Papulatus--One of a Kind

Maplestory bosses fall into four "unofficial" categories. Overtime, the players have found strategies to dealing with the various bosses of Maplestory and the strategies sometimes overlap eachother; which lead the players apply the same strategies for some bosses and thus, formed unofficial, unspoken categories for each boss.

PQ Bosses
Simplest type. Bosses found at the end of party quests. Easily deafed by the level range the party quest was designed for.
EX:

• King Slime
  
• Alishar
  
• Ergoth
  
• Geist Balrog

Area Bosses
These bosses have relatively low hp and and very ideal for the whole 50 levels of third job people. They spawn randomly after a certain amount of time is passed after the previous one was killed.
EX:

• Mushmom
  
• Zombie Mushmom
  
• Jr. Balrog
  
• Blue Mushmom
  
• Headless Horseman
  
• Griffrey
  
• Manon

"Ranged" Bosses
These Bosses are ideal for ranged people (bowmen, and the star rogues). They move very fast, and physical damage is very high. Certain to kill any low to decent leveled ranged person in one hit. They require one strategy: pinning (aka "KB"). Since ranged attackers are capable of rapid fires, these bosses can be locked in KB, unable to get close enough to attack.
EX:

• Female Boss (aka Anego)
  
• Black Crow (aka Tengu)
  
• Bodyguard A
  
• Bodyguard B
  
• The Boss (aka Grampa Gunboss +other names)

*While making this list, I realized that all ranged bosses originated in Japan/jMS/Showa/Mushroom Shrine/Zipangu/etc. Perhaps it's due to jMS being the version with the biggest (if not, one of the biggest) population of hermits/night lords.

Stationary Bosses
They do not move; they're stationary. Like the ranged bosses, they have millions of HP. Usually comes in more than one form -or- more than one (body) part. They're designed for any class in game.
EX:

• Zakum
  
• Pianus
  
• Horntail
  
• Krexel
  
• Pink Been(?)

Papulatus
Where does the papulatus fall? The category of bosses were not something the game designers created; they're something the players created. For instance, you rarely see a warrior in a ranged boss battle. Warriors are capable of killing them, but they usually don't like to kill them due to the high speed and high physical damage.

The papulatus is neither stationary nor can be "categorized" as a "ranged boss". Ranged bosses move very fast and deals high damage when touched (usualy over 8k). Unlike ranged bosses, Papulatus moves slow and only deals a tad over 3k with touched. Because of its low damage, it doesn't need to be pinned/KB'd. Unlike stationary bosses, papulatus is suitable for solo or parties (it does not require a party to killl unlike other stationary bosses).

What are the trails of the category of papulatus?
Low damage (~3k), slow moving, and does not have hundreds of millions of HP. We need Nexon is make more bosses like this for people who enjoy bossing when they want (ie does not need to make a schedule for a party of 20+ people) and suitable for anyone to kill and not just one group of class.

*Though is similar to papulatus, Captain Latanica, I believe is more of an Area Boss due to its low HP.

I believe Pap would be an "area boss" for Ludi

He's also be similar to Pink Bean in that you need to do quests before fighting him

Also, Pink Bean isn't stationary on his last form

Papulatus's 1st stage is the same as a ranged boss, if you can pin him he's just like the other ones (his magic attacks have limited range, and if you use puppet right he stops casting completely). 2nd stage is a little more difficult but it has a lot less HP, and it really has the high touch damage.


Pink Bean has 5 statues that can't move, but the PB himself (or herself) can walk around once you get to that point in the battle.

Honestly, the real categories should be:

Boring/weak as pomegranate
Mushmom, Balrogs, PQ bosses, etc

Slightly entertaining
Manon/Griffey

"Fun"
Pianus, Papulatus and Zakum

Sorta entertaining
Horntail

We need more "fun" bosses. 3,5m HP bosses take me 60 seconds to solo, that's entertaining really.

Edit: I know this isn't the point of the thread I'm just bawwwing at the fact high levels get nothing and that killing two of each "fun" boss every single day gets old fast. Variety pls!

[COLOR="Black"]I would think that the Stationary Bosses are more like the Big Bosses. Zakum, Papulatus, and Pianus were always known as the Big 3, and now we have the addition of Krexel, Horntail, and Pink Been. So maybe instead of Stationary Bosses it could be Big Bosses and just throw Papulatus right in there.

Also, wouldn't Pianus be an Area boss? Since it only spawns in 1 area, anyone can walk in, and it has a spawn time.[/COLOR]

Papulatus's 1st stage is the same as a ranged boss, if you can pin him he's just like the other ones (his magic attacks have limited range, and if you use puppet right he stops casting completely). 2nd stage is a little more difficult but it has a lot less HP, and it really has the high touch damage.

