Regrets' Journal - A Band of Thieves

Hello all!
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So it’s been around a month since I started MapleLegends and I figured I might as well detail the start of my journal. I started GMS on 2nd Anniversary and have played on and off with splurges of activity for over a decade. During this time I spent varying amounts of time on private servers of many kinds but after being roped in by a former guildmate from Maplestory 2, I’ve found myself on this server.


The goal of this journal is to dictate the track of a fresh player making their way towards creating a strong end game attacker and an unorthodox type of multi farmer, a multi shade setup. Here are the following goals for my shadower/account as well as restrictions I have.

Long Term Goals/Restrictions​

-Wash to 30k/10k as a Shadower.

-Collect all PQ rewards at least once

-Tier 10 Monster card ring

-Clear all bosses at least once (buying runs does not count and ideally I’d like solo if possible)

-Never buy leech (This is gonna be a rough one, I’m gonna have to rely on my other characters to carry them up.)

-No selling leech

-Have 6 total shadowers that are able to farm

-A LPQ Sin Mule that will eventually turn into a 30k HP NL

-A Bishop with 30k MP.


I’ll break down why I’ve set these goals and explain them a bit more.

Wash to 30k/10k as a Shadower​

From asking and researching, it’s commonly understood that shadowers don’t need that much washing to be successful for endgame content due to mesoguard. This is even reflected in HP challenges where they are given the least amount of HP for participating in them at 10k. However, the idea of permanently locking myself to that set HP amount doesn’t exactly sit right with me and I don’t like the idea of having a “gimped” (for lack of a better term) character that would rely on hyper body.) Luckily this amount of heavy washing is only problematic for shadowers until 3rd job when they get access to meso explosion and can start farming in their own time. Until I make it there, PQs will be my main source of XP and time spent there will be rather vast (especially at LPQ) due to some lofty goals that I’m going to explain later.

Back on topic though, the main reason why I want to wash to 30k is to future proof myself for any changes that may come in the future. Legends is a living breathing server and new content is definitely in the cards so I’d like to be as prepared as possible as well as making up for lack of execution on my end (do not ask how I got my top 50 GMS dojo gloves).

Collect all PQ rewards at least once​

This at a glance honestly doesn’t seem so bad outside of a few bad egg PQs like Magatia and Pirate but hidden insane goal under this is….

I want 5 Broken Glasses that I plan to attempt a massive chaos scrolling session with. This is a horrible idea and has no resale value and has many other things that I should chaos instead, but this is a pipe dream and the idea of having +10 in Str, Dex, and Luk in a single eye accessory is too good to pass up. I’ll hold onto them in the dreams of coping.

Benefits of getting all the PQ items like the Ellen forest earring and magatia PQ will help push my int slightly further, any bit helps in the long run as I slowly make my way towards it.

Tier 10 Monster card Ring​

This is gonna be a rough one. I expect this to be done maybe 4-5 months down the line as long as I can keep my mental state going with 2-3 sets a day. Currently at 30/300 with most of them being from the easier victoria island areas. Working on Ariant/Magatia and following the monster card guide elsewise. (Fantastic guide from Nimbus here)

Clear All Bosses (if Possible)​

I want to be able to conquer all levels of content in this game. I expect things to be rough in the initial learning stages due to my lack of mechanical abilities (huhuhu, imagine struggling in a chibi mushroom game) but I think I’ll eventually make slow progress with hopefully doing all bosses. I fully expect to meso explode my fair share of them until I can reset my base Int.

No Selling Leech or Buying Leech​

Gonna be honest, I don’t enjoy playing mages and it already pains me that I have to make a Bishop but the benefits are too good. I much prefer grinding on a character I enjoy even if it’s significantly less efficient. Maybe this goalpost can be moved but as of right now, I’m fairly against doing it. This will only apply until I "washout" my main shadower (reset the INT to put back into LUK) as I plan to leech up my shadower with my bishop.

Have 6 Total Shadowers That Are Able to Farm ​

I want to be able to do a 6 man shadower zak for the funny. Shadower gameplay I greatly enjoy as well so having more shadowers I can boss with sounds like it would be a good time. Currently I have 11 Alts that I vote daily that I plan to cap (if possible) all events on for those juicy AP Resets. It’s a lot of work but I’m greatly enjoying this kind of time sink.

LPQ Slave (Eventually 30k HP NL )​

Started as an LPQ mule I was making that I’ll bring with Shadower but I figured I would level it up as well along with my bishop as I bus my main through all the PQs. As much as I find their gameplay boring, it’s hard to deny their role as the king of DPM for a single target. I plan to have it progressively wash or fully wash it once I get my 5 broken glasses on my main shadower.

A Bishop Washed to 30k MP. ​

This can change depending on what I want for it. I might do challenges or I might just wash the bare min for a bishop that isn’t a bosser.


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First Entry
July ??? - September 9th

Prelude​

So dropping onto the server with no mesos, no connections besides @Fove (who was too busy staring at the cash shop), I was pleasantly surprised to find a large population and tons of people in the event area. At this point I was a bit overwhelmed but found myself doing all the event activities grinding up the tickets and looking around for what I should spend them on. In my search for more information, I was pointed in the direction of the forum’s guide mastermind Krythan who managed to get me up to speed on what I should be doing and trying to gauge my goals for the game. Frankly it felt a bit weird since I had scanned through many of his guides but he somehow always kept finding more to send me. I’m convinced he has his brain hooked up to his computer to digest information into guides for all of us.

The Washing Itself​

As shadowers share the same HP growth as Nightlords, I got a lot of value reading both his beginners guide and 30k HP Night Lord Guide. Both were fantastic at getting me up to speed on what I should be doing and what to expect through my process of starting such a heavy wash as a new player. Understanding that I needed Int gear to bring with me, my partner in crime @Fove had suggested that we pool any meso we got together to share a set of Int gear. This ultimately proved amazing as event farming (selling maple items, int statted bandanas/flags, and other goodies) managed to get us to scrape together this set for level 35.



Maple Warrior 20 on left and clean on right
Not bad at all for only playing a bit over a month I’d say! Of course we did get a bit of help with a certain scroll appearing on my bishop.



The delayed reaction to this was astounding.

I will say that almost 60% of the funds for selling this went to a +20 int bathrobe. (Not thinking about this more than I have to.) The rest of the int gear was made from gach tickets and the anniversary event items.

As for what my current plans are, they’re going to be my long grind of LPQ for my 5 broken glasses. I’ll snag some NX along the way which I’ll greatly appreciate but until I get those glasses, I’ll be very happy letting my vote NX pile up.


I don't know why I spent over 200 KPQs just to get this.

This was a bit of a shorter first entry but I did a poor job documenting things in the early stages but I'll be sure to do a better job in later entries.

Thanks for reading my ramblings and I hope I don't fall face first trying this as a new player.