NOTE: this recap is based on live translation, wait for proper patch notes and don't take anything as fact
- Korean showcase vod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4eG3lgrS2I&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv
- Kobe showcase vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2479121530
- Len test server patch notes: https://maplestory.nexon.com/testworld/news/all/104
- Improvements test server patch notes https://maplestory.nexon.com/testworld/news/all/103
- anima warrior cute bunny girl 😭
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Suj5kmlw0
- pre-registration event, releases on 1st part of update. medal, outfit and chair
- step up mission for len and weekly mission (includes free vac pet)
- it looks like a very short origin type thing (doesn't bind)
- you can use it 3 times with no cooldown (per boss fight?)
- no external multipliers/stats apply to it (not even oz ring), so you can use it whenever you want instead of synchronizing with burst
- it gives an iframe
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqIiJlG3Io
- odium boss. it's the ancestor of your own character
- improvement to odium story
- lvl 270, up to 3 people
- not an endgame boss
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4bFzTWAsM
- it drops a lv250 flameable medal that gives 10 boss 10 all stat 10 att 500 hpmp
- only drops from hard and above
- it's part of brilliant set
- 3set effect: 15 ied 20 att 20 all stat 500 hpmp.
- extreme mode drops an exceptional enhancement for it.
video (mostly text): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xlXYCTMex4
- job quest skip
- every map lv60+ and arcane river are instanced
- all weekly contents reset on thursday (unified weekly reset)
- automatic AP assignment on level up
- open storage directly from your inventory
- black mage entry key removed
- improved visibility of debuffs applied to bosses
- when you die in a boss, you don't have to click to revive. there's a keybind for it
- can use 2 potions of each type for bossing and wap/eap. (no issues with bossing buffs overlapping with wealth potion)
- removed spirit pendant charging time
- removed flame wolf and bounty portals, replaced with alternative content which spawns a chest in your map that you break. so no more losing map. the box gives a jewel that gives exp but it has some rng to it
- only 10% of people 260+ enter wolf, only 30% enter especia. 15% pollo/fritto
- new rune . upgraded rune with additional exp
- grandis regions up to odium added. more coin supply and more things to buy with coins
- freestyle coupon: allows you to wear cross gender fashion (including hair/face coupon)
- skill cooldowns reset when entering a boss
- full gauge for gauge classes upon entering the waiting room
- basically, there's separate cooldowns when you're in the boss fight and when you leave they go back to what they were when you entered (so that it can't be abused for things outside of the boss).
- UNIFIED CASH STORAGE FOR ALL CLASSES
- added damien, slime, lucid, will, gloom, vhilla, darknell
it's a ui like the summer/winter tutorial in the next update for brand new players. helps the user up to 260
you can play PC maple from mobile. it streams remotely from your computer
- hyper burning max + item burning (works on new class too)
- 2nd hyper burn
- new burning beyond: 260-270 1+1. title has 20 boss 20 ied 30 att 30 all stat +100 arcane and sacred and 20% exp. rewards include pre-lvled symbols up to arcus, 100 frags, 6 sol erda
- burning beyond video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj2GGgGtrzc
- they're bringing back the event gauge like with THE BLACK. global gauge where users collect sands of time. basically extra global rewards for reaching certain milestones.
- extra rewards for total attendance count: extra mag pot, fairy heart, exp vouchers, mpot cubes, bpot cubes, transcendent
- extra rewards for certain weekly missions (like killing X mobs, doing monster park etc). these seem to be cosmetics
- event stats include 2x base exp for epic dungeon. you have to do some of the missions to get these event stats
- completing the missions is only to speed up unlocking the event stats, at some point they will just unlock them
almost 3x more reached 260+ compared to the milestone event because of challenger world.
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improved late progression (currently it slows down too much)
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added grandis bosses up to ekaling to the challenger goals
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added 60k and 70k tier rewards
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challenger world passive improved
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att 50->80
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normal mob dmg 100%->150%
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boss dmg 30%->70%
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ied 30%->70%
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crit dmg 30%->40%
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all stat 50->100
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hpmp 2500->5000
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added 20% meso and drop
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added cd reduction passive (5%) basically merc
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added summon duration passive (10%) basically corsair
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added 2x max guild contribution
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new extra stats cores, exclusive for challenger world: rng stats with 5 levels of rarity, 3 per day. example shows 40% main stat, 116 att, 105 mainstat at legendary. you can enhance or disassemble them.
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higher tier coin shop for the higher tier bosses
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unique karma bonus pot scroll up to lv200 items
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rewards expanded up to 600 frags 13 sol erda, 70 black cubes, 60 bpot cubes
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speeds up liberation to 4 weeks
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can do lib missions with up to 6 people
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extra temp stats for the genesis missions
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guaranteed soul that gives att
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30k NX. pretty cheap even f2p