One of my favorite parts of old school MapleStory. The race to level 200. Sources used: docs.google.com/document/d/1Q... Become a member: ru-vid.comjoin My 2nd Channel: / @lppshow My Discord: / discord
Very much so, we need this kind of content badly for these old mmos from the early to mid 2000's to archive older internet culture, I hope we get another person with the same level of passion as him to do the same to something like ragnarok online or tibia too. So much history and memories from that era could be lost.
Random fact: Fangblade really was all about the leveling, by power standards he actually was weaker than other DK's far lower leveled than him. He never put much effort into his gear. In fact I believe the surfboard he's often seen with had to be donated to him by his friends/guild as an upgrade to his current weapon and even that took a lot of convincing for him to accept it. I remember reading about a conversation he was involved in where someone was asking in guild if they should spend an extra million mesos (I forget the actual number, its likely far more) to buy an item that had a 1 stat upgrade over their current gear and Fangblade commented something like "Why would you spend a million mesos to get 1 stat when you could just level up for free and get 5 stats" - Kinda says a lot about his mentality haha
Thank you so much for covering a topic so nostalgic to me, and with such high quality and care! :) Please don't feel obligated to, but I'd LOVE a video where you cover the famous MapleStory players of the good ol' days in-depth. Wishing you the best! Hopefully you'll get more subscribers and views!
I distinctly remember Tiger had made a quitting video where he dropped his spear and sat in a chair until is expired. Not able to find it but remember it being a big deal on basilmarket forums.
Very late, but are you sure you're not talking about BSUCLA instead? That video is pretty easy to find on youtube if you just search for "BSUCLA Part VIII"
There’s private servers doing this just because nexon won’t…. I bet it would be HUGE I still play a private server just because I miss OG maple it’s fun just grinding senselessly
Great video and trip down memory lane for me. Having been part of this race (my bishop keturah finishing at #8 on Jun 8, 2008) and being part of what you termed FangBlade's bishop squad was a great time for me. I'm impressed with your attention and accuracy with the details. Thank you so much for preserving this part of the Maple Iceberg, it is truly huge!
@@McDudes it’s just weird bc most old games from like 1995-2005 we have info, like arcade game legends, pro players from age of empires 1, or smash bros melee from 2002, stuff like that, because eventually pros players, they come out and talk about there story EVENTUALLY but gms is soooo quiet
I always find it so funny how: 3d job dragon knight and priest loves each other. One cannot do enough damage and the other wants the healing and bless. Then comes 4th job and the bishop dealing massive damage while the dark knight wants none of that heal because of beserk.
Regarding Tiger's deletion, I was on Scania but was in L3aF at the time. I was given an account by my brother on Scania, a level 135 Bowmen. It was a high-level guild, and we knew a lot of the other high-level players. The speculation at the time of Tiger stopping to play was real-life related. His real name was Gavin, and it was confirmed by people that knew him, that he shared his account with his girlfriend. Back then, account sharing wasn't punished, but was looked heavily downed upon by the community. One day, Tiger would be silent, training away. The next day, they're talkative in buddy chat, and just generally chatting. The switch between the personalities was pretty apparent. He suddenly stopped logging in, and no one really knew why. It was common to see him online at Gobys, but strangely, after about a week of absence, people started to worry and ask questions. Fast-forward about a month later, and he disappeared from the rankings. No one could find him or get in touch with him. The next month, the rankings updated and a female warrior, named Tiger, level 41, appeared. To appear in the rankings back then, you had to be level 30 or higher. They did play, but never talked. No one knew who it was, but they were grinding away while being harassed by countless people. Back then, /find was a command that would list where the player was in that channel. They located her, and would harass her constantly, preventing her from grinding. Eventually, they, too, stopped logging in. With the confirmation of there being two people with access to Tiger, it was speculated within the high-level community that they broke up, or something related to it. Tiger would log in at the very least, once every 2 or 3 days, but for him to suddenly stop without a word was strange to those that knew him. Again, it was only speculation, but it was the most probable at the time.
The two players that shared the account were Gavin and Craig. One of my old friends used to know Craig (I think) from playing Neopets together. I didn't believe him because he was new to Maplestory, but sure enough he sent a screenshot as proof which was Suuushi at gobies saying hey (my name). It also confirmed that they took over Suuushi's account after she quit, and you'd often see Suuushi online more than Tiger at that time. Or one played on that account while the other played on Tiger.
