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2026 MapleStory Summer Showcase – Overdrive!
The 2026 MapleStory summer showcase Overdrive took place yesterday! The update features a new job, the Ruler of Covenants, Lethe, the 3rd Hexa skill core, a new boss Bellona, and various reorganizations and events. This test world will be quite short as the live server patch is on Thursday!
Big thanks to DK for sharing their translations and notes from the showcase!!
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.414 – Maple Attack: 3rd Common Core!
The second patch of the MapleStory 23rd anniversary event has been released. It’s actually pretty small compared to the other off-season patches we’ve been getting recently, but it does include the new 3rd Common Core and the ability to change Sol Hecate’s appearance!
We don’t know much about the next patch in May, but they did say it would be ‘pre-summer’, so maybe a teaser of what we’re getting? I’m actually going to be in Korea (with Steve and Kobe) starting next week and won’t be home for a couple of weeks, so the next post may be delayed!
Read more…Maple Now (April 9, 2026) – 3rd Common Core & Probability-Related Fixes
Okay I know I said I probably wouldn’t be doing Maple Now translations anymore but this one was relatively short and easier to write up (maybe because this April patch is quite small) so I just did it.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.413 – MapleStory’s 23rd Anniversary: Maple Attack!
MapleStory’s 23rd anniversary: Maple Attack has begun! This patch contains a ton of gameplay improvements to leveling up, boss patterns, skill rings, enhancing, and boss rewards, as well as the new Training Grounds system to test out your damage rotation and help the MapleStory team in future balancing.
The main event is themed around Maple Island, the real-life MapleStory theme park opening in Seoul in April. There’s also the new Change Burning: Lucid event where you can transform into and play as Lucid, and the Jin’s Mysterious Garden event where you can get crazy growth rewards from BTS Jin!
Read more…Maple Now LAN Virtual Tour!
As stated previously, Director Changseop did a live stream yesterday called the Maple Now LAN Virtual Tour! He said it would be a mini-showcase and it was definitely that (or even more) with all the stuff he announced. This year’s anniversary will take place over the next three months (March, April, May) and they have prepared lots of content both in-game and in real life (such as the MapleStory theme park)!
After the Maple Now stream, the test server was opened with some of the changes which will be coming to the live server next week. Recently I’ve only been doing live server posts so I probably will end up continuing that, it’s just easier to take my time over a week+ instead of having to rush to finish the test server as fast as possible then have to do more work for whatever is different in the live server patch a few days later.
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