The fourth and final patch of the MapleStory: Black Mage update has been released! It is aptly titled the Final Battle, and after 15 years of MapleStory, it is finally time to defeat the Black Mage.

Here’s a new 30 second TV commercial for this update! Now, fight against the enormous darkness!

Here’s the Maple Update Info Centre video.

World Selection screen!

Tenebris Expedition

NOTE: A lot of this information in this section is repeated from my last post. I did this because the new ranks/rewards/unlocked skills/etc are an addition to the existing stuff so it makes it clearer this way. I highlighted the specifically new information in green if you just want to see it.

The Alliance rank has a total of 13 ranks: Warrior, Guardian I~IV, Hero I~IV, and Legend I~IV. 

The Alliance Rank: Legend has been now been unlocked. 

You can speak to Nineheart at the Outpost to increase your Alliance rank by giving him Alliance Medals. As your rank increases, you’ll be able to access new Alliance skills and Alliance Supply Shop items. 

• Warrior → Guardian I: 300 Alliance Medals
• Guardian I → Guardian II: 150 Alliance Medals
• Guardian II → Guardian III: 150 Alliance Medals
• Guardian III → Guardian IV: 600 Alliance Medals
• Guardian IV → Hero 1: 600 Alliance Medals
• Hero 1 → Hero 2: 300 Alliance Medals
• Hero 2 → Hero 3: 450 Alliance Medals
• Hero 3 → Hero 4: 1200 Alliance Medals
• Hero 4 → Legend 1: 1000 Alliance Medals
• Legend 1 → Legend 2: 700 Alliance Medals
• Legend 2 → Legend 3: 900 Alliance Medals
• Legend 3 → Legend 4: 2000 Alliance Medals

All of these systems (Alliance rank/skills/supply shop) will only be available until the Black Mage is defeated.

When you reach certain ranks, you’ll receive special prizes from the Empress. You can only receive these items once per world.

• Guardian I
  • 50 Alliance Teleport World Scrolls
  • Tenebris Expedition Ring (10 all stats, 1000 HP/MP, 10 attack/magic attack, 3 slots)
• Guardian II
  • 10 Core Gemstones
  • 3 2x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Guardian III
  • 10 Selective Arcane Symbols
  • 3 2x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Guardian IV
  • Guardian Medal of Honour
  • Tenebris Expedition Ring Enhancement Scroll (100% success rate, +10 all stats, +5 attack/magic attack, +1000 HP/MP)
  • Alliance Meso Support Box (gives 50m mesos)
  • Maple Alliance Helmet
  • Maple Alliance Suit
  • Maple Alliance Cape
  • Maple Alliance Flag
• Hero I
  • 50 Alliance Teleport World Scrolls
  • 3 Craftsman’s Cubes
• Hero II
  • 20 Core Gemstones
  • 3 2x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Hero III
  • 20 Selective Arcane Symbols
  • 3 2x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Hero IV
  • Hero Medal of Honour
  • Tenebris Expedition Ring Enhancement Scroll (100% success rate, +10 all stats, +5 attack/magic attack, +1000 HP/MP)
  • Alliance Meso Support Box II (gives 100m mesos)
  • Alliance Maple Points Support Box (gives 5k Maple Points)

• Legend I
  • 50 Alliance Teleport World Scrolls
  • 3 Meister Cubes
• Legend II
  • 30 Core Gemstones
  • 3 3x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Legend III
  • 30 Selective Arcane Symbol Vouchers
  • 3 3x Experience Coupons (15 minutes)
• Legend IV
  • Legend Medal of Honor
  • Tenebris Expedition Ring Enhancement Scroll
  • Alliance Meso Support Box III (gives 100m mesos)
  • Alliance Maple Points Support Box (gives 10k Maple Points)

Alliance Skills

Alliance Skills are skills that increase your characters’ stats and help in your adventures. The Legend tab’s skills have now been unlocked.

The Alliance skills are separated into [Content Skills], [Ability Skills], and [Goddess Statue Skills]. Based on the type of skill, the methods of acquiring them and levelling them up are different.

• Content Skills: when your Alliance rank is increased, you will automatically unlock these skills, which you can then level up using skill points given based on your rank.
• Ability Skills: when your Alliance rank is increased, you can talk to Grendel to automatically learn and level up these skills.
• Goddess Statue Skills: when the Journey of Destiny progresses past a certain stage and each Goddess Statue is completed, you can talk to Grendel to automatically learn these skills.

Based on your current Alliance rank, you can talk to Grendel at the Outpost to acquire skill points and Ability skills. Certain Content Skills will require previous skills to reach a certain level. You can see these required relationships in the Alliance Skill UI.

Alliance Skills can be reset once per day for each rank. The skills that can be learned are as follows.

Warrior

•  Alliance’s Strength: Regular Monster Damage: [Ability Skill] Increase your damage to regular monsters by 30%. (max level: 1)
•  Profession Beginner: [Content Skill] Increase the acquired mastery when mining/harvesting/crafting by 20%. (max level: 1)
•  Farm Residents’ Teachings: [Content Skill] Increase the experience from completing the Monster Life tutorial quests by 600%. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Origin: [Content Skill] When casting this skill, you can choose to acquire either 3 Desire or experience based on your level (up to 8 hours per day) every few seconds while at the Maple Alliance Outpost. (max level: 1)

Guardian I

•  Goddess’ Blessing: [Goddess Statue Skill] Receive the Goddess’ strength and increase your Arcane Force by 30 for 30 minutes. Cooldown: 1 hour. (max level: 1)

•  Goddess’ Prayer: [Goddess Statue Skill] Receive the Goddess’ strength and reset your cooldowns. Cooldown: 10 minutes. (max level: 1)

