Someone asked in the shoutbox if there was a place they could check all the class balances and changes since they're new to the server. I thought that was a great idea and wondered why it didn't exist yet. Class changes/balances: When the new source came out, the skills were adjusted to use the v72 skill table: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/patch-notes-05-01-2017.87186/ After that, these changes happened: Spoiler Pirates: In update #13: Corsairs battleship damage taken was reduced by a factor of 10 In update #48: Bucc's Barrage and Dragon Strike skills had their skill delays lowered In update #50 Spoiler Maurader - Energy Charge: Energy will now be gained for each hit to a monster, instead of being capped to once per monster and attack. Energy Charge will now properly show the charging animation in first and third person. Buccaneer - Speed Infusion: Range increased from 500x300px to 600x400px. Corsair - Rapid Fire: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 170% at max level to scaling up to 200% at max level. [*]In update #60: Transform and Super Transform now have a cooldown of 60 seconds (previously 1 second) [*]In update #65: Snatch range was adjusted to match animation [*]In #66.2: While transformed, haste will buff buccs, and when haste gets debuffed, buccs will go back to the transformation speed [*]In #71: Corsairs mounting speed for battleship was sped up to match mounting speed of ever other mount in the game [*]In #71: Total Crash was changed to be a party buff that allows party members to hit through weapon cancel (in 71.1, it was adjusted to have a 75% success rate) [*]In #71: Marksman boost got a buff where mastery at max level is now 100% Warriors: Lots here and always changing Spoiler Fighter - Power Guard: Duration has been changed from scaling up to 90 seconds at max level to scaling up to 180 seconds at max level. Page’s - Power Guard Duration has been changed from scaling up to 90 seconds at max level to scaling up to 180 seconds at max level. Dragon Knight - Power Crash Added the ability to nullify Weapon Def Up, Magic Def Up and Magic Att Up. Range increased from 400x200px to 600x400px. In update #58, the number of mobs affected is now 15 Crusader - Armor Crash: This was change din update #50 but reverted in update #54 White Knight - Magic Crash: Magic Crash has been renamed to Total Crash. Crashed both Weapon and Magic Cancel as of update #54 in update #58, the number of mobs affected is now 15 White Knight - Fire Charge: Sword: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 120% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. White Knight - Flame Charge: BW: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 120% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. White Knight - Ice Charge: Sword: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 110% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. White Knight - Blizzard Charge: BW: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 110% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. White Knight - Thunder Charge:Sword: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 125% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. White Knight - Lightning Charge: BW: Damage has been changed from scaling up to 125% at max level to scaling up to 130% at max level. Paladin - Blast: Vertical hitbox range has been increased from 60px above the character’s feet to 90px above the character’s feet and 30px below the character’s feet. In update #68: Dark Knight’s Berserk has been buffed: lv 26: 188% damage to 190% lv 27: 191% damage to 195% lv 28: 194% damage to 200% lv 29: 197% damage to 205% lv 30: 200% damage to 210% Dark Knight’s Achilles will now reduce incoming damage by 20% when maxed, up from 15%. Magicians: In update #50: Chain lightning was buffed to 210 damage at max level and Paralyze was buffed to 240 damage at max level In update #54: holy shield protects parties against stuns In update #65: Infinity now lasts 120 seconds when maxed in #65.1: elemental amplification scales down MP usage until maxed, which ends up at 100% Thieves: In update #50: Meso guard maxed lasts 180 seconds, boomerang step can now be used near edges of platforms/maps/slopes In update #65: Recharging stars became more expensive Shadow Shifter was nerfed to 20% rate for NLs and 30% rate for shadowers when maxed Alchemist nerfed from 150% to 125% when maxed Assassinate range increased forward and downward slightly Smokescreen duration increased to 90 seconds from 60 seconds when maxed Boomerang step range increased downwards slightly in #65.1, shadow stars has a 1 second cooldown (so you don't accidentally double tap to cast it twice ) Sometime a long time ago (I don't remember when), Assassinate was buffed to do 950% damage and boomerang step was buffed to do 600% damage You also don't have to charge up assassinate damage in dark sight to do maximum damage Archers: Strife for Marksman was buffed to 125% damage In update #65.1: Marksman boost maxed incresased to +15 weapon attack In update #68: Snipe does damage through weapon cancel Or even better, check out this list made by @xDarkomantis https://royals.ms/forum/threads/new-source-class-skill-changes.152843/ Significant bug fixes: Bugs that change game-play (or affects it visually that makes it different than the original Maplestory), not putting little bugs (or unintentional bugs) because there are a LOT. Spoiler In update #3: "Fixed a d/c issue relating to the skill Heavens Hammer." - I think this is when they changed the skill animation for Heavens