The January update’s test server patch was released yesterday, with the new Union Champion system. That’s the bulk of it, along with some corresponding changes and other QoL. This will be coming to the official server next week! Director Changseop also did a Maple Now stream going over the patch as well as some tidbits about Baldrix.

And as its the first post of 2025, Happy New Year to everyone!

Maple Now (25.01.09)

With the test server patch, Director Changseop went live with a Maple Now stream. It started off with some apologies as always, including an issue that was happening with a small amount of Meso Market trades. He explained that they’re making bigger changes to make the game more fun for players, but this comes with its own challenges and errors that they will inevitably face and have to fix.

Most of the stuff he talked about is just from the patch notes so I won’t cover it twice, but there were some additional details/sidenotes that he gave.

Union Champion

• Union Champion is a system that lets you gradually gain stats on your characters as they defeat higher tier bosses. In addition to that, doing the Champion Raid content monthly with these characters grants you access to temporary buffs that give more stats.
• Since the showcase, they decided to increase the value of the ‘all stats’ buff (it also has HP/MP which was not mentioned in the showcase).
• They also moved some of the stats that were going to be given through the temporary Champion’s Blessings buffs to the permanent Union Champion stats.
• There will be some temporary changes and permanent changes together with the addition of the Union Champion system. MapleStory is going to become a game that further incentivizes playing multiple characters so changes have to be made to support that.
  • In this January update, you can only have up to 3 characters in the Union Champion system. This is because although the game didn’t stop you from having multiple characters, it didn’t really encourage it before and the new system requires even stronger characters to complete the missions. This is intended to be more of an end-game system that takes a long time to be finished and they didn’t want players to feel forced to have to suddenly spec up on 6 characters all at once. They will unlock further slots one by one over time.
  • In the February update, the new boss Baldrix will be added. Union Champion stats and buffs will not be applied in Baldrix temporarily. Baldrix will be the first boss added after the Union Champion system, and of course it will have players rushing to get the first clears. This is a very short period of time in between and they thought it would be too stressful for those players to be forced to fully complete the Union Champion system within a month to be ready for Baldrix. The stats will be applied normally in the March update and for any new bosses after that, the Union Champion stats will be applied normally.
  • To give players some additional information to prepare for Baldrix, he gave the following details.
    • It is a 3-person party boss.
    • The cross-world boss matching feature will be available.
    • The Union Champion buff effects will not be applied (both Champion Insignias and Champion’s Blessings).
    • The 5m Maple Points reward that was given for Limbo will not be given out this time. They want to distribute the rewards better to more players instead of focusing on only the first few clears.
  • To coincide with the new meta of bossing on multiple characters, the following changes will be made.
    • Link Skill improvements (daily transfer limit removed, meso cost for transfers past 5 removed)
    • Noblesse Guild skill improvements (cooldowns changed to 5 minutes)
    • Intense Power Crystal reorganization (weekly sell limit changed to 90 Crystals)
  • With the new Union Champion system incentivizing multiple characters as well as the changes to Link Skills/Guild Skills, they thought it would affect the supply of mesos too much so they decided to make this change to the weekly crystal limit. 90 weekly limit/12 character limit = 7.5 so you can sell all the crystals on about 7 characters with some leeway. They also looked at data from this past week for the number of crystals sold and when lowering the limit from 180 to 90, only a little over 1% of players would be affected. Of course, this is without these new changes that make it easier to boss on more characters. And as the Union Champion system becomes a more core part of MapleStory, it would end up affecting the economy more and more, so they decided that it would be best to match the limit to the number of characters that this system requires ahead of time.
• The Noblesse Guild Skill changes are something that players have wanted for a long time, and they have been thinking of a good way to do it but rather than continuing to worry and delay it, they decided this was a good time to just add it in.
• They wanted to reorganize Link Skills in a more fundamental way, but it didn’t match up with their work schedule, so they are making this change for now and will go back for additional changes when possible.

Events

• The Dawn Star Fountain event will be added to give additional Commemoration Coins and Challenger Coins. They were conservative with the amount of coins they gave out originally, and players were definitely lacking a bit, but now that the event is halfway over, they have more leeway to give out more.
• After the Dawn Star Fountain event ends, the Burning Express event will begin. In the last Hyper Burning event, less than 30% of players reached level 260 over the entire event period but this season, 20% of players have already reached level 260 in less than a month. This Burning Express is more focused on rewards that are helpful past level 260.
• The Broomy’s Deep Cleaning event will be improved so that there is a higher chance of hitting the large experience boost on the 30th activation of the day with a bigger variety of possible activations. In the last week of the event, the special activations can activate on every 10th/20th/30th activation. (He noted there’s actually a message right now when a player hits the special activation but most people probably haven’t even seen it since it’s so rare.)

30th Activation Fever Type	Level	Experience
Old Doll	No limit	Basic amount of experience provided
Jewel Ore	Level 200~229	Fixed amount of experience required for 1 level up.
	Level 230 or higher	Experience equal to hunting for 1 hour.
Ancient Relic	Level 200~249	Fixed amount of experience required for 1 level up.
	Level 250 or higher	Experience equal to hunting for 8 hours.

Cash

• The 1st set of NPC Style Awards packages will be available for purchase. These are the top 12 NPCs that players voted on to have outfits made inspired by those NPCs. The second set will be released next month.

Other

• He showed off the new Smart AI Correction option (video timestamp). MapleStory uses sprites that they have to make frame-by-frame and this new feature uses AI to add pictures in between each image to create smoother animations. He mentioned they’re using the one available on Steam and contacted the developers to work together on this feature. It’s not something that everyone will like or want, and it still doesn’t work well with names/medals/etc. so they’re going to continue to work on it. It’s a kind of technical challenge and they may remove it later, but they’re very open to trying new things and working with other organizations like this. Even though MapleStory is a 20-year old game, they want to continue to improve and innovate.
• High Mountain’s difficulty has been adjusted to basically be a lot easier and take about half the time as before. Since it was the first Epic Dungeon, the difficulty was a bit higher but now, it’s a bit too hard given its unlocked right at level 260 which a fresh Hyper Burning can reach pretty easily.
• Many viewers were asking about a balance patch. He said that he doesn’t really like the term ‘balance patch’, and the process of finding balance is a constant battle. They made necessary adjustments in September and it’s been about three weeks since the new Mastery Cores were added. They’re looking at all of the data and will take measures as needed. They want to adjust not with the concept of ‘balance’ but rather making players’ gameplay and combat experience better.
• Viewers asked for a New Year’s gift and he said they already gave out 25 Maximum Growth Potions.

