The new test server patch brings new 5th job skills for all jobs as well as Cadena’s (finally). Cadena’s new 5th job skill, Chain Arts: Fury is even cooler than Night Walker’s Dominion!!

There’s also a few changes to 5th job and the addition of a new episode in Dimensional Library.

5th Job

Cadena

Cadena’s 5th job advancement has been added, along with new skill cores and enhancement cores.

New Skill Cores

•  Chain Arts: Fury: Throw an uncountable number of chains, wrapping around space itself. Chain Arts: Fury will not activate Damage Reflect. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1000 MP. For 36 seconds, when you attack, create a giant chain that pierces through a random path, dealing 124% damage 6 times on up to 10 enemies. Giant chain cooldown: 1 second. Cooldown: 179 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 1000 MP. For 60 seconds, when you attack, create a giant chain that pierces through a random path, dealing 220% damage 6 times on up to 10 enemies. Giant chain cooldown: 1 second. Cooldown: 155 seconds.

•  A.D Ordnance: Combine the mechanism of the ancient Nova weaponry Blue Dragon Cannon and the Shadow Merchant’s techniques to call upon a modern cannon. The cannon will collect energy and eventually fire it. A.D Ordinance will not activate Damage Reflect. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1000 MP. For 10 seconds, the cannon will accumulate energy and deal 151% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies around it at regular intervals. After all the energy has been accumulated, fire an orb that deals 764% damage 8 times on up to 15 enemies. Cooldown: 25 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 1000 MP. For 10 seconds, the cannon will accumulate energy and deal 295% damage 4 times on up to 8 enemies around it at regular intervals. After all the energy has been accumulated, fire an orb that deals 1460% damage 8 times on up to 15 enemies. Cooldown: 25 seconds.

New Enhancement Cores

• Chain Arts: Stroke/Weapon Variety/Chain Arts: Tough Hustle Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Summon Cutting Scimitar/Summon Scratching Claw Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Summon Slashing Knife/Summon Throwing Wing Dagger Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Summon Shooting Shotgun/Summon Releasing Bomb Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Summon Striking Brick Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Chain Arts: Takedown Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Summon Beating Needle Bat Enhancement: +2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40
• Chain Arts: Crush/Professional Agent Enhancement: 2% final damage per level, +1 monsters hit at level 20, +20% defense ignore at level 40

(note: most of these enhancements affect multiple skills, so for example, if you got a trio core with the first three, the core would level up Chain Arts: Stroke/Weapon Variety/Tough Hustle/Scimitar/Scratching Claw/Slashing Knife/Throwing Wing Dagger all at once!)

All Jobs

New skill cores have been added.

All Jobs

•  Erda Shower: Shoot out condensed Erda to attack enemies. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 3000 HP. Deals 468% damage 6 times on up to 15 enemies. After being used, every time you attack an enemy, absorb some Erda and decrease Erda Shower’s cooldown by 1 second. Cooldown: 40 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 3000 HP. Deals 900% damage 6 times on up to 15 enemies. After being used, every time you attack an enemy, absorb some Erda and decrease Erda Shower’s cooldown by 1 second. Cooldown: 40 seconds.

All Warriors

•  Body of Steel: Make your body as tough as steel to prevent yourself from being knocked back by enemy attacks. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 5% HP. For 40 seconds, prevent being knocked back by any enemy attacks and increase your resistance to statuses by 51. Cooldown: 240 seconds. [Passive effect: 1 STR, 50 HP]
  • Level 25: Consumes 5% HP. For 52 seconds, prevent being knocked back by any enemy attacks and increase your resistance to statuses by 75. Cooldown: 240 seconds. [Passive effect: 25 STR, 1250 HP]

All Magicians

•  Ethereal Form: Move to another dimension for a short time to reduce damage taken. If you use the skill again while in the Ethereal Form state, you will return to your original dimension. While in the Ethereal Form state, you cannot use any other skills. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1000 HP. For 3 seconds, if you are attacked by an enemy, you will not take damage or be knocked back and the attack will consume 5910 MP instead (if you don’t have enough MP, it will consume 1970 HP). Cooldown: 30 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 1000 HP. For 3 seconds, if you are attacked by an enemy, you will not take damage or be knocked back and the attack will consume 3750 MP instead (if you don’t have enough MP, it will consume 1250 HP). Cooldown: 30 seconds.

All Archers

•  Critical Reinforce: When hitting a fatal shot, find your enemies’ weaknesses and inflict even more damage. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 500 MP. For 30 seconds, your critical rate can exceed 100%, and your critical damage will be increased by 31% of your critical rate. Cooldown: 119 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 500 MP. For 30 seconds, your critical rate can exceed 100%, and your critical damage will be increased by 55% of your critical rate. Cooldown: 95 seconds.

