Important MapleLegends Skill Changes

Last updated date: 30 August 2025

Skill changes:
MapleLegends has skills changed for balancing reasons. They are listed as follows. MapleLegends is open for future skill suggestions.

General:
- The damage cap is increased from 99k to 199k (Leap Patch 2015)

- Beginner
Legendary Spirit - Better prompt for confirmation of White Scroll usage (Valentine 2022)
Monster Rider

• Beginners can do the Mount quest (Valentine 2017)
• The time need to get on the mount has been reduced by 50% (Summer 2018)
• Can use potions on mount. (Anniversary 2021)

Echo of Hero

• Works through the whole map (Jan 2017)
• Cannot be dispelled (Summer 2018)

Three Snails - No longer require Snail Shells to use (Christmas 2021)
Recovery - Cooldown has been decreased from 10 minutes to 2 minutes (since Release)

- Warrior
Iron Body - increased from +40 weapon defense to +60 weapon defense (Christmas 2020)
Monster Magnet - Can be used on non-stationary bosses (Valentine 2021)
Endure - Gives a 16% chance (2% per level) of not consuming a "healing potion" (Valentine 2025)

Spoiler: Endure details

• This does not require the Swordsman to be on a ladder/rope to activate.
• A potion is considered a "healing potion" if it heals HP, does not influence attack, magic attack, accuracy or avoidability, and is not a transformation potion.

• Example 1: Using a Grilled Cheese WILL be able to use Endure's effect, as it recovers HP, but doesn't affect the stats mentioned above.
• Example 2: Using an Onyx Apple will NOT be able to use Endure's effect, as whilst it recovers HP, it influences attack as well.
• Example 3: Using a Mana Elixir will NOT be able to use Endure's effect, as whilst it doesn't affect the stats mentioned above, it also doesn't recover HP.

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- Hero
Rage - Has 30 levels instead of 20. It also gives 20 ATTK at level 30, instead of 10 ATTK at level 20 (Summer 2018)
Power Guard - Total duration at max level increased from 90 seconds to 120 seconds. (Anniversary 2019)
Panic (Sword and Axe)

• Consumes 5 orbs instead of all existing orbs (Anniversary 2022)
• Introduced a more consistent hitbox with a slightly shorter horizontal and vertical range than Brandish (Anniversary 2023)

Guardian

• Block success rate increased from 15% to 20% (Christmas 2020)
• Proc knockback distance has been greatly decreased (October 2022)

Advanced Combo - Attack recharging two combos with one attack increased from 60% to 75% (Christmas 2020)
Enrage

• Cooldown reduced from 8 minutes to 6 minutes (Valentine 2021)
• Cannot be dispelled (Christmas 2020)
• Now gives a maximum of +6 weapon attack that is stackable with other weapon attack sources (i.e. works simultaneously with rage/pots) (May 2025)
• Duration at low skill levels has been rescaled, starts at 120 seconds for level 1-10, then 180 seconds for level 11-20, then 5 seconds increment per level until a maximum of 240 seconds for level 21-30 (May 2025)

- Paladin
Threaten

• Threaten decreases mob defense by 100 instead of 20. (Summer 2018)
• Can be used on bosses (Halloween 2019)
• Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)

Power Guard - Total duration at max level increased from 90 seconds to 120 seconds. (Anniversary 2019)
Blast

• Increased damage from 550% at max level to 650% (May 2025 + Valentine 2017)
• Range of the skill has been significantly increased (Halloween 2019)

Charged Blow - Range of the skill has been slightly increased (Halloween 2019)

Fire/Ice/Lightning/Holy Charge for Sword/BW

• Damage increase against elemental weak monster is now 20% (from 50%) (May 2025)
• Damage decrease against elemental strong monster is now 20% (from 50%) (May 2025)
• Damage is rescaled and now streamlined to have a maximum damage of 175% across all element types (May 2025)
• Rescaled lower level damage and durations, starts at 117% damage for 55 seconds for non-holy charge, and 118% damage for 65 seconds for holy charge (May 2025)

