This patch was released to the official server a couple of days ago but I didn’t have time to write a post about it! It contains the job balancing skill changes in my last post (as well as some new changes), the changes to boss rewards, Japan’s Sengoku Era in the World Tour, and this year’s Chuseok event!

Skill Changes

All Jobs

Certain errors which interfered with smooth play have been fixed.

• Party buff skills: an error where you would not receive party buffs for a short period of time after reviving has been fixed
• Final Attack skills: an error where skills with certain delays would lower Final Attack’s activation chance has been fixed
• Final damage increasing passive skills: an error where unequipped items’ stat attack (damage range addition) would include final damage increasing passive skills has been fixed
• Skills which give invincibility after use: an error where you would still take damage from Damage Reflect while invincible has been fixed

Hero

We have increased Combo Force’s range and changed Shout to be more useful when hunting.

•  Combo Force: range moved when using this skill with the down arrow key has been increased, however you will not charge up Combo when using the movement skill
•  Shout: damage has been decreased from 380% to 200%, number of hits has been increased from 1 to 3, stun duration is now the same at all levels (6 seconds), a 10 second cooldown has been added, now when this skill is used with the down arrow key it will consume 2 Combo and will no longer stun but its attack range and number of hits will be increased to 6
•  Incising: now passively increases Shout’s damage by 160%p
•  Advanced Final Attack – Bonus Chance: activation rate boost has been increased from 10% to 15%
•  Rage Uprising: number of monsters hit has been increased from 8 to 10

Paladin

To help improve hunting efficiency for lower levels, we have decreased the level requirement for a Hyper Skill.

•  Sanctuary – Cooltime Reduce: required level has been decreased from level 195 to 162

Archmage (F/P)

An error where Mist Eruption would decrease the DoT damage of Poison Mist has been fixed, and a few other complaints have been addressed.

•  Meteor: delay before you can use Teleport after using this skill has been decreased
•  Mist Eruption: Poison MIst’s DoT damage boost has been increased from 240% to 300%
•  Fire Aura: MP consumed per second has been decreased from 150 MP to 100 MP

Archmage (I/L)

Depending on the content, you may want to change Teleport’s range.

•  Blizzard: delay before you can use Teleport after using this skill has been decreased
•  Teleport Mastery – Add Range: has been changed into an on/off skill

Bishop

In order to increase their damage and improve the efficiency of Bahamut, a new effect has been added.

•  Bahamut: attack range has been increased, you can now use Bahamut while in Vengeance of Angel, monsters attacked by Bahamut will now receive Bahamut’s Mark, all attacks other than Bahamut’s will have their final damage increased by 25%
•  Genesis: delay before you can use Teleport after using this skill has been decreased
•  Vengeance of Angel: final damage boost has been increased from 15% to 25%

Bowmaster

Installing Arrow Platter at the correct angle is a very important skill to Bowmasters but its damage is also low. To help fix this, we will be adding the ability to install Arrow Platter at its max angles quickly and increase its damage.

•  Arrow Platter: installed Arrow Platter’s damage has been decreased from 140% to 85%
•  Wounds Shot: now passively increases installed Arrow Platter’s damage by 90%p
•  Bow Expert: now gives you the ability to use arrow keys when installing Arrow Platter to instantly choose the max angles (in other words, if you install Arrow Platter while holding the up key it will be installed automatically at the highest angle and if you install it while holding the down key it will be installed automatically at the lowest angle)

Marksman

To help improve hunting efficiency for lower levels, we have decreased the level requirement for a Hyper Skill. Also, because Sniping’s instant kill effect was removed, we have now changed it to be able to activate Final Attack.

•  Sniping: can now activate Final Attack
•  Sniping – Cooltime Reduce: required level has been decreased from level 177 to 143

Night Lord

An error which interfered with smooth play has been fixed.

•  Shadow Web: you will no longer take damage when this skill hits an enemy using Damage Reflect
•  Quadruple Throw – Bonus Attack: an error where the damage output method would not be normal has been fixed

Dual Blade

An error which interfered with smooth play has been fixed and we have tried to reduce the penalty after dying.

•  Final Cut: an error where the client would shut down when this skill was used at the same time as your pet’s auto buff has been fixed, final damage boost has been decreased from 60% to 40%
•  Blade Expert: now passively increases your final damage by 15%

Viper

We would like to raise their damage due to their relatively high difficulty level.

