We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Thursday, September 19th at 5:00 AM PDT. During this period, all servers will be unavailable. We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 6 hours, concluding at around 11:00 AM PDT.

Note: Maintenance has finished early at 10:02 PDT.

- Start and End Times -

• PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 PM - 4:00 AM, ending September 20th.

Please note that the estimated length of time for each maintenance is subject to change without notification.

- What -

• Server Upkeep
  
• Monthly Windows Update
  
• Channel count will be reduced on each server depending on region population.
  
  • NA East: 9 Channels
    
  • NA West: 9 Channels
    
  • Europe: 7 Channels
    
  • South America: 4 Channels
    
  • Oceania: 4 Channels
• Releasing the 1st Anniversary Update!
  
  • Visit the iconic Amherst Island to celebrate MapleStory 2's first birthday!
    
  • Take on other Maplers in the Red Arena!
    
  • Enjoy our best events and sales yet!

We are performing a quick unscheduled maintenance on Saturday, August 31st at 1:45 PM EDT. During this period, NA East will be unavailable. We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 30 minutes, concluding at around 2:15 PM EDT. All other servers are unaffected by this.

Update 1:58 PM EDT - The maintenance is now complete. Thank you for your patience Maplers!

- Start and End Times -

• EDT (UTC -4): 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
  Please note that the estimated length of time for each maintenance is subject to change without notification.
  
  - What -
  
  • Restarting servers so that players can log back in after server host issues have been resolved.

An ominous girl has been sighted near the forests of Ellinia. All she seems to talk about is something about a never-ending dream. The shadow that she casts grows behind her, taking the shape of sinister foes. On each Saturday starting on August 31 through September 14, ensure the safety of Maple World by combating the whimsical Luceline’s shadowy army!

Update 10:23 Aug 30: The timezone for Europe's event has been adjusted to UTC -0 to correctly reflect the local.

Event Days:

• Saturday, August 31
  
• Saturday, September 7
  
• Saturday, September 14

Event Times (August 31 & September 7):

• Oceania (UTC +10): 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  
• Europe (UTC -0): 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  
• South America (UTC -3): 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  
• NA East (UTC -4): 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  
• NA West (UTC -7): 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Event Times (September 14):

• Oceania (UTC +10): 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  
• Europe (UTC -0): 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  
• South America (UTC -3): 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  
• NA East (UTC -4): 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  
• NA West (UTC -7): 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Note: All times listed are region times, not based off of the in-game clock.

Event Details:

• Luceline will spawn a myriad of world bosses, starting from one city and carving a path to another! Squash the ensuing chaos by defeating as many of the bosses as you can, earning a heap of loot in the process. She'll lay siege to a city multiple times, while in the surrounding maps she’ll strike only once! Her shadows can only linger in the physical realm for 5 minutes, so gather your fellow Maplers to take down as many as you can!
  
  • Luceline will attack cities 18 times, cycling through the channels. On each channel, 3 of her shadows will manifest. (Note: If a server has fewer than 18 channels, she will loop back to channel 1 and repeat until the city has been attacked 18 times).
    
  • After attacking the city, Luceline will attack nearby maps 1 time, spawning 5 of her shadows on the first channel only before shortly after moving onto the next one. The maps that she attacks will be en route to her next destination, so communicate with fellow Maplers to figure out where she’s headed!
• Her reign of terror will begin by attacking one city and it will end by attacking another. After successfully repelling her invasion, she will attack again the following Saturday starting from the city she ended in the previous week.

We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Thursday, August 29th at 5:00 AM PDT. During this period, all servers will be unavailable. We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 5 hours, concluding at around 10:00 AM PDT.

Note: This maintenance now complete (09:58 AM PST).

- Start and End Times -

• PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 PM - 3:00 AM, ending August 30th.

Please note that the estimated length of time for each maintenance is subject to change without notification.

- What -

• Server Upkeep
  
• Monthly Windows Update
  
• Shop Update - We're adding a few new items to the Meret Market, including a new emote, mount, and other items!
  
