The second large update to MapleStory 2, Season 3, has been added! This patch includes an increased level cap to level 50, new skills, bosses, and party dungeons as well as new areas to explore. I believe this is the last level cap increase for now (it was mentioned in the patch notes). Note that Zakum has not been added yet, but it was available in the CBT, so I’m not sure if he will be added as a level 50 boss or they’re waiting to see if they’ll increase the cap again.

Like the last patch, updated skill tables will come soon!

You can see a good overview of the content which was added in this patch through Maview’s Level Guide!

Monster, Map, NPC

New field bosses have been found.

• Toto and Googoos (Lv. 43)
• Pekanos (Lv. 47)
• Coldhearted Baphomet (Lv. 50)
• Ikar Mad (Lv. 50)

New Elite Monsters have been found.

• Trauros (Lv. 42)
• Ninecap Kappa (Lv. 44)
• Lava Knight of Land (Lv. 46)
• Urska (Lv. 48)
• Monte de Carlo (Lv. 50)
• Phantom Destroyer (Lv. 50)
• Lerta (Lv. 50)

New areas have been discovered in Maple World.

• North of Kerning City, the Ludi Fantasia area has been found.
• North of Perion, inside Ant Tunnel,  the Lava Crown cave area and the Sky Ascent mountains have been found.
• Southwest of Kerning City, the scientists’ stronghold Talisker has been found.

New areas have been discovered in Shadow World.

• Stormy Hill and Knife Wind Pass (safe zones) have been found.
• Deadville and Black Forest (lawless zones) have been found.

Shadow World has received a few changes.

• Shadow World monsters will now drop mesos and items.
• You can now press the ESC key in Shadow World and click ‘Go to Maple World’ in the menu
• Your messages will no longer disappear if you are hit by another player’s attack in Shadow World.
• The limit of Karma you can hold at one time has been raised to 24,000.
• Some monsters in Shadow World had low HP which has been fixed.
• You can use Karma to purchase new items from the Dark Lord South Shelter.

You can now hold up to 10 Dungeon Keys. When you have less than 10, you will now regenerate 1 Key per hour.

Dungeons have been changed as follows:

• 1 Person Dungeons
  • A new 1 person dungeon has been found. Go to Kerning City -> Goldus Building Lobby and talk to the Goldus President’s Secretary to begin the ‘Pass the News’ quest. Enter the Golma Apartments and deliver a pizza to the top floor to clear the quest. Monsters in the dungeon will drop fun construction items.

• Party Dungeons
  • ‘Automatic Party Participation Allow’ feature has been added.
  • To allow users to find parties easier, the Party Search can be enabled through the Settings -> Games -> Status Info menu.
  • 2 new party dungeons have been found (4 players). More information here.
    • Katramus (Lv. 43)
    • Ludible Time Hall (Lv. 48).
  • Existing party dungeons have been changed as follows:
    • The time limit for all party dungeons (except Chains of Life) has been increased to 60 minutes.
    • A minimum level has been established for all party dungeons.

• Boss Dungeons
  • New boss dungeons have been found (10 players).
    • Mark 52 Omega (Lv. 48)
    • Chou Chou and Booboos (Lv. 50)
    • Forgotten Bajar (Lv. 50)
    • Pyros Pad (Lv. 50)
    • Balrog (Lv. 50)
  • Existing boss dungeons have been changed as follow:
    • You can now choose the difficulty of boss dungeons. A new Normal Mode has been added for all bosses (60 minute timer, weaker boss, less rewards), and the versions before this patch are now the Challenger Mode. In a future update, an even harder Chaos Mode will be added.
    • Boss dungeons now have a minimum level entry requirement.

The Chaonyx Collecter Nox has arrived in the Blacksmithing Streets. You can purchase rare items from Nox using Chaonyx Crystals. To buy items from him, you’ll have to complete certain boss dungeon quests and collect certain trophies.

Contents

The Maple Comics series has been released.

• Cartoons drawn by MapleStory 2’s adventurers have been collected and published in the Maple Comics series.
• Visit the Maple Book stand in front of the Tria Library to find them.

The Star Architect feature has been added to the housing system.

• When you visit other users’ houses, you can nominate them as a Star Architect.
• You can see your current Star Architect nominations in the character information window.
• Your Architect score is reset every month but you can also see your cumulative Architect score which is never reset.
• You can only nominate one Star Architect per day per account.

New housing has been added in the Broniche Village.

Housing has been changed as follows:

• Now, with the ‘Trigger Controller’, you can control surveillance cameras that allow you to add a password to your house
• Certain errors with leases have been fixed.

New Maids have been added. Maids have been changed as follows:

• Maids’ closeness can now be raised to 10.
• Some Maids (Lina, Arita, Manu) have received new voice overs.

New Epic/World quests have been added. Certain errors with quests have been fixed.

New trophies and titles have been added. Certain errors with trophies and titles have been fixed.

New beauty styles have been added.

• 10 new hair styles have been added to Rosetta’s Beauty Salon.
• 5 new types of make up have been added to Rosetta’s Beauty Salon.
• 5 new faces have been added to Tria Plastic Surgery.