@@xzigzag So THAT'S where Craig came from. My guild master said his name a few times, but I never met a Craig at all. It's not surprising that Suuushi quit, though. She used to grind at squids, but was constantly harassed by hackers just mob-vaccing the map, so she was forced to CC. When the top players started getting banned for training on maps with AFK hackers, it became a harassment technique.
Amazing video! I remember before FangBlade hit 200, he went around joining the top guilds like a kind of celebration tour. Each one gave him a gift. The guild I was in at the time (Imperials, which can be seen in screenshot of FangBlade hitting 200) gave him a blue surfboard.
I physically need videos like this in my life, because there was so much history that I not only missed out on (I might have started playing GMS in 2006-2007), but so much that I've forgotten about in my own head. I STILL have a couple of the "road to 200" AMV videos that people would put out, that I used to be obsessed with 😭 Bless you for making these videos of my childhood 🙌❤️
We need more of these super long documentary style videos, I love watching these while I'm playing LOL. Some ideas: - A whole episode about maplestorys development / beta - Full timeline of maplestory from start to present - breaking down big bang / reboot / other major changes for the game - Why maplestory 2 failed - Hidden maps npcs and easter eggs from OG maple - Maplestory OG culture, like drop games, faming, mules, megaphones, etc
I love that you're going to make different videos about the topics in the iceberg. The iceberg video was one of the best videos that I've sat and watched full attention from start to end in a long time. Early days of Maple are some of my most core memories of being in my teens. I still play til this day, on Reboot now though. I remember when I played in Scania trying to track down CurryIsHott and whispering him and he would actually respond and was super nice. Excited for the next video!
I LOOOOOVE this video. It took me back to those days and I really appreciate the work you put into it. I was in Broa's top 10 Paladins back during these times and I feel you underestimate just how bad they were at 46:22. I don't think even the most committed player could have made it into the top 5 as a Paladin lol. Gosh, incredible video. This really made my day. Like legit.
@squid3921 Man, life can be pretty crazy sometimes. Lol Cory and I still play but Alex has dropped Maple entirely, though we consistently try to persuade him back. Hahah
@@Orrador Good to hear you're all alive. We were never on the same server (Khaini pride) but thanks for covering KMS2 and MS2 beta back in the day. Shame GMS2 was a later big bang'ed version. You're not forgotten lads!
First Corsair level 200 was AnnaVette. Also xxcoreanzxx was a WK/Pally in top 5 (see timestamp 11:43). He disappeared around the time it became publicly known that he was on the LAPD Most Wanted list iRL (where he remains to this day)... otherwise we might've seen a Paladin contender 😂 I think LightOne cracked top 5 at one point as a BM... not sure about that one though. Great video, what a throwback
I remember being there in Hene Hunting grounds 1 when Curry hit 200, my computer almost exploded from how many people were there. Such good memories, can't believe it's been over 15 years since then 😢 thank you for the nostalgia
What a fantastic video along with your iceberg overview. I didn't pay attention to all of this while playing so it's so much fun to hear about it now. Thanks for making these videos :)
this was really fun to watch, a trip down nostalgia road, seeing all the exp rates is not something id ever seen before since i only reached level 62 in vanilla maple
Fantastic job documenting the race to level 200, it must have taken forever to document everything. Nostalgic to remember following the competition as a young kid through rankings. Only missing Xlazhar (I/L Mage from Bera) who was often accompanied by Shiriko (Priest). Xlazhar led the race, hitting level 120 ahead of all, pre-3rd job. He reached around level 122 before quitting, grinding at Bains mostly iirc. Shynobi was the first to 100, Xlazhar then took over in the race to 120. Sadly, their names faded unlike Tiger & Fangblade, due to the timing of a public ranking release. Very interesting watch nonetheless! 👏 If you search for ''Way of Bera'' here on RU-vid, you can find a video my brother made back in early 2006, following Xlazhar & Shiriko grinding at Bains.
Great video. Bigfoot/Anego meta was 100% a way to level at the time. if you were able to juggle Bf's in a corner you could open his hitbox. It was a large amount of exp for a very short amount of time. You could see people shoot up large levels with BF/HH hunts. the unfortunate thing was the around 6-12 hour spawn timer and too many maps to make it consistent outside of maintenance.
