KMST V275 ~ Balance Patch part one

Merry Xmas and Happy New yeah to all Deadcouple visitor~ cant believe now already the end of year 2009, Hope u guy will always happy and Healthy. Here is a Parth one Balance Patch for KMS recently~

알려드립니다.
Notice.

메이플스토리 클라이언트 Ver. 1.2.275가 릴리즈 되었습니다.
MapleStory client Ver. 1.2.275 has been released.

이번 패치에서는 다음과 같은 사항이 수정, 추가되었습니다.
In this patch the following issues were changed.

<게임 관련>

1. 위자드와 메이지의 스킬이 변경 되었습니다.
1. The skills of Wizard and Mage has changed.

• 파이어 에로우가 다수의 적을 공격할 수 있도록 변경 되었습니다.
• The number of enemies Fire Arrow can attack has been increased.
  ┕ Can attack up to 4 enemies (Lv. 21)

• 익스플로젼의 공격력이 향상되고 및 공격 시전 시간이 짧아 졌습니다.
• The basic attack of Explosion has been increased and casting time decreased.
  ┕ Attack increased from 120 → 130 (Lv. 30)

• 엘리먼트 엠플리피케이션으로 증폭되는 마법 공격력이 향상 되었습니다.
• The magic attack damage of Element Amplification has been increased.
  ┕ Magic attack damage increased from 140% → 150% (Lv. 30)

2. 해적 건슬링거의 스킬이 변경되었습니다.
2. The pirate skills of Gunslinger has been changed.

• 모든 스킬 공격시 근접 타격 공격이 발동되지 않도록 수정되었습니다.
• All skill attacks can be used when you are attacking too close.

• 더블파이어의 사정거리 및 기본 공격력이 향상 되었습니다.
• The range distance and basic attack of Double Fire has been improved.
  ┕ Damage increased from 80% → 110% (Lv. 20)
  ┖ Range increased from 350% → 380% (Lv. 19 & 20)

• 백스텝샷의 재사용 가능 시간이 단축되었습니다.
• The re-use time of Backstep Shot has been decreased.
  

• 파이어 버너, 래피드 파이어, 쿨링 이펙트의 사정거리 및 공격력이 향상되었습니다.
• The range distance and basic attack of Fire Burner, Rapid Fire and Cooling Effect has been improved.
  ┕ Fire Burner: damage increased from 160% → 190% (Lv. 30)
  ┕ Rapid Fire: damage increased from 170% → 200% (Lv. 30)
  ┕ Cooling Effect: damage increased from 130% → 160% (Lv. 30)

• 배틀쉽의 내구도가 증가했습니다.
• Durability of Battleship has been increased.

• 속성강화의 도트 데미지가 향상되고 결빙 지속 시간이 증가하였습니다.
• The dot damage and freezing time of Elemental Boost has been improved.
  ┕ Dot damage increased from 5% → 10% (Lv. 25)
  ┖ Freezing time increased from 2 seconds → 4 seconds (Lv. 30)

3. 해적 인파이터의 스킬이 변경되었습니다.
3. The pirate skills of Viper has been changed.

• 에너지 차지의 스탠스 효과가 향상되었습니다.
• The stance effect of Energy Charge has been improved.
  ┕ Stance probability increased from 50% → 90% (Lv. 30)

• 피스트의 공격범위가 확대 되었습니다.
• The attack range of Fist has been improved.

4. 도적 시프, 시프마스터, 섀도어의 스킬이 변경되었습니다.
4. The thief skills of Bandit, Chief Bandit and Shadower has been changed.

• 인듀어로 회복되는 HP, MP량이 증가하였습니다.
• The HP and MP recovery of Endure has been increased.
  ┕ HP increased from 60 → 100 and MP increased from 20 → 40 (Lv. 20)

• 시브즈의 공격력이 향상되었습니다.
• The damage of Band of Thieves has been increased.
  ┕ Damage increased from 210% → 250% (Lv. 30)

• 다크사이트의 재사용 시간이 짧아졌습니다.
• The re-use time of Dark Sight has been decreased.

