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The age-old issue: New player and HP-washing

Discussion in 'Help & Advice' started by iara, Jul 3, 2018.

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    Just discovered this server less than a week ago, and I was enjoying it. I was having so much fun playing with my marksman (I love crossbow), getting all 5 stumpy, mano, King Slime and all of the low-level monsters. I never played old Maple so this was a new experience for me, so this was basically a new game experience in a total brand new world (the increased size in maps and diversity of mobs REALLY helps. Old Maple maps are just 1-screen-rooms). The game devs seemed to know exactly what Maplestory was about, and the only complains I had was petty things like little typos and Monster Book not being complete.
    I did saw several people buying INT scrolls and the like. At first I ignored it. I didn't knew what was so important. Maybe mages are just very popular?

    Then I discovered what HP washing is.


    Knowing that my character will not be able to do end-game content by an arbitrary bug ("feature" by some veterans) really dampens my mood, and even makes me not want to play any more (haven't logged in since last night) because "why I even bother" says my brain. I thought HP washing was just something optional but instead it just mandatory for my class simple because of poor game design (I didn't knew fully what it was about). I really do not want to play a mage or any character I don't like, in ways I do not want to play (Leeching people with a mage for example doesn't seems fun to me at all).

    Being a new player with a less than 7 days account, what options do I have if I really want to make my first character a Marksman? I'm willing to restart my account and maybe allocate some points into INT and HP. But I am NOT willing make a mage just to farm money and INT equips (That's NOT enjoyable and it's not the way I want to play the game. Why should I be forced to play the game in a way I do not find enjoyable, just so that my main character, a marksman, can progress at all?).

    I get mixed opinions from the Discord Servers and friends. People who want me to stay and enjoy the game for what it is say "you don't need to HP wash, you can get by just fine". While other people say "restart your character, no point in playing archer as your first one".

    What's a new user with zero funds supposed to do? Can't I just remake my character, roll some INT, apply int on there and then use stat resets? Do I really need to make a mage just to enjoy the game?

    I imagine this is not the first thread you guys see about HP washing.

    EDIT: Small typos and expanded on the first paragraph introduction
     
    Last edited: Jul 3, 2018
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