Overview

• Union Champion
• Champion Raid: Dragon Island
  • Union Champion & Champion Raid Summary
• Cash
• DirectX 11
• Smart AI Correction
• Intense Power Crystal Reorganization
• Improvements
  • Bosses
  • Skills
  • Skill Sequence
  • Link Skills
  • Noblesse Guild Skills
  • Items
  • NPCs
  • Maps
  • UI
  • Login Process
  • Events
  • Nexon OTP
• Error Fixes
  • Skills
  • Skill Sequence
  • Quests
  • Items
  • Monsters
  • Maps
  • UI
  • Achievements
• Events
  • Burning Express
  • Dawn Star Banquet
    • Dawn Star Fountain
    • Heart-Pounding Broomy’s Deep Cleaning
  • MapleStory M Link Event – Lara Level Achievements
  • Henesys Yutnori Competition
  • New Name Auction
  • Hyper Burning Booster
  • Lady Blair’s Dream Express
  • Sunday Maple

Union Champion

<Union Champion> has been added.

• Union Champion is a system where you can designate some of your characters within the world as Champions. Based on the growth level of each Champion character, all of your Champion characters’ stats will be increased.
• If your Union rank has reached Grand Master Union I or higher (8000 Union), and you have a level 260 or higher character within the world, you can talk to Dragon Hunter Ms. Account to accept the ‘[Union Champion] Champions’ Path’ quest and start the Union Champion system.

※ You cannot use Union Champion in Challengers World.

You can register characters in <Champion Slots>. Additional slots will be unlocked based on your registered characters’ <Champion Ranks>.

• You will be initially given 2 Champion Slots.
• 1 additional slot will be unlocked every time all registered Champions reach ‘A Rank’ or higher.
• Up to 3 Champion Slots can be unlocked at this time.
• If you want to remove a Champion, you must pay a 1b mesos fee. All Champion Evaluations related information including that character’s Champion Rank will be reset.

※ Once a slot is unlocked, it will stay unlocked, even if other conditions change such as removing a Champion.

※ You cannot register multiple characters with the same job as Champions.

※ A character registered as a Champion cannot Open Job Advance to a different job that is the same as another character registered as a Champion.

You can increase your Champion Ranks by completing <Champion Evaluations>.

• When a Champion is registered, they will be assigned ‘C Rank’.
• You can accept Champion Evaluations through the Royal Knight Sir Hamcelot.
• You can increase your Rank by completing Champion Evaluations. The details are as follows.

Champion Evaluation	Evaluation Details
B Rank Champion Evaluation	Solo Suu (Hard) in Champion Mode.
A Rank Champion Evaluation	Solo Jin Hilla (Hard) in Champion Mode.
S Rank Champion Evaluation	Solo Black Mage (Hard) in Champion Mode.
SS Rank Champion Evaluation	Solo Chosen Seren (Hard) in Champion Mode.
SSS Rank Champion Evaluation	Solo Watcher Kalos (Normal) in Champion Mode.

※ When a Champion Evaluation is in-progress, you can choose ‘Champion Mode’ in the Boss UI.

※ You can enter ‘Champion Mode’ in Practice Mode and a success in Practice Mode will also be recognized.

※ ‘Champion Mode’ cannot be played at the same time as ‘Genesis Mode’.

You can acquire various stats through <Champion Insignias>.

• Champion Insignias are a system that provides powerful stats to the characters designated as Champions within the world.
• Each Champion can acquire Insignias based on their Rank. The acquired Champion Insignias stack as their Ranks increase.

Champion Rank	Insignia Stats
B Rank	All Stats +20, Max HP/MP +1,000
A Rank	Attack/Magic Attack +10
S Rank	Boss Damage +5%
SS Rank	Critical Damage +3.00%
SSS Rank	Defense Ignore +5%

• The stats of the acquired Champion Insignias from each Champion are added together and applied to all Champion characters.

Characters registered as Champions can use <Champion’s Blessing> buffs which provide powerful stats for a certain period of time.

• Champion’s Blessing is a skill that lets you acquire a stat buff that lasts for 30 minutes by using Champion Coins.

※ Champion’s Blessing can be used in the Skill UI’s Beginner skill tab.

※ Champion Coins can be acquired by exploring the Champion Raid: Dragon Island.

※ Champion’s Blessing cannot be used in boss maps and Champion Raid: Dragon Island.

• Champion’s Blessing lets you customize the values of the six types of stats that are acquired. The stats and values by level are as follows.

Stat	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
All Stats/Max HP	+10/+500	+20/+1,000	+30/+1,500	+40/+2,000	+50/+2,500
Attack/Magic Attack	+5	+10	+15	+20	+25
Boss Damage	+2%	+4%	+6%	+8%	+10%
Defense Ignore	+2%	+4%	+6%	+8%	+10%
Critical Damage	+0.50%	+1.00%	+1.50%	+2.00%	+2.50%
Additional Experience Acquisition	+5%	+10%	+15%	+20%	+25%

• The number of Champion Coins consumed is based on each stat’s level. The total Champion Coin cost of each stat’s selected level is added up and consumed.
  • However, the ‘Additional Experience Acquisition’ stat consumes more Champion Coins.
  • The Champion Coins you hold will be reset every 1st day of the month at 12:00 AM.

