kMS ver. 1.2.189 – Cygnus Returns: Wind Archer!
The second patch in the Cygnus Returns update has been released, including a newly reorganized Wind Breaker, the highest level area in MapleStory Twilight of Perion, as well as a large world merge (like huge) and some events!
They even increased the maximum number of character slots to 30! Read on for more information~
Here’s the full poster for Wind Breaker! Did I mention how much I love his art? Because I do.
And here’s the world selection screen for this patch~
The highest level area in MapleStory, Twilight of Perion, has been released! In the Gate to the Future, you can go to the Destroyed Six Paths Crossway in order to travel there.
Twilight of Perion is a new area designed for those levels 190 to 200. Many of the NPCs from Perion are there, albeit older. There are also new monsters based off of the originals in the present MapleStory world.
There are some special items that you can only get from Twilight of Perion! The earrings actually suck, so I’m not sure why they even exist haha.
- Shaman Earrings (5 all stats, 70 defense and magic defense, 150 HP and MP)
- 40/50% Twilight One-handed/Two-handed Weapon for Attack/Magic Attack Scrolls
- 40/50% Twilight Two-handed Weapon for Attack Scrolls
- 10% Glove for Attack Scroll
- 50% Twilight Epic Potential Scroll
Twelve different worlds (yes you heard that right) have been merged into one! Mir, Nova, Cosmo, Androa, Chaos, Titan, Legend, Elf, Justice, Raven, Tempest, and Pantheon have all become one!
The event notification system has been updated! Now, you can use the event calendar to choose which event icons you would like to have on the side of your screen (up to 5 at a time).
It’s great because recently they’ve been adding icons for every single event, haha.
Wind Breakers can now be created! They have received the same general changes as Striker, which you can see in this post.
Note: all character creation has been restricted except for Adventurers, Knights of Cygnus, and Resistance.
Wind Breakers have also received special new skills that will give you a new type of play style!
A new skill called Wind Walk will let you glide across the air! You will be completely invulnerable while moving.
In second job, you will receive Trifling Whim. This skill will greatly increase the damage of your fast attacking skills, giving you a chance to shoot extra arrows at monsters!
A pre-existing skill, Albatross, has been changed! Borrow the power of the legendary archer Albatross to greatly increase your strength! In fourth job, you will get Albatross Maximum, which will passively increase the boosts from Albatross.
Wind Breaker’s character card gives 2/4/6/8 accuracy (hahahahahaha… is it sad that the Bowmaster card gives this too?).
Wind Breaker Skills
Beginner
Elemental Slash: Strike up to 3 enemies in front of you with a slash of unrefined elemental power dealing 130% damage.
Journey Home: Borrow Shinsoo’s aura to return to the side of the Empress. There is a cooldown of 30 minutes.
Elemental Harmony: Learn the harmony between the elements and increase your affinity for them, increasing your DEX by 1 for every 2 character levels.
Elemental Expert: Your mastery over the elements decreases all your attacking skills’ elemental properties by 100%. This skill is unlocked after your fourth job advancement.
Elemental Shift: Jump once again while in the air by pressing the jump key with an arrow key.
