Chaos! Choose your banwagon!

[SIZE="5"]Welcome to Maplestory Chaos banwagon![/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Choices are DualBlade Aran Evan! [/SIZE]

[SIZE="6"]DualBlade! New skills![/SIZE]
Semi Dualer, Dualer, Dual Master, Slasher, Dual Blader

Note: The Sudden Raid skill has been deleted in this update.

- The extra accuracy of Dual Blade Mastery has been increased from 60 to 120
- Damage of Triple Stab has been decreased from 160% to 110%
- Damage of Fatal Blow has been decreased from 110% to 85%
- Damage of Slash Storm has been decreased from 230% to 190%
- Damage of Tornado Spin has been increased from 250% to 300%
- Master level of Flash Bang has been decreased from 20 to 5. Flash Bang deals 160% damage and has a success rate of 80% to reduce the monster’s accuracy by 85% for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 55 seconds
- Upper Stab has been moved from the Slasher job to Dual Master. Upper Stab can now deal 240% up to 6 monsters and 70% additional damage to monsters in air
- Master level of Advanced Dark Sight has been decreased from 20 to 10. Advanced Dark Sight gives you a 49% chance to stay in Dark Sight after an attack. When you take damage, there is a 20% chance that your damage increases by 50%
- New skill: Vital Steal - Recover HP when you’re attacking a monster. Vital Steal gives you a 5% chance to recover 10% HP
- Damage of Bloody Storm has been decreased from 420% to 225%
- The amount of attacks for the bonus damage of Owl Dead has been increased from 10 to 15 attacks
- Damage of Flying Assaulter has been decreased from 420% to 280%
- Chains of Hell has been moved from the Dual Blader job to Slasher. Master level of Chains of Hell has been decreased from 30 to 20. Chains of Hell deals 80% to a monster 10 times with a critical rate of 100%
- New skill: Sharpness – Sharpness increases the success rate of critical attack damage and minimum critical damage. At master level, Sharpness adds a 25% success rate of critical attack and 20% minimum critical damage
- The HP cost of Final Cut has been decreased from 45% to 20%, the extra damage has been decreased from 200% to 140% for 40 seconds and the cooldown time has been decreased from 90 to 60 seconds. Final Cut has now a 15% chance to deal instant death
- Damage of Monster Bomb has been decreased from 1380% to 1100%
- New skill: Blade Fury – Spin fast to attack monsters around you. Blade Fury can attack up to 6 monsters 3 times with 180% damage

- Thorns Effect no longer gives critical and minimum critical damage. Instead, it gives a +30 weapon attack buff and a 90% success rate to prevent from getting knock backed for 210 seconds
- New skill: Phantom Blow – Create a fatal attack to a monster. Phantom Blow attacks 1 monster 6 times with 110% damage

[SIZE="6"]Aran New Skills![/SIZE]
Aran (1st Job)

- Physical and magic defense of Combo Ability has been increased from 10 to 20. Combo Ability now adds 2 speed and stacks 10 times
- Damage of Double Swing has been increased from 150% to 220%
- Combo Smash has been moved from 2nd job to 1st job with a master level of 10. Combo Smash can attack up to 6 monsters with 450% damage. Requires a combo count of 15 or more
- Master level of Combat Step has been decreased from 15 to 5

Aran (2nd Job)

- Damage of Triple Swing has been increased from 265% to 370%
- Master level of Final Charge has been decreased from 30 to 20. Damage of Final Charge has been increased from 170% to 200% and can now attack up to 10 monsters.
- Combo Fenrir has been moved from 3rd job to 2nd job. Combo Fenrir can attack up to 10 monsters with 560% damage. Requires a combo count of 50 or more
- The duration of Body Pressure has been increased from 120 to 200 seconds. Body Pressure‘s body attack damage has been increased from 100% to 300% and the success rate of neutralizing the monster for 5 seconds has been increased from 40% to 60%
- Snow Charge has been moved from 3rd job to 2nd job. Snow Charge grants your polearm an ice element for 200 seconds, deals 100% damage and slows down monsters by -40 for 20 seconds

