Author: maplestory

Too Much Treasure? Boost your Bank!

Greetings, adventurer!

It is with great pleasure that I present to you the bank booster; the latest item available from Solomon’s General Store!

It is in an adventurer’s very nature to hoard the many rewards of their quests. Each and every item tells a story of victory; of courage over adversity; of triumph! But alas, space is at a premium for storing these numerous trinkets and treasures…

At last, there is a solution!

Simply purchase the Bank Booster +50 from my store and, the next time you log in, take a moment to inspect your bank. You’ll observe that an additional 50 spaces have become available to you! This marvellous item works in exactly the same manner for members and non-members. Indeed, up to 5 bank boosters can be purchased from my boutique, totalling 250 fantastic additional bank spaces, available to all!

What’s more, in consideration of our most loyal adventurers, in the coming weeks the bank booster will also be available not only from my boutique, but also from the Loyalty Shop.

If you’ve yet to visit my establishment, why not drop in and receive 200 RuneCoins absolutely free? Remember that if you wish to purchase additional RuneCoins, you can do so here or by clicking ‘Buy RuneCoins’ inside my store. Don’t forget that I offer a 10% discount to all members!

First Ever Official RuneScape Live Stream

This weekend, the first official live stream in RuneScape’s long history is being hosted by the official RuneScape Youtube channel.

Tune in from 9pm (BST) on Sunday to watch three players – big on experience, and with levels to match – discuss some tasty new concept art and pick apart the coming month’s Behind the Scenes news as written by Lead Designer, Mod Mark. With webcams at the ready, they’ll discuss, bicker, and generally try to decipher just what’s coming up this September…and maybe beyond!

Joining the live stream will be Lead Narrative Designer for RuneScape, Mod Osborne. If there’s something you want to know about RuneScape’s lore – past, present or future – he’s the man you want to ask.

You can get involved in the discussion, tell us what’s on your mind, or quiz Mod Osborne by tweeting Paul M (@modpaulm) during the live stream or by posting on the dedicated thread.

And it doesn’t stop there! We’ve got loads more planned including a special run of live streams, hosted by none other than Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard and RuneScape Vice President Daniel Clough. There are more details to come on those very soon!

Subscribe to youtube.com/runescape today and get a reminder before we go live.

Miss out on August’s Sizzling Summer rewards

Miss out on August’s Sizzling Summer rewards? No need to let that rain on your parade! Subscribing throughout September still gets you a raft of roasting-hot rewards.

That’s right: if you’re a member throughout September you’ll get your hands on all of the following Sizzling Summer bonuses:

350,000 XP!
Seaweed dreadlocks.
A squid cape.
A cool crab emote.
A rather tanned title!
2 additional bonus spins per day on Squeal of Fortune – that’s a total of four per day!

This is the last chance to get access to these amazing summer bonuses so don’t miss out. Become a member by clicking here now!

If you’ve been a member all through August, don’t forget that the biggest reward of all arrives for you at the end of September in the form of an additional 700,000 XP and Choose Your Fate.

Choose Your Fate is a selection of four of the most powerful rewards ever seen in RuneScape, including the deadly Instakill Dart. Picture this: you’re fighting for your life. Your health is low, you’ve chugged your last Saradomin brew, but your foe isn’t letting up. The answer is here: the Instakill Dart will kill whatever target you face with one almighty hit!

You can find out what’s so incredible about all four items here.

Remember, these Choose Your Fate rewards are available only to players who are members for the whole of August and September, so make sure your membership doesn’t run out! What’s more, there’s a ton of extra exclusive members’ content in the pipeline for this coming month, including:

Daily Challenges – with fantastic rewards every day!
Two epic quests – with a brand-new storyline featuring Ozan!
God Wars Dungeon – A classic re-mastered, now with even more drops!

you will continue to enjoy playing RuneScape over the years to come

As I touched on before, the team – all of whom are committed gamers, like you – are constantly working on new ways to improve game play, and to strengthen the studio so that more content can be created for enjoyment of the community.

Draw distance

Thank you for being RuneScape players, and we hope that you will continue to enjoy playing RuneScape over the years to come. We have some tremendous content – as well as technical innovations – lined up over the course of the next few months that we believe you will love. We already have RuneScape running in a new and improved client architecture built on HTML5 (a side by side screenshot of the early improvements over the current engine can be seen below – click for full size), and now I’m happy to report that we also have a dedicated Future Tech team working on bringing the game to your favourite tablets, platforms and even smart TVs in due course.

Java (left) and HTML5 (right)

Over the coming weeks we will be holding a number of live Q&A sessions for you

we only want what is best for RuneScape in the long term

We place immense value in our – and your – game’s integrity, feedback from our community, and continually improving the game experience for all, and we have a strong track record of making decisions in this area that we know may be sub-optimal, commercially speaking, but represent our values. For example, we know that directly selling gold, XP or even accounts would generate between 10 to 15 times more revenue than Squeal or Solomon’s Store generates combined. However, we simply won’t do it, because we don’t believe it’s the right thing for the long-term health of the game.