Cygnus Blessing: The awakened Empress’ blessing protects you from enemies’ attacks, increasing your resistance to states and elements by 5% (10% for level 2). If other Cygnus jobs exist within your account, you can stack this Link Skill up to 5 times. If linked, this skill’s effects will be reduced to 2% (5% for level 2). (Link Skill)
First Job
Breeze Arrow: Shoot up to 5 enemies in front of you with arrows using the power of the wind, dealing 120% damage 3 times. (max level: 20)
Wind Walk: Borrow the power of the wind to move forward, ignoring collisions with monsters. As you move, it will be as if there was a platform below you. You can use Wind Walk while in the air. Passive effect: 35 speed, 15 jump, 20 maximum speed. (max level: 15)
Element: Storm: Summon the green wind element to gain power, increasing your damage by 10% for 180 seconds. (max level: 10)
Whisper of the Wind: Listen to the whisper of the wind, gaining ancient knowledge and a swift body, increasing your attack by 20, accuracy and avoid by 400, and range by 160. (max level: 20)
Second Job
Fairy Turn: Gently turn while dancing with the wind, pushing up to 6 enemies while dealing 195% damage 3 times. (max level: 20)
Gust Shot: Shoot arrows quickly in front of you, hitting up to 6 enemies for 285% damage 2 times. (max level: 20)
Bow Booster: The speed of your bow is increased by 2 stages for 200 seconds. (required skill: level 5 Bow Mastery) (max level: 10)
Sylph’s Aid: With the help of the spirit of wind, gain knowledge in battle, giving you 20 attack, 10% critical rate, and causing your attacks to use up no arrows for 200 seconds. (max level: 10)
Trifling Whim I: The spirit of wind appears around you on a whim, with a 20% chance of shooting up to 3 extra arrows dealing 170% damage when you attack enemies. There is a 5% chance of the damage being increased to 210%. (max level: 20)
Bow Mastery: Your mastery over the bow is increased to 50%, and your accuracy is increased by 120. (max level: 20)
Physical Training: Permanently increase your DEX and STR by 30. (max level: 10)
Third Job
Dance of Frozen Wind: Arrows that contain the cold chill of the wind attacking up to 6 enemies in front of you for 165% damage as long as the skill key is held down. Using the arrow keys while holding down this skill will move it, within 350 range. This skill cannot activate Trifling Whim or Storm Bringer. (max level: 20)
Pinpoint Pierce: Shoot two arrows to pierce the exact same spot on 1 enemy, dealing 340% damage 2 times. If you attack the same enemy multiple times, it will gain a debuff that increases your damage to it by 20%. (max level: 20)
Albatross: Borrow the power of the legendary archer Albatross, increasing your attack by 20, HP by 1500, critical chance by 10%, and attack speed by 1 stage for 200 seconds. (max level: 20)
Emerald Flower: Summon a green flower with an special scent in front of you for 60 seconds with 20,000 HP, causing enemies that walk near it to be slowed and attracted to the flower. (max level: 10)
Trifling Whim II: The spirit of wind uses greater power, giving a 30% chance to shoot up to 4 extra arrows dealing 215% damage when you attack enemies. There is a 10% chance of its damage being increased to 270%. (required skill: level 20 Trifling Whim I) (max level: 20)
Featheriness: Your body becomes as light as a feather, reducing damage taken by 30% as well as increasing your resistance to states and elements by 10%. (max level: 20)
Second Wind: Borrow the power of the wind to dodge an impossible situation, increasing your avoid rate by 30%, and your defense and magic defense by 1000. If you dodge an attack, you will gain 15 attack for 5 seconds. (max level: 20)
Fourth Job
Cygnus Knights: Receive the blessing of the awakened Empress, increasing the stats of all party members by 15% for 900 seconds. (max level: 30)
Sky’s Song: Play the song of the wind to strike down up to 4 enemies, dealing 250% damage continuously However, the damage will be increased by 10% if you are hitting only one enemy. (max level: 30)
Spiral Vortex: Spiraling arrows that follow the wind are shot at up to 7 enemies, dealing 380% damage 5 times while knocking them back. The arrows will continue to attack enemies dealing 230% splash damage 2 times for a short period of time. (max level: 30)
Wind Blessing: With the wind’s blessing, learn how to become one with the wind, increasing your DEX by 12%, accuracy by 30%, evasion rate by 30%, and HP by 20% for 180 seconds. (max level: 30)
Sharp Eyes: Grants party members the ability to locate an enemy’s weak spot to deal fatal damage to that enemy, increasing their critical chance by 20% and maximum critical damage by 30% for 300 seconds. (max level: 30)
Trifling Whim III: The spirit of wind uses even stronger attacks, giving a 40% chance to shoot up to 5 arrows dealing 255% damage when attacking There is a 15% chance to increase the damage to 330%. (required skill: level 20 Trifling Whim II) (max level: 20)
Bow Expert: Your bow mastery is increased to 70%, your attack by 30, and your minimum critical damage by 15%. (required skill: level 10 Bow Mastery) (max level: 30)
Emerald Dust: Emerald Flower is strengthened, becoming better in combat, increasing its HP by 40,000 and duration by 20 seconds, as well as decreasing the defense of monsters around it by 10% and reducing your damage taken by 20%. (required skill: level 10 Emerald Flower) (max level: 10)
Albatross Maximum: The legendary archer Albatross’ strength is brought out within you, increasing Albatross’ effects. It will then increase your attack by 50, your damage by 25%, defense ignored by 15%, critical chance by 25%, resistance to states and elements by 15%, and your attack speed by 2 stages. (required skill: level 20 Albatross) (max level: 30)
Hyper
Trifling Whim – Reinforce: Trifling Whim’s damage is increased by 20%.
