After a long dry spell, a new patch has hit the test servers! This patch includes a new set of job balancing, some changes to certain bosses, and a few other minor things.

Job Balancing

The development team has carefully reviewed users’ feedback, the battle analysis system, and their internal balance data in order to once again continue balancing characters. They would like slightly better balance without changes that are too drastic, and they expect to continue with this. Their goals are:

• Time based battle ability adjustments
  • We would like to reduce the gap between different jobs when they reach the maximum damage cap, when only the number of hits of their skills matter. In order to do this, various jobs’ maximum damage caps will be increased.
• Battle efficiency adjustments
  • Without hurting jobs’ special characteristics and fun, we would like to increase the efficiency of jobs with low efficiency (and the opposite as well).
  • Some Hyper passive skills which had very low usage have been changed.
• Utility ability adjustments
  • Jobs with excessive utility abilities will have their performance adjusted.
  • ‘Return’ skills’ cooldowns will be equalized.

All Jobs

• DoT damage skills: maximum damage cap increasing effects will now apply to DoT
• Aura skills: an error where users would continue to receive the effects of an aura after leaving the party has been fixed
• Rapid fire skills:  an error where you would not enter the ‘out of breath’ state after using certain rapid fire skills has been fixed

Adventurers

•  Return to Maple: cooldown of 600 seconds has been added

•  Maple Warrior: cast action has been removed

Hero

•  Combo Force: using this skill with the ↓ arrow key will no longer consume Combo
•  Final Attack: an error where Final Attack’s damage was decreased when activated by skills with a large number of hits has been fixed
•  Enrage: an error where Enrage’s effect of hitting only 1 monster would not activate while using Ultimate Adventurer has been fixed
•  Advanced Final Attack: an error where Advanced Final Attack’s damage was decreased when activated by skills with a large number of hits has been fixed
•  Valhalla: in addition to existing effects, Valhalla now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 20,000,000

Paladin

•  Advanced Charge: number of hits boost to Blast and all Charge skills has been increased from 1 to 2
•  Blast: Blast’s maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 65,000,000

Dark Knight

Dark Knight’s special skill Sacrifice meant that Beholder only existed in order to be used for that skill. Therefore, we have removed the low usage Hyper skills for Hyper Body and have added Beholder-related Hyper skills.

•  Beholder: duration has been decreased from 360 seconds to 200 seconds, cooldown has been removed
•  Beholder Dominant:  Beholder’s heal, Beholder’s Buff and Beholder’s Revenge can now activate while in the Free Attack state
•  Beholder Shock: stun duration has been decreased from 10 seconds to 5 seconds
•  Lord of Darkness: Lord of Darkness now heals 3% of your maximum HP when attacking boss monsters
•  Sacrifice: cooldown of 70 seconds has been added
•  Reincarnation: Reincarnation is no longer affected by cooldown resets and buff duration increasing effects, an error where MP was not recovered has been fixed
•  Dark Thirst: Dark Thirst now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 15,000,000
• NEW!  Reincarnation – Reduce Target: Reincarnation’s number of enemies required to be defeated to activate is decreased by 30%. [required level: 168]
• NEW!  Beholder – Reinforce: Beholder Dominant, Beholder Shock, and Beholder’s Revenge’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 143]
• NEW!  Beholder – Buff Reinforce: Beholder’s Buff’s attack boost is increased by 30. [required level: 162]
• NEW!  Beholder – Healing Reinforce: Beholder’s heal amount is increased to 5% of your maximum HP. [required level: 183]
• REMOVED!  Reincarnation – Cooltime Reduce
• REMOVED!  Hyper Body – Persist
• REMOVED!  Hyper Body – Extra Magic Point
• REMOVED!  Hyper Body – Extra Heart Point

Archmage (Fire/Poison)

•  Infinity: in addition to existing effects, Infinity now increases your maximum damage cap by 4% every 4 seconds

Archmage (Ice/Lightning)

•  Infinity: in addition to existing effects, Infinity now increases your maximum damage cap by 4% every 4 seconds

Bishop

Heaven’s Door was unlike other resurrection skills because it didn’t have a controlled cooldown so it was excessively used. We have added an adjustment where the buff cannot be re-applied.