•  Goddess’ Protection: [Goddess Statue Skill] Receive the Goddess’ strength and become invincible for 10 seconds. Cooldown: 10 minutes. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Basics I: [Ability Skill] Increase all of your stats by 10/20/30/40 and maximum HP by 500/1,000/1,500/2,000. (max level: 4)
•  Party Quest Expert I: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 10% experience after completing the Tang Yoon’s Cooking Class/Nett’s Pyramid/Romeo and Juliet party quests. Applies additively with other party members’ skill effects. (max level: 1)
•  Rona’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 2 additional Arcane Symbol: Road of Vanishing after completing the Road of Vanishing daily quests. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Origin Enhancement I: [Content Skill] Increases Alliance’s Origin’s Desire acquisition rate by 1. (max level: 1)

Guardian II

•  Alliance’s Strength: Critical Rate: [Ability Skill] Increase your critical rate by 10/20/30%. (max level: 3)
•  Boss Monster Expert: Area’s Loser: [Content Skill] Increase your item drop rate by 20% when defeating Easy Zakum/Normal Zakum/Chaos Zakum/Easy Horntail/Normal Horntail/Chaos Horntail/Kaoong. (max level: 1)
•  Party Quest Expert II: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 10% experience after completing the Xerxes of Chryse/Dimensional Crack/Pirate Davy Jones party quests. Applies additively with other party members’ skill effects. [required skill: level 1 Party Quest Expert I] (max level: 1)
•  Fritto’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Intermediate Hunter’s Bag after receiving the rewards from Fritto content. (max level: 1)

Guardian III

•  Warena’s Trust: Area’s Loser: [Content Skill] Acquire 30% additional Mileage after completing the “Eliminate Normal Zakum/Chaos Zakum/Normal Horntail/Chaos Horntail/Kaoong” quests. [required skill: level 1 Boss Monster Expert: Area’s Loser] (max level: 1)
•  Simia’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 2 additional Arcane Symbol: Chew Chew Island after completing Hungry Muto 3 times. [required skill: level 1 Rona’s Trust] (max level: 1)
•  Party Quest Expert III: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 10% experience after completing the Dimension Invade/Escape/Dragon Rider party quests. Applies additively with other party members’ skill effects. [required skill: level 1 Party Quest Expert II] (max level: 1)

Guardian IV

•  Alliance’s Strength: Boss Monster Damage: [Ability Skill] Increase your damage to boss monsters by 30%. (max level: 1)
•  Collector’s Trust: Area’s Loser: [Content Skill] Increase the selling price of your Powerful Strength Crystals from Easy Zakum/Normal Zakum/Chaos Zakum/Easy Horntail/Normal Horntail/Chaos Horntail/Kaoong by 20%. [required skill: level 1 Warena’s Trust: Area’s Loser] (max level: 1)
•  Pollo’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Intermediate Hunter’s Bag after receiving the rewards from Flame Wolf. [required skill: level 1 Fritto’s Trust] (max level: 1)
•  Party Quest Expert IV: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 10% experience after completing the Kenta in Danger/Resurrection of the Hob King party quests. Applies additively with other party members’ skill effects. [required skill: level 1 Party Quest Expert III] (max level: 1)

Hero I

•  Alliance’s Basics II: [Ability Skill] Increase all of your stats by 10/20/30/40 and maximum HP by 500/1,000/1,500/2,000. (max level: 4)
•  One Eye’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Basic Energy Core (A Rank) after completing the Haven daily quests. (max level: 1)
•  Boss Monster Expert: Other World’s Existence: [Content Skill] Increase your item drop rate by 25% when defeating Normal Pink Bean/Chaos Pink Bean/Easy Cygnus/Normal Cygnus/Easy Papulatus/Normal Papulatus/Chaos Papulatus. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Origin Enhancement II: [Content Skill] Increases Alliance’s Origin’s Desire acquisition rate by 1. (max level: 1)
•  Farm Management Expert: [Content Skill] Increase the farm building Waru production rate and storage rate by 25%. (max level: 1)

Hero II

•  Alliance’s Strength: Buff Duration: [Ability Skill] Increase your buff duration by 5/10/15%. (max level: 3)
•  Alchetto’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Faint Stigma Soul Stone after completing the Abandoned Camp daily quests. [required skill: level 1 One Eye’s Trust] (max level: 1)
•  Rag Doll’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 60 additional Dream Coins after completing Dream Breaker 3 times. You cannot exceed the daily coin limit. (max level: 1)
•  Warena’s Trust: Other World’s Existence: [Content Skill] Acquire 30% additional Mileage after completing the “Eliminate Easy Cygnus/Normal Cygnus/Normal Pink Bean/Chaos Pink Bean” quests. [required skill: level 1 Boss Monster Expert: Other World’s Existence] (max level: 1)
•  Boss Monster Expert: Abyss’ Existence: [Content Skill] Increase your item drop rate by 25% when defeating Normal Pierre/Chaos Pierre/Normal Von Bon/Chaos Von Bon/Normal Bloody Queen/Chaos Bloody Queen/Normal Vellum/Chaos Vellum. (max level: 1)
•  Monster Combination Expert: [Content Skill] Increase the rate of increased ranks during Monster Combinations by 30%. (max level: 1)

Hero III

•  World Merged Party Quest Expert I: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 30% Party Points from completing a World Merged Party Quest. (max level: 1)
•  Collector’s Trust: Other World’s Existence: [Content Skill] Increase the selling price of your Powerful Strength Crystals from Normal Pink Bean/Chaos Pink Bean/Easy Cygnus/Normal Cygnus/Easy Papulatus/Normal Papulatus/Chaos Papulatus by 30%. [required skill: level 1 Warena’s Trust: Other World’s Existence] (max level: 1)
•  Warena’s Trust: Abyss’ Existence: [Content Skill] Acquire 30% additional Mileage after completing the “Eliminate Normal Pierre/Chaos Pierre/Normal Von Bon/Chaos Von Bon/Normal Bloody Queen/Chaos Bloody Queen/Normal Vellum/Chaos Vellum” quests. [required skill: level 1 Boss Monster Expert: Abyss’ Existence] (max level: 1)
•  Monster Special Combination Expert: [Content Skill] Increase the success rate of Monster Special Combinations by 30%. [required skill: level 1 Monster Combination Expert] (max level: 1)
•  Rock Spirit’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 6 additional Spirit Coins after completing Spirit Saviour 3 times. You cannot exceed the daily coin limit. [required skill: level 1 Rag Doll’s Trust] (max level: 1)
•  Kritias Expert: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 30% Anti-Magic after completing the Kritias daily quests and participating in Invasions. (max level: 1)

