Aggraphine

Hard agree on the tot's know-how bit. It's a cop-out tutorial. "We have a tutorial in the game, see?" Yes, a tutorial that tells you how to do certain things but expects you to know others, as indicated by it telling you to "save your hair and face" while not telling you how to.

And really, there's so much crap you have to stay on top of with this game nowadays that a tutorial that extends as far as like level 50 or whatever is just a joke, and a bad one at that. Nothing explains starforce, nothing explains surprise missions, the combo(and exp orb) system, elite monsters and bosses, burning fields, or runes. Sure you get the massive, obtrusive maple admin popup but it more or less says "hey congratulations on using/finding your first <thing>" and offers no substantial information beyond that. Absolutely nothing explains damage skins either, whether how to get them, save them or change them.

As for OP: I assume you've found the salon thing, yes? From the way you talked about it, it sounds like you did find it, but were(maybe still are) clueless as to how it works. Give me about ten minutes to grab some screenshots.

So if you don't already know, the salon is accessed here, at the bottom of your equipment window:


You click that, and you get a window like this:


At the bottom you'll see four buttons. From left to right: change, original, save, delete.

The change button is how you'll switch between stored faces and hairs


The "original" button removes general facial obstructions:


The save button only becomes active when you click on an empty slot, this is how you save hairs and faces:


The delete button should be clear in its use, but for the sake of going over everything, you select a hair or face you no longer want to keep, then click the delete button to be rid of it.

Now onto damage skins, because nothing explains them in any way.

As I explained in your thread about them, there are a few different ways to get damage skins; some permanent, some temporary, some with a rotating availability. To see your stored damage skins, you need to open your character info window. Along the bottom, you'll see a button labeled damage skin. You click this, and you're given this:


To save a damage skin, you just need to use the coupon from your inventory's use tab, open this window, then click the "store damage skin" button down at the bottom. You can do this with the default damage skin that every character starts with as well. You can store up to 35 damage skins. To change damage skins, double-click on the one you wish to use. To delete, click and drag outside the window:


Everything I've explained above, hair face and damage skin, costs 100,000 mesos per change.

Fuhreak wrote: »

Aggraphine wrote: »

darik wrote: »

I also have an old laptop but i got it fixed, memory expanded, installed an ssd and atill lagfed on those maps, so it might not be the computer but the map that is badly programmed :S

It's already well known that the game is poorly optimized, so you can go ahead and nix the "might be the game" part.

Sadly there isn't much they can do about the rendering aspect of the game.
MapleStory works by layering images on top of images to create things like your character.
This is also how the backgrounds/maps are done, so the more complex a map the more lag it's going to have.
It does make you wonder why there isn't an option to disable useless backgrounds features outright, though.

It doesn't/won't affect most people on newer computers, so just add this to the list of "Not worth fixing"

Hey remember when they had the option to completely disable skill effects and damage lines from other players? Remember how it was actually really helpful?

And then they dumpstered it for a goddamned transparency slider that does absolutely nothing but make things harder to see.

If the one you chucked came from tot's know-how, it was this one:


And, personal opinion here, you aren't missing out on a whole lot.

Here is a list of most, if not all, damage skins that exist. Do keep in mind that only some of them are available at any given point, and there are different ways of getting them.

Some come from quests or events, but most come from random-drop boxes in the cash shop.

These are the ones I've collected over the course of about three years plus change:

Most, if not all, of them are from events over that time period. I think I only bought one of the 30 I have saved.

In the long term, permanent pets are always better. I can think of absolutely no reality in which a one-time purchase is somehow inferior to constant expenditure on upkeep.

As for liking or disliking specific pets themselves, that's a you problem.

Pets with buffs have been permanent maybe one time, several years ago, and they quickly ran that one back and have never done it again. The buff effect isn't really worth it, in my opinion. It's like 3/5/7 or 5/7/9 attack. I'm reasonably certain the three tiers of bonus(one per pet) stack, but even then having a one-and-done purchase as opposed to persistent monthly expenditure on upkeep outstrips 15 or 21 attack. There are a handful of different sets of pets that give the buff effect, the demon trio is the one that was permanent several years ago. Past that, I refer you back to the previous two sentences in this paragraph.


Here, look at it this way. I got a triple permanent pet pack about three or so years ago. It cost around 15-20k nx. Since then I have had to spend exactly 0 nx and 0 reward points on waters of life to revive them on a monthly basis.