•  Heal: range has been decreased
•  Infinity: in addition to existing effects, Infinity now increases your maximum damage cap by 3% every 4 seconds
•  Heaven’s Door: a short cast action has been added, now after receiving the buff you cannot receive it again for 600 seconds, an error where occasionally the buff would not be received and the cooldown would not apply has been fixed

Bowmaster

•  Arrow Platter: installed Arrow Platter’s attack speed has been decreased
•  Hurricane – Split Attack: damage has been increased from 65% to 75%

Marksman

•  Sniping: damage has been decreased from 4410% to 1470%, maximum damage cap has been decreased from 400,000,000 to 200,00,000, number of hits has been increased from 1 to 2
•  Sniping – Limit Canceller: maximum damage cap has been decreased from 500,000,000 to 250,000,000
•  Long Range Trueshot: damage has been decreased from 4000% to 1350%, maximum damage cap has been decreased from 500,000,000 to 300,000,000, number of hits has been increased from 1 to 2

Night Lord

•  Shadow Partner: Shadow Partner’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Shadow Partner’s accuracy will now be determined separately
•  Shadow Web: jump height has been decreased, Shadow Web can now be used after Triple Jump
•  Bleeding Toxin: duration has been increased from 30 seconds to 90 seconds, in addition to existing effects Bloody Toxin now increases your maximum damage cap by 20% while active

Shadower

Changes have been made to make using Assassinate and Dark Sight more organic. Meso Explosion has been changed to become a secondary attack.

•  Critical Growing: critical rate boost has been increased from 2% to 3%, in addition to existing effects Critical Growing now increases your maximum critical damage by 1% every few seconds while attacking (until your critical rate reaches 100%)
•  Meso Guard: number of coins dropped has been decreased from 10 to 0, Meso Guard will now drop coins when used with Pickpocket

• NEW!  Into Darkness: Blend into the darkness and move backwards. After using this skill, you will automatically enter Dark Sight. This skill shares a cooldown with Dark Sight.
•  Shadow Partner: Shadow Partner’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Shadow Partner’s accuracy will now be determined separately
•  Advanced Dark Sight: chance to automatically enter Dark Sight after attacking or using skills in Dark Sight has been decreased from 30% to 15%, chance to automatically enter Dark Sight after being attacked while in Dark Sight has been decreased from 20% to 15%, in addition to existing effects the chance of automatically entering Dark Sight will be increased by 100% while inside Smokescreen or Veil of Shadow’s attack ranges
•  Pickpocket: chance to drop coins has been decreased from 60% to 30%, maximum number of coins that can be dropped has been set to 15, when hit while Meso Guard is active you will drop up to 5 of the coins consumed by Meso Guard, DoT damage will no longer drop coins
•  Meso Explosion: damage has been decreased from 102% per coin to 100% per coin, maximum number of coins used has been decreased from 25 to 15, damage will now be increased by 30% for every 5 coins you use, cast action and cooldown have been removed, can now only be used with coins dropped by Pickpocket, can now be used in the air
•  Greed: Meso Explosion’s damage boost has been decreased, Pickpocket’s coin drop rate boost has been removed
•  Smokescreen: duration has been decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds, cooldown has been decreased from 240 seconds to 150 seconds
•  Assassinate: stun effect has been removed, last hit’s additional critical rate has been removed, skill’s maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 99,999,999, while using this skill you will no longer be able to be knocked back by any attacks
•  Prima Critical: critical rate boost has been increased from 4% to 6%, in addition to existing effects Critical Growing now increases your maximum critical damage by 2% every few seconds while attacking (until your critical rate reaches 100%)
•  Boomerang Step: an error where you would look weird to other characters while using this skill has been fixed
•  Meso Explosion – Enhance: consumed meso amount boost has been removed, coin drop rate boost has been removed, now increases the maximum number of coins that can be used by Meso Explosion and the maximum number of coins that can be dropped when used with Pickpocket by 5 and coin drop rate of Pickpocket by 10%
•  Assassinate – Limit Canceller: maximum damage cap boost no longer affects Assassinate’s last hit
•  Veil of Shadow: you can now use Dark Sight while using this skill

Dual Blade

It was a bit awkward to learn Return to Maple so it has been removed and replaced with a dedicated ‘return’ skill.

