Hi Royallers! This update requires all players to download a new setup. The download link is available on the website's download page now. You will need to use the latest setup to enjoy the latest content and avoid experiencing gameplay issues after the patch. Today's Update #54 and patch bring with it the release of our 5th Anniversary Events to celebrate MapleRoyals becoming half a decade young, as well as some egg-citing belated Easter Events. Additionally, this patch introduces new content for both high and low leveled players, as well as a whole host of bug fixes and improvements which you will be able to read about below. So without further ado, let's get into the changes: New methods to increase your characters' HP: As recently mentioned here, our thoughts were to introduce more ways to gain extra HP, and lower the necessity of HP washing, and as of this update we have introduced some of those ways: A new quest series "Water from the Spring of Youth" will reward players with HP each time it's completed. Warriors can receive 1,000 HP from the whole series. Beginners/Thieves/Archers/Pirates can receive 500 HP from the whole series. Job advancements have received increased HP gain. Players have also been retroactively refunded the difference as follows: Warrior: 3rd job advancement now gives 1000-1050 HP instead of 300 - 350 HP 4th job advancement now gives 1800-1850 HP instead of 300-350 HP Bowman: 3rd job advancement now gives 600-650 HP instead of 300-350 HP 4th job advancement now gives 900-950 HP instead of 300-350 HP Thief: 3rd job advancement now gives 600-650 HP instead of 300-350 HP 4th job advancement now gives 900-950 HP instead of 300-350 HP Pirate: 3rd job advancement now gives 600-650 HP instead of 300-350 HP 4th job advancement now gives 900-950 HP instead of 300-350 HP Keep in mind there will be further means towards gaining more HP which will be made available in the coming updates: Guild Party Quest has received a new medal challenge which rewards you with a medal that increases HP by +500. NOTE: This will be made available in Update #56 alongside the release of Guild Party Quest. Mu Lung Dojo Belts will include an HP stat. Players will receive higher amounts of HP as they upgrade their belts, with the Black Belt giving the maximum amount of 300 HP. NOTE: This will be available in a future update. A road map describing what's coming up next can be seen here. New Events: The Moon Bunnies are here on a belated visit, apparently time moves slower in space? Visit this thread for more details! MapleRoyals 5th anniversary event has now started. Visit this thread for more details! The winners from the “The Daily Grind Easter Forum Event” can now contact a GM to collect their chair. The winners from the “Design a Quest Forum Event” have had their quests added to the game. The following items have been added to the prize pool for GM events: Blue Katana Electric Knuckle Princess No Chair Login Server Revamp: We had asked the community what we should work on next, and the login server came out on top - and we agreed! The login server had a lot of technical debt that needed to be taken care of, was missing features, and generally had lots of room for improvement. As such, the login server has been rebuilt from the ground up to support updates within the underlying networking library that the servers use, every feature within the login screens, and significantly higher performance and reliability. PIN and PIC systems are now working. Players are advised to use a strong PIN and PIC to increase their account’s security. PINs are a mandatory system - players will be required to create a PIN, however players will only ever be asked for your PIN if we detect that you're logging in from somewhere different, or if someone else is trying to log into your account. This is to help provide a baseline level of security for all accounts. PICs are an optional system - players have the option to opt-out via the website, and are meant as a secondary level of protection. However, should you wish to delete your character(s), you will need to activate the PIC system via the Control Panel on the website. PIN user interface at login screen: PIC user interface at character select screen: Channel population bars are now working. This also fixes the issue where the world disappears when you press “Back” from the Character Select screen. Channel fullness bars: View-All-Character is now working. NOTE: Logging through this feature will log you into a random channel. View Recommended World is now working. Character deletion is now working. NOTE: PIC entry is mandatory for character deletion, therefore if you have opted out to be prompted for a PIC, this will need to be reactivated via the Control