KMST ver. 1.2.045 – Maple Union & Omega Sector Returns!
A new test server patch has been released, containing the new Maple Union system as well as the return of Omega Sector and many other useful changes.
EDIT: I added a bunch of details and pictures of the Maple Union system plus a small little summary so I hope you guys can understand it. If you have any questions, feel free to comment!
Maple Union
<Maple Union> has been added.
- Maple Union is a system that grows with all of your characters in your world.
- All characters who are level 60 or above and have completed the 2nd job advancement (level 130 or above for Zero) will be members of the Maple Union.
- If the total level of your members (your Union level) is 500 or more and you have 3 or more members, you can accept the Maple Union starting quests by talking to Ms. Account.
Attacker Organization and Battle Map Placement
- You can choose some of your Maple Union characters as attackers and place them on the Battle Map.
- Each attacker will have a unique Attacker Effect, based on the character’s job and rank.
- Each attacker will occupy a certain sized area of the battle map based on their rank. The Battle Map has specific squares that give specific occupation effects, and if your attacker’s squares are occupying them, you’ll get those effects.
- Attacker Effects and occupation effects will apply to all characters in your world.
- The number of Attackers you can have and the area of the Battle Map that you can occupy will increase based on your Union Rank.
- When your Union Level reaches certain levels, you can upgrade your Union Rank by paying Union Coins to Ms. Account.
Attacker Effects
Each character will have a different Attacker Effect based on its job and rank. You will only receive the effects if the character is placed as an active Attacker in the Battle Map. Also, if you have multiple Attackers that are the same class, you will only receive the effect of the highest rank one (e.g. no stacking Zeroes for extra bonus experience).
This is almost exactly the same as how Character Cards used to be. However, there are a few changes such as certain jobs’ effects and the ranks based on level.
A character’s rank is decided as follows:
- B: level 60~99 (level 130~159 for Zero)
- A: level 100~139 (level 160~179 for Zero)
- S: level 140~199 (level 180~199 for Zero)
- SS: level 200~249
- SSS: level 250
The different jobs’ Attacker Effects are as follows:
- Hero: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Paladin: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Dark Knight: 2/3/4/5/6% HP
- Archmage (F/P): 2/3/4/5/6% MP
- Archmage (I/L): 10/20/40/80/100 INT
- Bishop: 10/20/40/80/100 INT
- Bowmaster: 10/20/40/80/100 DEX
- Marksman: 1/2/3/4/5% critical rate
- Night Lord: 1/2/3/4/5% critical rate
- Shadower: 10/20/40/80/100 LUK
- Dual Blader: 10/20/40/80/100 LUK
- Captain: 4/6/8/10/12% summon duration
- Viper: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Cannon Shooter: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Mikhail: 2/3/4/5/6% defense
- Soul Master: 2/3/4/5/6% defense
- Flame Wizard: 10/20/40/80/100 INT
- Wind Breaker: 10/20/40/80/100 DEX
- Night Walker: 10/20/40/80/100 LUK
- Striker: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Aran: 70% chance to heal 2/4/6/8/10% HP, can activate once every 10 seconds, if it activates the next activation rate is decreased by 2x
- Evan: 70% chance to heal 2/4/6/8/10% MP, can activate once every 10 seconds, if it activates the next activation rate is decreased by 2x
- Luminous: 10/20/40/80/100 INT
- Mercedes: 2/3/4/5/6% skill cooldown reduction
- Phantom: 1/2/3/4/5% mesos acquired
- Eunwol: 1/2/3/5/6% critical damage
- Demon Slayer: 1/2/3/4/5 status resistance
- Demon Avenger: 1/2/3/5/6% boss damage
- Battlemage: 2/3/4/5/6% damage reduction
- Wild Hunter: 20% chance to increase damage by 4/8/12/16/20%
- Mechanic: 5/10/15/20/25% buff duration
- Xenon: 5/10/20/40/50 STR, DEX, LUK
- Blaster: 1/2/3/5/6% defense ignore
- Kaiser: 10/20/40/80/100 STR
- Angelic Buster: 10/20/40/80/100 DEX
- Zero: 4/6/8/10/12% bonus experience
- Kinesis: 10/20/40/80/100 INT
Occupation Effects
The main part of the Maple Union UI is the Battle Map. Here you can see a bunch of squares divided into different areas. Each area will give different stats and you can gain these stats by placing an Attacker onto them.