• 베놈의 독 데미지 지속시간이 증가하였고 성공확률이 증가하였습니다.
• The remaining time of poison damage and success rate of Venom has been increased.
  ┕ Poison Damage time increased from 4 → 8 seconds and success rate increased from 30% → 50% (Lv. 30)

• 암살의 데미지가 향상되었습니다.
• Assassination damage increased.
  ┕ Accumulative damage increased from 12 seconds damage → 8 seconds damage (Lv. 30)

• 부메랑 스텝의 재사용 시간이 단축되었으며 지형에 따라 사용이 불가능하던 점이 개선되었습니다.
• Cool time of Boomerang Step has been decreased and can now be used regardless of platform shape.

• 어썰터의 공격범위 및 공격력이 상향되었습니다.
• The attack range and damage of Assaulter has been increased.
  ┕ Damage increased from 450% → 500% (Lv. 30)

• 메소가드의 메소 소모량이 감소하였으며 지속 시간이 증가되었습니다.
• The Meso consumption of Meso Guard has been decreased and the duration has been increased.
  ┕ Meso consumption decreased from 78% → 61% and duration increased from 120 seconds → 180 seconds (Lv. 30)

The long awaited balance patch is finally here. Major changes to the existing Adventurer job. Although… This is just part one~
Nexon said in a Q&A that they will buff up Arch Mage and Paladin as well.

Q&A: What’s next for KMS?

Not too long ago I blogged about MapleStory 2 and major updates coming to 2010.
Yesterday an article was published on insoya.com with very appreciated information.

A user conference was held in Korea where people had the opportunity to attend a Q&A session and ask some questions to the MapleStory team.

Summary of the Q&A:

• Windowed mode coming soon if no problems are coming to the surface.

• When asked if they will make Adventurer stronger, they said a balancing patch is scheduled for January.

• The Arch Mage will probably get a skill rebalance (because you have to agree that the Arch Mage is weak) along with Shadower and Paladin.

• There was a question about the ”one-kill” skill of the Bishop and Arch Mage. But this question couldn’t be answered. Changing everything at one time is asking for problems.

• They say it’s best to balance the jobs first than releasing high leveled content first. High leveled content for +100 is planned after this.

• The reason that the new EXP party formula exists is because with the old formula it was unfair to get EXP by not playing the game correctly. You need to put effort in gaining EXP. They are not planning to change the formula.

• There are no plans to make Pink Been weaker. They thought that the players would have killed Pink Been in 4 months.

• Eliminating bots (automatic macro program) is one of their priorities.

• Adventurers, Knights of Cygnus, Aran and Evan cannot share the Cash Shop because when the Pirate job was released, they did not make a lot of money from it while spending a lot of time for development. Money is just required. They are still thinking if they should unite the Cash Shop among Adventurer and Knights of Cygnus.

• In March there will be a really big patch.

Seems like 2010 is going to be a big year for MapleStory Korea.
They can be a lot more creative and add unique stuff such as Guild fights / PvP or a Lv. 200 dungeon.

Snowboards Drops By Mobs / Maple SEA Speed Quiz

I believe that F-18A Hornet has done a pretty good job on letting all of us know which mob drops which snowboard and whatsoever, but I guess, he probably has stopped updating for a few days (yapps, im impatient )..

so, before he returns to continue updating his list of snowboard drops, i was thinking that someone might need to take over and update the list, so as to allow all of us to have an easier view of what-drops-what, instead of viewing lots of pages.. since~ this event gonna end in less than a month's time!

therefore, to continue with what he has done, i shall continue with the updates on the next post!

notes:

to all forumites:

• i noe there is this "search" function that i have to go thru before creating similar threads.. but i have given my reasons in my whole chunk of words above.. hope u guys understand!

