KMS ver 1.2.131 – Spell of Awakening

May 20, 2011 kinu MapleStory News

The Spell of Awakening update along with the 8th anniversary event is finally here!
I can smell a bandwagon of Fire/Poison mages coming up.

Like in the Counterattack of the Blade update, a special event called Boom Up is held to celebrate the revamp of Magicians.
In short: when you advance to the 1st job advancement at level 8, you will be rewarded with a Magician’s Ring (adds +100 MaxHP, +50 MaxMP and +3 Magic Attack) and three equipment boxes.
When you advance to 2nd job, 3rd job and 4th job advancement, you will be rewarded with a special 60% scroll (adds +3 Magic Attack and +3 INT) and an x1.5 EXP buff.

The Maple Administrator will give you a list with available Special Mastery Books or 1 Secret Mastery Book when you completed your 3rd job advancement at level 70. Existing players over level 70 will also get this event quest. ^^
Last but not least, Magicians who are level +120 and level up 5 times from their current level will get the same reward (not the Special Mastery Book) when you advance to 2nd, 3rd and 4th job.
This Boom Up event will end on May 11. I think that’s where the Archer revamp will start in the test server.

Anyways, Nexon did some tweaking in this update in the Magician skills.
Unfortunately Nexon changed all party play zones to regular play zones. The affected zones are Ellin Forest, Neo City, Lion King’s Castle and Knight’s Fortress.
The only area where there is party play zone is Monster Park.

Read more for the finalized revamped skills and the 8th anniversary!

 

Please note that the following skill values are taken when the skill level is mastered.

Magician

- Damage of Energy Bolt has been increased from 280% to 310%
- The amount of monsters Magic Claw can attack has been increased from 2 to 3.

Fire/Poison Wizard, Mage, Arch Mage

- New skill has been added: High Wisdom (2nd Job)- Increases your INT permanently.
At master level, High Wisdom permanently increases your INT by 40.
- Master level of Slow has been decreased from 20 to 10.
- Damage of Fire Arrow has been increased from 320% to 360%.
- Poison Breath can now attack up to 6 monsters and its skill effect has been renewed.

- New skill has been added: Extreme Magic (3rd Job) – Increases the duration of damage over time and damage when attacking monsters who are affected from damage over time, stun, freeze, darkness or paralysis.
At master level, Extreme Magic increases the duration of damage over time by 10 seconds. There is a 10% increase in damage when attacking monsters who are affected by damage over time, stun, freeze, darkness or paralysis.
- Fire Demon is now a 3rd job skill. The ability of turning monsters fire weak has been removed.
At master level, Fire Demon inflicts 540% damage and 15 seconds of 90% damage over time with a time interval of 1 second up to 6 monsters.

- New skill has been added: Arcane Aim (4th Job) – Ignores a certain % of the monster’s defense permanently and increases the damage when attacking a monster continuously.
At master level, Arcane Aim can ignore 20% of the monster’s defense. If you attack one monster more than 3 times, there is a 50% chance that your damage gets increased by 8%.
The increase in damage can stack up to 5 times.

- New skill has been added: Mist Eruption (4th Job) – Create an explosion surrounding mists and inflict great damage and damage over time to monsters. Other people cannot explode your mists. In addition, Mist Eruption increases the damage over time damage from Poison Mist permanently.
At master level, Mist Eruption can explode monsters with 500% damage 5 times while ignoring 40% of the monster’s defense.
Explosion damage increases by 35% when DoT is applied to more than 2 monsters. Up to six mists can be exploded.

Passive effect: Permanently increases the DoT damage of Poison Mist by 240%.
Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

- Big Bang can now attack up to 10 monsters and inflict 110% damage over time for 10 seconds with a time interval of 1 second.
The skill effect of Big Bang has been changed to red.

- A stance effect has been added to Infinity.
At master level, Infinity has a 50% chance of stance.
- An elemental resistance increase of 40% has been added permanently to Ifrit.
- Paralyze can now attack up to 8 monsters 3 times with 257% damage and 140% damage over time for 10 seconds with a time interval of 1 second.
The skill effect has also been renewed.

- Master Magic has been changed. You now need to press the skill to toggle it on or off.

- Magic Composition (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Partial Resistance (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Mana Reflection (4th Job) has been removed.