Brought back so many good memories playing this game. Even some from after big bang, racing to 200 in new world releases, the 250 race and community, tower of oz discoveries. Great job on the video :)
Holy crap that's a ton of nostalgia. As someone who did play the beta and also looked at rankings pretty frequently, seeing the old spots, the updates, the names on the rankings, this video definitely hit a spot xD I saw curry when they were still in the 30ish range once, specifically remembered the name, was so surprised to see it on the leaderboards later on ^^
I feel some pain looking back to old maple because I went so hard on level grinding but at the same time those times were some of the most memorable and fun times of my life. Great video, thanks for covering this kind of a topic.
These iceberg videos are so well researched and so engaging as well. Thank you for putting together the lore and other information about the game into one super intriguing package that we can all consume easily. Excited to see more
Hey man, been big fan started watching since the reboot progression series. this video got me readdicted to maplestory. This video was so well put together and so motivating to come back. Thanks for the content
yoooo this video was so in-depth and informative to people who may not know Maplestory's history that well. Would love to see a race to 250 and race to 275 video in the future :)
200 was the race that mattered. MS was still one of the top 3 games played which imo makes it a huge achievement. It's insane going on these days and seeing how far it's fallen. I was so surprised by how many servers were deleted.
I always remembered that Tiger was level 160 when I started to play but I couldn't remember the year because I was so young back then. I'm very happy to learn that it was around August 2006, or v0.28. Crazy how new the game was still.
I remember stalking Tiger and Suuushi when they we're level 14x. Somehow I can't comprehend that that was in 2005... I was literally 9 years old. My brother reached level 71 at that time, which was already insanely high to me. I never got higher than level 60 on my Dexless sin. Call of Duty became my new favorite game.
thanks for making such videos, it's a treat to walking down the memory lane. also would you make more videos perhaps something related to releases of regions(or maps) over the time, events (in-game or irl events, guild meetups) or the transition of maple's economy (trader) from f2p to p2w? i feel like if anyone were to do it, it has to be you.
Absolutely love your videos. Been playing maplestory since I was 4 or 5 (24 now) and I just got back into it for the 100th time recently. Love watching these videos along side of it.
This is the greatest trip down memory lane I've ever experience from any video I've ever seen. Amazing documentary and I swear I'm not crying. Subscribed!
Few notes I'll add to this! Hot sands was best exp for melee when it was vic only. Had great drops from torties and had best spawn. Also Tiger HATED fighting for areas to train at. And him being on the Scania server there was plenty of competition. He was at lucida because there was no one there so he had the spawn all to himself. Fun fact this is why he went to gobies. Gobies aren't nessisarily faster than squids. But virtually no one was at gobies so that's why Tiger preferred that to squid. Also bera had a fairly decent shot because it launched about over a month after Scania but it had a TWO WEEK double exp event to help players catch up! Also hp washing was invented by Tiger! It was invented a bit later so no one really did that yet. CHief bandits were great at level 70 because of meso explosion... However as they leveled their utility started to demish. See they actually were not that good at mobbing because band of thieves was actually a terrible skill.. Also assaulter did slightly less damage than savage blow. So actually aside from meso explosion their damage didn't really improve from second job to third job. Chief bandits would soar from levels 70-110ish but after that the other classes could kill faster than CBS could drop mesos. Also there was a brief moment in time where Suuushi was number 1. Tigers character was completely gone from the rankings either from character deletion or from ban. The name Tiger was taken by a black female character that made it to the grand level of 12. Eventually Tiger got his character back and did eventually go on to reach 200 albeit much later. Also to further fuel the speculation of Tiger account sharing. Talking so some of his friends at the time and people who bossed with him Tiger alwaysss whispered. He never talked out loud. Idk maybe the celebrity didn't want people to twist his words or something... Untilll the rumors of the account sharing started popping up. I remember going down to aqua road to watch him grind. And one day he was very talkitive. Told people what % he was at. The attack on his spear etc etc. Almost like a different person.
You really nailed it with this video. I never really got into maple story but I really enjoyed this whole video. Would love to see something like this for other old MMOs too.
I remember forming expedition teams as a fresh level 30 bandit and traveling to tauros with my friends to see the high level players train during beta. Learned the hard way that the lightning strike kills through darksight too. This was back when LAN shops were still a thing. Great memories
I just remembered the time I met Tiger when he was still level 153 in HHG1. He literally just hit dragon roar and level 16 me (like, 10 years old) leveling to become a page was so excited to meet the legend himself.
