Storm the Ninja Castle for the last time!

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/news/current/00FRo/

Say goodbye to the Ninja Castle because its about to get a secret upgrade! On November 15, a group of stealthy ninjas will sneak in and demolish the old Ninja Castle to make way for the newest themed dungeon, Sakura Castle. Visit the original Ninja Castle today for a farewell party and grab some sweet loot!

When:
From 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern November 7 (or after the maintenance is complete).
Until 11 PM Pacific November 13/2 AM Eastern Novemvber 14 (or when the maintenance begins).

What:
Drop rates will be doubled for all Ninja Castle quest items. Furthermore, there will be 10x drop on Jonin Throwing Stars!

How do I get there?

• 1. Talk to Spinel (located in most towns) to go to the Mushroom Shrine.
  
  
• 2. Find the Palanquin guys and go to the Ninja Castle.
  
  

Awww I hope that jump quest stays..

This makes me sad. Sakura Castle is not preferable to Ninja Castle, and what about all the monster cards? =/

If Sakura Castle mobs drop their Ninja Castle counterpart's cards, Samurai will be insanely easy to get compared to now, though.

Sigh. This is super disappointing.

This makes me sad. Sakura Castle is not preferable to Ninja Castle, and what about all the monster cards? =/

If Sakura Castle mobs drop their Ninja Castle counterpart's cards, Samurai will be insanely easy to get compared to now, though.

If they hadn't screwed up the boss tag him in the first place, it would be easy get anyway. I gave up on that card set ages ago because of that.

Furthermore, there will be 10x drop on Jonin Throwing Stars!

Lol'd.

What's the point of even having 10x drop on Jonin Stars? I don't even recall a quest ever needing them in KMS... if we're getting the same one as KMS.

Oh wow. There goes another "worthwhile boss"
hope I can find a toad this week.. For old times

Lol'd.

What's the point of even having 10x drop on Jonin Stars? I don't even recall a quest ever needing them in KMS... if we're getting the same one as KMS.

I believe there is a quest for 100 stars. I still have it open on my I/L. I think it's the one that gives you the one use teleport scroll.

Do we know if Ele Staves are still going to be drops in the new Sakura Castle?

Say goodbye to the Ninja Castle because its about to get a secret downgrade

Pretty disappointing to say the least. But hopefully the KMS version will at least have the monster card drops added, oh who am i kidding.

Really nexon?
Dont ruin my favorite place in MapleStory.
The last place that is actually interesting and fun to walk through.

I swear to god this sucks.

RIP Castellan, thanks for all the exp and ele weapons <3

There goes my toad leeching

Thank God we didn't get Fantastic Park.

I believe there is a quest for 100 stars. I still have it open on my I/L. I think it's the one that gives you the one use teleport scroll.

There is no quest for that. If you collect 100 of them an NPC will teleport you to the map after the JQ in exchange for them though.

And Nexon drives another nail into the coffin of exploring. Granted, the original castle is pretty damn bleak as far as areas go, not counting the JQ and Samurai + Castellan pre BB, where you could actually die if you messed up.

That's the one I was thinking of. My I/L has 2 stars...

Thank God we didn't get Fantastic Park.

Don't give them ideas... Who knows maybe they plan on replacing everything with kMS versions. They really love killing down places (R.I.P Phantom Forest, NLC, CWK).

New content replacing old content =/= new content.

I believe there is a quest for 100 stars. I still have it open on my I/L. I think it's the one that gives you the one use teleport scroll.

Do we know if Ele Staves are still going to be drops in the new Sakura Castle?

No, Ninja Castle will be demoted to a level 70 dungeon. Ele Staffs will be removed as drops.

"akyrum may have been beaten, but the cracks in time are still appearing!

after a long night of rain, storms, and mystical warpholes, ninja castle was replaced with sakura castle, explore this new castle yadda yadda...
...but rejoice, for the old castle is not lost, a single dimensional crack remains on the entrance to sakura castle, which will take you to the old ninja castle!"

why couldn't they do that? ._.

No, Ninja Castle will be demoted to a level 70 dungeon. Ele Staffs will be removed as drops.

How wonderful. I suppose shield attack scrolls will also stop dropping?

Will they remove the cards from the Codex, or will future chars have permanent holes where the monsters no longer exist?