Ice/Lightning Wizard, Mage, Arch Mage

- New skill has been added: High Wisdom (2nd Job)- Increases your INT permanently.
At master level, High Wisdom permanently increases your INT by 40.
- Master level of Slow has been decreased from 20 to 10.
- Cold Beam now attacks a monster 3 times with 140% damage.
- Damage of Thunder Bolt has been increased from 90% to 105%.

- New skill has been added: Extreme Magic (3rd Job) – Instantly kill a monster with a small chance when its HP is below a certain amount of %. Increases the damage when attacking monsters who are affected from damage over time, stun, freeze, darkness or paralysis.
At master level, Extreme Magic When the monster’s HP is below 30%, there is a 15% chance to kill a monster instantly. There is a 10% increase in damage when attacking monsters who are affected by damage over time, stun, freeze, darkness or paralysis.
- Ice Demon is now a 3rd job skill. Damage over time has been added. The ability of turning monsters ice weak has been removed.
At master level, Ice Demon inflicts 520% damage and 15 seconds of 90% damage over time with a time interval of 1 second up to 6 monsters.

- New skill has been added: Arcane Aim (4th Job) – Ignores a certain % of the monster’s defense permanently and increases the damage when attacking a monster continuesly.
At master level, Arcane Aim can ignore 20% of the monster’s defense. If you attack one monster more than 3 times, there is a 50% chance that your damage gets increased by 8%.
The increase in damage can stack up to 5 times.

- Big Bang can now attack up to 10 monsters and has a 90% chance of freezing monsters for 5 seconds.
The skill effect of Big Bang has been changed to blue.

- New skill has been added: Glacial Chain (4th Job) – Use your cold chain to draw monsters towards you and at the same time damaging and freezing them.
At master level, Glacial Chain can attack up to 12 monsters with 450% damage 4 times while ignoring 40% of the monster’s defense and freeze them for 5 seconds long. Glacial Chain also inflicts 15 seconds of 135% damage over time with a time interval of 1 second.
Cooldown time: 5 seconds.

- A stance effect has been added to Infinity.
At master level, Infinity has a 50% chance of stance.
- An elemental resistance increase of 40% has been added permanently to Elquines.
- Chain Lightning can now attack up to 5 monsters 4 times with 214% damage. There is a 90% chance to stun for 4 seconds long.
An increase of 20% critical rate has been added. And the damage penalty for multiple monsters has been removed.

- Master Magic has been changed. You now need to press the skill to toggle it on or off.

- Magic Composition (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Partial Resistance (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Mana Reflection (4th Job) has been removed.

Cleric, Priest, Bishop

- New skill has been added: High Wisdom (2nd Job) – Increases your INT permanently.
At master level, High Wisdom permanently increases your INT by 40.
- Master level of Heal has been decreased from 30 to 20. HP recovery has been increased from 200% to 300%. Damage to undead monsters has been increased from 250% to 350%.
- Invincible now decreases physical and magic damage by 20%.
- Damage of Holy Arrow has been increased from 380% to 390%. Holy Arrow can now attack up to 3 monsters.

- New skill has been added: Holy Magic Shell (3rd Job) – For a period of time, create a magic shield for your party member that absorbs damage.
At master level, Holy Magic Shell can create a magic shield for 20 seconds long which can absorb damage up to 10 times and heals 100% HP of all party members.
Cooldown time: 90 seconds.

- A new skill has been added: Magic Booster (3rd Job) – Use MP to increase your attacking speed for a period of time.
At master level, Magic Booster increases your attacking speed for 200 seconds.
- Holy Focus affects all skills now. The critical rate has been decreased from 50% to 40% and magic mastery to 65% has been added.
- Holy Symbol now gives the maximum effect when you’re playing alone. Skill duration has been increased from 120 to 180 seconds. MP cost has been increased from 80 to 300 MP.
- Shining Ray now attacks 3 times 200% damage up to 6 monsters.
The casting speed has increased and the skill effect has been renewed.

- Master level of Doom has been decreased from 20 to 10. It no longer requires a Magic Rock to use the skill.
The success rate has been increased to 90% and a monster now stays 15 seconds transformed instead of 10 seconds.
A cooldown time of 10 seconds has been added.

- New skill has been added: Arcane Aim (4th Job) – Ignores a certain % of the monster’s defense permanently and increases the damage when attacking a monster continuesly.
At master level, Arcane Aim can ignore 20% of the monster’s defense. If you attack one monster more than 3 times, there is a 50% chance that your damage gets increased by 8%.
The increase in damage can stack up to 5 times.

