MapleStory(SEA): 2013

MapleStory has reached its 10th anniversary! To celebrate, a large patch has been released including the newly reorganized Soul Master (Dawn Warrior), two new theme dungeons, a new chat system, updated Cash Shop, and some other cool changes! On May 19 there is going to be a special conference, which is said to be the beginning of a new history for MapleStory!

To celebrate, there are many events for the 10th anniversary! Have fun participating in them~

First of all, when you log in, you will receive a Maple N Year title, N being the amount of years your account has existed.

You can get it ‘signed’ by your friends to collect Friend Points. You can only do this 10 times per day.

Based on the amount of years you have played MapleStory, you will gain a certain amount of FP each time you do the above. 22 FP for 10 year veterans and 1 point for those who are new, haha.

As you collect FP, you will gain prizes.

30 FP: 5 10th Anniversary Coins
100 FP: 10th Anniversary Giftbox
210 FP: Mushroom Friend Chair
360 FP: 10 10th Anniversary Coins
560 FP: 10% Clean Slate Scroll
800 FP: Unidentified 10th Anniversary Scroll
1000 FP: 10th Anniversary Black Cape

My absolute favourite of these events is the Let’s Go! Mesorangers! event, it’s actually so fun. You can get invited every 15 minutes where you will be grouped with other people to fight against the MesodizerX machine, which has gone berserk! However, to fight it, you must play a rhythm game, sort of like Dance Dance Revolution on a keyboard, haha.
You can choose your difficulty, but at first you can only access Easy. As you play and get good grades, you can unlock the others.

Based on both your difficulty and rank, you will gain a certain number of 10th Anniversary Coins and Mesoranger Boxes. You’ll also get 2 extra boxes if your team managed to win and an extra 1 if you didn’t.

You can get the following prizes from the Mesoranger Boxes.

Scrolls (50% Positive Chaos Scroll, 50% Miraculous Chaos Scroll, Advanced Equipment Enhancement Scroll)
10th Anniversary Coin
Secret Recipe
Recipe Synergy/Mastery Book Synergy
Mysterious Love Letter
Use items

There is something called Survival! Maple Marvel! which is another multiplayer minigame, except this one is a board game! It’s sort of like Monopoly? You must befriend those monsters and take away the hearts of the other players.

Based on your rank (1st, 2nd, or 3rd) you’ll receive 3, 2, or 1 Anniversary Coin.

Starry needs your help to prepare the 10th anniversary party! Complete various quests by collecting items from monsters, defeating monsters, and even inviting the popular Jake of Kerning Square to perform!

Every weekday at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm, you will be invited to Maple Park! If you stay for one minute, you’ll get a 10 attack and magic attack buff for 1 hour. If you stay for 5 minutes, you’ll get a 10th Anniversary Coin and a 10th Anniversary Gift Box.

The 10th Anniversary Gift Box gives the following prizes.

10th Anniversary White Weapon Box
10th Anniversary White Armor Box
Unidentified 10th Anniversary Scroll
10th Anniversary Bits Box
10th Anniversary Maple Leaves
10th Anniversary Coin
5 day Orange Mushroom Riding
Balrog Chair/Pink Bean Chair/Giant Yeti Chair

Cassandra will also ask you to collect 50 Maple Tree Seeds from monsters, and she will give you Maple Leaves in return! You can do this a maximum of 5 times per day, and each consecutive time, you will receive more leaves than before~

In monster maps, the Admin Balloon may spawn and in towns, you can find the Giant Admin Balloon. Defeat them to receive the Operator’s Letter as well as 10th Anniversary Gift (Lucky) Boxes. The Giant one will drop much more than the regular one!

The Operator’s Letters are letters written by game administrators~

The 10th Anniversary Gift (Lucky) Boxes can give the following items.

10th Anniversary White Weapon Box
10th Anniversary White Armor Box
Unidentified 10th Anniversary Scroll
10th Anniversary Bits Box
10th Anniversary Maple Leaves
10th Anniversary Coin
5 day Orange Mushroom Riding
Balrog Chair/Pink Bean Chair/Giant Yeti Chair

10th anniversary achievements have been added! Participate in events and complete them in order to get titles for each one completed.

Achievement Titles and Maple 10th Anniversary Master

If you finish all 7 achievements, you’ll also get the Maple 10th Anniversary’s Master medal, which gives 10 to all stats, 100 HP and MP, and 10 attack and magic attack! However the attack and magic attack will expire in 30 days…

There is also a 10th anniversary attendance check, where you must kill 200 monsters per day. It starts on April 29 and lasts until May 29, meaning you will have extra days left if you miss a few!

