The Corrupted Empress

DPS race for sure. I noticed the Dawn Warrior leader spawning more and more adds as time went on. You'd have to kill the leaders as fast as possible before you get overwhelmed.
And this is only the Cygnus boss, I can't imagine how bad the Black Mage is gonna be once we get to that phase in the storyline.

DPS race for sure. I noticed the Dawn Warrior leader spawning more and more adds as time went on. You'd have to kill the leaders as fast as possible before you get overwhelmed.
And this is only the Cygnus boss, I can't imagine how bad the Black Mage is gonna be once we get to that phase in the storyline.

That's if they're ever going to release it.

Because, you know, as Eosian said a lot of time ago, I'm starting to think that they're just going to keep using his name to explain the various happenings in MapleStory and to give a storyline sense to the game.

But.. who knows.

If it's ever going to come out, it's going to be even closer to impossible than this one, that's sure.

Pretty much everything after and including Pirates has been the fault of the Black Mage. If they add him as a boss they're pretty much saying "this is the last boss, guys." MMOs don't do that.

It's not like there's going to be a African-American Black Mage, who, in reality, was manipulating the Black Mage into being all evil ans tuff.

Shadowers deal ALOT of damage on stationary bosses like her. They just spam SB and explode the mesos every now and then. Maybe with a party full of shadowers and smoke could possibly kill her?
ME is a mob move too so they could also deal with the summonings at the same time.

This. Seriously? Just grab a couple of bishop slaves .

Hasn't heals ability to heal been severely nerfed?

i don't see the black mage ever being released.

Besides the thought of black mage ever being released, what about future stronger bosses?

I just can't really imagine this being THE final, toughest boss. It's such a weird place and storyline to stop at. Also, I can't really seem to see any other stronger bosses, unless they raised the level cap.

this boss is really difficult, but maybe there will be a way....
3 partys at min...
Party 1: The Defensor one
- Shadower (smokescreen saves the situation, also Has haste)
- Dark Knight (Berserk + HB + Iron Will + Beholder Revenge + MAGIC CRASH)
- Bishop( Resurrection + heal + Bless + Holy Shield)
- Marksman (Snipe + Ulti Strafe + Sharp Eyes + Blind)
- Buccaner(Time Leap + Charge + speed Infusion)
- Aran (Aegis Shield + Tempest)

Party 2: The Atackers
- Night Lord (Haste + Triple Trow)
- Bowmaster(Hurricane + Sharp Eyes)
- Evan (Res party skill + Magic def + Magic shield )
- Palladin (Charge + Blast + Heaven Hammer + Combat Orders + Threaten + MAGIC CRASH)
- Dual Blade (Torns and the Blind bomb)
- Battle Mage (Auras!)

Party 3: The Destroyers
- Night Lord (same as above)
- Hero (Rage + Brave Slash + Orbs + MAGIC CRASH)
- Wild Hunter (Sharp eyes + ultimate + Wild Shot)
- F/P Arch Mage (Seal + Demmons)
- Bishop (obviously)
- Mechanic (his final att(the full crit one) is really brutal....)

this boss is really difficult, but maybe there will be a way....
3 partys at min...
Party 1: The Defensor one
- Shadower (smokescreen saves the situation, also Has haste)
- Dark Knight (Berserk + HB + Iron Will + Beholder Revenge + MAGIC CRASH)
- Bishop( Resurrection + heal + Bless + Holy Shield)
- Marksman (Snipe + Ulti Strafe + Sharp Eyes + Blind)
- Buccaner(Time Leap + Charge + speed Infusion)
- Aran (Aegis Shield + Tempest)

Party 2: The Atackers
- Night Lord (Haste + Triple Trow)
- Bowmaster(Hurricane + Sharp Eyes)
- Evan (Res party skill + Magic def + Magic shield )
- Palladin (Charge + Blast + Heaven Hammer + Combat Orders + Threaten + MAGIC CRASH)
- Dual Blade (Torns and the Blind bomb)
- Battle Mage (Auras!)

Party 3: The Destroyers
- Night Lord (same as above)
- Hero (Rage + Brave Slash + Orbs + MAGIC CRASH)
- Wild Hunter (Sharp eyes + ultimate + Wild Shot)
- F/P Arch Mage (Seal + Demmons)
- Bishop (obviously)
- Mechanic (his final att(the full crit one) is really brutal....)

I understand that these are classes that ideally should be taken, but i don't understand the party thing. Naturally the battle mage would be in every party, give everyone a tri-aura before entering. The buccaneer should be in a full melee party (a dk, aran unless it reaches faster(2) already, hero, bishop, marksman). Mechanic should probably be in the attacker party since it gives +20% attack with amplifier and the battle mage can take the mechanics place. Also the mechanic would probably be lazering the entire fight.

