A new test server patch has been released. Honestly, the biggest and most jarring change is the image above, which is the new MapleStory icon! RIP to the original icon. 😦

There’s a few other additions, but this patch is mainly events, which I won’t cover until they come to the official server next week.

Maple Achievements

The Achievement Renew feature has been added. On the My Achievements page, you can press the Renew button to update the progress of certain achievements. When new achievements are added, you can use it once per character.

You can only use this feature in towns and while your achievements are renewing, you will not be able to do anything else.

New achievements have been added.

Growth

• Stat
  • [Ability] Unlock 3 Ability slots (10)
  • [Ability] Achieve Epic rank after resetting your Ability (20)
  • [Ability] Achieve Unique rank after resetting your Ability (30)
  • [Ability] Achieve Legendary rank after resetting your Ability (40)
  • [Ability] Acquire the following Abilities (100)
    • +1 attack speed stage increase
    • 50% buff duration increase
    • 30 attack/magic attack
    • 20% item drop rate increase
    • 20% meso rate increase
    • +1 monsters hit on mobbing skills
  • [Ability] Consume a total of 1,000,000 Honor (10)
  • [Ability] Consume a total of 10,000,000 Honor (20)
  • [Ability] Consume a total of 100,000,000 Honor (30)

Job

• Story
  • Complete the Adventurer’s Book (20)
  • Complete the Dual Blader story quests (20)
  • Complete the Cygnus Knight story quests (20)
  • Complete the Resistance story quests (20)
  • Complete the Zero story quests (20)
  • Complete the Aran story quests (20)
  • Complete the Mercedes story quests (20)
  • Complete the Luminous story quests (20)
  • Complete the Evan story quests (20)
  • Complete the Eunwol story quests (20)
  • Complete the Phantom story quests (20)
  • Complete the Mikhail story quests (20)
  • Complete the Kinesis story quests (20)
  • Complete the Xenon story quests (20)
  • Complete the Kaiser story quests (20)
  • Complete the Angelic Buster story quests (20)
  • Complete the Demon story quests (20)
  • Complete the Cadena story quests (20)
  • Complete the Illium story quests (20)
• Skill
  • Achieve level 1 Mikhail’s Soul Driver (30)
  • Achieve level 2 Mikhail’s Soul Driver (30)
  • Achieve level 3 Mikhail’s Soul Driver (30)
  • Achieve level 4 Mikhail’s Soul Driver (40)
  • Achieve level 5 Mikhail’s Soul Driver (40)
  • Achieve level 1 Oz’s Flame Gear (30)
  • Achieve level 2 Oz’s Flame Gear (30)
  • Achieve level 3 Oz’s Flame Gear (30)
  • Achieve level 4 Oz’s Flame Gear (40)
  • Achieve level 5 Oz’s Flame Gear (40)
  • Achieve level 1 Irena’s Wind Piercing (30)
  • Achieve level 2 Irena’s Wind Piercing (30)
  • Achieve level 3 Irena’s Wind Piercing (30)
  • Achieve level 4 Irena’s Wind Piercing (40)
  • Achieve level 5 Irena’s Wind Piercing (40)
  • Achieve level 1 Icarut’s Vampire (30)
  • Achieve level 2 Icarut’s Vampire (30)
  • Achieve level 3 Icarut’s Vampire (30)
  • Achieve level 4 Icarut’s Vampire (40)
  • Achieve level 5 Icarut’s Vampire (40)
  • Achieve level 1 Hawkeye’s Shark Wave (30)
  • Achieve level 2 Hawkeye’s Shark Wave (30)
  • Achieve level 3 Hawkeye’s Shark Wave (30)
  • Achieve level 4 Hawkeye’s Shark Wave (40)
  • Achieve level 5 Hawkeye’s Shark Wave (40)
  • Acquire the Empress’ Enhancement skill (20)