  • Cutie Pink Bean Name Tag: 150 Merets
    
  • Pink Bean Chat Bubble: 150 Merets
    
  • Say Cheese Emote: 300 Merets
    
  • Squishy Pink Bean Emote: 300 Merets
    
  • Air Mount: Singing Frogs: 1,790 Merets
    
  • Fox Ears: 320 Merets
    
  • White Cat Ears: 320 Merets
    
  • White Ribbon Kitty Tail: 490 Merets
    
  • Cherry Shaved Ice Super Chat Theme: 90 Merets
  
  
• Extending enchantment discount weekend, activating furnishing discount, and scheduling double Lv. 60 Hard Adventure Dungeon drops!
  
  • Enchanting weapons and armors will continue to be discounted by 25% (35% with Premium status) between every Saturday 12:00 AM until Monday 12:00 AM UTC. The discount will end the weekend before the September update.
    
  • All furniture which costs Merets will be discounted by 50% until the September update.
    
  • All Lv. 60 Hard Adventure Dungeons will have double drops (including Lapenshard fragments) until the September update. Double drops will activate after the weekly reset, starting at 12:00 AM UTC on Friday, August 30.

Welcome to the MapleStory 2 Art Corner! To celebrate the wonderful community that's helped to make Maple World such a vibrant, colorful place to be, we've decided to take this space to display some of our favorite fan art that we've gathered from you, our players! If you'd like to submit your own art, you can do so via this handy form. Selected submissions come with an added reward of 2,000,000 Mesos, sent directly to your in-game mail within a week of the post!

Here are our favorite submissions this week ~ Please remember that the links to websites operated by third parties are not under the control, or endorsed by, Nexon and Nexon is not responsible for the contents of any linked website.



Artist: Blazithae
Character: Sereina of NA East
Twitter: @blazithae
Website: https://blazithae-art.tumblr.com/

"Compilation avatars of all of my characters after their sketches have been sitting around on my computer for months; also included the avatars I did for my main (top left). I love the aesthetics of this game. ;w;"



Artist: Lindely
Character: Lindely of Europe
Twitter: @evillindely

"A present for a dear friend and his significant other! They're just too cute together :)"



Artist: Minni
Character: Minni of Europe
Instagram: @daily.minni
Website: https://minnii.de

"I draw my little Pink Bean pet as a chibi"



Artist: Memo_medamaude
Character: Eita of NA West
Instagram: @memo_medamaude

"A commission for this cute baby boy Lua "



Artist: Noire
Character: Noire of Oceania
Twitter: @ms2noire

"There’s still time for summer!"



Artist: Windmill
Character: W1NDOFMEMORY of NA West
Twitter: @ahHHH5294

"A drawing I did for a friend! Love the new maid outfit~"

Dear Maplers,

Wow, it’s kind of weird to be the one writing the blog! Our team decided that with LAMBCOOK’s official departure from MapleStory 2, that I’d write a few blog posts until Producer Nimei returns to the office from her maternity leave in October.

This year has been a bit of a roller coaster so far, hasn’t it? We’ve had our high points and our low points, but for the most part I’m immensely proud of how far the game has come. If you ever get an opportunity to work in this kind of industry, I’m sure you’ll be surprised to see how deep the logistics go when it comes to localizing and developing unique features and systems for an existing game.

We’re approaching the final quarter of 2019, and with that, we’re also starting to approach the first year anniversary for MapleStory 2, as well as the next major expansion for the game, which will arrive before the end of this year!

Current Itinerary

I want to recap some of the previous livestream as well, and discuss why the next update will come in September. While we technically could deploy an August content update, it would be hard to guarantee appropriate time to fix any critical bugs that could potentially appear. This includes updating the Style Crate, which would require us to patch the game as well. Meret Market updates, on the other hand, can be done without requiring a new patch for the game, so we’ll have a few additions to the Meret Market. Some of you may have seen a certain Pink and Beany friend make an appearance on our social media. You'll see our adorable friend in your local Meret Market come August 29th along with the other additions! The best part? You’ll be able to buy the emote separately no strings attached, for a mere 300 Blue Merets! Another choice addition you’ll see to the Meret Market are the hotly requested Fox Ears, which have eluded players for the longest time.



