As April comes to a close, Nexon sort of cheaped out on their announcement of Flame Wizard being released in April, there’s only like two more days left haha. Anyways, along with Flame Wizard, this patch includes the 11th Anniversary of MapleStory as well as some system changes and of course, new events!
There’s also a few new MapleStory 2 teasers which I will be talking about, so read on~
The Flame Wizard has been reorganized! They now feature a unique attacking system, with the skill Orbital Flame. When used, this skill acts as a boomerang and will return to your character after being shot out!
In addition, Orbital Flame can be used in conjunction with the directional keys to make it go in any direction you would like!
Flame Wizard’s character card gives 0.5/1/1.5/2 magic damage per character level.
Flame Wizard Skills
Beginner
Elemental Slash: Strike up to 3 enemies in front of you with a slash of unrefined elemental power dealing 130% damage.
Journey Home: Borrow Shinsoo’s aura to return to the side of the Empress. There is a cooldown of 30 minutes.
Elemental Harmony: Learn the harmony between the elements and increase your affinity for them, increasing your INT by 1 for every 2 character levels.
Elemental Shift: Jump once again while in the air by pressing the jump key with an arrow key.
Cygnus Blessing: The awakened Empress’ blessing protects you from enemies’ attacks, increasing your resistance to states and elements. If other Cygnus jobs exist within your account, you can stack this Link Skill up to 5 times. If linked, this skill’s effects will be reduced. (Link Skill)
- Level 1: 5% resistance (2% if linked).
- Level 2: 10% resistance (5% if linked).
First Job
Orbital Flame: Burn enemies with a flame that flies a certain distance then returns to you. Using the skill with one of the four arrow keys will allow you to choose which direction to fire it. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 181% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
- Level 20: 200% damage 2 times on up to 4 enemies.
Flame Bite: Spit fire in a straight line in front of you to hit enemies. (required skill: 1 Fire Repulsion) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 85% damage 3 times on up to 4 enemies.
- Level 20: 180% damage 3 times on up to 4 enemies.
Element: Flame: When Orbital Flame is used, the Flame Element will automatically be summoned. For a certain period of time, the summoned Element will increase your magic attack. If you use Orbital Flame again, the buff will be refreshed. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 1 magic attack for 8 seconds.
- Level 10: 10 magic attack for 8 seconds.
Fire Walk: Instantaneously disappear within a flame and jump forward a certain distance. Passively increases defense. Elemental Shift is replaced by this skill. (max level: 5)
- Level 1: defense increased by 11% of your magic defense.
- Level 5: defense increased by 15% of your magic defense.
Fire Repulsion: Some of the damage you take will be redirected to your mana. (max level: 5)
- Level 1: 37% damage taken will be redirected to MP.
- Level 5: 85% damage taken will be redirected to MP.
Natural Talent: Blessed with talent, your mana is increased by a certain percentage and a certain amount per level. (max level: 5)
- Level 1: 16% MP increase and 80 MP per level.
- Level 5: 20% MP increase and 120 MP per level.
Second Job
Orbital Flame II: Orbital Flame’s damage and number of monsters hit are increased, and 2 Orbital Flames can now be used at the same time. (required skill: 20 Orbital Flame) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 212% damage 2 times on up to 8 enemies.
- Level 20: 250% damage 2 times on up to 8 enemies.
Flame Vortex: Create a flame vortex in front of you, which damages enemies and pushes them back. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 172% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies.
- Level 20: 210% damage 2 times on up to 6 enemies.
Burn and Rest: Escape from the heat of battle and recover a certain percentage of your mana. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: Recover 24% of your MP. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
- Level 10: Recover 60% of your MP. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Book of Fire: For a certain period of time, increase your magic attack and attacking speed. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 11 magic attack, 1 attacking speed, 120 second duration.
- Level 10: 20 magic attack, 1 attacking speed, 300 second duration.
Ignition: The essence of flame magic causes all your skills to create explosions, dealing periodic damage. Monsters affected by Ignition will take damage over time, and after the duration is over, it will explode and damage nearby enemies. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 28% chance to apply Ignition, 184% damage every second for 10 seconds, 204% explosion damage, 120 second duration.
- Level 10: 100% chance to apply Igniton, 220% damage every second for 10 seconds, 240% explosion damage, 300 second duration.