Stat Level	Champion Coins Consumed	Champion Coins Consumed (Additional Experience Acquisition)
Level 1	50	150
Level 2	125	375
Level 3	200	600
Level 4	300	900
Level 5	500	1,500

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Champion Raid: Dragon Island

Dragon Island, the island ruled by wild dragons. Use your Union Champions to help Royal Knight Sir Hamcelot to defeat the dragons and acquire Champion Coins.

Participation Requirements:

• A level 260 or higher character registered as a Champion after completing the ‘[Union Champion] Champion’s Path’ quest.
• You can only participate if you have 2 or more characters registered as Champions.

Participation Method:

• After completing the ‘[Union Champion] Champion’s Path’ quest from Dragon Hunter Ms. Account, you can register your characters as Champions through the Union UI’s Champion tab.
• After registering 2 or more Champions, you can participate in the Champion Raid through the Union UI’s ‘Champion Battlefield’ button.

• When you enter the Champion Raid, you can play by switching between your registered Champions in real time using the Tab key. You can control each Champion for up to 3 minutes. (This is shown as the blue bar beside each character)
• The Champion Raid will end after you have used up all of your Champions’ play times.
• Champions on standby will charge their Bond Gauge. When you switch to a character that has a charged Bond Gauge, you will acquire a final damage boost effect. (This is shown as the bar above the play time beside each character)
• The Champion Raid consists of a total of 6 stages. You can acquire Champion Coins based on your total score.

※ The score acquired in Champion Raid is shared between all characters within the world.

※ You can re-enter and re-challenge the Champion Raid after completing it. If you get a higher score, you can acquire the additional Champion Coins.

※ If you leave while inside, you can acquire points but the stage progress record will be reset.

※ The Champion Raid progress record will be reset every 1st of the month at 12:00 AM.

※ Certain UI features may be restricted while inside the Champion Raid.

※ Shortcut keys changed while inside the Champion Raid will not be saved when you leave.

Clear Rewards:

• Champion Coins

※ The number of Champion Coins given as a reward is based on your acquired score.

※ The Champion Coins you have will be reset every 1st of the month at 12:00 AM.

You can participate in the existing Union Raid through Dragon Hunter Ms. Account in towns.

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Union Champion & Champion Raid Summary

I’m gonna try to summarize this new system (along with some information that may have been unclear or not included in the patch notes). First off, the Union Champion system itself.

• You can register characters as Champions. You get 2 slots by default and can unlock up to 1 more. The last 3 slots will become available at a later time.
• Your Champions cannot have multiple characters of the same job. This is one of the most common questions/concerns that I have seen. It means you cannot have something like 2 Dark Knights for example. However, you could have 1 Hero, 1 Dark Knight, and 1 Paladin (i.e. class branches can be repeated like 3x warriors).
• Each Champion starts at C Rank. You can increase each Champion’s Rank by completing the Champion Evaluations. You must do this in order, one by one.
• The Champion Evaluation requires you to solo certain bosses in ‘Champion Mode’. This is basically the ‘real mode’ of the boss but it forces you to enter in a party of 1. You cannot complete Champion Evaluations through Genesis Liberation missions (because those have different conditions, although it only applies to Suu/Jin Hilla I guess). You can also do them in Practice Mode and clears in Practice Mode will also count.
• After a Champion completes an Evaluation, its Rank can be increased and it will acquire an additional Champion Insignia based on the Rank. This Champion Insignia gives stats permanently to all Champion characters, and they all stack together.
• If all currently unlocked Champion Slots have Champions that are A Rank or higher, you can then unlock the next Champion Slot.
• I think there was some confusion from initial translations where people thought that unlocking a new Champion Slot would reset the progress of all Champion Ranks and you would have to redo all of the Champion Evaluation missions, but this is incorrect. The only time any progress is reset is if you decide to remove one of your Champions (e.g. if you wanted to replace one of your existing Champions with a different character), in which case you must pay 1b mesos. When that Champion is removed, only that Champion Slot will be completely reset, and the new character you designate in that slot will have to start from C Rank.
• I’ll give some examples of stats that you can gain from this system.
  • Champion 1 completes the Champion Evaluations up to SSS Rank (clearing Normal Kalos). It will acquire all 5 Insignias and give All Stats +20, Max HP/MP +1,000, Attack/Magic Attack +10, Boss Damage +5%, Critical Damage +3.00%, and Defense Ignore +5% to all Champions.
  • Afterwards, Champion 2 completes the Champion Evaluations up to S Rank (clearing Hard Black Mage). It will acquire the first 3 Insignias. This will stack with Champion 1’s Insignias, for a total of All Stats +40, Max HP/MP +2,000, Attack/Magic Attack +20, Boss Damage +10%, Critical Damage +3.00%, and Defense Ignore +5% to all Champions.
  • Since Champion 1 and 2 are both A Rank or higher, you can unlock the third Champion Slot.
  • Champion 3 completes the Champion Evaluations up to B Rank (clearing Hard Suu). It will acquire the first Insignia. This will stack with Champion 1 and 2’s Insignias.
  • If you had three characters that all completed the SSS Rank Champion Evaluations, your Champions would gain a total of All Stats +60, Max HP/MP +3,000, Attack/Magic Attack +30, Boss Damage +15%, Critical Damage +9.00%, and Defense Ignore +15%.
  • Later on, when they unlock all 6 Champion Slots, if you had fully maxed out 6x SSS Rank Champions, the total stats would be doubled.

Then comes the Champion Raid: Dragon Island system.

