The previously announced Demon Slayer collab has been released in the test server, and it’s slightly different than the version that JMS got. There’s such little non-event content in this patch that I barely had anything to translate for this post 😛

While the actual KMST patch was a bit disappointing (albeit expected), there’s some exciting news!

First off, the showcase for the MapleStory winter update, MapleStory Next, will take place on December 7! In addition, the MapleCon will take place that same weekend, over 3 days. This is a legit convention at a hall with multiple booths, prizes, and merchandise which looks very very cool!

MapleStory Next

Finally, next up is what everyone has been dreaming of…

The MapleStory winter showcase for the MapleStory Next update will take place on December 7 at 4:00 PM at KINTEX (Korea International Exhibition Center) in Ilsan, Korea.

Those that are able to attend will receive special gifts including a totebag and t-shirt that feature your character that you can also decorate with patches and tags of your choice, a photo card featuring your character, and a lightstick!

A total of 2,500 people can attend the event. To avoid scalpers and bots, they have set a restriction where you must have a level 260+ character to buy a ticket. And they will check if your identity matches the account information when you enter the event as well.

They also opened applications for a special invitation for players that stream/create video content about MapleStory. You can send in an application and 30 players will win a free ticket to the showcase.

All players can also claim 6 VIP Sauna Entry Tickets by talking the Maple Admin on December 7 starting at 3 PM, to enjoy some experience while watching the showcase.

MapleCon

The adventures in MapleStory🍁 becoming reality~!?
The most special experience ever🎁! Everyone is invited to MAPLE CON!💛

MapleCon is a new event that will take place from December 6 to December 8. It’s at KINTEX as well, and they booked the entire hall to fill up with booths and events. It’s Ludibrium themed! You can even hear some nice remixes of a bunch of BGMs on the website.

You can look at the website for more detailed information, but I’ll summarize the main areas below.

• Toy Factory
  • A pop up merchandise store with a bunch of new items! You can see them all here.
  • Some things that I really want to buy are the real Omok set, the super cute Maple Friends dolls, and the MISS keychains!
• Wonder Stage
  • A variety of programs and performances as well as special music.
  • The Korean acapella group MAYTREE will perform with a MapleStory character parade.
  • You can meet famous MapleStory voice actors.
  • Play special minigames on stage.
• Food Square
  • Enjoy meals from Isaac Toast, sweets and drinks at Cafe MapleStory from Jeju, and other assorted food.
• Adventure Road
  • A walkthrough attraction where you can see various places from MapleStory brought to real life!
• Minigames
  • Meet MapleStory NPCs in real life including Frito, Nemi, Cassandra, Factory Manager Kaho, Spiegelmann, Chief Stan, Mrs. Ming Ming, and Mr. Kim!
  • Play minigames and complete quizzes given to you by the NPCs.
• My MapleStory
  • A special service available for the first time at MapleCon where you can customize and design goods using Maplestory characters and artwork, as well as your own character.

There’s also specific areas for MapleStory M, MapleStory Worlds, and Hello Maple (a game designed to introduce kids to block coding).

Really wish I could go 😭

Maple Now (November 14, 2024)

This Maple Now stream was actually region blocked to anyone outside of Korea, because of the Demon Slayer collab haha. I think their licensing copyright agreement is really strict because even the Demon Slayer collab trailer they released last week was region blocked too.

Anyways, you can watch it if you VPN to Korea but here are the main interesting things I saw.

• He covered the Demon Slayer collab first. Like JMS, you can create Tanjiro as a character in MapleStory. However, in KMS, you can only play this class in a separate Special world like Yeti x Pink Bean, and they will be deleted at the end of the event. You can also get a permanent title with the same stats as the Yeti x Pink Bean title.
• The Dave the Diver collab rewards focused on level progression items (EXP Vouchers, VIP Boosters, Growth Potions) but the rewards for this event are more based on item progression. They wanted to make the rewards a bit different rather than repeat them.
• A new event called Dimensional Tower has been added. It’s just a jump quest where you must reach the top of the map, which is designed using assets of the past events of MapleStory from 2017 and onwards. This event is just for fun, so players aren’t forced to do it if they don’t want to.
• The Dave the Diver collab game will be extended for another month, since some people might have missed out or wanted to continue playing it. No special rewards this time, just some achievements and a special effect item.
• Azmoth Canyon changes to make it less optimization-intensive for players, including changes to the items, bosses, and some stages.
• Maple Gold Coin rewards have been changed to expire after 1 week to make the economy more stable and to prevent players from having to worry about holding them for a long time to sell at a different price.
• He talked about the big change in meso value from the last patch and how they halved the Gold Coin rewards from Azmoth Canyon to stabilize the economy. But now, the economy is pretty stable and safe, and meso value has recovered. They apologize that players lost trust in them and will work hard to make sure that any further economy changes will be more stable and responded to more quickly.
• The Mac OS client beta test was tested in KMST before but it didn’t give enough data so it will be released as an open beta test in the live servers soon. Of course if there are any critical errors, the test will be closed immediately.

