May 11, 2019

Community Announcements - ColonelPanic

The monstrous Infernog has been defeated, and for a few scant moments the forces that drove the Sky Fortress into the sky seemed to melt away into the shadows. But Maple World still turns, and there's a new magic in the air that warriors of both Light and Darkness will soon be desperate to claim for themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxj4wxBgTMg
The epic of MapleStory 2 continues on May 30th with the brand new Awakening Expansion, featuring a new set of Job Skills to master, new Dungeons and Chaos Raids to conquer, an increase in the Level Cap to 70 and a new hero on the horizon: Striker!

Grand Awakening Wonders Giveaway

Get ready for the grand awakening with a Daily Wonders giveaway! We're giving away a free Daily Wonders containing three weeks of prizes to any Mapler that registers on the site before May 30th! These rewards include a free month of Premium Club access, 500 Red Merets, 80 Chaos Onyx Crystals and a Tamed Black Sunset Fox Epic Ground Mount, culminating in a free boost to Level 60 and three pieces of Lv. 60 Epic equipment!

Event Duration:

UTC: 6:00 PM Saturday, May 11th - 12:00 AM Thursday, May 30th
PDT (UTC -7): 11:00 AM Saturday, May 11th - 5:00 PM Wednesday, May 29th
EDT (UTC -4): 2:00 PM Saturday, May 11th - 8:00 PM Wednesday, May 29th
BRT (UTC -3): 3:00 PM Saturday, May 11th - 9:00 PM Wednesday, May 29th
CEST (UTC +2): 8:00 PM Saturday, May 11th - 2:00 AM Thursday, May 30th
AEST (UTC +10): 4:00 AM Sunday, May 12th - 10:00 AM Thursday, May 30th

Event Details:

Head to the MapleStory 2 Awakening site and click on the Claim Your Rewards button
Log into your Nexon Account to finish claiming your Grand Awakening Wonders
Log into MapleStory 2 and go to your in-game mail to gain the Grand Awakening Wonders
Check the top-right corner of your screen to find the day's prize
Play MapleStory 2 for 60 minutes to earn that day's prize!
- Day 1: Premium Club 30-Day Pass
- Day 2: 3x Auto-Fishing Vouchers (1 Hour)
- Day 3: Face Change Voucher, which allows you to select any one of Doctor Dixon's unlocked face styles!
- Day 4: 10x Elixirs
- Day 5: 100 Red Meret Pouch
- Day 6: Stellar Glass Pouch, which contains 4x Stellar Glass
- Day 7: 3x Auto-Performance Vouchers (1 Hour)
- Day 8: 100 Red Meret Pouch
- Day 9: 30x Chaos Onyx Crystals
- Day 10: 10x Revive Vouchers
- Day 11: 5x Dryad Pet Random Capsule S, each of which contains a random Normal, Rare, Exceptional or Epic Combat Pet that can be captured in the wild
- Day 12: 100 Red Meret Pouch
- Day 13: Electric Rider Name Tag
- Day 14: 10x Elixirs
- Day 15: 2x Style Crates
- Day 16: 100 Red Meret Pouch
- Day 17: Electric Rider Chat Bubble
- Day 18: 50x Chaos Onyx Crystals
- Day 19: Tamed Black Sunset Fox Very Fast Epic Ground Mount
- Day 20: 100 Red Meret Pouch
- Day 21: Lv. 60 Package, which contains all of the following:
  - Lv. 60 Level-up Potion, setting your current character's level to 60 and completing all Epic story quests up to Lv. 59!
  - Epic Weapon Selection Box (Lv. 60), which contains your choice of a Tidemaster, Frontier or Demonwing Lv. 60 Epic Weapon!
  - Epic Top/Bottom Selection Box (Lv. 60), which contains a Lv. 60 Epic matched pair of Tidemaster, Frontier or Demonwing Lv. 60 Epic Top and Bottom!
Missing a day does not skip items or reset progress
Grand Awakening Wonders voucher must be activated before 12:00 AM UTC on May 29th, 2019
Must claim all prizes before 12:00 AM UTC on June 26th, 2019
Days begin and end at 12:00 AM UTC
Rewards cannot be sold or traded, but can be transferred to other characters on the same account via the in-game bank

*Limit 1 of each gift per event-registered account in good standing. Players may register for the event until its end on May 29, 2019 at 4:59 PM PT. (Nexon's computers are the official time-keeping devices and all times are Pacific Time – entrants responsible for calculating time zone differences). The non-transferable gift claimed by confirmed eligible registrants will be awarded instantly in-game to the first character that logs in, and must be claimed by a character Level 10 or higher by June 26, 2019 at 4:59 PM PT, after which the gifts will expire. In its sole discretion, Nexon may terminate or alter the Program and rules at any time without notice.