Aran (3rd Job)

- Full Swing now increases Combo Smash’s damage by 60%
- Master level of Final Toss has been decreased from 30 to 20 and the additional damage has been increased from 80% to 100%
- Rolling Spin can now attack up to 6 monsters 5 times with 95% damage and at the same time there’s a 95% success rate to stun monsters for 3 seconds (This skill is so much useful now)
- New skill: Cleaving Attack – Cleaving Attack ignores a certain amount of percentage of the monster’s physical defense, and when attacking multiple monsters, your damage gets reduced by a certain %
At master level, Cleaving Attack ignores 20% of the monster’s physical defense and 50% damage gets reduced when attacking multiple monsters
- New skill: Combo Judgement – Combo Judgement can attack multiple enemies by dropping a giant axe. Monsters hit by the giant axe are frozen and will be suffering from damage over time. Requires a combo count of 80
Combo Judgement can attack up to 10 monsters with 1200% damage. Monsters will be frozen for 10 seconds with 200% damage over time for 6 seconds with an interval of 1 second

- New skill: Combo Recharge – Combo Recharge recharges an instantaneous combo count by consuming your HP and MP. At master level, Combo Recharge recharges an instant combo count of 150 for the price of 10% HP and 50 MP. Cooldown time is 30 seconds

Aran (4th Job)

- Overswing – Damage of Double Swing and Triple Swing has been increased from 290% and 360% to 330% and 420% respectively. Overswing now adds 80% extra damage to Combo Fenrir
- Boss damage from Combo Tempest has been increased from 600% to 720%
- New skill: Swift Move – Swift Move further enhances the damage of Final Charge and Final Toss by 30% and being able to use those skills without using combos. In other words, using Triple Swing isn’t mandatory anymore

[SIZE="6"]Evan New Skills![/SIZE]
Evan (2nd Mastery)

- Damage of Fire Circle has been decreased from 230% to 220%

Evan (3rd Mastery)

- Damage of Lightning Bolt has been decreased from 380% to 280%, but now it attacks monsters 3 times

Evan (4th Mastery)

- Damage of Ice Breath has been increased from 325% to 355%

Evan (5th Mastery)

- Damage of Magic Flare has been decreased from 480% to 400%. Magic Flare can now stun a monster for 4 seconds with a 90% success rate
- Master level of Magic Shield has been decreased from 20 to 10. Damage has been increased from 20% to 30%
- Slow has been moved from the 6th mastery to the 5th mastery

Evan (6th Mastery)

- Damage of Dragon Thrust has been decreased from 400% to 115%, but now it attacks monsters 3 times
- New skill: Dragon Blink - Dragon Blink allows you to teleport to a random location in the map. At master level, it consumes 100 MP and there’s no cooldown

Evan (7th Mastery)

- New skill: Dragon Sparking – After an attack has been used, Dragon Sparking has a chance to inflict extra damage. At master level, Dragon Sparking inflicts 150% extra damage with a success rate of 40%

- Damage of Fire Breath has been decreased from 540% to 460%
- Damage of Killing Wing has been decreased from 580% to 420% and can now inflict 90% damage over time for 6 seconds with an interval of 1 second

Evan (8th Mastery)

- Master level of Dragon Fury has been decreased from 10 to 5. The minimum required MP has been increased from 40% to 70% MP and the extra magic attack buff has been decreased to 20%
- Damage of Earthquake has been decreased from 740% to 610%
- Master level of Ghost Lettering has been decreased from 20 to 10. Damage of Ghost Lettering has been decreased from 750% to 660% and can now inflict 15% extra damage for 15 seconds
- Master level of Recovery Aura has been decreased from 15 to 10. Recovery Aura can now recover 100% MP for 45 seconds
- New skill: Protection of the Onyx – For a period of time, Protection of the Onyx gives you and your party members extra avoidability. At master level, it gives you 20% extra avoidability for 180 seconds

Evan (9th Mastery)

- Damage of Illusion has been decreased from 370% to 180%
- Damage of Flame Wheel has been decreased from 740% to 600%

