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v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Notify - 2016-03-02

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news//7587/


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Get ready to travel through time, delving deep into the mystery surrounding Masteria as you visit its past in new content to be released in multiple Acts over the coming weeks. Then, visit the new town of Shanghai and the Shaolin Temple, and embark on the next saga of Beasts of Fury as you journey into the mountains to realize your untapped power! Springtime means new events, and there are several you can participate in to earn Spring Bunny Coins, exchangeable in a special shop. Finally, collect Easter Eggs to earn a Moon Bunny Costume! The Cash Inventory Transfer Event and other events will also be returning. All this and more, in the Masteria Through Time update!


[B]MASTERIA EXPANSION[/B]

Prepare to delve deeper into the story of Masteria—the continent that once sank beneath the ocean waves, only to suddenly re-emerge 1,000 years later! The content is split into multiple Acts, with Acts 1 and 2 available next week, and Acts 3 and 4 coming later this spring. Travel through time, visiting Masteria’s past to learn about the rise and fall of Masteria, including the truth of Christopher Crimsonheart and his children, and the real reason Crimsonwood Keep was established!

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[B]BEASTS OF FURY 2[/B]

The Gold Dragon and Red Tiger clans have been living together peacefully, giving you an itch for adventure! Your Master realizes this and asks you to visit the Wu Tien Mountains, where a powerful mentor lives. Undertake this difficult journey in order to awaken your true power! Take part in mini-games, and earn rewards such as Soul Weapons.

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[B]SHANGHAI AND SHAOLIN TEMPLE[/B]

Players Lv. 140 and above can visit the town of Shanghai, which appears as a village of night, surrounded by Jiangshi! Complete daily quests to earn Yu Garden Coins which can be spent in the Black Market that only appears at certain times. Exchange your hard-earned Yu Garden Coins for new Golden Flower equipment! Then head over to the Shaolin Temple for players Lv. 145 and above. Enter this theme dungeon and collect Demon Orbs. Earn rewards such as a Demon Mask Mount, Demon Jar Chair, and more.

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[B]SPRING AND EASTER EVENTS[/B]

Hippity hop! Spring is here, and that means lots of fun events for you! Protect the Spring Bunny Family from dastardly Space Pirates and receive Spring Bunny Coins, exchangeable for scrolls and other items. Join other players in the mini-game Of Mice and Bunnies, and earn scrolls and trait items. Then celebrate Easter by collecting Easter Eggs. Collect enough and you'll earn yourself a Moon Bunny costume! You can also color eggs, or help the Mad Bunny and be rewarded with items such as chairs, potions and more.

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[B]MORE EVENTS[/B]

But that’s not all! Take part in daily missions from Cassandra to earn letters. Collect enough letters during the week to unlock a weekend mission! If you complete the weekend mission, you can earn Meister’s Cubes. Do you have a cash item you’ve wanted to move to another character on your account? Now you can with the return of the Cash Inventory Transfer Event!

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v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Spadow - 2016-03-02

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Wait... Where are all the demons?! Rolleyes


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Eos - 2016-03-02

That certainly took a long time to come around. Now we all cross fingers that it's not horrible crap.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - PirateIzzy - 2016-03-02

Masteria blockbuster and the ChinaMS World Tour area? Hype!


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - xparasite9 - 2016-03-02

I'd like to find out how they will work around the fact that they pineappleed up the mythos by saying that the five heroes created a time seal preventing anyone from going back in time before the sealing of the Black Mage, which without explanation would be a massive plothole because Masteria fell hundreds of years before then, so traveling back to that time shouldn't be possible.

Spadow Wrote:[Image: JfI7Ul6.gif]

Wait... Where are all the demons?! Rolleyes

dawnveil isn't real. if you want funny-colored people go to the krakians.

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This image looks familiar. Anyone remember where it's from?


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Grey - 2016-03-02

I was so looking forward to the Masteria update before this reveal that it's a blockbuster. Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoy doing blockbusters, it works well as narrative content, I guess, but they're generally isolated from the rest of the game, like with Black Heaven and Heroes of Maple, it's through some NPC/Portal in the conference hall, and you can't experience it with other people. It's not bad, it's just not the direction I was hoping they'd go with for Masteria, I just want good, old fashioned quests and new areas to explore. It's true that this doesn't necessarily mean we won't get that, but we probably aren't going to. Judging from the other blockbusters, we'll get little more than a new area that serves as little more than a training ground and a new boss.