Each Attacker you place will have a different shape based on its job (warrior – ‘O’/magician – ‘T’/archer – ‘I’/thief – ‘L’/pirate – ‘Z’) and its card rank (SSS rank – 5 squares, SS rank – 4 squares, S rank – 3 squares, A rank – 2 squares, B rank – 1 square).
Then it becomes a sort of puzzle where you place the pieces onto the Battle Map to occupy the spaces with the effects you would like.
You can rotate or flip them in any way but each placed piece must touch a previously placed one (the first piece must touch one of the 4 centre squares). You can also overlap pieces.
Based on the number of squares that you occupy in an area, you’ll receive more of the occupation effect.
The occupation effects are divided into two groups: 15 square areas and 40 square areas. The 15 square areas are completely unlocked at the beginning. You can also swap around the position of these 15 square areas any way you would like.
However, none of the 40 square areas will be available and their positions cannot swapped.
Based on your Union Rank, you’ll unlock a 1-square outline around the 15 square areas each time you achieve the following ranks:
- Novice Union 4
- Veteran Union 1
- Veteran Union 3
- Veteran Union 5
- Master Union 2
The effects are as follows:
- 15 Square Areas
- STR: 5 per square (maximum of 75)
- DEX: 5 per square (maximum of 75)
- INT: 5 per square (maximum of 75)
- LUK: 5 per square (maximum of 75)
- Attack: 1 per square (maximum of 15)
- Magic Attack: 1 per square (maximum of 15)
- HP: 250 per square (maximum of 3750)
- MP: 250 per square (maximum of 3750)
- 40 Square Areas
- Status Resistance: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Bonus Experience: 0.25% per square (maximum of 10%)
- Critical Rate: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Boss Damage: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Stance: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Buff Duration: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Defense Ignore: 1% per square (maximum of 40%)
- Critical Damage: 0.5% per square (maximum of 20%)
Union Ranks
To increase your Union Rank, you must achieve certain Union Levels (total level of all your Maple Union members). Then you must pay a certain number of Union Coins to Ms. Account.
As your Union Rank grows, you’ll be allowed to have more Attackers placed on your Battle Map at one time and you’ll unlock more squares on the Battle Map as well.
- Novice Union 1: Lv. 500, required coins: none, attackers: 9
- Novice Union 2: Lv. 1000, required coins: 120, attackers: 10
- Novice Union 3: Lv. 1500, required coins: 130, attackers: 11
- Novice Union 4: Lv. 2000, required coins: 150, attackers: 12
- Novice Union 5: Lv. 2500, required coins: 160, attackers: 13
- Veteran Union 1: Lv. 3000, required coins: 170, attackers: 14
- Veteran Union 2: Lv. 3500, required coins: 330, attackers: 15
- Veteran Union 3: Lv. 4000, required coins: 360, attackers: 16
- Veteran Union 4: Lv. 4500, required coins: 380, attackers: 17
- Veteran Union 5: Lv. 5000, required coins: 400, attackers: 18
- Master Union 1: Lv. 5500, required coins: 420, attackers: 22
- Master Union 2: Lv. 6000, required coins: 1000, attackers: 24
- Master Union 3: Lv. 6500, required coins: 1090, attackers: 26
- Master Union 4: Lv. 7000, required coins: 1180, attackers: 28
- Master Union 5: Lv. 7500, required coins: 1270, attackers: 30
- Grand Master Union 1: Lv. 8000, required coins: 1350, attackers: 32
- Grand Master Union 2: Lv. 8500, required coins: 2800, attackers: 34
- Grand Master Union 3: Lv. 9000, required coins: 3000, attackers: 36
- Grand Master Union 4: Lv. 9500, required coins: 3200, attackers: 38
- Grand Master Union 5: Lv. 10000, required coins: 3400, attackers: 40
Union Raid
- The Union Raid is a cooperative battle fought by you and your Attacker characters.
- You can press the <Join Battle> button to enter the Union Raid with your characters.