Evan (10th Mastery)

- Master level of Blessing of the Onyx has been decreased from 30 to 25. Buff duration has been increased from 160 to 180 seconds, the physical and magic defense and magic attack has been increased from 225, 225 and 25 to 550, 550 and 30 respectively
- Damage of Blaze has been decreased from 800% to 215% and can now attack one monster 3 times
- Soul Stone can now resurrect up to 5 party members
- New skill: Will of the Onyx – For a period of time, prevent from getting knock backed from monster’s attack and able to attack monsters with your body. At master level, Will of the Onyx grants you a buff of 240 seconds which gives you 150% body attack damage and a 90% success rate to prevent from getting knock-backed

[SIZE="1"]Taken from spadows blog[/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Now that you've been informed Pick your Banwagon! [/SIZE]

So which job is everyone going to banwagon too? i think people are going to DBs

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Neither.
I might play my Aran/DB for a while but yeah.. nothing.

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Neither.
I might play my Aran/DB for a while but yeah.. nothing.

I'm going to continue my Aran hes lvl 77

I allready had an Evan, and they probably won't get bandwagoned due to the fact that they still require Cash Shop Skill books and Dual Blades are far stronger.

Holy crap. There already LOTS of new DBs in Scania.. I have my DB at Lv140, I'll continue it

I have an Evan and that's what I'll play now that my NL is 200.

[SIZE="5"]Welcome to Maplestory Chaos banwagon![/SIZE]

Bandwagon, not banwagon. Although seeing "banwagon" is quite hilarious since it's you posting.

Funny how you post the modifications to these 3 classes as if no other class had gotten something changed.

i'd only jump on the DB bandwagon if they gave free skillbooks and a chance to get an account tradeable mask. I'd make one if they only made it have the mask, but i'll take the cheaper route and hunt for the skillbooks instead. Requires too much NX otherwise. Whocares if it's "weaker", it's cheaper.

DB. Because they gave them the Free mastery books for their 2-3job skills. If not im gonna make a corsair/mage/archer.

I'll probably begin playing my Evan and Aran again.

I will never have a DB, though. They can go off themselves. >:

I'm going to bandwagon Vipers.


...oh wait

Mechanic!!! Well that is... -if- I still play...

Just trolling every mapler and their mother who thought they got nerfed!

inb4 the new "You're not high enough to use this skill" DB rants...

I feel this thread is awkwardly out of place. Southperricans are among the most educated MS (ex-)players, we've known about these changes for months and there's just something going on here that I can't put my finger on it, but something just seems askew. (Askew doesn't even seem like the appropriate word for the situation, that's how odd a feeling this thread is giving me.)

Idiosyncrasies aside, I have an Evan that I discontinued because at their inception I couldn't afford Mastery or Skill books in my server; I should have never started it in the first place, my L/I is where I belong and I just wasted time and mesos on that dragon-toting farmer. That was in no way a swipe at Evans, in fact, I feel a bit bad for Evans due to their Blaze becoming single-target; LHC will never be the same, only Buccs and L/Is with arcing. Get your training in now!

Lastly, I'll probably move a DB in the direction of the Blood Mask. Aside from the Critical Ring, that's really the only thing I want.

[...]Aside from the Critical Ring, that's really the only thing I want.

Talking about critical rings, does the (second) event where you can get them again, come -with- chaos patch?

Or when is that second critical ring even scheduled? I want one on my Mech! :+)

You should have posted the speed changes to evan's skills, by the info you posted, it seems evans got massively nerfed and not buffed.

I got both an evan and an aran. I will play my aran for sure but i might play my evan if nexon decides to take out the CS skill book requirements for evans (And they shoud, the only thing than that has accomplished is making evans one of the least popular classes).

Funny how you post the modifications to these 3 classes as if no other class had gotten something changed.

Don't remind me about triple throw...

I'll play my Aran for a bit, then probably stop again. Not really interested in these updates.

Continue with my DB (Level 125 atm), and find time for my newly made Evan.

I already have an Aran and a Dual Blade.