You can now preview hair while wearing a hat in Rosetta’s Beauty Salon. Certain errors with existing beauty items have been fixed.

Character

New skills have been added.

All

The max level has been increased to level 50.

Knight

New skills have been added.

• Shield Upper (learned at level 44)
• Long Sword Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Achilles Cut (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Berserker

New skills have been added.

• Volcanic Slash (learned at level 44)
• Large Sword Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Threaten (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Wizard

New skills have been added.

• Lightning Whip (learned at level 44)
• Staff Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Trinity Force (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Priest

New skills have been added.

• Purifying Wave (learned at level 44)
• Staff Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Heaven’s Blessing (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Ranger

New skills have been added.

• Screw Drive Shot (learned at level 44)
• Bow Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Bow Attack (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Heavy Gunner

New skills have been added.

• Booby Trap (learned at level 44)
• Cannon Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Magnetic Bomb (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Thief

New skills have been added.

• Sudden Attack (learned at level 44)
• Dagger Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Meso Guard (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

Assassin

New skills have been added.

• Clone: Shade Split (learned at level 44)
• Throwing Star Mastery (learned at level 48)
• Clone: Shadow Web (learned at level 50)

Existing skills have been changed as follows:

• Coming soon!

PVP

• Individual Battlefield
  • Barbosa’s Treasure Island Beta version (Lv. 50) has been added.
    • Two teams of up to 10 people collect treasure while fighting each other. The team with the most points when time is up will win.
  • Certain changes have been made to the individual battlefield. You can now only use it when you reach level 50.
• Red Duel
  • No changes have been made.
• Bloody Tear MIne
  • No changes have been made.
• Season 3 Guild Battle
  • The Guild Championships Season 3 will be held from September 5 to September 20.
  • New equipment items have been added which you can purchase using Proofs of Valor.

System

6 new quick slots have been added.

An error where a low frame rate would lower your damage has been fixed.

Now, based on the number of users online, the number of channels available will change from 100~250.

An error where the quest helper would disappear after changing channels has been fixed.

The Black Market has been updated, causing all items which were already listed to not show up in searches anymore. Please re-list your items.

The Black Market has been changed as follows.

• You can now list up to 21 items on the Black Market (up from 10).
• Riding/Building items now have auto complete when searching for them.
• Riding/Building items now show their lowest price like other listings.
• When listing bundles of items, you can now only sell 1/10/100/999 of the item.
• Now, based on the type/rank of an item, they will have a maximum price they can be listed for.
  • Normal equipment: maximum of 1 million mesos
  • Rare equipment: maximum of 1 million mesos
  • Elite equipment: maximum of 2 million mesos
  • Excellent equipment: maximum of 20 million mesos
  • Riding items: maximum of 10 million mesos
  • Potions: maximum of 200k mesos per potion
  • Storybooks: maximum of 300k mesos per book
  • Etc: maximum of 100k mesos per item
  • Onyx Fragments: maximum of 3000 mesos per fragment

The Merit Market has been changed as follows.

• In the Premium Shop, a ‘Dye Area Preview’ has been added which allows you to see which parts of an item are able to be dyed.
• In the Premium Shop, you can now search for gender specific items in the special sale category.
• In the Designers’ Shop, items which are completely sold will now have a different icon.
• In the Designers’ Shop, you will now be able to see which Design item a user used as a base for their item.

Item tooltips will now show the increase in stats you’ll receive if you hover over another item. This will also apply to items with a variable stat, the increase will be based on the maximum number.

Various equipment have had some design changes and stat changes.

Except for equipment and untradeable items, all items’ selling price in shops will be lowered to 1 meso. 

You can no longer trade in Chaonyx Fragments to Eliana Suavriche. New items have been added as rewards when you trade in Onyx Fragments to Eliana. These new items can also be obtained through the Happy Spin at the end of events held in Queenstown.

Events

Another attendance check has begun, just log in each day for prizes! It will run until September 9.

1. Swift Starter Potion x 10
2. Helium Balloon x 5
3. Orange Potion x 15
4. 100 users will win 5,000 Nexon Cash
5. Discount Channel Chat Coupon x 5
6. Gold Dungeon Key x 1
7. 100 users will win 500 Merit
8. Helium Balloon x 5
9. 100 users will win 10,000 Nexon Cash
10. Elixir x 5
11. Discount Channel Chat Coupon x 5
12. 100 users will win 1,000 Merit
13. Crystal Fragment x 50
14. Onyx Fragment x 999

The next event is the Life Trophy event which will run until September 9. 5 of MapleStory 2’s GMs have chosen a trophy which they challenged users to get. If you succeed, you’ll be entered for a chance to win the prizes on the right!

The prizes include a MapleStory 2 PC, 30,000 Nexon Cash, 10 Lotus Air Taxi Radios, 10k Won Money Cards, and cameras.

And finally, season 3 of the Guild Championships will take place from September 5 to September 20.

Like always, you’ll receive Proofs of Valor as you compete and at the end of the Championships, the top 100 guilds will receive Merit prizes!

• 1st place: 2,000 Merit
• 2nd place: 1,000 Merit
• 3rd place: 500 Merit
• 4th~10th place: 300 Merit
• 11~100th place: 100 Merit