Marksmen Rule Again: Imperial Guard Type A

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thread starter ultralowincome Apr 05 2010 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

so seriously, how are you supposed to beat these guys *effectively* without max snipe? http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-monster-Imperial-Guard-Type-A-638.html over 9 million HP, but one single Snipe shot takes them down. 11.5k EXP (46,000 on 4x o_O) every 5 seconds seems fair to me, you could probably get more exp from Piercing at ToT or skeles, but spending 11 mp per attack (no need for SE or attack pots) and flat platforms make it like an ideal training ground. oh, and guess what, they're freezable! blizzard a mob, snipe, freeze again, take a sip of coffee, snipe again, freeze, if the snipe isn't recharged, freeze again, snipe, repeat. they don't do more than 3.9k damage either from what i've seen (touch damage or attacks). afterlords might spoil the fun but they're easy enough to take out too. but i digress. since my marksman is my only character, what other class could possibly benefit from training here? what attacks would they use? thankfully they dont drop anything godly otherwise we'd be seeing more marksmen created then evans, driving up our scroll prices and what not. any thoughts?

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Pepper 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Assuming you'd get a snipe kill every 6 seconds, you'd get: 460,000 EXP a minute on 4x. 27.6m EXP an hour on 4x.

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ChibiCross 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Pepper : Assuming you'd get a snipe kill every 6 seconds, you'd get: 460,000 EXP a minute on 4x. 27.6m EXP an hour on 4x. [/quote] That would be 9.6%/hour at my level...seems like this is possibly better then trash equips+21 pierce/16mmb at skeles and oblivion 3. Very interesting o_o

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ultralowincome 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Gushxpro : The imperial gaurds can do 4.1k max from my expieriences, Also 25%/hr is terrible im lv 142 and i was 36%/hr splitting skeles with somone else and around 50%/hr with a 2hko bishop both on 4x of course [/quote] Yeah, I never said it was the OMG NEW AND ONLY MM TRAINING SPOT. Just a good alternative if you don't want to waste pots and don't really wanna 'try' for a lack of a better term, to gather mobs and what not. Seriously, all you need is Soul Arrow and maybe Focus (for added Avoidability), there's no need for Sharp Eyes or Strafe or attack pots, and max Snipe only consumes 11 MP, and they drop from 1000-2000 mesos, so it's not a bad money-making (money-saving) spot either. I just found it more interesting that a monster with over 9 million HP can be taken out so easily by us- We still get owned at other places/bosses, just give us this one for us to gloat over ;P

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PeluchePower 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I killed a few people with the monster on top of that map lol

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MisterKoop 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Well another reason im maxing snipe at 140

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whoah202 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

don't forget that with updates snipers/ MM can instant kill at a 3% rate when monsters are frozen by blizzard with strafe. MM FTW

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Gardor 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] semiya : yea except for the fact that i went there and tried to 1/1 one of the 9.4m hp ones and it does not 1/1 it if u want to see it i will go there get a SS of it and post it on basil [/quote] Wow so I've been misled this entire time? I specifically remember seeing the balance patch notes on Nexon's site that changed HH from percentage based. It said that it will always decrease a monster's HP to 1, and do 199k damage to bosses. Maybe its because they didn't have any non-boss monsters with over 200k HP?

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semiya 04/05/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

that could be it or mab they are changing it with the balance patch wich we have not yet recieved

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MagicUpChuck 04/06/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] ColdLite : Wait would HH be affected by accuracy here? 0.0 [/quote] HH fails it here. only hits for max.

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Kevvl + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] ChibiCross : Are you a snipe first marksman? Think about it like this, a snipe first marksman can get awesome experience from zakking, papping, or other bosses that they can take down fairly easily. However, with this new training spot, lets say you already zakked twice and papped twice, its just a new little effort training spot. Nice find, Cyborg. Finally, I could probably get a bit more experience with max pierce (mines is at 21) at o3, or o4. Taking down 2 guardians every 5 seconds won't be that hard, with that massive amounts of mobs. However, a party of max snipe marksman would work absolutely wonders, as soon as I see the map layout :/ [/quote] I am, and I still do not plan to train here. Let's say I've Zakked, I've Papped, and I still wanna train? I go to Newts, where I still make more experience than is advertised here (around 10% per hour as opposed to 9% per hour) by way of Bottom-Righting with a party. This, I might add, still uses Snipe to a large degree.

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CrayonScribble + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

It's like 18%/hour at 130 max snipe build.

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Kalovale + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Just putting this here. http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5636/maple0307.jpg I had a feeling that Poison Immune means immunity against the Poison element (there are Fire, Ice, Poison, Thunder and Holy elements) and has nothing to do with the Poisoned effect.

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ultralowincome 04/06/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Kalovale : Just putting this here. http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5636/maple0307.jpg I had a feeling that Poison Immune means immunity against the Poison element (there are Fire, Ice, Poison, Thunder and Holy elements) and has nothing to do with the Poisoned effect. [/quote] Oh, I thought it was a SS of them getting damaged by the poison move. Guess we'll have to trust your friend~ thanks for the update

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kingpharouk 04/06/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Ok it's settled.. I'm going snipe first.. I don't care what my guildies say!

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MorbidMagus 04/06/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

In response to all the "OMGZ POISON IMMUNE MONSTERS HAR HAR MAGES DONT WIN" Responses on the first page, us F/p Mages have a little skill called fire Demon which fixes that.

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