KThxBaiNao Wrote:Hey Maplers,

We recognize that there been a lot of concern about the behavior of Kanna skill Kishin Shoukan and whether or not the changes were intended. First of all, we apologize for the lack of updates about the issue, we wanted to be sure we evaluated the issues carefully, and considered the original intent for the skill before we responded with partial information. We know many of you have voiced your concern about this skill, so we also wanted to make sure we took those concerns into consideration as well.

During the July 20th Heroes of Maple: Blaster update, we attempted to fix a legacy issue with the skill that caused the decrease spawn rate feature of the skill to be calculated incorrectly. Due to this issue, players were able to decrease the spawn rate of monsters too greatly. As you may know, we unintentionally caused more issues when this fix was attempted on July 20th . However, as of the August 3rd maintenance, we can confirm that skill is now working as it is originally intended.

We recognize that many players have become accustomed to the pre-July 20th spawn rates and that these greatly reduced spawn rates were caused by an issue that we failed to fix for a long time. Due to these two points, we are continuing to re-evaluate this skill in the context of Kanna’s entire set of skills to determine if some slight improvements can be made. We don’t have any concrete plans to announce yet, but we’ll be sure to let you know once we do.

Thanks,

The MapleStory Team

AKradian Wrote:Well.

I do believe this marks the first time in Maple's history that a functionality that used to be free became NX-only.
I'm sure it won't be the last.

Welcome, A Worse Maple.

SaptaZapta Wrote:This was written in response in the official forums:


It's true, I think.
New pay2win items are one thing. Removing in-game functionality in order to replace it with a pay2win item is a whole new level of scumbaggery, even for Nexon.

The biggest joke will be if they respond to the outcry by nerfing Monolith to match Kishin... after the Philosopher's Book sale ends, of course.
(I doubt they will, tho. They will need it to pull marks into the next sale, too)

KThxBaiNao Wrote:However, as of the August 3rd maintenance, we can confirm that skill is now working as it is originally intended.

PirateIzzy Wrote:xparasite9
What do you know, you weren't kidding.
RIP Tower of Oz runs

Grey Wrote:This sort of reminds me of Reboot Meso Bags.

They break Kishin, release Frenzy Totem, then claim the current Kishin is intended, then people think they're greedy as pineapple, there's huge a backlash, then actually they fix Kishin, citing that they're listening to what players want, and then everyone feels good, and this all blows over with Nexon looking better than before.

(I'm really sorry for all my paranoia surrounding this, but I'm just very suspicious of their motives.)

xparasite9 Wrote:That's not how the reboot meso bag situation went at all though. They couldn't make any compromise at all and they had to remove them entirely.

panolo Wrote:Im of those who think that a nerf on the respawn rate of kishin was needed as not only it was absurdly overpowered but also caused both server and client stability issues. Still turning respawn rate into a p2w feature is one of the most despicable things Nexon has ever done. They could at least nerf totem to have the same values as kishin.

fodjgngf Wrote:

lol yeah this image sums things up I feel.

TugboatWilly Wrote:Might as well be one huge $100 bill.