•  Battleship Nautilus: change of extra attack while this skill is on cooldown has been increased from 70% to 100%, damage of extra attack while this skill is on cooldown has been increased from 200% to 250%
•  Vipercision: attack boost has been increased from 20% to 30%

Cannon Shooter

We would like to slightly increase their survivability and the effectiveness of unused skills.

•  Gigantic Backstep: cast delay has been decreased
•  Monkey Wave: now when this skill is used at maximum power, your maximum critical damage will be increased by 10% for 10 seconds
•  Oak Barrel Roulette: damage boost has been removed, now passively increases your final damage by 10%, various debuff effects have been changed:
  • Lightning: attacks will now have a 50% chance to activate an additional attack that deals 150% damage on up to 6 enemies
  • Ice: your maximum critical damage will be increased by 5%
  • Slow: your attacks will have a 50% chance to slow enemies for 5 seconds
  • Skull: your attacks will cause enemies to take 200% damage every second for 5 seconds

Knights of Cygnus

An error which interfered with smooth play has been fixed.

•  Cygnus Bless: an error where the max level would show a next level has been fixed

Wind Breaker

We would like to increase their low damage.

•  Bow Expert: now passively increases your final damage by 10%

Mikhail

Royal Guard has been enhanced and missing skill descriptions have been fixed.

•  Royal Guard: can now activate Final Attack
•  Soul Link: the description now correctly states that party members will receive both attack and magic attack from this skill

Mercedes

We know that it is difficult to see the duration of the stacks so it will now appear as a separate buff icon.

• Character Card: card description has been changed to match the actual function of the card’s effects (applied before item potential options, cannot reduce cooldowns to less than 1 second)
•  Ignis Roar: the stacking buff’s duration will now appear as a separate buff icon

Phantom

Certain errors which interfered with smooth play have been fixed.

•  Phantom Shroud: an error where the cooldown would not change based on the number of keys pressed has been fixed
•  Tempest of Cards: an error where this skill could be used twice consecutively has been fixed

EunWol

An error which interfered with smooth play has been fixed and Bomb Punch’s MP cost has been reduced to match similar skills.

•  Summon Soul Tent: an error where this skill could be used twice consecutively has been fixed
•  Bomb Punch: MP cost has been decreased from 45 MP to 20 MP
•  Spirit Barrier: an error where after this skill was activated, all buffs except EunWol’s would disappear has been fixed

Demon Avenger

It did not make sense to be able to increase your final damage when your Overload was at 0.

•  Release Overload: can no longer be used when your Overload is at 0

Resistance

It was awkward story-wise to have your return skills before advancing so it has been changed.

•  Secret Plaza Emergency Gathering: now learned when you complete your 1st job advancement
•  Spirit of Freedom: an error where the max level would show a next level has been fixed

Battle Mage

We would like to compensate them for the changes to elemental resistance reduction skills.

•  Debuff Aura: debuff duration after Debuff Aura is cancelled has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds
•  Debuff Aura – Elemental Reset: in addition to existing effects, now increases your attacks’ final damage on enemies affected by Debuff Aura by 10%

Wild Hunter

At a high rank, their Character Card was too efficient.

• Character Card: activation rate and damage boost have been adjusted (from B rank to A rank: 10%/15%/20%/25% chance to increase your attack’s damage by 4%/8%/12%/16%)

Mechanic

Certain errors which interfered with smooth play have been fixed.

•  Metal Armor: Tank: an error where monsters could not be killed by the level up animation’s instant kill effect has been fixed
•  Massive Fire: IRON-B: an error where the final explosion damage was not affected by Combat Orders has been fixed
•  Robot Mastery: the number of currently summoned robots will now appear in your buff window

Kaiser

Kaiser’s Final Figuration transformation tends to actually lower their performance instead of increasing it. We would like to buff the Final Figuration state so that it can be used properly.