Equally, many of you will know our past initiatives against botting and gold farming cost us millions of players, and certainly tens of millions of dollars. I believe we are one of the few games studios in the world that prizes the integrity of the game and health of our community over commercial returns, but that’s also why we are the only game that has had multiple record-breaking awards for both longevity and global reach. Over the past 18 months, we have ploughed the majority of our revenue back into the game to guarantee its future over the decade to come. We have literally doubled the size of the RuneScape team, and we are making massive investments in technology and improved support.

This week, you should notice a significant reduction in gold farmer spam. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will not only be launching our most comprehensive and formidable anti-bot update but players will also see a significant upgrade to their accounts’ security to protect against phishing and hijacking. This is called Jagex Account Guardian, and we’re introducing it within the next two weeks.

Our passion and dedication to the game and community has never changed; nor will it. Our determination to make RuneScape the world’s #1 free browser game has not changed either, as some have claimed.The management team and I have the heavy responsibility of ensuring the future of this incredible and unique game. We really appreciate the support and trust you have put in us over the last 5 years. Please know that – although some of our decisions are not necessarily popular – they are 100% driven by the aim of building the strongest possible future for RuneScape. The management team defining the strategy and roadmap today are the exact same passionate gamers that have been at the helm for over half the product’s existence, and we only want what is best for RuneScape in the long term.

Mod MMG on RuneScape Micro-Payments

Hi everyone,

We’ve had lot of feedback on two recent RuneScape updates in particular: Squeal of Fortune and Solomon’s General Store. I’d like to update you on how we plan to help fund the future development of the game you all know and love; how we’re making sure that we do not undermine what makes it the adventure game that millions of us, worldwide, enjoy on a daily basis; and what we’re doing to improve on what we’ve launched so far.

Since RuneScape has been around for over 11 years, we naturally take extreme care when introducing significant changes to its gameplay. This caution is a result of both the direct involvement that many of us at Jagex have had with the game throughout its history, and player feedback highlighting the concerns often associated with such change.

In the case of the Squeal and Solomon’s Store, this has been no different. We have thought out and carefully quantified the impact of these updates on the overall game, and have been looking anxiously at feedback from all of our community. One specific difference that does exist with these updates, however, is that micro-payments are often associated with their potential to undermine the integrity of games so that companies can profit in the short-term. As a result, many players have questioned whether RuneScape is heading down this tragic route.

I want to say, categorically, that we will not go down this road. In reality – and quite in contrast to this speculation – the introduction of micro-payments to RuneScape has a significant role in ensuring that we can continue to support, develop and grow the game for many more years to come.

maplestory guides of Beginner

Description

All explorers start as beginners. Beginners are usually melee attackers due to their inability to use ranged weapons and the relative unavailability of attack skills. The Three Snails skill is the beginner’s only ranged attack skill, but has relatively low damage. Beginners have no other attack skills and rely on normal attacks to deal damage. Beginners typically train in preparation for the first job advancement, where they may become a Warrior, Magician, Thief, Bowman, or Pirate.

Respect

Beginners are generally called “Noobs” as most Beginners that come into Maplestory don’t know anything about it, and ask people for stuff like money, equipment, and info. Though most of the time they’re ignored, or asked to get away.

Though there are Perma-Beginners, which have ALOT of respect, as they are Beginners who trained with horrible weapons, a horrible damage range, and really waste alot of time to get to a certain goal.

Also, Perma-Beginners are given access to wield the Maroon Mop at level 36. The Maroon Mop is currently the strongest weapon there is, possessing an average of 220 weapon attack.

Permanent Beginners

Main article: Perma Beginner

Due to a general lack of skills and equipment unique to the class, beginners are the weakest of the classes and most players will take the first job advancement at their first opportunity. In spite of this, some players remain beginners and continue training without taking a job advancement. These characters are called permanent beginners. While most permanent beginners proceed to Victoria Island and other areas of the game for quests and monsters suited to higher level characters, a subset of beginners called islanders decide to remain on Maple Island and train exclusively on lower level monsters such as slimes and pigs.