Job Rank and Rank 2 Skills

The heroes of Maple World have battled hard and defeated creatures of myth and legend... but their own stories aren't done yet, and the potential for even great power awaits them with a new skill tree as part of the second Job Rank!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PcklFx5Y38
After activating your Rank 2 skills at Lv. 60, you'll gain a new default ability for free, and will able to activate new, fantastical powers. Use Runeblade's Dimension Blade ability to create a swirling tempest of ice, fire or storm damage, have your Wizard drop a Little Meteor on whatever gets in your way or become a spinning vortex of death with the Berserker's Squall!

You'll be able to start the Job Rank story upon reaching Lv. 60, beginning the Awakening epic storyline. Each job has two sets of four Rank 2 Skills, and will earn Rank 2 Skill Points as you level up towards Lv. 70. You can learn more about it and the 99 new Rank 2 Skills during the May 15th Job Rank Livestream on the MapleStory 2 Twitch Channel!

New Class: Striker

It's the master of the Mahar Punch, the Gray Wolf of Kerning City, the bravest brawler to ever set foot in the ring, iiiiiiit's Striker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDnC5lwi8Q
Striker never expected to become a hero or to stumble into the grand events. His mission was to only protect those in Kerning City who had no one to help them. But fate had its designs on the fighter, and as he ventures forth to Tria and beyond, the forces of darkness will be quick to realize that a disciplined mind and brutal technique are a match for even the grandest sword!

Striker comes with a full set of skills, including the new Rank 2 tree once you reach Lv. 60. Whether with fists, such as the Giant's Fist attack that sends a massive shockwave to the surrounding area, or with feet, such as the viciously powerful Dragon Kick attack, you'll be able leap into the fray and punish evildoers with style. Get a sneak peek at Striker and more during the May 22nd Striker and New Challenges Livestream on the MapleStory 2 Twitch Channel!

New Dungeons, Chaos Raids and More

The race for the Lapenshards and the power that they possess will take you to new corners of Maple World to battle all new enemies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtn_UsTsoo4
The Frontier Foundation, an organization founded by the young Lady Beatrice, has been formed to organize the heroes of Maple World to take claim of the Lapenshards that have been scattered across the world. Advised by the wisdom of the Runeblade of Terrun Calibre and the Animus experts of Guidance, this new group will do whatever is needed to protect Maple World.

Awakening will bring far more than a new set of epic quests to continue MapleStory 2's story. Six new Hard Adventure Dungeons, three new Chaos Raids with both Normal and Hard variants, and a new quartet of even harder battles in the Eye of Lapenta. These battles will be beyond anything you've seen before, and you'll be able to learn more during the May 22nd Striker and New Challenges Livestream on the MapleStory 2 Twitch Channel!

Eye of Lapenta and Lapenshards

The Lapenshards are a tremendous power, but they do not pick sides. The forces of darkness are on the march to claim them, and the only way to stop them is to unlock their power first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFve3MsaDHI
Lapenshards are small gems available in one of three colors with a wide variety of effects. While some have simple-but-useful effects, such as the Guardian's Rage Green Lapenshard which increases Damage and Defense, others will do far more. Power up with the help of Madrakan's dragons with the Lumarigon's Pride Red Lapenshard, boost the power of specific abilities with a range of Job-specific Lapenshards such as Bjorn's Artistry Blue Lapenshard and more!

You'll be able to equip two Red, two Blue and two Green Lapenshards, and you'll be able to get plenty of them throughout Awakening. But while these shards are already a powerful upgrade, if you want to conquer the 4-player dungeons and 10-player raid within the Eye of Lapenta, you'll need to unlock their true power.

All Lapenshards can increase their power by collecting duplicates of that Lapenshard's Tier 1 version, matching crystals and a wealth of Mesos, up to Tier 10 with a 100% chance of success on each upgrade, no RNG allowed! Find out more during the May 29th Eye of Lapenta Livestream on the MapleStory 2 Twitch Channel!

Make sure to register for your free Grand Awakening Wonders on the MapleStory 2 Awakening site, and join us on May 30th when MapleStory 2 awakens!

Apr 24, 2019

Progression Improvement Update

Community Announcements - ColonelPanic

The final update for Project New Leaf is here, and the theme for this month's improvements is "100%". We've taken a hard look at many of the progression systems in MapleStory 2 and focused on guaranteeing improvements to your gear as much as possible, be it through Peachy's Enchantments, getting new Gemstones or unlocking the sockets to slot them in.

A Note on Project New Leaf

Project New Leaf was meant to envision changes to the game by projecting the thoughts and ideas of our players straight to the whiteboard. It's thanks to you all, our community, that we managed to properly address so many of MapleStory 2's pain points. Through the last three months, we've used your feedback to heavily scale back Fairfight, minimize meso sinks, make Epic pets easier to obtain and so much more.

The foundation set by Project New Leaf will define how we move forward: Listening to you, our players, and using your feedback and perspective in order to make MapleStory 2 the best game that it can possibly be. This may be the final update for Project New Leaf, but it is only the beginning of our efforts to fully grasp the potential that this unique MMORPG has, and we look forward to hearing your feedback for the months to come.

