January and February Update Preview!
The MapleStory homepage was recently updated, this time revealing TONS of information! This includes the rest of the Unlimited patch as well as things we haven’t seen in Tespia yet and future updates! Some of this stuff is really exciting, so read on!
First off is Monster Life, being released on January 17. We already knew about this, and I covered it in another post, so I won’t talk about it.
Root Abyss will also be released on January 17. Save the World Tree, Alicia, from her seal!
“Please, get me out of here…” a mysterious girl will tell you when you awaken in a dark place, almost like a prison. Alicia, the World Tree, has been sealed in Root Abyss and only you can help her escape!
Damien, the newest commander of the Black Mage and Demon’s thought-to-be dead brother, seems to be the main villain in this story. The video, although short, was really cool I think, and it showed adventurers!! Although we haven’t seen much of Damien at all in-game so this is sort of odd… maybe it’s a surprise addition?
Damien has left four Seal Guardians, Bloody Queen, Pierre, Von Bon, and Vellum! Defeat them in order to crush his scheme! However, be careful, these bosses are powerful beyond your imagination. (Well not really, but it makes things more exciting this way, doesn’t it?)
The ultimate item set equipment, the new level 150 set, can only be obtained in Root Abyss! If you wish to become stronger, challenge it!
At the same time, it says that Aswan Liberation War will also receive a surprise reorganization! I wonder what they’ll be changing… there’s not much they can do, unless they completely redo how it works or something, haha.
A new party quest, Tangyoon’s Cooking Class will also be released on that date. I still don’t know what happens in here, but it requiring 1 to 3 parties has me interested (although that level requirement…).
Now the more exciting part! The newly released patch on January 31 is titled Cygnus Returns, and brings with it a complete reorganization for the Knights of Cygnus!
The Black Mage’s commander, Damien, attacked Ereb and killed Shinsoo. Cygnus awakened in order to revive her! (She succeeded) Although incomplete, Cygnus’ awakening will give the Knights of Cygnus a newfound power!
The video above says COMING SOON, I’m excited to watch this fight between Shinsoo, Cygnus, and Damien!
On January 31, the Striker job (Thunder Breaker in GMS) will receive a complete transformation! They will be able to reach level 200, their job advancement levels will be changed, and the ultimate pirate will be born! Strikers will receive all new skills, summon the God of the Sea to split the ocean! Hyper Skills as well, of course.
It seems that each Knight of Cygnus job will be reorganized in different updates. In February, the Wind Breaker (Wind Archer) will be newly reborn! I wonder what they can do with the Soul Master, considering they already have Mikhail…
On this date, there will also be a system reorganization! The meso limit will be increased, and world merges are coming as well.
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cheated to second my hoes
and why did you guys kill Shinsoo, he was so cool, he gave buffs D:<
Down with Damien!!!
Cheated to 3rd :3
Cygnus revives her so its all k. 😛
ROFL. So much for that…
but didnt u say its incomplete?
Shinsoo was a her?
its kinda stupid that shinsoo dies since she is the maple worlds protector >_<
WORLD OF TREE IS!
GO ALICE
(ps cygnus is my favorite, FUCKING LOLIS LOVE EM)
cheated to 3rd
2nd?
Seems pretty exciting 😀
nice
winder archer revamp!!!!!! so happys!!!!
Another new class?!?!?!?!
Striker = Thunder Breaker in GMS
So what will happen in gms no new class 😡 dam u kms make a new nova class!
Because we totally don’t have enough classes already.
I feel revamps are better than new classes, especially when the revamps do the classes justice.
what do you mean what will happen in gms? the same update will come after a couple months?
Doesn’t look like it. Looks like it’s just Striker (which I think is Thunder Breaker) is receiving a revamp, followed by the Wind Breaker/Wind Archer.
Ah, ninja’d.
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Finally something other than
CLASSES GALORE
Yay? I’m not sure if I’d eater have classes or FarmVille…
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Nobody wants you here. If we didn’t want this new maplestory we wouldn’t be here looking at updates.
