kMSt ver. 1.2.493 – Game System Changes & EunWol!
Woah, this is a HUGE patch!! A ton of stuff was added, including a lot of the stuff mentioned for the first patch of the You & I update (and more!) as well as the sixth hero EunWol! You can’t play him yet but his skills and everything were added.
Game Related
The maximum stat cap has been raised.
Your damage to monsters will now be affected by the difference in their level and yours. If they are lower level than you, your damage will be increased by a certain percentage but if they are higher than you, then your damage will be reduced.
Honor level has been removed. You can now reset your Inner Ability by using your Honor experience, and you can use it even if your Ability is Legendary rank. You can also use your Honor experience to lock an Ability’s rank or stats. Current Circulators and Miracle Circulators will work the same as they do now.
~ mining and herb collecting changes ~
The Maple Tutorial has been added! It is available for users level 10 to 140, and will recommend quests, maps, and content based on your level. Quests recommended by the tutorial can be automatically started remotely, and you can also teleport to any recommended maps or content instantly.
Aswan Liberation War, Spiegelmann’s Strange Gallery, Ariant Coliseum, Monster Carnival, and all minidungeons have been temporarily closed.
Some content’s required levels have been changed.
- Meisterville – level 35
- Hekaton – level 60
- World merged party quests – level 70
- Pyramid – level 80
- Mu Lung Dojo – level 120
- Root Abyss – level 125
- Monster Park, Monster Park Extreme – level 100
- Normal/Chaos Zakum – level 90
Zakum’s prequests and conditions have been reorganized. You can now fight Zakum in all channels, and the Zakum expedition has been deleted, you must now enter with a party. Anyone level 50 or higher can talk to the job advancers in El Nath to be instantly teleported to the Door to Zakum. They will also give you Zakum’s All Cure Potions.
You no longer need to do stage 1 or 2 of the Zakum prequests (they give only experience and mesos now), Adobis will give you Eyes of Fire and Eye of Fire Fragments. You can now only enter Zakum’s altar twice per day, regardless of mode. Easy/Normal/Chaos Zakum’s entry limits now reset at midnight.
The account buddy system has been added! Now, when you add a friend, you can choose for them to be listed as an ‘account buddy’, meaning all characters in the same world will share that person on their buddy lists. You can change your existing buddies into account buddies by right clicking on them and choosing the option.
A new system called offline login has been added. Now when you choose a character and put in your 2nd password, you can choose to ‘connect privately’, meaning your friends will not receive a popup that you logged in and you’ll appear offline in their buddy lists. You can also change your status while being logged in by clicking the option in the buddy window.
In accordance with the above two things, the buddy UI has been updated! Almost all the buttons have been moved into the right-click menu and you can now give nicknames to any account buddies you have.
Victoria Island’s taxi is now free.
You can now put any consumable boxes on quickslots instead of having to manually click them one by one. (thank you based god!)
The shortcut button below the minimap has been removed, you can now access that content through the new notification icon system which was added in a previous patch.
Enhancement System Changes
The scroll enhancement system has been changed. You can now use Scroll Traces to upgrade your items (I mentioned these in my last post from some events but I didn’t know what they were for, this is it!). These Scroll Traces can be found by hunting monsters or disassembling scrolls.
The higher the level of your equipment, the lower the success rate and the higher the amount of Scroll Traces that will be used to upgrade your item. These upgrades will take up slots just like regular scrolls. You can still use any other regular scrolls on your items if you want to.
As you can see, this level 120 weapon gets 7 attack from the 30% scroll option. I’ve seen a Kage staff getting 5 magic attack from the 30% option, the level 120 Desperado getting 7 attack, and an Aluminum Bat getting 3 attack. The 30% option for a Root Abyss top (bowman) gave 7 DEX, 120 HP, and if the item has been upgraded 4 times it gives an extra 1 attack.
Additional Potential will only appear on items that already have regular Potential now.
Field Battle System Changes
Field monsters’ health and experience have been increased. Any monsters below level 100 have had their HP increased by 2x and their experience by 1.2x. Monsters above level 100 have had their HP increased by 2~9x and their experience increased by 1.2~4x.
The Rune system has been added! After certain periods of time, Runes will spawn in fields. By pressing <Space Bar> on a Rune, you will be given an input command to enter in order to gain the effects of the Rune. You cannot use any other Runes until 10 minutes has passed. Runes have a variety of effects, but one common one they have is that they will give you 2x experience for 2 minutes. In addition, depending on the type of Rune, you’ll get one of the following:
- Rune of Speed: for 2 minutes, your speed and attack speed will be increased
- Rune of Energy: for 2 minutes, you will heal 10% of your HP every second, gain 20% resistance to elements, and receive 20% less damage from monsters
- Rune of Decay: Instantly kill any enemies around you and for 2 minutes, gain 50% damage
- Rune of Destruction: for 15 seconds, all monsters’ HP will be reduced by 10% and for 2 minutes, gain 50% damage
Elite Monsters have been added. If you meet certain conditions, an Elite Monster will appear! They are two times as large as regular monsters and they’ll have increased health, damage, and experience. They’ll use one of a random set of skills.
When defeated, Elite Monsters will drop enhanced rewards of the monster it was, and if its level 110 or higher, it will also drop Rare~Epic equipment, Cubes and Flames of Reincarnation, Golden Hammers, or Protection Scrolls.
Elite Bosses have also been added! If you meet certain conditions, an Elite Boss will appear. When they do, all other monsters will disappear and only Elite Monsters will remain. When an Elite Boss spawns, all nearby maps will receive a message showing which map it is in.