- New skill has been added: Advanced Bless (4th Job) – For a period of time, bless your party members with attack, magic, physical defense, magic defense, accuracy, avoidability, HP, MP and a decrease in MP cost.
At master level, Advanced Bless gives +25 weapon attack and magic, +500 physical and magic defense, +320 accuracy and avoidability and +700 HP and MP and reduces the MP cost by 20% for all party members for 240 seconds.

- Big Bang can now attack up to 10 monsters and an increase of 15% critical rate has been added.
- An elemental resistance increase of 40% has been added permanently to Bahamut.
- A stance effect has been added to Infinity.
At master level, Infinity has a 50% chance of stance.
- The cooldown time of Resurrection has been decreased from 30 to 10 minutes.
- Angel Ray can now attack up to 5 monsters at all levels with 450% damage 2 times.
The skill effect has also been renewed.

- Master Magic has been changed. You now need to press the skill to toggle it on or off.

- Element Resistance (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Summon Dragon (3rd Job) has been removed.
- Holy Shield (4th Job) has been removed.
- Mana Reflection (4th Job) has been removed.

Flame Wizard (Knights of Cygnus)

- The amount of monsters Magic Claw can attack has been increased from 2 to 3.
- Damage of Fire Pillar has been increased from 325% to 350%.
- New skill has been added: Magic Critical (3rd Job) – Increases the success rate of critical attack and critical rate permanently.
At master level, Magic Critical permanently increases minimum critical damage by 25% and chance of critical attack by 30%
- An elemental resistance increase of 30% has been added permanently to Ifrit.
- Fire Strike can now attack monsters 3 times with 210% damage.

- Element Resistance (3rd Job) has been removed.

Other classes

- Damage of Magic Missile (Evan – 1st Growth) has been increased from 130% to 145%.
- Skill duration of Magic Shield (Evan – 5th Growth) has been increased from 20 to 60 seconds. Cooldown time has been increased from 40 to 90 seconds.
- Damage of Dragon Sparking (Evan – 7th Growth) has been increased from 150% to 200%
- The minimum required MP from Dragon Fury (Evan – 8th Growth) has been decreased from 50% to 30% MP and the extra magic attack buff has been increased from 20 to 25%.
- Bonus damage of Ghost Lettering (Evan – 8th Growth) has been increased from 15% to 25%.
- Illusion (Evan – 9th Growth) now ignores 15% of the monster’s defense.
- Blaze (Evan – 10th Growth) now ignores 20% of the monster’s defense.
- Panic (Crusader, Soul Master – 3rd Job) had its range increased.
- Coma (Crusader, Soul Master – 3rd Job) had its range increased.
- Power Reflection (Fighter – 2nd Job) can now reflect damage from ranged attacks.
- Power Guard (Page – 2nd Job) can now reflect damage from ranged attacks.
- Perfect Guard (Mechanic – 3rd Job) can now guard ranged attacks.

8th anniversary~!

8 years!! Wow! I’ve played MapleStory for years now and I’m still amazed that this game keeps me playing…
When Korea introduces the anniversary update, it always reminds me that other versions will soon have their own anniversary updates as well.

In this update, Cassandra gives you her 8th Anniversary Diary. When you open the diary, you will see ten available missions.
The missions are important. If you want a nice reward, you’ll have to complete all missions 8 times.

[ The ten missions located in your diary ]

[ Rising Star ★ ]

There are six missions that can be completed only once per day. I’ll keep it simple and short. You can pick a girl who you’re a fan of.
Lilin, Valerie and Empress Cygnus are the three rising stars in Maple World.
I’m a fan of Empress Cygnus because in the future she’s not a rising star but a badass evil person. So I choose her. ^o^

These following missions can be completed only once per day and they are required to train your idol.