• You need at least 2 Champions to enter the Champion Raid.
• When you enter, you have 5 minutes to do basic set up for your characters. All buffs will be removed upon entry. You cannot use any consumables, buffs, or things like Link Skills or Noblesse Guild Skills. You will be given Power Elixirs to use.
• Inside the Champion Raid, you can press the Tab key then 1/2/3 to switch between your Champions in real time.
• Each Champion can only be played for a total of 3 minutes. This time will not be deducted when there are no monsters on the map. While a character is on standby (not actively being played), their cooldowns will continue to tick down.
• Each Champion has a Bond Gauge. When they are on standby, it will slowly charge up. When you are playing a Champion that has the Bond Gauge filled, it will gain a temporary 25% final damage boost. I think he said on stream that this would be an important mechanic to get more points.
• The Champion Raid has 6 stages. In each Stage, you alternate between fighting normal monsters then fighting a boss. This happens 5 times each (for a total of 10 missions per Stage) before you complete the Stage and can enter the portal to go to the next Stage.
• When you are hit by certain attacks and environmental hazards, you will gain a stack of a Dangerous Status Effect. If it reaches 5 stacks, you will be inflicted with a powerful status effect. You can eat the fruit scattered around the map to heal yourself and cleanse the stacks.
• The Champion Raid is monthly content. It resets on the first day of every month.
• In my run on the test server, I reached Stage 2 and played it a bit, and when both of my Champions’ play times ran out, it automatically brought me to the exit map. I got a score of 9460 which rewarded me 9460 Champion Coins. You can always re-enter and try to get a higher score, which will give you additional Champion Coins.
• These Champion Coins will also be reset on the first day of every month, so you cannot save them up like other currency.
• You can use your Champion Coins to get a 30 minute buff by using the new beginner skill Champion’s Blessing, available on your Champion characters.
• The Champion’s Blessing skill lets you choose which stats and what level of each stat that you want. The cost of using the skill is Champion Coins, based on the levels that you selected.
• You can choose any combination of stats and levels, as long as you have enough Champion Coins.
  • For example, a fully maxed out Champion’s Blessing (Level 5 of all 6 stats) would cost 4000 Champion Coins.
  • Realistically, you wouldn’t choose the ‘Additional Experience Acquired’ stat (which actually has higher costs than the other stats) when bossing so level 5 of the remaining 5 stats would cost 2500 Champion Coins.
• You need to be careful with this as the Champion Coins can only be acquired from the Champion Raid, which is monthly. So you will need to carefully plan when you use them so you don’t run out of Champion Coins early on and then you’re left without it for the rest of the month.

Basically, the Union Champion system which gives permanent stats to all of your Champions requires no upkeep. Once you have completed a Champion Evaluation on a character, it will gain the corresponding Insignia and will never lose it (unless you remove that character as a Champion). You can gradually strengthen your characters, complete more Evaluations, and get more stats until they are all SSS Rank.

The Champion Raid system which gives stats in the form of 30 minute duration buffs is monthly content. You go in, play as your Champions for [3 x number of Champions] minutes, and try to get the highest score possible to acquire Champion Coins. You can then use these Champion Coins to get 30 minute buffs through the Champion’s Blessing skill, which lets you specifically choose which stats and how much of each stat you want.

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Cash

The NPC Style Awards 1st Set Packages will be sold.

• Sale Period: January 16, 2025 after the maintenance ~ February 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM.

Bundle Package

• NPC Style Awards 1st Set Package: Selective NPC Style Awards 1st Set Package Voucher

※ You can use the Selective NPC Style Awards 1st Set Package Voucher (expires in 60 days) to choose 1 of the NPC Style Awards 1st Set Packages.

※ The items acquired from the Selective NPC Style Awards 1st Set Package Voucher cannot be paid back.

Individual Packages

• Rhinne Package (M)
• Rhinne Package (F)
• Luska Package (M)
• Luska Package (F)
• Ryude Package
• Sula Package
• Treecat Package
• Manji Package

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DirectX 11

MapleStory now officially supports DirectX 11.

• DirectX 9 is no longer supported. You can no longer select the DirectX version when you run the game.
• Fixed an issue where an unrecoverable error occurred when using certain Intel graphics cards.

※ If you have any difficulties using the game properly, please update to the latest version of your graphics drivers.

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Smart AI Correction

The Smart AI Correction feature has been added.

• This feature creates smoother animations by generating additional frames. Skill effects and actions, and monsters’ movements will be smoother and feel like they move faster.
• The Smart AI Correction can be set in the Options UI’s Graphics tab. It is recommended to use it with the V-Sync option.
• When moving quickly, an issue may occur where letters like in nametags, medals, and titles appear broken.
• If performance degradation such as screen tearing occurs, please disable the option.
• You can see a preview of this feature in the Maple Now stream at this timestamp.

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Intense Power Crystal Reorganization

The weekly Intense Power Crystal sell limit per world has been decreased from 180 to 90.

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Improvements

Bosses

It has been improved so that you can open the Boss Entry UI by pressing the up arrow key on Chosen Seren, Watcher Kalos, Kaling, and Limbo’s entry gates.

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Skills

Hero

• Incising VI’s skill sound effect’s volume has been changed.

Bishop

• It has been improved so that if Unstable Memorize uses Divine Protection while Divine Protection is applied, a system message will be displayed that indicates the skill cannot be used.

Captain

• Head Shot VI’s skill sound effect’s volume has been changed.
• Death Hail’s skill sound effect’s volume has been changed.

Cannon Shooter

• Support Monkey Twins VI’s duration has been increased by about 3%.

Night Walker

• Darkness Omen:
  • It has been improved so that you can re-summon this skill even while it is summoned.
  • It has been improved so that you can cancel the skill by right-clicking the skill icon.
• Darkness Omen VI:
  • It has been improved so that you can re-summon this skill even while it is summoned.
  • It has been improved so that you can cancel the skill by right-clicking the skill icon.

Mercedes

• Unicorn Spike VI’s skill sound effect and skill hit sound effect’s volumes have been changed.
• Gust Dive VI’s skill sound effect’s volume has been changed.
• Strike Dual Shot VI’s skill sound effect and skill hit sound effect’s volumes have been changed.
• Elemental Knights VI’s skill sound effect’s volume has been changed.

Eunwol

• Spirit Frenzy and Spirit Frenzy VI’s action delay has been decreased by about 47%.

Mechanic

• A Distortion Effect Lock feature has been added to Distortion Field VI’s Intense Distortion Field.
• Distortion Field VI’s Intense Distortion Field’s distorition effect will now be affected by skill effect transparency.