This brings back so many memories. I remember when Perion used to be the FM, when FM didn't exist. I also remember the summer events when they gave tubes and maple weapon drops. I remember a lot of people were grinding at bubbling's for the maple shield. Good old days. Pig beach was my favorite spot to chill at.
This is truly a beautiful historical record of so many people's memories. I've been watching youtube since 2011 and I've never felt such a strong emotional desire to give thanks to a creator. Thank you so much for making this video. I think I'll come back to this for years to come.
In the early days of official release I remember a cleric named Stephen who kept on par with Tiger around lvls 70 or so. I dont have much information other than memory, but you can probably find something related to him around. Really nice video though!
holy shit, the crossbowman you have at 41:05 was a friend/guildmate of mine in those days haha! XBish from Windia, his name is carlos and he was a hilarious dude. he was from dominican republic and i'll never forget he told me that his nickname was Dominican Thunder. and how if i ever visit there, that the police will definitely stop me as a tourist but you can get out of it by bribing them with like 10 bucks. miss that guy, hope he's doing well wherever he is. so many good memories on that server
The only thing I don’t miss is not being able to afford potions but once you got past there, old MS was so fun. Dexless warriors and trying to get accuracy was a fun challenge.
The reason Chief Bandits were not up high in the ranks but Hermits were, is because getting to Chief bandit alone was a feat in itself, it was statistically the slowest leveling experience up to 70. Considering CBs had to single target as a Melee only really sucked it was comparable to the way Beginners level. All that aside once you do finally hit 70 for that sweet Band of Thieves, you find out quickly that it doesn’t even start with its mobbing potential. At level 1 you could hit 2 monsters at once and it would very slowly increase through levels until cap. So as a CB you were not even efficiently mobbing until 80 or so.
Bruh hermits were just as bad if you were poor. You know how shit a feeling is when every bandit/hermit pre 60 is? We both suffered bro LOL. Couldnt ever make money cause pots + refilling the shitty low level subis were too expensive
@@Ghost1170 lmao no, Sin's/Hermits were WAY better without meso's and with a lot of funding they were extremely strong. The cost of refilling stars isn't the same as actually doing terrible damage.
@@HiImRawr bruh, I struggled way less getting a chief bandit than I did a hermit. You dont need money to auto attack. You need money to auto attack as a sin. What? Even if the process is slower, you win out at a net positive if youre making money. Making money in old maple was literally a time waste unless you hacked. That shit was cancer
I was playing jMS at the time, and the first level 200 worldwide was a jMS master thief, mostly due to how good himes were for master thieves, and since they had them for longer along with the 25% exp bonus jMS had. I remember being really happy to see a MT do so well since I was one myself.
I have kind of a cute story about curryishott. So I made my first alt character, a bandit, at some point in 2007. I had just maxed savage blow and mastery, and since I was approaching 50, I was looking to check out my damage at coolies, a map I wasn't super familiar with. I saw a female priest training there, level 81, and sat back in awe before CCing. She sent me a party invite and let me leech for a bit while I slowly killed one by one. It must've been obvious that I was gawking at her ability to control the map, since she said "you're partied with a pro lmao" I replied with something like "haha, yeah," before she revealed that she was actually he--curryishott. I was in obvious disbelief wondering why the rank 2 person in the game was wasting time training a comparatively low-level priest. Apparently, he had gotten a temporary ban triggered by someone messing with him through AIM, like the messenger, but I'm not sure if that was true or if I was getting messed with. Dude just couldn't stop grinding. Anyway, I obviously went and visited him at gobies (not sure why he wasn't at bone fish) the next time I saw his main online, and we had a little laugh about how we met. He never forgot me, even almost a year later when we all celebrated him hitting 200. Tony, if you're reading this, I never forgot either, and you gave me one of the best memories of my childhood. I loved watching you grind 190-200 at a way faster rate than anyone ever did once the pressure was off. Also: in the video, you mention that Tony was the first likeable and sociable person in the top 5. I definitely agree, but I would really love if you could make a vid exploring the many myths and rumors surrounding Tiger. As someone who got to talk to him once and was on his buddy list (for probably a day lmao, I was just selling him elixirs), he came off as extremely impersonal, and I'm wondering if that was intentional. There used to be a rumor that Tiger was multiple people, and that the name 'Tiger' was meant to represent each of their names--no idea if that was just a spicy rumor or not, but his only confirmed identity does start with a G (Gavin). Anyway, it would make sense for someone who's account sharing, to make sure each person communicates with as little zest as possible so as to not give out any conflicting identities. Might be a nice and easy 30 minute video, and you could find most of the rumors on the old forums!
this gave me so much nostalgia. i remember checking the results every other day before logging in after school to see who was where in the rankings. My in game best friend Joe was on pace to become the first level 200 paladin and was at the top for a while but we all just stopped playing after growing up more. i think he stopped around 173 or so.