Panel on the website first before being able to delete a character. World and Job rankings are now working and will be updated everyday. NOTE: All banned and GM accounts/characters will not be included in the ranking system. In-game ranking: Multi-server configurations are now supported. This includes multiple worlds, multiple login servers, and multiple Cash Shop servers - generally the server can expand in whatever way needed to suit our needs. NOTE: There are currently no plans to use more than one world at this time. General Server Improvements: As part of the big login server update and upgrading it to the newer version of the underlying networking library, everything to do with how the servers communicate with one another was revamped. In doing so, the servers can now communicate with one another at incredibly fast, extremely reliable rates of speed, and are very fault tolerate - if a channel crashes (for example), the other channels will no longer become unordered, and the rest of the server itself remains unharmed. Fixing that crashed channel means we just need to restart that channel, as opposed to restarting the entire server. It's difficult to encompass all of the varying improvements that come with an upgrade this large, but we assure you that server performance and reliability is our one of our top priorities and strongly feel that this update will help display that. Fixed a memory leak that lead to a random channel crashing after the server had been online for about a week to two weeks. Reduced the amount of memory allocated every time a channel server runs through all the objects in the world to update them (like spawn points, characters, and so on), which will help reduce the amount of small and random stutters the server can experience at times. New Regions - China: The "Shanghai Wai-Tan" World Tour area has been released! Talk to NPC Spinel to travel there. Shanghai Wai-Tan: This area includes: New monsters between levels 20 and 37. 9 new World Tour quests. The "Giant Centipede" Area Boss which spawns every 3 hours. Giant Centipede: The "Lushan Town" World Tour area has been released! Talk to NPC Spinel to travel there. Lushan Town: This area includes: New monsters between levels 80 to 130. 12 new World Tour quests. 2 new weapons. Flame Staff: Flame Sword: Wulin Yaoseng (Level 150), a boss found in the Shaolin Temple. Requires the completion of 'The secret of the Shaolin Temple. Players can only enter once per day. The time limit for the boss is 10 minutes. A maximum party of 6 players can enter the boss fight (a single party). Wulin Yaoseng: Guild/Alliance: Fixed an issue where alliances with more than 127 players online caused alliance chat to not work. Fixed an issue where Notice posts in the guild BBS were not being saved properly and disappearing after server checks. Fixed an issue where you could not comment on guild BBS notices. Cash Shop: Players should no longer get stuck when disconnected in the Cash Shop. NOTE: We will continue monitoring the situation. New NX can be found in Cash Shop. Black Scooter Mount can now be purchased again. Pet Food “Dragon Marble Candy” in quantities of 11 have been lowered to 10,000 NX. The following pets now have access to NX pet food purchasable from the Cash Shop: Adriano - Navigator Oyster Axel - Chihuahua Chew Ballet Lyn - Lyn Battery Bandit - Bandit Cup Ramen Bing Monkey - Unidentified Liquid Blue/Brown Burro - Veggies Bonkey - Helmsman’s Watermelon Corgi Pup - Doggy Bone Craw - Observer Cherry Esel/Tiel/Galiel - Sugar Lump Fennec Fox - Star Candy Gelimer - Bunny Cookie Gingerhead - Gingerbread Crumbs Grumpy/Nerdy/Frumpy - Eucalyptus Leaves Harp Seal - Harp Seal Formula Honey Angel - Honey Soul Candy Ice Dragon - Ice Pudding Ice Knight - Ice Cookie Invidia - Jealous Spirit Lime Angel - Lime Soul Candy Metus - Scary Spirit Mir/Ruby - Fireball Mors - Mopey Spirit Peach Angel - Peach Soul Candy Persian Cat - Canned Food Pie/Cake - Flour Sack Pink Dragon - Pink Pudding Pink Yeti - Frozen Fruit Puffram - Puffram’s Cloud Candy Puffy/Cutie/Fluffy Teddy - Teddy’s Honey Stash Pumpkin Mack/Zack/Jack - Hot Pumpkin Porridge Red Dragon - Red Pudding Sassy Snake - Ribbit Ribbit Shark - Shining Tuna Stormy Dragon - Dragon Food Thumpy - Carrot Toasty/Icy/Miasma Devil - Soul Vial Toucan - Little Fruits Von Bon/Mini Queen/Pierre - World Tree Fruit Von Leon - Commander's Corn Dog Weird Alien - Dynamite White Monkey - Watermelon Yeti Roboti - Frozen Fruit The following duplicate cash items have been removed: Light Chiffon Dress - Replaced with a gender neutral copy with the same name Maple Doctor's Scrubs (F) - Replaced with a gender neutral copy ‘Lab Gear (F)' Mr. K’s Cat Gloves - Removed with a 2700 NX refund Mr. K’s Cat Outfit - Removed, with a 2700 NX refund Mr. K’s Cat Tail - Removed with a 3100 NX refund Paper Bag - Replaced with a different Paper Bag Schoolgirl Formals - Replaced with a gender neutral copy ‘Henesys Academy Uniform’ Pink Heart Hot Pants (F) - Replaced with a gender neutral copy 'Pink Hot Pants' Roll-Up Jean (F) - Replaced with a gender neutral copy with the same name. Refunded 5 RP for players owning the Donor version Party Quests: Amoria Party Quest (APQ) Players are now able to jump downwards in the bonus stage of APQ. All platforms in APQ's "Stage 6 - Love Hurts" map can now be reached through portals. Onyx Apple drop rate has been increased by 25%. Ludibrium Party Quest (LPQ) Fixed an issue where Yellow Ciders dropped more often than intended in the LPQ bonus stage. Orbis Party Quest (OPQ) Increased experience gained by progressing through OPQ by 60%. Increased experience gained from completing Wonky’s Mission by 60%. The chance to obtain a Wonky’s Mission has been increased. The chance to receive a mission from Wonky is also affected by your party leader's standing with Wonky. A leader that has fed Wonky and made him happy enough significantly increases your chance to receive a mission. Pirate Party Quest (PPQ) Increased experience gained by progressing through PPQ by 100%. Fixed an issue where certain chests did not drop any items. Bosses: Papulatus has received an increase of 50% EXP. NOTE: This may or may not be a permanent addition and will be re-evaluated at a later date. NPC's: Fixed an issue where White Eyes were unavailable from NPC Big Headward. New hairstyles can be found with NPC Big Headward in the Free Market Entrance. NPC Agent Takeshi has appeared in Showa Town, and needs your help. Spiruna will now let you create Dark Crystals. Added missing text to Lisa. The following pets now have access to their Pet Command Book, and can be purchased from Doofus, Corporal Wilson, Laya, Moodie, or Patricia: Pet Command Guide: Angels - (Peach/Honey/Lime Angel) Pet Command Guide: Axel Pet Command Guide: Baby Tiger Pet Command Guide: Bandit Pet Command Guide: Bing Monkey Pet Command Guide: Burro - (Blue/Brown Burro) Pet Command Guide: Cake Pet Command Guide: Candle - (Blue Candle) Pet Command Guide: Demon - (Mors/Metus/Invidia) Pet Command Guide: Devils - (Icy/Miasma/Toasty Devil) Pet Command Guide: Dragon - (Red/Pink/Ice Dragon) Pet Command Guide: Fluffram Pet Command Guide: Gollux Pet Command Guide: Ice Knight Pet Command Guide: Jr. Commander - (Jr. Von Leon) Pet Command Guide: Kangaroo Pet Command Guide: Koalas - (Frumpy/Grumpy/Nerdy Koala) Pet Command Guide: Li'l Arby Pet Command Guide: Li'l Fort Pet Command Guide: Li'l Lai Pet Command Guide: Lil' Bobble Pet Command Guide: Pink Bean Pet Command Guide: Pumpkin - (Pumpkin Zack/Mack/Jack) Pet Command Guide: Sassy Snake Pet Command Guide: Shark Pet Command Guide: Tea Time - (Lady Hot Tea/Macha Man) Pet Command Guide: Teddy - (Fluffy/Puffy/Cutie Teddy) Pet Command Guide: Toy World - (Ballet Lyn/Soldier Hong) Pet Command Guide: Unicorn - (Tiel/Esel/Galiel) Pet Command Guide: Yeti Robot Items: Cash weapon Fire Katana can now additionally be equipped over one-handed axe, one-handed blunt-weapon, dagger, wand, and staff type weapons. Mastery Books can now be stacked in quantities of 100. Mastery Books have received a new look based on their job type. NOTE: We will be monitoring how well this concept is received by the community until the next patch, where we will decide whether or not it should be kept permanent. Warrior: Magician: Bowman: Thief: Pirate: Maple Warrior continues using the standard Mastery Book icon: Fixed a graphical misplacement on Stirge-on-a-String. Fixed an issue where the Black Scooter crashed players equipped with 2-handed weapons. 2 Carat Lovebirds Wedding Ring now properly mentions that it can only be uniquely equipped. Pink Yeti can now equip the Morphing Pet Necklace. Fixed an issue where the Pink Yeti sounded like a Penguin, it will now sound like a Yeti. Fixed an issue where the pet command “talk” became available at level 11 instead of 10 for the Persian Cat. Fixed a crashing issue for when 2 players sit on the Stump chair together. Fixed graphical issues with White Eyes for the following faces: Ambitious Face Enlightened Face Exceptional Explorer Face Gentle Explorer Face Glancing Face Olivia Face Sugar Face Tess Face Fixed a graphical issue with Hanhart Hairstyle. Fixed a graphical issue with Red Rose Label Ring. Fixed a graphical issue with Strawberry T-shirt. Fixed a crashing issue when using skill Knockback with a few specific bows. Fixed a graphical issue with Dragon Shiner Cross. Fixed a graphical issue with Liu Bei Dagger. Removed mention of Scissor of Karma from Goblin Cape and Goblin Cap. Skills: We have reviewed and adjusted changes made in the previous skill update with a few new additions. Crusader Armor Crash has been returned as a Crusader skill, and will cancel Weapon Def. Up. Cooldown has been removed. Number of monsters affected and range has been reduced. White Knight Armor Crash has been renamed to “Total Crash”, and has received a visual update. Total Crash has received the ability to nullify magic cancel alongside its ability to nullify weapon cancels. Cooldown remains at 4 minutes. Paladin Heaven’s Hammer now scales down from 49 seconds at level 1, instead of 310 seconds. At max level 30 the cooldown remains at 20 seconds. Sniper Increased damage scaling on Strafe from 100 at max level, to 125 at max level. Marksman Fixed a typo in the description for Snipe at level 30, it now correctly says the cooldown is 4 seconds instead of 5. Cooldown for Snipe now scales down from 33 seconds at level 1, instead of 250 seconds. At max level 30 the cooldown remains at 4 seconds. Bishop Holy Shield now additionally protects party members against stuns. Arch Mage Meteor Shower and Blizzard has received a damage reduction scaling to 570 at max level. The damage portion of the buff these skills gained with the release of the new source did not work out quite well, so we are reverting them. Meteor Shower and Blizzard will still have access to the lowered MP cost. Marauder/Buccaneer Transformation, Super Transformation, and Oak Barrel will no longer cancel due to map damage, such as Cold damage in El Nath, and being underwater in Aquarium. Quests: A new questline in Showa Town has been added. Talk to NPC Agent Takeshi! Agent Takeshi: Player-created quests from the Design a Quest Forum Event are now available: Talk to Jack to start Paving the Way. Talk to Betty to start Long Walks are Good for Your Health!. Talk to Alcaster to start Elder's Concerns. Fixed an issue where certain quests could not be started, most notably medal challenges from the medal UI. Medal challenge Dynamic Hair can now be completed. Fixed an issue where Hughes's Research Material was not working as intended, you will now be required to equip the Oxygen Tank to start it. Fixed an issue where completing all questions for Boss Kitty would not reward you with the Orange Marble. Captain Lord Pirate can now be started by obtaining Lord Pirate's Travel Diary from PPQ. “Blocktopus is an Alien?” now functions properly and will reward you with more EXP, and a scroll reward if you bring him the extra item he requests. Fixed an issue where you would not receive a reward when completing Cleaning up the Streets as a Pirate. Fixed an issue preventing players from completing the repeatable version of Dragon Squad's Mission. Lost in Translation 2 will no longer show up as completable when you don't have the item “Coded Communique”. Beginners can now obtain the Monster Riding skill and all mounts. At level 200 Beginners can receive the Red Draco by talking to Shammos, instead of a job instructor. A new medal challenge “Ergoth's Bane” can be found in the Challenge medal quest tab. Completion of this challenge will be possible following the release of Guild PQ in update 56. A new quest series called Water from the Spring of Youth can be found by talking to NPC Mar the Fairy in Ellinia: Level requirement is 70 or above. Mages cannot do this quest series. Potion obtained increases a characters MaxHP slightly. This quest series cannot be repeated once finished. Drops: Horntail will now correctly drop the following items in addition to its unique drops: Clean Slate Scroll 1% Concerto Dragon Revolver Dragon Slash Claw King Cent Scroll for Bottomwear for DEX 60% Scroll for Earring for DEX 60% Scroll for Overall Armor for INT 100% Scroll for Overall Armor for LUK 100% Scroll for Topwear for HP 60% Scroll for Topwear for STR 60% Fixed an issue where some Nependeath monsters did not drop anything but mesos. Lowered the drop rate of Nependeath Honey. Dreamy Ghost will now correctly drop Colonian Axe instead of the lower level version Helios. Bellflower Concentrate now correctly drops from certain monsters in Pirate Party Quest. Ninja Castle monsters will no longer drop a fixed amount of mesos. With this update we are rectifying a number of monster drop related issues for ETC items, this means increased drop rates for a large amount of ETC items, along with general bug fixes. In some cases the chances have been reduced, most notably the skill quest for Bahamut is more difficult. Snow Crystal now also drops from Dark Leatty. Box of Jewelry now drops after destroying the gourd for quest Opening Hongbu's Gord. Mariwakawa's Bag now correctly drop from Leader B instead of Leader A. Psycho Jack now has a low chance to drop Screw. Rombot