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The second patch of the Winter update, Maple Ice & Burn, has been released! This one includes the new level 200+ area, some minigame updates as well as system changes and skill changes.

A new game has been added to Star Planet, called Psychic Yutnori!

In this new mode, you and your opponent get access to 3 special abilities (purple ones affect your roll and orange ones affect the board). They’re all a lot of fun, like one that makes it a 50% chance to get a 1 and 50% chance to get a 5.

You can choose between Classic and Psychic Yutnori by talking to the attendant in the Star Arena.

In Fight! Return of the Legends, you will now be matched with users with similar scores as you. All Avatars’ experience required per level has been adjusted and the Health Regeneration Core skill has been buffed.

In addition, some Avatars have had their skills changed slightly.

• Mike: Shield of War’s cooldown has been decreased, Mace Armor’s damage has been increased
• Manji: Sky Cut’s damage has been decreased
• Grendel: Ice Orb’s damage has been decreased
• Mu Gong: Whirlwind Leg has been changed to allow you to jump
• Dark Lord: Bat Grave’s slow effect duration has been decreased

The login process has been improved! A new ‘previous’ button allows you to return to a previous screen without having to log in again.

Also, when creating a character, you will now immediately log in to that character instead of being returned to the character select screen. The maximum character limit has been increased to 36.

Finally, when logging off, you will be returned to the character selection screen instead of being forced to log in again.

Some Star Force maps have been changed. In all cases, the monster regeneration rate has been increased (this means more monsters and faster).

In El Nath, you can now use the Danger Zone Taxi to go straight to the Dead Mine. In Ludibrium, Twisted Passage and Forgotten Passage have had their terrain changed. In Minar Forest, you can now use the Danger Zone Taxi to go straight to Dragon’s Nest.

Now, after completing Black Heaven, you can play through it again by talking to Moko, who will allow you to reset your progress. When replaying Black Heaven, you will receive the same experience but less Honor.

Skill Changes

Paladin

Divine Charge’s damage was low compared to lower jobs’ Charge skills and we thought this did not make sense. Therefore, its damage has been increased.

•  Divine Charge: damage has been increased from 405% to 454%, in addition to existing effects Divine Charge now grants the Holy element

Marksman

Since Marksman have high critical chance, the efficiency of Sniping was not as much as it could be due to the damage cap, so we increased it for this skill. The critical chance effect of Distancing Sense was not very useful so it has been changed to defense ignore. In addition, some other skills were changed.

•  Distancing Sense: critical chance effect has been changed to defense ignore
•  Net Throwing: slow chance has been increased from 70% to 100%, cooldown of 5 seconds has been added
•  Dragon Pulse: number of monsters hit has been increased from 6 to 9
•  Extreme Archery: Crossbow: in addition to existing effects, now adds 15% minimum critical damage
•  Sniping: damage cap has been increased from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000, range has been increased, skill delay has been decreased
•  Additional Bolt: Distancing Bolt’s critical chance boost has been changed to a defense ignore boost
•  Sniping – Limit Canceller: damage cap boost has been increased from 400,000,000 to 500,000,000
•  Long Range Trueshot: damage cap has been increased to 500,000,000, cooldown has been decreased from 30 seconds to 15 seconds
•  Bullseye: in addition to existing effects, Bullseye now gives 20% damage

Viper

Vipers are not very viable at bosses due to their need to stay close to them so we made Stance passive.

•  HP Increase: in addition to existing effects, HP Increase now gives 100% Stance
•  Ultra Charge: due to HP Increase’s change, this skill’s Stance effect has been removed

Captain

Fusillade’s attack range did not match the animation.

•  Fusillade: vertical range has been increased

Mercedes

Mercedes has been given a fun hunting pattern in previous skill balancing but the skill damage has been deemed inefficient. Therefore, we added a few more damage boosts, and we also increased the range of Leap Tornado.