•  Command: now if you use Command to activate a skill, both that attack and the next attack after it will have their final damage increased by 15%
•  Wingbeat: a maximum of 2 tornados can be active at the same time
•  Regain Strength: extra attack when hitting monsters with status effects has been removed, now your attacks on monsters with status effects will have their final damage increased by 20%, this final damage boost will be increased to 30% in the Final Figuration state
•  Catalyze: damage boost has been changed into a 30% attack boost
•  Final Figuration: damage boost and attack speed boost have been removed but other attack speed increasing buffs will now affect your attacks in Final Figuration, now increases your final damage by 15% (increased to 30% at 4th job), you can now jump, the previous Teleport skill can now be used by hotkeying Final Figuration, Exclusive Spell and certain Soul Skills (only summon and buff skills) can now be used in Final Figuration
•  Blue Streak: number of hits has been increased from 3 to 4 (4 to 5 in the Final Figuration state), now deals 40% increased damage on regular monsters, a 5 second cooldown has been added

Angelic Burster

An error which lowered the efficiency of a skill has been fixed.

•  Soul Resonance: an error where the duration of the damage reduction while using this skill was less than the duration of the skill has been fixed

Zero

A change which was made in the September 10 balancing update was not included in the patch notes so we will add them here.

•  Time Distortion: as added in the September 10 patch, this skill will no longer remove debuffs which are detrimental to the monster

Kinesis

Certain errors which interfered with smooth play have been fixed and we have changed some skills’ Psychic Points consumption.

•  Ultimate – Material: Psychic Points consumed has been decreased from 10 to 7
•  Psychic Ground: an error where this skill would consume 10 Psychic Points has been fixed
•  Psychic Ground 2: an error where this skill would consume 10 Psychic Points has been fixed
•  Ultimate – Psychic Shot: Psychic Points consumed has been increased from 3 to 5, damage has been decreased from 400% to 300%
•  Ultimate – B.P.M: Ultimate – Material’s damage boost has been increased from 160%p to 310%p, an error where this skill would not turn off after climbing a ladder or rope has been fixed

Boss Changes

Chaos Root Abyss Boss Rewards

(thanks to Spadow for the images!)

The 4 Chaos Root Abyss bosses will no longer drop level 150 equipment. They each now have the following rewards:

• Piece of Time (Chaos Von Bon): you can use 5 to obtain an Eagle Eye top
• Piece of Mockery (Chaos Pierre): you can use 5 to obtain a Trixter bottom
• Piece of Screams (Chaos Bloody Queen): you can use 5 to obtain a Highness hat
• Piece of Ruin (Chaos Vellum): you can use 15 to obtain a Fafnir weapon

When using these items, you can choose which item you would like to receive.

When using these items, each time you receive a piece of equipment, your Chance Time Gauge will be updated from 0% to 100%. When the gauge reaches 100% (item is used 10 times), the chance of your equipment having higher ranked additional options will be increased. The Chance Time will be reset to 0% after this effect takes place.

For other existing rewards, certain items’ drop rate and quantity have been increased.

Chaos Root Abyss related medal/title quests have been added.

• Characters level 180 or higher who have completed the ‘Protect the World Tree’ quest will now receive new quests.
• These quests can be started by talking to Alicia in the Giant Root map.
  • Chaos Von Bon Killer (medal) – defeat Chaos Von Bon 10 times (5% defense ignore)
  • Chaos Pierre Killer (medal) – defeat Chaos Pierre 10 times (8 all stats)
  • Chaos Bloody Queen Killer (medal) – defeat Chaos Bloody Queen 10 times (3 attack and magic attack)
  • Chaos Vellum Killer (medal) – defeat Chaos Vellum 10 times (5% boss damage)
  • King of Root Abyss (title) – collect all 4 Chaos boss Killer medals (8 all stats, 3 attack and magic attack, 5% boss damage, 5% defense ignore)

Cygnus Boss Rewards

(thanks to Spadow for the images!)

Cygnus will no longer drop level 140 weapons. Cygnus’ Chief Knight summons (Mikhail, Oz, Irena, Icarut, Hawkeye) will no longer drop level 140 armor. Cygnus now has the following rewards:

• Piece of Black Guardian (Cygnus): you can use 5 to obtain a piece of Empress armor (hat, overall, gloves, cape, or shoes)
• Piece of Black Destruction (Cygnus): you can use 15 to obtain an Empress weapon

When using these items, you can choose which item you would like to receive.

When using these items, each time you receive a piece of equipment, your Chance Time Gauge will be increased from 0% to 100%. When the gauge reaches 100% (item is used 10 times), the chance of your equipment having higher ranked additional options will be increased. The Chance Time will be reset to 0% after this effect takes place.

For other existing rewards, certain items’ drop rate and quantity have been increased.

An Empress related medal quest has been added.