Trifling Whim – Enhance: Trifling Whim’s chance to activate is increased by 10%.
Trifling Whim – Double Chance: Trifling Whim gains the ability to hit a single monster 2 times.
Spiral Vortex – Reinforce: Spiral Vortex’s damage is increased by 20%.
Spiral Vortex – Extra Target: Spiral Vortex’s number of monsters hit is increased by 2.
Spiral Vortex – Bonus Attack: Spiral Vortex’s number of hits is increased by 1.
Sky’s Song – Reinforce: Sky’s Song’s damage is increased by 20%.
Sky’s Song – Ignore Guard: Sky’s Song’s defense ignored is increased by 20%.
Sky’s Song – Boss Killer: Sky’s Song’s damage to bosses is increased by 20%.
Storm Bringer: Call the power of the storm to gain the ability to punish enemies, giving you a 30% chance to summon a giant arrow that deals 500% damage when you use an attack for 200 seconds. [required level: 150]
Monsoon: Summon a monsoon that engulfs the world, dealing 430% damage 12 times to 15 enemies. Enemies hit will gain a debuff that deals 200% damage on them every second for 30 seconds. There is a cooldown of 90 seconds. [required level: 170]
Glory of Guardians: The knights who swore to protect Empress Cygnus undergo a sense of honor, increasing their damage by 10% and maximum damage by 5,000,000 for 60 seconds. This effect only applies to Knights of Cygnus in the party. There is a cooldown of 120 seconds. [required level: 200]
Thanks to Fiel of Southperry for skill effects and animations!
On February 23, there will be a Hot Time to celebrate Wind Breaker’s release! You’ll receive the Intention Wind Breaker hat (10 to all stats, 150 HP and MP, 100 defense and magic defense, 10 slots, 5% critical, 5 STR and DEX, 5 attack if you’re a 3rd or 4th job Wind Breaker) as well as the Cygnus Returns medal (6 to all stats, 6 attack and magic attack, expires).
At the levels above, Wind Breakers will receive a bow as well as the entire equipment set~ At level 100, you’ll get 5000 White Gold Medium Arrows. (sort of useless, haha)
There will also be Happy Times, every Monday and Thursday! This time, you’ll have to log in game from 2pm to 11pm on these days to claim your prizes.
You’ll get a Mystery Mastery Book each day along with extra items:
- February 21: 50% Innocent Scroll
- February 25: Happy Android, Happy Heart
- February 28/March 4/March 7: 70% One-handed/Two-handed Weapon for Attack/Magic Attack Scroll (depending on your class)
- March 11: 60% Miraculous Chaos Scroll
- March 14: 3 Day Hired Merchant
- March 18: 70% Armor for Attack Scroll
Wow, the 70% scroll for armor gives 5 attack and magic attack! It has a 50% chance of breaking if failed though. You can see what the Happy Androids look like above, and it seems the Happy Heart will expire.
The Maple Museum King event has returned! This will run until March 20. You must collect 9 items from monsters to finish each set. However, sometimes you’ll get one of the items on the bottom row. If you get 10 of them, you’ll be able to trade them in for a random item required for the set.
Completing a set will get you a special buff (10 attack and magic attack for marine life 2x drop for weapons, and 20 attack and magic attack for sweets) that lasts 30 minutes.
Completing the three sets will get you different prizes. The first time you’ll get 10 Reindeer Milk and a Mystery Mastery Book, second is 10 Power Elixirs and a 70% Equipment Enhancement Scroll, and the third will give you a Mastery Book Synergy and a Special Potential Scroll.
Yeah… the first prize is the best… doesn’t really make sense.
If you can complete all 3 sets at least once for 7 days, you’ll get the Maple Museum King of Kings medal (300 HP and MP, 5 attack and magic attack) as well as the Maple Museum King of Kings Style Accessory (3 to all stats, 20 defense and magic defense, 50 accuracy and avoid). They both last 30 days.
The Enjoy! Maple Special Week!! event has begun, and will run until March 20.
The weekly attendance checks will have different prizes this week! You’ll now get the Weekend Special Rings on the various days, I think each one upgrades from the last. On the 14th day, you’ll get the same prize as the last few weeks, a 50% Unique Potential Scroll!
The Weekend Special Ring <Stage 1> gives 3 to all stats and has 1 slot. On Saturdays and Sundays, you’ll get a bonus 2 to all stats and 1 attack and magic attack.
