kMSt ver. 1.2.473 – Boss, Party Quest, Mercedes and Phantom Changes, Soul Weapons!
Finally, a week before the update, a patch has been released to Tespia! However, if this is all for the ‘season 1 job balancing’, I’m really disappointed, haha. They also added some boss stuff, changed party quests, experience, and even gave us a new system for weapons!
Well it’s not really new, adapted from JMS’ Spirit Weapon system, but people are speculating a new ‘underworld’ area. The NPC above is in charge of it, and some of his dialogue has to do with Eregoth. What could it mean?
A new Easy Mode has been added for Van Leon. The boss will be easier to fight than in Normal Mode and you can only receive Normal Mode rewards at a low chance. Easy and Normal Modes will share the daily entry, so if you enter one, you cannot enter the other.
Hilla‘s HP, her damage, and her summoned monsters’ HP have been reduced, and her skill characteristics have been adjusted.
They finally added the quests that you must do in order to change the Cursed Kaiserium into the Liberated Kaiserium. This includes collecting 150 Cursed Horn’s Auras from either Normal or Hard Mode Magnus. Note: he only drops a maximum of 2…
The Cursed Kaiserium, as shown above, gives 50 to all stats and 250 attack with no slots, it is untradeable upon equipping. The Liberated Kaiserium gives 200 to all stats and 400 attack! It has 1 slot, so I assume it can have potential as well. However, it is completely untradeable.
Now, if the difference between party member levels is too large, the party will not gain experience. This only applies if the difference between the highest and lowest is 41 levels or more.
Monster Carnival has been reopened! Players level 110 to 130 can participate by accepting the Monster Carnival Invitation quest. This will sign you up to join a game as soon as 6 players join, while you can do other things.
You can trade in the Shiny Maple Coins you collect inside for “new” items. New because they’re just the old items with better stats, haha.
Spiegelmann’s Strong Cape: 3 to all stats (level 120, untradeable)
Spiegelmann’s Strong Bowtie: 10 to all stats, 1 attack and magic attack (level 120, untradeable)
Spiegelmann’s Strong Mustache: 2 to all stats, 2 attack and magic attack, (level 120, untradeable)
They have merged the entrance of all party quests into one. Some party quests’ recommended levels have been changed. Note, this does not mean you cannot do these party quests if you are too high, they will just not scale past their maximum level.
- Moon Bunny’s Rice Cake (level 30 – 50)
- Traces of the Goddess (level 70 – 100)
- Romeo and Juliet (level 70 – 100)
- Ice Knight’s Curse (level 90 – 110)
- Forest of Poison Fog (level 100 – 130)
- Pirate Davy Jones (level 100 – 130)
- Escape (level 120 – 250)
- Kenta in Danger (level 140 – 200)
- Resurrection of the Hob King (level 150 – 250)
The clear experience of some party quests have also been increased.
- First Accompaniment
- Ice Knight’s Curse
- Pirate Davy Jones
- Resurrection of the Hob King
- Kenta in Danger
Finally, new rewards were added to certain party quests. These aren’t really new, just the old ones with better stats.
- Ice Knight’s Shoulderpad: 4 to all stats, 1 attack and magic attack (level 95, untradeable)
- Ice Knight’s Seeker Chain Snowshoes: 4 to all stats, 5 speed, 2 jump, 1 attack and magic attack, 5 PVP damage (level 95, untradeable)
- Common Davy Jones Hat: 6 to all stats, 7 speed, 5 jump, 90 HP and MP (level 100, untradeable)
- Worn Davy Jones Hat: 9 to all stats, 1 attack and magic attack, 8 speed, 5 jump, 150 HP and MP (level 100, untradeable)
- Greedy Davy Jones Hat: 15 to all stats, 3 attack and magic attack, 10 speed, 5 jump, 250 HP and MP (level 125, untradeable)
- Brilliant Altair Earrings: 7 to all stats, 7 speed, 250 MP (level 100, can be traded with the Scissors of Karma)
- Kenta’s Goggles: 6 to all stats, 7 speed, 100 HP and MP (level 125, untradeable)
Mercedes and Phantom can now be created once more. Their Hyper Skills were reset and they received some skill changes.
Mercedes
Strike Dualshot (3rd): now does 20% increased damage on stunned monsters
High Kick Demolition (3rd): after used, you will now be in the air
Ishtar’s Ring (4th): damage has been increased from 110% to 130%, range has been increased
Defense Break (4th): no longer gives a chance to ignore 100% of a monster’s defense, now permanently ignores 25% of a monster’s defense and 25% of their elemental resistances
Advanced Final Attack (4th): damage of first arrow has been increased from 105% to 120%, damage of second arrow has been increased from 70% to 80%
NEW: Ishtar’s Ring – Ignore Guard (Hyper): Ishtar’s Ring’s amount of monster defense ignored is increased by 20%.
NEW: Ishtar’s Ring – Boss Killer (Hyper): Ishtar’s Ring’s damage to bosses is increased by 20%.- REMOVED: Ishtar’s Ring – Add Range (Hyper)
- REMOVED: Ishtar’s Ring – Linked Reinforce (Hyper)
Phantom
NEW SKILL: Judgement AUTO/MANUAL (beginner): Judgement’s buff skill will be set to automatically activate. Toggle on/off.