now has a low chance to drop Dex Crystal. Soft Feather now also drop from Transformed Yeti, and Sakura Cellion. Silk Feather will now correctly drop from Jr. Lioner, and not Sakura Cellion. Basic ETC items now properly have a 2x drop rate rather than 1x. Ores have received a slightly increased drop rate (does not include Mithril). Some items required for the Papulatus prequest have received an increased drop rate: Mysterious Powder Piece of Cracked Dimension A Piece of Cracked Dimension B Tachion The following items no longer drop without having the correct quest active: Cat's Eye Griffey Wind Magical Array of the Spirit Red Ball of Yarn Savory Cheese Soul Collector Tasty Walnut Additionally with Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest (CWKPQ) soon to be released, we have looked over the drop rates for the quests involved, and have subsequently increased the drop rate for the following quest items which have been lower than intended: Elpam Magnet Mesogear Map Piece Temporal Fragment Maps: Event NPC Billy has showed up in the Lounge, and will handle GM events later on. Forest of Dead Trees will now correctly be slippery. Use of Snow Shoes is advised! Leaving Castellan Toad now triggers a dialogue to avoid leaving the map unintentionally. Leaving the boss map for Papulatus, Krexel or Castellan Toad through the proper NPC, or portal within 2 minutes after having entered, and the boss not having been summoned will not count towards your daily run count. This will let you leave the map if you accidentally walk into another person in the process of setting up their own run. The number of monsters that can spawn in the map The Dragon Nest Left Behind has been increased. Skills are now blocked in Henesys and Ludibrium Pet Walkway. Falling down in Nine Spirit's Nest will no longer warp you out from the map. Cold and underwater damage will now occur every 4 seconds, up from every 1 second. Misc: Chat Messenger is now functional. You may enjoy speaking with up to two other players in a private group conversation from anywhere in the game! Fixed an issue causing Macro settings to transfer over to characters without any macro saved. The timer that appears in most Party Quests and Boss runs now has increased opacity to allow easier visibility of buffs. Quick slot key modifications will now be saved and loaded correctly. Fixed an issue where you would not lose the mount buff when dying. Fixed an issue where mounts would level up faster than intended. Fixed an issue where you could not view mount details under a characters profile while simultaneously having a pet equipped. Added ~buyback to the /help command list. NOTE: Please note that the buyback command is not available yet and will come with Update 55. This change has only been implemented to prevent unnecessary patch updates. Heart Megaphones that were obtainable from the Valentine event have been removed due to them not being properly compatible with the game. Corrected typos across multiple quests and items. Fixed an issue where leveling up to 200 didn’t properly reset the EXP bar. Fixed an issue where the increased evolving rates for Black Dragon, Gorilla Robo, and Gold Robo from Update 50 were not properly being applied once you had already evolved a pet. NOTE: The chances to receive a certain pet from evolving are as follows: Dragon Pets Evolving from a Baby Dragon Green Dragon - 31% Red Dragon - 32% Blue Dragon 32 % Black Dragon 5% Evolving from a Green Dragon Red Dragon - 45% Blue Dragon - 45% Black Dragon - 5% Evolving from a Red Dragon Green Dragon - 45% Blue Dragon - 45% Black Dragon - 5% Evolving from a Blue Dragon Green Dragon - 45% Red Dragon - 45% Black Dragon - 5% Evolving from a Black Dragon Green Dragon - 33% Red Dragon - 33% Blue Dragon - 33% Robot Pets Evolving from a Baby Robo Blue Robo - 30% Red Robo - 30% Green Robo - 30% Gold Robo - 5% Gorilla Robo - 5% Evolving from a Blue Robo Red Robo - 45% Green Robo - 45% Gold Robo - 5% Gorilla Robo - 5% Evolving from a Red Robo Blue Robo - 45% Green Robo - 45% Gold Robo - 5% Gorilla Robo - 5% Evolving from a Green Robo Blue Robo - 45% Red Robo - 45% Gold Robo - 5% Gorilla Robo - 5% Evolving from a Gold Robo Blue Robo - 32~% Red Robo - 32~% Green Robo - 32~% Gorilla Robo - 5% Evolving from a Gorilla Robo Blue Robo - 32~% Red Robo - 32~% Green Robo - 32~% Gold Robo - 5~% If you notice any bugs or have other feedback, please feel free to let us know in the bug reports and feedback forum. Thank you! - The MapleRoyals Staff
The following are the EXP buffs made to certain Ludibrium's Clocktower monsters: Spirit Viking: 6720 to 9280 EXP Gigantic Spirit Viking: 8320 to 10800 EXP Phantom Watch: 7360 to 9760 EXP Grim Phantom Watch: 8960 to 11200 EXP Happy Mapling!