KMST v1.2.069 - "MapleStory: Black Mage"

https://orangemushroom.net/2018/06/16/km...ge-begins/

So, what do you guys think?
Is Fiel's shirt in any danger?

It's hard to say really. The way the story is going currently leads towards a Hilla V2 boss fight, with arcane force requirements. I think eventually it'll lead towards actually having the black mage as a weekly boss fight, perhaps they'll pull a hekaton and make it a server wide event? Not sure what kind of rewards they'd be adding, highly doubting there will be a new arcane symbol for the "last" area of arcane river.

But when/if the black mage gets beaten in a lore perspective, I assume they'll start to focus on the grandis regions story. They've been expanding it and we've barely seen the main players of grandis. I'm sure any new classes will be either part of the nova race or more flora. I highly doubt they're ever going to make another explorer class. Who really knows where they're going to go after the black mage though. They might start expanding on the Demon story for all I know.

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Looking for a video if this happens

Here's the new EXP table from 200 to 220.

Level	Old	New	Difference	% Difference
200	2,207,026,470	2,207,026,470	0	0
201	2,648,431,764	2,471,869,646	176,562,118	0.06666666682
202	3,178,118,116	2,768,494,003	409,624,113	0.128888889
203	3,813,741,739	3,100,713,283	713,028,456	0.1869629631
204	4,576,490,086	3,472,798,876	1,103,691,210	0.2411654323
205	5,491,788,103	3,889,534,741	1,602,253,362	0.2917544035
206	6,590,145,723	4,356,278,909	2,233,866,814	0.3389707767
207	7,908,174,867	4,879,032,378	3,029,142,489	0.3830393915
208	9,489,809,840	5,464,516,263	4,025,293,577	0.4241700988
209	11,387,771,808	6,120,258,214	5,267,513,594	0.4625587589
210	24,142,076,232	16,830,710,088	7,311,366,144	0.3028474467
211	25,590,600,805	18,177,166,895	7,413,433,910	0.2896936249
212	27,126,036,853	19,631,340,246	7,494,696,607	0.2762916178
213	28,753,599,064	21,201,847,465	7,551,751,599	0.2626367427
214	30,478,815,007	22,897,995,262	7,580,819,745	0.2487242284
215	32,307,543,907	24,729,834,882	7,577,709,025	0.2345492139
216	34,245,996,541	26,708,221,672	7,537,774,869	0.2201067462
217	36,300,756,333	28,844,879,405	7,455,876,928	0.2053917792
218	38,478,801,712	31,152,469,757	7,326,331,955	0.1903991712
219	40,787,529,814	33,644,667,337	7,142,862,477	0.1751236839
220	84,838,062,013	84,838,062,013	0	0
Total	460,341,316,797	367,387,717,805	92,953,598,992	0.2019232157

The fact that anoyone can still remember Fiel's 'shirt promise' is amazing.

I wouldn't be surprised if he himself had forgotten all about it

Pepperidge farm remembers.

Here's the new EXP table from 200 to 220.

 Spoiler

Level	Old	New	Difference	% Difference
200	2,207,026,470	2,207,026,470	0	0
201	2,648,431,764	2,471,869,646	176,562,118	0.06666666682
202	3,178,118,116	2,768,494,003	409,624,113	0.128888889
203	3,813,741,739	3,100,713,283	713,028,456	0.1869629631
204	4,576,490,086	3,472,798,876	1,103,691,210	0.2411654323
205	5,491,788,103	3,889,534,741	1,602,253,362	0.2917544035
206	6,590,145,723	4,356,278,909	2,233,866,814	0.3389707767
207	7,908,174,867	4,879,032,378	3,029,142,489	0.3830393915
208	9,489,809,840	5,464,516,263	4,025,293,577	0.4241700988
209	11,387,771,808	6,120,258,214	5,267,513,594	0.4625587589
210	24,142,076,232	16,830,710,088	7,311,366,144	0.3028474467
211	25,590,600,805	18,177,166,895	7,413,433,910	0.2896936249
212	27,126,036,853	19,631,340,246	7,494,696,607	0.2762916178
213	28,753,599,064	21,201,847,465	7,551,751,599	0.2626367427
214	30,478,815,007	22,897,995,262	7,580,819,745	0.2487242284
215	32,307,543,907	24,729,834,882	7,577,709,025	0.2345492139
216	34,245,996,541	26,708,221,672	7,537,774,869	0.2201067462
217	36,300,756,333	28,844,879,405	7,455,876,928	0.2053917792
218	38,478,801,712	31,152,469,757	7,326,331,955	0.1903991712
219	40,787,529,814	33,644,667,337	7,142,862,477	0.1751236839
220	84,838,062,013	84,838,062,013	0	0
Total	460,341,316,797	367,387,717,805	92,953,598,992	0.2019232157