- When you enter the Union Raid, all your Attackers will be placed on the battlefield and all characters except for the one you are controlling will automatically attack the boss monster in the centre of the map. Each character deals damage based on their Attack Power, which is determined based on their level and Star Force.
- NOTE: You can control your own character and use all of your skills/move around freely.
- The giant boss monster will take damage equal to your automatic Attackers’ total Attack Power every second.
- NOTE: The giant boss monster will not move or attack. However, it will summon Mini Dragons and the Golden Wyvern occasionally which will move around the map. You can kill these to complete daily quests.
- The giant boss monster’s damage taken will be updated every 5 seconds. Every time you deal 100b damage, you will receive 1 Union Coin.
- NOTE: You can see the golden numbers on the bar at the top. Whenever they increase by 1, you’ll receive a coin.
- Even if you do not directly enter the Union Raid, your Attackers’ automatic attacks will continue to deal damage to the boss monster and accumulate Union Coins.
- NOTE: This applies even if you log off.
- All Union Coins that you have accumulated will be given to you upon exiting the Union Raid.
Union Coins and Coin Shop
Union Coins can be acquired through the Union Raid and daily quests. You can purchase a variety of items with Union Coins by talking to Mr. Poncho in main towns.
All the items are untradeable and you can buy a limited number of each. The limit is reset at the beginning of every week.
- Union’s Strength Stage 1 (20 coins) [30 attack/magic attack for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Strength Stage 2 (30 coins) [30 attack/magic attack for 20 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Strength Stage 3 (50 coins) [30 attack/magic attack for 30 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Experience Stage 1 (30 coins) [100% bonus experience for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Experience Stage 2 (50 coins) [100% bonus experience for 20 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Experience Stage 3 (70 coins) [100% bonus experience for 30 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Luck Stage 1 (30 coins) [30% bonus item drop rate for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Luck Stage 2 (50 coins) [30% bonus item drop rate for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Luck Stage 3 (70 coins) [30% bonus item drop rate for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Wealth Stage 1 (30 coins) [50% bonus mesos acquired for 10 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Wealth Stage 2 (50 coins) [50% bonus mesos acquired for 20 minutes, limit of 10]
- Union’s Wealth Stage 3 (70 coins) [50% bonus mesos acquired for 30 minutes, limit of 10]
- 10% Clean Slate Scroll (60 coins) [limit of 3]
- 50% Epic Potential Scroll (140 coins) [limit of 3]
- Gold Potential Stamp (40 coins) [limit of 3]
- Craftsman’s Cube (140 coins) [limit of 3]
- Strong Rebirth Flame (80 coins) [limit of 3]
- Basic Union Meso Box (30 coins) [acquire a random amount of mesos, limit of 50]
- Intermediate Union Meso Box (60 coins) [acquire a random amount of mesos, limit of 30]
- Advanced Union Meso Box (100 coins) [acquire a random amount of mesos, limit of 20]
- Basic Union Growth Potion (100 coins) [increases your level by 1, can only be used if your character is level 100~129, limit of 5]
- Intermediate Union Growth Potion (200 coins) [increases your level by 1, can only be used if your character is level 130~159, limit of 3]
- Advanced Union Growth Potion (300 coins) [increases your level by 1, can only be used if your character is level 160~179, limit of 1]
Weekly Acquired Coins Ranking
- When a character in the Union Raid acquires a Union Coin, it will automatically increase your Weekly Acquired Coins.
- Every week, based on the Weekly Acquired Coins acquired between 12:30 AM Monday to 11:30 PM Sunday, the Best Union Coin Collector ranking will be created.
- Special items will be given out to characters from rank 1 to 100 in each world.
Premium PC Room/MapleStory M Benefits
- Users logging in from a Premium PC Room will receive PC Room-only daily quests and 2x the Union Coins from daily quests.
- Users who have level 30 or higher characters in MapleStory M can choose one of them to join the Union Raid.
- MapleStory M characters do not use up the limit of Attackers allowed but they still activate their unique effects and occupation effects.
- MapleStory M characters do not have Attack Power and do not increase the Union Level.
Maple Union related quests have been added.