The second part of the Maple Now stream was about the announcements of the events above.

• He said that 2024 was the year they responded to various changes and did things that they should have already done before. But the first half of 2025 will be filled with updates that present the ‘NEXT’ future of MapleStory.
• They will be doing a pre-show stream for the showcase on December 5 on the official YouTube channel. For every 10k viewers, they will give out one additional Maximum Growth Potion.
• The MapleStory 2024 NPC Style Awards event has begun. Players can vote on the NPCS that they want to be chosen to have outfits designed after them. The top 12 NPCs will be selected and their outfits will be sold in January and February.

Overview

• Azmoth Canyon
• Maple Coins
• Improvements
  • Skills
  • Quests
  • Items
  • NPCs
  • Monsters
  • Maps
  • UI
  • DirectX 11
• Error Fixes
  • Skills
  • Quests
  • Items
  • NPCs
  • Monsters
  • Maps
  • UI
  • Etc.
• Cash
• Events
  • Demon Slayer Collaboration Event
    • New Job Tanjiro Growth Event
    • Tanjiro’s Adventure Journal
    • Demon Slayer Corps Training Experience
    • Zenitsu and Inosuke’s Maple Expedition
  • Special World
  • Treasure Coin Shop
  • Dimensional Tower
  • Dave the Diver Collaboration Event
  • Winter Warming Up
  • Lady Blair’s Dream Express
  • Sunday Maple

Azmoth Canyon

Common

• Skill cooldowns, durations, and job specific gauges will no longer change while the Guardians of Azmoth and Rift Defense stages are not in progress. However, certain skills that disappear when changing maps will not be preserved.
• The usage of skills and items will be disabled while the Guardians of Azmoth and Rift Defense stages are not in progress.
• After clearing a stage, when certain jobs enter the next Guardians of Azmoth or Rift Defense stage, their gauges will be increased. The list of jobs this applies to is as follows.
  • Aran – Combo
  • Luminous – Larkness Gauge
  • Kaiser – Morph Gauge
  • Kain – Malice
  • Illium – Crystal Charge
  • Ark – Willpower
  • Hoyoung – Talisman Power, Scroll Power
• After clearing a stage, when entering the next Guardians of Azmoth or Rift Defense stage while certain skills are active, their durations will be increased. The list of skills this applies to is as follows.
  • Luminous – Equilibrium
  • Kaiser – Final Figuration
  • Illium – Glory Wings
• Certain stage presets have been changed.
• Certain UI images have been changed.
• Guide text has been added when hovering over certain UI ‘Close’ buttons.

Dungeon Items

• The Temporary Protection Scroll’s number of times item effects are sealed has been decreased from 3 to 2.
• The Temporary Protection Scroll’s additional Resistance recovery after a stage ends has been increased from 10 to 35.
• The High Dark Magician’s Scroll’s increased Resistance reduction when entering Guardians of Azmoth stages has been decreased from 10 to 5.
• The Slave Hunter’s Whip’s condition to defeat Guardians of Azmoth has been increased from 10 seconds to 60 seconds.
• The Slave Hunter’s Whip’s point boost has been decreased from 400 to 50.
• The Cruel Slave Hunter’s Whip’s condition to defeat Guardians of Azmoth has been increased from 5 seconds to 60 seconds.
• The Cruel Slave Hunter’s Whip’s point boost has been decreased from 800 to 100.
• The number of stages required for the Alchemist’s Stone to change has been increased from 3 to 4.
• The number of stages required for the Alchemist’s Black Stone to change has been increased from 3 to 4.
• The Stone of Opened Eyes’ point boost has been decreased from 100 to 90.
• The Black Stone of Opened Eyes’ point boost has been decreased from 250 to 220.
• The Grave Robber’s Backpack’s final damage boost per number of bound items has been decreased from 4% to 2%.
• The Grave Robber’s Large Backpack’s final damage boost per number of bound items has been decreased from 6% to 4%.
• The Arena Warrior’s Protection Charm’s final damage boost has been decreased from 5% to 3%.
• The Arena Berserker’s Protection Charm’s final damage boost has been decreased from 10% to 7%.
• A notice has been added to the Select button for certain dungeon items that states their effects will not be applied while holding a Temporary Protection Scroll.
• The Anti-Magic Pendant’s burn immunity duration has been increased.