After defeating an Elite Boss, a bonus stage will trigger. In this bonus stage, you can get a large amount of experience and mesos, Rare~Unique equipment less than level 120, various Cubes and Flames of Reincarnation, Additional Potential Stamps, Epic Potential Scrolls, or Protection Scrolls.
Battle System Changes
The battle system has been changed. The time of invincibility after being attacked has been reduced.
Combo Kill and Multi Kill systems have been added. When you kill 3 or more monsters in one skill, it counts as a Multi Kill, and when you kill many monsters in a row, it counts as Combo Kills. Based on your Multi Kill and Combo Kill streaks, you’ll receive bonus experience from monsters.
Party bonus experience has been increased. Instead of being in only specific maps, party play bonuses will now be available in all maps! If you have 2 or more members in a party, your bonus experience increase proportionally. It will range from 125% to 275% based on the number of party members.
If your party attacks the same monster, its experience will be increased in proportion to the number of party members, up to 3 people. This system will be restricted or reduced in certain content however.
The display of damage effects has been changed. In the options you can now choose between the existing and new damage effects. It basically makes damage ‘fade out’ by moving up and becoming smaller. It also applies to damage taken.
A simple party matching system has been added. In level appropriate maps, a party invitation message will appear. You can choose to use or not use this system in your options.
Skill Changes
Based on the changes to monsters’ HP and experience, instant kill skills have been adjusted.
Ice/Lightning Archmage – Extreme Magic (I/L): chance of instant death has been decreased from 15% to 10%- Ranger – Mortal Blow: chance of instant death has been decreased from 15% to 10%
Paladin – Advanced Charge: chance of instant death has been decreased from 10% to 5%
Dark Knight – Beholder’s Revenge: chance of instant death has been decreased from 30% to 10%
Dark Knight – Dark Impale: chance of instant death has been decreased from 10% to 2%
Captain – Battleship Bomber: chance of instant death has been decreased from 100% to 20%
Kaiser – Blue Streak: chance of instant death has been decreased from 25% to 10%
Zero – Advanced Earth Break: chance of instant death has been decreased from 20% to 10%
Zero – Advanced Storm Break: chance of instant death has been decreased from 10% to 5%
Soul Weapon – Get out of my Way
Other skills that have instant kill effects but have not been changed may be adjusted or replaced in later balance patches. These include:
Dual Blade – Final Cut: this skill has a long cooldown, so the instant death usage is low
Mercedes – High Kick Demolition: chance of instant death is low
Luminous – Absolute Kill: 100% chance to instantly kill an enemy is the main concept of the skill
Marksman – Sniping: 100% chance to instantly kill an enemy and no cooldown is currently the concept of the skill. By collecting data after the patch, effect might be changed.
Captain – Headshot: see Sniping- Wild Hunter character card effect: chance to activate is very low
Aran’s Combo Tempest skill’s effect on monsters will no longer be activated by using Combo Tempest again. I think this change was made so that you can’t just spam Combo Tempest and train like that haha.
Item Related
Equipment under level 100 have had set effects added! These sets apply for 20 level intervals (I think this means that for example, one set will include both the level 60 and 70 equipment?).
The one above is the Third Rogue set and uses the level 90 set with the level 80 gloves. The 2 set effect is bad but the 3 set gives 4% HP and MP, and the 4 set gives 4 LUK and 4 attack. I think this is a good change to make lower level equipment useful!
Field monsters’ equipment drop rate has been decreased. The selling price of equipment under level 110 has been increased. The fees to identify potential on equipment less than level 120 have been decreased. Equipment levels 30~70’s fees have been reduced by 75% and equipment levels 70~120’s fees have been reduced by 50%.
Dropped items will now show their potential rank with a nifty new effect.
~ balrog item changes ~
Map Related
Some hunting maps’ terrain has been changed. Some areas have been temporarily closed.
- Cursed Forest
- Nautilus Waterfront
- Florina Beach
- Mushroom Kingdom
- Kerning Square
- Chryse
- Cherry Blossom Castle
- Omega Sector
- Korean Folk Town
- Terra Forest
Grandis’ world map has been added. Do you guys see what I see? A new area called Miu Miu! It of course has to do with the Anima race and EunWol, see the end of the post for more information about him!
Monster Related
Easy Zakum‘s HP has been increased by 2x. Normal Zakum‘s HP has been decreased to 1/4 of what it used to be. Some areas have had their monsters’ levels and stats adjusted.
- Victoria Island
- Gold Beach
- Riena Strait
- Orbis
- El Nath
- Aqua Road
- Edelstein and Leben Mine
- Nihal Desert
- Ludibrium
- Elin Forest
- Minar Forest
- Mu Lung, Herb Town
Quest Related
Some areas’ quests’ starting levels have been changed, and their reward experience has been increased.
- Victoria Island
- Orbis region
- El Nath region
- Ludibrium region
- Ariant region
- Magatia region
- Leafre region
- Mu Lung and Herb Town region
- Golden Temple
- Elin Forest
Some jobs’ quests have had their experience rewards adjusted.
Event Related
I don’t usually talk about Tespia events, but this one is important! It’s the Move Cash Storage Items through your Account event, or in other words, merged Cash storage for all characters! (well at least for a little bit of time) Basically you just have to go in the Cash Shop and choose which item you wish to move over, and right click it and press ‘move through account’. I think it only works for equipment though…
Mileage Related
The new Mileage Shop has been opened and can be accessed through the Cash Shop. You can buy Cash items using 100% Mileage! Some items have a limit per Nexon ID, you cannot gift, trade, or pay-back items bought from the Mileage Shop.