Fire Blink: Leave a trail of fire at your current location. For a certain period of time, you can reuse Fire Blink to teleport back to your original position. (max level: 5)
- Level 1: 20 second duration.
- Level 5: 100 second duration.
Element: Flame II: Element: Flame’s buff is strengthened. (required skill: 10 Element: Flame) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 11 magic attack for 8 seconds.
- Level 10: 20 magic attack for 8 seconds.
Scroll Polishing: Your magic attack and mastery are increased. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 1 magic attack, 5% mastery.
- Level 10: 10 magic attack, 50% mastery.
Third Job
Orbital Flame III: Orbital Flame’s damage and range are increased, and 3 Orbital Flames can now be used at the same time. (required skill: 20 Orbital Flame II) (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 262% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies.
- Level 20: 300% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies.
Flame Tempesta: Swing a huge flame on both sides of you, damaging and pushing enemies away. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 253% damage 2 times on up to 8 enemies around you.
- Level 20: 405% damage 2 times on up to 8 enemies around you.
Maelstrom: Cause one enemy to become a giant, which draws in and continuously damages enemies. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 205% damage, 20 second duration. Cooldown of 125 seconds.
- Level 20: 300% damage, 20 second duration. Cooldown of 30 seconds.
Born Phoenix: When hit by an attack that would cause you to die, instantly teleport backwards and heal a certain percentage of health. For a short period of time, you will be immune to all damage. (max level: 15)
- Level 1: 1% HP restored, 1 second of invulnerability, duration of 160 seconds, cooldown of 1160 seconds.
- Level 15: 20% HP restored, 3 seconds of invulnerability, duration of 300 seconds, cooldown of 600 seconds.
Element: Flame III: Element: Flame’s buff is strengthened. (required skill: Element Flame II) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 21 magic attack for 8 seconds.
- Level 10: 30 magic attack for 8 seconds.
Liberated Magic: Both your skills’ mana costs and damage are increased. (max level: 20)
- Level 1: 106% mana cost and damage increase.
- Level 20: 125% mana cost and damage increase.
Weakness Insight: Your critical chance and minimum critical damage are increased. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 21% critical chance, 6% minimum critical damage.
- Level 10: 30% critical chance, 15% minimum critical damage.
Brilliant Enlightenment: Permanently increase your INT. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 6 INT.
- Level 10: 60 INT.
Fourth Job
Cygnus Knights: Receive the blessing of the awakened Empress, increasing the stats of all party members. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 1% all stats for 30 seconds.
- Level 30: 15% all stats for 900 seconds.
Orbital Flame IV: Orbital Flame’s damage is increased, and 4 Orbital Flames can now be used at the same time. (required skill: 20 Orbital Flame III) (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 301% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies.
- Level 30: 330% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies.
Blazing Extinction: Launch a flame sphere forward. As enemies enter its range, chains of fire will automatically attack them. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 252% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies, 10 second duration.
- Level 30: 310% damage 3 times on up to 8 enemies, 10 second duration.
Infernalize: The flow of fire is collected in one place, creating a huge flame. Enemies affected by Ignition will take greater damage. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 354% damage 3 times on up to 15 enemies, 61% additional damage to enemies affected by Ignition, cooldown of 60 seconds.
- Level 30: 470% damage 3 times on up to 15 enemies, 90% additional damage to enemies affected by Ignition, cooldown of 60 seconds.
Flame Barrier: A cover of flames will absorb some of the damage you take for a certain period of time, and before it disappears, it explodes and deals damage to nearby enemies. (max level: 10)
- Level 1: Reduce damage taken by 5%, 305% damage on up to 8 enemies, 6 second duration, cooldown of 90 seconds.
- Level 10: Reduce damage taken by 50%, 350% damage on up to 8 enemies, 15 second duration, cooldown of 90 seconds.
Spirit of Flame: Summon the spirit of Flame (you can choose one of two appearances). While summoned, your mana costs will be increased by a certain percentage but you will gain defense ignore and attacking Ignition affected enemies will reduce their resistances (party members will receive a certain percentage of this effect). (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 120% mana cost increase, ignore 1% of enemies’ defenses, Ignition will reduce enemies’ resistances by 71%, party members will receive 10% of this effect, 600 second duration, cooldown of 5 seconds.
