A new test world patch has been released! Although it does not contain any parts of the new Blockbuster which was teased a couple of days ago, it does contain some new content as well as some system changes and a lot of bug fixes. In addition, Zakum might be getting updated!

Haha I forgot to change the title of my post before I published it, let’s keep that a secret for those of you who saw 🙂

Field Hunting Reorganization

Bounty Hunter Brothers Polo and Prito

While hunting monsters, there is a chance that a Bounty Hunter portal will be created. When you enter the portal, you’ll encounter the Bounty Hunter Brothers, Polo and Prito, and you will randomly join them on one of the following adventures:

Polo

• Bounty Hunt: help Polo hunt the 5 waves of incoming monsters

• Rampart Defense: defend the two floors of the rampart from 5 waves of incoming monsters

Prito

• Eagle Hunt: hunt various flying eagles by using the mouse click while avoiding the Kiyos

• Dragon’s Egg Theft: climb up 5 stages using portals and find the Dragon Egg at the top

If you participate in Polo’s content, you’ll receive a lot of experience (from hunting the monsters) as a reward. If you participate in Prito’s content, you’ll receive experience and items based on your performance as a reward.

You can enter 20 Bounty Hunter portals per day, and the limit is reset every day at midnight.

New items from Polo and Prito have been added.

• Polo’s Friend (medal)
• Prito’s Friend (medal)
• Basic Hunter’s Bag (use)
• Intermediate Hunter’s Bag (use)
• Advanced Hunter’s Bag (use)
• Superior Hunter’s Bag (use)
• Basic Hunter Medal of Honor (use)
• Intermediate Hunter Medal of Honor (use)
• Advanced Hunter Medal of Honor (use)

Rune Reorganization

The Rune of Decay has been deleted. The Rune of Destruction will now instantly kill nearby enemies when it is activated.

Three new Runes have been added.

• Rune of Growth: the map’s summoned monster limit will be increased by 3x for 1 minute
• Rune of Transcendence: all skills with cooldowns greater than 5 seconds will have their cooldowns reduced to 5 seconds for 1 minute
• Rune of Bombardment: ride a flying ship with powerful attacks for 1 minute

Here’s a video of the new Runes, and the change to the Rune of Destruction.

Fairy Bros’ Daily Gift

The fairy brothers Wave and Wonky have gifts for you every day!

• You can receive up to 28 gifts per month.
• You must be level 13 or higher (Zeros must complete Chapter 2) to receive the gift. You must click the Content notifier on the left side of your screen and click the gift icon to receive your daily gift.
• You can receive one gift per day per Maple ID.
• If you are logged in to a Premium PC Room, you can also receive the next day’s gift. However, you can still only receive 28 gifts per month.

As you can see, there are some very nice gifts, like 2x Experience Coupons, Mileage, Character Slot Coupons, Inventory Slot Coupons, and even Red and Black Cubes!

Game Related

Star Planet has received some updates.

• You can now skip the tutorial when you enter Star Planet for the first time. If you would like to view the tutorial again, you can access it through the Star Planet help quests.
• Many of the guidance quests have been incorporated into the Star Planet quest system.
• When moving from the lobby to the main entrance, you can now automatically board the Star Limousine.
• When moving from Star Arena (1st floor) to Star Arena Street, you can now automatically board the Star Limousine.
• The Star Limousine has new possible destinations.
• In West Avenue, East Avenue, and Star Planet Luxury Hall, when you enter them the map’s guide will be played once.
• When you enter the waiting room, a guide for Experience Coupons will be played.
• Daily challenge quests will now be automatically completed.

In Haven’s shop, the cost of Absolabs equipment has been reduced.

In Reboot World, boss monsters will now drop equipment specific to your job.

Evan, Phantom, Mercedes, Luminous, EunWol, and Resistance’s level 35 and lower quests now use the navigation system to make them a bit easier to complete. In addition, some difficult quests’ completion requirements have been changed so they are easier.

In Mu Lung Dojo, the cost of the Mind and Body Training Center Charm (12 Hours) has been reduced.

Skill Related

The following items have been changed and corrected.

All Jobs

• An error where you could not use another skill immediately after using Double Jump or Triple Jump has been fixed.
• Aura type skills will now turn on/off more smoothly.
• An error where summons would disappear when sent to Von Bon’s inner world has been fixed.
• Lie detectors can now activate on users who are not in the combat state but have installed skills or summons active on the battlefield.

Dark Knight

• An error where Reincarnation would sometimes look like it could activate even though the conditions were not met has been fixed.

Archmage (F/P)

• An error where Fervent Drain‘s final damage boost effect affected your damage range has been fixed.

Shadower

• An error where Dark Sight would go on cooldown after Advanced Dark Sight triggered it has been fixed.

Dual Blade

• An error where Dark Sight would go on cooldown after Advanced Dark Sight triggered it has been fixed.

Cannon Shooter

• Cannon Jump can now only be used once while in the air.

Wind Breaker

• Spiral Vortex‘s cast delay has been decreased.

Mikhail

• An error where if you took a certain number of hits while Soul Link was active, the client would crash has been fixed.

Mercedes

• An error where if Ignis Roar was used by your pet as a pet skill while using Ishtar’s Ring would cause it to stop has been fixed.

Phantom

• An error where if resetting your cooldowns while Tempest of Cards was on cooldown would allow you to use it an unlimited number of times without a cooldown has been fixed.

EunWol

• An error where if resetting your cooldowns while Summon Soul Tent was on cooldown would allow you to use it an unlimited number of times without a cooldown has been fixed.

Demon Avenger

• An error where Conversion Star Force would not affect the Star Force enhancements from your extra pendant slot has been fixed.

Battle Mage

• An error where Dark Lightning‘s marks would not be properly activated if you used Dark Lightning or Blow skills quickly in a short period of time has been fixed.
• The ability to use Teleport while using skills has been made more smooth.

Wild Hunter

• An error where your Jaguar would disappear if you changed channels and used a Jaguar skill has been fixed.

Mechanic

• An error where Homing Missiles would not be fired during Massive Fire SPLASH-F has been fixed.
• An error where summon duration increasing passives would cause robots’ explosions to crash the client has been fixed.

Kaiser

• An error where the ‘Command Skill Practice’ quest could not be completed has been fixed.
• Errors with Final Figuration and Final Trans‘ transformation effects have been fixed.
• An error where you could not attack after levelling up while being transformed has been fixed.

Zero

• An error where projectiles and shockwaves would not activate or activate late has been fixed.

Kinesis

• An error where Psychic Grab could not be used in some floors of The SEED has been fixed.
• An error where Psychic Walk could be used up to 3 times in the air has been fixed.

Events

I usually don’t cover events in the test server, but other than the various Halloween events (Haunted Mansion, Murmur’s Dungeon), there is an interesting new event called As-salamu Alaykum Zakum Let’s Go Zakum. Basically, Zakum has a chance to drop Zakum Lucky Bags, which when opened will give you various items or up to 10 million Maple Points!

The Maple Points will be taken from a pool, and the remaining points in the pool are shown on a large board in various towns and in the entrance to Zakum.

Now, what’s interesting is that in the data, it seems like Chaos Zakum (which is currently unavailable in the test server) will be receiving an update to use the new skeleton animation system! Here’s a picture of the updated Altar of Zakum I got. You can see some pictures of Zakum in Spadow’s post on Southperry. I wonder if other bosses will also be getting updated.