Judgement (2nd/4th): Guardian Card effect has been removed
Call of Fate (2nd): number of monsters hit has been increased from 3 to 4
Ultimate Drive (4th): damage has been increased from 120% to 130%
Twilight (4th): range has been increased
NEW: Ultimate Drive – Ignore Guard (Hyper): Ultimate Drive’s amount of monster defense ignored is increased by 20%.
Rose Carte Finale (Hyper): additional damage is now done continuously over 12 seconds instead of as one explosion, damage has been decreased from 700% to 100%, number of hits has been decreased from 4 to 2
Final Judgement (Hyper): defense increase effect has been removed- REMOVED: Ultimate Drive – Fast Movement (Hyper)
Monster Park has been reorganized! This includes both the gate and area levels! 5 new areas have been added as well, I’ve marked them in red along with a picture (thanks to 돈 of Insoya.com) in the list of the Monster Park parks below. There’s actually 6 new ones but one is only planned, it hasn’t actually been added yet.
Level 60~115 Gate
- Temple of Darkness (Lv.60~69)
- Snowy Mountain Area (Lv.70~79)
- Silent Sea (Lv.75~84)
- Black Mountain Hill (Lv.80~89)
- Gray’s Hideout (Lv.85~94)
- Scorching Sandy Desert (Lv.95~104)
- Auto Security Area (Lv.105~114)
Level 115~160 Gate
- Mossy Tree Forest (Lv.115~124)
- Sky Forest Training Centre (Lv. 120~129)
- Pirates’ Secret Base (Lv. 125~134)
- Another World’s Battlefield (Lv.135~144)
- Secluded Forest Dangerous Area (Lv.140~149)
- Forbidden Time (Lv.145~154)
- Hidden Ruins (Lv.150~159)
Level 160+ Gate
- Ruined City (Lv.160~169)
- Dead Tree Forest (Lv.170~179)
- Watchman’s Tower (Lv.175-184)
- Dragon’s Nest (Lv.180~189)
- Temple of Oblivion (Lv.185~194)
- Knight Stronghold (Lv.190~199)
- Ghosts’ Canyon (Lv.200~209, under construction)
Weapons that can absorb monsters’ souls have been added, new Soul Weapons! Using a Soul Enchanter on a weapon will turn it into a Soul Weapon. Soul Enchanters can only be used on level 75 or higher weapons. You must then hunt 10 Soul Fragments from monsters to combine into a certain boss monster’s soul to use on your Soul Weapon.
Soul Weapons use a boss monster’s soul to give you potential stats as well as a special skill (depending on which boss you have). While hunting monsters, you have to collect enough Souls to activate this skill by press ↓↓↑↑ attack or by clicking the icon.
Note: there are different types of Souls for each boss. These types will each give different potential stats but they all give you access to the same skill for that boss. I’m not gonna list all the potential stats (there’s so many) so I’ll just point out which bosses have special types, remember though that a single Soul will only give ONE of the stats listed.
Potential
- Rock Spirit: 20 STR/20 INT/20 DEX/50 LUK/300 HP/300 MP/10 all stats
- Prison Guard Ani: 50 STR/20 INT/20 DEX/20 LUK/300 HP/300 MP/10 all stats
- Dragon Rider: 20 STR/50 INT/20 DEX/20 LUK/300 HP/300 MP/10 all stats
- Rex: 20 STR/20 INT/50 DEX/20 LUK/300 HP/300 MP/10 all stats
- Mu Gong: 20 STR/20 INT/20 DEX/20 LUK/500 HP/500 MP/10 all stats
- Balrog: 10% STR/10% INT/10% DEX/10% LUK/10% all stats/5% attack/5% magic attack/5% total damage/10% defense ignore/10% boss damage
- Pink Bean: 10% STR/10% INT/10% DEX/10% LUK/5% all stats/5% attack/5% magic attack/10% total damage/10% defense ignore/10% boss damage
- Van Leon: 10% STR/10% INT/10% DEX/10% LUK/5% all stats/10% attack/5% magic attack/5% total damage/10% defense ignore/10% boss damage
Skills
I am Here: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Prison Guard Ani, dealing 2000% damage on one enemy with an extra 40% critical chance. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Kitty Law: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Van Leon, dealing 5000% damage on one enemy with an extra 30% critical chance. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Hellfire Trim: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon the Devil Balrog, dealing 2000% damage on up to 15 enemies on your screen with an extra 20% critical chance. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Don’t Block My Way: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Rex who will run into enemies in front of you, dealing 1500% damage on up to 15 enemies while ignoring 100% of their defense. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Palm Fireball: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Dragon Rider, who shoots a beam at up to 15 enemies in front of you, dealing 1500% damage with an extra 40% critical chance, monsters hit will take an extra 300% damage every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Rock and Roll Baby: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Rock Spirit for 120 seconds. He will deal 500% damage to monsters around you. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Scary Cuteness: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Pink Bean for 120 seconds. He will deal 1000% damage to monsters around you. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Rejuvenation: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Mu Gong and return yourself to the pinnacle of your strength, increasing your total damagae by 100% for 30 seconds. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
Options have been added to choose between regular or ‘simple’ item tooltips. I wasn’t able to check but I think it will only show potential stats? I know for sure it removed regular stats, haha.
The new widescreen resolution, 1366×768 is now available! If your graphics card does not support it, you will not see it as an option.