- Level 30: 120% mana cost increase, ignore 30% of enemies’ defenses, Ignition will reduce enemies’ resistances by 100%, party members will receive 10% of this effect, 600 second duration, cooldown of 5 seconds.
Burning Region: Summon a magic circle at your current location, increasing your and party member’s damage and attack speed while standing on top of it. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 21% damage, 1 attacking speed, 60 second duration, cooldown of 90 seconds.
- Level 30: 50% damage, 1 attacking speed, 60 second duration, cooldown of 90 seconds.
Element: Flame IV: Element: Flame’s buff is strengthened. (required skill: 10 Element: Flame III) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 31 magic attack for 8 seconds.
- Level 10: 40 magic attack for 8 seconds.
Unquenchable Flame: Ignition’s damage over time and your resistance to statuses and elements are increased. (max level: 30)
- Level 1: 2% damage increase for Ignition’s damage over time, 1% resistance to statuses and elements.
- Level 30: 60% damage increase for Ignition’s damage over time, 30% resistance to statuses and elements.
Truth of Magic: Your magic attack, mastery, and minimum critical damage are increased. (required skill: 10 Scroll Polishing) (max level: 10)
- Level 1: 1 magic attack, 61% mastery, 1% minimum critical damage.
- Level 10: 10 magic attack, 70% mastery, 10% minimum critical damage.
Hyper
Orbital Flame – Reinforce: Orbital Flame IV’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 143]
Orbital Flame – Ignore Guard: Orbital Flame IV’s defense ignored is increased by 20%. [required level: 162]
Orbital Flame – Split Attack: Orbital Flame IV’s damage is reduced to 280% but its number of hits is increased by 1. [required level: 183]
Blazing Extinction – Add Attack: Blazing Extinction’s number of hits is increased by 1. [required level: 149]
Blazing Extinction – Reinforce: Blazing Extinction’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 168]
Blazing Extinction – Duration: Blazing Extinction’s duration is increased by 10 seconds. [required level: 189]
Ignition – Max Ignition: Ignition’s damage over time’s cycle is decreased by 0.5 seconds. [required level: 155]
Ignition – Reinforce: Ignition’s damage over time is increased by 20%. [required level: 177]
Ignition – Mass Explosion: Ignition’s explosion damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 195]
Dragon Slave: Attack a single enemy with flames relentlessly. After a certain period of time or when you release the key, unleash a finishing blow. [required level: 150]
- Level 1: 500% damage 6 times on 1 enemy, while the key is held down up to a maximum of 2 seconds. After released, a finishing blow of 500% damage 10 times is used. Cooldown of 90 seconds.
Cataclysm: Summon a giant flame and drop it on enemies to burn everything around you. [required level: 170]
- Level 1: 860% damage 7 times on up to 15 enemies, cooldown of 90 seconds.
Glory of Guardians: The knights who swore to protect Empress Cygnus undergo a sense of honor, increasing their damage and maximum damage. This effect only applies to Knights of Cygnus in the party. [required level: 200]
- Level 1: 10% damage and 5,000,000 maximum damage for 60 seconds. Cooldown of 120 seconds.
Until May 18, any level 100 or higher Flame Wizard (including newly created and already existing) will receive a Red Pointed Beanie for free~
The Party window has been reorganized! The Party Search window has been deleted.
Now when inviting others to your party, a new window will open, allowing you to enter names, and also see other characters in your map.
When creating a party, you can now name your party! If you wish, you can make it private so that others cannot see your party, only those which you invite.
In addition, right clicking a party member will now allow you to Channel Follow them, very useful for finding an open channel! You can also add them as a friend or send them a message.
In addition, party chat now shows up above your character, but only for those who are in your party.
The required levels to some bosses have changed.
- Normal Horntail: level 120
- Chaos Horntail: level 135
- Easy and Normal Van Leon: level 130
- Easy and Normal Arkarium: level 140
- Normal Pink Bean: level 160
- Easy Magnus: level 115
- Normal Magnus: 155
- Hard Magnus: level 175
Some boss quests have been also changed to be made easier.