Peachy Enchantment Improvements

MapleStory 2 features two methods of enchanting your gear: Peachy, who offers guaranteed enchantment success at a high price, and Ophelia, who offers a chance of successful enchantment at a lower cost. In the past, however, Ophelia's vastly cheaper enchantment attempts made her the only viable option for most players... but no more!

We've gone back to Peachy's Enchantments and rebalanced them for all types of gear, greatly reducing the amount of resources needed to enchant your gear to maximum power. You also won't need to hunt down Crystal Ore to enchant with Peachy, instead she'll use Duplicate Weapons in their stead! All told, you'll end up spending at least 70% fewer Onyx Crystals, Crystal Fragments and Chaos Onyx Crystals to enchant your gear all the way to +15 compared to Peachy's old system.

If you want to check out the full explanation behind the changes, take a peek at the Enchantment Changes Project New Leaf blog.

Example: Lv. 50 Legendary Main Hand and Two-Handed Weapons

Before the Progression Improvement Update

After the Progression Improvement Update

Again, these changes are being applied to all enchantable gear. And importantly...

DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR CRYSTAL ORE!

With our next update, we'll unveil a way to turn all that Crystal Ore you've been saving up into valuable enchantment-related resources that you can use to keep the enchantments going. But for now, it's time to give Peachy some love!

Gemstone Changes

Gemstones are a powerful way to improve your gear... but previously a very costly one, especially once you get towards higher-end Gemstones. Even once you obtained all the materials, you needed to attempt an upgrade with a low chance of success. We've made a lot of changes to the Gemstone systems, making obtaining, upgrading and removing the stones smooth and simple!

Upgrading Gemstones

To get the best stats possible on your top-tier Accessories, you needed to upgrade your Gemstones... but even going up to Tier 2 only had a 25% chance of success, and it wasn't unknown to make dozens of attempts at upgrading a Gemstone from Tier 9 to Tier 10 and have nothing to show for it, burning through Dust and Crystal Fragments all the while.

With the Progression Improvement Update, we've decided to do away with the random number generator: Every single Gemstone Upgrade attempt now has a 100% chance of success! This also meant that we needed to rebalance the costs for each upgrade attempt, but don't fret: Gemstone Upgrades now cost ~80% the previous average costs to upgrade!

Combined with all the other changes we're making, it should take 80% less time to get yourself fully loaded up with Tier 10 Gemstones, so get a move on and grab all the Dust and Gemstones you need. And speaking of which...

Acquiring Gemstones and Dust

Before you can even start upgrading the Gemstones, you'll need to gather the materials... which wasn't always a simple proposition. Needing some more Red Gem Dust on your Knight, but only getting the Blue Dust that your Wizard needed was frustrating for many, but that's no longer the case!

With the Progression Improvement Update, Gemstone Boxes allow you to choose which Gemstone you want, instead of having you suffer the luck of the draw. Similarly, Gem Dust Boxes now let you choose what color of Gem Dust you want! Plus, going forward all Gemstones you get will be account-bound, to make it easier to get the materials you need for those elusive Tier 10 Gemstones!

There is some bad news, however: As a result of this and the improvements we made to upgrading Gemstones, we've elected to remove some sources of Gemstones and Dust:

Gemstone-related items will no longer be sold in the Treva Shop, and will no longer be obtainable from Daily Mission - Power Mission Box
Gemstone-related drops will no longer occur in Chaos Raid or Fortress Rumble clears
Rusted Keys will be removed, meaning that keys to Abandoned Mine B1 and B4 will no longer drop
- Players with keys will still be able to use them to access the B1 and B4 dungeons until the update on May 30th

We believe that the changes outlined above will more than make up for these removals, and you will still be able to obtain Gemstones and Dust in the following places:

Gemstone / Dust Selection Box: Allows you to choose the type of Gem or the color of Dust that you receive. Up to 30 Tier 1 Gemstones or 1,800 Dust per week from Hard Adventure Dungeons.
Gem Dust Selection Box: Allows you to choose the color of Dust that you receive. Up to 1,000 Dust per week from Stellar Glass, same as before, and up to 300 Dust per week from the Guild Gemstone Shop.

Gemstone Extraction Costs

The final change to Gemstones is simple and obvious: It really shouldn't cost you that much to remove your Gemstones when you get a brand-new accessory! As such, we've greatly slashed the cost of amount of Crystal Fragments needed to extract your Gemstones to nearly trivial amounts:

If you want the full explanation behind all of the above, you can learn more at the Gemstone Project New Leaf blog. We hope that all of these changes will make it much simpler and easier to slot powerful Gemstones into your unlocked Accessory sockets... and yes, we have some good news there as well!