A new message system has been added (not really new, but I don’t think other versions had this item before). Like the Cash item, you can now send messages to those offline, which they will receive when they log on.
Press the button to the left of the character info button on the icon bar to write one. You must pay 10,000 mesos and you can’t send more than 3 per minute or 20 per day.
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so they get the first upgrades… I wonder who’s next
Second
lol
Cheated to 2nd
you’re literally hitler
I like it, Phantoms and Mercedes didnt deserve the buff to begin with.
But i cant help but feel Merc got screwed with the defence break changes… Is it me or does it now seem crapper?
Used to be 100% defense ignored at a 40% rate
Now its 25% defense ignored at a 100% rate.
I may be looking at it wrong but, it’s definitely a Nerf.
Phantom also kinda had his hyper skill ruined so not exactly buffs for the weaker (although still pretty strong) heroes.
Theoretically the change to Defense Break is actually a buff:
Defense Break used to give 40% PDR and Spikes Royale gave 20% PDR
But half the time you are already piercing the full defense rate so Spikes Royale’s only theoretically helps 60% of the time.
which means it only effectively grants 12% additional PDR, which sums up to 52% PDR
The new Defense Break gives 25% PDR which fully stacks with Ishtar’s new hyper and Spikes Royale, so it is actually 65% PDR.
And this is not even considering that % ignore stacks better with the new Defense Break, and how the 25% ele ignore works with your normal skills on bosses like Pink Bean.
So yeh, it is a buff.
And to add on, I forgot the additional 20% from Spikes Royale hyper skill. Which actually means 64% total PDR for old Defense Break, and 85% for new Defense Break, which grants a even larger gap in effectiveness.With a simple 15% ignore def, you easily reach 100%
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I wonder how much Ishtars ring is actually getting buffed by?
Added 🙂
they are adding 20% dmg, and removing 20% dmg
only gains dmg for (funded) bossing and not a lot of dmg-.-
They’re not removing 20% damage o.o
They’re removing the link skill that strengthens stunning strikes.
Nice! 🙂
Nice 6th
MERCEDES QUEEN OF MAPLESTORY!!
Oh who else remembers that message/note thing pre-bb in bl that never did anything? I guess they’ve finally decided to use it.
Spadow’s gonna get a lot of spams >.< (unless they built in a block system or something)
i just hope they give enough damage to ultimate drive :{
Added % 🙂
I was hoping for adventurers to get an update first 😥
Explorers deserve an update, not heroes.
Heroes are the weakest in kms atm.
Dam? Seriously?
ya but what explorer would ever tell you that?
oh, didnt know that.
True, but not all explorers need a revamp, from my playing experience, Dark Knights and Bowmasters need a revamp the most. But let’s just say bowmasters, because Nexon will give +10% to impale and call it a revamp ._.
Bowmasters are still stronger than mercedes. Idk about dks.
The last bowman rebalance gave bowmasters like 5 different things and only gave marksman 10% more damage on ultimate strafe. They even nerfed some of our shared skills with bowmaster so that they’re better for bowmasters rather than marksman. No one has experience with marksman because we suck so much no one wants to even try our class out.
They really fucked phantoms over… how dissapointing
Seems like they nerfed hypers O_O?
WOW, if thye did this much to mercedes(crap) then bowmaster are screwed… 20% dmg increase to hurricane and BOOM balanced!(sarcasm!)
BM>mercedes in kms
how does ignore monster defense work now? was it buffed from unlimited or nerfed?
Unlimited changed how defense ignore works, I’m not sure what exactly these changes were but I think it’s multiplicative now (i.e. you can’t reach 100% defense ignore unless you’re a Viper now, since they’re the only job that has a skill that lets them ignore that much).
i feal sorry for phantom lovers everyware
come on nexon its not op at all -_-
i like the monster park changes tho maybe we can use it again for proper training 🙂
Still doesn’t seem like that much of a buff. Phantom still sucks beyond the ends of time with the nerfs he got beforehand. Still feel that Mercedes should have gotten some sort of a Snipe skill like other Archers too.
The only actual buff we got as phantoms for end game, 10% increase to Ult drive and 20% ignore.
Everything else is a nerd that was so extremely un-needed.
The only archer with a snipe skill is marksman. Period. They’re giving our snipe to classes like Jett and Corsair and it is freaking annoying. Why should everyone have Marksman skills? Basically, you are saying everyone should have what we have and more and do more damage with it and we should just be crap..
WTF for phantom!
Summery of changes
Judgement: Nerfed by removing def buff that really comes in handy
Call of Fate: Hit’s one extra enemy, decent WAY early on but useless end game
Ultimate Drive : A whole 10% increase, Not going to get us very far, still leaves us phantoms WAY under powered
Hyper-Ultimate Drive – Ignore Guard 20% ignore, That is actually useful, but not amazing.
Rose Carte Finale (Hyper): additional damage is now done continuously over time instead of as one explosion, damage has been decreased from 700% to 100%, number of hits has been decreased from 4 to 2
Ultimate F-YOU from Nexon to us Phantoms. From one of the worst Hyper skills to the absolute worst.
Final Judgement (Hyper): defense increase effect has been removed
Again, nerfed by taking away def buff.
I don’t get why Phantoms are getting hit so hard. We are far from able to keep up with most classes because we have crap hp, crap defense, AND only moderate attack.