I hope they just let all the Dawn Warriors rebirth as Mihile or something like that.
This sounds dumb. Yeah, let all the girl Dawn Warriors become a guy with a specified name, that’s totally the right thing to do.
Please.
Is that really your main concern? They can probably easily change mikhail to a non gender locked class. If Nexon honestly cared that much about keeping a class to its true form they would have made phantom gender locked coughAriacough
Alice is Alicia in KMS. And ”World Integration” is just a world merge.
which worlds r being merged spadow?
Oh hai Spadow. ❤
Doesn’t Demon feel betrayed for some reason?
I mean, he left as the Black Mage’s commander to avenge Damien and his mother,
but it turns out that Damien became a Black Mage commander. 😛
I hope they make it so Cygnus Knights aren’t Explorers with like three extra skills.
i think the the cygnus knights will become completely new with alot more newer skills and possibly diff weapons because thats supposed to be the new thunder breaker and it looks like she has a new weapon that kinda looks like a blade/anchor,making them seem like new jobs, cant wait to see the all new blaze wiz.
I knew i wasnt just seeing that weapon either!
i hope it is something new
it would be so awesome haha
look again. it’s only a really long bandana. she is obviously fighting with her fists because of the pose.
it is part of her bandana
hopefully there will be an element/status reorganization along with cygnus knights (cygnus knights were hype when they came out because of their specific attributes
Why the hell would they change weapons. That’s just screwing over the current Cygnus characters.
Seriously, at least think before you comment.
they could just give old cygnus characters the new weapon, easy fix :p
Suppose a lot of funding was put into that weapon…
Maybe she fights with her bandana 😛
if Alice/Alicia are the world tree ….and the black mage killed Shinsoo… and Cygnus will give her power to her knights, with new power, skilles, etc…. what happen with future henesys?! it isn’t have sense
The whole thing is a dream. You learn that once you defeat empress
Could you elaborate on this? I am very curious about the storyline involving it.
SPOILERS:
The Black Mage knew Cygnus was looking for more power for her knights, and so he made Arkairum create ‘Future’ Henesys and Ereb in order to scare her. It’s not real, it’s just a dream that could be a possible future.
I am now enlightened. Thanks for the response.
so cygnus doesnt turn evil Thank lord, but we go to ‘future’ ereb and fight cygnus in a dream, so we could just make up something unrealistic that kills cygnus in one shot because its in a dream :S
Is Striker a new job??? or is another name for buccs in kms???
It’s the Korean name for Thunder Breakers.
Thunder Breakers
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THUNDER BREAKER REVAMP! NEXON RULES!
So Max, does that mean that if you had a thunder breaker, they are gonna change into a new job right?
During the last blog I was thinking of some possible things Nexon might do with CK, and I am somewhat on target. This was what i was thinking.
They are gonna remove all CKs and make them the CK instructor.
Ex: If you are a Blaze Wizard, you are gonna become Oz.
Night Walker>>> Eckhart
Wind Archer>>> Irene
Thunder Breaker>>> Hawkeye
and OFC Dawn Warrior>>> Mikhail
But the the thing that made me think this is a bad idea is because of the Gender lock Mikhail has and what happens if the CK the person made was a female. The only thing I thought that might change this is if Mikhail is not gender-locked.
SO what do you guys think. Does this sound like it is gonna happen?
I know there is only one picture (most likely Thunder Breaker), but Nexon might just be hiding the other plans they have for us. They might even break it into parts and release them one patch after the other.
Either way its making no sense,That way we’ll have army without any knights,What will they be captains of with no soldiers?
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Gah It be freaking great if Blaze Wizard got renewed its like one of the most boring class
Cant wait for Striker i main Bucc So this might be interesting
Sorry Max, but I was wondering, with this happeing to the Cygnus Knights…. What’s the point of having regular Explorers? These “upgrades” seems like basically better versions of the Explorers that already exist…. And what about Ultimate Explorers? Unless the buff or make some kind of side quest ala Cygnus Skill quests Explorers get, this just doesn’t make sense..