Khali

• Hex: Chakram Fury’s skill description has been changed.
• Hex: Chakram Fury VI’s skill description has been changed.

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Skill Sequence

In the Quickslots, the cooldown will now be displayed based on the currently applied skill with the longest remaining cooldown.

The cooldown displayed on the shortcut key will now reflect cooldown reduction effects.

When registered as a Skill Alert, the cooldown of disabled skills will no longer be considered.

The help text has been changed.

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Link Skills

The Link Skill daily transfer limit has been removed.

When transferring Link Skills 5 times or more in a single day, mesos will no longer be consumed.

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Noblesse Guild Skills

Noblesse Guild Skills’ cooldowns have been changed from 60 minutes to 5 minutes.

• Boss Killing Machine
• Defense is Just a Number
• In the Name of the Guild
• Big One Shot

※ Guild Skills that are on cooldown and were used before the cooldown change will not have the reduced cooldown applied.

When re-using Noblesse Guild Skills, the meso cost has been decreased from 30m to 5m mesos.

Noblesse Guild Skills can no longer be used inside boss battle maps.

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Items

You can no longer install Disassemblers in places where only you or your guild members can see them.

• Basic Disassembler
• Intermediate Disassembler
• Advanced Disassembler
• Cube Disassembler
• Scroll Disassembler

The maximum number of Faded Silver Ore, Faded Silver, Clary Sage, and Clary Sage Oil that can be held in 1 inventory slot has been changed to 9000.

It has been improved so that when potential is transferred to Genesis Lazuli/Genesis Lapis and there was no additional potential, additional potential will now be granted.

It has been improved so that 100% Karma Legendary Potential Scroll (Level 200) can now be used on the 2nd stage liberated Genesis Weapon.

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NPCs

When talking to the Dreaming Rag Doll or Escaped Rock Spirits NPCs, the options to exchange coins for Arcane Symbols will now only be displayed when you have at least 30 Dream Coins or 3 Spirit Coins respectively,

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Maps

Certain Stages in Epic Dungeon: High Mountain have been changed.

• Common Stages
  • Solar Flash’s Authority consumption has been decreased from 50 to 30.
  • Solar Blade’s Authority consumption has been decreased from 150 to 100.
  • Solar Flare’s Authority consumption has been decreased from 200 to 150.
• Stage 4/5
  • The number of points required to clear the Stage has been changed from 3,700 to 2,600.
  • Certain parts of the Stage 4 map have been changed.
• Stage 7/8
  • The number of points required to clear the Stage has been changed from 4,500 to 3,500.
• Stage 10
  • The damage inflicted to Tynus by completing the Slaughter phase has been increased from 20% total HP to 30% total HP.

It has been improved so that you no longer need to use the ‘Sit’ key in Protect Esfera when using Shumet’s Special Turret.

• The key used to board Shumet’s Special Turret has been changed from the ‘Sit’ key to the ‘NPC Chat/Harvest’ key.
• The key used to exit Shumet’s Special Turret has been changed frrom the ‘Sit’ key to the left arrow key.

It has been improved so that the Henesys Pet Trail’s exit portal is more visible.

It has been improved so that when using the Magic Rocks to move in Orbis Tower and Eos Tower, it will no longer consume mesos and you can select from all floors.

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UI

Certain improvements have been made to the quest related UI’s appearance and features.

• It has been improved so that in Story quests, for high-importance Main and Job quests, they will use separate colours.
• It has been improved so that the Quest UI and Quest Helper UI’s appearances look more natural.
• It has been improved so that if a recently accepted/viewed startable/in-progress quest has been completed, it will no longer be automatically selected when you open the Quest UI.
• It has been improved so that in the Quest UI, the Story quests’ pre-requisite quest filtering feature can be used one at a time.
• It has been improved so that the Story quests’ pre-requisite quest filtering details are saved even if the Quest UI is opened and closed. (However, if a recently accepted or viewed quest does not belong to the filter group, the filtering will be cancelled.)
• It has been improved so that in the Quest UI, the quest objective content is separated by the ‘>’ symbol based on the order of completion conditions.
• It has been improved so that in the Quest UI, the quest objective content will no longer hide the future completion conditions with the ‘?’ symbol.
• It has been improved so that in the Quest UI, the Convenience feature banner area will only function above the button area.
• A guide message has been added if you fail to open the world map through the Quest UI in tutorial maps.
• It has been improved so that even quests without specific completion conditions can be registered and removed from the Quest Helper through the Quest UI.
• It has been improved so that quests that were automatically registered in the Quest Helper are no longer removed after a certain amount of time even if no special actions are taken.

It has been improved so that you can choose to display Medal/Title appearances in the Medal/Title Appearance settings UI.

• You can no longer set this option in the Options UI.

It has been improved so that in the World Map UI, you can now search for region names.

A shortcut key has been added for the Move to Town feature.

• When used, you will move to the town designated as the return point in your current map.

It has been improved so that when using the Import feature in the Shortcut Key Settings UI, you can now also copy the Combination Key’s settings.

When using the Daily Gift rewards’ Mileage items, the process of receiving Mileage has been simplified.

When you try to re-issue a medal that you currently have in your inventory or equipped, you will be notified to check your inventory, equipment window, or equipment presets.

Fixed an issue where after using the Teleport World Map, if you used a Premium Teleport World Map Voucher item while it was on cooldown, the cooldown would not be decreased instantly.

It has been improved so that in the Meso Market, when you receive mesos or Maple Points through the ‘Find Mesos & Maple Points’ button, the receipt details will be displayed in the chat window.

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Login Process

It has been improved so that when you connect to the game through the Game Launcher, if the most recently connected account is currently logged in, temporarily blocked, etc., a window to select the Maple ID will be displayed.

It has been improved so that if you try to login to a Maple ID that is currently logged in through the website, you will not be able to connect.

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Events

In the Challengers World UI, the <Use Pass> button has been added.

※ You can click the button to use 3,000 Maple Points to complete 1 daily hunting mission that you did not previously complete.

