Back from Big Bang
00.
Taking a break from Big Bang for a while... to work on portfolio and to face the rest of the world. orz
Big Bang has been WONDERFUL~
Love the new balancing of power for the different jobs.
mayu's chief bandit is at least 2 times stronger than before Big Bang, all thanks to the new skill Shadow Partner!
Shadow Partner: Summon a shadow that will attack with you for a period of time. Requires a Summon Rock.
What it means is that when Shadow Partner is activated, in the case of Savage Blow, which attacks 6 times normally, the Savage blow skill can attack 12 times!!
So leveling time is halved because mayu can kill monsters at 2 times the previous rate~
and thus mayu managed to level till 106 yesterday.
4 Levels in 3 days. Awesome right?!!! XD
Another wonderful thing, spawn rate and monster drops have obviously been tweaked to ensure that players have a good supply of mesos.
Of course npcing items nowadays earn little money, but the rate at which items are dropping pretty much ensure positive income growth. Inflation just MIGHT actually go down... but, it's still too early to tell.
... just onet thing, the spawn rate of fireboars at Perion seriously suck now..... mayu doubt anyone can get any glass shoes from there chasing the pathetic number of fireboars all around the place... =_= what are the programmers doing!?
Lastly, maps have obviously been redone.... Victoria has completely been revamped... which is... ok, much better actually since players no longer have to walk all over the island to get from one point to another, but the island is so tiny now!!
And mayu do miss those maps that she and many other maplers user to train together at lower levels. But in a way, it is also good that the designers removed these deserted maps.... but it's still kind of sad. TAT
ah... so many more things that mayu has barely touched on. MapleStory is just too damn big and complex now. mayu hasn't even figured out the family system. (away for too long from maplesea)
anyone interested in joining Maplesea and becoming mayu's junior? XD
01.
mayu met up with her old ZHSS friend Del on Saturday!!
It has been probably more than 5 years years since we last met, and so Hime organised a mini gathering for our little clique~
and she's still so pretty and nice to hang out with!
It's a real shame that work and life made us drift apart over time... maybe we will meet up more often from now onwards now that everyone's life is settling down.
Still considering whether to go back to ZHSS for their Mid-Autumn Festival celebration...
paiseh to go back unemployed. ...lol (although itz still some time away)
plus, mayu doubt the teachers remember her... being the "guai guai" quiet little girl sitting somewhere in the class...
shall see how first~~ if wife is going back, maybe mayu would go back too
02.
anyway, the gathering was held at Everything With Fries at Orchard Central, where we had a long lunch and talk.
mayu's Chicken Tandoori burger with Sour Cream & Onion fries.
Costs S$9.90 with a drink.... the portion is gi-normous and actually this burger is one of the smaller ones compared to the other burgers.
Everything with Fries sells mainly burgers and fries.
There are 8 burgers to choose from, all of different meat and flavor. The Har Jeong Kai Burger (prawn paste chicken) that miya ordered was definitely mayu's favourite. the taste was strong enough and it was gi-normous. In fact, the filling of all the burgers are really genenous.
And the bread and filling were all so tender that one could easily cut through them with a plastic knife and fork.
The fries on the other hand, were a little disappointing. 5 flavors are available: original, curry, garlic, sour cream&onion, salt&vinegar.
only the curry was strong enough, the rest barely had any taste actually.... but still, a potato lover like mayu enjoyed the meal~ XD
will definitely be going back there again... esp since they actually have sockets available for anyone to use. maybe mayu can bring her laptop there and work on her stuff in nice cooling aircon while taking in the wonderful smell of Har Jeong kai. XD
03.
and yep, mayu is slow... she only watched Kung Fu Panda I yesterday, and only because it was being shown on Chn 5.
But, it was beautiful!!
Pixar.... you now rank at 2nd below DreamWorks in mayu's favourite computer animator.
The story was okay, very predictable, itz the funny parts that are really.. funny.
Dreamworks really brought out everything that 3DCG can do, the wobbly stomach and all...
but what mayu really loved was the combination of 2D and 3D art/graphics in the movie... something that Pixar has not done in their shows....
one more movie to catch this month!
Kung Fu Panda II!!
