kMSt ver. 1.2.474 – Further Balancing and Changes
Another Tespia patch has been released with some more changes to the things added last patch. I’ll talk about them after, but right now I’m super excited to say, I’m finally level 200! It took me 3 and a half years, but I did it haha (notice the pre-Big Bang UI). Sadly there’s no more blue message, I still got the Sniper Lord medal, Red Dragon mount, and Echo of the Hero though.
The level 200~209 Monster Park area, Ghosts’ Canyon which I mentioned in my last post has been released. It is based off of Twilight of Perion. (thanks to 돈 of Insoya.com for the picture)
Soul Weapons’ stats and skills have been adjusted (I have the skill changes below, but I’m not sure of the stat changes yet, if I find them I’ll edit).
More powerful Great Souls have also been added for Balrog, Pink Bean, and Van Leon, which give you access to stronger skills (possibly stats, but like I said, I don’t know). I think they’re also planning on adding Zakum, Horntail, and Cygnus boss souls.
Kitty Law: damage has been decreased from 5000% to 3000%
Hellfire Trim: damage has been decreased from 2000% to 1500%
Don’t Block my Way: damage has been decreased from 1500% to 1000%
Palm Fireball: damage has been decreased from 1500% to 1000%
Rock and Roll Baby: damage has been decreased from 500% to 300%
Scary Cuteness: damage has been decreased from 1000% to 500%
- NEW: Hellfire Sneeze: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon the Devil Balrog, dealing 2500% damage on up to 15 enemies on your screen with an extra 20% critical chance. There is a cooldown of 300 seconds.
- NEW: Kitty Law: Cross Slash Attack: 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.
- NEW: Fatal 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.
Mercedes and Phantom have received some more skill changes.
NEW: Advanced Strike Dual Shot (4th): Shoot arrows quickly at up to 8 enemies dealing 150% damage 4 times with an 80% chance to stun for 6 seconds. If attacking a stunned enemy, its damage will be increased by 20%. (required skill: level 20 Strike Dual Shot) (max level: 1)
Ishtar’s Ring (4th): damage has been increased from 130% to 150%
Steal Skill (beginner): stolen attacking skills’ damage and stolen buff skill’s durations have been increased
Blanc Carte (2nd): damage has been increased from 140% to 160%, no longer triggers damage reflect
Noir Carte (4th): damage has been increased from 200% to 220%, no longer triggers damage reflect
Thanks to Locked of Southperry for the skill icons and animations!
The message system received a small change, when you receive a message, you can now double click it to instantly reply.
Oh yeah, they added in this (sort of ugly in my opinion haha) Gingerbread Man pet~
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Congrats on lv 200 😀 none of my characters are lv 200 yet 😛
No Seconds.
No Thirds either.
no fourths
Congratulations getting Level 200! And thank for the minor notes Max! Well deserved for 3 and a half years.
i have one… my main
Thanks 😀
Grats Max !! Keep up with your post <33333
Congrats!
cool
Eh, changes are meh
Cool
cool
Congratulations on level 200 Max, I knew you could make it.
And yey, I guess Phantoms are slowly getting better. Do you know the exact amount they were increased by? Are they back to a full 100% or are they around 75% now?
Thanks 🙂
And nope, sorry. I don’t think the buff duration/damage reduction shows up in the skill information…
lol these silly changes, nothing compared to Xenon, phantom still sucks and their Hyper Skills got nerfed, congratulations
Congrats on making it to 200! ^_^
Thank you~
gratz
TY 🙂
Would have been nice if they started with the classes that REALLY needed re-balancing, eg all explorer warriors.
Your kidding, right? Drks need a revamp, badly. But the others arent in bad as need of a revamp as other classess…
All explorer warriors are pretty dang weak.
What are you talking about? Heros are in the top 10 in KMS in terms of %dps and paladins are mid-bottom. Nothing is pretty dang weak about that, unless you’re choosing to ignore paladin’s survivability and using Kaiser as a damage standard.