It’s starting to feel like nexon has it out for Phantoms.
If Phantom’s stay like this, it’s officially reason for me to quit. Not really worth playing if my main character is stuck so far behind.
god we need our crit % back too …
I think the removal of def was actually good……. cuz defense doesnt really do anything to the new bosses and normal monsters usually misses us. The new bosses does percent of your HP damage and doesnt depend on defense
Also removing the defense would increase the chance of getting a % crit card or that hp drain card
If automatic judgement works like i hope it does that’s a small increase in our dps. Asuming 100% crit without judgement. -.-
Its not that hard to get crit. At lvl 198 you have 55%crit plus 20 from judgment+20 hyper+decent SE or SE 100% crit.
I hope nexon buff aria in the future.. I want my 30% dmg back T.T and the duration of stolen buffs like pre nerf :<.
sorry for my english f3.
Phantoms needed their avoid, defense, and hp/mp cut. They were way too over powered to begin with. Anything you need you could just steal anyhow. Everyone looks at the class and assumes it is weak without adding in all of the awesome buffs they can steal. Personally, I would’ve cut your avoid and left everything else but the skills you steal. I would nerf that to level 10 or 15 then let you use them a little more freely. Like letting Hyperbody, magic guard, and meso guard stack(they’re all in different jobs so why not?). Possibly even use 2 buffs and an active from each job. That’s my idea of a balance. Not completely over-powered but hella useful.
U just hate phantoms dont you? Lol
and that’s why i said they should let you steal and use more skills at once???
Phantom can only use 1 defense buff, regardless of job. Hyperbody is not a defense skill, you don’t get damage less on hp if using it.
they’re making “changes” and i recommended other changes.. so what’s the point in stating how it is right now if that’s not how it’s going to be either way?
Dude. Us phantoms have shit range already. I’m level 156 and i only have a 56k range. If I put on all those defence buffs then my range would drop 10k. Do you think I’m stupid to drop 10k just because nexon hates us phantoms. We are so weak and require MAJOR funding to hit any high damage. We need a insane buff. My friends the same level as me and plays a dark knight. His range is 90k and he isn’t really that funded. Just give us our defence back nexon. Our avoid should not be touched. We are thieves. We should have high avoid.
Nerf not nerd XD
Did phantoms just got nerfed even more…?
This soul weapons stuff seems kinda weird too…
Slight increase to ultimate drive (Mille aguilles) But other than that…. looks like it.
Unless I am missing something.
@Max about the previous tread with the 90% +9 atk scroll do u think its coming to gms?
Awnser me plzzzzzz
Most likely yes. We always get what KMS gets. Unless GMS is scared that Hackers might take over the system again then they might not add it. It is all based off NA Nexon’s thought.
Except we have NEVER gotten the website login events. In fact, the only reason we have some of those things in GMS that were available in website login event and similar events (such as the ultimate circulator) is because they were put in the marvel machine, which means that it would most likely be a marvel machine item
Sigh… Not sure what to say about Phantoms. I am proud I stopped my Phantom than continued it… We got screwed over even more.
BTW Max, does the soul weapons make your equip untradable?
And forgot to ask about the Potential and Skill part. Is it possible to get both of them or you can only get one of them?
You get both, one of the potential stats and the skill that goes with that boss.
Nope.
I am very disappointed because I thought it’s supposed to rebalance the classes, not nerf them. I mean, explorers just suck. I thought they’re going to get a revamped.. By the looks of this, I am not so sure anymore.
….. O HELL NO THEY DON”T NEED REVAMPS ONLY ADVENTURERS NEED REVAMPS….. NEXON BETTER DO A GOOD JOB FOR BOWMASTERS AND PIRATE( pirates need dmg increase) BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF BEING OUT MATCHED BY LOWER LEVELS THAT ARE OP CLASSES T>T DO THE RIGHT THING AND REVAMP US BEFORE ANYONE ELSE SO THEN IT WILL BE AT LEAST A BIT BALANCED
Wow. Just wow. Adventures need a revamp, just not as badly as some other classes (PHANTOM) with hyper skills. BISHOPS can hit higher than phantom. So stop complaining, We all get out-damaged. If your sick of it, get some funding.
Then steal bishop skills?
XD Good idea, but thats not how it works.
Stolen skills are weaker than the originals.
Extremely disappointed with the ‘balancing’.
And sorta confused about monster park. So now only lvls +90 can go in?
..they added a level 95~134 area, meaning they filled in the only gap that’s been there for far too long.. it’s a good thing.
I can put up the list of all the portals and areas tomorrow if you want.
thx
Added 🙂
It’s not just adventurers needing one.
I mainly play Adventurers and my Phantom but I have adventurers that can out damage my Phantom. And now Phantoms are getting screwed over even more!
What’s wrong with an adventurer out-damaging a phantom? You know it has gone too far when people act as if that is a bad thing. “Hark! A damage class out-damaging a buff stealing class that can support!!” You know what? Give me Speed infusion, combat orders, hyper body, and the ability to heal myself and I won’t ask Nexon for any more attack. I don’t see how Marksman and Bowmasters are boss classes when we get screwed over in every field. Even our actual pixel range was reduced in big bang. We are a mid-ranged class! wth?
noob
oh you got me there!