Accessory Socket Changes

Even just opening the sockets for your Gemstones had a chance of failure before and, to go along with all of the other changes, we've kicked out the RNG and adjusted the costs to compensate! It now will cost you a bit less now on average to unlock all three sockets, and you won't have to worry about a string of awful luck gobbling up your Crystal Fragments!

Lv. 50 Epic Accessory Socket Unlock Requirements

Find out more about the reasons behind these changes in the Accessory Project New Leaf blog.

Daily Mission and Weekly Prestige Rank Rewards

With this update, we felt it was important to reward play fully and equally, without trying to force players into too many activities that they had no interest in. One of the biggest culprits was Daily Missions, an excellent way to get the items and currency you needed to upgrade your equipment, but required you to do many tasks that many found uninteresting.

As such, we are removing Daily Missions in favor of a new, innovative strategy: Play how you want! Any activity in MapleStory 2 that provides experience also, once you hit Lv. 50, rewards Prestige Experience that increases your Prestige Rank. With the Progression Improvement Update, hitting those new Prestige Ranks will also come with a bonus prize for the first, second and fourth time you do so each week!

These Prestige Rank Reward Boxes contain the critical resources and currencies that made up the bulk of the Daily Mission rewards. While some special rewards from Daily Missions, such as Hairstyle Voucher and UGC Template Fragments, will not be in these new boxes, keep an eye out for them to show up in special events!

We're aware that mesos were a popular reward from the Daily Missions as well. To compensate for their loss, we're boosting the meso rewards from Normal and Hard Adventure Bonus Boxes by nearly double!

Normal/Hard Adventure Bonus Box Meso Changes at Lv. 60

You can learn more about the purpose behind these changes at the Daily Missions and Prestige Rank Project New Leaf blog.

Thank you for bearing with us throughout Project New Leaf! This is by no means the end of our efforts to improve MapleStory 2 and make it the best experience it could possibly be, but your help in telling us what needed improvement and where our changes were falling short have been a huge boon. Keep enjoying MapleStory 2, and we'll keep making it even better!

Patch Notes

Integrating Discord Rich Presence with MapleStory 2. See what your friends are up to in-game from Discord!
Former MapleStory 2 players that have not logged in since Jan. 31st have been offered a special Welcome Back Wonders, a Daily Wonders-style package that contains a variety of equipment and utility items to help them catch up and enjoy the improvements made with Project New Leaf.
Change of Gamepad Button images that are used in various in-game UIs.
Change of Gamepad Guide image in order not to suggest a certain brand.
Weekly mission rewards added to Prestige Level UI.
There is now a button in order to "accept all/complete all" Sky Fortress faction quests without needing to visit the ship (at last).
A new notification will appear above the health bar if you have an item with open sockets that can slot Gemstones that are currently being held.
Moon Rabbit will be removed from Queenstown as the Rainbow Roller Events come to a close.
The Abandoned Mine B1 & B4 dungeons will remain accessible for the next month. Chests will no longer drop Rusted Keys but you can still identify your remaining keys at Archaeologist Natalie in the meantime. These dungeons will continue to reward the same items while they remain open with the exception of Crystal Ore from B4.

Crystal Ore will also be removed from Normal/Hard Adventure Dungeon chests, main storyline quest rewards and the Havi Fruit Merchant
This month is your also last chance to obtain trophies related to the B1 and B4 treasure dungeons.

Trophies associated with Gemstone attempts and failures will be locked. If you have already unlocked these, you will keep them as legacy trophies.
Trophies associated with Socket Unlock attempts and failures will be locked. If you have already unlocked these, you will keep them as legacy trophies.
Prestige Rank 60 and above now reduce the fragment cost for unlocking sockets instead of increasing the odds of success:
- Rank 60: 5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 90: 6.5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 120: 8% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 150: 9.5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 180: 11% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 210: 12.5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 240: 14% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 270: 15.5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 300: 17% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 330: 18.5% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost
- Rank 360: 20% Reduced Crystal Fragments cost

Sales

Get back at some finger-snapping baddie with this month's special sales! Rocket on the ground or into the sky with the new Super Mechacar and Super Mechaplane mounts, show off like a marvelous captain with a new set of heroic emotes, work out some other terrible superhero puns while cuddling with a new set of cat-themed housing decorations and more!

Get all of the info in the Retributors Sales post!

May Style Crate: New Style Crate and Coin Shop selections are here for May, including fashions with a super-heroic theme and for the upcoming Cinco de Mayo! You can check out the full list of items on the Style Crate Contents page.
Speedster Style Crate Bundle: Pick up some Style Crates and grab a stylish transforming Exceptional ground mount to carve through Maple World!
Supersonic Hero Pack: Take to the skies with this heroic package including an Exceptional flying mount, name tag and chat bubble!
Heroic Stance Package: Make your presence known with a bundle of three impactful emotes!
Charming Cat Cafe Furnishing Package: Cat enthusiasts rejoice! This package comes with a collection of adorable cat-themed house decorations.
New Hairstyles: Men can now get the Casual Dandy Cut and Voluminous Parted Bangs, and women can get the Cutie Double Bun Hair and Lovely Rolling Permstyles.
New Faces: Hit up Dixon for either a delighted or subdued new face style, with the brand new Bright and Exhausted faces!