All Thieves

•  Ready to Die: Use your mortal determination to defeat and destroy your enemies. While in the Ready to Die state, you can use the skill again to enter an even more determined state. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 10% HP. For 30 seconds, decrease your evasion rate (including additional avoid) and increase your final damage while taking increased damage from enemy attacks (including % HP attacks). While in the 1st stage of the skill, you can use it again to enter the 2nd stage. Cooldown: 90 seconds. [Passive effect: 1 attack]
    • Stage 1: 30% decrease in total evasion rate, 15% increase in damage taken, 10% final damage increase.
    • Stage 2: 100% decrease in total evasion rate, 50% increase in damage taken, 30% final damage increase.
  • Level 25: Consumes 10% HP. For 30 seconds, decrease your evasion rate (including additional avoid) and increase your final damage while taking increased damage from enemy attacks (including % HP attacks). While in the 1st stage of the skill, you can use it again to enter the 2nd stage. Cooldown: 78 seconds. [Passive effect: 25 attack]
    • Stage 1: 30% decrease in total evasion rate, 15% increase in damage taken, 12% final damage increase.
    • Stage 2: 100% decrease in total evasion rate, 50% increase in damage taken, 35% final damage increase.

All Pirates

•  Overdrive: Overcharge your weapons to draw out more attack from them for a certain period of time. After the skill ends, the overused weapon will have its stats decreased for a certain period of time and while Overdrive is on cooldown, you will not be able to switch to another weapon. (max level: 25)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1990 HP. For 30 seconds, increase your attack by 31% of your weapon’s clean attack. After the duration ends, for the remaining cooldown time, your attack will be decreased by 15% of your weapon’s clean attack. Cooldown: 60 seconds.
  • Level 25: Consumes 1750 HP. For 30 seconds, increase your attack by 55% of your weapon’s clean attack. After the duration ends, for the remaining cooldown time, your attack will be decreased by 15% of your weapon’s clean attack. Cooldown: 60 seconds.

Other Changes

The required time to complete the 5th job advancement has been decreased. It seems the waiting time in between charging Arcane Stones has been completely removed! This might just be a test server thing though so I’ll recheck once this hits the official servers.

When you use Core Gemstones, you will now only receive V Cores that you can equip.

The experience required to level up V Cores has been adjusted. I will add more details when I find them but it seems someone on Insoya has made a chart of the new experience requirements. Top left is the old skill tables, top right is the new skill tables, bottom left is the old enhancement tables, bottom right is the new enhancement tables. The columns are from left to right: skill level, exp to next level, total exp, then average required cores (specific and rounded up).

Arcane Symbols’ maximum level has been increased. I will add more details when I find them but I think it was increased to level 20.

Dimensional Library

Dimensional Library – Episode 4: The Bard of the Snowy Mountain has been added.

Hundreds of years ago, their names were scattered and disappeared alongside a blizzard. The only things that were passed down were old instruments and sad songs.

New quests have been added.

• The Bard of the Snowy Mountain 1: LV. 100, Haze
• The Bard of the Snowy Mountain 2: LV. 100, Miler
• Signs of War: LV. 100, Miler
• People Trapped in the Lion King’s Castle: LV. 100, 마일러
• Detection Magic: LV. 100, Miler
• Terrified Survivor: LV. 100, soldier
• Terrified Survivor 2: LV. 100, soldier
• Heavy Steps: LV. 100, Miler
• Hundreds and Thousands of Kids: LV. 100, Haze
• Hundreds and Thousands of Kids 2: LV. 100, soldier
• Dragon Master’s Arrangement: LV. 100, Miler
• The Gatherer: LV. 100, soldier
• Mountain Turtle Spawning Season: LV. 100, soldier
• Strange Girl: LV. 100, soldier
• Capturing the Curly Cow: LV. 100, Alicia
• I Love the Snow: LV. 100, Haze
• Climb the Western Wall: LV. 100, soldier
• Climb the Eastern Wall: LV. 100, soldier
• Scorched Miler: LV. 100, soldier
• To Home: LV. 100, Miler
• Shooter 1: LV. 100, Haze
• Shooter 2: LV. 100, soldier
• Shooter 3: LV. 100, soldier
• [Dimensional Library] The Thing that was Passed Down: LV. 100, Cygnus
• [Dimensional Library] Bard of the Snowy Mountain: LV. 100
• [NOVA] Dimensional Library EP4 Play Gift!: LV. 100, Librarian Thales

I haven’t played through the episode yet, but based on the cutscenes/NPCs/maps/quest data, I believe the story takes place at the same time as the Black Mage’s height to power.

The main character is a bard in El Nath (I believe he is part of Von Leon’s kingdom). Von Leon’s castle is attacked and when the bard goes to help the survivors, he sees Von Leon talking to Hilla about taking revenge on Maple World by joining the Black Mage.

He encounters a strange girl (Alicia!) who asks for help in collecting animals for her ark (aka The SEED). Afterwards, she asks him to come with her but he declines, choosing to stay with his allies and fight.

