After a week of the meso changes being on the test server, Nexon has decided to push them to the official server pretty much as-is. Everything that was in testing is included except for the changes to additional potential, which they said will be implemented within the first half of the year.

I think the idea is they’re going to do multiple, frequent patches now instead of the regular month-long cycles for these changes, maybe weekly? Seems quite haphazard to say the least…

Overview

• Potential Reset System
• Map Meso Acquisition Limit System
• Reboot World Adjustments
• In-Game Cube Acquisition Sources Removal
• Cash Shop
• Destruction King Ursus
• Improvements
  • Potential
  • Star Force Enhancements
  • Meso Market
  • UI
• Error Fixes
  • Skills
  • Authentic Force Maps

Potential Reset System

The ‘Potential Reset System’ has been added that lets you use mesos to reset potential.

• In the Inventory UI, you can press the ‘Potential Reset System’ icon to use it.
• When resetting potential using the ‘Potential Reset System’, you can choose and apply the before or after stats.
• The cost of resetting potential is applied based on the item’s required level and current rank. The mesos required are as follows.

Equipment Level	Rare	Epic	Unique	Legendary
1~159	4,000,000	16,000,000	34,000,000	40,000,000
160~199	4,250,000	17,000,000	36,125,000	42,500,000
200~249	4,500,000	18,000,000	38,250,000	45,000,000
250~300	5,000,000	20,000,000	42,500,000	50,000,000

※ The Potential Rank Increase Guarantee system will also apply to resetting potential using mesos. The cumulative number is accumulated separately from the existing Cubes.

※ The potential rank increase rate, stat appearance rates, stat rank setting rates, and number of resets required to guarantee rank up will be applied the same as Black Cubes.

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Map Meso Acquisition Limit System

When acquiring mesos, the base mesos and additional mesos will be displayed separately.

• Base mesos are the amount of mesos before the character’s meso acquisition increase stats and penalty based on the difference between character level and monster level are applied.
• Additional mesos are the amount of mesos increased or decreased based on the character’s meso acquisition increase stats and penalty based on the difference between character level and monster level, excluding base mesos.

※ If the reduction in mesos acquired due to the penalty based on the difference between character level and monster level is greater than the increase in mesos acquired due to meso acquisition increase stats, the meso penalty will be displayed as a negative number instead of additional mesos.

A limit will be applied to the mesos acquired from hunting by a character per day.

• When acquiring mesos from hunting, the base amount of mesos from the acquired mesos will be accumulated. If the daily accumulated mesos reaches the limit, the amount of mesos will no longer increase even if you acquire mesos from hunting.

※ Changes in the amount of mesos acquired due to meso acquisition increase stats and the penalty based on the difference between character level and monster level will not affect the daily accumulated mesos.

※ If you try to acquire mesos from hunting while holding the maximum amount of mesos, you will not be able to acquire mesos and the daily accumulated mesos will not increase.

The daily accumulated mesos will be reset every day at 12:00 AM.

The daily accumulated meso limit is applied on a per-character basis, and increases based on the character’s level.

Character Level	Daily Accumulated Meso Limit
1~99	20m mesos
100~199	40m mesos
200~259	80m mesos + (5m every 5 levels after 200)
260~300	150m mesos + (10m every 5 levels after 260)

※ If you have reached the daily accumulated meso limit and your limit increases because you leveled up, you can then acquire additional base mesos equal to the increased limit.

You can check the information about your daily accumulated meso limit by hovering over the ‘Meso’ button in the Inventory UI.

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Reboot World Adjustments

The Reboot passive effect’s meso acquisition increase effect has been removed.

In Reboot World, the Intense Power Crystals’ selling prices have been changed to be the same as regular worlds.

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In-Game Cube Item Acquisition Sources Removal

When using the following items, you can no longer acquire Strange Cubes.

• Sealed Box (Hat)
• Sealed Box (Overall, Top, Bot)
• Sealed Box (Shoes, Glove)
• Sealed Box (Weapon)
• Chaos Sealed Box (Hat)
• Chaos Sealed Box (Overall, Top, Bot)
• Chaos Sealed Box (Shoes, Glove)
• Chaos Sealed Box (Weapon)

Boss monsters, field bosses, Elite Monsters, and Elite Champions will no longer drop the following items.

• Strange Cube
• Craftsman Cube
• Meister Cube
• Chaos Blade
• Powerful Chaos Blade

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes from the Rare Treasure Boxes from defeating Elite Bosses.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes from Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Bounty Hunter Pouches.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes from Superior Bounty Hounter Pouches.

You can no longer acquire Chaos Blades or Powerful Chaos Blades from Monster Park Creation Monday Boxes.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes from Monster Park Enhancement Tuesday Boxes.

You can no longer acquire Chaos Blades,Powerful Chaos Blades, Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes from Monster Park Festival Saturday Boxes.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes as rewards from Monster Collection Exploration.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes from Monster Collection Small Exploration Boxes.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes or Craftsman Cubes from Monster Collection Adequate Exploration Boxes.

You can no longer acquire Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes from Monster Collection Decent or Great Exploration Boxes.

Mystery Ore Veins and Mystery Legendary Veins will no longer drop Strange Cubes.

In Reboot World, the Reboot Cube Shop has been removed from the Quick Move.