Guardian

• Block success rate increased from 15% to 20% (Christmas 2020)
• Proc knockback distance has been greatly decreased (October 2022)

Heaven's Hammer

• Cooldown reduced from 100 seconds at max level to 15 seconds (Christmas 2019)
• Damage raised from 99k to 199k for mobs, but limited to 50k for bosses (Summer 2020)
• Animation speed has been increased (Halloween 2020)

- Spearman
Iron Will - increased from +20 weapon and magic defense to +40 weapon and magic defense (Christmas 2020)
Crusher (Spear and Pole Arm)

• Skill levels 1-15 now matches the attack speed of skill level 16-30 (Anniversary 2022)
• Targets standardized across all levels (Anniversary 2022)

Spoiler: Crusher Targets

• Levels 1 - 10: Crusher will attack 1 enemy
• Levels 11 - 20: Crusher will attack 2 enemies
• Levels 21 - 30: Crusher will attack 3 enemies

Previously, crusher would attack up to 3 enemies until level 15 then return to attacking 1 enemy at level 16 until it scaled up to 3 enemies by level 26​

Dragon Roar - does NOT stun yourself when used
Sacrifice - Loss of HP is now based on max HP instead of damage (Valentine 2023)
Dragon Blood - Skill reworked!

• Reworked to heal 5% max HP every 4 seconds when activated, instead of giving +12 weapon attack (Valentine 2023)
• Now has a cooldown of 180 seconds (Valentine 2023)
• Duration changes from 160 seconds to 120 seconds (Valentine 2023)

Achilles (only for Dark Knight)

• Damage taken from enemy is now -30% (from -15%) (Valentine 2025)
  
• Every skill level now gives -1% damage reduction (from -0.5%) (Valentine 2025)

Hex of the Beholder - Now condensed to a single buff (i.e. no longer buffs each stat one-by-one) (Aug 2025)
Aura of the Beholder - Skill reworked!

• Aura now has 2 new modifier effects on Beholder: Self-SI and Stun chance on Dragon Fury (Valentine 2025)

Spoiler: Aura modifier details

• If Beholder is summoned, grants 90% stun chance to Dragon Fury attacks.
  • Starts from 18% chance and increases 3% per skill level.
  • Stun duration is 3 seconds.

• If Beholder is summoned, grants an attack speed increase for the Dark Knight, much like Buccaneer's Speed Infusion. Weapon speed will increase at certain levels of this skill. This stacks with Booster, but not with Buccaneer's Speed Infusion.
  • At skill level 6 and above, increases weapon speed faster by 1.
  • At skill level 16 and above, increases weapon speed faster by 2.
  • Note: When the Buccaneer's Speed Infusion is used, it will replace the aura's effect. After the expiration of the Buccaneer's skill, either the Buccaneer has to use it again, or the Dark Knight can summon Beholder again to reapply their own.

• Note: The stun and attack speed increase will not apply when Beholder is not summoned.

Berserk - Skill has been reworked to contain passive and active components. (May 2025)

• Berserk Passive
  • Damage scaling has been reworked
    • Below the skill HP threshold (55% at level 30), max damage bonus is fixed at +110% (i.e. no longer scale)
    • Above the skill HP threshold (55% at level 30), damage gradually falls from +110% to +0% at full HP
    • Spoiler: Berserk formula & graph

      
      
    • Berserk lower skill level damage and threshold have been rescaled
    • Spoiler: Berserk lower skill level graph

      
  • Dragon Blood and Cleric's Heal will no longer heal past the HP threshold during passive Berserk (still possible to heal past the HP threshold during active/unleashed Berserk)

• Berserk Active
  • Active Berserk now contains two parts:
    • Activation (first part)
      • Lasts 20 seconds
        
