Anniversary Patch Notes: May 22, 2020

I can tell you with certainty that the people who don't take random people on their runs before will still not take random people afterwards, and the people who will take random people afterwards were already taking random people before.

 

Selquin Isn't the concentrate "nerf" technically a buff? Before, people used coke to fill in the down time because using bear is a waste making the effective increase 23.25 att. Now most people will need to use ciders every 5 mins so BMs will also use ciders giving them an effective 24 increase att. Also BMs will be using ciders every 6 minutes compared to everyone else using it every 5 min, so you save more att pots compared to others.

Math:
-Before: 3 min 26 att, 1 min 15 att -> (3*26+1*15)/3 = 23.25 watt/min
-After: 4 min 26 att, 2 min 20 att -> (4*26+2*20)/6=24 watt/min

 

Will the right HT arm do proper attack animations prior to attacking it now? No more ghost seduces?

 

I do play anotehr buccaneer. So you want more damage? I still think some more stance would make bucc better on the right side of HT.

 

not that I want to, check nise's tables

 

Im up for a dmg buff yeah. Altho the tables are quite weird, perhaps I need to do them myself to see if something fails. Perhaps Im strogner than I think but I never had issues outdamaging DKs on single target when they have a perfect sky ski (and I dont have a perf nt knuckle yet). Still yeah more dmg give me give me give me!

 

I agree, Nise himself said that he still does not know the mechanics of buccaneers well but that they are looking at ways to improve them, I don't have a perfect team either but I whit out DKs in 1vs1 in NT, and some pre heads in HT.
Let's hope how they handle this matter

 

I think there were some misunderstandings in how buccs work when calculating DPM. I'm sure we can all be helpful in making the appropriate judgements on how to modify buccs.

 

Funny enought our bowman dc on vergamot run and somehow I was able to outdamage a NL with a perfect sleve and way better equips than me, and that wasa lv 200 (my second bucc was 17x or so).
Calcualting dmg as bucc is super weird. Barrage where you crit really matters, also ther are mreo combos that do mroe dmg like:
Barrage>Drain>Drain>Repeat is better than the standard if you are charged, and evem better Barrage>Energy Orb. Thing is Dragon Strike is slower so it takes logner to go back to Barrage. Also I don't know if hero is weaker than DK? I know DK is very close to it but Hero often just performs better (ppl still chose DK over Hero cos of HB tho). Oh well
Also Dragon Strike cleave makes that combo a bit stronger, hitting 3 targets i have matched my demo damage I think. Also if we get more stance we can staon on the right side and cleave 4 parts doing mreo damage, and if we spam snatch is better than demo.

 

KurayamiLove I posted DPM comparisons of all the combos (that I have access to) on my bucc guide for HT if you wanna take a look.

https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/jootphabets-guide-to-horntail-as-a-buccaneer.30211/

 

Don't go overboard with updates plz

 

I think we use different combos, drain is best only pvp but lost stance and % hit dragon strike, i usualy pref pvp in ht and using stance + dragon strike next use demolicion for next charge, we should ever organize pure HT bucc

 

No problemo got HT all figured out. But many thanks hehe. If anything, there may not be that much buccaneer out there but those who play them I feel they got such a big love for the class and are a joy to heat and comunicate to hehe.

 

Bring it on! Bucc HT.

 

Bucc only HT spoilers:

 

SPOILER HEADS

 

Is that a gun? Disgrace!! Only cowards hide behind a gun, all I need is my bar hands!

 

Let's put it this way, if you were given a school project that you feel you could easily finish by yourself, you'd probably do it alone. Now what if I forced you to work with 3 other people that aren't as smart as you? They'll most likely affect the final product in a negative way and not only that, their contribution is also going to lower your individual mark. See how by adding those 3 people the overall quality of the product lowers? Sure you might've helped the other 3 get a higher mark at the cost of your own but that isn't your responsibility. That's the same way I see this change.

Plus what's the difference between multiclienting in a boss and multiclienting in general? To me they're the same exact thing. Isn't the end goal of this change to promote more interactions between players? If so then they should get rid of multiclienting as a whole so people can't make armies of buff mules. If you're allowed to multiclient to leech or PQ with yourself then you should be able to multiclient in a boss as well.

 

These are really *huge* changes and it will take a lot of time and play testing to see what the community thinks.
I just want to say it feels really strange changing hermit for better or worse for some reason and the xbow strafe seems cool. The res fix is great also.

About multi client check at bosses:
When I first started Maple (a long time ago) you had to do a lot without other players and rely on mules. Of course a lot has changed and we've added two channels now. It's amazing to see all of the new players!! And it's exciting to see so many boss runs fill up and everything. For them, they'll say in the future "when I played it was during the surge", but for me it's a nostalgic Maple Legends experience to haul your mules everywhere. It feels weird losing a dimension of the play style I grew up with by the sudden limit and interest on limiting mule oriented play.
On another level, some people consider their access to bringing buffs to Scar and other bosses as a trophy and a token of achievement and then booming helms at their leisure was something they earned. For other players, they use their mules to solo and time themselves even at Zak. I would say overall it's a net negative because it removes a play style and it happens to be an old school ML style too.

Duku nerf:
I never used Duku nerf but during a surge it was nice having a 2 attacker option that mirrored skels and petri. I heard it got nuked so maybe the adjustment went too far I'm not sure. It was a good option and nuking it seems like it reduces options. There could be a middle ground missing I'm not sure.

7F Change:
I'm sure there's solid logic against when it comes to multi client macro Mage solo duos but the inability to afk buffs there hurts Melee duo grinds too. I think 7F is important to ML by providing a 140-160 melee option and more like it would be good.


Maple Legends overall: really good.

What I'd want to see: As strange as it sounds.. and I'm NOT saying this just for me... but I think we need a Summer Chaos Event!! We had one a while ago and Chaos went down to 20-25m. I forget which Summer it was but that was the best. It would be cool to do the spam chaos scroll / pink and purple cape / 30% scroll type thing and flood the market for a Summer. It would be memorable for the new players but we need like a huge portion of Summer dedicated to getting Chaos Scrolls out there.
Hidden dungeons of old maps with lv110-130 scaled monsters
Boss Time Leaderboards that REFRESH every 12 or 24 Hrs maybe give a 'golden apple' type reward that lasts a minute or just a server shout out.

excited to try new changes in the patch too ty kimmy and ML team

edit: and happy anniversaryyyy

 

1. I think disabling multi client in bosses is a great idea, even if it lowers the quality or the speed of the run, more people should and will be added to runs even if they are random people.
It adds to the general goal of this game which is meeting and interacting with other players, even though I own an HB and SI mule, I really don't mind this change.
2. The Duku nerf had to be done, I also grinded and leeched my other character there and I got insane amount of exp which you couldn't get anywhere else(cost-effective + high exp).
3. I haven't been in the last Summer Chaos Event, but from what you wrote, dropping chaos to 20-25m is REALLY bad for the economy, end game should not become easier to get by any means.
If you want to be a top player, you have to work hard and grind for it, if it dropped to 20m I could buy an insane amount of chaoses and resell them later and gain 400% profit, thats too much(the rich will get richer by a large margin).