•  Potential Power: in addition to existing effects, Potential Power now gives 20% damage
•  Spirit Infusion: damage boost has been increased from 15% to 30%
•  Leap Tornado: attack range has been increased
•  Ignis Roar: attack per linked attack has been increased from 3 to 4
•  Ancient Spirit: damage boost has been increased from 30% to 40%

Xenon

Xenon mainly uses Snipe at bosses but as a major skill it was a bit low on damage. Therefore, we increased the number of attacks and reduced the skill delay. Also in earlier levels, to make Blade Dancing more useful, the damage was increased. Finally, after reviving, your Energy Gauge will no longer reset.

•  Blade Dancing: damage has been increased from 225% to 260%
•  Purge Lob Masquerade: Snipe: number of hits has been increased from 5 to 6, damage has been decreased from 450% to 400%, skill delay has been decreased

Kaiser

Just as a small change, some skills’ motions have been changed after you use Final Figuration in order to look nicer, and you can now sit or climb ladders and ropes in that form.

•  Dragon Slash: when using Final Figuration, this skill’s motions will change
•  Wing Beat: when using Final Figuration, this skill’s motions will change
•  Giga Slash: when using Final Figuration, this skill’s motions will change

For many classes which have passive skills that are automatically activated while attacking, it might lead to some frustration at some places. Therefore, the following jobs have had some skills changed into On/Off skills.

• Night Lord‘s Mark of Assassin
• EunWol’s Fox Spirit
• Angelic Buster‘s Soul Seeker Expert
• Night Walker‘s Shadow Bats
• Xenon‘s Aegis System
• Archmage (F/P)‘s Ignite

In order to prevent users who use their Soul Weapon skills in order to hunt automatically (botting), we have made some changes including Soul Weapon skills will no longer fill the Soul Weapon gauge and if you use a Soul skill multiple times in one place, it will no longer be able to be used.

New Boss Souls have been added for Pierre, Von Bon, Bloody Queen, Vellum, and Suu.

Pierre, Von Bon and Vellum’s Souls are just special attacks, Bloody Queen’s gives a buff, and Suu’s is a summon-type Soul.

If you’re lucky enough to get a Magnificent Soul, you’ll get a stronger skill. Now, all 5 Souls are summon-types. For Pierre, you’ll summon one of three colours of Pierre and for Vellum, you’ll summon Junior Vellum.

After Gelimer was defeated in the Blockbuster: Black Heaven, the giant airship Black Heaven crashed into the ground above Edelstein. Now, this area, titled Mechanical Grave, is exploreable!

Mechanical Grave is designed for users level 200 and higher. It is accessible through a new cable car in Edelstein Trails 4, or by using the taxi in Edelstein.

1. Haven: the home of the Black Wings’ abandoned robots.
2. Mechanical Grave: roads leading to the Skyline with rogue robots.
3. Skyline: a large tower used to access Black Heaven
4. Black Heaven Deck: the exterior of the fallen air ship Black Heaven.
5. Black Heaven Interior: the inside of the fallen air ship Black Heaven.
6. Core Entrance: the Core of Black Heaven where the boss Suu resides.

Here’s a video of the area, man those things hit hard. I couldn’t even hit the later mobs, they were too high level and I just missed all my attacks haha.

After completing the story quests in Mechanical Grave, you’ll gain access to some daily quests. There are six different kinds of quests which you can do.

In addition, Suu has received a Normal Mode. This mode is similar to the Hard Mode which was released earlier, but is easier to clear. You can see more information about the boss here.

In Mechanical Grave, you’ll be able to collect a new type of item, Energy Cores. Suu drops S-rank Cores and you can get 3 A-rank cores per day by completing 5 daily quests. Some of the daily quests also reward Cores themselves.

You can trade in 50 A-rank Cores or 1 S-rank Core for 1 Absolabs Coin, which you can use to buy Absolabs weapons (8 coins, including the Zero scroll), shoes (3 coins), or capes (3 coins).