A good strategy should be having all the summoned mobs rushed into a corner, everyone take the mobs touch damage. Unload on them with your strongest mob skills until they're all dead, attack cygnus queen. Of course the cygnus queen could also be pinned on the other side, but it looks to me like when her summons are out (instructors), she covers herself in dark vines or something and looks like she can't take damage.

Actually 6 or 7 Shadowers using Smokescreen wouldn't be a bad idea... each would have to use Smokescreen in exactly before the time the used Smokescreen before used ran out, but still it's doable. You'd really be pressed for DPS then but provided enough people could swarm the bosses with damage you could win.

It's a basic strategy but it would be workable at any boss as long as Seduce or Damage Reflect wasn't a factor to contend with.

Now that I think about it, has anyone out there seen all of Cygnus' attack animations? So far, I've only seen images of animations in which she casts zombify, summons an instructor and fades into the background, and what I assume is an animation in which she summons some regular monsters. Spadow and the people at ElinForest might know if Cygnus has an animation that might suggest an ability to cast seduce/damage reflect or not.

(Watch, I'm betting that Cygnus only seems impossible now because Nexon Korea may have already planned for future classes to have important skills that turn the tide in favor of the squad.)

On the subject of future classes... Mechanic has a healing droid of sorts, doesn't it? Does it only work on party members, or does it affect everyone? Is the healing from that subject to Zombify? And mechanics have a skill that allow them to make their own map teleports for the party?

(Disregard the Tespia thing)I think NEXON is really trying to push the strategy working together thing here. Before I post my strategy can someone tell me if you have two buccs and one bucc uses time leap, then the 2nd bucc uses time leap would the first buccs leap be reset?

No, TL doesn't work on TL.

No, TL doesn't work on TL.

Damn then NVM>.> I was gonna say have 2 buccs in each party with a shadower to time leap smoke screen

Some updated info from Spadow:

"She can cast Dark Genesis, Zombify, Damage reflection, she can forces to exit you from the map, she can cancel the potential effect of your item, she can cast this whirlwind, she can burn you with birds that she can call and there are more abilities. Also there is a cooldown on every consumable potion when you fight her. It’s unbelievable…"

They buffed her even more in the official release. I don't see how any strategy can counter the potential nullification, since all of our damage now relies on that.

when are they going to stop adding these ridiculous end-level bosses for wheel NX and add more that are similar to papu/pianus/zak/anego etc. they should also remove daily boss limits.

when are they going to stop adding these ridiculous end-level bosses for wheel NX and add more that are similar to papu/pianus/zak/anego etc. they should also remove daily boss limits.

It's part of the challenge. People will go out of their way to make sh'it so batsh'it insane to see who will be stupid enough to try and get through it. Look at games like I Wanna Be The Guy and Super Meat Boy for instance. >_>

Time to HP wash to 100k, I'm not even joking.

But yea seriously, there are ways to beat this. People take turn rushing while keeping one side safe for pot/status recovery. Guess what paladins, hp recovery might actually be useful for once, and you might be the ones in charge of rushing and keeping everyone safe. This might be the only boss where coordination may be crucial. Right now higher hp and avoid class seem to shine here.

Lol, they buffed her and the summons in the official patch (http://spadow.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/k...cal-age/):

The ultimate boss who is much more harder to defeat than Pink Bean: Empress Cygnus
She was already impossible to defeat in the test server but guess what? Nexon gave her a huge buff in the official server.

HP: 1,000,000,000 → 2,100,000,000
Physical Attack: 17750 → 25500
Magic Attack: 22750 → 35500



Her evil ”Dark Knights” were given a huge boost as well. Empress Cygnus can summon two versions of these ”Dark Knights”. One version is stronger, has more HP and gives more EXP. The other version is weaker and gives little EXP.

Version 1

HP: 100,000,000 → 600,000,000

Version 2

HP: 150,000,000 → 1,650,000,000

The physical and magic attack of both versions are boosted as well.


Players who are Lv. 170 or higher who dare to challenge Empress Cygnus can start an expedition team of maximum 18 members and battle against her in channel 13.
But in this current situation this boss is just too hard. Empress Cygnus has a lot of abilities (I think even more than Pink Bean) and they’re very dangerous. She can cast Shinsoo, monsters from the future Ereb and her ”Dark Knights”.

She can cast Dark Genesis, Zombify, Damage reflection, she can forces to exit you from the map, she can cancel the potential effect of your item, she can cast this whirlwind, she can burn you with birds that she can call and there are more abilities. Also there is a cooldown on every consumable potion when you fight her. It’s unbelievable…

Empress Cygnus is the only boss who drops level 140 equipment.

she can cancel the potential effect of your item

Is this a new boss ability?

Well now we know how to get the 140 items.
Talk about a joke.

Watch the potential thing glitch and perma take away your potentials lol!