Events

The Performance Improvement Update is here with a big event full of activities all across Maple World, double drops in Chaos Raids and a special gift for joining us on the first day after the patch!

Learn more in the May Stamp Events post!

May Stamp Tour: We've got lots to do! Whether you're new, returning, or a current player, fill out the stamp book to earn heaps of rewards ranging from useful resources, to a chocolate donut on your head, to a speedy flying toilet mount, to a grey cat full-body outfit!
Chaos Rumble Delight Event: Find the perfect weapon or armor piece twice as fast with double drops from Chaos Raids for a month, as well as continued double drops from Fortress Rumbles. It's a prime opportunity with your choice of Ophelia or Peachy now to enhance those items!
Update Day Hot Time Login Event: Log-in on patch day to earn yourself 7 days of Premium Club and Auto-Gathering.
Pet Appreciation Event: We're giving you a big reason to expand your menagerie: Up to 75,000 bonus Pet Experience each day by way of Polished Fusion Stones, awarded every time you successfully tame a pet!

Bug Fixes

The scrolling event banner has been corrected to reflect that only "Fortress Rumbles" have double rewards (instead of "Sky Fortress")
Viewing Infernog or Papulatus leaderboards no longer causes MapleStory 2 to crash
Fixed an issue that caused the chat box to display all text with a Super-Chat highlight
Rolling Thunder's special attack now functions properly in the Premium Dungeon
Fixed a typo in the real estate forfeit agreement
Fixed a game pad issue that caused the LB+Left keybind to be used when the user pressed RB
Players riding mounts will now be dismounted when entering a house that doesn't allow mounts
Weapon particle effects now display properly when using Deluxe Cannon weapon skin
Summoner Latun's shield now ends at the proper time instead of remaining active for too long
Corrected Live Skills crafting text from "Daily Max: 1000" to "Max Batch Size: 1,000"
Changed Blueprint Warning Messages' font color to Red
Fixed a typo that showed an incorrect duration on the Static Flash tooltip. Note that this is only a text fix, functionality remains unchanged
When naming a house, a comma can no longer be used in the name
Fixed an issue that temporarily prevented item enchantment if the success rate was boosted to 100% before catalyst items were selected
Fixed a scenario that allowed pet summoning to cancel attack skill animations

Known Issues

Sometimes a Meret purchase will not be instantly delivered to the player's mailbox. When this occurs, returning to the character select screen and coming back will trigger the Meret delivery
Deep Sea Fashion trophy does not unlock after successfully fishing for an appropriate weapon skin
Binding "Action" to the Left or Right arrow keys will not function on Portals
Typo in Weak Point Analysis Tonic describes it as giving "+5% Piercing" when it should actually say "+5% Physical/Magic Piercing"
Queenstown mini-map still shows Ming Ming's shop, even though this event shop is no longer present
Players using game pad controls may experience erratic movement when under the effects of a movement slowing debuff
Being healed by a Healing Lapentier dismounts players (even if you have Safe Riding)

Apr 24, 2019

Retributors Sales

Community Announcements - ColonelPanic

May Style Crate

New Style Crate and Coin Shop selections are here for May, including fashions with a super-heroic theme and for the upcoming Cinco de Mayo! You can check out the full list of items on the Style Crate Contents page.

Sale Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Sale Details:

Price: 300 Merets
Contents:
- One random item from the full list of included items
- Unwanted Style Crate items can be turned into Style Coins, which can be exchanged for additional items in the Style Coin Shop
- Style Crate contents can also be purchased directly from the Meret Market or Style Coin Shop
- See the full list of items on the Style Crate Contents page!

Speedster Style Crate Bundle

Get revenging with a set of 20 Style Crates along with a brand new, transforming Super Mechacar ground mount!

Sale Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Sale Details:

Price: 7,000 Merets
Contents:
- 20x Style Crates
- Super Mechacar Exceptional Ground Mount
Can be purchased once per account
Learn more about what's in the Style Crates at the Style Crate Contents page!
Items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
- Style Crates: 300 Merets
- Super Mechacar: 1,290 Merets

Supersonic Hero Pack

Take to the skies and get your payback on the forces of darkness with the Supersonic Hero Pack, featuring the Supersonic Hero Name Tag and Chat Bubble, plus the high-flying and transforming Super Mechaplane!

Sale Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Sale Details:

Price: 1,500 Merets
Contents:
- Super Mechaplane Flying Mount
  - Ascent Rate: 1.2 m/s
  - Max Height: 12 meters
  - Flying Speed: 6.5 m/s
- Supersonic Hero Name Tag
- Supersonic Hero Chat Bubble
Can be purchased once per account
Items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
- Super Mechaplane: 1,390 Merets
- Supersonic Hero Name Tag: 150 Merets
- Supersonic Hero Chat Bubble: 150 Merets

Heroic Stance Package

Show off to your friends and strike fear into those that deserve venging with the Heroic Stance Package, a set of three emotes with powerful and flashy motions!