The Weekend Special Ring <Stage 5> (last one) gives 6 to all stats, 3 attack and magic attack, and has 1 slot. On Saturdays and Sundays, you’ll get 10% critical rate, 10% boss damage, 5 to all stats and 5 attack and magic attack. They both expire, sadly.
Finally this event brings the Maple Special Weekend! Every weekend, you’ll get a free Teleport Rock, 1.5x experience on party quest clears, and 2x drop on bosses!
The drop rate increase only applies to Dragonica, Dragon Rider, Papulatus, Pianus, Zakum, Chaos Zakum, Horntail, Chaos Horntail, Pink Bean, Chaos Pink Bean, Van Leon, Cygnus, Arkarium, Hilla, and Magnus.
In the Cash Shop, Luti pets have been released! They come in regular, Purple, and Mint versions. But they also come with Dye Coupons, that will allow you to change their colour to anything you want~
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Finally!
1st I LOVE WIND BREAKERS
me to! high five bro!
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Yay we can finally play the new wind breaker!
lol
oh man I can’t wait to make one for that sick 8 accuracy
Wow
Aww, I want to know the events that is happening. Faster Max, a big fan of yours needs your blogs!!
omg i want kms
I NEED THE WIND BREAKER!!!
Did the monsters change at all since Tespia?
Yes, they’re giving more exp 😀
how much exp does they give?
Definitely looking forward to WA
I think you screwed up on a few 2nd and 3rd job skills’s max levels.
Not much changes to Wind Breakers from Tespia…cool revamp on them. Not much on this patch I suppose :p
12 world merges.
seems legit.
how many channels does it have o-o
Same as a regular world. The reason these servers were merged are because they were all released with new classes and they’re probably really abandoned now.
Meh just making for the Link Skill, however Trifling Whim is op, basically like Phantom’s Carte Noire.
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love the wind archer art!!! 🙂
i guess you must also like Xenon artworks also..
yeah i do!
I am not making this class.
I probably wont either. I love the art for the skills but i’m not feeling it. They dont look as fun as Mercs. Their wind walking gliding system is really cool though!
Umm…ok?
OH YEAH FUCK YOU
Wow lol
Just make the maximum number of character slots infinit already……. Lol
Can you show a picture of how you look like in Maple? 😀
go to his about me page 🙂
I already have a 120 wind archer, so I’m definitely looking forward to this.
Perion got big boss? Something like white lady…..?
Just Mutated Stumpy 😛
No! Not restricting the classes again :< Stop doing that, Nexon :<
Max do you think that after the Cygnus Returns update, they’ll give the legendary heroes a revamp? 😮
No, new job release first , then only another group job revamp/update
Why do they need a revamp? They are currently all decently strong with no funding compared to most Adventurers and Resistance.
They’re currently decent in Gms but not Kms. The adventurers and resistance got their hyper skills in Kms and exceeds heroes. I think heroes need a revamp.
Do yot think the explorer will have their revamp , Max?
Hope they revamp all the adventurers after all the Cygnus Revamp
which cygnus getting revamp next? anyone knows?
I asketh the same
If i have to guess it is probably done in order from least played to most played or weakest job to strongest job. If it either one of those it is most likely going to be a NW or Blaze Wizard.
If it were done that way, then NW’s would have undoubtedly been first to be changed, as they were the least played and least effective of the five prior to the revamp. I don’t think there’s much order to the changes, but I suspect they may be leaving the most elaborate changes for last :p
Max just an FYI but..
Fairy turn hits 3 times.
Storm bringer has no cooldown?
Hey Max, just curious if Luti pets have an attack buff?
I think i seen Xenon having the buffs up so i assume they all do. Lately all the new pets come with Attack buffs so…..
Its safe to assume all new pets that come out will have attack buffs, haha.
Okay, thanks ^.^
too bad they didn’t do that for gms.
Max is there an official poster for the whole portrait of the Wind Breaker yet?
Yep! Looks great~
Funny lol Wind Archer has a mobbing hurricane that does much higher damage than Ishtar ring which hits only one target. As well as the Spiral Vortex is OP. If compared with Stunning Strike Wind Archer wins both mobbing and bossing.
Mercedes are supposed to be fast not powerful notice the 110% in a 4th job skill.