Guardians of Azmoth

• Common
  • The boss monsters’ appearance rules have been changed.
  • The point rewards based on the remaining time have been changed.
  • The Resistance increase/decrease based on the remaining time have been changed.
  • Fixed an issue where Cannon Shooter’s Pool Maker’s supply boxes were not created.
• Aidan’s HP has been increased by about 38%.
• Kind Azrael’s HP has been increased by about 38%.
• Infernus of Doom
  • The HP has been increased by about 25%.
  • It has been changed so that it can be hit while casting the Rage Explosion pattern.
  • A warning effect has been added for the flames created when casting the Rage Explosion pattern.
  • The Will-o-Wisp Hallucination pattern’s damage has been decreased.
  • The Flame Dash pattern’s damage has been decreased.
  • The Flame Dash pattern’s distance has been decreased.
  • The Flame Dash pattern’s cooldown has been decreased.
  • It has been changed so that the Flame Dash pattern is cast towards the character.
  • The Flame Snare pattern has been changed to deal damage over time.
  • The Flame Snare pattern’s damage has been decreased.
  • It has been changed so that the Flame Snare pattern is not used when there are no characters within range.
  • The point rewards based on the Flame Taste Curse duration have been changed.

Rift Defense

• In Elite difficulty, the monsters’ HP have been increased.

Azmoth’s Visitors

• When selecting to enter a battle, the chance of entering a Guardian of Azmoth or Rift Defense stage has been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue where the Results UI sometimes appeared abnormally when clearing.

Azmoth Annihilation Battle

• Fixed an issue where characters were hit by attacks from the other side of the cover when approaching cover.
• Fixed an issue where the Combination Key UI could be opened during battle.

Achievements

• Certain achievements that were previously restricted can now be completed normally.
  • [Azmoth Canyon] Just an Incomplete Being
  • [Azmoth Canyon] Wanderer of Hell!
  • [Azmoth Canyon] It’s Too Hot, Stop…

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Maple Coins

The Maple Gold Coins acquired from Epic Dungeons and Azmoth Canyon will now expire 7 days from the time of acquisition.

The Maple Gold Coins acquired from using the Maple Gold Coin Vouchers purchased in the Mileage Shop will now expire 7 days from the time of acquisition.

※ The expiry dates of Maple Gold Coins acquired before the update will be maintained.

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Improvements

Skills

Flame Wizard

• Orbital Explosion’s additional hit will now activate while Eternity is hitting an enemy.

Eunwol

• Spirit Claw:
  • The cast action has been changed.
• Soul Splitter:
  • The action delay has been decreased by about 27%.
  • It has been improved so that if the skill fails to hit an enemy, the Wall of Flames will now be created at the location of an enemy inflicted with the Blade Imp – Trap debuff within a certain range.
  • It has been improved so that if there is no nearby platform, the Wall of Flames will now be created in the air.
• Reincarnated Fox God:
  • The Fox Light activation interval has been decreased by about 60%.
• Spirit Claw VI:
  • The cast action has been changed.

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Quests

Fixed an issue where if you played Black Heaven as a Demon class, the character would appear awkwardly.

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Items

It has been improved so that if you double-click on a Blair Salon Hair Coupon matching your current character’s gender on the Cash Shop home screen, a preview will be displayed.

The Angelic Buster Compact item tooltips have been changed to include a notice that the Compact-only dress will not be visible if you equip a Cash overall, top, bot, or shoes.

The process for wearing Angelic Buster-only transformation Compact items has been simplified.

• When a Compact is worn, the currently equipped outfit (overall, top, bottom, shoes) will be unequipped, and the corresponding dress will be equipped with the Compact. But after the equipped outfit is removed, only the Compact will be equipped without the corresponding dress.

※ When a Compact is equipped when an overall, top, bot, or shoes are equipped, the corresponding dress’ appearance will not change and the equipped Compact can be checked for the (E) mark in the Cash inventory.

The 100% Pet Equipment Clean Slate Scroll’s item description has been improved to be more accurate.

The Storm Growth Potions provided in the Maple Protector Appreciation Box and Maple Guardian Appreciation Box have been changed to Extreme Growth Potions.