• Characters level 170 or higher who have completed the ‘Alex’s Promise’ quest will now receive a new quest.
• This quest can be started by talking to Alex in Destroyed Henesys.
  • Fallen Empress Saviour (medal) – defeat Cygnus 20 times (5 all stats, 300 HP and MP, 2 attack and magic attack, 5% defense ignore)

Easy Mode Cygnus

An Easy Mode option for Fallen Cygnus has been added.

• All users level 140 or higher can now use the Dimensional Mirror to challenge Easy Mode Fallen Cygnus.
• You can clear Easy Mode once per week, it will reset at 12 AM every Thursday.
• Door to the Future’s quest ‘Stop Cygnus!’ can now be completed by defeating Easy Mode Cygnus.

Game Related

Levels in the Party Find window have had their text colour changed to look better.

Item drop rate increasing options’ application methods have been changed.

• For instanced item drops, instead of the drop rate of the user who did the most damage being applied, each party member’s drop rates will now only apply to themselves.

Item Related

The cooldown reduction potential option’s description has been changed to match its actual functionality.

Certain items’ instant kill effects have been changed to increase damage on boss monsters.

• Lapisra Sword
• Lapisra Axe
• Lapisra Hammer
• Dragonic Lapisra Axe
• Dragonic Lapisra Hammer
• Askaron
• Dragonic Askaron
• Tempest
• Dragonic Tempest

Events

World Tour – Japan’s Sengoku Era

In Japan’s Sengoku Era, investigate Hiezan and stop Nohime’s ambitions.

In Hiezan, you can transform into Japan’s MapleStory jobs: Hayato, Kanna, or Ayame, and try out their skills.

• You can speak to Makoto in the World Tour map to enter Japan’s Sengoku Era world.
• Inside Hiezan, you can choose to play as Hayato, Kanna, or Ayame.
• Japan’s Sengoku Era will reward you with:
  • Hiezan medal
  • Nohime Damage Skin
  • Nohime Chair
  • Nohime Effect
• Japan’s Sengoku Era can be played until October 15.

New items have been added to the World Tour Coin Shop.

• Hayato Hair Coupon (M)
• Kanna Hair Coupon (F)
• Ayame Hair Coupon (F)
• Samurai’s Helmet
• Samurai’s Armor
• Samurai’s Shoes
• Kaminari’s Hair Tie
• Kaminari’s Outfit
• Kaminari’s Tabi
• Ayame’ Hair Pin
• Ayame’s Outfit
• Ayame’s Clogs

2015 Chuseok

The 2015 Chuseok event has begun and will run until October 14! Chuseok is a big harvest festival celebrated in Korea.

The first part of the event is Making Songpyeon! Collect Rice Flour from monsters around your level to create Chestnut, Bean, and Honey Songpyeon.

They require 30/60/100 Rice Flour respectively, but when you pick up one of the item, it will be used for all 3. You can make each one 40/20/12 times per day respectively.

Each time you make a Chestnut Songpyeon, you’ll get a Plate of Songpyeon (heals 5000 HP) and 1 2015 Chuseok Coin. For each Bean Songpyeon, you’ll get a Chuseok Surprise Bag and 1 2015 Chuseok Coin. And for each Honey Songpyeon, you’ll get experience based on your level and 1 2015 Chuseok Coin (the 12th time per day will give you extra experience).

In addition, you’ll get 2015 Chuseok Coins based on the total number of Songpyeon you have made!

• 100 times: 5 2015 Chuseok Coins
• 300 times: 15 2015 Chuseok Coins
• 600 times: 20 2015 Chuseok Coins
• 1000 times: 35 2015 Chuseok Coins
• 1500 times: 40 2015 Chuseok Coins

The Chuseok Surprise Bag can give the following items (you can only get 25 2015 Chuseok Coins and 1 Chuseok Medal of Honor per day from the bags):

• 2015 Chuseok Coin
• Honey/Bean/Chestnut Songpyeon Hat (random expiry date of 1/7/30 days)
• Personality trait items
• Chuseok Medal of Honor
• Scroll Traces

The second part of the event is the Moon Bunny Family Returning Home Mission! Every day from 6am to midnight, every hour at XX:00 and XX:30, you will be invited to participate in this event. You can participate 10 times per day.

Work together with 2~4 users and use your laser (Shift key) to shoot down the Space Pirate Bunny.