Mission #1: [Vocal] You need to collect 8 different handbells for your idol to train her vocals. Each handbell represents a music mode.
Red colored handbell = Do
Orange colored handbell = Re
Yellow colored handbell = Mi
Green colored handbell = Fa
Light Blue colored handbell = Sol
Blue colored handbell = La
Purple colored handbell = Si
Black colored handbell = Do

Complete this quest and your idol gives you 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

Mission #2: [Musical Instrument] You need to collect 8 different music notes from monsters within your level range to train how well trained your idol is with instruments.
Complete this quest and you’re given 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

Mission #3: [Dance] Gaga gives you a Motion Capture camera and you have to hold it for 30 minutes. After you have kept it for 30 minutes in your inventory, bring it to the girl you’re a fan of and she gives you 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

Mission #4: [Appearance] Your idol is keen on her looks. She gives you a calorie consumption measuring device (which is a device that measures the amount of the calories burned by recognizing the movement of the user) and asks you to defeat 200 monsters within your level range.
Complete this quest and you’re given 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

Mission #5: [Popularity] Help your idol to raise her popularity by collecting one Star Cheer Placard from monsters within your level range.
Complete this quest and you’re given 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

Mission #6: [Reputation] Your idol is skyrocketing when it comes to popularity, so she has to be careful of the paparazzis trying to film her embarassing moments. Unfortunately Star Paparazzi, the most successful paparazzi in Maple World managed to succeed filming such a moment of your idol and it’s your task to bring the humiliating film back!
Complete this quest and you’re given 10 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves and EXP.

All these missions are repeatable everyday because you have to complete it 8 times.
But wait…! There are 4 missions left. These are missions that can be completed anytime and doesn’t have a limit of 1 completion per day.
However, these missions are much harder than the other 6.

The first mission in the top left corner requires you to use a Palabird’s Feather scroll.
There are two different scrolls. One is the normal Palabird’s Feather scroll which has a 20% success rate of upgrading Maple Beryl equipment into Maple Letinum equipment.

The second is a Shiny Palabird’s Feather scroll. This one has a 100% success rate.
How do you get it? You can either buy the normal Palabird’s Feather scroll from the NPC Inkwell, who by the way, also sells the Maple Beryl equipment and special anniversary scrolls or you can hunt a Palabird for the Shiny Palabird’s Feather scroll.

It’s a perfect opportunity. Because the second mission is to defeat 8 Palabirds. Unfortunately Nexon made their spawn time limited. On weekdays it spawns between 6~10 PM KST and in weekends between 2~10 PM.
The Palabird drops Maple Leaves, Armor & Accessory 60% scrolls and the Palabird’s Feather & Shiny Palabird’s Feather scroll.

In my opinion, the most difficult mission is using the Palabird’s Feather scroll 8 times. Because you have to use it on 8 Maple Beryl items.

You can ONLY buy Maple Beryl armor from Inkwell. He isn’t giving it for free… You’ll have to come up with some 8th Anniversary Silver Coins.

[ 5 8th Anniversary Silver Coins in exchange for 500 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves ]

Anyways, Cassandra can give you 8th Anniversary Silver Coins in exchange for 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves.
These leaves are new, so if you have old ones you can exchange them with Cassandra for the new leaves although it’s not guaranteed you will get all your old leaves converted into new ones.

1 8th Anniversary Silver Coin is worth 100 8th Anniversary Maple Leaves.

Monsters are only dropping 1 leaf so that’s going to be a problem. Although… Bosses and Master Monsters drop a lot of leaves!
And I know exactly at which boss I’m gonna farm me some leaves!

Inkwell isn’t only selling armor, but also special scrolls to commemorate the 8th anniversary.
He sells:

▶ One-Handed Weapon for Attack scroll 20%
▷ Adds +7~+8 Weapon Attack to all one-handed weapons.
▶ One-Handed Weapon for Magic Attack scroll 20%
▷ Adds +7~+8 Magic Attack to all one-handed weapons.
▶ Two-Handed Weapon for Magic Attack scroll 20%
▷ Adds +7~+8 Magic Attack to all two-handed weapons.
▶ Accessory for Armor scroll 20%
▷ Adds +3 STR, DEX, INT and LUK to armor.
▶ Accessory for Attack scroll 20%
▷ Adds +1 Weapon Attack to all accessories (belt, pendant, ring).
▶ Accessory for Magic Attack scroll 20%
▷ Adds +1 Magic Attack to all accessories (belt, pendant, ring).

If the scroll fails, your item gets destroyed.
And Inkwell sells the normal Palabird’s Feather scroll for 25 8th Anniversary Silver Coins.

I think you’re curious about the new Maple equipment aren’t you? I made a nice list. Check it out~

Maple Beryl is the level 45 equipment and Maple Letinum is the level 70 equipment.