1 day: 10th Anniversary Coin
4 days: Double Orange Mushroom Riding Coupon
5 days: 10th Anniversary Coin
7 days: 5 10th Anniversary Coins
9 days: 10th Anniversary Coin
12 days: Special Potential Scroll
14 days: 2 Star Enhancement Scroll
15 days: 50 10th Anniversary Coins
18 days: 50% Golden Hammer
19 days: 10th Anniversary Coin
21 days: 50% Unique Potential Scroll

The 10th Anniversary Shop has opened! You can spend your 10th Anniversary Coins there to buy a variety of items, including the 10th anniversary set!

You can trade in 100 Maple Leaves for 1 10th Anniversary Coin. You can also buy 10th Anniversary Black weapons, Advanced Potential Scrolls, Silver/Gold Additional Potential Stamps, 50% Golden Hammers, 10% Clean Slate Scrolls, 60% Innocent Scrolls, Safety Scrolls, Protect Scrolls, and some 10th Anniversary scrolls.

Speaking of which, this year there are two anniversary sets which consist of a hat, face accessory, overall, cape, pendant, belt, and weapon. Big thanks to 기획팀 of Maple Inven for the pictures of all these items! For reference, 공격력 is attack, 마력 is magic attack, and the last line on each item is the number of slots.
One is the 10th Anniversary White set for level 10, it has the following set effects (note: the face accessory is not included in the set):

4 set effect: 300 HP and MP, 5 attack and magic attack, 200 accuracy and avoid
6 set effect: 10 all stats, 10 attack and magic attack

You can see the weapons here.

The 10th Anniversary Black set is for level 110, and has the same components. Note: the picture above is a bit outdated, the 10th Anniversary Black Buckle (belt) gives 10 attack and magic attack as well. This one has the following set effects:

3 set effect: 500 HP and MP, 3 attack and magic attack
4 set effect: 7 all stats, 8 attack and magic attack, 300 accuracy and avoid
5 set effect: 20% HP and MP, 14 attack and magic attack, 9% total damage
6 set effect: 8 all stats, 20 attack and magic attack, 30% defense ignore

You can see the weapons here.

The Maple chat system has been reorganized! When you open it, you’ll see the weekly Maple stars, one male and one female. I’ll talk about this in the next paragraph. Anyways, you can now choose one of three modes:

Two-person chat: talk one on one with a random person
Buzz chat: talk with up to 5 other random people
Friend chat: talk with up to 5 of your friends

Now, you can like people by entering a random chat (I don’t think this works with your friends) and clicking the heart button below them. Every week, the characters with the highest likes in each world will be showcased in the chat UI as the weekly Maple stars.

In addition, until May 20, if you are able to collect 100 likes from other users, you’ll get the Amazing Maple Star title!

There are some additional features in Maple chat.
First of all, sometimes the Maple chat NPC Irene will appear and give out topics for you to talk about. There are even cute animated emoticons available to use by clicking the smiley face beside the chat entry. You can whisper someone quickly by pressing the chat button below their avatar. Also, you can switch between five different backgrounds for your chat by using the buttons in the top left.

I don’t usually talk about Monster Life, but the patch notes made it seem important because it was ‘reorganized to be much easier to play’, so I guess I’ll talk about it.
First of all, 14 new buildings have been added, including the above two 10th anniversary ones. The one on the left can be bought using Nexon Cash and the one on the right can be acquired for free by participating in an event.

57 new monsters have been added as well, including Petite Mercedes and Phantom, Von Bon, and Pierre. They’re so cute~!

You can now rename monsters for a small Waru (in-game currency for Monster Life) fee, as well as extend the life of monsters you own (since they don’t actually die, I think this is referring to extending their potential stats duration).

The friends list has been expanded to 100 slots and you can now go straight to a farm by entering its name.

You can now pay 1000 Waru to automatically harvest your buildings when they’re ready.
Also, you can complete certain quests 10 times in order to get 1 Gem (the Cash Shop currency in Monster Life).

Until May 23, all characters except for Xenon can be created! Don’t miss your chance to play that job you’ve been waiting for~

Soul Masters can now be created! They have received the same general changes as Striker and Wind Breaker, which you can see in this post.

Like the previous Cygnus, Soul Masters have a new play style and unique features.

Two new buffs, Falling Moon (2nd job) and Rising Sun (3rd job), can be used to give unique stats as well as affect many of your skills. They’ll be different depending on which buff is active, both in looks and utility!
The second job skills’ Rising Sun versions cannot be used until third job.

In fourth job you’ll gain access to Solunar Time, which combines the buffs of Falling Moon and Rising Sun while alternating between the different versions of all your skills. Your attacking speed will become much faster as well!