Now, that all being said, the next update for MapleStory 2 will come in the middle of September rather than at the end of the month. In addition to our best in-game events and sales yet, it’ll come with a slew of bug fixes and a few noteworthy quality of life improvements.

We will still have anniversary and holiday events, and you’ll find a myriad of useful and fun rewards from them (including a few, choice, scrolls of interest...).

In the Meantime...

What of the month preceding, some of you may be wondering? You’ll have a few weeks between the end of August and the September update, and we are planning to run a few useful events for everyone. I won’t reveal all of them right now, but some of the ones we’ll be running include extending the 25% weekend enchanting discount, doubling drops in all level 60 Hard Adventure Dungeons (yes that includes Lapenshard fragments!), and discounting furnishing in your houses by 50%, all until the September update lands. These events will start near the end of this month.

In Closing

We have tried our best to keep you in the loop and be as transparent as possible with our proceedings, and we will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. We’re immensely thankful for our fans who continue to play and support the game, and hope that MapleStory 2 will continue to head in a good direction.

We’ll have more news to share as we come closer to September, so please stay tuned until then!

Faithfully your CM,
Kyrios

August continues with a pair of new sales, including the new Rejuvenating Weekly Style Pack and a Mix Master Mapler Pack filled with fun club items!

Mix Master Mapler Pack

Get the party started with this collection of DJ-themed items, including Metal Headphones, the Mushy DJ Name Tag and Chat Bubble, and the brand-new DJ Emote!



Sale Duration:

• UTC: 3:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• PDT (UTC -7): 8:30 AM Thursday, August 15th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 11:30 AM Thursday, August 15th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 12:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 5:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 1:30 AM Friday, August 16th - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th

Sale Details:

• Price: 900 Merets
  
• Contents:
  
  • DJ Emote
    
  • Metal Headphones Headgear Outfit
    
  • Mushy DJ Name Tag
    
  • Mushy DJ Chat Bubble
  
  
• Can be purchased once per account
  
• Some items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
  
  • DJ Emote: 300 Merets
    
  • Metal Headphones: 450 Merets
    
  • Mushy DJ Name Tag: 150 Merets
    
  • Mushy DJ Chat Bubble: 150 Merets

Rejuvenating Weekly Style Pack

Stock up on essentials and get some new outfits with this new Weekly Style Pack, containing 10 Style Crates and 50 Elixirs!



Sale Duration:

• UTC: 3:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - 3:30 PM Thursday, August 22nd
  
• PDT (UTC -7): 8:30 AM Thursday, August 15th - 8:30 AM Thursday, August 22nd
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 11:30 AM Thursday, August 15th - 11:30 AM Thursday, August 22nd
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 12:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - 12:30 PM Thursday, August 22nd
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 5:30 PM Thursday, August 15th - 5:30 PM Thursday, August 22nd
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 1:30 AM Friday, August 16th - 1:30 AM Friday, August 23rd

Sale Details:

• Price: 3,000 Merets
  
• Contents:
  
  • 10x Style Crates
    
  • 50x Elixirs
  
  
• Can be purchased once per account
  
• Learn more about what's in the Style Crates at the Style Crate Contents page!
  
• Some items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
  
  • Style Crates: 300 Merets
    
  • Elixir: 7 Merets

Continuing Sale: Sugary Vacation Pack



It's looking to be a hot August north of the equator, so beat the heat or try to enjoy it with the Sugary Vacation Pack, containing the playful Buried at the Beach Emote and the chilling Sweet Ice Cream Truck ground mount!