Thanks!

Of course they'd do it shortly after I get my Kanna and Bishop mules to 220.
LF> EXP requirement reduction 220-225.

The fact that anoyone can still remember Fiel's 'shirt promise' is amazing.

I wouldn't be surprised if he himself had forgotten all about it

It's come up every time they've as much as teased the Black Mage being a boss.

It's never gotten a chance to be forgotten.

[video=youtube;TKN9h5v9p_s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKN9h5v9p_s[/video]

I put English subtitles on the fully animated video. Enjoy.

Look, Hilla's battle in the new Area will have the old commanders revived


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One guy posted this and i wanted to show here.

Man.. if we could have a Necromancer class that uses like Bones as a weapon and severed heads as a secondary.. God diablo 2 was so good.

They really would have / will blow my mind if instead of Lotus or Damien she summoned Freed and Afrien. My lord that fight would be so full of feelings and epicness.

So I wonder.....

What kind of boss will the Black Mage be?

I don't think they can exactly get away with another Pink Bean/Cygnus deal where no one can beat him until over a year after release in this day and age. But doing anything less than that would be an insult to the man's legacy. After all, Pink Bean was his apprentice and the evil future Cygnus was his creation. And even before Maple Story actually had a story out in the open and nobody did quests since the EXP rewards weren't worth it compared to pure grinding, the Black Mage was mentioned in quests. He's been around forever. So to finally fight the guy after over a decade of foreshadowing only for him to not be the most insane boss in MMO history..... wouldn't feel right.

Not to mention power creep has gotten more insane over time. Now every class can fill the screen with damage cap numbers from their multihit attacks. So how much HP does the guy have to have just to get people to party together instead of whales soloing him?

So I wonder.....

What kind of boss will the Black Mage be?

I don't think they can exactly get away with another Pink Bean/Cygnus deal where no one can beat him until over a year after release in this day and age. But doing anything less than that would be an insult to the man's legacy. After all, Pink Bean was his apprentice and the evil future Cygnus was his creation. And even before Maple Story actually had a story out in the open and nobody did quests since the EXP rewards weren't worth it compared to pure grinding, the Black Mage was mentioned in quests. He's been around forever. So to finally fight the guy after over a decade of foreshadowing only for him to not be the most insane boss in MMO history..... wouldn't feel right.

Not to mention power creep has gotten more insane over time. Now every class can fill the screen with damage cap numbers from their multihit attacks. So how much HP does the guy have to have just to get people to party together instead of whales soloing him?

I agree with you, feels like Raftel in One Piece, we have nearly no information about it(Black Mage is getting more information, but it's combat have infinity possibilitys) that's hard to even imagine much about without beying complete wrong or in case of Black Mage imaging a battle that isn't underwheling or too overwheling to actually win.

inb4 he's a cutscene boss

So...
Before Ark: Ok... this seems to be the Final Boss for this game... Back Mage, here we go!
After Ark: Black Mage is the Disc-One Final Boss. Seems that an intergalactic empire is even worse than that.

Didn't people already foretold that though? Heck I think khainiwest said he could be our lord genome.

Darmoor has been teased as the new villain after the Black Mage since Kaiser + Angelic Buster's storyline.

Although I think the Zero storyline said something about them joining forces and trying to merge the Maple World and Grandis. And then that the three transcendents of the new world would be Black Mage, Darmoor, and Zero. (If they accept the offer, which obviously they didn't.)