Crossing my finger’s for more dungeon instances at popular maps like crocs or bears. I honestly think its bullcrap how I can’t even train during 2x on the weekend without camping 3 hours in advance or getting ksed by a Latino guild (no races intended, just the truth).
It just causes unnecessary hate.
yeah wtf is up with the mexicans ksing all the time they’re so annoying
I just hope that phantom’s hyper skill is actually good than its described, cuz right now….. its description makes it crap
To clarify, it still does the same initial damage. But now the cards on the ground won’t explode after 2 seconds, they’ll stay there for a while and deal continuous damage to monsters around it.
Whats the duration on the cards, Max?
I THINK 12 seconds, but I’m not too sure.
Do you by any chance know what the new Monster Parks that were added are?
I can add them tomorrow, going to sleep now haha.
I added them in~
Great job max, continue the good work. 🙂
Hmm the revamp dosent seem much, I would prefer if they could change and remove the cooldown of Phantom’s Impeccable memory to function like Xenon’s Mode System so they could change their skills easily. Mercedes Defence Break changes looks nice, hope Viper’s Typhoon Crash received the same treatment 🙂
Agreed!!!
Von Leon is called Van Leon on KMS?
It actually can be translated both ways, I’m just too used to Van Leon, haha.
Ice Knight’s Seeker Chain Snowshoes gives 5 PVP damage does this mean PVP will eventually come back?
Possibly, haha. But I think the old version of the shoes from Ice Knight gave PVP damage too, so they may have just copied it.
Hi max, is the moustache permanent? And do you get Mu Gong’s spirit thing from Dojo?
I believe so… but I haven’t been able to check.
All the boss Spirits are acquired by collecting Soul Pieces from monsters and combining 10 of them into a full boss soul. I don’t know if its going to be like this in the real server though.
Are the pieces rare?
And you didnt even answer my question above >,<
They’re pretty common. And sorry, didn’t see lol.
Max Are U Gay?
What are you talking about? Is there a need to ask? It is obvious that he is… Straight.
would it matter if he was?
1.suspect about you
2.motion carried
3.using any escape pod i choosen
I hope that Lumi would keep the KMS system, and not go to GMS one 😐
@Max The extractions say wind archers are buffed too? o.O
Nope, those are backports from the real server.
man why they keep making Maple more accomodating to the higher lvls its so lame
it does motivate me at all to play anymore
i feel all this shit is just gonna turn ppl off
sorry but theres plenty of better games out there to play, better than this maple shit
What kind of idiot thinks that maple is more accommodating to higher levels? A few months ago, there was 3 revamps to every new cchar, 3 new chars to every new piece of low leveled content, and 5 new low leveled content for every high level content. The only high level content we’ve gotten in the past few years are Ruined Henesys, Knight’s stronghold, Dimension Invade, and like 10 new raids, while there’s been like 50
theme dungeons for people below 120. Not only that, but until Twilight of Perion was released, there was literally NOTHING that a level 200 person could do that a 180 person couldn’t all those “better games” you speak of? they had SPECIAL content (such as raids and pqs) EXCLUSIVELY for people who hit the level cap. Who cares about getting to 200 if all you get is a few active buffs, a medal and (sometimes) a mount? I want a raid for people who are level 250. Also, nexon made a fail move. We wanted new high leveled content, but we didn’t want a level cap raise. Especially since they raised the cap for the sake of adding higher level content. At LEAST make some content for people at the current cap (basically only level 200+) OR get gear sets up to 200 before raising the cap. Seriously, other games normally have gear sets up to the level cap AS SOON AS ITS RAISED. And the only reason they raise the cap is because they’ve already made a raid with a level requirement of the current cap, so making a stronger boss without raising it would be stupid. And Nexon hasn’t even done EITHER! they started with sets up to 100 7 years ago, and then they’ve only released them up to 150, despite having a 200 cap, and then there’s THOUSANDS of 200s, at least make some level 200 content before raising the cap. Also, they can’t even FINISH a race of classes before making another one? look, they started on the resistance before getting done with even HALF of the heroes, and started on the Chief Knights, and announced the novas before releasing the last one. And then they finished the resistance, but they STILL are FOUR short of the Chief Knights (hopefully this CK revamp will mean the release of the other ones, and each chief knight will have the skills (albeit more powerful) of the pre revamp CKs so people can still play “classic” WAs and BWs in the form of Irena and Oz, so people can stop QQing about those CKs losing what made those people wish they were full classes in the process of becoming full classes (I mean people who wished they made full classes out of WAs mainly did so because of Albatross making them transform and such, because it made them one of the few “unique” classes)
They should return phantoms to the way they were before nerf and return mercedes’ AFA back as well.
what’s AFA?
isnt that max include AFA skill as well??? they havent get deleted yet….
but compare to WA Trfiling Whim, they put AFA to shame…..
way too flashy and OP~~~
I meant return the %dmg of AFA to before it was nerfed.
Will there be easy cynus and easy pink bean and other easy bosses o_O?
I hope so, cuz non-funded people would finally have a chance to fight those bosses
Hopefully explorer revamps are soon after.
Nice revamp for mercedes, and lol at phantoms, Nexon seems to hate phantoms more than dark knights now.
But this is tespia, they can make changes to the patch before the official release if I’m not mistaken, so don’t lose hope phantoms :D.