Hammer In update #7: If you fall out of a map, it will properly rewarp you back into that map (neat right?) New Content: Things that make this server unique (different than the original Maplestory) that wasn't a bug fix Spoiler In update #8: the ~mapowner command was introduced, you can read the T&C about why this is important In update #11: The number of channels increased from 1 to 20 Bosses had nx drop temporarily removed - readded in update #47 In update #16: Turning in the horntail prequest will give you 2 transforming potions instead of transforming you immediately In update #23: The spawns for these maps were buffed, some of them didn't get buffed in this patch as intended but buffed in #25 to fix that Spoiler The Dragon Nest Left Behind Nest of a Dead Dragon Memory Lane 1 - 5 Road of Regrets 1 to 5 Road to Oblivion 1 to 5 Destroyed Park 1 to 2 Land of Wild Boar 1 Forest of Dead Trees 1 to 4 Dungeon, Southern Forest 1 to 4 The Forest of Golem Subway Line 1 <Area 1> to <Area 4> The Cave of Evil Eye 1 to 4 Drake Hunting Ground Henesys Hunting Ground 1 to 2 Terrace Hall The Path of Time <1> to <3> In update #34: ~servertime was added In update #40: Area bosses respawn timer no longer resets when the server restarts In update #42: AP Resets now how a level requirement of 50 to purchase In update #44: Ninja castle was added In update #45: Introduction of the fast travel ticket (since boat rides were fixed) In update #46: TP rocks get the lvl 50 requirement to purchase In update #47: Area boss respawn timers became what they are today In update #48: The lounge button was introduced as well as the B coin, also Horntail expedition was enabled In update #50: Weddings were enabled and APQ gets the 4-runs a day restriction Also 9 spirit egg quest can now be repeated Monster eraser quest was added In update #54: Water from the Spring of Youth quest gets added as well as other HP buffs (hp on belts for example) Shanghai Wai-tan and Lushan Town become available In update #56: CWKPQ was introduced #56.1 implemented ~buyback In update #57: MCPQ (or CPQ) 1 and 2 became available In update #59: The quest “Kenta’s Advice” will now give your pet the ability to walk at the same speed as your character. Bosses take increased elemental weakness damage In update #60: Malasyia becomes available Also the monster book was added (rip all that grinding we did before right?) Ariant PQ was added CWKPQ Thief room is now doable for chief bandits and shadowers In update #61: Thailand floating market is introduced In update #62: Neo Tokyo was introduced In update #65: Lyka no longer drops Chaos Scrolls (yeah, we used to camp this for those who didn't know) Chaos scroll drops from Zakuum instead Boss now drops Shogun earrings In update #67: Card collector medals had their hp/mp buffed to what they are today RJPQ was added Level 150+ repeatable hp quest was added Safe adventures quest was added Some level caps of some PQs were removed, and some boss cards became available to higher leveled players wanting to complete their monster books In update #70: Quest Virtuoso medal is added Ellin forest is added LPQ's broken glasses buffed Introduced a way to craft white scrolls In update #71: A platform in the Auf Haven map was adjusted to be slightly lower Also the laser map can no longer be bypassed with dark sight MISC interesting updates: Spoiler Remember when trading wasn't working? In update #12, it became functional In update #16: Cpt Latanica, Krexel, Zakuum, and Bodyguard became functional as well as LPQ, HTPQ, and El Nath PQ In update #19: The Cash Shop became functional In update #41: WS/CS and crafting items rate from gach was increased In update #50: "Whiting" exp is now a thing, it used to be based on the last person who hit the mob, now it's based on who does the most damage. In update #54: The pin/pic system became fully functional to what it is today (minus control panel) Mastery books are a different color based on job type (cool right) Design a quest winners got their quests implemented: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/winners-design-a-quest.121730/ In update #58: Items dropped by mobs that are killed by summons will no longer be lootable by pets. NOTE: This change has been made to reduce the effectiveness of summon botting. Chaos Scrolls and White Scrolls are no longer droppable. NOTE: This change has been made to improve how movement of these items is logged. Update #65 introduced the new client resolution as well as a bunch of client fixes In update #71: You can now jump down in Zakum Duku maps spawn rates were lowered and mob spawn locations were adjusted Leprechauns now have their attack! Weapon/Magic cancel cooldown/duration was adjusted You can now earn token of teamworks for completing party quests Skills that weren't intended to be available in certain party quests were restricted Winners podium changed to be one-of-a-kind and untradeable In update #72: party exp bonus was buffed from +5% to +10% added abilities to consume potions while mounted added a teleport across mushroom shrine Reuel's daily hp quest is now repeatable without a cooldown until you reach a certain minimum hp threshhold (of 9.5k potential hp, which is enough HP to do most of the content in game with HB) I would love to keep this as up to date as possible, but we'll see. Let me know if I missed anything that you think is important and should be added. Up to date as of #72
https://royals.ms/forum/threads/new-source-class-skill-changes.152843/ found this old thread for class changes made by @xDarkomantis these kinds of threads should be pinned...