Sale Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Sale Details:

Price: 500 Merets
Contents:
- Dramatic Appearance Emote
- My Turn Emote
- Witness Me Emote
Can be purchased once per account
See the Emotes in action on the MapleStory 2 Twitter page!
Items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
- Dramatic Appearance Emote: 200 Merets
- My Turn Emote: 200 Merets
- Witness Me Emote: 200 Merets

Charming Cat Cafe Furnishing Package

Crank the cuteness up to 11 and open up your very own Cat Cafe with the Charming Cat Cafe Furnishing Package! There's 16 new decorations available to bring a fluffly joy to your home.

Sale Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Sale Details:

Price: 450 Merets
Contents:
- Charming Cat Castle Gate Condo
- Charming Cat Catnip Flowerpot
- Charming Cat Hardwood Block
- Charming Cat Kitty Pool
- Charming Cat Partition
- Charming Cat Paw Print Block
- Charming Cat Rampart Condo
- Charming Cat Running Wheel
- Charming Cat Scratching Post
- Charming Cat Soft Chair
- Charming Cat Soft Table
- Charming Cat Standing Toy
- Charming Cat Tower Slide
- Charming Cat Two-Story Condo
- Charming Cat Wall Pedestal
- Charming Cat Window
Can be purchased once per account
Many package contents can also be purchased individually from the Furnishing menu:
- Charming Cat Castle Gate Condo: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Catnip Flowerpot: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Hardwood Block: Free
- Charming Cat Kitty Pool: 50 Merets
- Charming Cat Partition: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Paw Print Block: Free
- Charming Cat Rampart Condo: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Running Wheel: 50 Merets
- Charming Cat Scratching Post: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Soft Chair: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Soft Table: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Standing Toy: 50 Merets
- Charming Cat Tower Slide: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Two-Story Condo: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Wall Pedestal: 30 Merets
- Charming Cat Window: 30 Merets
Package cannot be sold or traded, but can be transferred to other characters on the same account via the in-game bank. Furnishings within will automatically be added to your account's available decorations.

New Hairstyles

Freshen up your look with a pair of new styles with Paulie's Special Hairstyles! Men can now get the Casual Dandy Cut and Voluminous Parted Bangs, and women can get the Cutie Double Bun Hair and Lovely Rolling Perm styles.

Sale Details:

Male characters have a 5% chance each to get the Casual Dandy Cut and Voluminous Parted Bangs hairstyles from Paulie's Special Hairstyles
- Dandy Devil-May-Care Hair and Shiny Asymmetrical Cut hairstyles now have an 11.25% chance each
- Casual Parted Hippie Perm and Modern Volume Perm are no longer available
Female characters have a 5% chance each to get the Cutie Double Bun Hair and Lovely Rolling Perm hairstyles from Paulie's Special Hairstyles
- Casual Wavy Hair and Twin Updo hairstyles now have an 11.25% chance each
- Cute Ribbon Hair and Softserve Hairdo are no longer available

New Face Styles

Hit up Dixon for either a delighted or subdued new face style, with the brand new Bright and Exhausted faces!

Sale Details:

Visit Doctor Dixon at Tria Plastic Surgery on Beauty Street to purchase the new face styles!
- Bright Face: 330 Merets
- Exhausted Face: 330 Merets

Comic Book Super Chat Theme

We're also releasing the delightful Comic Book Super Chat Theme, to let you broadcast spoiler-free messages to everyone in Maple World with a heroic flare!

Sale Details:

Comic Book Super Chat Theme:
- 1x Theme: 90 Merets
- 5x Themes: 450 Merets
- 11x Themes: 900 Merets
- 35x Themes: 2,700 Merets

Note: Customer Support will look... poorly on any spoilers that are sent in-game. Cross them at your own peril, you wouldn't like them when they're angry.

Apr 24, 2019

May Stamp Events

Community Announcements - ColonelPanic

The Performance Improvement Update is here with a big event full of activities all across Maple World, double drops in Chaos Raids and a special gift for joining us on the first day after the patch!

May Stamp Tour

May's big event is here to help you enjoy every corner of MapleStory 2! There's 30 stamps for you to collect, 30 jobs for you to do, and plenty of awards awaiting you as you fill the sheet up, including the Striped Cat Outfit Package and Refreshing Flying Toilet!

Event Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Event Details:

Log into MapleStory 2 and click on the Stamp Tour button in the bottom-right corner of the screen, above the "Friends" pop-up
Complete tasks over the duration of the event to earn Stamps that can unlock special prizes!
- Stamp tasks have different requirements for current players, those that have not played MapleStory 2 since January 31st and new players
Brown-ringed spots are Special Stamps, with their own set of prizes!
Get the stamps and collect your prizes from the Stamp Tour screen!