Speaking of which, the Absolabs set has received a new design (thanks to Spadow for the image!), and also a new part: the shoulderpad which gives 14 all stats, 10 attack and magic attack with 1 slot.

The item stats have not been changed but the set effects did.

• 2 items: 1500 HP and MP, 20 attack and magic attack
• 3 items: 30 all stats, 25 attack and magic attack
• 4 items: 30 attack and magic attack, 200 defense and magic defense, 10% defense ignore
• 5 items: 20 attack and magic attack, 30% boss damage
• 6 items: 20% HP and MP, 20 attack and magic attack
• 7 items: 20 attack and magic attack, 10% defense ignore

In the Cash Shop, new Fluffy Sheep pets have been added.

The Pandora’s Box has been updated with the new Boss Souls and the level 145 Scarlet weapons.

The Epi’s Box has been updated to feature items related to Black Heaven.

In terms of events, a couple of the previous ones have been extended. I won’t talk about them but you can read about them in my previous post. First of all, the Coin Shop now lasts until February 12.

The Burning Project event has also been extended to February 12. I believe you can now choose another character because this is a new season.

Another attendance check has begun, from today until February 11. You must defeat 200 monsters per day.

There are a ton of prizes, I believe if you want them all you can’t miss a day.

1. 40 Pizza Buns
2. 3 Star Planet Weather Effects
3. 60% Chaos Scroll and 3 2x Experience Coupon Extenders
4. 100 Scroll Traces
5. 5 M.I.B. Coins
6. Silver Potential Stamp, 50% Golden Hammer, and 5 M.I.B. Special Coins
7. 40 Pizza Buns
8. 3 Star Planet Weather Effects
9. 2 Special Medals of Honor
10. 100 Scroll Traces
11. 5 M.I.B. Coins
12. Gold Potential Stamp, 7 2x Experience Coupon Extenders, and 10 M.I.B. Special Coins
13. 40 Pizza Buns
14. 5 Star Planet Weather Effects
15. 50% Innocent Scroll and 8 Etc. Slot Expansion Coupon
16. 150 Scroll Traces
17. 40 Pizza Buns
18. 50% Epic Potential Scroll, Knitted Ear Muffs Hat (30 days), and 15 M.I.B. Special Coins
19. 10 M.I.B. Coins
20. 200 Scroll Traces
21. Eternal Flame of Reincarnation and Snow Poly Wear (30 days)
22. 250 Scroll Traces
23. 15 M.I.B. Coins
24. 300 Scroll Traces
25. 15 M.I.B. Coins
26. 450 Scroll Traces
27. 20 M.I.B. Coins
28. 550 Scroll Traces

Since Happyville is now gone, you can now access Returned Korean Folk Town. Although not the entire area, you’ll be able to see the main KFT map.

There are daily quest where you can choose from some older areas’ hunting grounds, fight Mushmom, or collect posters from previous updates.

You can receive special tickets to access some games to get mesos, Scroll Traces, M.I.B. Coins and Giant Potions.

Finally, in Korean Folk Town, you can buy items from the Maple Artifact Shop using M.I.B. Coins.

• Old Days Armor & Accessories Box
  • Rose Earrings
  • Maple Scarf
  • Maple Earrings
  • White Workgloves
  • Scuba Diving Suit (expires in 30 days)
  • Pan Lid
• Old Days Weapon Box
  • Wood Baseball Bat
  • Aluminum Baseball Bat
  • Maple Umbrella
  • Red Whip
  • Frozen Tuna
  • Maple 1500 Days Flag
• Snowboard Box
  • Sky Snowboard
  • Aqua Snowboard
  • Silver Snowboard
  • Golden Snowboard
  • Dark Snowboard
  • Blood Snowboard
• Old Days Hat Box
  • Blue Bamboo Hat
  • Green Bamboo Hat
  • Brown Bamboo Hat
  • Chief Stan’s Hat
  • Maple Hat
• Old Days Cape Box
  • Old Raggedy Cape
  • Icarus Cape
  • Maple Cape
  • Pretty Pink Bean Balloon (expires in 30 days)
  • Fluffy Smile Pink (expires in 30 days)
  • Fluffy Snowman Balloon (expires in 30 days)

The 2015 Guild Support event has begun and will run until March 5.

If you join a guild during this event, you’ll receive a Silver Guild Member Chat Bubble Ring and a Contribution Bag, which gives 500 Contribution when used.

If you collect 500 Contribution in one day, you’ll get a Contribution Bag which gives 300 Contribution and 5 M.I.B. Coins. This can be repeated once per day.

Finally, the Guild Boost is four bonuses which all guilds receive during this event.

1. Maximum daily Contribution is doubled from 5,000 to 10,000
2. Cost of expanding guild member slots is halved
3. All newly joining members after this patch will receive double the initial Contribution from 500 to 1,000
4. Guild Support items (G Potions and Guild’s Blessings) will be given out daily instead of every Sunday

The Owner of the Safe event has returned, and will be here until February 6.

For those of you unfamiliar with it, Goldrich has come into possession of a safe with an unknown owner. Collect Goldrich Figures from monsters around your level and give him one to get a chance to crack it!

Like before, only one person can win each prize per world. There’s an order of prizes so once it is won, the next item will be available.

The items have different pass codes, from 3~5 numbers.

1. Korean Damage Skin (tradeable through the account once) [3 numbers]
2. Chicken Coupon (untradeable) [3 numbers]
3. Suuroid Coupon [3 numbers]
4. Chicken Coupon (untradeable) [3 numbers]
5. Inkwell Coin (untradeable) [3 numbers]
6. Chicken Coupon (untradeable) [3 numbers]
7. Passion Badge Coupon (tradeable through the account once) [4 numbers]
8. Chicken Coupon (untradeable) [3 numbers]
9. Goldrich’s Handkerchief Coupon (untradeable) [4 numbers]
10. Chicken Coupon (untradeable) [3 numbers]
11. Holo-Yeti Pet Coupon (untradeable) [4 numbers]
12. Black Cube Double Six Pack Coupon (untradeable) [5 numbers]
13. 50,000 Maple Points Coupon (untradeable) [5 numbers]

The Passion Badge gives 10 all stats, 200 HP and MP, 10 attack and magic attack, 10 speed and 20 jump, It can be traded once with the Platinum Karma Scissors.

Goldrich’s Handkerchief gives 7 all sats, 100 HP and MP, and 7 attack and magic attack. It is tradeable until equipped.

The Chicken Coupons can be used in another safe (this is part of a sponsorship with a Korean chicken restaurant haha).

1. Korean Damage Skin (tradeable through the account once) [3 numbers]
2. Suuroid Coupon [3 numbers]
3. Inkwell Coin (untradeable) [3 numbers]
4. Passion Badge Coupon (tradeable through the account once) [4 numbers]
5. Goldrich’s Handkerchief Coupon (untradeable) [4 numbers]
6. Holo-Yeti Pet Coupon (untradeable) [4 numbers]
7. Black Cube Double Six Pack Coupon (untradeable) [5 numbers]
8. 50,000 Maple Points Coupon (untradeable) [5 numbers]

Finally, on January 17, there will be a Happy Time event! If you log on from 1pm to 7pm, you’ll be able to claim these prizes

• Character Slot Expansion Coupon
• Snowflake Riding Coupon (30 days)
• Cutie Birk Set Giftbox (gives the full Cutie Birk set with 30 day duration)
• 2 Personality Trait Growth Potions (increases the level of a chosen trait greatly)
• 2 2x Experience Coupons (expires in 7 days)
• Sappy Couple Chair
• 30 M.I.B. Coins