Hero IV

•  World Merged Party Quest Expert II: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 10% experience from completing a World Merged Party Quest. Applies additively with other party members’ skill effects. [required skill: level 1 World Merged Party Quest Expert I] (max level: 1)
•  Ms. Account’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 100% additional Union Coins after completing the Maple Union daily quests. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Strength: Critical Damage: [Ability Skill] Increase your critical damage by 10%. (max level: 1)
•  Collector’s Trust: Abyss’ Existence: [Content Skill] Increase the selling price of your Powerful Strength Crystals from Normal Pierre/Chaos Pierre/Normal Von Bon/Chaos Von Bon/Normal Bloody Queen/Chaos Bloody Queen/Normal Vellum/Chaos Vellum by 30%. [required skill: level 1 Warena’s Trust: Abyss’ Existence] (max level: 1)
•  So Gong’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 100% additional Mu Lung Points after completing a Mu Lung Dojo stage. (max level: 1)
•  Lavian’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Enheim Coin after receiving the rewards from Hekaton. [required skill: level 1 Kritias Expert] (max level: 1)

Legend I

•  Alliance’s Basics II: [Ability Skill] Increase all of your stats by 10/20/30/40 and maximum HP by 500/1,000/1,500/2,000. (max level: 4)
•  Jean’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 3 additional Arcane Symbol: Morass after completing the Morass daily quests. (max level: 1)
•  Mining/Herb Collecting Expert: [Content Skill] When harvesting herbs or ores, increase your item drop rate by 35%. (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Origin Enhancement III: [Content Skill] Increases Alliance’s Origin’s Desire acquisition rate by 1. (max level: 1)
•  Boss Monster Expert: Commanders I: [Content Skill] Increase your item drop rate by 35% when defeating Easy Magnus/Normal Magnus/Hard Magnus/Normal Hilla/Hard Hilla/Easy Arkarium/Normal Arkarium/Easy Von Leon/Normal Von Leon/Hard Von Leon. (max level: 1)
•  Monster Ecology Expert I: [Content Skill] Increase your Monster Collection registration rate for regular and Star Force monsters by 35%. (max level: 1)

Legend II

•  Alliance’s Strength: Attack/Magic Attack: [Ability Skill] Increase your attack/magic attack by 10/20/30. (max level: 3)
•  Crafting Expert: [Content Skill] When crafting equipment/accessories/alchemy items, reduce the crafting cooltime by 40%. [required skill: level 1 Mining/Herb Collecting Expert] (max level: 1)
•  Urus Expert: [Content Skill] When participating in Urus content, increase the chance of getting special materials by 40%. (max level: 1)
•  Warena’s Trust: Commanders I: [Content Skill] Acquire 50% additional Mileage after completing the “Eliminate Easy Magnus/Normal Magnus/Hard Magnus/Normal Hilla/Hard Hilla/Easy Arkarium/Normal Arkarium/Easy Von Leon/Normal Von Leon/Hard Von Leon” quests. [required skill: level 1 Boss Monster Expert: Commanders I] (max level: 1)
•  Ollie’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 3 additional Arcane Symbol: Esfera after completing the Esfera daily quests. [required skill: level 1 Jean’s Trust] (max level: 1)
•  Monster Ecology Expert II: [Content Skill] Increase your Monster Collection registration rate for Elite Monsters by 40%. [required skill: level 1 Monster Ecology Expert I] (max level: 1)

Legend III

•  Profession Master: [Content Skill] Increase the hourly fatigue restoration rate by 10. [required skill: level 1 Crafting Expert] (max level: 1)
•  Collector’s Trust: Commanders I: [Content Skill] Increase the selling price of your Powerful Strength Crystals from Easy Magnus/Normal Magnus/Hard Magnus/Normal Hilla/Hard Hilla/Easy Arkarium/Normal Arkarium/Easy Von Leon/Normal Von Leon/Hard Von Leon by 50%. [required skill: level 1 Warena’s Trust: Commanders I] (max level: 1)
•  Boss Monster Expert: Commanders II: [Content Skill] Increase your item drop rate by 45% when defeating Normal Will/Hard Will/Normal Lucid/Hard Lucid/Normal Demian/Hard Demian/Normal Suu/Hard Suu. (max level: 1)
•  Monster Ecology Expert III: [Content Skill] Increase your Monster Collection registration rate for boss monsters by 45%. [required skill: level 1 Monster Ecology Expert II] (max level: 1)
•  Monster Park Expert: [Content Skill] Increase the Monster Park completion experience by 45%. (max level: 1)
•  The SEED Expert: [Content Skill] Acquire an additional 45% Seed Points after clearing the SEED. (max level: 1)

Legend IV

•  Mashoor’s Trust: [Content Skill] When participating in Urus content, increase the amount of mesos received by 45%. [required skill: level 1 Urus Expert] (max level: 1)
•  Monster Expedition Expert: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional reward when a Monster Collection expedition is completed. [required skill: level 1 Monster Ecology Expert III] (max level: 1)
•  Alliance’s Strength: Defense Ignore: [Ability Skill] Increase your defense ignore by 30%. (max level: 1)
•  Spiegelmann’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Day Box after completing Monster Park. [required skill: level 1 Monster Park Expert] (max level: 1)
•  Collector’s Trust: Commanders II: [Content Skill] Increase the selling price of your Powerful Strength Crystals from Normal Will/Hard Will/Normal Lucid/Hard Lucid/Normal Demian/Hard Demian/Normal Suu/Hard Suu by 50%. [required skill: level 1 Boss Monster Expert: Commanders II] (max level: 1)
•  Alicia’s Trust: [Content Skill] Acquire 1 additional Alicia’s Ring Box after clearing the SEED. [required skill: level 1 The SEED Expert] (max level: 1)

Alliance Supply Shop

At the Alliance Supply Shop, you can spend your collected Alliance Medals to buy various items, depending on your current Alliance rank.