Event Rewards:

2x Special Stamps: 3x Gem Dust Gift Boxes
5x Special Stamps: 1,000,000 Meso Pouch and Choco Donut Hat headgear outfit

Note: The Choco Donut Hat is bound to the character that claims the item, and cannot be placed in the in-game bank

5x Normal Stamps: 1x Beauty Voucher Package, which contains a Face Change, Cosmetics, Hairstyle, Gear Dye and Skin Tone Voucher
10x Normal Stamps: 2x Heavy Colorful Crystal Boxes and Pet Taming Package, which contains 20x Dryad Pet Candies, 10x Dryad G1 Snares, 10x Dryad G2 Snares and 10x Dryad G3 Snares
15x Normal Stamps: 5x Experience Booster +100% (30 Minute) and 2x Tier 2 Gemstone Boxes
20x Normal Stamps: 5x Polished Fusion Stones and 2x Tier 2 Gemstone Boxes
25x Normal Stamps: 2x Heavy Gem Dust Boxes and Refreshing Flying Toilet Flying Mount
- Ascent Rate: 0.5 m/s
- Max Height: 4 meters
- Flying Speed: 6.5 m/s
All Stamps Collected: Stamp Tour Gift Box, containing a 1,000,000 Meso Pouch and the Striped Cat Outfit Package!

Chaos Rumble Delight Event

The Dungeon Delight Events have finally concluded, but we've got one last treat for you before the summer hits. For the next month, enjoy double drops on all Chaos Raids and Fortress Rumbles and get fully ready for the trials to come!

Event Duration:

UTC: 12:00 AM Friday, Apr. 26th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th
PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 PM, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th
EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 PM, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th
BRT (UTC -3): 9:00 PM, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th
CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 AM Friday, Apr. 26th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th
AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 AM Friday, Apr. 26th - Start of Maintenance, May 30th

Event Details:

Get Double Drops from the following Chaos Raids!
- Normal Shadow Altar
- Hard Shadow Altar
- Normal Moonlight Forest
- Hard Moonlight Forest
- Ludibrium Clock Tower
- Wrath of Infernog
Get Double Drops from all Fortress Rumbles!

Update Day Hot Time Login Event

Join us on the first day of the Progression Improvement Update to collect a special bonus: 7 Day Auto-Gathering Badge and 7 days of Premium Club access! You'll need to login before 3:30 PM UTC on Friday, Apr. 26th in order to get these bonuses, so be sure to hop in once the maintenance ends!

Event Duration:

UTC: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 3:30 PM Friday, Apr. 26th
PDT (UTC -7): End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 8:30 AM, Friday, Apr. 26th
EDT (UTC -4): End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 11:30 AM, Friday, Apr. 26th
BRT (UTC -3): End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 12:30 PM, Friday, Apr. 26th
CEST (UTC +2): End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 5:30 PM Friday, Apr. 26th
AEST (UTC +10): End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - 1:30 AM Saturday, Apr. 27th

Event Details:

Log into MapleStory 2 after we update MapleStory 2 with the Progression Improvement Update to receive the following items:
- 7 Day Auto-Gathering Badge
- Premium Club 7-Day Pass
Rewards cannot be sold or traded, but can be transferred to other characters on the same account via the in-game bank

Pet Appreciation Event

Finally, we're giving you a big reason to expand your menagerie: Up to 75,000 bonus Pet Experience each day by way of Polished Fusion Stones, awarded every time you successfully tame a pet!

Event Duration: End of Maintenance, Thursday, Apr. 25th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, May 30th

Event Details:

Get a Polished Fusion Stone each time you tame a pet!
- Polished Fusion Stones can be consumed to boost your pet's EXP by 15,000
- Up to 5 stones awarded per day
Rewards cannot be sold or traded, but can be transferred to other characters on the same account via the in-game bank

Apr 17, 2019

Daily Missions, Prestige Ranks and More

Community Announcements - ColonelPanic

Dear Maplers,

Now that we've discussed most of major changes (and make sure to check out the updates to them we're releasing today as well!), let's discuss the "...and more!" part. To recap, here's a quick overview of what's to come in the Progression Improvement Update:

Progression Improvement Update (April 25th):

Accessory Socket Opening Changes - Updated April 17th
Gemstone Changes - Updated April 17th
Enchanting Changes - Updated April 17th
...and more!: Today's topic

Today we will be covering the following additional changes we will be making with this update:

Daily Mission Removal and Weekly Prestige Rank Rewards
Meso Adjustments in Adventure Bonus Box
Sky Fortress Faction Mission Quality of Life Change

I'm sure the first line of this list looks alarming, but please read through the entirety of this blog before deciding how you feel about the changes.