      • Cleanses all status effects except seduce once on activation
        
      • Dark Knight is immune to Damage Reflect during this part
        
      • Grants a damage bonus of +100% and starts a hit counter limit (max 18). An attack that deals at least 1 damage is considered 1 hit, regardless of the number of "damage lines" or targets hit
      • If number of hits is 18 or greater at the end of the duration, second part of active Berserk is granted (Unleashed Berserk & Runic Shield).
      • If the hit check is failed, second part of active Berserk will NOT be granted, and the Berserk passive bonus will be reactivated
    • Unleashed Berserk (second part)
      • Lasts 40 seconds
      • Grants a damage buff of 120%
    • Runic Shield (second part)
      • Lasts 20 seconds
      • Blocks all stuns and seduces
  • Cooldown 60 seconds
  • Cannot be dispelled
  • All active/unleashed damage bonuses are given regardless of current HP level (passive bonus is ignored)
  • Spoiler: Active/Unleashed formula

    
  • Introduction of new visual effects between the transitions of passive/active/unleashed Berserk

- Magician

Magic damage formula rework for the following skills: (Halloween+Dec 2023)
Big Bang ; Paralyze ; Chain Lightning ; Angel Ray ; Fire Demon ; Ice Demon

Spoiler: Damage formula details

Code:

maxDamage = { baseINT * [Magic - baseINT - min(baseLUK,100)*0.5] / 6700  +  baseINT/38  +  [Magic - baseINT - min(baseLUK,100)*0.5] / 14 + LOG10[max(1,Magic)] } * Spell_Attack

minDamage = { baseINT * [Magic - baseINT - min(baseLUK,100)*0.5] / 6700  +  {baseINT/38 + [Magic - baseINT - min(baseLUK,100)*0.5] / 14}*(Mastery*3 + 30)*0.0107 + LOG10[max(1,Magic)] } * Spell_Attack

Table of test for changes:

More detail here

Slow

• Now affects Bosses (Valentine 2025)
• Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)

Element Amplification - Increased Magic Attack from 135% to 140%* (Summer 2018)
Spell Booster - Casting speed decreased from 1500ms to 900ms (Anniversary 2022)
Big Bang

• Full charge duration reduced from 2 seconds to 0.9 (Valentine 2017)
• Able to be fired while moving, jumping, and being damaged (Valentine 2021)
• Visuals adjusted to promote better visibility (Anniversary 2022)
• Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)

* Our goal with the mage buffs is to buff the non-AoE skills. Since Element Amplification buffs all skills, Blizzard and Meteor have had their stats slightly lowered to compensate for the buff. After calculation, there should still be a small but slight buff.

- Magician (F/P)
Explosion - Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)
Fire Demon - Increased basic attack at max level from 120% to 140% (Summer 2018)
Paralyze - Increased basic attack at max level from 210% to 290% (Summer 2020)
Meteor Shower - Damage has been decreased from 590 to 570* (Summer 2018)

- Magician (I/L)
Ice Strike - Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)
Ice demon - Increased basic attack at max level from 100% to 120% (Summer 2018)
Chain Lightning - Increased basic attack at max level from 180% to 260% (Summer 2020)
Blizzard - Damage has been decreased from 570 to 550* (Summer 2018)

- Magician (Bishop)
Shining Ray

• Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)
• Increased top vertical range to match Explosion / Ice Strike (October 2022)

Angel Ray - Increased basic attack at max level from 240% to 340% (Summer 2020)
Resurrection

• Resurrection only go on full CD when someone is resurrected, 10 second CD when in party but no one was resurrected, and no CD when not in any party (Halloween 2020)
• Health recovery now includes HP from equipment when resurrecting dead players (Summer 2023)
  
• Health recovery is now based on skill level, starting from 10% at level 1 to 100% at level 10 (Summer 2023)

Holy Shield - Can prevent "seduced" status effect (Officially feature in Summer 2020)

- Archer
Critical Shot - Chance to critical hit has been increased from 40% at max level to 50%. (Summer 2018)
Soul Arrow - Properly displays the damage in the stat window (Summer 2021)
Power Knock-Back - Monsters now knockback increased from 40% success rate to 90% success rate at maximum level. (Anniversary 2019)

• Increased the stack limit of arrows to 5,000
• Decreased the cost and sell price of arrows

Spoiler: Arrow Costs

Bowmaster Arrow Costs

Item	Old Cost	New Cost
Bronze Arrow for Bow	10 mesos each	2 mesos each
Red Arrow for Bow	40 mesos each	5 mesos each
Diamond Arrow for Bow	20 mesos each	10 mesos each