The Alliance Supply Shop’s Legend tab has been unlocked. The items that can be purchased are as follows.

Regular

• Powerful Rebirth Flame (80 medals) [limit of 5]
• Eternal Rebirth Flame (200 medals) [limit of 3]
• Craftsman’s Cube (70 medals) [limit of 5]
• 50% Epic Potential Scroll (100 medals) [limit of 3]
• Gold Potential Stamp (30 medals) [limit of 7]
• 50% Additional Potential Scroll (150 medals) [limit of 3]
• Special Additional Potential Stamp (30 medals) [limit of 3]
• 50% Gold Hammer (30 medals) [limit of 3]
• 10% Clean Slate Scroll (30 medals) [limit of 20]
• 60% Miraculous Positive Chaos Scroll (100 medals) [limit of 3]
• 60% Innocent Scroll (50 medals) [limit of 3]
• Special Medal of Honour (70 medals) [limit of 5]
• SP Reset Scroll (50 medals) [limit of 1]
• AP Reset Scroll (50 medals) [limit of 1]
• Damage Skin Storage Slot Expansion Coupon (100 medals) [limit of 5]
• Personality Growth Potion (300 medals) [limit of 1]
• Free Job Advancement Coin (300 medals) [limit of 1]
• Character Slot Expansion Coupon (200 medals) [limit of 1]
• Teleport World Map (1 Day) Voucher (15 medals) [limit of 1 per day]
• Mastery Book 20 (10 medals) [limit of 10]
• Mastery Book 30 (20 medals) [limit of 10]
• 100 Power Elixirs Voucher (5 medals) [limit of 5 per day]

Warrior

• Core Gemstone (50 medals) [limit of 10]
• Selective Arcane Symbol (50 medals) [limit of 20]
• Mystery Random Damage Skin Box (80 medals) [no limit]
  • Fog Damage Skin
  • Fog Damage Skin (Unit)
  • Sheet Music Damage Skin
  • Sheep Damage Skin
  • Music Power Damage Skin
  • Traces of the Goddess Damage Skin
  • Fafnir Damage Skin
  • Graffiti Damage Skin
  • Ice Cream Damage Skin
  • Shower Damage Skin
• Damage Skin Extractor (1,500 medals) [no limit]
• 40 Slot Soul Bag (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• 40 Slot Chair Bag (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Pollo and Fritto Entry Ticket (20 medals) [limit of 1 per day]
• Infinite Fatigue Potion (20 medals) [limit of 1 per day]
• 7 Monster Life Gems Voucher (20 medals) [limit of 5 per week]
• Mystery Monster Egg (200 medals) [limit of 5]
• Final Figuration Main Colour Change Coupon (50 medals) [no limit]
• Final Figuration Sub Colour Change Coupon (50 medals) [no limit]
• Final Figuration Colour Reset Coupon (50 medals) [no limit]
• Andromeda Chair (300 medals) [limit of 1]
• Maple Warrior’s Throne (1,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• Lots of Money Chair (700 medals) [limit of 1]
• Flying Fish Riding Coupon (Permanent) (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Gold Shark Riding Coupon (Permanent) (400 medals) [limit of 1]
• Water Summer Festival Riding Coupon (600 medals) [limit of 1]

Guardian I

• Alliance Growth Potion I (potion that can only be used by characters level 200 or higher, gives 1 level up if used between level 200~209 and a significant amount of experience if used above level 209) (200 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Tenebris Expedition Ring Only Cube (cube that can only be used on the Tenebris Expedition Ring, can go up to Unique) (30 medals) [limit of 20 per day]
• Tenebris Expedition Ring Only Strange Additional Cube (cube that can only be used on the Tenebris Expedition Ring, can only be used on Rare rank) (40 medals) [limit of 20 per day]
• Selective 8 Slot Inventory Expansion Coupon

Guardian II

• Prepared Spirit Pendant (14 days) (300 medals) [limit of 1]
• Pendant Slot Expansion Coupon (30 days) (200 medals) [limit of 1]
• 100 Alliance’s Magnifying Glasses Voucher (allows you to reveal a level 130~200 item’s potential for free) (100 medals) [limit of 2]
• Goddess Statue of Desire Chair (500 medals) [limit of 1]

Guardian III

• 20 Core Gemstones Voucher (1,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• 20 Selective Arcane Symbols Voucher (1,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• Alliance Damage Skin (300 medals) [limit of 1]

Guardian IV

• Guardian Medal of Honour (gives 30,000 Honour) (150 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Experience’s Core Gemstone (gives a special Condensed Experience Core that can be used as experience equivalent to 3 Cores for another Core) (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• 100% Level 160 13 Star Force Enhancement Scroll (2,500 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Giant Monster Riding Coupon (800 medals) [limit of 1]

Hero I

• Alliance Growth Potion II (potion that can only be used by characters level 200 or higher, gives 1 level up if used between level 200~219 and a significant amount of experience if used above level 219) (300 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Storm Growth Potion (100 medals) [limit of 1 per world week]
• Labyrinth’s Core Gemstone Box (gives a minimum of 2 Core Gemstones, and more if you’re lucky) (125 medals) [limit of 10 per world per week]
• 100% Gold Hammer (60 medals) [limit of 5]