After accepting the quest Moira’s Whereabouts, you can automatically be moved to the map a Big Nest’s Peak. Creating Horntail‘s
Transformation Potion no longer requires any items, you can just talk
to Moira to complete the quest. The Mark of an Expedition Leader quest
no longer requires the Proof of Zakum, Pianus, and Papulatus. The Cave
of Life’s number of required party members has been decreased from 6 to
2.
The Van Leon quest that gives
the Knight’s Scroll now has to be completed only once. After that you
can talk to the NPC to receive the scroll instead of collecting the
item.
For Pink Bean, you no longer need to collect items to create the Chaos Marble.
For Magnus, users level 155 and up can automatically teleport to the top floor of the Tyrant’s Citadel after they enter it.
The expedition system has been removed and replaced with the new Boss tab.
This new tab allows you to see all information regarding a boss such as daily limits, required levels, required items, and quests.
After choosing a boss and a difficulty, you will be placed in a queue to automatically join others who wish to fight the boss as well.
If you already have a party, you can enter these bosses regularly, without using this UI.
When your party is formed, all of you will be automatically moved to the boss map!
Mystic Gates have returned and will open on May 3, 4, 10, and 11.
Finally, you can now change the volume of or mute skill voices!
The event which this anniversary is themed around is called In the Beginning, There was a Mushroom. It runs until May 28. It’s basically about finding out the secrets behind certain monsters in Maple World haha.
There’s a schedule for which monsters you can learn about. Mushrooms, Axe Stumps, and Horntail are available from the beginning, Yeti & Pepes, Water Thieves, Snails, and Moon Bunnies are available after May 8 and finally, Ribbon Pigs, Slimes, and Pink Bean are available after May 15.
The Scholar Mushroom will be your guide, he wants your help to learn about the secrets of the above monsters. Follow his advice and find out things no one has ever known before!
For each monster story you complete, you’ll get 30 11th Anniversary Coins. There’s also three daily quests which give 15, 10, and 5 coins respectively. Completing all 11 monster stories will give you 50 11th Anniversary Coins, the Mushroom Damage Skin, Boing Mushroom Riding (90 days), Monster Researcher medal, and Gather! Secret Monsters chair.
The medal gives 5 all stats and 2 attack and magic attack, and it is permanent.
The next event is the 11th Anniversary Maple Festival, which runs until May 28.
The Festival Master will give you an 11th Anniversary Festival Teleport Rock, which will bring you to the 11th Anniversary Festival map when used.
Here you can trade in 200 11th Anniversary Maple Leaves for 1 11th Anniversary Coin.
You’ll also get the 11th Anniversary Sharing the Love buff, which can be used infinitely until the end of the event (cooldown of 30 seconds). In addition, if you share this buff with others 30 times, you’ll get the 11th Anniversary Together medal which gives 9 all stats, 200 HP and MP, and 5 attack and magic attack.
As Maple Leaves are traded in, a bar at the top of the Festival map will fill up. When it’s at 100%, a message will appear everywhere stating in 3 minutes, the Festival Master will share items with everyone!
Go to the map and be ready to catch falling items including 11th Anniversary Coins, Admin’s Letters, potions, and 11th Anniversary Armor Boxes.
Each day, you’ll get 3 11th Anniversary Coins for free~ 5 if you are logging in at a Premium PC room.
Monsters around your level will be dropping 11th Anniversary Celebration Boxes! These can be opened to get Scroll Traces, 11th Anniversary Coins, Elixirs, and Admin’s Letters.
Admin’s Letters can be opened to read a message from game administrators! You can collect sets of them and get prizes for them as well. Finishing a set will award you 10 11th Anniversary Coins, and collecting all 87 letters will get you 50 coins!
The Cash Storage Item Moving event has returned and will run until May 8! Until that day, you can move any Cash items to other characters’ storages indefinitely~
Over the course of May, there will be a lot of Happy Times! Log in on the website from 2pm to 11pm and claim your prizes!
- May 3: Regular Hair Colour Coupon, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 4: Safety Shield, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 5: Protect Shield, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 6: Platinum Karma Scissors, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 17: 3 Day Granny Hired Merchant, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 18: 3 Owls of Minerva, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 24: 3 Super Megaphones, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
- May 25: Item Megaphone, 5 2x Experience Coupons, 5 Buff Freezers
Finally, the 11th Anniversary Coin Shop has been opened, and will be here until June 4!