※ The <Challengers Pass> can be used up to the amount of times you did not complete the hunting missions in the previous week as of Thursday at 12:00 AM.

※ However, the number of Challengers Passes that can be used in the last weekk is the number of daily missions that you did not complete as of the day before at 12:00 AM.

In the Challengers Shop, 3x Experience Coupon (30 Minutes) has been added.

※ The 3x Experience Coupon (30 Minutes) can be purchased 1 time per day for 100 Challengers Coins.

※ The 3x Experience Coupon (30 Minutes) can only be put into storage, and will expire in 1 day.

In Challengers World, if you log out while doing the daily hunting mission, a related notification message has been added.

When a Zero character is set as Item Burning, the Challenger’s Equipment set effect can now apply to Lapis and Lazuli.

• If there is no set effect applied to the weapon, when you use the Item Burning Box, the Challenger’s Equipment set effect will be applied to Lapis and Lazuli.
• If another set effect is already applied to the weapon or if you set Item Burning while the Challenger’s Equipment set effect was not applied, you can apply the Challenger’s Equipment set effect by pressing the button in the UI.
• For Zero characters only, a button that lets you apply the Challenger’s Equipment set effect will be displayed in the top left corner of the UI.

※ If the Challenger’s Equipment set effect is currently applied to the weapon, the button will be disabled.

※ If the Challenger’s Equipment set effect is not currently applied to the weapon, the button will be enabled and you can apply the set effect to Lapis and Lazuli by pressing the button.

You can now enter Tera Blink on characters with the Hyper Burning Booster effect applied.

• Regardless of the Hyper Burning Booster effect’s duration, you can only enter Tera Blink during its event period (until March 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM).

※ ‘Spiegelmann’s Brilliant Hat Effect’ and ‘Spiegelmann’s Hat Chair’ can only be acquired 1 time per Hyper Burning MAX and Hyper Burning Booster character per Maple ID.

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Nexon OTP

It has been improved so that when Nexon OTP authentication occurs, the authentication reason will now be displayed.

When using ‘Platinum Scissors of Karma’ on an account using Nexon OTP, the OTP authentication number will only have to be entered 1 time after first logging into the world.

※ This feature will be applied from Nexon Play app 4.2.1 and later versions.

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Error Fixes

Skills

Common

• Fixed an issue where if a Mastery Core’s skill was disabled due to an SP Reset Scroll, the skill description would display the skill level awkwardly.
• Fixed an issue where if a Core was enhanced while a Mastery Core was disabled, the disabled guide message would be displayed.
• Fixed an issue where certain summon skills’ buff icons would sometimes be displayed even after they disappeared. The changed skills are as follows.
  • Common – Decent Holy Fountain
  • Bishop – Holy Fountain
  • Pathfinder – Obsidian Barrier (Blast), Obsidian Barrier (Transition)
  • Wild Hunter – Drill Container, Drill Container VI
• Fixed an issue where if Decent Sharp Eyes acquired from equipment potential was registered as a Pet Auto Buff on jobs other than Adventurers, it would be used continuously even if Sharp Eyes was applied.
• Fixed an issue where if Grandis Goddess’ Blessing was registered in the Skill Alarm, the Skill Alarm would not be displayed even when the cooldown ended.

Hero

• Fixed an issue where Aura Blade VI’s Skill Alarm was not displayed.
• Fixed an issue where Furious Edge’s number of Sword Scars was sometimes not displayed properly.

Archmage (F/P)

• Fixed an issue where after acquiring Ifrit VI, Fury of Ifrit’s skill sound effect was not played properly.

Bishop

• Fixed an issue where Fountain For Angels VI’s effect was displayed awkwardly.

Pathfinder

• Fixed an issue where Cardinal Discharge’s skill description when registered in a quickslot was sometimes not displayed.
• Fixed an issue where Cardinal Blast’s skill description when registered in a quickslot was sometimes not displayed.
• Fixed an issue where Cardinal Transition’s skill description when registered in a quickslot was sometimes not displayed.
• Fixed an issue where Combo Assault VI (Discharge)’s hit sound effect was not played.
• Fixed an issue where Combo Assault VI (Blast)’s hit sound effect was not played.
• Fixed an issue where Combo Assault VI (Transition)’s hit sound effect was not played.
• Fixed an issue where Relic Materialize attacked the totems in Especia’s Totem Slash.

Night Lord

• Fixed an issue where the client would sometimes end when using Four Seasons VI: Rampant.

Shadower

• Fixed an issue where Smokescreen’s effect sometimes looked awkward.
• Fixed an issue where Assassinate VI/Pulverize VI’s damage was sometimes not applied properly.

Captain

• Continual Aiming’s V Core skill icon has been changed.
• Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire VI’s Wild Fire Mode’s skill sound effect would play when in Normal Mode.

Cannon Shooter

• Max Cannon Rainbow’s damage formula has been changed.

Soul Master

• Fixed an issue where if you revived after dying, sometimes some of Soul Eclipse’s effects would disappear.

Night Walker

• Fixed an issue where the client would exit in Heroes of Maple if you used Evan’s Swift of Wind.
• Fixed an issue where Shadow Bats and Ravenous Bats were not summoned continuously by Dominion.
• Fixed an issue where Shadow Bats and Ravenous Bats were not summoned continuously by Dominion VI.
• Fixed an issue where Silence’s Shadow Stars were not activated by Dominion VI.
• Fixed an issue where Dark Sight was cancelled by Abyssal Darkness.

Striker

• Fixed an issue where while using Thunderbolt VI’s Custom Command, if you used Thunderbolt VI with the up arrow key, Thunderbolt Flash would be activated even if Thunderbolt VI was not used.

Evan

• Fixed an issue where Dive of Thunder VI’s effect was displayed awkwardly.
• Fixed an issue where Zodiac Ray’s magic was not charged at once when Dragon Breath VI hit an enemy.

Mercedes

• Fixed an issue where Elemental Knights and Elemental Knights VI’s spirits were not summoned when Mercedes used skills while in the air.
• Fixed an issue where Elemental Knights VI’s skill sounds were sometimes played continuously.