The factuality and expansiveness of this video is absolutely insane. I picked up MapleStory as a 13 year old during oct/nov 2005 and played upto Big Bang. Hanging out on forums when not playing the game. I vividly remember the release of 3rd job and Ludibrium. Always interested in the top players and the current meta. You went so far into the details of grinding in gMS.
Great video dude, this was very nostalgic. I didn’t start playing MS until the start of 2008 but man does this bring back memories of the time, wondering what everyone is doing nowadays, including my old guild mates. I want to say I made it to level 80-100 something pre-BB as a White Knight in Bellocan. I will say while I think WK/Paladin was an underrated class and mostly just not as popular, I will admit we weren’t secretly super good or anything, I wish lol. Shoutout to my old guilds Peace and Jr. Carnage. Thanks for the memories
100.000% that the level cap was like that, I played literally since releasedate.. Tiger rank 1 first ever to lvl cap 120 in Scania GMS (back in the days when there was no 3rd or 4th job yet).. If my memory is correct he did the final kill at the Crimson Balrog spawned on the boat from Victoria Island to Orbis that would travel once per half hour.. I love your video’s man, they bring back memories! Keep it coming! 😄
Very cool video! At 40:50 you mention that Bigfoot was most likely killed by classes like Hermit, it was actually very difficult for Hermits due to how Bigfoot's knockback mechanics were and how hard the touch damage hit, almost a guaranteed 1 shot unless they were heavily HP washed. Bigfoot after being hit would have a slight invincibility frame where it couldn't be hit again immediately, making it almost impossible for a Hermit to knock it back enough to pin it in the corner. Bigfoot was actually mostly done by warrior classes that were able to utilize rush and pin it in the corner easier while also having enough HP to tank the high touch damage.
I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I seem to recall some leech / boost strat involving bigfoot? I think a War would give you the HP boost and you'd hit it once (somehow, don't recall the details tbh) and it would get you like an entire level lol. My memory isn't great and I don't recall if I ever actually did the boost at any point but that sticks out in my mind.
@@PurpleDragonSpike Power Guard leech! Page & Fighter could learn a damage reflect skill called Power Guard at level 31 which didn't check accuracy. The leech seller would bring a level 31 Warrior mule, get it to suicide into Bigfoot & then you'd gain EXP. As long as you were level 26 or above.
great video! im an old school ms player now im 37 i have some screen shots of me following my fav top players. just an extra info. there was a couple players who reached 200 before fangblade 1 from scania and 1 from broa but they were unranked players. not sure why they got unranked. but the one from scania was a bishop
Nice video! I actually had memories in both GMS and TMS, born in Taiwan, moved to New Zealand during 5 yrs old, and my classmate told me about gms, played a little, and had to leave New Zealand. Just again, my classmate told me 楓之谷, which is TMS, and i was so excited if its the same thing, and it was! Then i played TMS in Taiwan and GMS during i was at New Zealand for 2 yrs, then my whole family decided to move back to Taiwan(like 17ish yrs ago). TMS first lv200 player was a mage called冰糖霜, she also got to 200 in the skellies map, actually forgot if she is ice-lighting or bishop, I believe that in the road to 200 section, maplestory in different Severs were pretty much the same, thank you so much for this iceberg, it's the memories to time chosen people😂
I remember training on sharks as fire poison mage. IIRC, you cast fog facing away from sharks, and when you start from the beginning again, explosion to kill everything before they cast dispel and repoison. Was still quite dangerous but was doable
I remember going against curryishott when PVP games were around. I said hi to him in chat and he said hi back, I felt like a fan being noticed by a celebrity haha. Few months later his account was gone. Good times man.
I remember training on sharks as a f/p mage. You still had to be pretty careful due to the dispel, but on the flip side most mobs die in one hit and a lot of the maps were empty, so you could easily get more than one map to yourself.
