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KMS ver. 1.2.402 – Skill/UI Changes & MapleStory’s 22nd Anniversary: Maple University!
The MapleStory’s 22nd Anniversary: Maple University event has begun! It’s honestly a little barebones but Changseop said to look forward to the second half in May as they will be adding more. Of course, this patch contains the skill balancing (with additional changes from KMST), the UI reorganization, the new Maple Home system, the updated MVP system, and more.
The next live server patch is on May 21 so we can expect a KMST patch on May 14. They said in the Maple Now that it wouldn’t be as big as this patch, but I’m sure it will still have some interesting content.
Read more…KMST ver. 1.2.186 – Huge Skill Changes and UI Reorganization!
Following up on the March update that surprised everyone with the Star Force reorganization, Director Changseop has followed it up with another huge off season patch (and a Maple Now stream like usual). This time, it was a full skill balancing that changes all classes to 2 minute cycles and updating most of the game’s UIs! It also includes the Maple Home system (KMS’ version of the overseas My Home system) which I’ve been asking for for so many years and a big update to the MVP system.
This patch will be coming to the official server next week which could bring some additional changes. It starts off the MapleStory 22nd anniversary: Maple University, and I’ll cover that event in the next post.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.398 – MapleStory NEXT: 3rd & 4th Mastery Cores!
The first patch of the MapleStory winter update, NEXT, has been released! The main attraction is the completion of Mastery Cores with the 3rd and 4th Cores being added at the same time, but there’s also a ton of game changes and improvements like cross world Auction House/Meso Market, Genesis Weapon Liberation changes, and the Skill Sequence system which lets you buff up with a single key!
The main event for the next two months is the Dawn Star Banquet, a New Year’s banquet held at Darmoor’s royal villa in Arboris where many of the Apostles have gathered. Together with Primacy, you infiltrate the banquet to find more information on your enemies.
The next official server patch will be on January 16, so expect a test world update on January 9, where we will learn more about the new Union Champion system.
Read more…KMST ver. 1.2.181 – 3rd & 4th Mastery Cores!
A few hours after the showcase, KMST was updated with the 3rd and 4th Mastery Cores. Of course, it took a while to translate like 5+ skills for all 46 jobs… if you see any mistakes let me know because I’m sure there’s a lot lol.
There will be another patch on Thursday with changes to these Mastery Cores as well as the other content/events that will be added to the official server next week.
Read more…MapleStory’s History – Interviews from 15+ Years Ago!
It’s been a while since I’ve done a non-patch related post. If you guys have been reading for many years, you might remember some of my really old posts like the MapleStory character relationship chart and the one about the various MapleStory published books/artbooks (it’s funny to look back at this, I said that I wanted to own them one day and I actually did just get them, 10 years later!). I also got the Aran and Eunwol remaster books so maybe I’ll do a post on those if people are interested.
Anyways, a while ago, I was looking through some really, really old MapleStory news and I found a bunch of official articles/streams/interviews that were archived by a user called mazefind (some of you might remember them as they used to upload a lot of KMS videos on YouTube). These streams included interviews with the development/design teams and they mentioned a lot of little tibdbits I thought would be fun to share.
It’s a bit of a long post but I hope there are some people that might enjoy this kind of ‘behind-the-scenes’ stuff.
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