Marksmen Arrow Costs

Item	Old Cost	New Cost
Bronze Arrow for Crossbow	10 mesos each	2 mesos each
Arrow for Crossbow	40 mesos each	8 mesos each
Diamond Arrow for Crossbow	20 mesos each	16 mesos each

Increased the attack of Diamond Arrows from 4 to 5 attack (Halloween 2020)

- Bowmaster
Strafe - Damage have been increased from 100% at max level to 110%. (Summer 2018)
Arrow Rain

• The maximum damage increased from 160% to 180%. (Anniversary 2019)
• Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)

Hurricane

• No longer continue firing when the window is de-selected (Anniversary 2021)
• Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)

Hamstring

• Works on bosses (Halloween 2019)
• Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)

Concentrate

• Cannot be dispelled (Christmas 2020)
• Now gives a maximum of +6 weapon attack that is stackable with other weapon attack source (i.e. works simultaneously with rage/pots) (May 2025)
• Duration at level 21-30 has been rescaled to 5 seconds increment per level starting from 180 seconds up to 240 seconds (May 2025)

- Marksman
Strafe - Increased the attack count from 4 to 5, and reduce the damage per arrow from 110% to 75% (Anniversary 2020)
Arrow Eruption

• The maximum damage increased from 160% to 180% (Anniversary 2019)
• Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)

Blind

• Affects bosses at a rate of 10% (Halloween 2020)
• Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)

Snipe

• Cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 5 (Valentine 2017)
• Damage raised from 99k to 199k

Piercing Arrow

• Full charge duration reduced from 2 seconds to 0.9 (Valentine 2017)
• Able to be fired while moving, jumping, and being damaged (Valentine 2021)
• Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)

- Thieves
Dark Sight - No longer prevents potion usage (May 2025)
Shadow Shifter - Skill reworked (May 2025)

• No longer has a passive effect
  
• The skill can now be activated while stunned
  
• Skill activation now dispels Stun
  
• (Shadower only) Active effect duration last 20 seconds at all ranks
• (Night Lord only) Active effect duration last 15 seconds at all ranks
• Now has an active effect that:
  • Gives 100% avoidability
  • Has a cooldown of 120 seconds at max level, 265 seconds at level 1
  • Instant cast time similar to Shadow Star
  • MP cost 40 at max level, but starts at 98 at level 1.
  • Note: Active effect does not avoid unavoidable attacks e.g. Pink Bean musical note, Zakum pillars, etc

- Shadower
Double Stab - Damage scaling adjusted, and max level damage increased to 160% from 130% (Anniversary 2023)
Savage Blow - Rescaled the lower skill level damage so that the skill total damage at level 1 is higher than double stab (May 2025)
Shield Mastery - Now passively grants a maximum 75% passive Stance effect when wearing a shield (May 2025)
Meso Guard - Mesos cost per Meso Guard block has been reduced (max level: 78% >> 50%) (May 2025)
Assaulter

• Delay between use reduced from 600ms to 300ms (Anniversary 2020)
• Cast time has been reduced by 33%, now has base speed of 600ms (450ms at speed 2) (May 2025)

Pickpocket - Now works on Assassinate (Christmas 2021)
Band of Thieves

• Have better hitbox scaling at lower skill level (October 2022)
• No longer require the first hit to connect upon cast (May 2025)
• Damage is increased by 1.5x, now gives a maximum of 315% (from 210%) (May 2025)

Assassinate

• Increased the attack count from 3 to 4, and increase the damage from 600% at max level from to 625% (Halloween 2019)
• No longer requires Dark Sight to be casted (Anniversary 2022)
• Allows charging up to 12 seconds at every skill level (Anniversary 2022)
• Dash only procs if the player is holding a directional key (October 2022)
• Horizontal hit range is increased by 20% (May 2025)
• No longer requires the player to be standing a platform, to be cast (May 2025)
• The first four hits can now crit, based on the player's critical rate/damage (May 2025)
• A successful Dash (ie. a Dash that connects and damages a monster) now grants the player 2.5 seconds of immunity (May 2025)
• Base cast time has been reduced (1820ms >> 1700ms, equivalent to 1290 at weapon speed 2) (May 2025)
• Dash: damage has been increased (max level: 250% >> 325%, every level is scaled up 75%) (May 2025)