Hero II

• 1 Red Cube Voucher (120 medals) [limit of 10 per world]
• Labyrinth’s Arcane Symbol Box (gives a minimum of 2 Arcane Symbols, and more if you’re lucky) (125 medals) [limit of 10 per world per week]
• 50% Epic Potential Scroll (100 medals) [limit of 3]
• Labyrinth Chair (600 medals) [limit of 1]

Hero III

• Labyrinth’s Random Damage Skin Box (100 medals) [no limit]
  • Chalk Damage Skin
  • Keyboard Warrior Damage Skin
  • Noise Damage Skin
  • Graffiti Damage Skin
  • Full Moon Damage Skin
  • Absolabs Damage Skin
  • Black Rose Damage Skin
  • Space Damage Skin
  • Labyrinth’s Flame Damage Skin
  • Labyrinth’s Flame Damage Skin (Unit)
• Special Additional Potential Scroll (300 medals) [limit of 3]
• Strange Additional Potential Cube (60 medals) [limit of 20]
• Labyrinth’s Personality Growth Potion Box (gives a minimum of 2 Personality Growth Potions, and more if you’re lucky) (500 medals) [limit of 1 per world per week]

Hero IV

• Hero’s Medal of Honour (gives 40,000 Honour) (200 medals) [limit of 1]
• True Hillaroid Voucher (3,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• True Dark Soul Riding Coupon (2,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• 1 Black Cube Voucher (250 medals) [limit of 10 per world]
• 100% Epic Potential Scroll (200 medals) [limit of 2]
• Perfect Potential Stamp (30 medals) [limit of 2]

Legend I

• Alliance Growth Potion III (potion that can only be used by characters level 200 or higher, gives 1 level up if used between level 200~229 and a significant amount of experience if used above level 229) (500 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Alliance Commander Tiara Voucher (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Alliance Commander Cape Voucher (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Alliance Commander Suit/Shoes Voucher (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Alliance Commander Wing Sword Voucher (1,500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Premium Pet Water of Life Voucher (100 medals) [limit of 3 per world]
• 50 Alliance Teleport World Scrolls Voucher (100 medals) [limit of 3 per world]

Legend II

• Chaos Circulator (can be used if your Ability is Unique or higher, keeps your Ability’s current rank and lines but resets the numbers) (1,500 medals) [limit of 3]
• Miracle Circulator Voucher (200 medals) [limit of 5]
• Special Medal of Honor (70 medals) [limit of 20]
• Throne of Darkness Chair (1,500 medals) [limit of 1]

Legend III

• Eternal Rebirth Flame (200 medals) [limit of 10]
• Pet Equipment Stat Transfer Scroll (can be used to move a scrolled Pet Equipment’s stats and remaining upgrade slots to another Pet Equipment, the original equipment will disappear) (1,000 medals) [limit of 3]
• 100% Clean Slate Scroll (300 medals) [limit of 5 per world]
• Root of Darkness Riding Coupon (2,000 medals) [limit of 1]

Legend IV

• Legend Medal of Honor (gives 50,000 Honor) (250 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Alliance Final Growth Potion (potion that can only be used by characters level 200 or higher, gives 1 level up if used between level 200~239 and a significant amount of experience if used above level 239) (1,000 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Black Rebirth Flame (Flame that allows you to choose between keeping the new additional options or keeping the old ones) (1,000 medals) [limit of 5 per world]
• 100% Unique Potential Scroll (5,000 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• 15 Star Force Enhancement Scroll (5,000 medals) [limit of 1 per world]
• Alliance Commander Cygnusroid Voucher (3,000 medals) [limit of 1]
• Experience’s Core Gemstone (gives a special Condensed Experience Core that can be used as experience equivalent to 3 Cores for another Core) (500 medals) [limit of 1]
• Black Chain Damage Skin (1,000 medals) [limit of 1]

Missions

The Defense Mission: Light of Purification has been added. It will run from August 9 until the Black Mage is defeated.

• By talking to Helena, you can learn the Light of Purification skill.
• In maps with monsters around your level range, you can activate the skill by right clicking it.
• While the Light of Purification is activated, whenever you kill a monster within your level range, there is a chance for the Light of Purification to be activated. 
• When the Light is activated, a countdown will appear above your head. When the countdown ends, a powerful light will surround your character and give you Desire while attacking nearby enemies. You will gain additional Desire for every monster killed by the skill.
• If you have already collected your daily limit of Desire, you can no longer activate Light of Purification.
• Light of Purification cannot be activated in certain areas, including Tenebris.

The Alliance Mission: Journey’s Memories has been added. It will run from when the Black Mage is defeated until September 6.

• By talking to Helena, you can learn the Journey’s Memories skill.
• In maps with monsters around your level range, you can activate the skill by right clicking it.
• While Journey’s Memories is activated, whenever you kill a monster within your level range, you will gain 25 Desire and charge your Maple Leaf of Peace. 
• When the Maple Leaf of Peace is completely charged, the leaf above your head will change to show a special skill, one of the four that were given out over the course of the Black Mage update!
• You can then reuse Journey’s Memories to gain 400 Desire and activate the skill you charged up. 
  • Desire Explosion: attack nearby enemies with an explosion, gaining 10 Desire per monster defeated
  • Knight Summon: summon knights of the Alliance for 20 seconds to attack nearby enemies, gaining 5 Desire per monster defeated
  • Flame Bird Riding: ride the Flame bird and attack enemies for 10 seconds, gaining 5 Desire per monster defeated
  • Maple Tree of Peace: summon the Maple Tree of Peace for 10 seconds to attack nearby enemies, gaining 5 Desire per monster defeated
• If you have already collected your daily limit of Desire, you can no longer activate Journey’s Memories.
• Journey’s Memories cannot be activated in certain areas.

The Defense Mission: Final Naval Warfare has been added. It will run from August 9 until the Black Mage is defeated.

