hmmmm just saw this on basil.... mage changes...

ok so I just saw this on basil

 Mage Changes

- Ellin Forest, Neo City, LHC and future Hene: all been changed to normal play zones. Therefore, its monsters' abilities and drops etc have been modified.
- Monster Park has been expanded. New dungeons have been added, especially for 120+. New PQ bonuses have been added. Monster Park's coins has been modified so that if one party member loots it, all party members in the same stage will receive it. All PQ bonus items will now be collected through Laku, instead of Spiegelmann. New quests have been added.
- A new item, "badge" has been added. It is a new type of equipment; to buy these, you can purchase them from Monster Park's Laku; coins from Monster Park are required

*guys, this means LHC 50% exp bonus for every party member is now gone

Maple 8th Anniversary events because I couldn't be bothered to form full sentences.

Event monsters appear; monsters drop 8th anniversary Maple Leaves; you can trade 8th anniversary items from NPC Byeru with your 8th anni silver coins; you can exchange your 8th anniversary Maple Leaves with silver coins from Cassandra; you can use the 8th anniversary diary Cassandra gives to read about all the events being held at once; you can use the Mirror of Dimension to move to the event map ‘Rising Star hole’.

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<Skills>

1. Energy Bolt: damage boosted.
Magic Claw: no. of monsters attacked increased.

2. F/P:

- High Wisdom (2): permanently increases +40 INT
- Extreme Magic (3): increases duration of DoT and increases the damage inflicted on monsters when it's been affected by the DoT
- Mist Eruption (4): explodes your poison mist to attack several damages around you. As its DoT stacks, the damage increases enormously; when exploding, it can ignore up to 50% of the monsters's defence.
- Arcane Aim (4): permanently ignores 20% of monster's defence; and increases final damage by up to 40% when attacking a single target continuously
- Fire Arrow (2): damage boosted, no. of monsters attacked increased
- Poison breath (2): new effect, maximum no. of targets increased to 6
- Slow (2): Master level decreased to 20
- Fire Demon (3): moved down to 3rd job; range improved. however, its effect of making its targets fire weak has been deleted
- Big Bang (4): effect has been changed to red; total no. of targets upped to 10. now has DoT
- Inifinity (4): stance effect added
- Ifrit (4): range upped, its tolerance to all elements increased by 40%
- Paralyse (4): new effect; changed to multi hit (3 times); increased maximum no. of targets; the damage penalty when attacking lots of monsters deleted
- Master Magic (4): changed to on/off
- Partial Resistance (3): Deleted
- Magic Composition (3): deleted
- Mana reflection (4); Deleted


3. I/L

- High Wisdom (2): permanent +40 INT
- Extreme Magic (3): has a chance to insta kill a monster with <30% HP; increased damage when attacking monsters that are stunned/frozen/in darkness
- Glacial Chain (4): pulls monsters in front of character and freezes them with DoT
- Arcane Aim (4): permanently ignores 20% of monster's defence; increases final damage up to 40% when attacking one monster continuously
- Cold Beam (2): now a multi hit (3 times); upped damage
- Thunderbolt (2): range and damage upped
- Slow (2): master level decreased to 10
- Ice Demon (3): moved down to 3rd job; range upped; ability to make monsters ice weak deleted; DoT added when frozen
- Infinity (4): stance effect added
- Elquines (4): range increased; permanent resistance to all elements by 40%
- Chain Lightning (4): thicker light effect-wise, multi hit (4 hits); stun effect added, max no. of targets increased, range increased; damage panelty inflicted when attacking lots of monsters deleted
- Master Magic (4): changed to on/off
- Partial Resistance (3): Deleted
- Magic Composition (3): deleted
- Mana reflection (4); Deleted
- Big Bang (4): effect has been changed to blue; total no. of targets upped to 10. now has DoT

4. BISHOPS

- High Wisdom (2): perma +40 INT
- Holy Magic shell (3): party skill; absorbs all damage done up to 10 times
- Advanced Bless (4): increases party members' attack, m.att, physical/magic defence, accuracy, avoid, max HP and MP greatly
- Arcane Aim (4): permanently ignores 20% of monster's defence; increases final damage up to 40% when attacking one monster continuously
- Holy Arrow (2): range, damaged, max. no. of targets all upped
- Heal (2): upped damage, master level decreased to 20
- Invincible (2): damage taken decreased, but now decreases magic as well as phyiscal damage inflicted
- Doom (3): keeps its cooldown but does not require a Magic Rock, master level decreased to 10; success rate of skill upped
- Holy Symbol (3): full effect of the skill is given even when used alone; range upped, skill duration upped; increased MP usage
- Shining Ray (3): new effect; multi hit (3 times); increased casting speed
- Summon Dragon (3): maximum duration of summon increased to 7 minutes
- Holy Focus (3): now affects all skills
- Big Bang (4): max. no. of targets upped to 10; extra critical of 20% added
- Infinity (4): stance effect added
- Bahamut (4): range upped, permanent resistance to all elements by 40%

5. Blaze Wizard


- Magic critical (3): crit rate and min damage of crit increased permanently
- Magic claw (1): max no. of targets increased
- Fire Pillar (2): damage and range uped
- Fire Strike (3): multi hit (3 times); damage and ranged upped
- Elemental Resistance (3): deleted

6. Evans

- Magic Missile (1): damage upped
- Magic shield (5): cooldown and duration increased
- Dragon Sparking (7): damage upped
- Dragon Fury (8): req min MP eased; amount of magic increase increased
- Ghost Lettering (8): damage increase upped
- Illusion (9): 15% ignore def added
- Blaze (10): 20% ignore def added; range increased

Other changes:

- Panic (3) Crusader/DW: range increased
- Coma (3) Crusader/DW: range increased
- Power Reflection (Fighter): now reflects ranged attacks as well
- Power guard (Page) now reflects ranged attacks as well
- Perfect guard (Mechanic): now reflects ranged attacks as well

I am calling bs but who knows. I did not see any new patch here. Is this for real?