Unless they buff Explorers again*
we havent seen the chnages yet
cant judge just yet haha
Yeah, you’re right. But it just seems weird that’s all… Cygnus Classes were 120 for a reason, they where stronger at lower levels than Adventurers, and we have Ultimate Explorers now. Unless they turn them into the CK Instructers like Mikhail, I do not like how this is going for the Adventurers…… But anyways, you’re right, we’ll just have to wait and see I guess ^^
They are most likely gonna receive another revamp soon. Nexon will soon notice that adventurers are far too weak (need a lot of funding to do damage close to the new jobs coming out where you dont even need fund) compare to other jobs soon and they are gonna get revamped….
I hope they arent going to skip Thief and Pirate Revamps like during JUMP patch and give us the revamp like half a year later….
Wait, I just looked at the trailer for Abyss Root just now and you notice that the Adventurer Warrior was in it. The Adventurer Revamp might be coming out very soon.
Yeah, I noticed that too! Finally Adventurers have SOME relevance to the main story other than being in an alliance with the Resistance and CK 😛 Seriously, they need to be more involved in the main story of Maple Story…. Isn’t this supposed to be MY story after all, not Mercedes’ or Mikhail (seriously, its’s sooo weird when you are doing quests with Aran, Mercedes, ect they call you by their names and not your IGN….)
It’s not weird because it’s their “Hero nicknames” of some sort,its like your title.same as you dont call a doctor in his private name,Or your father /mother. Anyways ,Explorers are free souls,unlike the new classes coming out after resistance,each of them has only 1 in the whole world by the storyline,kaiser is one of a kind,ab ,xenon ,demon avenger,luminous and on and on… adventurers are supposed to be “free souls” that travel around the world,loads of them exist.
So I dont find it weird they have no storyline,the whole idea about them is just being free out of duty and doing whatever you want.
That’s not true; while the earlier name-locked jobs like Aran, Evan and Mercedes used to be called by their job names, at some point it changed and now they do call you by your IGN. (Latter name-locked jobs like Luminous and Hayato are all referred to by their IGN)
well there are other jobs besides ones that CKs are based on. >.>
Plus, the revamped CKs would most likely be getting different skills from regular explorers, hence somewhat different game-play between CKs and their Adventurer counterpart.
I repeat, “most likely.”
This.
LF>More info on new 150 set.
Is it better then EMP?
Being that it’s a full set that’s 10 levels higher and seeing as how all new non-event equipment have set effects, what do you think?
Obviously it is,Because its not an event set and also 10 levels higher,Much like that when Reverse and timeless came out they were better than lv 110 eqps,And Eligos were better than Timeless,And Empress was better than Eligos,So I guess Root Abyss will probably be better than Empress.
I would rather they out the other 4 Chief Knights than revamp KOC o_O, have a feeling that they are going to be stronger than Adventurers.
I would not rather this,Too many classes already.I think Mihile should be excuslive thing.
I just hope that now they’ll complete the 5 sets of each and stop making characters,For atleast a year or two…
I mean,There are 3 more novas that need to come out and 2 more extra adventurers.5 more classes are more than enough.
Yeah, its pretty much the same thing every patch, Revamps / New Jobs. I would prefer if they release new Party Play Maps or something.
Oh wow! cant wait for these cygnus updates. Ive been hoping they would increase the level cap on cygnus for over a year now! ever since i got my Night Walker to lvl 120. Cant wait to see what unique skills come to each one but im most excited for NW’s. Max when you find out whether or not you’ll still be able to create UA’s from a lvl 120 cygnus after the revamps let us know!!!
