Information Anniversary 2023 Balance Changes [Explained]

Some great small changes in here!

 

I'm having trouble understanding why Burst Fire needed a damage reduction to go with the speed boost, or where the math is that puts it in a healthy spot? Outlaw is the weakest 3rd job class in the game by a very healthy margin, not just for single target but also for their incredibly bad mobbing. I even did the math to show just how hard Burst Fire underperforms:

Spoiler: click here to see a bunch of numbers, or not and just believe me

12 attack above max clean maple level 64
10 att glove
3 att cape
20 cider
27 ilbi/16 vital
450 main stat 50 secondary

Outlaw: 126 attack, 450 dex, 50 str
top range: (450 * 3.6 + 50) * 126/100 = 2104
bottom range: (450 * 3.6 * .9 * .6 + 50) * 126/100 = 1165
1165 to 2104 range, average of 1634

average * skill damage * lines * attacks per minute
1634 * 1.9 * 3 * 87 = 810k DPM

Hermit: 109 attack, 450 luk
top range: (450 * 5) * 109/100 = 2452
bottom range: (450 * 2.5) * 109/100 = 1226
1226 to 2452 range, 1839 average

average * skill damage with crits * lines * shadow partner * attacks per minute
1839 * [(.5 * 1.5) + (.5 * 2.5)] * 2 * 1.5 * 100 = 1103k DPM

Ranger: 128 attack, 450 dex, 50 str
top range: (450 * 3.4 + 50) * 128/100 = 2022
bottom range: (450 * 3.4 * .9 * .6 + 50) * 128/100 = 1121
1121 to 2022 range, 1571 average

average * skill damage with crits * lines * attacks per minute
1571 * [(.5 * 1.1) + (.5 * 2.1)] * 4 * 91 = 915k dpm

Sniper: 131 attack, 450 dex, 50 str
top range: (450 * 3.6 + 50) * 131/100 = 2187
bottom range: (450 * 3.6 * .9 * .6 + 50) * 131/100 = 1211
1211 to 2187 range, 1699 average

average * skill damage with crits * lines * attacks per minute
1699 * [(.5 * .75) + (.5 * 1.75)] * 5 * 87 = 924k dpm

The results are as follows, for a figurative level ~80 3rd job characters using maple weapons and run of the mill gear:
Burst Fire: 810k dpm
Ranger Strafe: 915k dpm
Sniper Strafe: 924k dpm
Lucky 7 Shadow Partner: 1103k dpm

It's a pretty big gap considering Outlaws have absolutely nothing else going for them. They aren't even allowed to max their mobbing skills because of minor performance increases like Gavioto in 4th job, and now they'll likely lack the numbers to knock back bigfoot in 3rd job, which was unironically one of their best options to train.

Spoiler: Just to be funny here are the DPM numbers if you have pity on them and give them SE

outlaw:
1634 * [(.85 * 1.9) + (.15 * 3.3)] * 3 * 87 = 900k dpm

ranger:
1571 * [(.35 * 1.1) + (.65 * 3.5)] * 4 * 91 = 1521k dpm

sniper:
1699 * [(.35 * .75) + (.65 * 3.15)] * 5 * 87 = 1707k dpm

hermit:
1839 * [(.35 * 1.5) + (.65 * 3.9)] * 2 * 1.5 * 100 = 1688k dpm

sniperchamp

 

Finally the prejudices outlaws have long suffered are being brought to light

 

Thanks for the hard work as usual.
On other note I'm kinda disappointed about zero balance changes on economy / afk gaming / roar farming /bossing.

 

I believe it was mentioned large balance patches and event patches are going to be separated

 

Is there a page with ALL updated skill changes in 1 post? ie shows all up to date skill changes by class?

Thank you in advanced

 

https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/maplelegends-skill-changes.39396/

This?

 

Legends news Anniversary 2023 is done, enjoy!

 

Thank you for taking the time to do this change and thank you everyone who supported my thread for this buff for early Dagger Bandits.

 

It's disappointing to see these type of handholding changes being implemented but that seems to be the direction we are headed towards. Glad some people are happy with it atleast.

 

.... How is it handholding when Lucky Seven was vastly superior to Double Stab in both damage and potion efficiency? I'm disappointed you have no idea what you're talking about and annoyed to see a beneficial change.

 

i can't wait to see the new NL guide where double stab is maxed rather than lucky seven due to too much int

 

the shadower buff was a buff for the nls, there's a topic talking about buffing the pickpocket, if that happens somehow it will help the NL mesos up :kek

 

NLstory

 

L7 is still superior in almost anything worth doing first job/early second job. The people that want to roleplay a dagger bandit at first job would do so regardless of this change. Funny enough this is mostly an intlord buff as Fartsy mentioned and also a buff for uninformed players that went for DS instead of L7 hence the handholding comment.

I do think I know what I'm talking about though and my annoyance lies with the balance changes we have been having and not with your posts or suggestion, it was just easy to reply to.

We keep getting changes to this old school server that serve little to no purpose and while I'm all for change at least make it make sense. As I said the double stab buff doesn't actually accomplish much other than handholding or buffing intlords, then we get a custom maple dagger (makumagna reskin), tbh I have no idea why this was introduced because the crafting system we had is gone and there's plenty of statless daggers in the game already.

Then there was the shadower IED which noone asked for but we got it anyway. No discussion or anything and very minimal reasoning to why it should exist.

 

thats the way i used for my NL 1.5year ago. idk how viable it is now with PQs being less and less populated.
I have also managed to farm cards by myself single client and step up my monster ring