- Red Cube – 1200 Cash (limit of 10)
- Epi’s Box – 350 Cash (limit of 10)
- Protect Shield – 5500 Cash (limit of 5)
- Safety Shield – 4900 Cash (limit of 5)
- Platinum Karma Scissors – 5900 Cash (limit of 1)
- Karma Scissors – 2700 Cash (limit of 1)
- Little Star – 9900 Cash (limit of 1)
- [Pet] Little Star’s Stars – 2500 Cash (limit of 1)
- Milky Way Essence – 500 Cash (limit of 1)
- Premium Water of Life – 1800 Cash (limit of 1)
- Pet Name Tag – 1500 Cash (limit of 1)
- Elizabeth Wig – 3200 Cash
- Napoleon Hat – 3000 Cash
- Elizabeth Dress – 3600 Cash
- Napoleon Uniform – 3200 Cash
- Elizabeth Gloves – 1100 Cash
- Napoleon Cape – 1700 Cash
- Napoleon Boots – 1500 Cash
- Elizabeth Fan – 4900 Cash
- Snake New Era – 2700 Cash
- Athletic Hood – 2500 Cash
- Cargo Hiphop Pants – 2000 Cash
- Snake High Tops – 1500 Cash
- Blood Ring – 500 Cash (limit of 3)
- Miracle Circulator – 1900 Cash (limit of 3)
- Wheel of Destiny (10) – 2000 Cash (limit of 1)
- Safety Charm (10) – 3500 Cash (limit of 1)
- Buff Freezer (10) – 2000 Cash (limit of 1)
In addition to regular methods of collecting Mileage, you can now defeat Elite Monsters and get Mileage Packages. These can be used up to 5 times per Maple ID and give 50~80 Mileage each.
Auction House Related
The base number of selling slots has been increased to 5. The base number of searches per day has been increased to 10. The basic sales commission has been decreased to 5%.
The Forgotten Hero, EunWol
The sixth hero, EunWol has been added into the data! He is confirmed to be a pirate class that uses STR and a knuckle.
EunWol is not gender-restricted, but the illustrations of him are definitely the male version (take that, everyone who said he was a girl!). In addition, EunWol’s character card effects are 1%/2%/3%/5% minimum and maximum critical damage.
Miu Miu looks amazing! Here is a render of the main map (thanks to Insoya.com!). The BGMs are also really great, I think something everyone can agree on is that MapleStory’s BGMs never fail to impress.
It’s hard for me to make a render of my own for the map due to its many effects, but here’s one screenshot of how it (should) look in-game. The rain effect is nice, and I’m not sure if those bushes will actually cover so much of the screen haha.
Something interesting is that this girl shows up in EunWol’s tutorial. The label for her in the data is ‘lucid’, like lucid dreaming? Could she be the dream manipulator we’ve heard about in the past? Did she have something to do with why no one remembers EunWol?
Here’s a couple of illustrations from EunWol’s tutorial. They also added the pictures of EunWol with the other heroes, and those without him, but we’ve already seen them.
Skills
Note: Some of the skills might sound weird because they make cultural Korean references and those are super hard to translate. Some skill names may or may not be partly ‘made-up’ by me haha.
Beginner
Close Call: When hit by an attack that would lead to death, there is a 5%/10% chance of surviving. (Link Skill) (max level: 2)
Spirit Bond 1: Your bond with spirits allows your attacks to heal 1% of your HP and MP. While using Spirit skills, you will gain 100% Stance and 30% reduced damage from enemies. (max level: 1)
Moment Step: Instantly move forward to the nearest enemy within range. If there are no monsters around, move forward a preset distance. You can use skills while moving. (max level: 1)
First Job
Mega Punch: Swing your fist strongly, hitting enemies in front of you. This skill can be used consecutively, up to 2 times. (max level: 25)
- Level 1: [1st] 61% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies. [2nd] 72% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
- Level 25: [1st] 85% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies. [2nd] 120% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
Island Strike: Use the power of the spirits to hit enemies in front of you. This skill can be used consecutively, up to 2 times. (max level: 25)
- Level 1: [1st] 82% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies. [2nd] 93% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
- Level 25: [1st] 130% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies. [2nd] 165% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
Body Trinity: Receive the aura of the heaven and earth within your body, permanently increasing your defense and magic defense and maximum HP and MP. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 145 defense and 120 magic defense, 2% HP, 1% MP.
- Level 20: 1000 defense and 500 magic defense, 40% HP, 20% MP.
Jump: Jump again while in the air to move forward. (max level: 20)
Second Job
Ground Strike: Use the power of the land spirit and strike the ground in front of you. This skill can be used consecutively, up to 2 times. Monsters nearby will be slowed by the trembling of the ground. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: [1st] 226% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [2nd] 226% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [Tremble] Slow up to 15 enemies by 22%.
- Level 20: [1st] 340% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [2nd] 340% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [Tremble] Slow up to 15 enemies by 40%.
Fox Spirit: When attacking, there is a chance to summon a fox spirit which will chase and damage enemies. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 5% chance to summon 1 Fox Spirit. The summoned Fox Spirit will do 86% damage on one enemy. Activates 1 per attack.
- Level 10: 10% chance to summon 1 Fox Spirit. The summoned Fox Spirit will do 140% damage on one enemy. Activates 2 per attack.