• Final Naval Warfare is a mission where you must defeat enemies within the time limit with your ships and crew members.
• You can start the mission by talking to the NPC Koon in the entry map.
• When the mission begins, you will be given a ship and crew members based on your Captain Rank. 
• By defeating incoming enemies, you will earn Naval Warfare Points and Gold Coins.
• Your Naval Warfare Points will be exchanged at a 100:1 ratio for Desire after the mission ends.
• Gold Coins can be used during the mission to hire more crew members or enhance them.
• Occasionally, you will be able to save captive sailors and have them join your crew.
• The mission will end when you collect a total of 1 million points or the time limit runs out.
• Based on your total accumulated Naval Warfare Points, your Captain rank can increase, up to 4 stages. As your Captain rank increases, your ship’s speed will increase and you will be able to have higher level crew members.
• You can collect a total of 1 million points per day.
• If you have already collected your daily limit of Desire, you will not gain any more Desire but your total Naval Warfare Points will continue to increase.

The Change in Maple World: Aura of Life has begun.

• While killing monsters around your level range, the Aura of Life will surround your character.
• When the Aura of Life is completely activated, your attack/magic attack will be increased and you will gain Desire for every monster defeated.
• The Aura of Life will end when you collect 500 Desire or when the time limit runs out.
• If you have already collected your daily limit of Desire, the Aura of Life will no longer activate.

The Change in Maple World: Crevice of Darkness will begin once the Journey of Destiny progresses past a certain point.

• While killing monsters around your level range, a portal to the Crevice of Darkness will appear.
• Using the portal, you can move to an unknown location and attack the roots of a giant enemy for 30 seconds.
• When you enter the unknown location, you will receive the Crevice of Darkness buff for 30 seconds, which increases your attack/magic attack and fixes the cooldown of certain skills to 5 seconds. However, for players who are already extremely strong, there will be no change in their attack/magic attack.
• Based on the damage you inflicted on the enemy’s roots, you will gain Desire.
• You can only enter 5 times per day.
• If you have already collected your daily limit of Desire, the portal will no longer appear.

Limen

NOTE: You can no longer enter Labyrinth of Suffering. The Expedition Mission: Labyrinth of Suffering can no longer be completed.

Tenebris’ 3rd area, Limen, has been added. You can access it through the portal in the Maple Alliance Outpost. It is only available for users that are level 200 or higher and have completed the 5th job advancement.

Based on the world’s progress of the Journey of Destiny, Tenebris’ story will proceed gradually. As you can see above, the area’s maps will be revealed over time, so you’ll have to work together and collect enough Desire to unlock everything. However, you cannot enter regions from previous stages.

In the Tenebris area’s maps, up to 10 characters can enter the same instance of a map. The monsters will be individually assigned, so you will only be able to see and hunt your own monsters. However, Elite Bosses will appear for all characters, but will not summon any Elite Monsters and the Bonus Stage will not apply. Elite Monsters and Elite Bosses that appear in the Tenebris area will have stats proportional to the map’s monsters’ stats, based on the average level of the characters in the map.

In the Tenebris area’s maps, you cannot create parties, but all party buff skills will be automatically shared with other characters.

In the Tenebris area’s maps, unlike regular maps, there will be no Runes, flowers/veins, or Burning Fields and no items will be dropped. However, you will be able to gain a lot of additional experience from various exclusive gimmicks.

In the Tenebris area’s maps, you will have a 1 hour time limit and after that time is up, you will no longer gain any experience from monsters. The time limit will reset every day at midnight.

Limen Missions

The Expedition Mission: Limen has been added.

• Mission Requirements: Complete the “[Black Mage] Gather at the Outpost” and the 5th job advancement.
• Mission Beginning: Accept the “[Alliance Mission] Expedition Mission – To the Black Mage” quest from Helena.
• Help the Tenebris expedition to escape dangerous situations inside Limen.
• When you begin the quest, you’ll also receive 3 random missions.
• The Limen expedition and the 3 additional missions can be completed once per day. The limit will reset every day at midnight.
• When you complete an additional mission, you’ll receive 10,000 Desire.
• If you complete all 3 additional missions, you’ll complete the Limen expedition and receive the Alliance’s Loot. This will give 6m mesos, 2 Core Gemstones, and 1 Rare Reward Box.
• The dangerous situations can vary based on the Journey of Destiny. If they change, you can talk to Helena to replace the missions with new ones.

The random missions can include:

• Black Hole
  • While hunting in the Tears of the World area in Limen, Orca will occasionally appear and use her Black Hole. Defeat 30 Ascensions before you fall into the Black Hole to complete this mission.
• Erda Swell
  • While hunting in the Tears of the World area in Limen, occasionally a large amount of Erda will collect at the top of the map and then wash away everything in the map. Before the swell occurs, find a safe spot and defeat any monsters that try to destroy your cover. To complete this mission, you must experience the Erda Swell 1 time.
• Seed of Life
  • While hunting in the Tears of the World area in Limen, occasionally a Seed of Life or Activated Seed of Life will appear. When you defeat one you’ll receive a special bonus experience buff which stacks. To complete this mission, you must defeat 20 Seeds of Life/Activated Seds of Life.
• Erda Saturation
  • While hunting in the Tears of the World area in Limen, when you defeat an Elite Monster, you will gain the Erda Saturation buff which reduces all of your cooldowns to 5 seconds for a certain period of time. While the buff is active, you must defeat 700 monsters to complete this mission.
• The Place Nearest to the End
  • At the end of the Tears of the World area, you must defeat 350 Fallen Warriors to complete this mission.
• Elite Bosses’ Defense
  • At the end of the Tears of the World area, you must defeat 3 of the Elite Bosses to complete this mission.
• Guard Captain Dunkel
  • At the end of the Tears of the World area, you must defeat the Guard Captain Dunkel to complete this mission. He will only spawn after you have killed a certain number of Elite Bosses and Fallen Warriors.
• Cannon Support
  • At the End of the World area, after the Giant has used its light of destruction, you can charge up the cannons on the sides of each map using Erda collected from monsters. You must charge up the cannons 30 times to complete this mission.
• Light of Destruction
  • At the End of the World area, the Giant will use its light of destruction occasionally. It will one shot you unless you have collected enough Erda from killing monsters. You must survive this attack 3 times to complete this mission.
• Light of Punishment
  • At the End of the World area, the Giant will use its light of punishment frequently. It will deal a lot of damage unless you have collected enough Erda from killing monsters. You must be in the map when this attack happens 60 times to complete this mission.
• Erda Saturation
  • At the End of the World area, after the Giant has used its light of destruction and you have charged up a cannon to 100%, the Giant will release Erda that saturates the map for a certain period of time. While the buff is active, you must defeat 300 monsters to complete this mission.
• Alliance Support
  • At the End of the World area, while defeating monsters, the Alliance will occasionally appear to support you. You must receive their support 35 times to complete this mission.

