v.150 - Rising Heroes: Elite Update Highlights

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/updates...hts/00Hr9/

• Welcome to Rising Heroes: Elite, one of our biggest updates ever!
  
  Rising Heroes: Elite is all about unlocking your inner hero. Hunt Elite monsters and bosses, harvest runes, and collect brand new Spell Traces to enhance your equipment in this new update. When you're done, check out skill revamps for several classes, updated systems, and the new Buddy List. Not enough? Participate in our exciting events and have a blast!
  The summer is only just beginning.
  
  Be sure to watch your back - Elite monsters and bosses are on the prowl! After defeating a certain number of normal monsters, an Elite monster will appear. Elite monsters are twice as big, with greater HP and Strength compared to normal monsters. Send some of those Elite monsters packing and their boss will appear. Not only is an Elite boss strong, it also has high HP and comes with two Elite monster bodyguards. Triumph over all these baddies and you'll unlock an amazing bonus stage!
  
  Gather some fellow heroes and combine your powers to defeat the Elite boss. Emerge victorious and you'll earn cool rewards like Clean Slate Scrolls, Master Craftsman's and Meister's Cubes, and Potential Slot Carvers. Regular monsters' HP and EXP have also increased, making them even deadlier.
  
  Runes are boulders that give buffs. Basically, they're super-special rocks! They appear randomly and periodically in field maps, and you can activate their 2-minute effect by entering a special command. There are four types of runes: Runes of Swiftness (extra Speed and Attack Speed), Runes of Recovery (increased HP Recovery Speed), Runes of Destruction (increased damage, regular monsters' HP decreases continuously for 15 sec), and Runes of Decay (when activated, the monsters in the field will die immediately and your damage will increase). In addition, all runes grant you 100\% bonus EXP.
  
  Now you can enhance your equipment's ability using Spell Traces (Lv.20 and above)! Spell Traces are whispers of previously cast spells, and can be collected by hunting monsters. They are an alternative to scrolls that use upgrade counts. The equipment's type, level, and enhancement success rate will determine how many Spell Traces you need. The higher the equipment level and the lower the success rate, the more Spell Traces will be used, and the greater the stat boost will be. Failed enhancements that used Spell Traces will not destroy the equipment, but will take away an upgrade count.
  
  Many job skills are being adjusted based on the increase to regular monsters' HP and EXP. In addition, Dual Blade, Cannoneer, Dawn Warrior, Wind Archer, Thunder Breaker, Aran, Evan, Luminous, Mercedes, Phantom, Demon Slayer, Demon Avenger, Xenon, Mechanic, Kaiser, and Angelic Buster are all receiving rebalances for several of their skills.
  
  We've made things easier than ever with the new Account Buddy System, which allows you to add a friend's entire account of characters to your list! The Account Buddy System lets you connect with friends using their Maple IDs, so even if an Account Buddy goes offline and then logs back in with another character, you'll still be able to interact and chat with them (as long as you are in the same world). Not feeling chatty? If you want your account to be displayed as offline, you can select Invisible Login at the PIC window
  before you start playing.
  
  You can now perform multi-kills and combo kills! Get extra bonus EXP by performing more multi-kills and combo kills. You can get bonus EXP in field maps when you create a party (max 6 members). There's also a new Party Matching System, which allows you to easily team up with characters hunting in the same map. Accept the invite message to hunt together and receive party bonus EXP!
  
  Ahhhhhhh, sooo many events, soooo much fun!! Collect Hot Summer Coins and use them to purchase items from the Hot Summer Coin Shop NPC in the Event Hall. Visit the new Mini-Game Station and try out one of the many available games, such as One Card, Game of Yut, or Memory. You can even join a game of Bingo. And for a limited time, participate in an event to share Cash items between all the characters on your account!
  
  This is shaping up to be the best summer ever... and it's only just begun!
  
  
  

I thought that said Rude system

"And for a limited time, participate in an event to share Cash items between all the characters on your account"

And for a limited time, participate in an event to share Cash items between all the characters on your account!

Oh my.

Still no Auction House, huh? =/

Also, why do we still have the old looking Taxi? O.o

Other than that, I'm looking forward to this update! This should hopefully help with me needing to remake my link skill mules. Here's hoping that the road to 100 becomes smoother!

It doesn't mention it here, but quests are supposed to give worthy EXP with this update, yeah?

You can get bonus EXP in field maps when you create a party (max 6 members).

Every map becomes a party-play area now?

First patch of U&I next week huh?

I thought that said Rude system

I read the rude system first hahahahaha

F'ucking finally getting my perm hyper tele rock to my marksman.
Only thing that makes me excited.

yusss Account Buddy system.

Looking forward to skill re-balances. I hear the extra %Recharge really helps for AB.

meh, can't say I really care for any of this.

Why is the shared CS thing a temporary event? Just make it a permanent addition ffs!

Why is the shared CS thing a temporary event? Just make it a permanent addition ffs!

BECAUSE THEY'LL LOSE MONEY! GOD DON'T YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT NEXON AT ALL!? I MEAN ITS NOT LIKE HAVING ALL OUR NX BE TRANSFERABLE WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE US WANNA BUY MORE NX BECAUSE WE CAN MOVE IT AROUND! THINK ABOUT THEM FOR ONCE GOD!

And the revamp to Jett? When are we getting the revamp to Jett? Thats literally the only thing wthat will bring me back to MS.

And the revamp to Jett? When are we getting the revamp to Jett? Thats literally the only thing wthat will bring me back to MS.

What is jett?

BECAUSE THEY'LL LOSE MONEY! GOD DON'T YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT NEXON AT ALL!? I MEAN ITS NOT LIKE HAVING ALL OUR NX BE TRANSFERABLE WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE US WANNA BUY MORE NX BECAUSE WE CAN MOVE IT AROUND! THINK ABOUT THEM FOR ONCE GOD!

I know if all my stuff was fully transferable, I'd never buy NX again because there's no point in it.

Did the summer coins they're talking something they had in KMS?

I know if all my stuff was fully transferable, I'd never buy NX again because there's no point in it.

While I can see your point I would be more willing to buy nx if I knew that later on I could transfer my stuff. That's just me though.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

i hope the cash shop thing will last until eunwol is out *_________*

having 3 perm HTR on one character sux

Did the summer coins they're talking something they had in KMS?

Are*, not did. I spent a few minutes trying to make sense of your question, sorry.
The event map shown appears to be the 'secret' one posted about last month, so it's likely just the chestnut coin shop KMS had, with new coins.

Cool, now I can move a few perm equips around. A new shop will give me something to do i guess.