- [Maple Union] Maple Union’s Beginning: Lv. 60, Dragon Hunter Ms. Account
- [Maple Union] Mini Dragon Fight: Lv. 60, Dragon Hunter Ms. Account (defeat 100 Mini Dragons for 10 Union Coins)
- [Maple Union] Golden Wyvern Fight: : Lv. 60, Dragon Hunter Ms. Account (defeat 20 Golden Wyverns for 20 Union Coins)
- [Maple Union] PC Room Daily Quest: Lv. 60, Dragon Hunter Ms. Account
Other Maple Union related items have been added.
- Use: Union Ranking Riding Voucher
- Set-up: World’s Strongest Attack Power Chair
- Etc: Union Coin
Maple Union related monsters have been added.
- Sparky Dragon
- Stun Dragon
- Armor Dragon
- Hammer Dragon
- Fire Horn Dragon
- Mini Sparky Dragon
- Mini Stun Dragon
- Mini Armour Dragon
- Mini Hammer Dragon
- Mini Fire Horn Dragon
- Golden Wyvern
Maple Union related NPCs have been added.
- Dragon Hunter Ms. Account
- Assisting Officer Mr. Poncho
The Character Card/Part-Time Job systems are no longer available. Unclaimed part-time job rewards have been removed.
Okay I added a ton of details up there so I don’t think I need to do a full out tutorial or anything. But here’s my current Maple Union board, which I’ll go through so you guys can understand how it works.
I have 9/12 Attackers placed right now, around the Battle Map. Since my Maple Union’s rank is Novice Union 4, I have unlocked a 1-square outline of the initial 12×10 rectangle. I have also swapped the positions of the LUK and DEX areas so that it would be closer to the Attack area.
Under the green Join Battle button, you can see two boxes.
- The left box lists the Attacker Effects (a.k.a. Character Card effects).
- 80 STR bonus from my Paladin (SS rank)
- 80 DEX bonus from my Bowmaster (SS rank)
- 8% bonus experience from my Zero (S rank)
- etc.
- The right box lists the Occupation Effects, which are the bonuses you get by occupying certain squares on the board with your Attackers.
- 50 DEX from occupying 10/15 squares of the DEX area.
- 10 INT from occupying 2/15 squares of the INT area.
- 5 LUK from occupying 1/15 squares of the LUK area.
- 14 attack from occupying 14/15 squares of the attack area.
- 1% critical rate from occupying 1/40 squares of the critical rate area.
Here’s what it looks like in action!
Star Force Maps
Star Force maps have been added.
- Star Force maps in new areas with a variety of levels have been added.
- Upgrade your Star Force and enjoy hunting in these new areas!
Star Force maps have been added in the Lion King’s Castle’s Rose Garden area.
- New maps have been added.
- Hidden Garden 1 (45 Star Force)
- Hidden Garden 2 (50 Star Force)
- Hidden Garden 3 (50 Star Force)
- New monsters have been added.
- (Lv. 130) [★] Frozen Rose
- (Lv. 132) [★] Key Holder Russo
- (Lv. 134) [★] Garden Golem
- You can access these Star Force maps after completing the Rose Garden quests.
Star Force maps have been added in Kerning Tower.
- New Star Force maps have been added to each floor.
- 2nd Floor Cafe <4> (80 Star Force)
- 3rd Floor Fancy Shop <4> (80 Star Force)
- 4th Floor Record Shop <4> (80 Star Force)
- 5th Floor Cosmetics Shop <4> (80 Star Force)
- 6th Floor Hair Shop <4> (80 Star Force)
- New monsters have been added.
- (Lv. 155) [★] Steaming Coffee Machine
- (Lv. 157) [★] Blue Notes
- (Lv. 159) [★] Red Headphones
- (Lv. 161) [★] Violent Dressing Table
- (Lv. 162) [★] Violent Hair Roll
Star Force maps have been added in the returning Omega Sector.
- New maps have been added where currently the highest level monsters appear.
- Corridor H01 (140 Star Force)
- Corridor H02 (140 Star Force)
- Corridor H03 (140 Star Force)
- New monsters have been added.
- (Lv. 178) [★] New Gray White
- (Lv. 180) [★] New Gray Black
Spring Project!
Based on requests from the ongoing Voice of Mapler forum, new improvements have been added.