New monsters have been added.

• Guard Captain Dunkel (Lv. 210)
• Transcendion (Lv. ???)
• Ascension (Lv. ???)
• Ancestion (Lv. ???)
• Embrion (Lv. ???)
• Seed of Life (Lv. ???)
• Activated Seed of Life (Lv. ???)

A new medal has been added.

• The One Beyond Destiny (Lv. 200)

New illustrations.

New NPC illustrations.

Black Fury

Lost Space

Subterminal Point

Tears of the World

Temple of Darkness

The World’s End

Throne of Darkness

World Horizon

New Beginning, Not the End 

New BGMs (including some that weren’t on the teaser site!).

Here are the new maps! Some of them are quite amazing to look at! The second last one (space looking one) is called the Boundary of the Beginning and the End. The last one is called Nonexistent Space.

Black Mage

Finally, you can fight the Black Mage.

• When the Journey of Destiny has completely progressed, you will be able to meet and battle the Black Mage. The Black Mage’s HP is shared between all worlds.
• You can only fight the Black Mage at specific times.
  • Every day at 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, 3:30PM, 5:30 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:30 PM, and 11:30 PM, you will be able to enter the fight for 15 minutes.
• During the times when you can fight the Black Mage, you can complete the [Alliance Mission] Special Mission – Black Mage quest. Special Missions have separate daily completion limits than regular Expedition Missions.

The Special Missions each give 5,000 Desire upon completion. They are:

• Black Mage 1
  • Deal 500m damage while fighting against the Black Mage and his guards.
• Black Mage 2
  • Survive while fighting against the Black Mage and his guards for 10 minutes.

Phase 1

In Phase 1, you must defeat the Black Mage’s knights of creation and destruction, the Aion of Creation and the Demiurge of Destruction.

Phase 2

In Phase 2, you’ll fight the Black Mage himself!

Sometimes he’ll activate this powerful skill that covers the maps in piercing red and purple lightning. Find a safe spot or you’ll be instantly killed!

Of course you’ll have to watch out for all these other skills he’ll use, like the floating eye, chains, red lightning that stops your movement, and Wailing Walls that block off the sides of the maps.

Phase 3

In Phase 3, you’ll fight the Black Mage in a different form, one made of what seems to be light.

Phase 4

In the fourth and final phase, you’ll fight the Black Mage, while he’s… wait for it… black and white.

He’ll use these black and white beams to attack!

Voice of Mapler

The skill window’s size has been expanded to allow players to see more skills at the same time.

The Damage Skin Storage‘s maximum number of slots has been increased to 30. The Damage Skin window’s size has been expanded to allow players to see more Damage Skins at the same time.

After maintenance, the average stage of Burning Fields has been increased to a minimum of stage 5 up to a maximum of stage 10.

The Daily/Weekly Quest Only alert icon has been added.

• In the quest window’s Available Quests tab, you can now activate/deactivate daily quest notifications.
• Quests that have been activated will have their notifications appear in the Daily Quest Only alert icon.
• Quests that have not been activated will still appear in the alert icon but they will be grayed out.
• Haven and Corrupted World Tree daily quests can also be accepted through the icon.
• Kritias’ daily quests’ notification cannot be turned off.

It is now easier to distinguish between regular quests and information quests in the quest alert icon.

• Information quests will have their names shown in blue and have a special information quest icon.
• Information quests will be sorted to the top of the list in the quest alert icon.

The Continental Travel Stations have become more convenient to use. You can now use them instantly without a waiting time, and the travel time has been shortened.

Origin	Destination	Travel Time (Old)	Travel Time (New)
Orbis	Victoria Island	4 minutes	30 seconds
	Ludibrium	7 minutes	1 minute
	Leafre	10 minutes
	Mu Lung	4 minutes	30 seconds
	Ariant	7 minutes	1 minute
	Ereb	4 minutes	30 seconds
	Edelstein
Victoria Island	Orbis
	Edelstein	1 minute
	Ereb	2 minutes
Ludibrium	Orbis	7 minutes	1 minute
Leafre		10 minutes
Ariant		7 minutes
Mu Lung		4 minutes	30 seconds
Edelstein
	Victoria Island
Ereb	Orbis
	Victoria Island	2 minutes
Southperry	6 Paths Crossway	1 minute

The Pollo and Fritto’s Bounty Hunting: Dance of Courtship‘s play time has been shortened. The final success stage has been changed from 20 times to 10 times.

The immersion in cinematic moments has been improved.

• Titles, medals, name tags, pets, and Androids will no longer be shown.
• You will no longer hear sounds from quest completion, Auction House/Meso Market, achievements/Monster Collection, Maple Union, notes/Maple Chat, or Monster Life.

For certain two-handed weapons, the weapons’ positions have been changed so that they no longer cover characters’ faces while standing. However, some weapons will remain the same as before.