Knuckle Mastery: Permanently increase your mastery over the Knuckle and your accuracy. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 14% Knuckle mastery, 12 accuracy.
- Level 10: 50% Knuckle mastery, 120 accuracy.
Spirit Bond 2: Strengthen the bond between you and the spirits, additionally increasing your accuracy, avoid, and attack speed while using Spirit skills. (required skill: 1 Spirit Bond 1) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 120 accuracy, 120 avoid, and 1 attacking speed.
- Level 10: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 300 accuracy, 300 avoid, and 1 attacking speed.
Strength Training: Permanently increase your STR through training. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: Permanently increase your STR by 6.
- Level 10: Permanently increase your STR by 60.
Drag Pulling – Down: The blade spirit pulls its blade down, hitting enemies in front of you. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 95% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies. Cooldown of 9 seconds.
- Level 10: 140% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies. Cooldown of 0 seconds.
Drag Pulling – Front: The blade spirit swings its blade forward, hitting enemies in front of you and dragging them towards you. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 115% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies. Cooldown of 9 seconds.
- Level 10: 160% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies. Cooldown of 0 seconds.
Back Step: Glide backwards quickly. Permanently increases avoid rate. You can use skills while moving. (max level: 15)
- Level 1: Passive effect: 1% avoid rate.
- Level 15: Passive effect: 15% avoid rate.
Third Job
Shockwave Punch: Use the power of the land spirit to hit enemies in front of you. This skill can be used consecutively, up to 3 times. The 3rd hit will create a shockwave which does additional damage. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: [1st] 146% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [2nd] 156% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [3rd] 206% damage 3 times on up to 6 enemies. [Shockwave] 226% damage on up to 8 enemies.
- Level 20: [1st] 260% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [2nd] 270% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies. [3rd] 320% damage 3 times on up to 6 enemies. [Shockwave] 340% damage on up to 8 enemies.
Spirit Bond 3: Strengthen the bond between you and the spirits, additionally increasing your attack and damage while using Spirit skills. (required skill: 10 Spirit Bond 2) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 300 accuracy, 300 avoid, 1 attacking speed, 1% damage, and 12 attack.
- Level 20: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 300 accuracy, 300 avoid, 1 attacking speed, 10% damage, and 50 attack.
Strong Body: The harmony of the power of the spirits is imbued within your body, permanently increasing your defense, magic defense, and resistance to statuses and elements. (required skill: 20 Body Trinity) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 550 defense and magic defense, 13% resistance to statuses and elements.
- Level 10: 1000 defense and magic defense, 40% resistance to statuses and elements.
Weaken: When attacking, there is a chance to use the ice spirit to weaken enemies. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 5% chance to weaken enemy for 5 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 11%, and decreasing their accuracy by 22% and avoid by 21%.
- Level 20: 10% chance to weaken enemy for 15 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 30%, and decreasing their accuracy by 60%, and avoid by 40%.
Drag Pulling – Turn: The blade spirit swings its blade around you, dragging enemies towards you. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 158% damage 4 times on up to 6 enemies. Cooldown of 9 seconds.
- Level 10: 230% damage 4 times on up to 6 enemies around you. Cooldown of 0 seconds.
Summon Soul Tent: Summon spirits around you to hit enemies. Keydown skill. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 124% damage on up to 10 enemies continuously. Cooldown of 29 seconds.
- Level 20: 200% damage on up to 10 enemies continuously. Cooldown of 10 seconds.
Bind Area: Create an area imbued with the bond spirit, binding and completely stopping the movements of enemies within it. (max level: 15)
- Level 1: Duration of 11 seconds. Cooldown of 176 seconds.
- Level 15: Duration of 25 seconds. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Summon Redemption: Upon dying, the guardian spirit revives you, preventing attacks from hitting you, and knocks back enemies around you. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: Revive upon dying and receive 1 second of invincibility. 270% damage 4 times on up to 6 enemies. Cooldown of 288 seconds.
- Level 10: Revive upon dying and receive 3 seconds of invincibility. 450% damage 4 times on up to 15 enemies. Cooldown of 180 seconds.
Fourth Job
Fire Fox Spirit: Summon more powerful Fire Fox Spirits. (required skill: 10 Fox Spirit) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 10% chance to summon 1 Fire Fox Spirit. The summoned Fire Fox Spirit will do 145% damage on one enemy. Activates 2 per attack.
- Level 20: 20% chance to summon 1 Fire Fox Spirit. The summoned Fire Fox Spirit will do 240% damage on one enemy. Activates 3 per attack.
Spirit Bond 4: Strengthen the bond between you and the spirits, additionally increasing your defense ignore and boss damage while using Spirit skills. (required skill: 20 Spirit Bond 3) (max level: 30)
- Level 1: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 300 accuracy, 300 avoid, 1 attacking speed, 10% damage, 50 attack, 21% boss damage, and 11% defense ignore.
- Level 20: Heal 1% HP and MP when attacking. When using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage reduction, 100% stance, 300 accuracy, 300 avoid, 1 attacking speed, 10% damage, 50 attack, 50% boss damage, and 40% defense ignore.
Advanced Knuckle Mastery: The power of the spirits permanently improves your mastery to the limit, as well as your minimum and maximum critical damage. (required skill: 10 Knuckle Mastery) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 61% Knuckle mastery, 11% minimum and maximum critical damage.
- Level 20: 70% Knuckle mastery, 30% minimum and maximum critical damage.
Weakness Insight: When an enemy’s HP is below a certain amount, your chance to hit a critical attack on that enemy increases greatly. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: When an enemy’s HP is below 11%, critical chance is increased by 33%.