Nah man, ALL warriors needs a revamp, and that’s coming from a 17x DRK too. If you compared the new warriors to the old ones, the old ones has a horrible time training due to their extremely slow speed and no stance until 4th. For instances, my brother’s drk who is 8x, has an awful time training since he’s always getting knocked back every time he attacks. By the time he can level up his DRK by one, I already leveled up my Hayato by 4-5 levels. I can only imagine crusaders and whiteknights are going through the same issue.
New warriors however have skills that gives them the stance effect, extremely crazy mobility, and very fast attacking skills – making training at the early and later level a breeze for them.
In short, all explorer warriors needs a revamp.
I was talking mainly about 2nd and 3rd job, that was my fault for not specifying, but a pretty reasonable buff in 4th job for Heroes (not so much paly’s after their buff with hypers) wouldn’t unbalance anything either.
Cooooooooool. Monster Park Are lvl 200 209.
Great!
Pssh, How many people are even level 200+?
1,041 people.
Also congrats Max. You gosh darn leecher.
Well, this gives me a reason to make a Merc.
Phantom changes are kinda lame (especially 170Hyper) but.. I just love this class and gonna keep playing it not matter what :p
Man, I wish it was Dragonoir’s Soul and not Dragon Rider’s, or at least that Dragon Rider had a Great Soul, but I’m guessing Great Souls will only be for the Raid Bosses and not the PQ Bosses/Area Bosses/Master monsters 😦 On the bright side, if they make a Horntail Soul, then I’ll probs use that over Dragon Rider, Since Horntail is one of the Three Dragon Kings along with Mir’s parent, Afrien, so it may be better for mah Evan pride, you know, know your heritage, the legacy of the Dragon Master.
What pre bigbang UI? I don’t see what you mean.
Well it is good to see that they are getting buffed up more.
I believe they should make a small server for GM and let them test out the damage difference. I am sure if they played it, they would all just quit right off the bat on those weak jobs. They should understand why so many people are not playing the old jobs and always playing the new ones.
This is how is see the money making system.
Current Jobs avaliable – people play it and for those who wants to achieve max, they buy lots of NX and achieve it.
New job comes out – They convert over because their job is too weak, again buy all the NX and achieve high damage but eventually the jobs gets nerfed and it pisses them off.
Again New job comes out – They convert this time but less likely to pay since they know job is going to get nerfed so there is no point in paying.
This keeps going until the player doesnt want to play because it is so boring and the new jobs always out-damage the older ones and always comes with a nerf.
If they make all the jobs equally strong but just make the new ones just A LITTLE stronger but doesnt come with a nerf, most likely more people is going to stay with the job and more likely to pay to be strong.
This is how I see why so many people are quitting MS.
aww you’re so cute when you were a noob ❤
still waiting for a revamp for explorers and 5th job.
Hopefully warriors will get stance earlier in the game to help them train and faster attacking moves – something that is comparable to Demon Slayers, Kaisers, and Hayatos. Or if slower than of those, at least make it much stronger to match up with their speed and DPS.
Congrats on achieving 200
That pet, isn’t that GIngerbready from MSEA? Maybe not, I see flames on top of it.
Probably, the heart is just one of its animations lol.
Max or some1 plse explain “stolen attacking skills’ damage and stolen buff skill’s durations have been increased” this a little more. I don’t get it…
Is it like if the stolen skill “Arrow Bomb” damage% was 360% and now damage 450%.
Do you know there is a penalty with stolen skills?
if arrow bomb do 360% damage it does only 216% damage on Phantoms, 60% of it’s original, same goes to buff duration.
They only reduced the penalty I guess. How much it is, I have no idea.
Lamest balancing ever, only 5 or so skills got changed and it only really changed some percentages…
Congrats, Max! 😀
Hey Max, now that Mercedes got Advanced Strike Dual Shot, does Ishtar Ring still have that passive 25% damage bonus to it? And do you have to put SP into it or is it automatically assigned?
It looks like it’s just a 1 level skill that buffs the original Strike Dual Shot. Like how Demon slayer gets the skills that buff up his regular attack, notice how the Advance only has a maximum of 1? It’s probably a passive that buffs Strike Dual Shot so it’ll probably still have that buff from Ishtar.
^ That’s what I’m interested to know, whether it is a passive buff or an different active skill altogether
I hope they gonna give phantoms and mercedes new hat due to the revamp 😀
snitch pls cheats to 2nd
Hey max, would u happen to know if Ultima Drive is now as fast as other hurricane skills?