Item

• Collection
  • Collect the Goddess Minerva’s Diary and return it (20)
  • Collect the Goddess Lakelis’ Old Notebook and return it (20)
  • Collect the Librarian Wiz’s Old Book and return it (20)
  • Collect the Librarian Wiz’s Old Letter and return it (20)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Fallen Empress Saviour medal (20)
  • [Medal] Acquire the King of Root Abyss medal (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Dream Breaker medals (40)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Evolving System Master medal (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Tristan’s Successor medal (20)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Ghost Park related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Knight of Roses medal (10)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Dimension Invade related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all the SEED related medals (40)
  • [Medal] Acquire all the FriendStory best friend medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Urus related medals (40)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Heroes of Maple related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Black Heaven related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Butterfly’s Dream medal (20)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Hard Hilla related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Tangyoon’s Acknowledged Dish medal (10)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Empathy related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Charm related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Craft related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Will related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Charisma related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all Insight related medals (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire all the Exorcism related medals (20)
  • [Medal] Acquire the Variety Hair Changer medal (30)
  • [Medal] Acquire the following Explorer medals (30)
    • Beginner Explorer
    • El Nath Mountains Explorer
    • Ludus Lake Explorer
    • Undersea Explorer
    • Mu Lung Dojo Explorer
    • Nihal Desert Explorer
    • Minar Forest Explorer
    • Ossyria Explorer
    • Maple Explorer
    • Sleepywood Explorer
    • Victoria Explorer
    • The One Who Touched the Sky
• Enchantment
  • [Scroll Trace] Use a total of 100,000 Scroll Traces (20)
  • [Scroll Trace] Use a total of 1,000,000 Scroll Traces (30)
  • [Scroll Trace] Succeed 100 times with a Scroll Trace 15% scroll (20)
  • [Scroll Trace] Succeed 1,000 times with a Scroll Trace 15% scroll (30)
  • [Scroll Trace] Succeed 100 times with a Scroll Trace Innocent Scroll (30)
  • [Scroll Trace] Succeed 100 times with a Scroll Trace Clean Slate Scroll (30)

Adventure

• Exploration
  • [Area Exploration] Explore Asylum (20)
  • [Area Exploration] Explore Morass (20)
• Quest
  • Complete the Fame increasing quests (30)
  • Complete Henesys’ quests (20)
  • Complete Perion’s quests (20)
  • Complete Kerning City’s quests (20)
  • Complete Ellinia’s quests (20)
  • Complete Sleepywood’s quests (20)
  • Complete Orbis’ quests (20)
  • Complete El Nath’s quests (20)
  • Complete Aqua Road’s quests (20)
  • Complete Ludibrium’s quests (20)
  • Complete Leafre’s quests (20)
  • Complete Kritias’ quests (20)
  • Complete Leben Mine’s quests (20)
  • Complete Ariant’s quests (20)
  • Complete the Door to the Future quests (30)
  • Complete Pantheon’s quests (20)
  • Complete Helisium’s quests (20)
  • Complete Mu Lung’s quests (20)
  • Complete Herb Town’s quests (20)
  • Complete the Temple of Time quests (20)
  • Complete Root Abyss’ quests (20)
  • Complete Mechanical Grave’s quests (20)
  • Complete Aswan’s quests (20)
  • Complete the Deep Sea quests (20)
  • Complete the Road of Vanishing quests (20)
  • Complete Chew Chew Island’s quests (20)
  • Complete Lacheln’s quests (20)
  • Complete Arcana’s quests (20)
  • Complete Morass’ quests (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Fairy Academy Elinel (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Gold Beach (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Riena Strait (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Mushroom Castle (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Elin Forest (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Lion King’s Castle (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Fantastic Theme Park (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Korean Folk Town (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Golden Temple (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Crimsonwood Citadel (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Kerning Tower (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Stone Giant Colossus (20)
  • [Theme Dungeon] Complete Omega Sector (20)
  • [Dimensional Library] Complete Episode 1. White Mage (20)
  • [Dimensional Library] Complete Episode 2. Becoming an Empress (20)
  • [Dimensional Library] Complete Episode 3. Black Witch (20)
  • [Dimensional Library] Complete Episode 4. Bard of the Snowy Mountain (20)
  • [Cross Hunter] Complete the Prologue (20)
  • [Cross Hunter] Complete Chapter 1 (20)
  • [Cross Hunter] Complete Chapter 2 (20)
  • [Cross Hunter] Complete Chapter 3 (20)
  • [Cross Hunter] Complete Chapter 4 (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 1. Black Wing’s Leader (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 2. Charge, Crystal Garden (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 3. Clash in the Skies (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 4. Flare of the Counterattack (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 5. Towards the Core (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Act 6. Black Heaven (20)
  • [Black Heaven] Complete Black Heaven 10 times (40)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Act 1. Slumbering Dragon Island (20)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Act 1.5. Reunion (20)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Act 2. Abraxas (20)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Act 3. Strange World (20)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Act 4. World Tree (20)
  • [Heroes of Maple] Complete Heroes of Maple 10 times (40)
  • [FriendStory] Complete the Prologue. World Beyond the Wardrobe (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 1. Cygnus and the Student of Destiny (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 2. Idol Orca and Stalker Turmoil (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 3. Nurse Hilla and P.E. Teacher Magnus (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 4. Fortune Telling Girl Cassandra and the School Ghost Story (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 5. Unidentified Student Teacher and Students in Crisis (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete Chapter 6. Transfer Student Demian and Burning Rock Soul (20)
  • [FriendStory] Complete FriendStory 10 times (40)
  • [FriendStory] Complete all of FriendStory’s hidden stories (30)