• NEW!  Recursion: Return to the Secret Garden. There is a cooldown of 600 seconds. Return to Maple will be removed and replaced with this skill. If you Free Advance into a Night Lord or Shadower, this skill will be removed and replaced with Return to Maple.
•  Blade Ascension: an error where you would look weird to other characters while using this skill with Flash Jump has been fixed
•  Mirror Imaging: Mirror Imaging’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Mirror Imaging’s accuracy will now be determined separately
•  Hidden Blade: an error where Hidden Blade’s damage was decreased when activated by skills with a large number of hits has been fixed

Viper

•  Fist Enrage: Fist Enrage’s maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 70,000,000, damage when fully charged has been increased from 315% to 320%
•  Dragon Strike: Dragon Strike’s maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 99,999,999, final damage boost has been increased from 10% to 25%
•  Time Leap: the duration during which you cannot re-receive Time Leap’s effects will be maintained even if you re-login

Captain

The relatively unused skill Battleship Bomber has been changed into an installed summon skill.

•  Summon Crew: an error where crew members would occasionally disappear even though time was remaining has been fixed
•  Octo Quarterdeck: cast action delay has been decreased
•  Battleship Bomber: Summon one of the Nautilus’ crew members on a battleship for a 20 seconds, each bomb shot will deal damage 3 times on up to 6 enemies. You can have up to 2 summoned at one time. Battleship Bomber’s skill level will be linked to Crew Commandership’s skill level (no longer Rapid Fire). There is a cooldown of 30 seconds.
  • Dauntless: 275% damage, normal attack speed, normal range
  • Blackbark: 445% damage, slow attack speed, normal range
  • Shulynch: 150% damage, fast attack speed, short range
  • Jonathan: 235% damage, normal attack speed, long range
•  Battleship Nautilus: in addition to existing effects, Nautilus will now decrease Battleship Bomber’s cooldown  by 50% when used
•  Counter Attack: in addition to existing effects, Counter Attack now passively decreases damage taken by 15%
•  Unwearying Nectar: HP boost has been decreased from 40% to 15%, in addition to existing effects Unwearying Nectar will now increase your maximum damage cap by 10% and critical rate by 10% while active

Cannon Shooter

It was a bit awkward to learn Return to Maple so it has been removed and replaced with a dedicated ‘return’ skill.

• NEW!  Come Back Home Cannon: Return to the Nautilus. There is a cooldown of 600 seconds. Return to Maple will be removed and replaced with this skill. If you Free Advance into a Viper or Captain, this skill will be removed and replaced with Return to Maple.
•  Magnetic Anchor: an error where this skill’s direction would change based on the character’s direction has been fixed

Knights of Cygnus

•  Journey Home: cooldown has been decreased to 600 seconds
•  Cygnus Knights: cast action has been removed

Mikhail

With defensive skills like Royal Guard and Soul Link, we thought it was excessive to also have the ability to reduce the damage of % HP attacks so we have removed it.

•  Royal Guard: invincibility duration after successfully defending against an attack has been increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds
•  Final Attack: an error where Final Attack’s damage was decreased when activated by skills with a large number of hits has been fixed
•  Advanced Soul: damage reduction on % HP attacks has been removed
•  Advanced Final Attack: an error where Advanced Final Attack’s damage was decreased when activated by skills with a large number of hits has been fixed
•  Sacred Cube: in addition to existing effects, Sacred Cube now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 15,000,000

Flame Wizard

•  Liberated Magic: MP consumption boost has been decreased from 200% to 150%

Wind Breaker

•  Storm Bringer: in addition to existing effects, Storm Bringer now increases your maximum damage cap by 25% while active

Night Walker

•  Shadow Servant: Shadow Servant’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s
•  Shadow Illusion: Shadow Illusion’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s

Striker

•  Chain: 15% damage boost has been changed into a 20% final damage boost
•  Electric Charge: damage has been increased from 50% to 70%, Electric Charge’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Electric Charge’s accuracy will now be determined separately

Heroes

•  Maple Warrior: cast action has been removed

Aran

Since it is possible to activate the extremely strong Adrenaline Boost 2 times in a row with Adrenaline Generator, we have adjusted it.