MapleStory website more useful and help foster

MapleStory BotsYou may have noticed that the website that greeted you when you logged in to MapleStory today is a bit different. This is the next stage in our program designed to make the MapleStory website more useful and help foster communication between the MapleStory team and Maplers. Phase I, of course, was the switch to a Web launch system for the game. That allowed us to display important information to players as they logged into and out of the game. The new look for the MapleStory website marks Phase II – creating a website that’s worth coming to.
What’s News?
The biggest change to the MapleStory website is the re-organizing of our news and update section:
Here’s what’s new:
We’ve combined the separate “Notice” and “Event” news section into a larger, easy-to-follow blog-style news crawl. We’ve improved the display for news stories. You can now click on the “+” symbol to get a summary of the story on the main web page along with a “More” link that leads to a separate page with more information.Each story now has a button to share it on Facebook and Twitter. Spread the word!
There’s an archive of recent postings to search through that will get you caught up on the latest Maple doings:
o All the updates have color-coded labels based on the type of notification.o The tab columns atop the story listing can be used to display just the type of story you’re interested in.o The category menu on the left will sort stories based on the type of information you’re looking for.
Fun Stuff
These two sections are where we’ll be putting all of the great new Web-only MapleStory content that doesn’t fit anywhere else.
? The poll section lets you voice your opinion on the big issues in the MapleStory world ? Fun Stuff is where to find new wallpapers, icons, screensavers and miscellaneous silliness!
Keep checking these spaces for new fun stuff!
New Navigation Bar
The new website also sports a new title bar that will help you find what you need faster. Title bar categories:
? News: An alternative way to catch up on the latest MapleStory happenings.? Guide: Everything you need to know about getting started in MapleStory and great information for advanced players. Keep checking this area over the next few months for some exciting new additions.? Ranking: The classic rankings pages. Are you the best of the best?? Forums: Be a part of the MapleStory Community!? Cash Shop: Enhance your MapleStory experience.? Support: Need help? Includes links to our support pages and the MapleStory client downloader.

Combat Beta, Combat Academy & XP Reward: Open to All

Combat Academy & Open Beta for All

Those of you playing the Evolution of Combat Beta can now access the Combat Academy: a great way to pick up on the finer points of the new combat system.

Veteran adventurer Lady Deathknell has set up shop in Lumbridge, with her Combat Academy replacing the old melee, magic and ranged training dummies. She has a class full of wide-eyed rookies to beat into shape and she needs a hardy volunteer to help out.

Act as Lady Deathknell’s assistant and you’ll be put through your paces in a set of fully voiced combat trials. You’ll cover everything from basic attacks and the relationship between the styles of combat, right up to more advanced techniques such as damage-over-time effects, exploiting enemy weaknesses and ultimate abilities.

Outside of the training, there’ll also be the opportunity to deploy training dummies – with defensive strengths or weaknesses of your choice – which can be used to test out your latest gear loadout or ability bar setup.

Make it through Deathknell’s rigorous regimen of training in the beta and you’ll have the opportunity to take part in a short survey. With this, we’ll fine-tune the new tutorial to give everyone the know-how they need to become all-conquering combatants. Complete this and you’ll be sent a tasty XP reward in the live game (equivalent to 10 times the XP you’d get from a Jack of Trades aura) on the week commencing with the 19th of November 2012.

Whether you’re daisy-fresh from the Troll Warzone or a grizzled veteran of a thousand battles, we want your feedback on the Combat Academy. The beta is now open to everyone, so log in and enlist now!

Evolution of Combat: Mod Mark’s Big Five!

Watch on for details of Mod Mark’s five favourite Evolution of Combat features:

Make X Interface

Also going into the beta this week is our new Make X Production Interface. This awesome new set of tools streamlines skilling like never before: it displays details of all items that can be made in all skills, gives vital information on skill requirements, components needed, and both Grand Exchange and Alchemy value for however many you’re making, and it does this in one tidy interface. You’ll be able to make Evolution of Combat-specific gear too, so take a look and be sure to let us know what you think!

Evolution of Combat: Player Feedback Changes

It’s been five months since the Evolution of Combat Beta launched, and the feedback is still coming in swathes from every corner of the RuneScape community. While we knew you’d jump at the chance to help reforge the combat system into one that’s well and truly yours, the level of passion, commitment and insight that you’ve demonstrated in your feedback has been mind-blowing.

Huge thanks go out to everyone who’s tried the beta and offered their opinion so far. The Evolution of Combat’s come on in leaps and bounds since its beta launch in June, and that – in large part – is down to you. Some of the biggest changes we’ve made so far have been in direct response to feedback from you. Here are a few examples of the most prominent:

The new combat system’s more involved, tactical and exciting than ever before, but some of you found that long combat endeavours such as Slayer tasks had – as a result – become feats of endurance. As such, we upped auto-attack damage and introduced a new ultimate named Momentum – which further increases auto-attack damage for 20 minutes per activation – which means a lower intensity approach to combat will remain available.

The relationship between gear and your combat capabilities is one of the most profoundly altered areas of the combat system, and your feedback and gameplay data have been invaluable in balancing these aspects. A great example of this was rebalancing shields, which many of you said were overpowered.

Another big change is the introduction of adrenaline and abilities, and your input helped us not only to ensure that they worked in a fair and balanced way, but also to make the ability book interface as user-friendly and intuitive as possible.

Dungeoneering was a big point of feedback too, as increased emphasis on the combat triangle and introduction of elemental strengths and weaknesses meant that solo players among you were having a much harder time than you should. With this in mind, we relaxed the vulnerability relationships as they’re applied in Daemonheim, and brought in a new range of omnielemental staves for use by dungeon-delving wizards. There are some big changes to the binding system coming soon, too!

As we’ve said from the start, we need every bit of feedback and every suggestion you can offer on how to make the Evolution of Combat system the update that you want. The beta’s now open to everyone, and there’s still time to make your opinion heard, so – if you haven’t already – log in, gear up and start sending your feedback!