In the end, the war overtakes the castle and they are invaded. The bard’s harp is passed down to the Transcendent of Life (Alicia) who leaves it in Ereb.

New NPCs have been added.

• Haze
• Miler
• Alicia
• Von Leon
• Hilla
• Soldier
• Runt
• Spiny Bear
• Curly Cow

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New maps have been added.

New items have been added.

• Medal: Bard of the Snowy Mountain (4 all stats, 180 HP/MP, 90 defense)

You no longer have to play all of the Dimensional Library’s episodes in a specific order.

The Dimensional Library Episode 4 Open event will take place.

• Event Duration: July 13 ~ August 9
• Event Participants: all characters level 100+, Zero characters must have completed Chapter 2
• Event Participation Method: Complete Episode 4 of Dimensional Library.
• Rewards: 30 Nova Coins (once per account)

Spring Project!

Based on user comments on the Voice of Mapler forums on the official homepage, the following improvements have been made to the game.

When multiple items with the same expiration date are given to you, they will now be given in a single slot.

• Daily Gift‘s Strange Cubes and Experience Coupons
• Rest Experience Coupons

When you are dropping a chair, it will now ask for confirmation to avoid mistakes.

After receiving certain titles, you can now buy them again in case you dropped them.

• Cross Hunter Certification (Lee)
• King of Root Abyss (Oco)
• Maple Chat (Irene)
• Blockbuster related titles (Roco)

If you try to register a skill that cannot be used with the Pet Auto Buff or skill macro systems, a popup will appear with more information. (Note: it says you cannot register non-buff skills, skills with cooldowns, summon related skills, and on/off skills)

When you have accumulated the maximum number of Union Coins, a popup notification will now appear to remind you to claim them.

The on/off status of the Soul Weapon UI will now be saved after closing the client.

You can now recharge stars and bullets at the Mu Lung point shop.

The maximum number of Crystals and Crystal Ores that can stack in one slot has been increased from 100 to 3000.

Medals will now be instantly registered in your collection after acquiring them.

On the character select window, it will now show you the number of used and available character slots for 5 seconds upon connecting. It can be viewed again by clicking the server button in the top right.

On the character select window, the number of character pages will now be displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Game Related

When creating characters or changing character names, if you fail multiple times, you will be required to complete a lie detector.

After completing Urus matching, you can now participate in the content on channels 21~30.

The drop rate of Lunar Dews for the Empress’ Might quest has been slightly increased.

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error that prevented certain quests from being completed in Nova.
• The Nova Step Up event’s Star Force monster hunting mission has been changed to allow level 201+ characters to kill level 180 Star Force monsters to complete it.
• Fixed an error where Warrior Specters would not appear for the ‘Securing the Frontline!’ quest and thus it could not be completed.
• Fixed an error where Cadena would receive the Gold Agent Emblem when trying to re-receive the Silver Agent Emblem.
• Fixed an error where Cadena’s Destiny’s Pioneer medal was not added to the medal tab.
• Fixed an error where Cadena could not equip certain Cash weapons.
• Fixed an error where using the Rune of Greed would active the Rune of Transcendence’s message and effect.
• Fixed an error where the screen message after using a Rune would be obscured.
• Fixed an error where you could move through the terrain on The SEED’s 38th floor.
• Fixed an error where you would receive meaningless messages when taking pictures in the Mushroom Castle content.
• Fixed an error where there were unusual motions for the Jaihin Spear, Jaihin Guards, Jaihin Claw, Jaihin Dual Bowgun, Muspel Magician Suit, Muspel Warrior Suit, and Elven Crystal Suit.
• The Mini Popo pet’s appetite has been changed to match its characteristics.
• Fixed an error where sometimes you could not save a spirit in Spirit Saviour by pressing the NPC Chat key only once.

Skill Related

The Buff Freezer will now apply to certain 5th job skills that it did not apply to before.

•  Aura Weapon
•  Overload Mana
•  Arrow Rain
•  Transform
•  Elysion
•  Shadow Spear
•  Lightning Union
•  Install Maha
•  Elemental Ghost
•  Joker

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error where if you entered the Cash Shop or Auction House after summoning something, the cooldown would decrease but its duration would not.
• Fixed an error where Phantom’s Joker skill’s range would be decreased if used on certain monster targets.

Cash Related

The Hair Room Slot Expansion has been added. Currently, by default, you have 3 Hair Room slots to store Mannequins.

You can now expand your slots by up to 2 more by using the new Hair Room Slot Expansions. When you have fully expanded your slots, you can store up to 5 mannequins.

The Name Eraser has been added. It can be used to remove the names on items which have had the Name Tag item used on them. It can only be used on items which your character has used the Name Tag on (no removing other people’s names!). However, you cannot use this to remove the name of the person who crafted an item.