• Two-Handed Sword
• Two-Handed Axe
• Two-Handed Blunt Weapon
• Crossbow

New system options have been added.

• In the Chat and Invite tabs, a new option to stop adding buddies has been added.
• In the Game tab, a new option to display/not display avatar megaphones has been added.
• In the Sound tab, the skill effects and other effects’ sound options have been separated. You can now control their volume separately.

The Item Link feature for the chat window has been added. If you click the Item Link button at the bottom of the chat window then click a piece of equipment, the item will be shown in your message.

Items that cannot be purchased because the store is out of stock will now be displayed in red. When less than a certain amount of stock is left, the stock amount will now be displayed.

In the Auction House’s Market Price tab, you can now use the Quick Search.

In the Keyboard Shorcut Settings, you can now double click installed shortcut keys to remove them.

A new shortcut key has been added that allows you to mute all sounds at the same time.

A new Battle Analysis shortcut key has been added. You can start/stop the Battle Analysis using the shortcut but you cannot turn off the UI.

The beginning location in Spirit Saviour has been changed.

Items with an expiration date of 24 hours or less will now flash in the inventory, Cash Storage, and storage.

The maximum number of items per slot for certain items has been increased to 9,000.

• Rebirth Flame Level 100
• Rebirth Flame Level 110
• Rebirth Flame Level 120
• Rebirth Flame Level 130
• Rebirth Flame Level 140
• Rebirth Flame Level 150
• Magic Powder (Brown)
• Magic Powder (White)
• Magic Powder (Blue)
• Magic Powder (Green)
• Magic Powder (Yellow)
• Magic Powder (Purple)
• Magic Powder (Red)
• Magic Powder (Black)
• Strength Jewel Powder
• Luck Jewel Powder
• Intelligence Jewel Powder
• Dexterity Jewel Powder

In quests that require you to capture monsters, you can now capture them without having to lower their HP.

The Cash Shop’s Cash Storage now has a search feature.

In Premium PC Rooms, when you revive after using a Safety Charm, you will be revived with 100% HP.

When you rent an item from a Premium PC Room, they will no longer disappear if you reconnect at a Premium PC Room.

When using Avatar Megaphones, you can now input a total of 24 characters.

The “Making an Angry Expression” quest has been made easier to complete. Now, when you have the quest active, you can talk to the NPCs at Orbis or Ludibrium Station to instantly move to a map where the Crimson Balrog will appear.

Game Related

Character rankings will no longer be shown in the Character Select window.

In the Auction House, registering, cancelling, buying, or receiving items will now have a 1 second cooldown.

Depending on your class, you will not see certain special characteristics when riding certain mounts.

• Ark: weapon
• Illium/Angelic Buster/Kaiser/Demon: wings

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error where the Reward Selection window would appear when using less than 10 Gold Apple Fragments.
• The instructions for the August Premium PC Room 90 Hours Box have been refined.
• When taking out a pet on Angelic Buster, it will no longer ask you which Mode you would like to equip it on.

Skill Related

 

Final Attack skills’ ranges will now use the same attack ranges as the skills that activate them.

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error where changing maps after using Dark Sight would cause it to be cancelled.
• Fixed an error where the Pasive Skill Level Increase Ability applied to certain 5th job skills.
• Fixed an error where Hero’s Combo Instinct’s scars in space would charge Combo Counters.
• Fixed an error where Bowmaster’s Quiver Full Burst’s flame arrows would attack areas with no enemies if activated against enemies that could not be attacked.
• Fixed an error where Night Lord’s Dark Lord’s Secret Scroll’s stars could hit enemies that should only be targeted by basic attacks and could not hit certain enemies.
• Fixed an error where Soul Master’s Soul Eclipse effect would disappear if they used Hidden Portals to move to a far away place.
• Fixed an error where Night Walker’s Shadow Spear’s effect did not appear.
• The usability for Arans using Final Blow with Commands after Fenrir Crash has been improved.
• Fixed an error where Evan’s Zodiac Ray’s number of hits would be doubled on certain enemies.
• Fixed an error where Phantom’s Mark of Phantom’s marks would disappear after using Soul Steal.
• Fixed an error where Luminous’ Baptism of Light and Darkness could not damage certain enemies.
• Fixed an error where Wild Hunters could sometimes not move while using Wild Grenade.
• Fixed an error where if Kaiser used Draco Slasher when falling off a high area, the Dragon’s Aura would not activate.
• Fixed an error where Zero’s Shadow Flash would not deal damage when re-using the skill far away from the sacred area.
• Fixed an error where while Kinesis’ Awakening skill was active, Ultimate skills’ critical rate boost would not apply to Ultimate – Psychic Bullet.
• Fixed an error where Kinesis’ Ultimate – Psychic Bullet’s created Micro Balck Holes activated Damage Reflect.

Cash Shop

In the Cash Shop, the item names of the Slot Expansion coupons have been changed to look better.

The Royal Style Coupon will be on sale from July 26 to August 22. It has a few new items like the Chain Wings cape!

A new Special Label, the Coral Sea set has been released. If you get all 5 pieces, you’ll also receive the Between Sky and Sea Chair.

Finally, a new Master Label, the Master Stellar set has been released!

There’s also a couple extra items like wigs and faces that you’ll get if you collect all the items!

The Choice Hair Coupon and Choice Face Coupon have been updated with a new set of hairs/faces.

Events

Sunday Maple

Sunday Maple will take place on August 12, August 19, August 26, and September 2.

On August 12, the following benefits will take place.

• 100% success rate when enhancing from 5/10/15 Star Force
• 2x Desire acquisition rate

On August 19, the following benefits will take place.

• 30% discount on the Alliance Supply Shop
• 2x Desire acquisition rate

On August 26, the following benefits will take place.

• 30% discount on Star Force costs
• 2x Desire acquisition rate

On September 2, the following benefits will take place.

• 30% discount on the Alliance Supply Shop
• 2x Desire Acquisition Rate