Also, loving the new look for cygnus, she looks badass. Hope the other character designs (the new ones for each knight or whatever) look cool and im super excited! Voting for empress cygnus as a playable character (dont worry, i know it will never happen). That video is also really cool! the adventurers finally make an appearance in the promo videos (well finally adventurers besides the dual blade; and the pirate promo video doesnt count cause its in 3d and its sooooo old)
It took me 2 days to get 120 on my thunder breaker
I’m not sure i see the point of giving a class that’s basically a preview of fourth job an actual fourth job, unless they have completely different 4th job skills or the cap increases from 200
i think they are changing cygnus knights into basically brand new classes but we will see soon enough just what will happen to them
i was just thinking
since only thunder breaker is coming back in january
are they going to make cygnus classes time restrcited like all the other new classes ?
i hope not
does anyone know why his brother damien join the blackmage? for what reason? and why?
I really wonder also,And does that mean DS/DA’s storyline is going to “Continue” ? and how really did ds/da react to that discovery that his brother alive,And more than that joined black mage’s force and replaced him?
My Thunder Breaker? Going to level 200? F*** YEAH! All the info I need.
Must get Demon Slayer to lv110 as soon as possible.
I’d rather Thor than Poseidon…
true dat, would make more sense
Agree’d ,It makes more sense.But I bet Dawn Warriors will probably get Thor.I dont know tough.
I hope the TB revamp is going to make it different to the Buccaneers. I think the yellow flame guy appearing and helping with the attacks is stupid. Maybe they’re just going to bring back the blue super saiyan guy, instead of the yellow flame guy, in the new skills’ animations.
Yesss, There will be a use for my striker!!!
i can’t wait XD
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF CHAOS, WHERE OLD JOBS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!
I wonder what will happen to existing lvl120 KoC? Can’t be same as Adventurers, ’cause the level limit……..
maybe he wants to approach the black mage to have his revenge.
Ditch koc already and make my Oz…………..
because GMS is getting root abyss, doesnt that also mean that we might get the revamped cygnus as well?
Unlikely. However we may receive it soon after they get it though.
Nope not happening. We didnt receive a lot of other data so no, we wont be getting the revamps for CKs anytime soon.
BTW: I believe Abyss Root was a group project with all the different Nexons. KMS is like the “proto-type” for all the other Maplestory servers so all the data that comes out should be in KMS first but the fact that China came out with it first show that Abyss is not from KMS. It is like during back then when KMS received the Monster book, we GMS got the book like a few days later.
We GMS are receiving Abyss Root in January 16. I guess this is the first time GMS actually got something before KMS got it.
But sadly the chance of most of the characters to kill all four bosses is not likely since we didnt even receive the Hyper skills for most jobs. In the GMS Abyss Root trailer, the boss was doing 80k which is even higher than the current HP cap….. Even if Paladins are the best tanker, one hit from that is still going to instant kill them……
they are getting it the same day. Time zones account for ‘difference’
Well in a way you can consider it as us getting the patch earlier. Cuz the date for the patch is earlier.
I am not sure but doesn’t the Eastern side become that day first then the Western side?If so then we are still getting the patch like 12-24hrs earlier than KMS meaning pretty much one day earlier.
add to that the usual 12- 24 hours Unschedule Maintence we always have in GMS after a patch
and we are getting it at the same time
er… i think that skill is instant kill, no matter how much ur hp… =X
so u must avoid that att before she release the att.
I’m happy Cygnus finally awakened and her knights can get 200 and what not, but I’m sad they’re calling TB the “ultimate Pirate” now.
Basically kicked normal Pirates to the curb. 😦
That is pretty much how I feel as well… I really want to see how they pull this off without kicking the normal Adventurers in the nuts, lol
And when have normal Adventurers not ever been kicked in the Nuts? xD
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The “Ultimate” pirate huh? It is gonna be a bunch of skill mixes like Corkscrew Blow, KAMEHAME HAAAA, and some other skills that are ripped off some other job but in a different animation.
BTW: The KAMEHAME HAAA is referring to the blasts all the pirates have.
AB: That 2nd job skill.
Bucc: Bucc Blast
Mech: Laser Blast
Current TB: Bucc Blast
Cannoner: Bazooka Blast
AND you can somewhat consider Corsair’s Eight-leg since it pretty much has the same system as the other blast skills.