Item buffs will now be displayed when you wear the Spirit Pendant and other bonus experience equipment. The buff icons’ tooltips will tell you the current bonus experience and the required time for the next bonus’ stage.
When you change your Damage Skin, you will now receive a confirmation message before it is changed.
If you have not attacked anything, you can now enter the Cash Shop even if you have been hit by a monster’s attack.
You can now purchase arrows and recharge stars/bullets in Meisterville’s NPC Nack‘s shop.
You can now search for quest titles in the quest UI’s in progress tab.
A shortcut key for the Battle Analysis system has been added.
When you enhance items using Scroll Traces, you will now receive a pop-up that confirms the scroll you will be using.
The names of some Monster Life related items that were misunderstood have been changed.
- Monster Slot Expansion 1 -> Monster Slot Expansion
- Monster Slot Expansion 2 -> Monster Slot Expansion +
The minimum number of party members required to enter Ravana has been decreased to 1.
When you change channels in front of Arkarium’s Altar, you will no longer be returned to the Dimensional Crack map.
Mystic Door, Teleport World Map, and Teleport Rocks can now be used to move to the Lion King’s Castle area.
- You will need to have certain quests completed for each section of Lion King’s Castle.
- First Gate: Lv. 115, Luden
- Second Gate: Lv. 115, Luden
- Third Gate: Lv. 115, Luden
- To the Rose Garden: Lv. 115, Ifia
Omega Sector
The theme dungeon <Omega Sector> has been newly opened.
- Omega Sector has returned newer, bigger, and with an updated graphical style.
- You can enter Omega Sector through the Eos Tower in Ludus Lake.
- Users level 165 or higher will receive an urgent message from Dr. Kim from Omega Sector.
- Infiltrate a giant UFO with the shrunken Mesorangers!
New maps have been added for the returning Omega Sector.
- Omega Sector
- Passage
- Headquarters
- Hangar
- Control Room
- Safe Zone
- Control Area
- Roswell Field 1
- Roswell Field 2
- Roswell Field 3
- Roswell Field 4
- Dukgu’s Room
- Corridor 101
- Corridor 102
- Corridor 103
- Corridor 104
- Corridor 201
- Corridor 202
- Corridor 203
- Corridor 204
- Vent D-1
- Vent D-2
- Vent D-3
- Vent D-4
- Controller 1
- Controller 2
- Controller 3
- Cockpit
Omega Sector monsters have been added.
- (Lv. 165) Mateon
- (Lv. 167) Plateon
- (Lv. 169) Bernard Gray
- (Lv. 171) Ultra Grey
- (Lv. 173) New Gray White
- (Lv. 175) New Gray Black
- (Lv. 176) Mechateon
- (Lv. 177) Machine MT-09
- (Lv. 178) Drone White
- (Lv. 179) Drone Black
- (Lv. 190) Caoong
New Omega Sector NPCs have been added.
- Huni
- Chuli
- Yungi
- Juni
- Rini
- Guni
- Dr. Kim
- Doctor Porter
- Doctor Gray
- Dukgu
- Mesodizer
Omega Sector quests have been added.
- Dr. Kim’s Call
- Collecting Members
- Mesorangers Weakened!
- Charge! Mesorangers
- Test Run
- Collect Baggage Tickets
- For Dukgu
- For Dukgu 2
- Finding a Design
- Through the Vents
- This is Not the Way
- This is Not the Way 2
- Help Rini
- Guni vs Rini
- Guni vs Rini 2
- Something Lost
- Broken Heart
- Broken Heart 2
- Caoong? Caoong!
- Conclusion
- Seventh Team Member
- Cleaning Robot Caoong!
The following items have been added.
- Medal: Mesoranger White medal (7 all stats, 350 HP/MP, 1 attack/magic attack)
- Etc: Mateon’s Tentacle
- Etc: Plateon’s Helmet
- Etc: Space Food
- Etc: Receiver
- Etc: Mechateon’s Laser Gun
- Etc: Machine MT-09’s Fuel
New boss content has been added – Lv. 180: Cleaning Robot Caoong.
- You can enter after completing the Omega Sector quests.