Assassinate - Casting a fully charged Assassinate provides a new self-buff that "Ignore Enemy Defense", which partially ignores enemy's defense for 30 seconds (Anniversary 2022)
Boomerang step

• Delay between use reduced (Valentine 2017)
• Hill restrictions removed, meaning you can cast it at the end of hills (Demo: Click) (Valentine 2017)

Smokescreen

• Cooldown reduced from 10 minutes to 2 minutes (May 2025 + Halloween 2020)
• Duration has been reduced from 60 seconds to 12 seconds (May 2025 + Halloween 2020)
• The bug where you get stuck when knocked into a smokescreen is fixed exclusively in MapleLegends (Valentine 2021)
• Delay before players can use movement commands and skills after casting Smokescreen has been shortened, to be roughly 1.6x faster (Anniversary 2023)
• The visuals for smokescreen will now fade out 1.5 seconds before the invulnerability effect ends (Halloween 2023)
• Can now be cast in the air (May 2025)

- Night Lord
Alchemist

• No longer increases duration of potions (Summer 2023) [Anniversary 2020: 150% to 125%]
• Increased the recovery rate from 150% to 200% (Summer 2023)

Shadow Star - Damage will correctly reflect the star you consumed to cast Shadow Star (Anniversary 2021)
Increased the attack of Magic Throwing Knife from 30 to 31 attack (Neo Tokyo release)

• Revamped stars recharge cost (May 2025 + Anniversary 2022)

Spoiler: Stars recharge cost

Item Name	WA	Old cost per ammo	New cost per ammo
Subi Throwing-Stars	15	0.30	0.30
Wolbi Throwing-Stars	17	0.40	0.50
Snowball	17	1.00	0.50
Mokbi Throwing-Stars	19	0.50	1.00
Wooden Top	19	1.00	1.00
Paper Fighter Plane	20	1.00	1.50
Orange	20	1.00	1.50
Kumbi Throwing-Stars	21	0.60	2.50
Icicle	21	1.00	2.50
Maple Throwing-Stars	21	1.00	2.00
Tobi Throwing-Stars	23	0.60	5.00
Steely Throwing-Knives	25	0.70	10.00
Ilbi Throwing-Stars	27	0.80	17.00
Hwabi Throwing-Stars	27	1.00	17.00
Balanced Fury	30	1.00	35.00
Magic Throwing Knife	31	43.00	43.00

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- Buccaneer

• Rework Avoid = 0.25 * DEX + 0.2 * STR (May 2025 + Summer 2020)

Oak Barrel

• Cooldown and failure chance of the skill has been completely removed for all levels (Halloween 2019)
• Duration of the skill has been increased from 30 seconds at max level to 100 seconds (Halloween 2019)
• Can no longer be dispelled. (Anniversary 2021)

Corkscrew Blow - Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)
Energy Charge

• Delay between use completely removed (Valentine 2017)
• Stance chance has been increased from 50% to 90%. (Anniversary 2019)
• Meter fills 50% faster attacking bosses (Halloween 2020)
• Duration increased from 50 to 60 seconds (Halloween 2020)
• No longer charge up from "miss" hits (Halloween 2022)
• Charging rate has been increased: (May 2025)
  • Starts at 155 charge per hit (up from 75), increase by 5 every skill level until a maximum of 350 charge per hit (up from 231)
  • At max level, every hit on a normal monster charges 3.5% (29 hits to fully charge), and every hit on a boss charges for 5.25% (20 hits to fully charge)

Dragon Strike

• Post-casting delay has been decreased to 200ms (Summer 2018)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage and target counts (May 2025)