Seriously? Why is Damien a Black Mage Commander? -_-‘ it makes no sense…he better have a good reason for this.
Becauseeeeeeeee Demon Slayer left?
he is saying it makes no sense because the Black Mage had apparently killed Damien and his mother
Also because his brother friggen left cause he died,So he rather joining against his brother more than joining him ? It does make no sense…I bet there’s gonna be another cheesy story of Damien being sick of living to his big brother’s shadow and now seeking revenge or black mage revived him and took away his memories or something like that ,blahblahblah…
Well, the Black Mage destroyed Demon Slayer’s home and killed his mother and brother, but what if the Black Mage told Damien that Demon Slayer did it, and he joined the Black Mage to avenge his mother. Since Demon Slayer worked for the Black Mage, Damian would probably be alright with working under him to get avenge his mom and kill Demon Slayer.
Well, that’s what I think happened.
Black Mage probably told Damien som lies or something lol. Like it was Demon Slayer that betrayed him ect.
Brain washed. nuff said
How could they kill Shinsoo
Cygnus brings Shinsoo back. Dont worry your little pokemon face! 😀
Pshh… That’s not his real face. I’m pretty sure that in real life it isn’t THAT little.
Hahaha! you’re right. *dont worry your pokemon face that is not THAT little but probably isnt very big either*
I know, but the idea of killing Shinsoo…
How could they O.o
does’nt this mean that cygnus knights can go to stronghold and fight themselves lol
wow, must be very intersting! 😀
Wait.. Can mikhail’s not fight future Cygnus along with the chief knights?
Guys the future is fake so they aren’t fighting them selves they’re fighting evil copies that are stronger than them for now. Excluding Mikhail i guess.
What I get from “the ultimate pirate will be born!” is that MAYBE pirates are getting a hero, like a modern day maple hero, that joins the original 5 re-awaken heros. I don’t know just a thought, remember when many were complaining the last hero was a magician? (or like I like to call him the bad ass cleric) and STORY is left to be spelled (S=striker) who knows, we’ll have to wait.
I actually agree with you for some reason and seeing that you have given a little proof actually gives me a little hope. Ever since tempest hit GMS I enjoyed luminous but I kind of felt that the pirate hero was missing. I did have a theory that maybe they could make the “new hero” generation with a pirates like kind of Evan. Anyways let’s just wait and see.
Here’s the thing. I agree that there could, and should, be a new generation of heroes. ones that rise from Maple world to fight alongside the old heroes and the rest of maple world against the newer evil that threatens not just Maple World, but the entire Maple Universe (including grandis and any other worlds affected by the Black Mage and Grandis’s transendant of life). However, I dont believe that the Striker will be one of the the new heroes and i dont think necessarily they will spell STORY although it is a possibility. This new Striker will be followed by the other Cygnus Knights but the hope for 5 new heroes still remains for me
Thank you all for your replies, and yeah I agree, spelling STORY is just a thought. But yeah, old legends fighting alongside new heroes would be really interesting.
Story shouldnt be spelled because its basically MAPLE story ,E.g. the story of the five heroes. Also ,As weird as it sounds the AB is the pirate hero xD,Cheesy anime-ish one but she is . (Not belonging to the heroes that fought the black mage tough),Also if you didn’t notice,100 years ago pirates didnt exist.If you dont remember,they existed only after Kyrin’s mother gave birth to her ,And as she grew up she went to travel the seas,And ended up returning to the land her mother helped to create and made a pirate crew.
Wait, wasn’t Kyrin’s father a Pirate?! I always thought he was supposed to be the last hero o.o
So far all I know that her mother was an Engineer that was one of the people which built victoria island.
You know, except the fact that it is a striker reorganization and striker is just the kms version of thunder breaker
Wait when is the GMS Thunder Breaker breaking lv120 cap? On the 16th for GMS Root Abyss update?