- Level 20: When an enemy’s HP is below 30%, critical cance is increased by 90%.
Bomb Punch: Using the power of the land spirit, hit enemies in front of you. This skill can be used consecutively, up to 4 times. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: [1st] 164% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [2nd] 174% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [3rd] 184% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [4th] 204% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies, enemies hit have a 44% chance to be stunned for 1 second.
- Level 30: [1st] 280% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [2nd] 290% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [3rd] 300% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies. [4th] 320% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies, enemies hit have a 100% chance to be stunned for 2 seconds.
Spirit Claw: The wind spirit claws enemies in front of you. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 317% damage 8 times on up to 3 enemies.
- Level 30: 520% damage 8 times on up to 3 enemies.
Death Marker: The death spirit attacks enemies in front of you, critically striking and ignoring damage reflect. In addition, enemies hit will be marked and take damage over time. If an enemy with a mark dies, a percentage of your HP will be healed. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 415% damage 3 times on up to 10 enemies, 100% chance of critical hit. [Death Marker] Enemies will take 210% damage every second for 5 seconds. If they die with the Marker on them, 1% of your HP will be healed. Cooldown of 174 seconds.
- Level 30: 700% damage 3 times on up to 10 enemies, 100% chance of critical hit. [Death Marker] Enemies will take 400% damage every second for 5 seconds. If they die with the Marker on them, 5% of your HP will be healed. Cooldown of 60 seconds.
Division Soul Attack: The fire spirit attacks enemies in front of you, separating their bodies and souls. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 1240% damage on up to 6 enemies. [Separated Souls] A soul is created at the enemy’s location for 11 seconds which shares HP with the body. Enemies whose souls are separated will take 12% increased damage and will give 43% extra experience upon death.
- Level 20: 2000% damage on up to 6 enemies. [Separated Souls] A soul is created at the enemy’s location for 30 seconds which shares HP with the body. Enemies whose souls are separated will take 50% increased damage and will give 100% extra experience upon death.
Spirit Barrier: The guardian’s spirit surrounds you, voiding any attacks you would take. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: Summon 1 guardian spirit that voids one attack for 11 seconds. When you get hit by an attack, a guardian spirit will be used up. Cooldown of 174 seconds.
- Level 20: Summon 3 guardian spirits that void one attack each for 11 seconds. When you get hit by an attack, a guardian spirit will be used up. Cooldown of 60 seconds.
Maple Warrior: Increase all party members’ stats by a certain percentage. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 1% all stats, duration of 10 seconds.
- Level 30: 15% all stats, duration of 900 seconds.
Hero’s Will: By focusing your mind, you can ignore some abnormal status effects. (max level: 5)
- Level 1: Cooldown of 600 seconds.
- Level 5: Cooldown of 240 seconds.
Hyper
Spirit Claw – Reinforce: Spirit Claw’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 143]
Spirit Claw – Boss Killer: Spirit Claw’s damage to bosses is increased by 20%. [required level: 162]
Spirit Claw – Bonus Attack: Spirit Claw’s number of hits is increased by 1. [required level: 183]
Bomb Punch – Reinforce: Bomb Punch’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 149]
Bomb Punch – Extra Target: Bomb Punch’s number of monsters hit is increased by 2. [required level: 168]
Bomb Punch – Critical Rate: Bomb Punch’s critical chance is increased by 20%. [required level: 189]
Fire Fox Spirit – Reinforce: Fire Fox Spirit’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 155]
Fire Fox Spirit – Repeat Attack Bonus: Fire Fox Spirit’s activations per attack is increased by 1. [required level: 177]
Fire Fox Spirit – Summon Chance: Fire Fox Spirit’s chance to activate is increased by 10%. [required level: 195]
Spirit Bond Maximum: Strengthen the bond between you and the spirits to the limit, additionally increasing your damage, attack, defense ignore, boss damage, and attacking speed while using Spirit skills for a certain period of time. [required level: 150]
- Level 1: For 30 seconds, when using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage, 30 attack, 30% boss damage, 1 additional attacking speed, and 20% defense ignore. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Spirit Transformation: Transform into an incarnation of the spirits. During the transformation, you will be invincible and relentlessly attack all enemies around you. Keydown skill. [required level: 170]
- Level 1: 700% damage on up to 15 enemies continuously for up to 8 seconds. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Heroes’ Oath: Recalls the oath of the Maple Heroes to increase damage and max damage cap. Only applies to Hero classes in the party. [required level: 200]
- Level 1: Duration of 60 seconds. 10% damage and 5000000 damage cap increase. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Thanks to Spadow and Locked of Southperry for the skill effects!
Oh yeah, another monster has been revealed (sorta) on the MapleStory 2 website! But this one looks different… maybe its a new boss?
Orange Mushroom's Blog 
First o/
^^asshole
Cheated to 3rd 눈_눈
May the Fourth be with me
Has anyone noticed that spirit bond maximum uses the THIRD job’s Land Spirit for whatever reason?
Also, why does the PIRATE hero have an OOOOOOLD thief skill, albeit reskinned? (weaken)
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cheated to 2nd, second is the best!!!
wow not 2nd at all….
nope
cool
Great stuff, really cool hero, can’t actually wait to use him! (BTW for the AP cap, the maxmium is increased, does that mean the absolute highest that you can get, or the base AP that is capped at 999 or both?)
Awesome! =D
Yeeee nice
first?