Papulatus' magic attacks do not have "limited range". There is a limit but it's quite far... at least it has further range than keen eyes. If you push pap to one side of the room, and side on the other side, you will get zap by it's thunder. The fire and ice attacks may have a range, but the thunder can reach the other side of the room.

The 2nd form does deal high damage, but in comparison to the ranged bosses' physical attacks, it's really no big deal. 2nd form of pap does 5k. Tengu does 8k and Anego does 11k.

I've always seen Pap as a mobile Pianus. Right Pianus does more than first form Pap, but other than that it's fairly identical. Bombs, 1/1s, etc. Pianus only has about 5.5m more HP than Pap.

The 2nd form does deal high damage, but in comparison to the ranged bosses' physical attacks, it's really no big deal. 2nd form of pap does 5k. Tengu does 8k and Anego does 11k.

5k or 20k, it all 1hkos ranged characters.

I would count Headless Horseman as a ranged boss, because I at least treat it the same way as Black Crow or Anego. His damage isn't ridiculously high but the other characteristics of the fight with him (For example, even equal to his level he can kill me quite easily unless I pack on every HP equip I have.) match up.

I remember Prose once asked us about our favorite bosses, and the overwhelming favorite was Pap. I don't think it's a coincidence that Pap seems to be on his own as far as comparable bosses go.

I would count Headless Horseman as a ranged boss, because I at least treat it the same way as Black Crow or Anego. His damage isn't ridiculously high but the other characteristics of the fight with him (For example, even equal to his level he can kill me quite easily unless I pack on every HP equip I have.) match up.

I remember Prose once asked us about our favorite bosses, and the overwhelming favorite was Pap. I don't think it's a coincidence that Pap seems to be on his own as far as comparable bosses go.

i'll have to 2nd that, pap is definently my favorite boss

5k or 20k, it all 1hkos ranged characters.

5k does not 1hko ranged characters with HB.
20k does 1hko ranged characters with HB.

With a fair amount of washing (which many people do for HT), by around 17x or 18x depending on how much they washed, they can take a 5k hit without HB. There's a good number of 17x and 18x people around so those levels aren't as "unreachable" as they used to be.

A ranged person will not have 8k base hp unless for special cases.

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Ok, so 5k doesn't 1hko ranged characters with HB, if they're level 120+ (approximately). Papulatus isn't meant exclusively for that range - I've known 9x and even a couple 8x to have defeated it.

17x-18x shouldn't have a problem with Papulatus anyway, they're 60-70 levels above what can already beat it easily.



Maybe if the GMS AP resets cost 1/30 as much (like in CMS where that SS is apparently from), we would see more people like that who've used thousands of them to get their character to high amounts.

I would agree with what Isaac said about HH if only for the fact that it attacks so fast. Honestly, half my time fighting it is spent walking up to it if I accidentally kill my jr. wraith protection squad. Though I guess that would be different with stance...

psst, 3rd jobbers cant kill manon, griffey and headless horseman... but I get what you mean.

I agree that Pap is a "unique" boss and like Rusty and Isaac said, I wouldnt mind seeing more like it.

Pap is the most accessable boss (You dont need giant parties, you can go virtually whenever you want, albeit with the 2/day limit, it has some decent drops, you dont need to wait for a spawn time, etc). Its basically the best of all bosses combined together (other than the fact you dont get some powerful "end game" item like you can with other bosses like zak/HT).

I just like how they call him pap.

Pap smears: the not so nice test for females. The doctors would flip if they saw maple story.

psst, 3rd jobbers cant kill manon, griffey and headless horseman... but I get what you mean.

You mean like Hermits/Archers/Mages?

Warriors and Chief Bandits could easily take on all 3 of those.

psst, 3rd jobbers cant kill manon, griffey and headless horseman... but I get what you mean.

That's not true. I went there with a party of 3rd jobbers who killed HH.

3rd jobbers can kill Headless just fine

Manon and Griffey might take a while, but it's still do-able

3rd jobbers can kill Headless just fine

Manon and Griffey might take a while, but it's still do-able

The only differences between Manon and Griffey, and HH, are that HH is smaller and does less damage, while spawning with lots of weak mobs. Manon and Griffey are huge, on small maps, do more damage, and spawn with a handful of stronger mobs.

Manon and Griffey are impossible for me to kill (as I said, even with a full set of bosshunter armor HH leaves me with 40ish HP each hit. Manon and Griffey do like 600 damage more than he does...) but HH is just fine.

k, rofl, I made a mistake x-X I was thinking 2nd jobbers, LOL (This is what happens when you watch the home run derby while posting on SP >_<)

But... yeah. Archers and sins cant kill it in 3rd job because of lack of hp.