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Oddjobs has a guild (also called Oddjobs) that’s active on MapleLegends. You can identify us by the guildtags beneath our nametags:

There are absolutely no level requirements for being a member of Oddjobs. All that we ask is that you always follow a few very simple rules, any time that you’re playing a character that is (or aspires to be) a member of Oddjobs:

• Be cool. Don’t harsh anyone’s vibes; that’s not cool.
• Be odd. Obviously, you gotta be playing an odd job.
• Don’t accept leech. Don’t accept leech from anyone (yourself included), for any price (even zero). You’re still allowed to give leech to others.
• Have fun.

Oddjobs is part of an alliance by the name of Suboptimal. At the moment, there are four other guilds in the alliance:

• Flow, a largely permabeginner guild that is the dē factō off-island permabeginner guild of MapleLegends, although they accept all jobs;
• Victoria, the guild for Victorian-Archipelago-locked (Vicloc) MapleLegends characters;
• Ossyrians, the guild for Old-School-Style-locked (OSS-lock) MapleLegends characters;
• & lronman, the guild for ironman — or otherwise “metallic” (party- and/or trade-restricted) — MapleLegends characters.

If you’d like to join Oddjobs, and/or your guild would like to join Suboptimal, please do contact deer in-game (in-game names: cervid, capreolina, rusa, cervine, alces, tarandus, axisaxis, d33r, d34r, ozotoceros, panolia, hashishi, sorts, kinds, potpan, sets), or on Discord™ at capreolina! Also see here for my personal contact info. :)

We also, of course, accept inquiries into the other guilds of Suboptimal. For example, if you’d just like to join the alliance in general, check out Flow! Flow’s only guild rule is that you have to be cool. 😎

Suboptimal is also part of a meta-alliance (“Subdream”, or “Dreamoptimal”) with another alliance called Dream, which currently consists of three guilds: Nimbus, Chroma, & GangGang. Unlike the guilds of Suboptimal, the guilds of Dream aren’t oriented around gameplay restrictions nor anything of the sort, but rather are long-time allies of Suboptimal, with some crossover existing between the two alliances. You can find our meta-alliance headquarters in-game at FM 4–2 (channel 4, FM room 2)!

JoblessMS was a MapleStory server that was dedicated almost exclusively to odd jobs. Somewhat similarly to MapleLegends, JoblessMS was based on version 62 of GMS, & had low rates (although the EXP rates — & quest/PQ availabilities — were originally much lower than MapleLegends’s). But JoblessMS was unique in its commitment to odd jobs, hence its name. The only way to play anything that wasn’t an odd job was to make an “ironman” (or “iron mode”) character, which cannot be a member of parties, cannot trade with others, cannot drop items, &c., so that they’re totally isolated from the rest of the playerbase. JoblessMS also offered the option to play permadeath, on a character-by-character basis.

JoblessMS was the server that was responsible for the formation of Oddjobs. Oddjobs originally formed in MapleLegends as a guild consisting entirely of a handful of JoblessMS refugees who came to MapleLegends when JoblessMS had prolonged (multiple-month-long) downtime/maintenance. Eventually, Oddjobs evolved into an open guild that accepted almost any odd-jobbed player-characters of MapleLegends.

JoblessMS always had struggles with keeping afloat, but was not officially shut down until 2022-05-09 due to owner GMSlut (a.k.a. Cece) no longer possessing the resources necessary to keep the server running. We maintain references to JoblessMS on this website to memorialise JoblessMS for its important roles in both making Oddjobs possible, & in the history of odd jobs in MapleStory at large. ❤️

If you’ve still burning questions, comments, or concerns — or perhaps inquiries into Oddjobs’s presence on Discord™ — you can direct them to the Discord™ handle capreolina. The Oddjobs & Suboptimal Discord™ servers aren’t currently public, but you can just ask me for an invite!

Also, perhaps check out the YouTube™ channel! :)