A Very Humble Trophy Hunter's Blog

Yep, I got sucked back into the world of Maples again. They are putting out the final part of the story of the Black Mage and the war against him so I had to take part. On the plus side, no monthly sub! On the bad side, when I tried to hop in right away I hit their usual maintenance wall. :(

This is my Tera Burnt character, a normal Explorer Ice/Lighting Mage.

Why did I choose this instead of the awesome wicked cool characters that just came out? Well....

You get probably the best badges in the game outside of events just by completing your story.
Since I am going to be ripping through levels(just got 12 levels from the first part of a story event alone), I won't have time to stop and enjoy the story, and the normal Explorer has story quests that are spaced out from Level 10 to 100 very generously.
Also, I can monster hunt all I want without being interrupted by story...
And I love the Ice/Lightning Mage. His mechanics are easy to get into. Already I have a homing thundercloud that zaps enemies nearby and a powerful area attack that hits all enemies around me and an ice chain that drags enemies to me!
It gets better: 4th job gives me CHAIN LIGHTNING!!!

As such I am making an early New Year Resolution for 2019. I resolve to get my main character to Level 250 and go through the stories which involve getting carried for the super-bosses. I do get some great armor... but it vanishes after 30 days, so I have to be online all month to get better armor before it vanishes and leaves me naked and forced back to the weaker Frozen set.

Not only that, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate comes out in a few days and once that game downloads to my Switch, I'm going to be spending my days unlocking every Spirit in the game and completing the World of Light campaign. As such, I will have to seriously cut down on my Playstation time to make room for these games. Already I have not earned a single platinum in days due to half of my day being spent on Maplestory, and I need to spend the afternoons on that game so I don't burn the midnight oil and ruin my sleep schedule.

And then there is Christmas...

As such, I am going to be demoting trophy hunting to a on-off hobby now. I will still hop onto PS games like Dark Cloud 2 and spend a few hours there, but now that I have earned over 100 platinums, something which few casual players do, I want to step back.