• as this is for all our convenience, i hope whatever u have contributed is true.. and not to make up some fake info!!

• last of all, please contribute whatever u know! and if there's any mistake in my post, please let me know!
  thankyou! thankyou! thankyou!

thanks a lot!!

Confirmed Ones

Sky Snowboard - Ribbon Pig / Pig* / Octopus / Orange Mushroom / Slime
Aqua Snowboard - Green Mushroom* / Rubbish Bin / Stop Sign / Crow / Stirge / Stump
Silver Snowboard - Horned Mushroom* / Bubble Fish
Golden Snowboard - Lupin* / Black Rats (at Ludibrium) / "Red Lizard" (at Thailand) / "Yellow Lizard" (at Thailand) / Curse Eye
Dark Snowboard - Emo Slime / Jr.Yeti / Mecateon
Blood Snowboard - Scaredy Scarlion* / Stone Golem / Mixed Golem / Minor Zombie / Luster Pixie

* = I personally confirm it! (:



Unconfirmed Ones

Silver Snowboard - Jr.Sentinel
Golden Snowboard - Evil Eye / Cloud Fox
Dark Snowboard -Yeti / Dark Stone Golem
Blood Snowboard - Nependeath / Pepe / Capt. Latanica


Q & A s

Q : Are the snowboard drops by mobs same as last year?
A : From what I have observed, the drops by certain mobs ain't the same, as compared to last year.
For example, (ribbon) pigs do not drop aqua snowboard this time round. they drop sky snowboards instead! (:

Q : Does any mob drop maple snowboard?
A : Unfortunately no. Only the snowboards mentioned above are dropped by mobs. ):
As for maple snowboard, there is one chance of getting it from Pooch the Polar Bear at Happyville. (You might get either Dark, Blood or Maple snowboard!)
The prerequisite condition is that your lvl has to be 45 and above, with your fame 50 and above. Good Luck! ;D

Q : Which mob has the highest drop rate for snowboards?
A : I suppose none of us knows exactly which mob(s) has the highest drop rate for snowboards. There are probably 2 keywords.
The first one is probably "luck".
For instance, some of us find that it's difficult to hunt for sky snowboard from pigs, but some of us don't.
The other keyword is probably "patience" (as mentioned by Train_Heartnet).
If you hunt hard enough, even if it takes u days, you will (hopefully) eventually get one.
Yupps, so good luck, everyone! (:

Q : When will X'mas events, including Snowboards Hunts and Exchange, end?
A : By right, the X'mas events should end on 21st Jan 2009, as stated in http://maple.asiasoftsea.net/intro/n...il.aspx?id=182.
However, as most of us would probably be familiar with, there is a tendency of events ending prematurely.
So, my advice to you is.. don't wait! Start your hunts or quests now before it's too late!!

Maple SEA Speed Quiz

Mob list - http://mapleseaspeedquiz.webs.com/

Npc list - http://mapleseaspeedquiz.webs.com/npclist.htm

KMST V273 ~ New world & character selection screen and Evan changes

Five more days left! This patch changes a few skills of Evan, but the nerf is not that bad.
There is a new UI for the character selection.
Check it out:

Geez.. Again? I don’t like this new UI. I liked the UI with the short description of the class.
-_-;

New World Select screen:

I don’t know why they changed the MapleStory text to 메이플스토리 …Nonetheless it looks good.

Evan skill changes:

Critical Magic

The critical damage has been reduced and the probability has been increased.

Lv. 1 : 16% probability to deal 108% critical damage (11% probability / 114% critical damage)
Lv. 5 : 20% probability to deal 120% critical damage (15% probability / 130% critical damage)
Lv. 15 : 30% probability to deal 150% critical damage (25% probability / 170% critical damage)

Recovery Aurora

The skill consumes MP and HP. The MP recovery has been increased.