Nawwww
I still think its weird how Gms is getting it so early
But Cygnus revamp is probably gonna come after xenon
Ima say xenon is coming around march April ish, considering how they are updating faster and faster
The thing is the GMS is like catching up to KMS like crazy. Back then it took around 1month per patch (~ 4weeks) but now GMS changed it to 3weeks per patch. And knowing on how GMS send out Hyper skills with Kaiser’s patch (1 week after AB for KMS), they might send out all the remaining Hyper Skills in the next patch. If so, then we might get Xenon patch around mid or late February and Cygnus patch around March. By that time KMS might have send out all the Cygnus Knights as well so ~~ it will be cool.
yeah i hope they space between updates gets reduced to like 1-2 months.
hello Maplers’m happy that limit mesos rose, but .. what was limte revamp of mesos and we kind of Cygnus Knight job will be reorganized in different updates. think global news liked maple story and receive the update and then goes to jms cms and ems. I hope that helps improve revamp maple story.
You sound like you’re important. We should listen to your words of wisdom.
what the heck are you saying lmao, cant understand anything.
So… much… ENGRISH.
I think that the thunder breaker reorganization is probably compensation for the fact that there was no pirate hero class
But then again Nexon is also gonna revamp the other jobs……
Only job i can’t wait for : Ekhart/night walker. I can finally use my stars and claws =D and my thief equips for a better reason.
And i swear, if Cygnus thief is gonna be the same as NLs or 10x more OP than NLs then they better revamp all the classes. The reason why i believe NLs are popularly played is because of the uniqueness of the class and not it’s OPness. We are so weak and with even high amounts of funding we can barely do as much as the other thief jobs. And since NWs are pretty much the same, it will send NLs to a pile of crap……
It’s funny that they give us Root Abyss before Hyper Skills,The bosses are too powerful for us to defeat,So it’s going to be a worser empress,Another free mesos tool set for hackers…
O crap, i forgot about hackers….. But anyway who cares. The only good thing the bosses drop are coins/item to buy the good scrolls. And I believe the scrolls are untradable so the best the hackers can offer from Abyss scroll Service.
worser is the worstest grammar I have ever seen
Yes it is the baddest I have ever seen o_o
Hmm I see. Well, I get the fact about Adventurers being free souls and just kind of thrown into the Black Mage war I guess, but I just want them to be more relevant to the main storys progression, instead of mere stand-byers… But then again… that wouldn’t make it MY story… and Adventurers would be like the other classes, perhaps…. Im just rambling now lol.
It’s kinda been confirmed that we’re getting Root Abyss next week. Dafaq?
Read more carefully,It’s a shared project,CMS already had it first. All of the Nexons probably worked on it together.But yet it’s silly,The bosses are almost unbeatable without hyper skills or damage/hp cap increase and flame of reincration and such…
Normal versions have around 550 mil hp
Not unbeatable at all
That is not Engrish.
Max tell me more about the lvl 150 equipment when you can please I’m really hyped up due to that and the Cygnus knights
I’m sad. I didn’t want Damien to be evil
😦
The meso limit, finally. Now we dont have to make risky item trades for items above 2B.
Hey, sorry to ask this Unlimited-patch question here.. For that patch, can we use the same job card for all 3 decks if we have 3 characters of the same job? say a mechanic card for each of the 3 decks?
Nope
I may come back to the game if the revamped cygnus classes are good. finally i can go back to my wind archer! ❤
I’d love to see the stats for the 150 equips 😀
I guess there’s going to be bosses above cygnus/chaos cpb now
Also we’re finally moving onto 64-bit systems eh
Say farewell to XP and hello to 7 or 8!
also: Aswan liberation war could be replaced with the Tower of Challenge in JMS
i heard it isnt 64 bit
somethinf else they r doing
cuz if they moved to 64 bit, a lot of people wouldnt be able to play right?
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So they’re making Strikers go to 200? Time to restart mine! 😀
is it a revamp or a new class (like mihile/mikhail)? because i might use my lvl 70 exp potion on a thunder breaker for when the revamp comes out.
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