Soul Master’s character card gives 2/3/4/5 (%?) defense.

Soul Master Skills

Beginner

Elemental Slash: Strike up to 3 enemies in front of you with a slash of unrefined elemental power dealing 130% damage.

Journey Home: Borrow Shinsoo’s aura to return to the side of the Empress. There is a cooldown of 30 minutes.
Elemental Harmony: Learn the harmony between the elements and increase your affinity for them, increasing your STR by 1 for every 2 character levels.
Elemental Expert: Your mastery over the elements decreases all your attacking skills’ elemental properties by 100%. The elemental property reduction is halved on Soul Master (50% instead of 100%) This skill is unlocked after your fourth job advancement.

Elemental Shift: Jump once again while in the air by pressing the jump key with an arrow key.
Cygnus Blessing: The awakened Empress’ blessing protects you from enemies’ attacks, increasing your resistance to states and elements by 5% (10% for level 2). If other Cygnus jobs exist within your account, you can stack this Link Skill up to 5 times. If linked, this skill’s effects will be reduced to 2% (5% for level 2). (Link Skill)

First Job

Triple Slash: Quickly slash up and down in front of you, dealing 90% damage 3 times on up to 4 enemies. (max level: 20)

Sword of Light: Imbue your sword with your soul, increasing your attack by 20 and your accuracy by 20% for 180 seconds. (max level: 15)

Element: Soul: Summon the element Soul to give all your attacks an 80% chance to inflict a stun debuff on your enemies for 2 seconds. Passive effect: increase your defense ignored by 10%. (max level: 10)
Inner Voice: By tempering your soul, listen to its voice, increasing your HP by 20%, defense and magic defense by 1000, speed by 40, jump by 20, and maximum speed by 20. (max level: 20)

Second Job

Silent Move: Instantly move past up to 7 enemies and cut them, dealing 170% damage 2 times. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 20)

Loud Rush: Rush through up to 7 enemies in front of you, dealing 170% damage 2 times. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 20)

Trace Cut: Create afterimages of your sword to cut up to 7 enemies behind you, dealing 130% damage 3 times. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 20)

Shadow Burn: Burn up to 7 enemies in front of you with the sun’s shadows, dealing 130% damage 3 times. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 20)

Falling Moon: Receive the power of the moon within your sword, increasing your critical chance by 20% and the hit count of all your skills by 2x while reducing your damage to 55%. Rising Sun cannot be active while this skill is active. (max level: 20)

Inner Trust: Strike with unwavering belief, increasing your attack by 20 for 180 seconds. (max level: 10)

Nimble Finger: Through your will, your reaction speed is boosted, increasing your attack speed by 2 stages for 180 seconds. (required skill: 5 Two-Handed Sword Mastery) (max level: 10)
Sword Mastery: Your mastery over the one and two-handed swords is increased to 50% as well as your accuracy by 120. (max level: 10)
Body and Soul: Train your body and mind, increasing your STR by 40 and your DEX by 20.

Third Job

Moon Shadow: Rapidly swing your sword around you, dealing 215% damage 5 times on up to 6 enemies. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 20)

Light Flux: Cut down 1 enemy in front of you with your sword and light, dealing 320% damage 3 times. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 20)

Moon Cross: Cut diagonally while pulling up to 6 enemies in front of you towards you, dealing 155% damage 4 times. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 20)

Sun Cross: Cut a cross while pushing up to 6 enemies away, dealing 290% damage 2 times. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 20)

Rising Sun: Receive the power of the sun within your sword, increasing your damage by 20% and your attack speed by 1 stage. Falling Moon cannot be active while this skill is active. (max level: 20)

True Sight: See through all your enemies with the soul’s eye, giving your attacks a 100% chance to reduce your opponents’ defense by 10% and their elemental resistance by 10% for 30 seconds. (max level: 10)

Soul Guardian: Borrow the power of an ancient soul, increasing your HP by 2000 and your defense and magic defense by 1500 for 180 seconds. (max level: 20)
Will of Steel: Overcome adversity with a soul stronger than any other, increasing your resistance to states and elements by 20% and reducing damage taken by 25%, while healing 5% of your HP every 4 seconds. (max level: 20)
Inner Shout: Concentrate on your mind and energize your body, increasing your attack by 30 and your STR by 40. (max level: 20)

Fourth Job

Cygnus Knights: Receive the blessing of the awakened Empress, increasing the stats of all party members by 15% for 900 seconds. (max level: 30)

Dance of Moon: Cut 1 enemy in front of you with a sword that contains the power of the full moon, dealing 360% damage 3 times. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 30)

Note: When used in the air, Dance of Moon will have a different effect.