LO0king at the current phantom and merf revamp I give no hope to explorer revamp.
like they say +10% damage to skill is also a revamp….#nexon #troll~~~
Seems like no change too much, but they are what change we hope to get!
High Kick Demolition can now let us fly up! Now we can deal more dmg to mob at the air!
I can still rmb the time I play my mercedes at 3rd job, every time i use High Kick Demolition, i will quickly jump one more time for that LMAO 30% extra damage!~! ( using Leap Tornado of course~)
Judgement’s buff skill will be set to automatically activate! This is very useful skill, you no need keep switch the skill for different buff~
And gratz no see Guardian Card effect has been removed, this is the most useless buff for Phantom…
I hope they change these skill for mercedes : Unicorn Spike( quite low dmg after nerf, and the extra damage buff is useless like i never had this buff before… ) , Gust Dive ( got powerful sound and anim effect but pretty poor dmg F3, every thing will become better if this skill give some chance to instant Kill ) , Lightning Edge ( What is the point for this skill? combo with Unicorn Spike? LOL )
Phantom also need some buff for these skill : Coat of Arms ( better if increase its att spd as well as delay ) , increase its maximum avoid rate to 99% !!! ( come on , he is a thief hero you know?! THIEF HERO! )
They removed ludi pq? 😦
Nope, it just didn’t have its recommended levels changed.
That’s fucked up, Mercedes got nerfed even harder… Defense break was actually good. Ignore 25% of defense okay.. Ignore element resistance, wtf is that we aren’t mages dumb fk Koreans only element attack we have is are stupid summons. And strike dual shot 20% dmg on stunned target? Might as well not even have it, u can’t stun lhc monster, u can’t stun boss, u can’t stun stronghold mobs… What’s the fucking point, and thanks for ripping 30% dmg boost off it from our hyper skills. Fking Koreans, btw no one uses high kick demolition u fucks.. Fuck you u fucked mercs big time
Calm down with the cursing. Curse all you want but Nexon will never know that you cursed at them.
OT: To me it just feels that Nexon doesnt even test these jobs out… Nexon thinks this revamp is going to help A LOT but in reality it only applies for the super funded. They just add whatever they like and just call it a rebalance.
I am interested if the game is even going to be balanced…
YOU MAAAAAD?
you do realize the ignore element resistance isn’t as bad as you make it out to be… bosses like hilla and pink bean make your damage reduced by 50%, but if you have elemental resistance ignore, then you will bypass that 50% reduction. it’s not 100% ignore element resistance, so you will still have a bit of reduced damage, but not as much as 50%.
and i think they changed high kick demolition to make it like the moonsault attack, so you can follow up with another attack right after.
Theoretically the change to Defense Break is actually a buff:
Defense Break used to give 40% PDR and Spikes Royale gave 20% PDR
But half the time you are already piercing the full defense rate so Spikes Royale’s only theoretically helps 60% of the time.
which means it only effectively grants 12% additional PDR, which sums up to 52% PDR
The new Defense Break gives 25% PDR which fully stacks with Ishtar’s new hyper and Spikes Royale, so it is actually 65% PDR.
And this is not even considering that % ignore stacks better with the new Defense Break, and how the 25% ele ignore works with your normal skills on bosses like Pink Bean.
And you are even assuming you ever use Stunning Strikes anyway. At the only time you need to use a mobbing skills, you are better off using Double Leaf Tornado or Moonsault anyway. The 20% additional damage makes your 3rd job easier at least. In exchange of 30% damage on Stunning Strikes which you will never ever use, you get 20% boss damage on your bossing skill, which is way more useful that the 30% damage on Stunning Strikes.
So you just went full retard. Never go full retard.
And to add on, I forgot the additional 20% from Spikes Royale hyper skill. Which actually means 64% total PDR for old Defense Break, and 85% for new Defense Break, which grants a even larger gap in effectiveness.With a simple 15% ignore def potential which is not even that hard to get, you easily reach 100%
and ur math logic on the pdr is fking retarded.. just because spikes royale doesnt kick in 40% of the time its effectiveness is reduced? how dumb can you get. This is how you play a merc. Use spikes royale and use stunning strike. doesnt matter when spike kicks in because 40% of the time im doing full true damage, and 60% of the time im doing 40% true damage. its way better than doing 65% true damage for the full time.
LOOOL anonymous. you are one dumb idiot obviously you dont have a merc, never use stunning strike? what a joke, are you BR? dont “assume” mercs dont use stunning strike because its a 3rd job, its THE best mobbing skill for mercs even better than tornado. and ele resistance, please tell me which element attacks mercs use. oh fyi to the other top comment. high kick demonlition is never going to be like moonsault, the damage % is way lower than moonsault and no one is going to replace moonsault with highkick just because it does the same thing because damage % is way lower.
Soooo You just went full retard. Never go full retard.
For argument sake let’s just assume a situation against where AFA and Ishtar rings averages out to 100k per hit on a 0% def monster.
Against a 40% monster like Zak:
With 40% def you will hit 100k 4/10 the time and 76k 6/10 of the time. Which means in 100 hits of Ishtar you will be dealing a average of (4/10) x 100k + (6/10) x 76k = 85.6k per hit
Whereas accounting in the new hyper skill on Ishtar plus the 25% PDR on Defense Break, you have 85% PDR on Ishtar hits, and 65% PDR on AFA hits. 10/17 of the time you hit with 85% PDR, and 7/17 of the time you hit with 65% PDR. Which is essentially 96k 10/17 the time and 86k 7/10 the time. So in this case you deal an average of 91.8k per hit.