- You can enter by talking to the NPC Doctor Grey in the Cockpit map or by using the Boss Queue.
- You can clear Caoong once per day.
- Caoong drops a number of Caoong Parts, which can be NPCed for 100k each.
The Omega Sector Open Event has begun.
- If you complete all of Omega Sector’s main quests during this event, you will receive the Mesoranger Chair.
- If you defeat the boss Caoong during this event, you will receive the following items:
- Cash: Mesoranger White Helmet
- Cash: Mesoranger White
Game Related
Kritias area’s quests have been adjusted.
- The beginning level has been changed to 170. However, if you have any quests still in progress, you can proceed as normal.
- The area’s quest monsters’ stats have been adjusted to match the changed level.
Road of Vanishing’s Arcane Force requirements and monster stats have been adjusted.
- The Fire Zone‘s required Arcane Force has been changed to 40.
- The Tranquil Cave‘s required Arcane Force has been changed to 60.
- Monsters in all areas of Road of Vanishing have had their HP and experience lowered. You can see the changed values here.
An error where if you selected the Blade Damage Effect and hunted in a map for a long time, the client’s memory usage would constantly increase has been fixed.
This was not mentioned in the patch notes but the Critical Rate and Critical Damage stats in the Character Stat window have received their own lines. In addition, Critical Damage now shows 2 decimals.
An error with the Midwinter Monster Collection event where the text for the Giant Snowman said it would be summoned for 24 hours every weekend has been fixed to say it is summoned every hour from 10 AM to 10 PM.
Skill Related
- When you use
Rumbling Maple, 
Bat Swarm, or 
Cygnus Phalanx, other characters will now be able to see if you switch directions. - Dark Knight’s
Beholder will now teleport to you if your character moves a certain distance away while it is in 
Beholder Dominant state. - Bishops can now use
Overload Mana while in the 
Vengeance of Angel state. - Viper’s
Serpent Screw‘s Energy consumption has been changed to only consume Energy when it hits an enemy.
The following errors have been fixed.
- An error where
Erda Nova, Cygnus Phalanx, 
Arrow Rain, 
Afterimage Shot, 
True Sniping, 
Howling Gale and 
Jaguar Maximum were not considered arrow/bullet/star attacks has been fixed. - An error where if a party member who received the effect of
Sacrosanctity from Paladin’s 
Holy Unity used a skill with a shorter duration of invincibility would not continue to receive Sacrosanctity’ invincibility after the shorter skill’s duration ended has been fixed. - An error where if a Dark Knight changed channels while Beholder was in Beholder Dominant state, they would not be able to use
Beholder Shock or 
Beholder Impact has been fixed. - An error where Archmage (F/P)’s
Meteor, Archmage (I/L)’s 
Blizzard, and Battlemage’s 
Dark Genesis‘ additional attack while on cooldown would not activate with their 5th job skills has been fixed. - An error where Marksman’s
Split Arrow activated from a weird location on certain bosses has been fixed. - An error where Soul Master’s
Cross the Styx enhancement cores did not increase the damage of Cross the Styx after using 
Elysion has been fixed. - An error where Captain’s
Deadeye‘s aiming effect would appear sometimes while it was on cooldown has been fixed. - An error where when a Flame Wizard changed channels,
Flame Discharge‘s flames would disappear has been fixed. - An error where Striker’s
Shark Wave was not affected by Link when linking skills has been fixed. - An error where Eunwol’s
Spirit Disposition‘s summoned spirits would sometimes not appear if used around other characters has been fixed. - An error where Mercedes continuously using the rush attack while riding
Sylphidia would cause the client to exit has been fixed. - An error where Mercedes could not use the SEED rings while riding Sylphidia has been fixed.
- An error where Demon Avenger’s
Demon Jump and Gliding would be activated weirdly if used while charging 
Blood Feast has been fixed. - An error where if a Blaster used
Ducking, 
Sway, or 
Hammer Smash while using 
Vulcan Punch, the skill would be cancelled but the effect would not disappear has been fixed. - An error where if a Battlemage quickly moved away from a
Black Magic Altar after installing it, the client would sometimes exit has been fixed. - An error where Wild Hunter could not use
Rope Connect or 
Guided Arrow while riding a Jaguar has been fixed. - An error where Xenon could restore MP while using
Overload Mode by sitting on a chair has been fixed. - An error where Kaiser’s
Will of Sword: Strike would take longer to explode if used after transforming has been fixed.