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NPCs

Fixed an issue where if you failed the ‘Find the Transparent Shape’ or ‘Sound Lie Detector’ and were sent to the Room of Truth, the Maple Admin NPC would tell you the incorrect reason why you were sent there.

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Monsters

Kaling’s NPC Chat/Harvest key skills’ UI locations will now be saved.

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Maps

It has been improved so that Lie Detectors are no longer activated in Karote area safe zone maps.

• The Tower that Never Stops
• Lower Floor
• Middle Floor
• Upper Floor

It has been improved so that if you enter the Karote Skyscraper through the Boss UI/Maple Scheduler, using the portal to Odium will return you to your original map.

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UI

It has been changed so that you can check your Azmoth Canyon weekly high score through the Maple Scheduler UI.

It has been improved so that when you try to move to special content through the Maple Guide UI that can only be moved to in towns while you are not in a town, the guide text will be more clear.

It has been improved so that the ‘Designate Hyper Burning’ button will no longer appear in the Character Select window when the Hyper Burning period is not active.

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DirectX 11

When DirectX 11 is applied, the CPU and GPU memory usage has been decreased.

When the game is first run after the update, DirectX 11 will be selected by default, and you can change the DirectX version. After that, the game will be run with the previously selected version.

Fixed an issue where the game screen would look awkward in certain DPI settings when DirectX 11 was applied.

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Error Fixes

Skills

Viper

• Fixed an issue where if Furious Charge’s Serpent Fury Mode was activated, Battleship Nautilus’ final attack would only be activated 1 time.

Captain

• Fixed an issue where Sign of Bombard would sometimes be installed in an awkward location when using Auto Use Mode.
• Fixed an issue where Sign of Bombard would sometimes strike unattackable enemies.

Mikhail

• Fixed an issue where Light of Courage enhanced by the HEXA Core would only activate Final Attack 1 time.

Flame Wizard

• Fixed an issue where Element: Flame would not be summoned when using the following skills.
  • Blazing Extinction Lion Mode
  • Blazing Extinction Fox Mode
  • Flame Discharge Lion Mode
  • Flame Discharge Fox Mode
  • Blazing Extinction VI Lion Mode
  • Blazing Extinction VI Fox Mode
• Orbital Explosion:
  • Fixed an issue where Orbital Explosion’s additional hit would not be activated in the air.
  • Fixed an issue where Orbital Explosion’s additional hit would not be activated when Infinity Flame Circle hit an enemy.
  • Fixed an issue where Blazing Extinction – Reinforce and Blazing Extinction – Extra Target did not apply to Fox Mode.
• Flame Discharge Lion Mode:
  • Fixed an issue where the skill sound effect sometimes did not end.
  • Fixed an issue where the buff icon would sometimes be removed even while the skill was active.
• Fixed an issue where Salamander Mischief did not attack when using the following skills.
  • Blazing Extinction Lion Mode
  • Blazing Extinction Fox Mode
  • Blazing Extinction VI Lion Mode
  • Blazing Extinction VI Fox Mode

Demon Slayer

• Fixed an issue where Demon Crry would decrease targets’ attack by 20% but the skill incorrectly stated 15%.

Kaiser

• Fixed an issue where Wingbeat in Final Figuration mode did not receive the effects of Wingbeat – Reinforce.

Cadena

• Fixed an issue where using Summon Cutting Scimitar in the air did not receive the effects of Chain Arts – Reinforce, Non-Chain Arts – Critical Rate, and Non-Chain Arts – Boss Killer.

Adele

• Fixed an issue where Adele could not use Advanced Giant Potions after casting Ruin in one spot.

Khali

• Fixed an issue where sometimes, using Void Rush after Hex: Chakram Sweep would not cancel the backward jump action.
• Fixed an issue where Resonate – Add Range’s search range was applied to Resonate, regardless of if Resonate – Add Range was learned or not.
• Fixed an issue where Resonate – Add Range’s search range was applied to Resonate: Ultimatum, regardless of if Resonate – Add Range was learned or not.

Ark

• Fixed an issue where Endlessly Starving Beast’s activation time was not decreased by Grievous Wound VI, Insatiable Hunger VI, and Unbridled Chaos VI.

Lara

• Fixed an issue where Eruption: Whirlwind did not hit enemes while a Giant’s Potion was applied.
• Fixed an issue where Eruption: Whirlwind VI did not hit enemies while a Giant’s Potion was applied.

Hoyoung

• Fixed an issue where other skill sound effects would be played during Scroll: Star Vortex.

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Quests

Fixed an eror where the ‘[Cernium (After)] Another Celestial’ quest map’s monsters’ names were awkward.