•  Regained Memory: boss damage and critical rate boosts have been removed
•  Back to Rien: cooldown has been increased to 600 seconds
•  Advanced Combo Ability: resistance to statuses and elements has been decreased from 60% to 40%
•  Adrenaline Boost: damage boost while active has been decreased from 400%p to 150%p
•  Adrenaline Generator: Adrenaline Generator can no longer be used during Adrenaline Boost or until 15 seconds after Adrenaline Boost has ended, Adrenaline Generator now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 15,000,000

Evan

Evan had very good basic abilities and performance compared to other jobs so various skills have been adjusted accordingly.

•  Inherited Will: boss damage and maximum HP boosts have been removed
•  To Home: cooldown has been increased to 600 seconds
•  Swift of Wind: if multiple blades hit 1 enemy, Swift of Wind’s final damage will be decreased by 40%
•  Support Jump: an error where this skill could be used on maps where movement skills are restricted has been fixed
•  Dive of Thunder: orb creation interval has been increased, orb duration has been decreased
•  Elemental Reset: final damage boost has been decreased from 30% to 15%
•  Magic Amplification: final damage boost has been decreased from 30% to 20%, MP consumption boost has been decreased from 150% to 140%
•  Dragon Breath: cooldown has been increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds, Swift of Thunder’s damage boost has been decreased from 350%p to 320%p
•  Breath of Wind: damage has been decreased from 270% to 215%, damage boost on low health enemies has been decreased from 80%p to 65%p, number of hits has been increased from 4 to 5
•  Enhanced Magic Debris: magic debris’ maximum creation limit has been decreased from 25 to 15

Mercedes

•  Elf’s Blessing: cooldown has been decreased to 600 seconds

Eunwol

•  Fox Spirit: Fox Spirit will now try to find a new target if the initial target dies while this skill is in the air
•  Weakness Insight: critical rate boost on low health enemies has been decreased from 90% to 85%
•  Spirit Bond Maximum: in addition to existing effects, Spirit Bond Maximum will increase your maximum damage cap by 25% while active

Luminous

•  Memorize: in addition to existing effects, Memorize now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 15,000,000

Demons

•  Maple Warrior: cast action has been removed

Demon Slayer

The relatively unused Demonic Breath related Hyper skills will be removed and replaced with Demon Slash related Hyper skills. In addition, we have added some features to Blue Blood.

•  Demon Explosion: enemies in the air can no longer be knocked up again
•  Metamorphosis: invincibility will now persist for a short period of time after the cast action has been completed
• NEW!  Demon Slash – Extra Force: Demon Slash’s absorbed Force is increased by 50%. [required level: 143]
• NEW!  Demon Slash – Reinforce: Demon Slash’s damage is increased by 100%. [required level: 149]
• NEW!  Demon Slash – Remain Time Reinforce: After using Demon Slash, other skills’ damage will be increased by 30% for 3 seconds. [required level: 183]
•  Blue Blood: Blue Blood’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Blue Blood’s accuracy will now be determined separately, in addition to existing effects Blue Blood now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 15,000,000 and its cooldown will be decreased  by 5 seconds each time you absorb 100 Force
• REMOVED!  Demonic Breath – Reinforce
• REMOVED!  Demonic Breath – Bonus Attack
• REMOVED!  Demonic Breath – Reduce Force

Demon Avenger

•  Exceed: Execution: damage has been increased from 475% to 540%, maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 65,000,000
•  Shield Chasing: Shield Chasing will now try to find a new target if the initial target dies while this skill is in the air

Resistance

•  Secret Plaza Emergency Meeting: cooldown has been decreased to 600 seconds
•  Maple Warrior: cast action has been removed

Blaster

Blaster had excessive defense so Endurance Shield has been adjusted.

•  Endurance Shield: shield can no longer exceed your maximum HP, the exceeded shield will disappear
•  Ducking: an error where the client would shut down if you quickly used Ducking and jumped repeatedly after using an attack has been fixed
•  Sway: an error where the client would shut down if you quickly used Sway and jumped repeatedly after using an attack has been fixed

Mechanic

•  War Machine: Titan: an error where Titan would occasionally disappear has been fixed

Xenon

The relatively unused Pinpoint Rocket has been changed to become a secondary attack.