Speeding Sunset: Split 1 enemy in half with a blade that cuts through the sun, dealing 360% damage 3 times. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 30)

Note: When used in the air, Speeding Sunset will have a different effect.

Crescent Divide: Like the waves of the moon, swing your sword around you with a blue colour, dealing 295% damage on up to 7 enemies. (required skill: 1 Falling Moon) (max level: 30)

Solar Pierce: Unleash a brilliant ray of red coloured sunlight, dealing 295% damage on up to 7 enemies. (required skill: 1 Rising Sun) (max level: 30)

Soul Penetration: With the power of Soul, summon swords with the strength of falling stars that fall to the ground, hitting up to 15 enemies for 850% damage. Enemies hit will be paralyzed for 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, they will take another 850% damage. There is a cooldown of 120 seconds. (max level: 30)

Solunar Time: Depending on the cycle of the sun or moon, accept the flow of time, combining the effects of Falling Moon and Rising Sun for 200 seconds. Each time you use a Falling Moon/Rising Sun skill, the next one you use will be the opposite state (this does not affect the stat boosts from Falling Moon and Rising Sun, you will always have both active). (max level: 20)

Soul Pledge: Never back down in a battle due to the contract made with an ancient soul, increasing all of your stats by 30, critical chance by 10%, and stance by 100% for 180 seconds. (max level: 30)
Sword Expert: Your mastery over the one and two-handed swords is increased to 70%, as well as your attack by 30 and minimum critical damage by 15%. (max level: 30)
Unforeseeable: Break past your enemies’ defenses using unpredictable attacks, increasing your defense ignored by 30%. (max level: 10)
Master of the Sword: Completely master the sword and enhance your technique. In the Falling Moon state, increase your critical chance by 35% and increase your skills’ attack counts by 2x while decreasing your damage to 60%. In the Rising Sun state, increase your damage by 40% and your attack speed by 2 stages. (max level: 30)
- Note: these effects replace the effects of Falling Moon/Rising Sun, they do not ‘stack’.

Hyper

True Sight – Persist: True Sight’s duration is increased by 20 seconds. [required level: 143]
True Sight – Enhance: True Sight’s elemental resistance reduction is increased by 10%. [required level: 162]
True Sight – Ignore Guard: True Sight’s defense reduction is increased by 10%. [required level: 183]
Divide and Pierce – Reinforce: Crescent Divide and Solar Pierce’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 149]
Divide and Pierce – Extra Target: Crescent Divide and Solar Pierce’s number of enemies hit is increased by 2. [required level: 168]
Divide and Pierce – Bonus Attack: Crescent Divide and Solar Pierce’s number of hits is increased by 1. [required level: 189]
Speeding Dance – Reinforce: Dance of Moon and Speeding Sunset’s damage is increased by 20%. [required level: 155]
Speeding Dance – Ignore Guard: Dance of Moon and Speeding Sunset’s defense ignored is increased by 20%. [required level: 177]
Speeding Dance – Boss Killer: Dance of Moon and Speeding Sunset’s damage to bosses is increased by 20%. [required level: 195]

Soul Forge: Forge your sword with the power of your soul, increasing your attack by 50, accuracy by 30%, and your maximum damage by 10,000,000 for 200 seconds. [required level: 150]

Cross the Styx: Use the power of your soul to near the border of life and death to unleash a powerful blow, dealing 600% damage 5 times on up to 15 enemies (or 1000% damage 6 times if you charge it up fully). There is a cooldown of 90 seconds. [required level: 170]

Glory of Guardians: The knights who swore to protect Empress Cygnus undergo a sense of honor, increasing their damage by 10% and maximum damage by 5,000,000 for 60 seconds. This effect only applies to Knights of Cygnus in the party. There is a cooldown of 120 seconds. [required level: 200]

Thanks to Locked of Southperry for the skill icons and some skill effects!

On April 27, there will be a Hot Time for the release of the new Soul Master. You’ll get the Intention Soul Master hat and a Character Slot Expansion Coupon!
The Soul Master Equipment Support event will run until May 30, giving free equipment at levels 10, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, and 70 to both new and existing Soul Masters.

The experience penalty when fighting monsters below your level has been removed! Finally, high levels can train! However, fighting monsters 20 levels or more above you will still result in a penalty.

The experience for Evolving System monsters has been increased! Yay, maybe they realized the experience nerfs from a couple of patches back was too severe.

Henesys has been visually reworked to celebrate the 10th anniversary! I think it looks great, but I definitely will miss the old version, just because of nostalgia, haha. They even updated the NPCs!

