Playing with my mage and getting him to lvl 30. Such an archievement, sadly I used the hairstyle coupon and my characters hairstyle got ugly.
The monster carnival, so much fun playing with others.
Another thing is hiding in the ship when the balrogs came, that was fun.
My fav memory is tho when I returned to maplestory during the red update and made my first character after a long hiatus, my angelic buster.
And when I first started playing maple on a crappy computer as a little kid.
Gosh I am getting emotional
I feel you. I used it on my old what-the-hell-are-these-stats-tho warrior and got that ugly-as-sin spiky mess. I resolved to cover it up with helmets as much as possible because it was gods-awful.
God, I remember I got that “Runaway” hairstyle or whatever from one of those random coupons... I actually quit the character, I thought it was so bad.
I look back pretty fondly on my days grinding octopuses right outside of Kerning City on that one scaffolding map (I think it was the portal on the left?) all the way up to level 30 because my young mind couldn’t comprehend going to different maps to level up on stronger monsters, or that quests were WAY better than pure grinding back in the day.
Also, I remember going with a could of guild mates as thieves and using Dark Sight or whatever the skill is to sneak into some high level zones like deep in Sleepywood. Was so cool getting to see those monsters and then accidentally letting the buff drop and getting 1HKO by like Jr. Balrog or something.
Speaking of Balrog, the Balrog on the Orbis ship! I can’t count how many times I would get on the ship and then afk, forgetting to go inside, only to come back and find myself dead.