Battle

• Boss
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Easy Papulatus 10 times (10)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Easy Papulatus 100 times (20)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Easy Papulatus 1,000 times (30)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Normal Papulatus 10 times (10)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Normal Papulatus 100 times (20)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Normal Papulatus 1,000 times (30)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Chaos Papulatus 1 time (20)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Chaos Papulatus 10 times (30)
  • [Papulatus] Defeat Chaos Papulatus 100 times (40)

Game Related

The MapleStory executable file’s icon design has been changed. It does change slightly based on the size of your icon too. I’m going to miss the old icon 😦 

When you participate in Urus using Quick Matching and have 10 or more people, based on the ratio of party members that received an E rank, those who did not receive E ranks will have their scores increased. The rankings will reflect the total scores before this increase.

When fighting Hekaton, characters who do not move for a certain period of time or do not deal any damage will not receive rewards.

Hekaton’s HP will no longer increase when characters enter past the 10 minute mark.

The Spark Damage Skin icon’s sample image has been changed.

When your character stands still, if a pet is covering you, it will automatically move after 3 seconds.

Pet commands will now be shown in the pet’s tooltip. The pet food seller NPCs Cute, Laya, Moody, Patricia, and Wilson will no longer sell Pet Guides.

Silver Karma Scissors can now be used on items which previously required only the regular Karma Scissors.

I don’t think GMS has Silver Karma Scissors but they were added with Additional Options and they cost 20m mesos so you no longer need to spend NX to trade any equipment that require Karma Scissors (Hopefully they do something about Platinum Scissors too haha).

If you try to enter Chaos Root Abyss without having cleared Normal Root Abyss 10 times, you will now be shown your number of Normal Root Abyss clears.

Arcane Symbols that have been locked using Item Locks can no longer be levelled up or used as reinforcement material for other Arcane Symbols.

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error where sometimes a character could not perform any actions after using a Mannequin.
• Fixed an error where reviving in town after death would sometimes consume 2 Safety Charms.
• Fixed an error where the remaining time displayed in boss content UI would be different from the actual remaining time.
• Fixed an error where certain Road of Vanishing quests’ NPC images would not appear in the Completed Quests tab.
• Fixed an error where Zeros comparing weapons with other Zero characters would not display the correct increase in range.
• Fixed an error where Burning Fields did not apply to Forgotten Road of Time 1.
• Fixed an error where debuff effects did not apply to the boss Lucid in her rage phase.
• Fixed an error where the Boss Matching buff for Caoong and Papulatus did not persist after death.
• Fixed an error where pets did not pick up certain items in World Merged Party Quests.
• Fixed an error where certain Cash equipment and effects would not appear on the Character Select screen.

Skill Related

You must now have a weapon equipped to use skills that deal damage to enemies.

An error where Night Walker’s Element: Darkness‘ defense ignore effect would overwrite other skills has been fixed. However, Element: Darkness’ defense ignore effect now only applies to Night Walkers.

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error where certain attacking skills could be used in Meisterville.
• Fixed an error where Mercedes’ Union effect applied to Guided Arrow.
• Fixed an error where Dark Knight’s Beholder Enhancement Core enhanced Beholder Impact.
• Fixed an error where Evan’s Magic Amplification increased final damage by less than its description.
• Fixed an error where Mercedes’ Ishtar’s Ring did not increase Ignis Roar’s duration correctly if used while riding Sylphidia.
• Fixed an error where Mercedes’ Rolling Moonsault could not be linked with Charge Drive.
• Fixed an error where Blaster repeatedly cancelling skills with Charge skills would cause the client to exit.
• Fixed an error where Cadena would move to an abnormal location after using Summon Slashing Knife in a Hidden Portal.
• Fixed an error where Cadena’s Chain Arts: Takedown would not deal damage to enemies above a certain height from the ground.
• Fixed an error where Beta’s appearance would disappear when tagging after Alpha used Shadow Rain.

Cash Related

Wisp’s Wonder Berry has been added. When used, you will receive a Wonder pet or a special pet item.

Here’s the special Wonder pets you can get, including the ‘In the Woods’ pets, the Spiny Bear pets, and the Slime Mini/Yeti Mini.

You can also get the Enriched Premium Water of Life, which gives your pet 270 days of magic (3x as much as a regular Water of Life).

Events

If you want a sneak peak at the new events, you should know it’s called the Maple Film Festival. One such film is Maple Bad. But did you know in Korea, the Despicable Me films are called Super Bad? Minions have finally invaded MapleStory.