Lv. 1 : -18 MP & HP; Restores 38% MP; Cooldown of 1 minute (-18 MP; 13% MP Recovery)
Lv. 10 : -30 MP & HP; Restores 65% MP; Cooldown of 1 minute (-30 MP; 40% MP Recovery)
Lv. 15 : -34 MP & HP; Restores 80% MP; Cooldown of 1 minute (-34 MP; 55% MP Recovery)

Blessing of Onyx

Cooldown time reduced to 2 minutes.

For information about Evan in general click here.

Kms Future Plans Q/A

Korean Maplestory Future Plans

1. Archmage[Magician], Shadower[Thief], Paladin[Warrior] Skill =
improve or some changes by 2010 March.

2. After Fixing these Job Skills.... Another [Big!!!] Patch... New Place for lvl100↑ to train.

3. Screen mode is getting developed in KMS..

4. They wont decrease Pink Bean health bar or any other skill damage...

5. They are doing their best to stop Macro [ Automatic Train ].

6. Reason why they fixed the exp distribution :

Korean answer: 하게된 이유는 게임을 직접 플레이 하지 않으면서 먹는건.. 내가 하는건 만큼 보상이 있어야된다고 생각했기에 충실하게 조정한것 뿐이다. 변경할 의사가 없다.

English : [Reason is that if you dont play by yourself by getting Exp..] How much i train by my self is needed to be rewarded that much. Does not intend to change. {- ugg.. google translator}




Q. Aran recently lvl 200 theater, see the interview, the actual level of 200-230 level adventurer stories, know what you think ..
A. When making Aran, first goal was to update Adventurers is true, the concept itself, rather than a slow early growth compensated quite late.
Initially intended for something, (Q. When is Adventurers going to get stronger...increase skills?) Patches get balancing plan in January, If is improved..arent you going to improve other classes? Maybe everyone's response is that archmage needs to be improved (like a realization Revealed), partially balancing patch, short-term plan .. ..
Once the damage and the hp official, was the need for early planning and coordination so I was thinking something like the problem / horsepower formula will be modified, confirmed not ask, but will be available. Imagine that the current steady simulations.

Q. It's part of the overall attack Archmage and Bishop about (1 kill)
A. This month entered the property of the item, the job went very critical condition, all at once, why change the formula if the problems remain untouched, so do the skills directly, so you can amplify (currently considered to mean that adding skills down, and other equipment items were about to be specialized.) hard to answer this question by its troublesome.

Q. 23 Years old boy who have been training Bishop in Mardia.. Lvling up to 200.. Higher lvl contents.. truthly.. there arent more higher contents than lower contents..
A. Updating.. We agree, Archmage increase first? Or Contents added first?
First, we got to do things..Which is the first choice to be patched, If classes balancing needs to be first to be balanced, we have to start if first. Up to lvl 100 patch update till december has been finished, at MARCH ,, another ultra big patch is going to be held. (A/Q What kind of contents do you want?) Q/A Maple on the characteristics of the different game than the competitive level up except for a significant portion do not think.Part in the competition were picked higher levels if the PK levels between 200 or so,between the Guild Guild content (divided play) / level up in the competition section, while not part of the competition can go to enjoy the game has been better.

Q. When is Screen Mode Coming out?
A. Complaint is it like to know, other specific programs, I know that many of you have used screen mode. In the meantime the technical side, we had a problem. We are trying to solve this problem.. Cant tell when we are setting Screen Mode at Maplestory. Working and a little trouble here is that several resolutions. By OS problem? : If there is no problem of year 2010 will come Screen Mode, keyboard security module has the problem. this month is expected to be solved in seconds, OS problem was, officially supporting XP.
If fixed, we are expected by Summer.
Q.Why keep making new servers? Why cant Cygnus,Adventurers, Aran share cash items together?
A. (Skip) When we patched Pirates.. we didnt enjoy it much..(this means that they didnt earned much money by making Pirates) there werent much users playing maplestory( this means that they were trying to seduce users to play maplestory ), we did most of the jobs making Pirates.. Since Cygnus Knights we are trying to earn much money (They were poor.. by making Pirates.. deficit;a loss of money) we are logically having conference about this problem. Even if it could share cash items.. Only cygnus Knights could share cash items with Adventurers.. or not.

