Darkning’s Weblog

So its been like a really long time since I last blogged, sorry to disappoint those of you that check back so often in hopes of something interesting to read. I’ve been really really busy with church, moving(new house about 15 minutes away from the old one, we finally got moved in on monday), going to concerts, and lots more.
Maple-wise I’ve been playing on a couple of private-servers(lol) the past week and a half or so, they’re a pretty nice distraction when the stress of high-level grinding gets heavy(whee 2-3% an hour at best). The first one I tried out was pandorams, you can get it/download the client and sign up at www.pandorams.com, the other was called MeMS, and it featured a ‘rebirth’ feature where once you hit level 200, you could save your skills and stats from the previous class, and start over at level 1 as a new one. Sorta like that thing that happened with the tespia server last time around, bowmasters with shadow partner and advanced combo wtf. You can get that one at 96gaming.info.

On real maple, that is, the only that matters, I hit 164 around 2 weeks after the last post I made, and then 165 probably about 3 weeks after that. I’ve just been so busy offline lately that I haven’t had much desire to subject myself to grinding for hours upon end when theres better things to do out there.
I’ve been going to horntail and Zakum semi-regularly, sometimes church goes too late and I don’t make it in time for the runs, but I go when I’m home and able. Sorry to sound like I’m flaking off responsabilities within the bossing group, but spending time with God > spending time fighting a boss for the 1000th time(don’t get me wrong, I love you guys and love the bossing). Maybe things will stabilize sometime soon and I’ll be able to become fully regular again. Maybe my training motivation will come back to me, and I’ll see if I can find a window of 4 hours where I could buy a 2x card to not make my training efforts null and void.

I’d like to throw a congratulations out to the top 5 people that won the nexon anniversary event, the winners did a great job, and retalion definitely deserved the 1st place that he managed to pull off. I should’ve tried to make a video as well, looks like people had more fun than I thought they would with their submissions.

Speaking of videos, I think I might make another ‘epic’ video of my Night Lord in a few levels, once I max Maple Warrior and maybe even get a chance to attempt a zakum solo. Until then…. I think I’m done mentioning whats been going on. I’ve gotta go do some work in Atlanta for a few days, maybe a week – not sure, gps-installing in the heat won’t be so fun. @_@ Here’s a few pics of some of the happenings over the past month.