The forgotten continent of the Demons, Masteria. Maple warriors, go to save the imprisoned Demons in Crimsonwood Citadel! Crimsonwood Citadel is one of two new theme dungeons, this one for levels 130 or higher available through the Dimensional Mirror. It is based off of Crimsonwood Keep from GMS.

Top of the Citadel (ignore the Chief Stans, my program messed up, they should be the NPCs shown above)
History’s Camp 1 (Typhons)
History’s Camp 2 (Demon Histories)
Shaman’s Camp 1 (Leprechauns)
Shaman’s Camp 2 (Demon Shamans)
Chaser’s Camp 1 (Elderwraiths)
Chaser’s Camp 2 (Demon Chasers)
Marauder’s Camp 1 (Red Stirges)
Marauder’s Camp 2 (Demon Marauders)
Guards’ Area (Red Citadel Guards, Blue Citadel Guards)

Only the last map is a party play zone. There are a lot of monsters that were added in Tespia that are missing, such as the Crimsonwood Keep bosses and Bigfoot.

This place has three new minigame type quests (which are very fun, hopefully this continues in the future) including sniping (shooting down ghosts with your mouse), climbing walls (climb the walls of the Citadel while avoiding obstacles), and trap pass (pass through a map without taking damage from the falling traps).

A new area has been found in the Crossroads map in Leafre.

Colossus, a rock giant, has appeared in Leafre. He has been infected by the Black Mage, save Colossus by removing the evil aura from his heart!
Colossus the Giant is a new theme dungeon for levels 150 and higher. It also includes two minigames, riding (ride down the mountain while fighting monsters, if you’ve played Castle Crashers this is pretty similar to the forest chase level) and sniping (shoot down flying bees with your mouse). There is a party play zone map here, although I’m not sure which.

The boss of this area can drop two items, the permanent Kapu Riding mount as well as the permanent Halfling Expedition Badge! Finally, a permanent badge~ It gets random stats so you might have to fight multiple times before you get one that’s good for you.

Here are the monsters you’ll find in Colossus. The last is Tarantulus, the boss! Look at the mark on its forehead, doesn’t it look familiar? Both this area and Crimsonwood Citadel are very interesting considering they both relate back to Damian, Demon’s brother and the newest commander of the Black Mage…

Three new boss souls have been added for the Soul Weapon system.

Commando Goat Attack: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Xerxes, attacking monsters in front of you with goats.

Hot Totem Drop: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Zakum, giving monsters around you a taste of hot totems.

Flame Empress: Use the power of the Soul Weapon to summon Cygnus, attacking monsters around you with flames.

An easy mode has been added for Arkarium! You can enter from the existing NPC, but the entry limit is shared with Easy and Normal mode.

Arkarium (including Easy Mode) now drops the Mechinator Pendant, which gives 10 to all stats, 250 HP and MP, 1 attack and magic attack with 2 slots. It can be traded with the Platinum Scissors of Karma. The patch notes say it comes with increased additional options as well.

An Easy Mode has been added for Zakum! You can talk to Tylus in El Nath to be teleported to Easy Zakum’s altar, and to receive free All-Cure Potions and Eyes of Fire (cannot be used for Normal Mode). Easy Mode is for levels 50 and over, solo play only, and can reward some of Normal Mode’s drops randomly.

Chaos Root Abyss bosses’ clear system has been changed. They now reset every Thursday instead of daily, and if you exhaust your Death Count but your remaining party kills them, it will count as a clear for you.

A new NPC, Balalio, allows users to use the Legendary Spirit scrolling skill for a small fee in towns~ Currently he is only expected to be available for the 10th anniversary.

The Cash Shop has been reorganized! It looks great, finally we’ll have a widescreen resolution in there, haha.

In celebration, you can buy one of each of the above items for only 10 NX each! Free Miracle Cube, Master Miracle Cube, Miracle Circulator, and Anvil anyone?

A new Cash Shop ring called the Blood Ring has been added. When worn, this ring gives you 10% bonus experience when fighting monsters. In addition, if anyone in your party also has the ring, both of you will gain an extra 5% experience!
You can see who has a ring by checking the party HP bar window.

Murmur, the Soul Weapon NPC, has returned! He has sent out clones across Maple World that you can defeat in order to get Murmur’s Pouch.

You can open Murmur’s Pouch to get the following prizes.

Enhanced Soul Enchanter
Special Soul Enchanter
Xerxes’ Soul Piece/Zakum’s Soul Piece/Cygnus’ Soul Piece
Attack buff (20 attack and magic attack) 30 minutes
Mysterious Love Letter
Various use items

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