It might be better than I expected, but for now, I'm rather disappointed with how things are turning out with Masteria.

xparasite9 Wrote:This image looks familiar. Anyone remember where it's from?

It's in the Jett tutorial, but I don't think that's where I know it from.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - koplje - 2016-03-02

xparasite9 Wrote:I'd like to find out how they will work around the fact that they pineappleed up the mythos by saying that the five heroes created a time seal preventing anyone from going back in time before the sealing of the Black Mage, which without explanation would be a massive plothole because Masteria fell hundreds of years before then, so traveling back to that time shouldn't be possible.



dawnveil isn't real. if you want funny-colored people go to the krakians.

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This image looks familiar. Anyone remember where it's from?

I'm pretty sure it's an image that was originally used in the Visitor's event a long time ago.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Spadow - 2016-03-02

Grey Wrote:It's in the Jett tutorial, but I don't think that's where I know it from.

The image is related to the aliens, Bing and time traveling.

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koplje Wrote:I'm pretty sure it's an image that was originally used in the Visitor's event a long time ago.

This.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Grey - 2016-03-02

Spadow Wrote:The image is related to the aliens, Bing and time traveling.

EDIT:



This.

[video=youtube;pUfwiwtQY5U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUfwiwtQY5U[/video]

Yeah, it's the cut when you use the Time Machine to go to the future to steal crystanol.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - VerrKol - 2016-03-02

Well crap. Nexon actually managed to do the impossible. I got mildly interested. Now all I have to do is resist the urge to play until the inevitable lackluster reveal.
Must. Fight. Optimism!


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - maplefreak26 - 2016-03-02

Wasn't expecting the China World Tour update. Nice! Smile


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Kirov - 2016-03-02

It's pretty cool that they are still willing to work on Masteria even after all this time. But given previous efforts I won't expect too much. The premise sounds good though.

Overall it seems like a nice patch.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Untradeable - 2016-03-02

Cautiously hyped. Here's hoping it's not pomegranate.

edit:

xparasite9 Wrote:dawnveil isn't real. if you want funny-colored people go to the krakians.

don't you mean versalians?


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - xparasite9 - 2016-03-02

Untradeable Wrote:don't you mean versalians?
krakians
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v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Nion - 2016-03-02

Man, I always loved the old Masteria storyline and am really glad that Nexon decided to expand on it!


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - xparasite9 - 2016-03-02

Nion Wrote:Man, I always loved the old Masteria storyline and am really glad that Nexon decided to expand on it!

Considering that from what I'm seeing so far it's likely that they've terribly fucked up already... Well we will just have to see.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - Marksman Bryan - 2016-03-02

NXProse told me (and I think combattente?) that the original story flow was going to be:
The Polis of Krakia>Temple of the Elementals>The Realm of Versal>The Shadow of Versal


If this is any different (which looks 100% guaranteed to be), then it won't be as epic as was originally intended.

I'm keeping my hopes low for this one.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - maplefreak26 - 2016-03-02

Marksman Bryan Wrote:NXProse told me (and I think combattente?) that the original story flow was going to be:
The Polis of Krakia>Temple of the Elementals>The Realm of Versal>The Shadow of Versal


If this is any different (which looks 100% guaranteed to be), then it won't be as epic as was originally intended.

I'm keeping my hopes low for this one.

It's been way too many years (7 years) since a real Masteria expansion.
Anything new at this point, unless under the helm of NxProse and his colleagues that worked on Masteria would be entirely different and written by completely new people with a new fresh set of eyes.

I don't think we'll ever see the Masteria that was meant to be. I do hope, however, that whoever is in charge of this new Masteria does the old one justice and keeps whatever is canon, canon and build it up from there.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - SwordStaker - 2016-03-02

This is honestly so much type! Holy crap!!! This is so cool!!!Though I hope the acts don't mean we can only go to these maps then. I hope that in act 4 it will open up the maps. It seems like it might.


v.171 – Masteria Through Time Update Preview - xparasite9 - 2016-03-02

maplefreak26 Wrote:I do hope, however, that whoever is in charge of this new Masteria does the old one justice and keeps whatever is canon, canon and build it up from there.

Considering the fact that they didn't even try to get input from any lore experts in the community?
It's frelcked, unless by some miracle kthxbainao was well-learned on the subject.