Cool Max! Eunwol sounds awesome
although, I wonder what MAPLE WORLD’s forgotten hero is doing in Grandis. Even more mysterious than him being erased from everyone’s memories, perhaps. Well, those pirates FINALLY got their pirate hero. Anyway, the two currently known heroes, CURRENTLY involved in the Black Mage’s sealing are both mages themselves, so I wonder what role Eunwol played? Is it possible that luminous and/or freud didn’t ACTUALLY do their respective part in sealing the mage, that said role was a placeholder in their memories to make sense in the absence of Eunwol?
Woot! I just realized that us HEROES will FINALLY be able to max the stackage on our Heroic Memories!
There were 14 adventurers, no probs there
when all is said and done (and by that, I mean that Blaze Wizards and Night Walkers FINALLY get revamped), there will be six koc’s so 1 stack of Queen of Tommorrow + 5 stacks of Glory of Guardians,
while there is TECHNICALLY only 5 stacks of For Libery, at least XENON can get max stackage, (5 stacks from the other resistance, since he doesn’t have one of his own, 5 stacks is already as high as he can get)
In the explanation video, they said that a new EXP curve graph will be introduced (they’ll change the EXP needed to level up).
So Max, why haven’t they done it yet? (You didn’t write about it). That’s what they said they’re going to do in the explanation video… And if so, do you think the new EXP curve will be introduced in the closest updates?
I might have misheard/mistranslated but all the exp changes to monsters, exp bonuses, etc should probably be enough to make levelling easier.
Omg Udyr ❤
LOL agreed
Not a fan of some of the spoon feeding…really a tutorial that lasts to what not so long ago would be the highest level for armor? But the other stuff seems pretty dynamic.
Hey, its better than a CLASS that STARS OFF at “to what not so long ago would be the highest level for armor” THAT would be spoon feeding. (and by “that WOULD BE spoon feeding”, I mean “that IS spoon feeding”, since that is EXACTLY what the class that came BEFORE Eunwol)
BTW, it actually WAS “so long ago”, its been at LEAST FOUR years since GLOBAL MS got their level 110 Dragon gear, out of LESS THAN NINE, while it’s been over FOUR AND A HALF out of TEN years since KOREA got it.
Eunwol was the forgotten one, yet the beauty he will bring to this game will be embedded within my mind.
Not if he’s erased from everyone’s memories again!
2013.01.02 ? Don’t they mean 2014?
Yeah they dun goofed.
A limit of one per account on mileage…does this mean just 1, period? Or is it monthly, weekly, daily, etc?
I have no idea, it didn’t say anything else in the patch notes.
Fist , not first i think , the 1st job skill
Fixed, thanks~
Until thrid job ?
wondering when will the 7th hero arrive…
The link skill seems kind of crappy ._.
Except when you’re bossing like on magnus and you now have 21 “deaths” instead of 20. Great skill but the chance is pretty bad.
No 4th job
lol he just updated.
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EunWol looks much more bad-ass than I had originally given him credit for. I am excited for next summer, I hope we get them as is and those rumors(FUD) of gMS getting a re-designed version of this class is wrong.
I get an Avatar vibe… I love it, (Avatar: Last Airbender, Legend of Korra).
Omg, that’s exactly what I thought when I saw this. It’s very influenced from those abstract spirits. It looks amazing though.
Not a single summon? For a spirit warrior, that’s…disappointing. The hold down skill looks pretty though. Like an AoE version of shikigami haunting.
Any hypers btw?
And here is another over-powered new job, and a ‘hero’ too. I wonder if they like to change the story of maple all the time… I don’t like the flow of the story, so messed up… They could have release some other job instead of another hero; there are 14 adventurers, 1 archer job is missing. New nova class also much better than a new hero!
People were just mad that a Pirate hero wasn’t introduced when Luminous came out
Reminds me of Pascal from Tales of Graces. I love this approach.
Also, unlike recent new classes, this class looks like it’ll focus more on the damage rather than the rate of damage, looking at the fact that most of it’s skills are 2-3 liners with high damage percentage.
The scarf?
No I meant his skills. It’s similar to the way Pascal (Oh and Milla from Tales of Xillia) utilizes Summon Spirits in their artes.
OP hyper isn’t OP enough.
Dislike these changes, considering quitting GMS.
-Euharmonic of GMSKradia
Aran nerf again.
Spirit Bond Maximum: Strengthen the bond between you and the spirits to the limit, additionally increasing your damage, attack, defense ignore, boss damage, and attacking speed while using Spirit skills for a certain period of time. [required level: 150]
Level 1: For 30 seconds, when using Spirit skills, receive 30% damage, 30 attack, 30% boss damage, “11 additional attacking speed”, and 20% defense ignore. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
>11 additional attacking speed
Max don’t mislead the poor people please 😦
What do you mean? It does give them +11 attack speed!
jk fixed
What are those 2 planet(or) in grandis map? Nova home & Maple world?
Pantheon and Helisium.
so where does maple world exist in the universe exactly? O.o
Maple World and Grandis are different dimensions
I love everything in this upate from world maps to BGMs and Eunwol.
looks literally like a Kanna
wat… final cut gets a longer cd? D:
Noo its saying it already has a long CD so they didn’t think they had to change it
wuts the point of saying it? Lol
“Other skills that have instant kill effects but have not been changed may be adjusted or replaced in later balance patches. These include:”
Read.
Don’t forget to mention that Eunwol uses Spirit Beads for secondary xD
sigh, STR based. REALLY hoping we get 2 of each hero per class now.
WOW!!!! this news made my snow day away from school even better!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS MAX!!!