The Space Pirate Bunny will change stages based on how much damage he’s taken, and he will gain more attacks to use as his stage increases.

• Laser Ball: he will shoot laser balls at the ground randomly
• Lock-on Laser Ball: he will lock on to your positions and shoot laser balls at those positions
• Interceptor Summon: he will summon smaller ships to protect him from your attacks
• Space Hole: he will cause giant holes to appear on the ground which will either damage you greatly or heal your HP

You cannot use any potions but if you die, you will be revived automatically after a certain period of time.

If you can defeat him before time is up, you’ll get 2 2015 Chuseok Coins.

You can then defeat the Crashed Space Pirate Bunny for an extra 2015 Chuseok Coin.

The third part of the event is the Grain Storage Raid! Every day from 6am to midnight, every hour at XX:15 and XX:45, you will be invited to participate in this event. You can participate 10 times per day.

Work together with 2~6 users and use your arrows (Ctrl key) to pop the balloons of the thieves who are trying to steal the Moon Bunnies’ grain!

As you defeat the thieves, you’ll gain points which you can then use to upgrade your firepower.

• Power Shot (stage 1) – range increase (consumes 100 ranking points)
• Multi Shot (stage 2) – number of arrows shot increase (consumes 300 ranking points)
• Wild Shot (stage 3) – continuously fire arrows (consumes 500 ranking points)

You will have 30 arrows when the game begins. If you use them all up, you can either wait 15 seconds or acquire the Arrow Recharge item which spawns randomly every 10 seconds.

There are 4 types of thieves which will be flying around the map, and you’ll get a different number of points for defeating each one (1, 3, 5, or 50 points).

Based on your points ranking at the end of the game, you’ll get 1~5 2015 Chuseok Coins.

Finally, the 2015 Chuseok Coin Shop has been opened and will remain until October 25. You can access it in each town by talking to the Songpyeon Mother Moon Bunny.

Scrolls

• Chuseok Surprise Bag (20 coins)
• 4 Slot Choice Expansion (70 coins) [limit of 4]
• 30 Minute 2x Experience Coupon (40 coins) [limit of 1 per day]
• Free Advancement Coin (500 coins) [limit of 1]
• Special Additional Potential Stamp (120 coins) [limit of 3]
• Eternal Flame of Reincarnation (150 coins) [limit of 3]
• 10% Clean Slate Scroll (80 coins) [limit of 5]
• 60% Miraculous Positive Chaos Scroll (120 coins) [limit of 3]
• 50% Positive Chaos Scroll (80 coins) [limit of 3]
• Gold Potential Stamp (80 coins) [limit of 3]
• 60% Innocent Scroll (130 coins) [limit of 1]
• 50% Epic Potential Stamp (120 coins) [limit of 3]
• 100% Gold Hammer (110 coins) [limit of 1]
• Strange Cube (50 coins) [limit of 20]
• Silver Karma Scissors (500 coins) [limit of 1]
• AP Reset Scroll (160 coins) [limit of 1]
• SP Reset Scroll (160 coins) [limit of 1]

Special

• Honey Songpyeon Hat (8 all stats, 7 slots, level 33) (120 coins)
• Bean Songpyeon Hat (8 all stats, 7 slots, level 33) (120 coins)
• Chestnut Songpyeon Hat (8 all stats, 7 slots, level 33) (120 coins)
• Gold Honey Songpyeon Necklace (6 all stats, 5 attack and magic attack, 7 slots, level 33) (600 coins)

• Rising Full Moon in the Night Chair (250 coins)
• Teetering Friends Chair (250 coins)
• Night’s Butterfly Chair

• Tiny Songpyeon Riding 30 Day Coupon (200 coins)
• Moon Riding 30 Day Coupon (200 coins)
• Butterfly Swing Riding 30 Day Coupon (200 coins)

• Full Moon Damage Skin (200 coins)
• Shining Sun Damage Skin (200 coins)
• Damage Skin Storage Scroll (30 coins) [expires in 60 days]
• Pink Coin Purse (50 coins)
• 10 Slot Chair Bag (50 coins)
• 8 Slot Recipe Bag (150 coins)
• 8 Slot Profession Material Bag (150 coins)
• 4 Slot Title Wallet (50 coins)
• Mastery Book 20 (20 coins) [limit of 5]
• Mastery Book 30 (30 coins) [limit of 5]