They are run by none other than Spark and Windy~ Spark’s shop includes the new 11th Anniversary Saint weapons as well as items that work only on them.
- 11th Anniversary Saint weapons (110 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Additional Potential Stamp (40 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Additional Potential Scroll (70 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Eternal Flame of Reincarnation (70 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Clean Slate Scroll (75 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Potential Scroll (55 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Potential Stamp (35 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Soul Enchanter (65 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Cube (60 coins)
- 11th Anniversary Weapon Only Enhancement Scroll (70 coins)
The 11th Anniversary weapons are a new type of equipment called Custom Equipment. These items gain stats based on your level (until a certain level) and are treated as a different level when scrolled, enhanced, or potentialed.
The 11th Anniversary weapons are treated as level 100 but have the required level 30. The Shining Rod for example gets 0.8 x your level in weapon attack and 1.3 x your level in magic attack, up to a maximum of the different between the ‘actual level’ and the ‘required level’. Anyone above level 100 will have the maximum stat gain of 0.8 x 70 and 1.3 x 70.
Windy’s shop includes all those good use items we’ve come to love, although the prices are a bit steep…
- Special Additional Potential Scroll (110 coins)
- Eternal Flame of Reincarnation (115 coins)
- 10% Clean Slate Scroll (130 coins)
- Miraculous Positive Chaos Scroll (110 coins)
- 50% Positive Chaos Scroll (80 coins)
- 3 Star Enhancement Scroll (150 coins)
- Advanced Enhancement Scroll (80 coins)
- 2 Star Enhancement Scroll (110 coins)
- Gold Potential Stamp (80 coins)
- 60% Innocent Scroll (130 coins)
- 50% Perfect Innocent Scroll (180 coins)
- 50% Epic Potential Scroll (80 coins)
- 100% Gold Hammer (110 coins)
- AP Reset Scroll (160 coins)
- Protect Scroll (210 coins)
- Safety Scroll (210 coins)
- Murmur’s Dungeon Extra Entry Coupon (40 coins)
- 4 Slot Title Wallet (40 coins)
- 10 Slot Chair Bag (50 coins)
- Pink Coin Purse (50 coins)
Each day, one item from the shops will be a Random Sale, Windy will inform you which item and at what price.
Let’s move on to MapleStory 2. This one was posted by the design team, and they talked about how the graphics of MapleStory 2 will be influenced by the previous game. They want to make cute and unique characters, with many different kinds of worlds and bright graphics which express style.
The images at the bottom are fanart of the new characters.
Since we have posted half of the 8 jobs so far (Knight, Berserker, Wizard, and Priest), today we would like to explain their weapons in more detail.Only 3 more jobs to go! I wonder how the Gunslinger job will look~
LARGE SWORD
The Large Sword is both large and heavy, it requires the use of both hands to swing. They are very slow, but have a wide range and are deadly if an enemy is hit. Only a Berserker can freely weild this gigantic sword.
LONG SWORD & SHIELD
The Long Sword is extremely fast and can deal steady damage to enemies. Equipping a Shield on the left hand helps to prevent enemy attacks completely. After using the Shield to block and attack enemies, the Long Sword helps the Knight finish the job.
SCEPTER & SPELL BOOK
The weapon with a sacred symbol carved into the end of the handle is called a Scepter. Priests carry a Spell Book with them in their left hands as well. Using the Scepter, Priests decisively punish enemies and create miracles.
STAFF
A Staff is unsuitable to weild as a regular weapon. However, they contain a mysterious strength instead. Wizards use these long sticks to create tremendous magic.
Thanks to their outstanding eyesight and strength, once an arrow is fired, no matter how far an enemy is, it will never astray. With a swift and light body and brilliant movements in emergenices, the Ranger devastates enemies on the battlefield.
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Rangers are a part of the vigilante group called the Green Hoods, founded by the legendary archer Hastur. The Fifth Captain Oscar monitors Henesys and the surrounding area. Traia and Henesys are geologically close, and there is seemingly a relationship between the royal family and the Green Hoods. There is a rumour that they are related to the royal family and carry out unofficial activities in secret, but it has not been confirmed.
The cool and precise Rangers show an innocent look when dealing with animals, and they are always accompanied by their eagle friends.