In Reboot World, the Reboot Gift Box will no longer give Strange Cubes, Craftsman Cubes, or Meister Cubes.

In Reboot World, NPC and Android Shops will no longer sell Craftsman Cubes, Red Cubes, or Black Cubes.

The NPC Mr. Poncho will no longer sell Karma Craftsman Cubes.

The NPC Quelbern will no longer sell Chaos Blades or Powerful Chaos Blades.

Zero jobs can no longer reset potential using WP and mesos.

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Cash Shop

In the Cash Shop, Black Cubes and Red Cubes will no longer be sold.

The Miracle Circulator, which was sold in the ‘Enhancement’ category in Reboot World’s Cash Shop, has been moved to the ‘Game’ category’s ‘Convenience’ section, the same as in regular worlds.

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Destruction King Ursus

Destruction King Ursus can no longer be used. It has been removed from the Dimensional Mirror, Maple Guide, and Boss UI.

The [Ursus] Rumor of the Destruction King quest can no longer be completed.

Achievements related to Destruction King Ursus have been moved to the Memory tab and can no longer be completed.

The NPC Jawad will no longer appear. Ursus related titles, medals, and Soul Shards can no longer be acquired.

The NPC Aisha will no longer appear. The Ursus Store can be used by talking to the Maple Admin NPC until April 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM.

It has been changed so that you can no longer use ‘Mashoor’s Gift Weather Effect’ in Boss Practice Mode.

Burning World Step Up mission’s ‘Get to Know Ursus’ has been changed to ‘Get to Know Root Abyss’.

Tera Blink – Spiegelmann’s Diary’s ‘Enter Ursus 3 times’ mission has been changed to ‘Participate in <Midnight Party>’s Daily Party 3 times’.

※ If the number of participations in ‘<Midnight Party> Daily Party> is greater than the number of completions of the ‘Enter Ursus 3 times’ mission before the change, Stamps equal to the difference will be provided.

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Improvements

Potential Improvements

When resetting potential or additional potential, it has been changed so that the stats below can appear 3 times on the same item.

• Monster Defense Ignore +%
• Damage Increase When Attacking Boss Monsters +%
• Item Drop Rate +%

※ This applies to both resetting with existing Cube items and resetting with mesos.

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Star Force Enhancements

When Star Force enhancing, the meso cost has been decreased by about 30% when the target enhancement level is 1~15 stars.

※ This does not apply to Superior items.

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Meso Market

In the Meso Market, the maximum amount of mesos you can buy/sell in 1 trade has been increased from 1b mesos to 5b mesos.

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UI

The Cube Rank Increase Guarantee system has been changed to the Potential Rank Increase Guarantee system.

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Error Fixes

Skills

Fixed an issue where Archmage (F/P) could not explode Poison Region’s poison area with Flame Haze VI

Fixed an issue where Flame Wizard’s Blazing Extinction VI sometimes did not attack monsters.

Fixed an issue where Dual Blade’s Karma Blade’s cast effect was displayed awkwardly.

Fixed an issue where Dual Blade’s Asura VI would continue to play the skill sound effect if you cancelled the cast action.

Fixed an issue where Soul Master’s Solunar Power would sometimes be activated in an awkward location.

Fixed an issue where if an enemy disappeared while Xenon’s Triangle Formation VI’s plasma current activated, sometimes the client would exit.

Fixed an issue where Kaiser’s Will of Sword would repeatedly play the skill sound effect when cast.

Fixed an issue where if Illium used a Giant Potion while in Glory Wings, certain skills and in-game features could not be used.

Fixed an issue where Khali’s Void Rush VI could not be used while using Desert Veil.

Fixed an issue where Khali’s Arts: Crescentum VI could sometimes be activated continuously.

Fixed an issue where Ark could not link to Grievous Wound VI, Insatiable Hunger VI, or Unbridled Chaos VI while Endless Pain’s Fear of the Abyss was activating.

Fixed an issue where if Hoyoung used Thousand-Ton Stone after using Iron Gale Fan: VI, Dark Sight would not be maintained.

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Authentic Force Maps

Fixed an issue in Authentic Force maps where if you did not use a Rune that spawned then entered a map where you did not have posession of monsters, a different Rune than the one that was previously summoned would appear.

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In this update, we are implementing the potential reset through mesos system and the various changes that were introduced in the test world last week. As mentioned in the live stream, the changes related to additional potential are not included in this update and we are preparing to implement them within the first half of the year.

The reasons why we are implementing these changes so quickly on the official server are as follows.

First, we decided that after announcing such major changes to the game, if we waited too long to actually implement them, it would increase the confusion felt by players and would limit regular gameplay.

In addition, we thought that the most effective and fastest way to stabilize the service would be to quickly check various indicators that can only be looked at after the changes are implemented in the official server, and then implement further updates.

As we said in the last test world’s developer notes, we plan to steadily continue our maintenance work on the production and consumption of mesos even after this update. We will do our best to make these changes a turning point in making MapleStory more fun.

Also, since Ursus content has been removed, we are planning to take additional necessary measures, such as changing the supplier of Mashoor’s Gift Weather Effect or changing Monster Collection conditions. Please wait a little and we will make it up to you with a better service.

Developer Notes