Against higher difficulty bosses like Pink Bean, the difference becomes even more apparent because ‘Weapon Attack’ is considered as a element.
and no “weapon attack” is not consider an element… what are you smoking?
The last time I used Stunning Strikes was like level 70 I think because MSEA’s LHC did not have party bonus. Leaf is just that much better else where due to its AoE and 3 more targets. While they removed the 30% damage to stunning strikes from the hyper skill, you won’t be getting it until level 185 anyway. And by then, you will either be in Monster Park, where I rather use Ishtar, or bossing, where Leaf is way more useful than Stunning Strikes because it is AoE rather than being unidirectional.
yea leaf is more useful, if you want to burn out your hp pots. I HIGHLY doubt you have a Mercedes. First of all the 30% damage boost doesnt come at lv 185. Stunning strikes is not an aoe? lmao if you think that leaf tornado is a viable long term mobbing skill for training then you are mental.
stunning strikes hits up to 5 enemies 4 times for a total of 175% damage per line, it activates faster then leaf tornado and it gives you distance away from the mobs, how do you even see leaf as a training skill? only thing good about leaf is comboing it after using rising rush and moonsault to get in that extra damage. after that, its all about stunning strikes.
I am waiting for Xenon and I would be MAD if they’re going to nerf him HARD.
Isn’t putting the soul to make the weapon really low chance and if it fails its like 100% chance of breaking?
Nope, they’re both 100% in Tespia at the moment.
just saw the new phantom carte finale skill…………
Its CRAP
God.. i hope they fix evan hyperskill in some update… that dragon summon is soooo useless compared to other skills
What do you mean fix? It never was anything wrong with it other than it being a useless summon.
Dont get too greedy. There are many more jobs that needs fixing other than Evans. They are great the way they are.
WHHHHHHHHY MY MERCEDES got a big defenseve penetration nerf unfair. why a 80 percent decrease so unfair shouldve been like a 20 percent and if it was still op then go down from there. But why did they have to go down by 80 from the get go!!!
Floating dolphin ftw
Eregoth and Ghost Canyon MP must mean theyre gonna revamp the ol GPQ and make it part of future perion
Also why yall peachin about Phantom when they can use the most number of skill over 150) and is still one of the better classes out there?!?!
This is all good info,
I was wondering why I saw monster bosses and mobs in the maplesimulator and even a winged pinkbean….This helped out a lot along with the video
Seriously, i have no idea why people are complaining about Mercedes getting nerfed when, if you compared skills between BM, WH and Merc(after this patch’s changes) , Merc’s total damage % is still higher than BM and WH. For those complaining about Merc’s hyper skills. take a look at BM’s! They has no adjustment made to its dmg % at all!!! split arrow, increase range and mobility during attack is all BM get. Stop your whining for Mercedes. Archers are being hated by Nexon in general =(
k compare mercede with Wind Breaker.
Why are people complaining for mercedes? At least like all of their skills got buffed, unlike phantom which lost a bunch of their percents, such as rose carte being completely crap now. Mercedes get +20% damage on Ishtar Ring and increased range, so it already gains back the hypers that used to benefit Ishtar Ring before they deleted it, PLUS they get 20% boss and 20% pdr with ishtar. Advanced Final Attack damage is also boosted, meaning more dps for mercedes. Phantoms do not get much decent out of this at all, I honestly feel bad for phantoms because they never ever got buffed besides hypers, it was release > nerf > hypers > nerf pretty much for them. I wouldn’t complain for your merc, you should be glad for the changes.
Okay, thanks. By the way, you forgot Gray’s Hideout.
Haha yeah I did, thanks.
Perhaps the real updates and revamps will come with the 10th anniversary and summer update?
How about they nerf everyone down back to where adventurers are? Why does a rebalance have to be about giving the weak guy power? I’m tired of seeing ridiculous numbers and personally I think it is stupid that my snipe hits 6 times. How the heck is that a snipe? Problem: if they made my snipe hit once in high levels everyone would be 50x stronger than me instead of 10. So just nerf everyone and we can go back to an old maple playing style. Leveling was fun and had meaning to it and people weren’t butt munches to each other and the community was strong. Let the instant gratification fools go back to WoW or whatever and let the nice patient people come back.
I understand why you want the past. Back then everyone had a balanced damage compared to others unless you funded yourself a lot like sins getting high attack stars.
But i dont agree with you. Training back then was not fun. No one is able to reach level 200 then. And if you want to kill zakum with those crappy damage, it would take ages. It is good that they increased the damage system.
people had to co operate to kill boss monsters, you say? Sounds like a terrible time. Lemme just hop on my angelic burster, hold one button and kill him. So much more fun right?
yea.. idk what i was thinking.. it’s pointless isn’t it?
dude is that you?
-Aagoth
So your saying that everyone needs to get super funded to kill bosses right?
if they make maple hard then thers ALOT less population. Reason: People dont have time nowadays
I heard and read on basil that Mille is now as fast as ishtar. Correct me if im wrong.
I dont find any prove of that
Dude, Mercedes stuff, she’s my main, looks nice too. i also play Phantom with my GF, all I need is Angel Buster/Burster/whatever and this would be an update tailored to me.