Click to viewTaking a break from Big Bang for a while... to work on portfolio and to face the rest of the world. orz
Big Bang has been WONDERFUL~
Love the new balancing of power for the different jobs.
mayu's chief bandit is at least 2 times stronger than before Big Bang, all thanks to the new skill Shadow Partner!
Shadow Partner: Summon a shadow that will attack with you for a period of time. Requires a Summon Rock.
What it means is that when Shadow Partner is activated, in the case of Savage Blow, which attacks 6 times normally, the Savage blow skill can attack 12 times!!
So leveling time is halved because mayu can kill monsters at 2 times the previous rate~
and thus mayu managed to level till 106 yesterday.
4 Levels in 3 days. Awesome right?!!! XD
Another wonderful thing, spawn rate and monster drops have obviously been tweaked to ensure that players have a good supply of mesos.
Of course npcing items nowadays earn little money, but the rate at which items are dropping pretty much ensure positive income growth. Inflation just MIGHT actually go down... but, it's still too early to tell.
... just onet thing, the spawn rate of fireboars at Perion seriously suck now..... mayu doubt anyone can get any glass shoes from there chasing the pathetic number of fireboars all around the place... =_= what are the programmers doing!?
Lastly, maps have obviously been redone.... Victoria has completely been revamped... which is... ok, much better actually since players no longer have to walk all over the island to get from one point to another, but the island is so tiny now!!
And mayu do miss those maps that she and many other maplers user to train together at lower levels. But in a way, it is also good that the designers removed these deserted maps.... but it's still kind of sad. TAT
ah... so many more things that mayu has barely touched on. MapleStory is just too damn big and complex now. mayu hasn't even figured out the family system. (away for too long from maplesea)
anyone interested in joining Maplesea and becoming mayu's junior? XD
01.
mayu met up with her old ZHSS friend Del on Saturday!!
It has been probably more than 5 years years since we last met, and so Hime organised a mini gathering for our little clique~
and she's still so pretty and nice to hang out with!
It's a real shame that work and life made us drift apart over time... maybe we will meet up more often from now onwards now that everyone's life is settling down.
Still considering whether to go back to ZHSS for their Mid-Autumn Festival celebration...
paiseh to go back unemployed. ...lol (although itz still some time away)
plus, mayu doubt the teachers remember her... being the "guai guai" quiet little girl sitting somewhere in the class...
shall see how first~~ if wife is going back, maybe mayu would go back too
02.
anyway, the gathering was held at Everything With Fries at Orchard Central, where we had a long lunch and talk.
mayu's Chicken Tandoori burger with Sour Cream & Onion fries.
Costs S$9.90 with a drink.... the portion is gi-normous and actually this burger is one of the smaller ones compared to the other burgers.
Everything with Fries sells mainly burgers and fries.
There are 8 burgers to choose from, all of different meat and flavor. The Har Jeong Kai Burger (prawn paste chicken) that miya ordered was definitely mayu's favourite. the taste was strong enough and it was gi-normous. In fact, the filling of all the burgers are really genenous.
And the bread and filling were all so tender that one could easily cut through them with a plastic knife and fork.
The fries on the other hand, were a little disappointing. 5 flavors are available: original, curry, garlic, sour cream&onion, salt&vinegar.
only the curry was strong enough, the rest barely had any taste actually.... but still, a potato lover like mayu enjoyed the meal~ XD
will definitely be going back there again... esp since they actually have sockets available for anyone to use. maybe mayu can bring her laptop there and work on her stuff in nice cooling aircon while taking in the wonderful smell of Har Jeong kai. XD
03.
and yep, mayu is slow... she only watched Kung Fu Panda I yesterday, and only because it was being shown on Chn 5.
But, it was beautiful!!
Pixar.... you now rank at 2nd below DreamWorks in mayu's favourite computer animator.
The story was okay, very predictable, itz the funny parts that are really.. funny.
Dreamworks really brought out everything that 3DCG can do, the wobbly stomach and all...
but what mayu really loved was the combination of 2D and 3D art/graphics in the movie... something that Pixar has not done in their shows....
one more movie to catch this month!
Kung Fu Panda II!!