Sale Duration:

• UTC: 3:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• PDT (UTC -7): 8:30 AM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 11:30 AM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 12:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 5:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 1:30 AM Friday, August 2nd - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th

Sale Details:

• Price: 1,600 Merets
  
• Contents:
  
  • Sweet Ice Cream Truck Epic Ground Mount
    
  • Buried at the Beach Emote
  
  
• Can be purchased once per account
  
• Some items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
  
  • Sweet Ice Cream Truck: 1,590 Merets
    
  • Buried at the Beach Emote: 300 Merets

Continuing Sale: Pink Bean Vacation Sales



Don't forget about the set of sales that came with the Skilled Ally Update! A new Style Crate, a flying Pink Bean mount, Tropical furnishings and much more are available now!

Check them all out in the Pink Bean Vacation Sales post!

Welcome to the MapleStory 2 Art Corner! To celebrate the wonderful community that's helped to make Maple World such a vibrant, colorful place to be, we've decided to take this space to display some of our favorite fan art that we've gathered from you, our players! If you'd like to submit your own art, you can do so via this handy form.

Here are our favorite submissions this week ~ Please remember that the links to websites operated by third parties are not under the control, or endorsed by, Nexon and Nexon is not responsible for the contents of any linked website.



Artist: Poogi
Character: Poogi of NA East
Instagram: @poogipoos
Website: https://poogipoos.wixsite.com/mysite/

"A drawing I did for the wonderful Daisy and her corgi, Alice!! I met Daisy in a guild I recently joined and I am very grateful to have met her. She is so sweet and caring towards her friends and guildies. Please enjoy this artwork I created for her ♡"



Artist: ESTQ
Character: Ayano of NA East
Twitter: @ESTQ_art
Website: https://estq.carrd.co/

"Drew one of my guildie's characters in a retro anime kind of style!"



Artist: Salmon
Character: YuuChu of Europe

"Well I decided to draw my main for a profile picture wearing the bloodcult set. I kinda liked how it turned out and decided to share it!"



Artist: Tareloin
Character: Contrition of NA East
Twitter: @Tareloin
Instagram: @Tareloin

"I wanted to recreate a scene during the epic questline in isometric pixel art! The original was made in a 191x143 px canvas."



Artist: MO
Character: MarinaOcean of NA West
Twitter: @_MarinaOcean_
Instagram: @marina0cean

"I have done a handful of these traditional chibi MS2 drawings and this is one of them. This is a drawing of our guild leader in Kawaii, Mischief."



Artist: Lilycookie
Character: Brokên of NA West
Instagram: @lilicookiez

"painted a portrait of my friendo as a thank you gift !"

The sales roll on with a new Weekly Style Pack, featuring the adorable Ribbit Ribbit Swim Cap in the new Froggy Weekly Style Pack!



Sale Duration:

• UTC: 3:30 PM Thursday, August 8th - 3:30 PM Thursday, August 15th
  
• PDT (UTC -7): 8:30 AM Thursday, August 8th - 8:30 AM Thursday, August 15th
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 11:30 AM Thursday, August 8th - 11:30 AM Thursday, August 15th
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 12:30 PM Thursday, August 8th - 12:30 PM Thursday, August 15th
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 5:30 PM Thursday, August 8th - 5:30 PM Thursday, August 15th
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 1:30 AM Friday, August 9th - 1:30 AM Friday, August 16th

Sale Details:

• Price: 3,000 Merets
  
• Contents:
  
  • 10x Style Crates
    
  • Ribbit Ribbit Swim Cap Headgear Outfit
  
  
• Can be purchased once per account
  
• Learn more about what's in the Style Crates at the Style Crate Contents page!
  
• Some items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
  
  • Style Crates: 300 Merets

Continuing Sale: Sugary Vacation Pack



It's looking to be a hot August north of the equator, so beat the heat or try to enjoy it with the Sugary Vacation Pack, containing the playful Buried at the Beach Emote and the chilling Sweet Ice Cream Truck ground mount!