http://www.insoya.com/bbs/zboard.php?id=bbs21&no=150404
i translated all



Grog/// Skip.. Sorry .. too tired to translate
Q. 쉐도우를 키우고 있다. 메잌/섀도우수가 적은데... 속도나 데미지 모두..
A. 상대패치가 이루어져야 할 직업군이고.. 앜메.팔라딘.. 이야기가 많이 나오고 있는데 조만간에 조정될 계획이 있다.. 단도 직업군은 크게 조정될 계획이다. 계획이 이미 들어가기 시작했고, 추후 공개될 예정이다.. 해보긴 해야죠.. 밸런싱은 강하게 말해서 조정해 나가겠다..
밸런싱 맞추고 나서 고레벨 컨텐츠를 추가하겠다..

Q. I'm raising Shadower. Meso Explosion/Person who plays Shadower is less....Speed and Damage all..
A. This job is REALLY needed to be changed first.. Archma.Paladin.. so many words about this job is been planned to be changed.. Dando[thief-bandit] is going to be changed ALOT. This plan already started.. later .. is going to be released soon.. have to do something.. balancing will strongly going to be approached..
After finishing Balancing , we will going to release higher lvl contents

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The Aran Calculator V3.5-V3.8

The maple world is in great peril from the forces of evil, and no one is there to stop it... Long ago, the Black Magician invaded the world, trying to capture it, or destroy it, but was thrawt by Five Legendary Heroes... With the heroes gone, and the black magician returning, there is no hope left for the Maple World...or is there?

Enter the Aran!

The Aran is one of the five heroes who faught the Black Magician, and was encased in ice. Years later, the Arans finally come back on the island of Rienne, which is eternally in winter because of the curse. Woken by a pale girl, the Aran tries to gain back his power, and his memories.

You are the Aran. The Aran is unique in the sence that they use polearms and attack really fast. Sorry, that is not unique, you say? What about the fact that they use a new combo system that improves their power? Yes.

The Aran class was developed in KMS and was recently released in MSEA. On december the 9th, the class will be debued in GMS.

I created this calculator because I first wanted to see for myself how the Aran would compare to other classes. Once I started this little project, though, I felt like I needed to show everybody how well they could do also. While not exactly powerful on singular hits, they are great mobbers in the sense that they can hit about 12 monsters at a time. They also do not get all of their attacks right away, but have to do quests to get the skills.

Here are the two versions:

Aran Calculator V3.8 Devil-Will-Cry

Vista Version
97-03 Version

Earlier Vista Versions

V3.5
V3.6 (Now with SE!)
V3.7 Devil-Will-Cry

You will need Microsoft Excel (Vista) for these links.

Earlier Excel 97-03 Versions

V3.5
V3.6 (Now with SE!)
V3.7 Devil-Will-Cry

For Excel 97-2003

List of Features

By using many threads and information within the forums and sub-forums, I managed to compile enough data to have detailed skills.

Offensive skills:Normal Attack, Double Attack, Triple Attack, Final Charge, Combo Smash, Combo Peril, Toss, Final Blow, Combo Tempest.

Defensive skills:High Defence, Combo Barrier(EZ shield).

Supportive skills:Combo Ability, Booster, Mastery, Full Swing, Critical Combo, Smart KB, Snow Charge, Over Swing, Aggresion, SE (V3.6+)



Player Stats Panel

Add in your STR, DEX, and ATK here to calculate your damage. Also add in all of the passive and supportive skills here.

Ticking MW brings up a new range of cells next to STR and DEX where you add in your base stats and equip stats. Shows also your level and your accuracy.

