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KMS ver. 1.2.416 – MapleStory Overdrive: Ruler of Covenants, Lethe!

The first patch of the MapleStory Overdrive update has been released, featuring the new Demon magician job, Lethe, the Ruler of Covenants! There’s also a ton of QoL improvements, system updates, and events like Challengers World season 4.
As many of you have noticed, this post took a while to come out (it’s been like 2 weeks since the patch came out). I’ve actually been super busy in real life with my j*b as well as actually playing the game myself, not to mention these patch notes were really long. It’ll probably be similar for future posts as well, especially since the next patch will feature the new 3rd Hexa skill core with two test patches. Not sure how I’ll be doing those since I haven’t been doing KMST posts for a while, but I guess we’ll see…
Read more…2025 MapleStory Winter Showcase – Crown!
The winter showcase for the winter update, Maplestory Crown, took place yesterday! The main features were a new 6th job common skill for bossing, not one, not two, but three new bosses, and the Kinesis remaster!
The test server also opened up shortly afterwards, but I think this time, I’m going to skip the KMST post since the first official server patch is in a few days so there isn’t much time in-between. This post will just be an overview of what was revealed at the showcase.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.404 – MapleStory Assemble: The Red-Eyed Wanderer, Len!

The first patch of the MapleStory Assemble update has been released, featuring the new class, the Red-Eyed Wanderer, Len! It also contains a ton of QoL improvements such as the Buff Sequence feature, cooldowns resetting upon boss entry, and a completely unified Cash Storage!
The next part of the update will be the second 6th job skills, Ascent Skills! There will be two test world patches for them, on July 3 and July 10.
Read more…KMST ver. 1.2.188 – New Job, Len & Assemble Improvements!

Shortly after the showcase, the test server was updated with the new job, Len, as well as a large amount of QoL improvements. There will be another test server patch in a couple of days, probably with Len skill changes and the summer events.
Note for Len skills: like all other Anima classes, it is heavily based on Korean mythology and history, and all of the skill names use Hanja which is more difficult to translate and heavily subject to interpretation (thank you Neo for the assistance). I think most of them should be okay but some are definitely a bit long/weird-sounding and that’s because either I wasn’t 100% sure what the Hanja represented or it was too hard to concisely summarize what it meant. If you’re a native Korean with mastery over Hanja and have any suggestions/improvements, please let me know 🙂
Read more…MapleStory Summer 2025 Showcase – Assemble!
The MapleStory Summer 2025 showcase Assemble took place yesterday, detailing what content will be added in the coming months. The first patch will include a new Anima warrior job, Len, the second patch will release new 6th job skills for all classes, and the third patch will add a new boss. And of course it all comes with a bunch of QoL improvements and features, and various events such as enhanced Hyper Burning and Challengers World.
Following the showcase, the test server was updated with the new job. Since it’s an Anima class, all of its skills are written in Hanja which makes translations more difficult and time-consuming, so we’ll see when I can finish the post by.
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