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Is omega sector a shitty 30 minute long theme dungeon like the revamped revamped revamped kerning square?
I haven’t done it yet so I’m not sure!
TL;DR: Union System = Character’s Cards/Part Time system revamp.
Good Side:
You can now place infinite cards rather being limited to 9 (you can’t repeat a class’ effect).
Set bonuses are replaced by grid bonuses, which are the same but can be distributed freely.
Options: ATK, MATK, HP, MP, Stats, Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Boss %, Buff Duration, Ignore Defense, Stance and Exp Rate.
There are more bonuses for LV140, LV200 and LV250 cards, both from grid (all) and class card (only LV250).
The grid bonuses to practical effects does not cap at all at difference of set bonuses.
Training mules becomes sightly faster since we can focus the bonuses in Exp Rate now.
Replacing Part-Time there is a Boss Raid that runs automatically giving coins which can be used in a super neat shop.
Neutral Side:
The power upgrade for someone with 9 or less Character’s Cards is minimal at best.
Useless cards now have bad but at least useable bonuses and a few cards got nerfed.
Negative Side:
S Cards are now LV140…
Old Part-time is removed altogether.
We need to work in a mini-game with a boss to recover from set bonuses removal and eventually get more power.
There wasn’t a time limit in the SS of the boss fight in Union, so I wonder if someone could just afk with autopot and allow their other characters to deal damage.
Hm…
You don’t need to be inside for your other characters to continue fighting, they’ll always be automatically attacking even if you log off!
any idea what the ranked rewards are for the weekly union thing are? Thanks
Not at this moment, the NPC doesn’t have any specifics about them.
second
About the rank effect, the Japanese website has a full one right here, hope it helps! http://uni-wz.com/blog-entry-2941.html
Thanks! Added.
Hey max, I’d like to know if you are able to say get those union coins on a beginner and buy yourself Union Growth Potions to level up? I’m just wondering if I can get my lvl 100 beginner to lvl 130 that way.
I’m not 100% sure, don’t have a high level beginner. 😛 But I think it should be ok?
So the only contribution you can make in the Union Raid is to just attack the smaller monsters for the daily quest? Your damage doesn’t contribute to attacking the main boss?
You can deal damage to the giant boss as well!
This is a lot,
Love that Meso ranger stuff
Are the Attacker and Occupation effected by % stat?
e.g. Say I have 100% DEX from equipment potentials. I level an Angelic Buster to lv140, which grants 80 DEX. Do I gain 80 DEX, or 160 DEX?
I don’t believe Character Card bonuses were affected by % stat so I don’t think these will be either.
Oh yea, if each class has its own shape, what about Xenon?
Xenon just uses the thief one
LMAO That Mesodizer glitch
Why Maple union no revamp resistance job??????
Because they’re probs working on next set of 5th job skills and that’s a handful. Also in some cases 5th job will be the revamp in itself (like making a shitty 4th job much more epic, or toning OP one by giving it less powerful 5th job compared to rest).
So for grandmaster union 5 i need 40 250 chracters?
Yep 😛
” Growing with your characters ” as in they level up doing this or referring to the stats distributed to the characters of the same world?
Yeah it just means the stats part of it. As you yourself level up your characters, your characters’ occupied areas will increase and you’ll unlock more of the Battle Map so it does ‘grow with your characters’.
Is growing with your characters, leveling up or just distribution of stats and effects only?
Sorry for the double post. My first one didn’t show up lol
What I wonder is that how many can you add to your board? If we think of the old system, current in GMS you can hold 3 characters in each deck(total of 9). Every deck gives you a bonus. These bonuses is now freely up to you to put out? and can I add all my chars instead of only 9?
The number of attackers you can place is the limit. It’s based on your Union Rank.
The characters that I attach to the boss map fighting the boss, will they give fighting and give me bonuses til I switch them out? Like they are attacking forever?
Yep they’ll always be ‘fighting’. It’s pretty much just a visual thing though because you can still log in to all of them normally.