It's legit

Already being discussed here.

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=42254&page=7

*guys, this means LHC 50% exp bonus for every party member is now gone

LHC 50% exp bonus for every party member is now gone

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 Spoiler

Time to quit MS when this update hits Maple. Great Job Nexon. Great Job.

Why. The. Hell. Would they remove the 50% party bonus at LHC? They were finally onto something good there! Stupid!

Why. The. Hell. Would they remove the 50% party bonus at LHC? They were finally onto something good there! Stupid!

This is all preparation for MapleStory 2. They ruin MS 1 so we quit and eventually join MS 2.

Why. The. Hell. Would they remove the 50% party bonus at LHC? They were finally onto something good there! Stupid!

People were training on parties, you can't just have that on maple.

Oh yeah. I forgot. Gotta keep in mind that Maple Story is a 1 player game.

- Holy Symbol (3): full effect of the skill is given even when used alone; range upped, skill duration upped; increased MP usage

This alone proves it.

Oh yeah. I forgot. Gotta keep in mind that Maple Story is a 1 player game.



This alone proves it.

Remember these are not official translations, the google one left it pretty hard to understand what was going on with HS.

In maple people should be alone, one in each channel and constantly shouting "CC PLZ" to the 20 other people that are roaming through channels trying to get a map for themselves.

Why. The. Hell. Would they remove the 50% party bonus at LHC? They were finally onto something good there! Stupid!

They saw that leeching came back full-force, and didn't like that?

I'm reserving judgement until I see what they've done to the mobs' HP and EXP. And whether they've increased the number of maps (or made mini-dungeons of the best ones) to not make it turn into KS hell.

They saw that leeching came back full-force, and didn't like that?

Full-force? Not really.

Besides, If I have to choose between 'Party + Some leech Maple' or 'Single player+ No leech Maple', I'll take the first one. Grinding as single player is most boring thing there is, because killing monsters in MS is nothing but hitting/sleeping on 1 button over and over for hours while recasting buffs.

I am sure when they see every player going "WHAT THE pineapple!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?" they will change it back. That system was one of the best things they ever added.

Full-force? Not really.

Besides, If I have to choose between 'Party + Some leech Maple' or 'Single player+ No leech Maple', I'll take the first one. Grinding as single player is most boring thing there is, because killing monsters in MS is nothing but hitting/sleeping on 1 button over and over for hours while recasting buffs.

It's not like they are banishing party training. You still get +10% exp for every leeching party member and if the maps are fit for parties (like LHC) people will still train in parties.

Also, Where are the extractions? Did someone leave the ferrets out unsupervised again?

Also, Where are the extractions? Did someone leave the ferrets out unsupervised again?

All in good time, my friend. It's not like the information will go bad if you don't view it right away.
Apparently they are already out on Insoya.

Grinding as single player is most boring thing there is, because killing monsters in MS is nothing but hitting/sleeping on 1 button over and over for hours while recasting buffs.

and it will never change on maple .

Monster park reminds me of WoW dungeon, kill monster and at the end there is a boss, kill boss and get coins(justice points/valor points compared to WoW)

Perhaps they are trying to revive the old maple doing it? (dual/grim/aqua parties).

I'm not liking the idea of Monster Park to be honest. While it may certainly seem fun, it seems a lot more demanding than LHC in regards to finding parties. What's more is, if Nexon isn't smart and not instance each individual Monster Park session, the place will be full 24/7.

Also, the main reason why dual/grim/aqua parties existed was because the maps were too big for one person to solo alone. EXP in a party was never much better due to the old exp split ratios but the reason EXP was sped up was due to the fact there was less travel time. LHC has relatively small maps compared to duals/grims/aqua so I doubt partying is as much of a must as it is at LHC. :/

It's not like they are banishing party training. You still get +10% exp for every leeching party member and if the maps are fit for parties (like LHC) people will still train in parties.

I'm sorry, but the map being fit for party training means nothing in maple. Temple of time should be pretty good for party training, given the large maps, but 99% of the time before LKC every map would be someone either a) soloing, or b) soloing with a hs mule.

Party training just doesn't happen in maple anymore without a hugeass exp bonus to make up for it.

I'm sorry, but the map being fit for party training means nothing in maple. Temple of time should be pretty good for party training, given the large maps, but 99% of the time before LKC every map would be someone either a) soloing, or b) soloing with a hs mule.

Party training just doesn't happen in maple anymore without a hugeass exp bonus to make up for it.

or bringing back the old exp curve.

I would actually like a interesting new high level pq for now. Well, I guess there's always PvP which should be better than solo grinding regardless of how poorly it is made.

One of my favorite parts in MS has always been CPQ, so some new unique competing PQs for high levels would be what I want to see in future (PQ races between 2 or more parties).
Those PQs could be like mix of bosses, CPQ like part, PvP, JQ really anything cool and interesting.

I'm sorry, but the map being fit for party training means nothing in maple. Temple of time should be pretty good for party training, given the large maps, but 99% of the time before LKC every map would be someone either a) soloing, or b) soloing with a hs mule.

Party training just doesn't happen in maple anymore without a hugeass exp bonus to make up for it.

I don't want to go back to ToT ever...5% an hr is just silly compared to what LHC gave me.

OT: I will enjoy my 15% and 20% chance to ignore monsters PDRate...too bad LHC goes away so the only purpose for this is bosses. Also I/L look to be pretty strong now; much like a BaM if I'm not mistaken. Fast multi-hit kills+a puller type move.