There is nothing wrong with adventurers being stronger. My point was that he is saying only Adventurers need a revamp/buff, but some can already be stronger than Phantom and phantom just got even weaker with this.
number of hits change for judgement or?
Should be 40 hits since 40cards right? LOL
Then, after all, the Phantom’s skill Ultimate Driver speed didn’t increase ?
well, if it didn’t then it was a nerf, since Carte Rose Finale got nerfed hardly this time. Never will do the damage as it does now in GMS
Hey Max, what levels do Mercedes get they new hyper skills respectively?
it’s hilarious. when the heroes got released everyone whined for them to be made to suck. now that they’re being made to suck people want them to not suck.
being legendary heroes they had a right to be better than the normals to begin with, not that people acknowledged it because they were so busy whining about not being top dog anymore. and it seems the heroes are still not getting the respect their plot relevance deserves.
and if the adventurers ever get buffed up to be more powerful than they deserve and override everyone else, you’ll all bitch they need to be nerfed. untill they are. and then you’ll switch sides again.
in an mmorpg, just because your story says you saved he world, doesnt mean you need to be OP compared to everyone else -_________________-
if they gonna nerf finale carte’s damage they should reduce the cooldown to 30 sec or something
You should also know that Mercedes was the weakest class in game. Weaker than phantom.
But then why does my unfunded merc, unbuffed, hit more, and faster than my fuded phantom 6 levels higher? ANSWER MEH!
“Rose Carte Finale (Hyper): additional damage is now done continuously over 12 seconds instead of as one explosion, damage has been decreased from 700% to 100%, number of hits has been decreased from 4 to 2”
It’s not really a nerf for Phantoms. Rose Carte Finale doesn’t explode for a single 50,000,000, but rather it stays on the field doing 50,000,000 dmg CONTINUOUSLY for more than 12 seconds! It’s better because you’ll do more dmg. WOW, I am impressed.
too bad not everyone’s range is 50 mill O_O
But you’re also forgetting that the damage was lowered by 600% meaning that instead of the initial 50,000,000 dmg hit you would hit 7,142,857 dmg 12 times which is 85,714,285 dmg. But that also requires the monster to stay on the cards that drop; but sadly the cards have a decently small range….
There are two ways i see it.
Rose got weaker so you would do less damage but because of the DoT, it might actually do much more than you think so it is great on bosses.
The DoT is useless against regular monsters that doesnt have a lot of HP to begin with so since most people can kill it with a few hits. By weakening the skill, it wont be a guarantee kill like it was before.
Also its so slow now that is pretty much useless against high lvl regular monsters
Max, I saw a very small typo under the soul weapon skills
“Rejuvenation: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Mu Gong and return yourself to the pinnacle of your strength, increasing your total damagae by 100% for 30 seconds. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.”
“damagae”(Should be damage?)
I bet fire cygnus will be next in the revamp
hes gonna be a male haha im gonna make him
i seriously think they broke the phantoms hyper skill from 700% – 100% thats a huge drop whihc is kinda unfair
ermahgerd i was gonna start a phantom but this screwed him up dammit
If you ever tried Pink Bean, Empress or even Hilla, you will know that. As proof, you cant deal more than half your normal damage even if you have defense break. But a mage can easily deal their full damage because of their elemental decrease skill.
The 30% damage boost DOES come only at 183 because that’s when you get that hyper skill.
“Ishtar’s Ring – Linked Reinforce: Strike Dualshot’s damage is increased by 30%. [required level: 183]”
They did not remove the passive aspect of Ishtar Ring that gives 25% damage boost to stunning strikes, so there is no nerf to its damage until lv 183. And it is 115% per line, 121% with level 1 Ishtar, 140% with max Ishtar, and 170% with the hyper skill at 183. Leaf Tornado hits 8 monster 4 lines, 135% a line, 146% with level 1 Spikes Royale, 165% with max Spikes Royale, 195% with the hyper skill at 195. And considering that you do 2 leaf tornadoes in 1 jump, it’s not that much slower than stunning strikes, and the damage makes up for it until you get the hyper skill at lv 185.
“only thing good about leaf is comboing it after using rising rush and moonsault to get in that extra damage. after that, its all about stunning strikes.”
There isn’t even the need for the “after that” part, because the first half of the combo is enough to kill what you have to.
LHC got revamped to the weak version before Mercedes. Lv 70 – 120 is easily passed by using Aerial Barrage at DGP & Mp3. Lv 120+ in PQ, where Leaf Tornado is better than Stunning Strikes in DR & Kenta, and Ishtar is more useful in Escape and Rex. Low level monster park is bad until they reduced the hp during justice.
And after lv 14x when you start zak solo, it is better to use leaf because it hits more parts. Stunning strikes is only more useful than leaf tornado when you start going to MPSH but I still rather just use Ishtar then. And leaf tornado’s AoE is also way more useful as a mobbing skill against bosses like CZak and CHT.
So now, where do you even use Stunning Strikes?
Im just wondering when will this come to GMS, I really want to play a Mercedes
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Ugh. Does the Mercedes changes even count as a revamp? They suck! Nexon should just increase Mercedes’ damage. I have a 120 Merc and the damage is like… equal to a 85 Kaiser/Demon. Love Merc but the damage is just…