Where are the monster details from? Did they add some kind of bestiary that gives all the monster stats?
It’s from the program I use to look at the wz data
Is the level required for union rank is for all your characters in your account or just the attackers?
All characters in the same world that are level 60+ with 2nd job advancement!
Can I obtain Grand Master union lvl 5 even if I dont have 40 lvl 250s? I mean if I got a lot of lvl 200 instead that would work too?
If I get 50 characters to 200 that would be 10 000 lvls, correct? (I know we dont have that much character slot)
But I hope you see my point! 🙂
I calculated myself and we have 40 character slots, 40 x 250 = 10 000..
This means the only way to obtain the highest rank is to get all your characters on your account to 250!
Yep, the math says you can’t be missing a single level on any of your characters.
249 x 40 = 9960…
There’s no slack. If you were hoping to make up for it with extra characters, don’t bother, it is a Pain to Hope, after all.
The maximum character slots is 40 so no, you’ll need 40 level 250s. Maybe in the future if they expand the number of characters slots, that will be possible!
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Hi Max, is the union rank level required affected by just the attackers or all characters in your account?
Union Level = total levels of all Maple Union members (all characters in the world that are level 60+ and have completed the 2nd job advancement).
What happened to Zeno? Seems odd that they would kick him out; he’s still in the dojo right?
Zeno was removed with the Reboot Update for dojo. He really didn’t have much of a story behind him compared to other classic bosses such as Papulatas and Pianus. I would wish they kept him instead of making a space-washing-machine a boss, but thems the breaks.
Finally, the update to the Cc system. Now I have to get my SS cards to a SSS rank… fun. Personally would’ve just settled for 5 sets, but I guess this was to keep the new lvl 1-29 characters from doing insane 3k damage to snails… lol.
I mean, it doesn’t surprise me honestly. They did the same thing with Nine-Tailed Fox and Scholar Ghost when Korean Folk Town returned.
Now all that’s left are Florina Beach and Tera Forest.
And Chryse, as Chryse is just a PQ now. the actual area is not open yet.
Hi, regarding maple union attacker effects, is it possible to stack different job cards that give the same effect? Eg a Lvl 140 kaiser +40 STR with a Lvl 140 hero +40 STR. Would it give me +80 STR?
That’s how the old Character card system worked. (Angelic buster+Bow master) So I would think that they wouldn’t nerf that, especially if they have all 40 cards needed to reach the top ranks.
Yep.
So to get, for example, Veteran Union 4 rank, I’d have to pay a total of 1800 coins?
That is correct!
When do you think this come to gms and do you thick this make a big difference of f2p player when it come to dmg
Probably in 6 months or so! It’s honestly very similar to Character Cards so I don’t see it making much of a difference. However, you can tailor your Battle Map to whatever stats you want easier than before so it might be a small boost.
Hello Max. I was watching an informative youtube video about the maple union from islinggunz youtube channel and I encountered a question I’d like to know the answer of. He compared 2 classes that had the same character effect: Hero + Kaiser. They both give 80 STR at lvl 200 with the SS-rank. He said that they do not stack and that it was the highest card that give STR who would count. I’ve checked and seen that many characters give STR now with this change. But if they dont stack it feels demotivating to level those characters.
My question in this case is, if you know if those would stack? Hero, Paladin, Buccaneer, Cannoneer, Striker, Kaiser? They all give STR.
Because I understand that you are not able to have the same characters to get the same stats.
For example 2 kaiser SS rank = 160STR. That is not possible.
But different jobs giving the same effect should work? Just like it does with the current character card system?
Yeah you can stack different jobs that give the same stats.
Thank you for your time to answer my question!
May I know when this patch launch? and when will it update to other Server like GMS or MSEA?
Add ~6 months for GMS
Did they change Mihile + Soulmaster char card from HP to defense??
In KMST they did but it was changed to HP when this update was added to the official servers (https://orangemushroom.net/2017/01/18/kms-ver-1-2-271-maplestory-beyond-union-2/).
So then question? If the cards are getting removed will the current benefits we have from the Cards we still have currently still apply from this grid they are coming up with? Our STR,DEF,HP ETC?Itll be a pain if we have to work all of that =_=.