Fixed an issue where the <The Dead Don’t Speak. But Aswak Ghosts Talk Too Much> achievement could not be completed even if the conditions were met.

Fixed an issue where the <Book of Zero> achievement could not be completed even if the conditions were met.

Fixed an issue where the ‘Dad Didn’t Come Back 2’ quest’s monster names were incorrect.

Fixed an issue where Phantom could not enter Rien maps normally during the story quests.

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Items

Fixed an issue where in certain situations, another user hanging from a rope or ladder would be seen as having their Android also hanging from the rope or ladder.

Fixed an issue where the ‘Can be traded 1 time to another character within the world’ text was displayed on items with the Mark of Binding.

Fixed an issue where certain Cash items that had their colours changed with the Colouring Prism would not be displayed in certain situations.

Fixed an issue where if you had Cash items equipped with item-only skills then unequipped them, the item-only skills would be displayed awkardly in the skill UI.

Pet equipment related item names’ spacing has been changed.

Fixed an issue where if Cash items with item-only skills were equipped in a a preset, the item-only skills could not be used.

Fixed an issue where if Cash items with item-only skills were equipped on Beta, the item-only skills could not be used.

Fixed an issue where Luminous could learn both the 1st job Light and Darkness skills by using a Special SP Reset Scroll.

Fixed an issue where certain effect rings’ effects appeared on non-humanoid Androids.

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NPCs

Fixed an issue where Azmoth Canyon was omitted from the Trader NPC’s coin acqusition guide.

Fixed an issue in Black Heaven where the Oz NPC’s image was incorrect.

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Monsters

Fixed an issue where if an Elite Monster or Elite Boss had a modifier, there would be 2 spaces in between the name and the modifier.

Fixed an issue in Papulatus (Normal) Phase 2 where it did not recover HP when absorbing the Other World’s Papulatus.

Fixed an issue where the movement of monsters that do not move left or right would be reset based on the character’s location.

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Maps

Fixed an issue in Minar Forest: Forked Road Leading to the Valley map would display red dots at certain locations.

Lie Detectors will no longer be activated in Carcion: Temple of Tears.

Fixed an error where Abilities could be reset in per-world content maps.

Fixed an error in Odium: Generator Room Where Emotions Spring Up’s portal behaved strangely.

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UI

Fixed an issue in the Character Select screen where sometimes a character’s Combat Power would be displayed as 0 even if it was not 0.

Fixed an issue in the Guild BBS where the post content would be covered by the Edit and Delete buttons in certain situations.

Fixed an issue where sometimes Hair Coupon and Face Coupon’s list preview would appear incorrectly.

Fixed an issue where after applying the Buff Bookmarks right-align option then changing maps after removing all displayed buffs, the UI would be displayed in a different location than before.

Fixed an error where certain equipment set effects were not reflected in the Combat Power increase display if you equipped a Lucky item that had the same number of equipment set effects applied before and after equipping it.

Fixed an error in equipment tooltips’ Combat Power increase where if Conversion Star Force was applied, items that became tradable after equipping’s Star Force information was not reflected.

Fixed an issue with the Character Info window where if you tried to level up Hyper Stats while the Hyper Stat/Ability information was not refreshed, the client would close.

Fixed an issue where if you used the Hyper Stat batch level up feature, if you pressed the MAX button while you had enough Hyper Stat Points to reach the maximum level, it would only level up to 1 less than the maximum level.

Fixed an issue with the Maple Guide UI where Special Content’s buttons were not affected by UI transparency in-combat options.

Fixed an issue in the Maple Guide UI where right-clicking Azmoth Canyon in the Special Contents would not display the location information but the related guide would be displayed in a tooltip.

Fixed an issue where if you failed when trying to change Presets through the shortcut key, the number key on the located hotkey would be inputted.

Fixed an issue where if you had Guild Noblesse skills applied then used the Practice Mode Noblesse skills in Foggy Forest Training Center/Boss Practice Mode, if you logged out and reconnected while inside, the existing Guild Noblesse Skill effects would remain.

Fixed an issue in the Character Info UI where sometimes certain stats’ popup UIs would not display currently applied values.

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Etc.

Fixed an issue in the Blue Hole Exploration where certain fishes’ animations transitioned awkwardly.

Fixed an issue in the Blue Hole Exploration where the BGM was awkward when entering through the mirror.

Fixed an issue in the Blue Hole Exploration where certain effects appeared awkwardly.

Fixed an issue in the Blue Hole Exploration where the water depth was not displayed in certain situations.

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