Btw, gratz on 200. Pre-bb player here, I know how big this achievement is for older players
It didn’t seem to speed up in the new version
but the autocast on judgement somewhat improved your hits per sec
@took me @3 and a @half years @lol
Gratz Max! Finally 200 lvl 😀
I actually rather want an Advanced Leaf Tornado than Advanced Strike Dual Shot. Leaf Tornado is like way more useful than Strike Dual Shot
Oh my god…MapleSEA’s Gingerbread found it’s way to KMS…dont get it.. for a MapleSEA player i find it pretty ugly myself…i would rather get a Ice Knight pet or Maybe a MIR pet
Harp seal is better. What if Merlion and butterfly is spread to Kms too?
zzz,never revamp other but just mercedes and phantom
Congratulations On getting to 200 max.
merecdes now does 300% damage per arrow .
Bowmaster does 260% per arrow -_-
no to say about all the other buffs merecdes have and bowmaster doesn’t .
all explorer classes need revemp .
all of thems .
Mercedes is still not that much stronger than Bowmaster (only about 1/7 stronger on single target and about 1/7 weaker in mobbing) according to the Southperry DPS% tables.
If all explorers get revamped, Hero, Shadower, Marksman, F/P, I/L, will just become overpowered out of proportion. Go check in the % tables in Southperry and you will realise how the aforesaid jobs are already very in front DPS-wise.
The more they revamp things, the less balanced things will become. I rather just go back to the skills during Big Bang.
Do you know Mercedes was one of the weakest class without this buff?
And Bowmasters haven’t undergo their revamp, yet.
Calm down man. Wait for all the revamps to come, then lets talk.
why should a random nobody be as strong as a legendary hero?
people keep wanting the explorers/resistance/cygnus to compete with people who have plot coupons to be extra strong. I don’t get it. isn’t it enough that they refuse to let people freely make non-explorer/resistance/cygnus characters and just dangle them out now and then as a carrot on a stick?
I like how you can send messages when your offline thats soo awesome thanks for letting us know Max!
Everyone were sure for some reason Adventurers will get a revamp but me xD ,I told them tehy won’t post pictures of Phantom and Mercedes for no reason,I mean,Why talking about revamps for Adventurers and putting a pic of phantom/merc instead of mascot warrior/mage and such?
Oh and ,Grats Maax 😀
I’m jealous @_@
You know bug update is coming trough right?
Phantoms and Mercedes is just the beginning.
Shouldn’t you have posted this on the one before? XD
Theyre basicly unnerfing phantoms -.- gg nexon. Fyi explorers are made to be weaker than hero classes
KOC was meant to be weaker than explorer class too. looks what happened to KOC now. anyway. who say explorers are meant to be weaker than hero classes. Hero Classes are just… unique and can’t be created every now and then; think of it like limited edition, but not necessarily stronger.
Look at the skill tables
I don’t think so because Ultimate Strafe is a passive that buffs Strafe and requires 10 SP points. So it might be like that too.
how the hell you can say it? she have like 60% avoid , -30% damage , 45% damage + 40 attack , 15% element resist . while bowmaster getting only +15% damage + 30 attack , 30% avoid , and with puppet summon which annyoing to re summon every time is -20% damage .
and she also get second Pote weapon , Which bowmaster doesn’t .
Before the Mercedes buff,
Mercedes has +15% Crit from Spirit Surge; Bowmaster has 20% from Sharp Eyes
Mercedes has +15% Dmg from Spirit Surge; Bowmaster has 15% from Spirit Link
Mercedes has 1500 HP from Ancient Warding; Bowmaster has 40% from Spirit Link
Mercedes has +40 WA from Ignis Lore; Bowmaster has +30 from Concentratre
Mercedes has 40% Avoid from Ignis Lore + Ancient Warding; Bowmaster has 60% from Evasion Boost + Illusion Step
Mercedes has +30% Dmg from Ancient Warding; Bowmaster has +30% Max Crit from Sharp Eyes
Mercedes summons has 550% OR 625%; Bowmaster Pheonix has 936% & puppet has 350%
Mercedes has a -30% damage & 25% Elemental Resistance active; Bowmaster has +30% WDEF & MDEF & 15% Elemental Resistance Passive, and Elite Puppet is nowhere as annoying to cast as the Mercedes buffs, which takes upwards to 8 seconds to cast every 3 min.
