non-comprehensive summary of the significant changes.
- steve's explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEeKcIzkvHg
- orangemushroom translated path notes & talk: https://orangemushroom.net/2024/03/14/kmst-ver-1-2-170-maple-now-24-03-14-boss-changes/
- full patch notes at https://maplestory.nexon.com/testworld/news/all/31
lotus will be remastered in april and an extreme difficulty will be added (comparable to normal kaling)
- veins/flowers don't spawn in hunting grounds anymore
- ardentmill harvesting fields now drop all materials
- buffed drop rate of dusk essence, brilliant dusk essence, confusion fragment
- slime laser gives a 44% longer warning
- lucid has a warning for dragon
- gloom tentacle warning is more accurate to its hitbox
- verus hilla shows a timer for the full map attack
- darknell meteors removed (except for the diagonal ones)
- phase 3 black mage laser is more accurate to the warning effect hitbox
- kalos timer that shows when the machine spawns
- kalos will regenerates 1.5x faster in easy and 2x faster in other modes
- kalos warning delay for roar is 33% longer and it doesn't skill lock
- kalos big teleport animation changed, it's purple now (to tell it apart)
I dont understand kaling so here's a screenshot of the patch notes lol:
- combat power affects raid power instead of starforce
- 10->20 limit for all coupons
- 20->40 limit for black flames
- you get a chair at 10k legion
- dailies turned into weeklies
- removed weekly coin rankings
some maps in carcion are now more dense
gives 60 att
arcane river pass renamed to symbol pass, now works on grandis symbols as well
perform daily missions with 1 character per day, up to 10 times total
choose between:
- kill 1k mobs = 300 points
- do punch king and get however many points you do
bonus points if you're higher lvl
after 10+ daily missions, you can continue doing 1k mobs for extra boxes that give egps, sac/arc symbols, karma black flame, honor, sol erda energy.
there's 3 different boxes: one is guaranteed amount of rewards, the others are rng with different probabilities. items are the same
it's like the blake/bts event where you collect letters from mobs for rewards and the letter boxes are tradable
NOTE: the 17 scroll is up to lvl 200 items
attendance event, kill 1k mobs per day. 42 days per month, 2 months.
there's 2 battle passes for this, 49.9k maple pts each.
the 5 boxes are mega burning boxes that give:
- mega burninator
- 7 day tp rock
- red snail pet
- mega burning support box (frozen gear?)
the blue (union/legion) pass includes 10 strawberry farm tickets
the purple (hyper) pass includes 1 punch king ticket and a transcendent potion (1 lvl up to 270)
special room where people can show off their starforcing to others, there's also a 24/7 livestream of it https://www.youtube.com/@ONAIR-fh2sl
people are only allowed to emote in this map, no chat
zero's genesis weapon upgrade defaults to keeping potentials and gives an extra warning