Barrage

• Increased damage from 230% at max level to 280% (Anniversary 2019)
• Post-casting delay has been decreased to 200ms (Summer 2018)
• Reduced base speed to 1800ms from 2430ms (1350ms at speed 2) (Aug 2025 + May 2025)
  
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage (May 2025)

Super Transform

• Adds 5% passive weapon mastery starting at level 11 (Halloween 2020)
• Cooldown is reverted back to 4 minutes (up from 3 minutes) (Aug 2025)

Transformation/Super Transformation -

• Cooldown reduced from 4 minutes to 3 minutes at maximum level. (Anniversary 2019)
• Able to use normal skills during both transformation (Summer 2021)
• Standardized the vertical height hitbox to be similar as the female counterpart (Summer 2023)

Demolition

• Increased damage from 400% at max level to 460% (Anniversary 2019)
• Post-casting delay has been decreased from 900ms to 400ms (Summer 2018)
• Reduced base speed to 2370ms from 2670ms (1800ms at speed 2) (May 2025)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage (May 2025)

Old speed: https://kimberly.s-ul.eu/EC1NDjF8
New speed: https://kimberly.s-ul.eu/wNexlK3V​

Snatch

• The delay between casting have been removed (Summer 2018)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage and target counts (May 2025)

Energy Orb

• Reduced base speed to 1110ms from 1240ms (840ms at speed 2) (May 2025)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage and target counts (May 2025)

Speed infusion - Casting range has been increased to match Sharp Eyes' range. (Halloween 2020)
Time Leap

• Casting range has been increased to match Sharp Eyes' range. (Halloween 2020)

- Corsair
Double Shot

• Range has been increased from 350 to 400 (Summer 2018)
• Damage from 80% to 130% at max level. (Anniversary 2019)

Recoil Shot - Delay between use reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second (Anniversary 2020)
Grenade - Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)
Burst Fire

• Range has been increased from 350 to 400 (Summer 2018, Anniversary 2023)
• Base speed decreased from 840ms to 660ms (Anniversary 2023)
• Damage scaling readjusted to match speed change (Anniversary 2023)

• Burst Fire should now have better damage per second than Double Shot at level 1

• While still maintaining the same damage per second as old Burst Fire at max level

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Flamethrower

• Maximum damage is now 220% (up from 160%)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage and target counts (May 2025)

Ice Splitter

• Maximum damage is now 180% (up from 130%)
• Lower SP level has been rescaled for damage and target counts (May 2025)

Octopus/Wrath of Octopi - Can be summoned multiple times. (Anniversary 2021)
Homing Beacon - Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)
Bullseye - Debuff icon reworked to (May 2025)
Rapid Fire

• Increased damage from 160% at max level to 180% (Summer 2018)
• No longer continue firing when the window is de-selected. (Anniversary 2021)
• Potions can now be used while charging (May 2025)

Battleship

• Mana cost has been decreased to 1 MP at all ranks (May 2025)
  
• Has 90 seconds cooldown for all levels, instead of more cooldown each level. (Nov 2017)
• Received a HP buff (Anniversary 2019)

HP formula:
Before = [(Skill Level * 4000)] + [(Character Level - 120) * 2000]
After = [(Skill Level * 5000)] + [(Character Level - 120) * 3000]​

• You now board the Ship 50% faster than before (Summer 2018)

Old speed: https://kimberly.s-ul.eu/RTEH7Qi0
New speed: https://kimberly.s-ul.eu/5r5VE8bk​

Bullet changes:

• Capacity of Blaze Capsules increased from 800 to 1200

• Capacity of Glaze Capsules increased from 800 to 1200

• Revamped bullets recharge cost (Anniversary 2022)

Spoiler: Bullets recharge cost

Item Name	WA	Old cost per ammo	New cost per ammo
Bullet	10	0.30	0.30
Split Bullet	12	0.40	0.50
Mighty Bullet	14	0.50	0.70
Vital Bullet	16	0.60	1.00
Blaze Capsule	16	0.50	1.00
Glaze Capsule	16	0.50	1.00
Shiny Bullet	18	0.70	3.00
Eternal Bullet	20	0.80	8.00
Armor-Piercing Bullet	22	0.90	15.00

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