Mercedes has 40% PDR that reduces the effectiveness of other PDR by 40%; Bowmaster has 25% PDR that fully stacks with all other PDR
Wind of Frey > Enlil’s Wrath
Preparation > Elvish Blessing
Bowmaster has 100% for 1 second 60% of the time when attacked
Bowmaster is more wanted in parties due to Sharp Eyes
but more importantly
Mercedes has 40% LESS damage on Ishtar and 35% LESS damage on AFA
Mercedes was literally THE weakest class in Maple and the only reason why they call Mercedes OP is because she is least hindered by damage cap compared to other classes.
This buff merely balances Ishtar to be 40% stronger than Hurricane, and AFA to be 10% weaker than Bowmaster’s AFA.
And Mercedes is still nowhere as strong as Bowmaster in mobbing unless you are going up against 8 targets.
Essentially, Mercedes and Bowmaster are still just 2 sides of the same coin. Both are just annoyingly weak compared to like Hero, who gets like +160% damage from their buff.
Just if you are curious, Bowmaster hits for 6280%/s dmg/s Mercedes only has 5384%/s before the buff. And even after this buff, Mercedes is still not that much ahead at 7050%/s. Compare that to like Marksman who is capable to reach like 12727%/s.
Source: http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=50733
New calculation tables for Mercedes on the last post
Don’t underrestimate the greatness of mighty gingerbread!
Nice 😀
Fatal Cuteness! >.<
gratz on your 200~
Gratz on your level 200 character 😀
-i like the new skill but it basically isn’t better than the original strike dual shot now, it has 30% more dmg but the hyper skill linked
reïnforce is removed so it remains the same (except for the higher amount of mobs and another color. oh ye and 20% exra dmg on stunned mobs)
-besides that i love that ishtars is now 150% + 20% from the hyper = 170% ITS AWESOME!!!
-also the damage is more stable now that there is a permanent defence ignore instead of a chance on 100% def ignore (45% on ishtars now :D)
-mercedeses really needed this buff (they are the hardest job to fund, and have very low %/s)
Hey max I’m curious. I know pre-bb leveling was really hard but it’s been a long time since the big bang for kms. I would imagine that you would have been 200 earlier. Do you limit your actually training and leveling or do you train other chars?
The reason why I was so slow is because I’m lazy as hell, lmao. I definitely could have been level 200 a while back but I never had any motivation 😛 This basically just came from event quests and hunting and random party quests, lol.
Are Arans & Evans forgotten? 😦
They were the strongest, now the weakest.
A funded aran is now weaker than a funded explorer warrior class
Heros, dks, pallys > Aran
Evan < Bam, lumi
That’s a false statement, Lumi,Bam,Evan,and Aran are alll better then heros,dks, and pallys. More op imo
I dont know in KMS but in Msea they are very strong…
Probably we haven get tempest patch or our mercedes and phantom haven revamp xd
I also don’t think Aran and evans are the weakest, I’s say Aran is one of the strongest.
congratz max, on being able to stay motivated to L200. you’ve definately got me beaten. xD
so who said stunning strikes wasnt important? lmao they probably realize they fucked up so they added the new skill for mercedes. Guess it makes up for the 30% damage rip out still kinda lame though… should hit more lines than 4.
why is a manly guy like yourself playing a girly class and complaining about its update?
Hello. And Bye.
Just got my first 200 a week ago as well cept it took me 5 years : /
GRATS!!
Max Congratulations on such an amazing achievment.
Next step 250 in the next 3 and a half year
Great job on level 200!
Also that is a lot of Pinkbeans
Hmmm Scary Cuteness: Fatal Cuteness sounds like something good for my Angelic buster
Also these new maps look fun…
Does Azwan still match your level and exp after 200?
oh shit, i totally forgot that guys are not allowed to play mercedes because it’s such a
“girly” class… silly of me ill go play some “manly” class now any suggestion?