Galicia + Medere + Culverin + Fleta already merged into one first and Meriel + Leona + Aster also merged longtime ago, but not still choosing different worlds Yes or No??? I think this merged should to be RENAME like Enosis.
omg every job looks the same now =.=
yeah wind archers do look a lot like kaiser to me.
Wind archer look like a phantom for me xD , jkjk
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30 characters holy crap.. What is that? 4 slots short of like, every job end path? Good lord. If only the character slot expansions for free in GMS could be saved for that ~w~
Eh, still waiting for NW. They had better not ruin it.
i know
with all these revamps going on… will they possibly release another instructor to play? Like Irena? :O
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same hair as xenon
Hi
It looks like Mihile dressed up as a Wind Archer. o.o
or xenon
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Its great
yo max i got a question will we be able to get the hair the wind archer has in the poster in creation or like in royal hair cuz it looks amazing
I don’t think so…
Thanks!
Okay I was not expecting that for the Wind Breaker Mascot and wow….Walking on air,
1st Flying mounts then flying cyber thieves now this….The mind boggles
its just getting stupid. The classes dont mean anything anymore. They all can do the same things =.=
Hi Orange, do you know when is the revamped version of night walker coming out? Does anyone know?
No.
Nope, no one knows yet, haha.
Any spoilers on which koc will be revamped next?
Not yet.
How much exp do you get now from the monsters?
prediction… After Cygnus gets Revamped, next will be Explorers, then Aran and Evan, then Resistance revamp for the 3rd time, then the Heros get Revamped again
can anyone else see this repetitive bull$hit over and over again?
they should just stick with making new and original content… like Senguko Japanese Exclusive characters, 3 other Nova characters, European Exclusive Characters.
Revamps are just lame. period.
I shouldn’t see why explorers should be next when they got hyper skills awhile ago as well as resistance.
oh god no…..
No more new class.
no more new classes please…..
i want explorers to be revamped
they are still vastly inferior compared to their counterparts. But i agree with as above. no more new classes, apart from finishing the novans, if they are thinking that. and while they are at it, nerf xenon.
OK everybody on this follow-up comments thread needs to calm down.
There’s more characters incomplete, not just the Nova. “exclusives” was a step half-baked, abandoned quickly.
Adventurers/Explorers need just some buffs, not a complete overhaul like they did in Jump! and Justice, and eed nothing like KoC are experiencing right now. Or just some nerfs to everything else, and stop restricting the creation.
Cannot nerf!! If nerf, no one can defect c.vellum !!!
I no one my lumi hit vellum like 11111111 dmg zzz
I agree. Whenever I play on my bishop, i feel extra weak because 1. I am a Bishop 2. Explorers are already weaker than the rest.
Was Elemental Slash nerfed to 130% damage, or is that a typo? (it was listed as 190% damage in your Striker and earlier Wind Archer posts)
Yeah I think they decreased its damage (killed tutorial monsters too fast, better nerf@@@) lol.
Why is Perion like right on top of Henesys…..
I have a skill on my UA bow-master that says Irena’s Wind Piercing. Will that skill change on the UA after the revamp, or will it turn into Spiral Vortex?
thanks for your time.
I think it won’t change, nor will turn into sth differ
I think WA gets 135 attack, 50% crit chance, 25% resist state, and 60% avoid
so when this goes to gms and i already have a wind acher does it change to wind breaker and also change the look
The look you have right now probably shouldn’t change.
if this goes to gms and i already have a wind archer does it change to a wind breaker and also change to the new look
Do we lose Shinjo? The mount we receive at lvl 120.
Epic Skills
So does Trifling Whim hit the same monsters already hit by the attack skill that activated it, or do the bonus arrows hit new targets near the already damaged mob?
Come to GMS already…
was this last in the unlimited update?
nice
Hey Max, does THIS class need mastery books? I saw before you said NO masterys needed for this class, its all maxing.
Yep, WA (along with all the revamped Cygnus) doesnt require any mastery books 🙂
Do you know where the character screen of Female WA and Male WA is? I would love to see them
its the same as the other revamped Cygnus, I think theres a pic in my Striker post.
Max, where is the picture of the character creation screen of the female and male?
I would love to see WA female and male 😀
(Pardon me if I didn’t see it)
Hey Max, do you know what happens to the existing mounts that cygnus knights have pre revamp? Will they be taken away or will we keep them?
You keep them
hey max, will the cygnus knights be able to recieve will of the alliance after this?
also does albatross stack with albatross maximum? seems weird he would lose 1500 hp
testing
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