Update General Patch Notes: November 7th, 2022

Welcome to the general Patch notes for the Halloween patch!

This post will contain a comprehensive list of fixes, changes and new implementations for the server side of things, that are in addition to the already-posted client changes.

General Changes

• The Halloween Event is now active! Click here for details.
  • From this event onwards, the Raffle quest will reset daily at midnight server time, rather than after 20 hours.

• Our new custom NPC for the HP Challenges has been introduced!
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    You can meet Rosa in Lith Harbor. For the time being, she will only provide you with the same information that Cassandra did during the last patch.
  • Her design is work-in-progress.

• Implemented the Item Raise system.
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    "Raise items" are special items that must be fed, in order to progress through various stages.
  • Double-clicking the item will open its special UI, where you can drag and drop the feeding material.

• Fixed and fully implemented the Info Quest system.
  • While of no particular interest to players, this system provides a dynamic quest requirement, that various quests already make use of.
  • As a result of this implementation, the quest "Memory Keeper" should no longer break if the player changes channel or disconnects, after talking with their 1st job instructor.
• Fixed and fully implemented Timed quests.
  • Currently, only "Revolutionary Defensive Wall Construction Plan" was a fully-working timed quest. The feature has now been reworked and will work with any quest that will use it.
• "Ghost" type of temporary stat has been implemented.
• Vicious in Henesys Market will now provide an option to craft Red and Blue Arrows.
  • She will offer to purchase bundles of 1000 arrows, for a price of respectively 6000 (Red) and 9000 (Blue) mesos.
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  "Artistic Visions Chair", which is our new main prize of Chair design contests, has been introduced.
• Implemented the proper randomized animation of Storytime Chair. Use it at your own discretion.
  
  Spoiler: animated preview

Skill Changes

• Energy Charge
  • Energy will no longer charge up from "miss" hits.
• Time Leap
  • Time Leap now requires energy to be fully charged, in order to be cast.

Nise : In recent patches, we have tried to implement changes that properly rewarded active gameplay over AFK gameplay, such as muling. These changes are intended to achieve a similar goal by bringing down the convenience and utility of Buccaneer mules that may simply be AFK in the map, in comparison to actively played Buccaneers.

Buccaneers are an extremely versatile class with lots of self-utility and party-wide utility, such as Energy Charge and Time Leap respectively. By adding some conditionality for Buccaneers to access these pivotal parts of their kit, we introduce an inconvenience and potential challenge for Buccaneer mules, whilst not affecting actively played Buccaneers, who should be naturally generating charge throughout the course of the fight. We hope these changes reduce the "ease" of muling a Buccaneer and gaining access to one of the strongest skills in v62 MapleStory, and in turn shift the focus back to actively played Buccaneers in the context of boss fights.

Bugfixes

General:

• Fixed synchronization issues that could prevent monsters from casting any attack, if targeted by multiple people.
• Recently-coded portal scripts, that have the option to deny a warp request, will no longer cause players to be unable to perform various actions, such as skill casting or map changing, upon denying the warp.
• Leveling up a Reverse/Timeless equipment no longer has a chance to disconnect the player.
• When a Hero consumes all currently-active Orbs by casting a skill, the next attack will now correctly grant 1-2 orbs, instead of 0-1.
• Removed debug text from Ames the Wise's wedding q&a script.

Items:

• The Crossbow equivalent to Red Arrows is now correctly called "Blue" Arrows.
  
• Fixed misalignment of Free Hair haircut.
• Fixed misalignment of Forest Fairy Face (Hazel).
• Scroll for Earring for LUK 30% is now correctly called "Dark" Scroll for Earring for LUK 30%.
• Removed various white pixels from the animation of the Blue Dragon pet.
• Bong's Little Box now correctly mentions Eleska, instead of Alaska.
• [Mastery Book 20/30] Shadow Claw are now called [Mastery Book 20/30] Shadow "Stars", for consistency with the skill name.
• Removed a doubled sprite for the sitting animation of Super Summer Dress.

Quests:

• Various reported typos of the Neo Tokyo part 2 questline have been corrected.
• "Yoona's Quiz on Shopping 3": removed redundant text in a dialog.
• "Byron's Recommendation Letter": Byron finally learnt where job instructors are actually located.
• "The Path of Thief": Olaf remembered how to spell Kerning City.
• "Polar Bear Lolo's reach to the stars": corrected the mention of Coca Cola "Gem".
• "Rewakening the Gladius": quest name is now properly spelt as "Reawakening" the gladius.
• "The Plan to Win His Heart": corrected "first loves" spelling.
• "Surprise Birthday Party": quest info now correctly mentions needing 200 monsters.