•  Aviation Liberty: you can no longer use Pinpoint Rocket while using this skill
•  Pinpoint Rocket: no longer consumes Energy, now consumes 10 MP, cooldown of 2 seconds has been added
•  Virtual Projection: Virtual Projection’s maximum damage cap is now the same as the character’s, Virtual Projection’s accuracy will now be determined separately
•  OOPArts Code: an error where this skill would not stack with certain potions or skills that increased boss damage has been fixed
•  Maple Warrior: cast action has been removed

Nova

•  Nova Warrior: cast action has been removed

Angelic Burster

•  Soul Seeker: Soul Seeker will now try to find a new target if the initial target dies while this skill is in the air
•  Trinity: damage has been decreased from 900% to 720%, 2nd attack’s number of hits has been increased to 3, 3rd attacks’ number of hits has been increased to 4
•  Finitura Fettuccia: maximum damage cap boost for yourself has been increased from 15% to 30%
•  Finitura Fettuccia – Maxed Reinforce: maximum damage cap boost for yourself has been increased from 5% to 10%
•  Trinity – Split Attack: damage has been decreased from 720% to 650%

Zero

•  Retrace Temple: cooldown has been increased to 600 seconds
•  Shadow Rain: in addition to existing effects, Shadow Rain now passively increases your maximum damage cap by 25,000,000

Kinesis

It was difficult to take advantage of Kinesis’ short skill durations so they have been increased.

•  Comeback: cooldown has been increased to 600 seconds
•  Psychic Force: DoT damage’s duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
•  Psychic Force 2: DoT damage’s duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
•  Psychic Drain: duration has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds
•  Psychic Grab: enemies that are a certain level higher than you can no longer be grabbed
•  Psychic Force 3: DoT damage’s duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
•  Psychic Ground: duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds, cooldown has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
•  Psychic Grab 2: enemies that are a certain level higher than you can no longer be grabbed
•  Psychic Ground 2: duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds, cooldown has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
•  Another World’s Warrior: cast action has been removed
•  Ever Psychic: Ever Psychic’s maximum damage cap has been increased from 50,000,000 to 99,999,999
•  Psychic Over: in addition to existing effects, Psychic Over now increases your maximum damage cap by 50% while active

Boss Content

In certain boss content with Death Counts, when you have remaining Death Count, you will now resurrect automatically after 30 seconds. You can revive manually like normal but after 30 seconds, you will be automatically resurrected after a 5 second delay. It will apply to:

• Cygnus (Normal)
• Zakum, Pierre, Von Bon, Bloody Queen, Vellum (Chaos)
• Suu, Damien (Normal, Hard)

Certain bosses have received various changes.

• Horntail (Easy, Normal, Chaos)
  • The area around the left and right heads has been modified to allow better skill usage.
• Von Bon (Chaos)
  • If you die while in the air, a falling clock will not= longer be created.
• Suu (Normal, Hard)
  • Suu (Normal)’s daily entry limit of 1 has been removed, you can now re-enter after 30 minutes.
  • Through platform pattern and other gimmicks’ optimization, the memory usage of the client has been reduced.
• Damien (Normal, Hard)
  • Damien (Normal)’s daily entry limit of 1 has been removed, you can now re-enter after 30 minutes.
  • The ‘Space’ key label on the Stigma skill has been changed to the ‘NPC Chat’ key.
  • An error where Damien was set as a stationary monster has been fixed.

Monster Collection

The Commanding Suspicious Seal monster has been changed to a different monster.

• You must now hunt the Magic Resisting Suspicious Seal to add it to your collection.
• The number of Expedition Boxes rewarded for completing the line that includes the Magic Resistance Suspicious Seal has been increased.

You can now add Chaos Pierre to your collection by hunting the Chaos Red Pierre and Chaos Blue Pierre.

The amount of mesos and Mileage given from the Moderate, Good, and Great Expedition Boxes has been adjusted.

Game Related

The Meister ESP Limiter and Meister Gauntlet Revolver have been added to the Equipment Crafting profession.

You can no longer use Lie Detectors in the Mu Lung Dojo Hall.

The player satisfaction and suggestions message that appear when exiting the game have been consolidated into the Nexon survey. The Coordinator will no longer appear.

You must now use your 2nd password to use a Character Name Change Coupon.

A storage NPC has been added to the Fallen World Tree’s Abandoned Camp map.