Ticking Combo adds all of the damage together in a combo and places it at the end of the chain for those skills. (Ex. Normal+DA+TA, and the final damage will be in the TA, Normal+DA will show in the DA, and just normal will be in normal.)

Monster Stats

Shows the monster selected in a drop down list's stats to be used in your damage, as well as the number of mobs.

Skill Level
Set the skill level for each of your attack skills.

Max Critical / Min Critical / Max / Min
These values represent your damage range, and should reflect the damage you experience ingame. For mob skills, damage ranges for individual hits will be multiplied up to reflect the damage delivered to the whole mob. Also, for the more mobs hit, the damage per hit will lower, but the total damage will increase.

Exp Damage Without Critical (Devil-Will-Cry versions only)
This value is the damage done to the monster if you take critical out of the equation entirely. Will show without crit even with buffs on.

Exp Damage Critical Alone (Devil-Will-Cry versions only)
This value is the damage done with critical alone, factoring in: the damage done by a critical, and the critical chance of the critical, adding together into one number.

Exp Damage per Shot
When the Combo tab is checked, it will show the damage when you complete a combo. When unchecked, it will show the damage for that particular skill.

Damage per second
Shows the damage that you exhibit per second with that particular skill. When the Combo tab is checked, it will show the damage when you complete a combo. When unchecked, it will show the DPS for that particular skill.

Average HKO
This is the number of shots, on average, required to kill a monster of this type.

HKO Range
This is the fewest and most shots it should take to kill a monster of this type.

Chance of 1HKO
This is the percentage chance of killing the monster with one shot, or combo.

Chance of KB
This is the percentage chance of the skill causing the monster to be knocked back. This decreases with Smart Knockback.

Mesos per Shot
This uses the mesos and monster piece value on the table on the second tab. This factors in combo and a drop rate of 65%, and also the mp cost of the skill.

Exp per Shot
Average amount of experience you recieve during a combo.

Damage Recieved

This table factors in all stats (including INT and LUK) to calculate the damage recieved by a monster's magic and physical attacks.


This sheet also has enclosed a Monster Table and a table with all of the relevent skills.

You will notice that when you raise the Mob number, your damage per hit lowers. All of this can be explained here. Basically, to make sure Arans are not over-powered, when you have more mobs, you do less damage per monster, but more over-all.

If you have any sudjestions, feel free to tell me.


Special thanks to:
-Fiel, for this great site and the tables
-Spadow for his amazing picture featured in my calculator
-Sybaris of the IronArrows guild of Bera for the calculator I used as a template
-...All of you guys for being freaking amazing with all of the support.

UPDATE: I have fixed the bug with the damage recieved in the .xls format. You now are able to see the numbers. I also modified the MIN damage since Devil pointed out I was just down-right wrong! =P

UPDATE for V3.8: I have updated this because of three reasons: There was not enough room to put all of your STR and DEX in (New max is 1500), when looking at the Monster Table, the monster you are currently on will be high-lighted, and critical combo was "out of whack". I changed critical combo so that it would stack 10 times and give 6% chance and 10% damage each time, because, apparently, we may have been wrong before. Now, better than ever, V3.8 has fixed these problems and per-peeves and is one step closer to perfection! Well done guys!

Updated my V3.8 files to include a Boss Flag on boss monsters, meaning that Smart KB will not work on those that were flagged.


Final note: I locked the cells so that you may change the numbers for damage, but are not able to steal it! Be warned!

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JMS 1.72: Exlusive pets, cart equip added

JMS 1.72: Exlusive pets, cart equip added

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JMS released two new pets and a cart equip slot for pets in the last patch (the pets aren't released yet, though). They released a raccoon, and a miniature ninja, along with a cart equip that goes under a new cart equip slot on the character equip screen. It apparently is a mount. And the pets each have two different versions of their equip; and they also level like reverse equips do. I have no idea how these work, sadly.

Raccoon

Ninja

As for the cart,

The new cart slot is located here: