The Final Test applications for MapleStory 2 have finally been opened! They released a teaser video where you can actually see the new classes: Berserker, Heavy Gunner, and Thief. If you guys have a verified Nexon Korea account, you can apply here by pressing the big blue hexagon! I can’t make a guide as I have already been a tester before so I don’t even see any popup, but if you guys need help, you can post in the comments and I’ll try and help you out 🙂

In addition, a new Test World patch has been released! This one includes the 12th Anniversary as well as a ton of changes to hunting and party questing~ I won’t be covering the events until it hits the actual server, but the other changes are very cool.

The Maple Guide has been updated! It now begins at level 10 and goes beyond level 140. You can now teleport to recommended content which you have over levelled, but only if you are within 10 levels of the recommended ending level of that content.

Bosses will no longer be shown on the Maple Guide. Many party quests have been added.

• Romeo and Juliet
• Dimensional Crack
• Pirate Davy Jones
• Kenta in Danger
• Dimension Invade
• Resurrection of the Hob King

Many fields and theme dungeons have been added.

• Ice Fields
• Alcadno Laboratory
• Zenumist Laboratory
• Toy Factory Machinery Room
• Green Past
• Frozen Past
• Fiery Past
• Disappeared Forest
• Ruined Dragon’s Nest
• Colossus the Giant
• Destroyed Henesys
• Knight’s Fortress Entrance
• Weapon Storage
• Hall of Fame
• Beginning Tragic Forest
• Deepening Tragic Forest
• Never-ending Tragic Forest
• Twilight Perion
• Abandoned Excavation Site
• Haven

The Maple Contents Map has been added! With this system, you can easily see the progression of MapleStory’s content in a clean layout. The Content Map is an expansion of the Maple Guide system, and you can open it by pressing the + button. It is available for users level 30 and higher.

Like the Maple Guide, you can read detailed information and move directly to places on the Contents Map. The Contents Map shows all information from the Maple Guide and in addition, will show bosses which you can do.

For theme dungeons, when you complete the last quest, you’ll receive a stamp on the content. For hunting fields which do not have quests, you’ll get a stamp when you kill a certain number of monsters.

Here’s the complete Maple Contents Map.

And here are all the recommended contents (thanks to Insoya for the pictures!).

Party quests have been reorganized! Now, you can play them up to 5 times per day instead of 10. The compensation of some party quests have been adjusted accordingly.

• Dimensional Crack
• Tang Yoon’s Cooking Class
• Romeo and Juliet
• Pirate Davy Jones
• Dragon Rider
• Escape
• Kenta in Danger
• Resurrection of the Hob King
• Dimension Invade
• Chryse

Some party quests’ entry levels and recommended levels have been changed.

• Dimensional Crack: level 110 ~ level 139
• Pirate Davy Jones: level 120 and above
• Dragon Rider: level 130 and above

The requirements for reward items in some party quests have also been changed.

• Dimensional Crack: clear the party quest 5 times to receive the Cracked Glasses
• Tang Yoon’s Cooking Class: Chef’s Outfit now costs 2 Chef Certifications, Chef’s Hat now costs 3 Chef Certifications
• Romeo and Juliet: Romeo’s Pendant now costs 2 Zenumist Marbles, Juliet’s Pendant now costs 2 Alcadno Marbles
• Pirate Davy Jones: Common Davy Jones’ Hat now costs 30 Davy Jones’ Hat Pieces, Regular Davy Jones’ Hat now costs 60 Davy Jones’ Hat Pieces, Greedy Davy Jones’ Hat now costs 90 Davy Jones’ Hat Pieces
• Escape: Von Leon’s Belt now costs 5 Guard’s Keys
• Kenta in Danger: Kenta’s New Goggles now cost 10 Pianus Scales, Pet Equipment Scrolls now cost 5 Pianus Scales
• Resurrection of the Hob King: the 3 Rex’s Earrings now cost 5 Hob Warrior’s Marks, Rex’s Hyena now costs 60 Hob Warrior’s Marks
• Pyramid: Immortal Pharaoh’s Belt/Shoes/Ring now cost 40 Nett’s Emeralds

The experience reward for some party quests have been increased.

• Romeo and Juliet
• Pirate Davy Jones
• Escape

Dimension Invade’s bonus stage will now be chosen randomly instead of based on your clear time.

Nett’s Pyramid can now be accessed through Spiegelmann’s Guest House like other party quests.

Party quests are now started inside their specific waiting maps once more. This is so annoying, now you’ll have people split between the Guest House and all the different PQ maps! I thought that’s why they removed that!