Sale Duration:

• UTC: 3:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• PDT (UTC -7): 8:30 AM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• EDT (UTC -4): 11:30 AM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• BRT (UTC -3): 12:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• CEST (UTC +2): 5:30 PM Thursday, August 1st - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th
  
• AEST (UTC +10): 1:30 AM Friday, August 2nd - Start of Maintenance, Thursday, August 29th

Sale Details:

• Price: 1,600 Merets
  
• Contents:
  
  • Sweet Ice Cream Truck Epic Ground Mount
    
  • Buried at the Beach Emote
  
  
• Can be purchased once per account
  
• Some items can also be individually purchased in the Meret Market:
  
  • Sweet Ice Cream Truck: 1,590 Merets
    
  • Buried at the Beach Emote: 300 Merets

Continuing Sale: Pink Bean Vacation Sales



Don't forget about the set of sales that came with the Skilled Ally Update! A new Style Crate, a flying Pink Bean mount, Tropical furnishings and much more are available now!

Check them all out in the Pink Bean Vacation Sales post!

Welcome to the very first Tria Tribune! This periodic magazine is our way to open up the world of MapleStory 2, delving into community contests, tips for newer players, interviews with your favorite MapleStory 2 characters and what's been going on in Maple World!


In the latter half of June, Kyrios issued a challenge to the veterans of MapleStory 2: Give newer players a leg up by crafting a guide to one of MapleStory 2's many features. The community came through and then some, creating dozens of guides that you can peruse on the Player Guides forums, including explorations on Awakened Classes, Housing Tips, Mini-Game Guides and more!

Four guides were selected as the best of the best, and you can check them out below!




Synkido from NA West takes on a full, detailed look at everything to do with upgrading and socketing gemstones, so that you can get the most out of your accessories. Take a look at the guide to boost your gemstones!




Cynna from NA East unleashes the fashionista in all of us to go into the many ways you can find new outfits to give your character a unique look. Get your own special look with the Fashionista's Guide today!




Sanitee from NA West took on the first three Guild Raids, explaining the challenges of each raid and the best ways to overcome them for pride, glory and sweet loot. Check out the guide in full and get your guild ready to fight!




And last but not least, Remitar from NA West spins to win with an incredibly in-depth guide to everything you need to know about the Berserker class. Grab the biggest sword you can find and check out the guide to learn how to use it!


Delving into a new dungeon for the first time can be an intimidating experience, even for the most veteran MMORPG player. With the Skilled Ally Update, we added a Dungeon Helper System, to allow newer players to seek out help from those that have been playing MapleStory 2 for a long time and know the dungeons inside and out. If you need a bit of a hand to figure out that dungeon, just click on the "Get Help" button from the Dungeon Directory (default keybind: ';' ).



You can seek out help for any dungeon you have completed less than 10 times, even encounters such as Chaos Raids, Eye of Lapenta, and Cathy Mart! And don't worry about imposing on the veterans, because they get a special set of rewards for lending you a hand!


We here at the Tria Tribune got a special opportunity to catch up with Ophelia!

Tria Tribune: Hello, Ophelia! Thank you for speaking to us, how are y-

Ophelia: How am I? I'm angry, that's what I am! Do you know what they did to me?!

T: Uh, no? Sorry, is something wr-

Ophelia: Do you have any idea how great I had it? Only game in town, complete control of all of the Enchanting, and then somebody had to go and show Peachy how to do the job right!

T: We, uh, we have some questions... are you enjoying any good restauran-

Ophelia: People were praying to me! They were begging me! Now a third of my customers have run off to that pretender and I'm suppose to act like it's no big deal?

T: Well, it was a little unfair-

Ophelia: Unfair?! Who cares about fair? Fair doesn't keep me swimming in Onyx Crystals! I swear, if I ever find this LAMBCOOK I'm going to show him what I really think of his 'New Leaf' cr-

T: WellthankyouverymuchOpheliaI'mafraidthat'sallthetimewehave!




MapleStory 2 has tons of talented artists, sharing their creations both through UGCs and through fan art. Many have also submitted their art works to the MapleStory team, and for the last few months we have been showing off their gorgeous works with the bi-weekly Art Corner posts. If you'd like your own creations featured, submit your creations and keep an eye out in the next Art Corner!

You can see all of this month's excellent artistry with the July 11th Art Corner and the July 25th Art Corner posts!

Thank you for reading the Tria Tribune, and see you next time!