Daily Mission Removal and Weekly Prestige Rank Rewards

With the Progression Improvement Update, Daily Missions will be replaced with new Prestige Rank Rewards. We're electing to make this change because while Daily Missions had meaningful rewards, the missions themselves felt repetitive and backwards at times. We'd like to fix this and streamline your MapleStory 2 experience by adding weekly Prestige Rank Rewards.

To explain what Prestige Ranks is first, upon reaching Level 50, you can gain Prestige Experience by doing anything that gives you regular Experience. The menu for it can be found by clicking on the Prestige Experience Bar, placed above Experience Bar at the bottom of your screen.

You should be able to gain 1 Prestige Rank each day by performing regular activities, and after earning 1,000,000 Experience (enough for a full Prestige Rank), any additional Experience you earn will be applied towards your Prestige rank at a reduced rate. Basically, it's designed so that you can fairly easily earn 1 Prestige Rank each day, and that continuing to play is still rewarded, without making it feel like you must grind all the time.

(Note: UI is a Work in Progress, changes may be made)

The concept of these newly added Weekly Prestige Rank Reward Boxes is fairly straightforward.

If you increase your Prestige Rank  1, 2, or 4 times within a week (before/after the weekly reset at UTC Friday 00:00), you will be handsomely rewarded with Prestige Rank Reward Boxes that contain the following items:

(Note: Reward Box names may change. Additionally, Colorful Crystal Boxes allow you to choose which color of crystal you receive)

Depending on which type of Daily Missions you have been doing, and by what extent, the proposed rewards may seem either good or bad for you. As Prestige Rank rewards will be obtained at the account level, instead of the character level as with Daily Missions, we will be rewarding you with an increased amount of primarily account bound resources, which will be a plus to many players. But if you were completing most Daily Missions on as many characters as possible, this will likely result in fewer rewards.

We understand this will feel like a nerf for many, but we believe this is a necessary change for us to improve the overall experience of MapleStory 2. The intention of weekly Prestige Rank reward system is to reward you for playing the character you want and doing the activities you want in MapleStory 2. No more forced, mundane chores – choose how you earn these rewards on your own.

With that in mind, there are some other rewards not included in the Prestige Rank Reward boxes that were available through various mission boxes in Daily Missions. We will be reintroducing some of those rewards through future iterations of events… and speaking of those rewards, that leads into our next topic, arguably the most important reward missing from the above boxes: Mesos.

Meso Adjustments in Adventure Bonus Box

For many of you out there, Daily Mission's were one of the main locations you obtained additional mesos and resources, especially when playing on multiple characters. While our intention was to simplify the experience by removing Daily Missions, we didn't want to reduce meso gains from their current level. As such, we'll be nearly doubling the amount of mesos in the Normal/Hard Adventure Bonus Boxes you receive by completing 30 adventure dungeons  in a week:

Level 60 Normal/Hard Adventure Bonus Box Meso Adjustments

In total, each character completing 30 Adventure Dungeons a week will be getting an additional 2,000,000 mesos with the above changes.

Sky Fortress Faction Mission Quality of Life Change

With less of a burden on completing Daily Missions, we also expect more players to focus on the Sky Fortress daily and weekly Faction Missions. However, you have been vocal that accepting and completing individual Sky Fortress missions was considered a chore to many of you. As such, with the Progression Improvement Update, we are adding "Accept All" and "Complete All" button to Sky Fortress Faction Missions to make things just a bit smoother.

You will still need to talk to each Faction leader to accept the Faction Missions, but instead of clicking through the same dialog for each mission, you can simply elect to accept and complete all of them at once.

Beyond

With the Progression Improvement Update on April 25th making so many major changes, we understand you may be concerned that you may run out of ways to progress, or that the game is too easy. As mentioned in previous blogs, the Project New Leaf updates are here to improve the core philosophy of the gameplay with current progression and economy, so that the experience from MapleStory 2 is more balanced and rewarding. With these changes, we intend to make some parts of the game much more accessible, whereas other areas the same with future content in mind. The fact that a good amount of players are reaching the point where current progression is ending is actually a positive sign, because we want to help lesser-geared players catch-up before our Summer Expansion hits. It's worth mentioning that what's ahead will prove challenging for all manner of players regardless if they're endgame or entry level as well.

Summer is coming, and with it we are preparing massive amount of exciting new content for you. There's still a lot to get done before we get there, but we assure you we will use everything we learned from Project New Leaf and carry it with us into the future as well.

Join the Forum Discussion: http://forums.maplestory2.nexon.net/discussion/45330/daily-missions-prestige-ranks-and-more

Join the Reddit Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapleStory2/comments/beg71q/project_new_leaf_daily_missions_prestige_ranks/

We kindly ask that the discussions in the threads above be focused on the information shared in today's blog. Please do note that many things we discuss here can change by nature of opening up these topics early for discussion. We'll always do our best to improve upon our ideas based on your feedback. As always, thank you for being patient with us and for being a part of Project New Leaf!

See you in game,
LAMBCOOK