I love almost every single new change to hunting! party play for all maps will be soooooo much nicer. Th new hero is pretty cool, his animations i beautiful and i love the concept behind his skills, using the blade, land, death, fire, and wind spirits! so cool.
My favorite skill must have to be ‘Bind Area’ ITS SO BEAUTIFUL and it reminds me of JOURNEY!
Dat Udyr-Avatar fusion
Wow, Eunwol looks like a really fun class thats not too op! Its really flashy but thats nice if he’s not overpowered like all of the other new classes that nexon releases.
Max, your doing computer science right?! how are finals treating you/ have they started for you yet? 😀
Yeah! They’ve been going pretty well so far (although I should really fix my study habits…), I’ll be done by Friday so I can finally relaxxxx xD
I like the art work of the skills! it reminds of Legend of Kora book 2 the way how the spirits move.And finally some good close combat skills compared to the shitty ones that buccaneer has
Yes!!! i totally see this! the spirits in this are similar to those in korra
hmmm as much as it would make sense that the dream manipulator is this lucid girl, butttttt, her design is much different from when she was first introduced, and since this was the past, it would not make sense. UNLESS, he got her before and then she changed her appearance, but idk. doesnt add up why they would completely re-design an NPC after placing a shadow of her in game.
Max, wouldn’t the Anima world be called “Mewmew”, aka one of the onomatopoeia for cat sounds (뮤 뮤)? Miu Miu sounds out of place lol XD
Maxy is the mileage shop limit ever refreshed?
maximum stat cap meaning you can add more than 999 to orginal AP?
Lol Zero got a nerf… a small one…
This Hero is clearly OP. High Atk, High Def, Even with a reincarnation with such low CD (compared to phantom or DK) and then Instant kill changes… esp the captain… Aran skill changes too, like he wasnt weak enuf. Low mobility and hence tempest is his only way of grinding.hope they change this
That is alot to take in all at once,
I like that planetary map showing all the worlds in the maple universe
wow this is literally the worst new character job to ever be added to the game
looks like kanna ripoff, with the worst hyper skills and the most useless link skill in the game. the patch looks miserale. and seriously “Monsters above level 100 have had their HP increased by 2~9x” … WTF>?!??!
they increase the amount of hp on monsters by 2 to 9x the amount? that’s INSANE.
How am I supposed to kill things now? They increase the health without increasing our damage or adjusting the damage on skills accordingly…again WTF?
First of all, people have been begging for a Pirate hero. If you don’t like it then don’t play it. Simple as that. The whole point of them raising the hp of monsters is to inspire people to join parties. Did you not read this and previous updates? That’s their goal. To ENCOURAGE teamwork. Remember? They are fixing party xp. And btw, the most useless hyper in the game goes to F/P. Just saying.
So I need to max lv up by partying now?
Great idea… too bad KMS is a ghost town. And every single update keeps making the game worse.
Wasn’t the hp increase on bosses enough? Unleashed destroyed this game yet they do the same thing again by increasing the hp on monsters…
Unless the hp increase is only in party areas? But there’s no mention of that by Max.
Yes,the HP increase IS only in party areas, but EVERY AREA is a PARTY AREA now. Isn’t it WONDERFUL? Party Areas are freaking AWESOME! Most of their PREVIOUS flaws existed ONLY because a SELECT FEW maps were party play, and even MOST party zones weren’t worth using the way LHC and SH were, because a majority of them used normal map EXP and HP. And Unlimited nerfed pt play to the GROUND. SERIOUSLY NEXON, PT BONUS EXP DOESNT STACK WIT OTHER BONUSES? AT LEAST NOW THEY’RE BUFFING THE PT BONUS SO ITS ACTUALLY WORTH NOT SOLOING
If those are your true views of this patch, well your just not being reasonable and just jumping to conclusions.
Sorry, I disagree that I’m being unreasonable.
Seriously though, everyone one-shots normal monsters in the game. I can’t say too “soon” in the game because we pretty much start one-shotting monsters on maple island. That’s just ridiculously stupid and even with 9x HP most regular monsters will still get one-shotted. Just watch and see. By the way that’s a beast looking action-figure bull they’re throwing into maplestory 2.
Nexon is literally the worst gaming company ever.
Increasing the hp on monsters just so that people would buy Nx cash… le sigh.
What? havent you heard? you dont even NEED nx cash to buy the good stuff from the cash shop… you use mileage, an in game currency
You realize the only way to get Mileage is by killing bosses and partyquests right? …
Well some party quests and bosses don’t require nx funding.
But still, this guy’s right. It worries me a lot to see the increase in HP from 2x~9x. What if you WANT to train alone SOMETIMES? What if you DON’T ALWAYS have someone else in the map to party up with? (It happens a lot that people train alone because there’s no one else to train with). So what, if people want to train alone now, they’ll have to die again and again? This guy has a point…
it is to encourage
party
Ahh man I’m a little disappointed with Eunwol, his play style is a little to standard. Hopefully next thing to come is 5th jobs :D.
I like the sound of the Honor Exp though, I’m gonna get saving those medals in GMS!
Why is there mega punch and island strike in 1st job? esp they are very similar and mega punch is clearly weaker
Eunwol hasn’t been released in KMST yet. So possibly he has some special use for mega punch? “apparently Drag Pulling skills chain to Mega Punch”
What is the maximum stat cap now?
oh man I just love the sight of fresh new content 🙂
A pirate hero?! and a Knuckle user?! Yes!!, my life is complete 🙂
Do you HONESTLY think a 300-year old hero could be using ANY pirate weapon OTHER than a KNUCKLE? Seriously, the RUNNING THEME of pirate weapons (minus knuckles) is advanced TECHNOLOGY. Thusly, a pirate hero would HAVE to wield a KNUCKLE.