Party quest entrance paths have been added in regular hunting maps which users can use to move to the party quest waiting area.

• Tang Yoon’s Cooking Class: Nautilus Restaurant (NPC Tang Yoon)
• Romeo and Juliet: Zenumist Society, Alcadno Society
• Dimensional Crack: Eos Tower 100th Floor
• Pirate Davy Jones: Red Nose Pirate’s Den 1
• Escape: First Tower (NPC Jen)
• Resurrection of the Hob King: Elder’s Residence
• Kenta in Danger: Dangerous Sea Gorge 1

Resurrection of the Hob King has been reorganized.

• New obstacles have been added and monsters’ difficulties have been adjusted to create more interactive gameplay.
• Based on Shamos’ remaining HP, you’ll gain extra compensation.

Kenta in Danger has been reorganized.

• New missions have been added, which if completed will reduce the amount of time required to escort Kenta.
• Based on Kenta’s remaining HP, you’ll gain extra compensation.

Mu Lung Dojo has been reorganized!

• When you defeat a boss inside Mu Lung Dojo, the timer will pause for 10 seconds. The timer will resume in 10 seconds or when you move to the next floor.
• Mu Lung Dojo’s ranking mode has been reorganized.
  • Shelter rooms have been removed. You now go through 40 floors of bosses consecutively.
  • Rankings will now reset every week instead of every day.
  • Rankings will begin to reset on Sunday at 11PM. Due to this, ranking mode will be unavailable from 11PM-12AM on Sundays.

(Sorry to people who I incorrectly told rankings reset every week already, but they did add the change now haha.)

Dynamic Field Battling

The Sudden Mission system has been added.

• Sometimes, you will receive Sudden Missions which will appear below the quest UI.
• You cannot abandon Sudden Missions, if you cannot complete them within the time limit of 30 minutes, they will automatically be removed.
• If you complete a Sudden Mission, you’ll get special rewards based on the difficulty of the mission and your character level.
• Sudden Missions are given to characters level 33 or higher.
• Up to 3 Sudden Missions can be completed per day.

Currently, I’ve seen Sudden Missions like ‘get XXX Combo Kills’ or ‘get XXX Multi Kills’. When you complete them, you’ll have only 60 seconds to claim the rewards. You’ll get some experience and maybe some items (I’ve seen people get Fensalir equipment so it’s probably not that great).

The Burning Field system has been added.

• Hunting maps which have not been touched by adventurers for a long period of time will become Burning Fields, where you can gain extra experience.
• The longer a map is untouched, it will become a higher stage Burning Field (up to a maximum of stage 5), and more experience will be given in higher stages.
• When you enter a Burning Field, the effect will gradually go back down to a regular hunting map.
• Burning Fields will only appear in maps with monsters level 100 or higher, and will not apply to party quests, boss content and certain other maps.

When you enter a Burning Field, the notice above will pop up on your screen. I didn’t stay long enough to see how it decays though.

At a stage 5 Burning Field, you’ll receive 50% bonus experience from monsters. I guess the other stages are similarly 10%/20%/30%/40% bonus experience.

Four new Runes have been added.

• Rune of Thunder: Powerful lightning will fall from the sky at random intervals, instantly killing all monsters hit.
• Rune of Earth: Turn into an unstoppable giant for a short period of time. While in the giant state, monsters that touch your body will take damage and jumping on monsters will instantly kill them.
• Rune of Darkness: Immediately summon an Elite Monster to the field.
• Rune of Treasure: Immediately summon a Treasure Mimic.

The Combo Kill system has been changed.

• Existing Combo Kill bonuses have been removed. (bonus experience from monsters based on your current Combo)
• Every 50 Combo, an Experience Marble will be created on the map.
• Picking up the Experience Marble will give you experience and increase your movement speed and jump for a short period of time.
• Experience Marbles are upgraded in 3 stages based on your current Combo and will give more experience based on the stage.

The first stage of Marbles (blue) appears starting at 50 Combo, the second (purple) appears starting at 400 Combo, and the last (red) appears starting at 750 Combo.

The level up animation has been updated once again! (thanks to Spadow for the animation)

A notification will now appear at the top of your screen when you pick up an item which is higher than Rare rank.

In addition, HackShield was replaced by XIGNCODE3 in this Test World patch! I know Neople uses this for Dungeon Fighter Online now, but I’m not sure its better…

Unrelated, but have you guys watched Daredevil yet? I binged it during the weekend and it’s so good! I’m really looking forward to A.K.A. Jessica Jones later this year as well.