A few negative issues I have with the 5th job update:
1: No direction? I found myself fully immersing myself into the quest-line because I was generally excited about the update. Seemed simple enough of a quest to do. Make sure the TOT (Temple Of Time) quests are finished, talk to the Memory Keeper, talk to the three Maple Warriors (Henesys/Pantheon/Deserted Camp). Once I hit the Deserted Camp, there was a test given to me, in which I had to locate the 5th job portal randomly throughout the top of the World Tree. The Maple Warrior did not mention where it was, she only said it would be randomly at the top or near it. Me, never having been in the World Tree, found myself going to every map in the place, with a five minute time limit, trying to find the portal. I go to the very top, and it won't let me enter, it said 'You need to complete the Maple Heroes Quests to enter here'. Naturally, I go "Okay, I need to do this quest-line first, no big deal." Four hours later...I am done with the quest-line. I finally restart the quest in search of the portal, and enter the very top map, only to find out I'm VSING DAMIEN. Then one of my friends online casually says "Yeah you just go to one of the top three maps near the top." Sure enough, I find it even know I did it before and saw nothing. That was one headache, and extremely minor compared to what came next...
2: 30 hours of waiting to obtain 5th job?
I just...how do you even...
Well it's apparent that Nexon caters to children in my eyes now, as they're the only ones with this kind of time on their hands. Literally, after you get the three stones from each Maple Warrior, you have to go back to the Memory Keeper. For me, at this point I was excited because I thought it was the end. WRONG!!! Turns out, he tells you, that you have to double click one of the stones, which enables a Two hour period of filling an EXP gauge. So I double click the stone, and I spend about an hour filling the gauge with 500,000,000 experience which is the amount required. Once I had 57 minutes left on the gauge, I simply had to wait 57 minutes for it to stop, so I could use the next stone. Frustrating, right? Guess what? It gets more stupid. AFTER waiting the remainder of the Two hours in my gauge, I try to use the next stone to fill up...THESE STONES HAVE A COOL-DOWN PERIOD OF EIGHT (8) HOURS!!! So that's 10 hours in total, for each stone...Seriously Nexon? Some people don't have 30 hours to play all the time you know...
So basically I have to spend 26 hours doing the thing I've been doing for 5 years anyways because the game's been boring: AFKing...Just to get 5th job...
GG Nexon
A pissed off yet still somehow blindly loyal servant of your game that you stole from Wizet.
Sincerely yours
P.S
you~
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I understand waiting until the timer of the stone itself finishes, but why do we have to wait 8 hours before we start a new one?
What could easily be done in 6 hours is turned into 16 hours of waiting total and 2 hours for each stones, so 22 hours.
2. technically, it's 22 hours (don't need to wait for 8 hours for the first stone I think?). But it's still pretty bull
On the bright side, I loooooved AB's dialogue with the goddess of Maple World
But I'm SO SO SO disappointed that, for explorers, Sugar doesn't even acknowledge you... Like, I thought we had something special going on.
I'm pretty curious how other class's conversations go. Especially Kaiser's, to see if it sorta parallels AB's. But I really don't wanna grind every class to 200 for like, ~4 boxes of dialogue each.
Here they said "after 10 long years, the wait is finally over"...only to make you wait even longer, just because. Yeah, makes sense.
Once you get the stones, and click the first, you only need to get 1 EXP (kill a snail or something) and then you can afk for 2 hours. (If you dc, the clock stops ticking, but it doesn't reset. Log back in and it continues where it left off). After those 2 hours you can log out for the 8 hour cooldown.
And you don't have to do the 8 hour cooldown after the third stone, so it's just 22 hours total.
5th job is a big thing. It would be wrong for it to be just "talk to the NPC and - presto! - you've advanced.
However....
Rumor has it that the long wait time was Nexon Korea's way of getting high rank on their game popularity charts.
If you're playing at a PC-bang (internet cafe) in Korea, the times are halved, so you only need 11 hours for the entire job advancement. So everybody went to these cafes (which are very popular there) and booked 11 hours and just afk'ed in Maple for most of it. But since the game popularity charts are based on what people in PC-bangs play, this created a big spike in "popularity" for MapleStory.
Of course none of it is relevant to us in GMS-land, but it's already in the code so the GMS team didn't touch it.
Personally, I'd just rather see something more active that we can do right now as an effort to work a little more toward getting the advancement instead of a senseless 22 hours waiting period. Something you could still solo if you wanted, but get done in a group even faster as well and with the enjoyment of company (hey, some group encouragement all these MMOs love to see happen) just my 2¢
I am sure there are certain people like hacker or people who hit max make this easier for themselves. -_-
I honestly wouldn't call it a 5th job, I would still applied that to the hyper part because... Obviously the hyper part should be considered as a 5th job. So what the point of this?
One thing I am happy for is that there is no drops we have to collect with a ridiculous low rate. I'm looking at you, ultimate explorer lunar dews.
I get that people are mad that they can't experience 5th job in a matter of a few seconds, but it's not that big of a deal. I like that 5th job is a big thing. However, I just wish they made it like 3rd job was (where you had to do a long questline that invlolved a lot of travel). That would have been perfect.