Does bind area work with boss monsters?
Most likely yes. (I don’t think there is a bind skill in maplestory that doesn’t bind bosses)
Eunwol has three attacking skills in fourth job, but wind soul attack seems to be the highest damage, so will we juz spam wind? Maybe the fire for extra exp.. How about the bomb punch? Nice amination but seems to be the lowest damage? Will it be a 1 key spam job again?
well i think that the wind is mostly for bossing since it only hits 3 mob, much like ds demon impact. the land would be the normal attack of ds and fire is just like the demon cry, except its doesnt look full screen.
Auto-res with only 180sec cooldown? The ability to “separate souls” for 100% more exp? Kinda ridiculous….
And they better not mess with Snipe!!!!! Nah, I’m sure it wouldn’t be a big deal to reduce its instant-kill chance, especially with these mob and training changes that I whole-heartedly agree with.
This is awesome and all and I don’t want to downplay it, but why are they ignoring the Blaze Wizard and Night Walker?
I agree, still wondering about that blaze wizard and night walker update
To everyone that says they like “solo” play and need more “solo” content buy a friggin’ Xbox! Stay off of MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES! Friggin’ idiots..
Powerbomb Punch is too epic to be a mob skill. Make it a 1vs1 skill and replace that stupid looking wind spirirt attack lol.
Agreed lol
hmmm this Lucid girl.. she seems to have the essence of a transcendent, she looks similar to Alice.Myabe she is one of Grandis’s Transcendents? just a possibility
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For those that are concerned about the massive hp increase and minimal exp increase to monsters dont forget that Nexon is also lowering the experience curve to level so all in all I think we will actually level at the same rate or faster. They did say in a previous update that they wanted more players to hit level 100 and to be able to do so within a week so it wouldn’t make sense to make it harder to level immediately afterword.
In my opinion it is great to give monsters more hp and reduce the exp required for players to level. Think about it. Assuming the leveling speed remained the same you would generally want higher monster hp so that it takes longer to clear a map resulting in fewer situations where you are waiting for monsters to spawn (resulting in lost effeciency/time/exp) It makes sense to deal with the monster spawn issue when they are encouraging party play, after all isn’t clearing the map super fast and then waiting around for 8 seconds a big problem with large parties hunting together? That has certainly been my experience. It is definitely a better solution than just increasing the spawn rates of all maps.
I will sadly have to agree with those saying that this class looks a little too “ordinary”.
All of the heroes that we got provided something new to the table, and all we get here is stuff that we’ve gotten used to. (eg: consecutive attacks, keydowns, etc)
I wish that they had done something more with the “spirits” theme. This is where I think Xenon’s skill-switching really would have been perfect for. (like switching spirits for a different style of attack).
All we have to judge on are the bare, naked skills right now, so I’ll hold off on my final opinion once he comes out proper.
M for Mercedes
A for Aran
P for phantom
L for luminous
E for Evan
Eunwol is the nosy guy who wants attention and breaking the name code
MAPLEE
Plus the maple hero is living in an entire different world called grandis
eunwol is actually silvermoon in english so that makes maples(tory)
Well you are wrong….
M for Mercedes
A for Aran
P for phantom
L for luminous
E for Eunwol
Evan it not a hero. He is considered the “New hero” When he first came out he was known for that. The real Evan hero was Freud but he was fighting for the dragons which Black Mage was genociding…
am kinda hoping beast tamer is like a mage version of eunwol and i kinda have a feeling that beast tamer will have skills that increase exp
the /gg on that whole line of babble is that the other people on the server aren’t always worth trying to make friends with. a lot of people stick to partying with folks they know from outside the game because the pubbies are too unreliable and/or stupid to bother with. so I suppose thay guy expects you to not want to play when your pals are busy or something…
honestly? the person you are quoting is a complete idiot. if there was no death penalty then “hurr u can train evn tho u die” would be a semivalid arguement. but there is one, rendering it completely invalid.
Hey max, I have a doubt. With this new enhance system, will we still be able to enhance equips that have 0 slots (with the enhances that add up stars to the item)?
I’ve mained a Buccaneer since they first came out because I have a deep love for fist fighting in video games. It has been 6 years since then and they’ve been the only knuckle using class (barring Strikers/TBs because they were essentially a reskin) and now we get TWO knuckle classes in the same year. I was estatic about revamped TB and I’m super excited for EunWol. The changes to party play, exp, and mob health look great too!
But there’s one thing I noticed that seemed off about EunWol. He gains a HUGE boost to crit min/max from his mastery skill but he hardly gets any critical chance at all? It seems like Weakness Insight will really only be useful on bosses (assuming it works on bosses, that is) and I can’t really see myself taking that bomb punch hyper. Is his crit chance missing from this list, Max? Or am I forgetting something? This way it seems like the only way to make use of his crits is to rely on phantom link and crit rings.
y they nerf zakum? its already too weak.. Lol
와…
wow…. I quit maplestory a couple years ago, now i look at it today and all the jobs look pretty much the same. Flash jump, op moves, ulti that hits entire screen…?
captain retcon to the rescue?
EunWol is one of the Silence. ‘Nuff said.
What is Eunwol’s base critical chance? 5%? Thanks.
tbh at first I thought eunwol was kinda stupid but now im obsessed with it