Eunwol

• Fixed an issue where sometimes the Guardian Spirit was summoned even when Yearning Heart was disabled.
• Fixed an issue where you would move to the left and right during Spirit Frenzy/Spirit Frenzy VI’s cast action.

Battle Mage

• Fixed an issue where Debuff Aura’s debuff effect was sometimes displayed in an awkward location.
• Fixed an issue where Dark Genesis VI: Death Whip’s cast action would sometimes not appear to other characters.

Kaiser

• Fixed an issue where the Morph Gauge would sometimes not be consumed when Final Figuration ended in Epic Dungeon: High Mountain.

Zero

• Fixed an issue where your current Time Force could exceed the maximum if you reset your Hyper Stat DF/TF/PP level.
• Fixed an issue where Beta’s Shadow Flash’s effect sometimes looked awkward.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes summons would awkwardly disappear when casting certain skills. The changed skills are as follows.
  • Advanced Throwing Weapon
  • Throwing Weapon VI
• Fixed an issue where the character movements were awkward when Tagging right after casting certain skills. The changed skills are as follows.
  • Jumping Crash
  • Earth Break
  • Jumping Crash VI
  • Earth Break VI
• Level 40 Wind Strike/Jumping Crash and Storm Break/Earth Break has been added to the Wind Cutter VI/Giga Crash VI Mastery Core activation conditions.
• Fixed an issue where casting Shadow Rain VI, Time Force would be consumed after the skill ended.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes Infinite Resonance activated when Transcendent’s Blessing of Time’s afterimage attacks were cast.

Illium

• Fixed an issue where after the Crystal was summoned with Crystal Control, if you entered a map that removed buffs, the buff icon would not disappear.
• Fixed an issue where Craft: Javelin VI’s Crystal Shards sometiems did not appear on the buff icon.
• Fixed an issue where Longinus VI was displayed awkwardly to other characters.

Khali

• Fixed an issue where you could be knocked back by enemy attacks during Hex: Chakram Fury VI’s cast action.

Hoyoung

• Fixed an issue where Scroll: Absorbing Vortex VI/Scroll: Butterfly Dream VI HEXA Core’s description was awkward.

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Skill Sequence

Fixed an issue where the Shortcut Key setting’s Sqeuence Key could be registered in the Combination Key.

Fixed an issue where certain HEXA Mastery Core skill names were displayed incorrectly in the message displayed when a Skill Sequence could not be used.

Fixed an issue in the Skill Sequence UI where even if Ring Activation was registered in a Skill Sequence, the Ring Activation icon at the bottom would still sppear as though it could be registered.

Fixed an issue where if a Skill Sequence was registered in the Skill Alarm, if the Skill Sequence became unusable, it could not be changed On/Off in the Skill Alarm.

Fixed an issue where if Unstable Memorize and Infinity were registered in the Skill Sequence in that order, Infinity would not be used.

Fixed an issue where if all skills registered in a Skill Sequence came off cooldown when you first connected to the client and it was the first character you logged into, the Skill Alarm would not be displayed.

Fixed an issue where if you registered a Skill Sequence in the Skill Alarm after using it, when all of the skills registered in the Skill Sequence came off cooldown, the Skill Alarm would not be displayed.

Fixed an issue where if Ring Activation was registered in a Skill Sequence then used individually, when all of the skills registered in the Skill Sequence came off cooldown, the Skill Alarm would not be displayed.

Fixed an issue where sometimes the client would exist when changing channels or changing boss battle phases while the Skill Sequence UI was open.

Fixed an issue where if Lucky Dice was included in a Skill Sequence, the cooldown would not be displayed on the Skill Sequence shortcut key.

Fixed an issue where if Grandis Goddess’ Blessing was included in a Skill Sequence, the cooldown would not be displayed on the Skill Sequence shortcut key.

Fixed an issue where if you registered 2 or more Special Skill Rings in a Skill Sequence then used it, the Skill Sequence shortcut key would not display the cooldown when changing Special Skill Rings.

Fixed an issue where if Hero registered Sword of Burning Soul in a Skill Sequence then used it, Sword of Burning Soul’s cooldown was not displayed in the Skill Sequence shortcut key.

Fixed an issue where if Bishop used Memoriy Choice to change the skill that would be activated by Unstable Memorize, sometimes the list of registerable skills at the bottom of the Skill Sequence UI looked awkward.

Fixed an issue where if Bishop registered Triumph Feather, Holy Blood, or Triumph Feather VI in a Skill Sequence then changed to Compassion Mode and they were disabled, the Skill Sequence could be used even if it had lass than 3 registered skills excluding those skills.

Fixed an issue where if Phantom swapped their stolen skill, the cooldown would not be displayed in the Skill Sequence shortcut key.

Fixed an issue where if Phantom registered a stolen skill in a Skill Sequence, when all of the skills registered in the Skill Sequence came off cooldown, the Skill Alarm would not be displayed.

Fixed an issue where even if Zero used a Skill Sequence while using Wheel Wind/Wheel Wind VI, the skills would not be cancelled.

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Quests

Fixed an error where the ‘[Lion King’s Castle] Defeat the Lion King’ quest could not be completed in certain conditions.

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Items

Fixed an issue where you could not acquire Black Crystal items from the Suspicious Mineral Pouch.

Fixed an issue where if you used a Mysterious Anvil on a Genesis Soul Shooter, it would appear as if the Yaldabaoth of Destruction skill was not applied when checking the Combat Power of other characters with that weapon equipped.

Fixed an issue with Zero where sometimes the Assisted Zero’s cape was not displayed when an Assist was activated.

Fixed an issue where the Luna Petite Water of Life’s duration was applied incorrectly in certain situations.

Fixed an issue where if the Tallahart area’s Elite Monsters and Elite Bosses were registered by using a Mystery Monster Egg, the message would not include the prefixes.

Fixed an issue where the Maple Lover medal and the Maple 3000 Days medal could not be reissued.

