was called Freed, and he cast all of his spells through his Onyx Dragon, Afrien.

What do you think about this commercials are they good? I’m interested with your opinion!

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Well now, boy sits in front of the PC around 15 hours a day. His parents describe him that “he has a stern gaze and looks like a different person,” and “He’s brusque with us, but sometimes, when he’s facing the computer screen, he’ll suddenly let out a chuckle…” Well, this is creepy, but I don’t think that Maple Story IS in fact problem in this story. Boy has probably mental problems and Maple Story isn’t responsibility for these kind of behaviors. In my opinion it can be major depressive disorder, according to wikipedia “is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.” Anyway I hope everything gonna be alright, there is nothing more important then our health…

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“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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As part of the celebration, Nexon is planning events for its players such as: Fourth anniversary Maple weapons, item upgrades, monster transformations, in-game items, real-life prizes and the Maple Quiz.

On this occasion, Nexon is promoting its birthday is by releasing some figures that show how popular MMORPG Maple Story has become. So Maple Story has 92 mln players around the world and 6 mln of them being in North America. Of course game is free, that’s why it has so great number of players. Compared to World of Warcraft, Maple Story has 7 x time bigger player base then this popular pay-for-play MMORPG. Almost half of 92 millions are Asian players.

I’ve found also some other informations about this event.

“After four years of service in North America, MapleStory continues to evolve and surprise us all. We are very grateful to our loyal fans and this celebration is for them,” said Min Kim, Nexon America’s Vice President of Marketing. “MapleStory fans have helped create something special and we’re going to reward them with new, exciting content to enjoy throughout the summer and beyond.” – standard blah, blah, blah

Maple Story anniversary celebration will feature

Item Upgrades – Maple Hat and Maple Earrings obtained through monsters are upgradable using Maple Leaves. The earrings can be upgraded by completing special quests.

Fourth Anniversary Maple Weapons – Monsters will be dropping special anniversary weapons. Or the players can exchange previous anniversary weapons and Maple Leaves for new Fourth Anniversary Weapons, Maple Hats, Maple Shields, Maple Earrings, or Fourth Anniversary Scrolls.

Leveling Up Event – Each time players levels up, they will receive Maple Leaves. The number of Maple Leaves rewarded will vary depending on the level. Higher level players will receive more Maple Leaves.

GM Events – The GMs will run special events and summon last year’s anniversary boss, Big Puff Daddy, at random times.

4 Candle Event – Nexon is giving away around 1,200 prizes over 40 days, including in-game items, Nexon Game Cards, digital cameras, iPod Touch and a laptop computer. We must play for 40 minutes will receive a candle. Once a player has a candle, they can receive up to 4 pieces of cake for each successive 40 minutes of game play. Anyone who get all 4 pieces of the cake will have a chance to win.

Monster Transformations – We can transform into one of MapleStory monsters for a given period of time. Well I love this one.

Maple Quiz – We can take the Maple Quiz. For every question a player gets right, five Maple Leaves and a special cake will be rewarded. Like I told you before…

Anyway Maple Story is 4 years old! Let’s celebrate and farm Maple mesos! :-)

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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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What is sooo cool in Archer?!
- Flashy Skills mainly in the Ranger/Sniper stage.
- Probably highest accuracy in Maple Story
- Handles normal mobs pretty well
- Very nice mobbing skills.
- Gets soul arrow in 2nd job, allowing space saving for more pots.
- Fantastic range
- Well 4th job is really great
- Can hit as high as warrior with double shot very early on.
- Archers got the highest armor of all ranged classes.

(Maple Story archer gameplay)

What is really annoying…

- Low health, well, sometimes 2 hits and you are killed by monster…
- Very low damage
- Very unstable damage until mastery in 2nd job
- Confirmed as the least popular of all the classes
- Elemental advantage is weird at higher levels, not much fire very weak mobs to train on

At their second job, archers have two options, Hunter or Crossbowman, and will proceed on to Ranger and Sniper respectively. The general perception of archers is somewhat biased however, so do not expect to be tops in line for a place in a training party for example. Well, I prefer Magician, as ranged class, but playing as an archer can be also very entertaining, even is hard to play. Even it’s less popular class, it’s still good and fun one. I love them for very high accuracy which is highest in Maple Story. 4th job is fantastic and if you are patient enough to level up your toon on high enough leve you will be very pleased! And this range…Yeah Archer have splendid range! I just love to watch how archer can snipe enemies from the long distance…If you remember how Magician is vulnerable to any monster hit, archer is also very vulnerable so you should watch out, because sometimes 2 hit and you are dead…

What can I say more?! Try it my friend!

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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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- You should take quests! It is through these quests that you can also gain experiences, equipment, items and Maple Mesos. Some of the quests are easy for beginners, while others require a significant amount of levels and playing time that come along for the task. Also I don’t know about MMORPG without quests ;-) it’s almost impossible to play in these games ignoring quests. Of course, you can ignore boring quests or these uneconomical ones, but generally QUESTS ARE IMPORTANT PART OF EVERY MMORPG, INCLUDING MAPLE STORY.

- Should you feel that the place you are in is too crowded, you can always switch to a different channel and still remain in the same place.

- You should remember to control picking up an item or killing an enemy for experience points. To do that, you need to take a look at the confirmation status found at the bottom right of the screen. In that way you always take every loot.

- The bowmen, magicians and thieves are capable of very long range attacks, but need to keep up all kind of stuff related to these weapons and attack type. Warriors, rely mostly on close range attacks. But since they have large HP and attacking levels, they have the capability to fight stronger monsters.

- Your character speed and power are vital and significant in fighting monsters. You should evolve your character with idea, in other way, your character will be weak. Building character in MMORPG can be sometimes very complicated thing, but you shouldn’t be frustrated by that. Just think what you need > tanks need a lot of armor and health. Of course all classes need a lot of HP, but tanks need them most because they “tank” enemies…it’s simple. If you are dps you should have very high attack abilities to deal more damage. Of course if you are dps you need to be mobile and skilled to evade attacks and threats…

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