Today I realised how hysteric people are about the current event and the items that are available only on this short period of time.
Having failed to complete the 2nd part of the Zakum quest. This is a jump quest in which, if you fall, you fall into lava and you have to walk all the way to the beginning in the lava (see picture).
I returned to El Nath and started training on the Jr Yeti maps. I suddenly realised what I was doing. I was high-leveled enough to train at Coolie Zombies and I had earlier noticed training there is extremely fast, yet I was stuck at Jr Yeti maps. There were 2 reasons for this. Cakes and Maple Stars. I wanted (and still do) to have a Maple Bandana really bad. I’ve kept trying to tell myself “You can’t get it all in a week” but I can’t help resisting the call of the little cake monsters. I wanted to find some Blue Presents since the last one I found gave me the ever so wonderful Birthday Cake. I never found one, I didn’t even find a Candle and I trained there for over 4 hours! I read that Jr Yetis drop Maple Stars, which I thought I could sell for a high price, but then I realised the undeniable truth: Maple Items are just as rare as any other equips. My luck on finding any equips I’d need is just terrible and in the past 56 levels I’ve found under 10 sets of stars, maybe just 5.
I finally got bored of Jr Yetis and decided I’d go train my mule-Magician just for fun. At level 25 the best training spot happens to be Wild Boar. When I stepped in to the Land of the Wild Boar 2 I was shocked. The map was full. I had never seen more than 3 people on the map at once, mostly just one or none, but now it was full. Every single platform as occupied by someone and even walking by caused others to react with a disrespectful “CC plz”. I found out Wild Boar drops a whole lot of Maple Items, which explained everything.
The thing is, people are so desperate to get some specific items that they’ll kill monsters that have no benefit to them all. There were multiple 3rd job people killing Wild Boar just to find a Maple Claw or a Maple Bow or anything else they seemed to drop. I trained there what I could and left. I wonder if this raiding of my calm training spot will calm down as time passes or will I have to try and withstand the pressure and tense atmosphere for the wole duration of the event? I hope it calms down yet I hope to get some Maple Items myself. We’ll see how this turns out, but one thing is for sure. There is no such thing of which everyone benefits of in Maple Story.