Fixed an issue where the Karianne Cape and Dunkel Cape item tooltips did not include the message ‘This item is not visible in certain situations, such as in the Character Info window.’

Fixed an issue where the Premium Teleport World Map [31 Days] Usage Voucher from the MVP Special Pack was provided as untradable.

Fixed an issue where the Premium Teleport World Map [1 Day] Usage Voucher from the MAPLE Daily Gift was provided as untradable.

The Return to Nearest Town Scroll’s item tooltip has been changed to match the specifications.

You can no longer acquire the Teleport World Map item from the Sprout Box.

Fixed an issue where scissor count was displayed on certain items with the Binding Mark applied.

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Monsters

Fixed an issue where you could sometimes deal damage to Balrog (Easy) within 3 minutes of entering.

Fixed an issue where certain screen effects looked awkward in Papulatus (Easy/Normal/Chaos) when the ‘optimal ratio’ was applied to the UI size.

Limbo (Normal/Hard)

• Fixed an issue in Phase 3 where if the Inner Source pattern started while Illium was using Crystal Skill: Glory Wings, the flight would not function properly.
• Fixed an issue in Phase 3 where sometimes even if you were hit by the Grasping Hands or the Back Predator, the status effect would not be applied.

Fixed an issue where the Fantasy Flower’s HP bar displayed was different than its actual HP when it appeared in non-instanced maps.

Fixed an issue where the ‘Scattered Sol Erda’ monsters that appeared from the HEXA Booster affected the conditions for Elite Monster appearance.

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Maps

Fixed an issue in certain Hotel Arcs maps where if the character jumped from the lowest platforms, they would appear to be hidden behind the platform.

• Outlaw Infested Wastes 1
• Outlaw Infested Wastes 2
• Outlaw Infested Wastes 3
• Outlaw Infested Wastes 4
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 1
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 2
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 3
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 4
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 5
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 6

Fixed an issue in certain Hotel Arcs maps where platforms and map objects were awkward.

• Outlaw Infested Wastes 4
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 4
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 5
• Nostalgic Drive-In Theater 6

Fixed an issue where the Navigation guide did not work between certain continents.

Fixed an issue in Epic Dungeon: Angler Company Stage 2 where a platform was broken.

Fixed an issue where if you entered the Audience Room through Lion King’s Castle – Castle Walls 2, you would be moved to the Fourth Tower after exiting.

Fixed an issue where characters currently progressing through the Arcane River story could not exit certain content maps.

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UI

Fixed an issue where if there was still a clear count remaining within the world for Monster Park Extreme, it would not be displayed as cleared in the Boss UI even if you did clear.

In the Maple Chat, characters that exited will no longer display ‘Message being entered’.

Fixed an issue in the Meso Market where if the date changed, if you requested a trade, the number of possible trades was displayed incorrectly.

Fixe an issue in the HEXA Matrix where the guide message for materials required was displayed on Cores that were completely enhanced.

Fixed an issue in Azmoth Canyon where in certain stages, the Stage UI covered the Minimap UI.

Fixed an issue in certain sutiations where if you bought Royal Style items, the item preview would not be displayed.

Fixed an issue in the Maple Auction where pets applied with the Luna Illusion looked awkward in the Preview.

Fixed an issue in the Maple Auction where if you tried a new search, the existing set sort options would be maintained.

Fixed an issue in the Maple Auction where if you used the Quick Search in the Search or Market Price tabs, the search waiting time was shared.

Fixed an issue in the Maple Guide where you could not move to Esfera using the Protect Esfera button.

Fixed an issue where the Maple Guide’s Quick Move Maps would be activated even if you did not complete the pre-requisite quests and could not use them.

Fixed an issue in the Quest UI’s Search window where if you did not have any text entered, the Close button on the right side wowuld faintly overlap.

Fixed an issue where the Quest UI would not be closed with the ESC key if you registered or unregistered a quest in the Quest Helper through the Quest UI.

Fixed an issue in the Quest UI where certain quests’ reward information displayed different amounts than actually rewarded.

Fixed an issue where the Quest Helper sometimes did not minimize even when there were no registered quests.

Fixed an issue in the Quest Helper where registered quests’ mouse click and hover over ranges were awkward.

Fixed an issue where quests that were not registered in the QUest Helper could not be re-registered even if they were not completed.

Fixed an issue where Dual Blade characters that completed the 1st job advancement were not included in the Dual Blade job series in the Character Select window’s Job Growth status.

Fixed an issue where Smartphone alerts and related UI did not appear when doing the FriendStory quests.

Fixed an issue where the World Map UI’s Search window’s Search button was displayed awkwardly.

Fixed an issue where if you cleared Epic Dungeon: High Mountain, the Quick Pass button would say that you already cleared Angler Company.

Fixed an issue where if the Buff Auto Sort feature was applied, hovering over certain buff icons’ bottom areas would not display the tooltips.

Fixed an error where if you tried to login to the same account at the same time, the Union attacker information would not be loaded intermittently.

Fixed an error where if you registered a medal item that had its appearance changed with a Mysterious Anvil as your Medal Appearance, other characters would see the medal’s original appearance instead of its anvilled appearance.

Fixed an issue in the New Name Auction where if 2 or more people attempted to bid at the same time, sometimes the guide message would not be displayed to bidders other than the first one.

Fixed an issue in the Cash Shop where the Cash Purchase confirmation window’s tooltip would intermittently not be displayed againd.

Fixed an issue where a tooltip would be displayed if you hovered over the blank space at the bottom of the Character Info UI when changing your Custom Background.

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Achievements

Fixed an issue where achievements related to defeating field bosses did not count Temple of Time area’s Dodo, Lilynouch, Lyka, Mu Lung area’s Mu Gong, Master Dummy, Giant Bellflower Root, and Road of Vanishing area’s Arma.

• [Field Boss] Defeating Rare Enemies
• [Field Boss] Defeating Many Rare Enemies
• [Field Boss] Defeating So Many Rare Enemies

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