AcornStory: The Battle Against the Ice Knight

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Welcome to AcornStory, our ongoing feature helping players get started in Maple World everything from choosing a class to finding friends to understanding combat to tips for participating in an online community. MapleStory is easy to learn, but once you learn the basic game mechanics, where do you go and what do you do? Read on to find out!


[SIZE=3]The Battle Against the Ice Knight

The Chaos update has brought many changes to Maple World, the most significant of which is the introduction of PvP gameplay. In a previous edition of AcornStory, we introduced you to the concepts of PvP, how theyre implemented in MapleStory, and how you can get started in the exciting world of hero versus hero competition. In this edition, well go into detail about another PvP game mode - the incredible battle against the Ice Knight.


Who is the Ice Knight?

The Ice Knight is the cast off armor and weapons of the failed champion Hudak. Once a friend to Aran and the other great heroes of Maple World who defeated the Black Mage during his first rise to power, Hudak succumbed to his own pride and betrayed everything he believed in. Pledging himself to the Black Mage, he fought his former friends only to meet defeat at the hands of Aran. Now hes cursed to spend eternity trapped in his former armor. Whenever a group of Maplers finds it, the armor possesses one of them and turns them against their friends.

You can read the tale of Hudak here.


What is Ice Knight mode?

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Ice Knight is a very special gameplay mode in which nineplayers team up against one player who is randomly chosen to be the Ice Knight.Ten players are required to initiate Ice Knight mode.


Getting started

To begin a PvP session, your character must be level 30 or above. Then, do the following:
Speak with Maximus, located in any major town, to be teleported to Battle Square.
Once in Battle Square, speak with NPC Crawson. This will bring up the Battle Mode window. This window allows you to select what type of PvP game you wish to play and what tier you wish to play in. Select Ice Knight to start an Ice Knight match.
Click the START button. The game will search for opponents and then bring you into an Ice Knight match.

Becoming the Ice Knight

At the start of a match, one player will be randomly chosen to become the Ice Knight. If you are chosen as the Ice Knight, you will be given immense power and your character will transform into an armor-clad knight. You will be larger than the other characters, your strength will prevent the other players from knocking you back, and you will be able perform a double jump that covers great distances.

As the Ice Knight attacks its enemies, the Ice Gauge will grow, represented by a number of slots. As the Ice Gauge fills up, the Ice Knight will be able to perform a variety of devastating skills:

Ice Chop Swing your frosty axe to attack multiple enemies and knock them back. Cost: 5 slots.

Ice Smash Raise your sword to attack and freeze many foes. Cost: 20 slots.

Ice Tempest Cast an ice storm as an area-of-effect for continuous damage. Cost: 40 slots.

Ice Curse Have a chance to transform one or more enemies into snails. Cost: 60 slots.

Challengers

Once the Ice Knight is chosen, everyone else becomes a Challenger. Its the Challengers job to defeat the Ice Knight. To succeed, you must combine your strength nine players can band together and share HP & MP potions to take on the Ice Knight. If afterseven minutes the Ice Knight still lives, then the Ice Knight wins.

Ice Knight Gameplay

While fighting against other players, youll note a number of gameplay differences from normal PvE.

There is no lasting negative to being killed in PvP. Within three seconds you will be revived in a random location on the battlefield.

Consumable items such as potions and foods cannot be used. During PvP gameplay though, special Battle Mode potions will randomly pop up on the battlefield. The effects of these items will begin as soon as a player picks them up.


Rewards

Battle Experience

As in other PvP modes, everyone will receive Battle Experience points at the end of an Ice Knight battle. The match winners will r

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The match winners will receive a higher amount of points. Like regular experience, Battle Experience accumulates and periodically contributes to a rise in your Battle Rank. Battle Rank offers a variety of benefits and is completely separate from your character’s level.

Battle Points



Battle Points can be exchanged for Gallant Emblems through the BP Exchanger in Battle Square. You can use Gallant Emblems to purchase exclusive items from Larson, another NPC in Battle Square.



Battlefield Wisdom

• Challengers must work together! The Ice Knight can easily defeat any single player. It’s very important to coordinate strikes in order to defeat him.

• Always try to surround the Ice Knight. If the Ice Knight has the chance to unleash an attack that can strike everyone, you may never recover enough momentum to defeat him.

• Remember that any of your powers that cause knockback will not work on the Ice Knight.

• Watch the Ice Knight's attacks! If the Ice Knight hasn’t used any of his powers for a while, he’s probably building up to use Ice Tempest or Ice Curse!


What are you waiting for? Start the game now!

Spoiler: Ice Tempest is the best skill.

Spoiler: Ice Tempest is the best skill.

Snails if they are dealing too much damage, to lower their DPS.