Completed Scheduled Maintenance January 26, 2019

This maintenance is a PATCH maintenance.
You are required to download new files in order to play.
Failing to do so will cause you to disconnect from the game.
Downloads will be made available during the maintenance.



Hello Maplers,

We will be performing a Scheduled Maintenance on January 26, 2019. It will last until it's done. Upon completion, the game will be brought back online and service will be restored. Once restored, you can login and play!

Time:
1 PM server time

What will be unavailable:
- All MapleLegends game servers and channels
- Merchants will be closed

Changes and Updates:
- Final preparations for the upcoming Party Quest: CWKPQ (Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest)
- Tax changes: all trades and purchases from merchants are now a fixed 2.5% tax rate, including Duey
- Bosses such as Horntail and Zakum will now correctly use Weapon/Magic attack and Defensive buffs, making them more challenging (Click me)
- Bosses such as Dunas and Lilynouch will now use Damage Reflect
- Mastery Books from Horntail have their drop rates slightly decreased
- You can now expand your EQUIP SETUP and ETC inventory to 80 slots from 48. USE stays 48 due to balancing reasons.
- Added proper handlers on Duey functions that were not GMS-like yet, such as having a full inventory.
- Achilles should now be fixed for good
- Fixed a bug that caused the slow debuff not to show in 3rd person
- Beginners can now do the mount quest
- Using a Clean Slate scroll will never consume a White Scroll anymore regardless of option you did pick
- Auto ban improvements
- Reduced the price for crafting armor-piercing bullet.

- Patch changes -

Client:
- Added support for the Zombify debuff
- Added support for all types of Damage Reflect
- Hovering over a hosted 'match card' minigame will now show the proper cursor icon
- Warrior skill Achilles should now completely display in 1st person
- Cracked open the (painful) hardcoded 48 slot expansion limit
- Entering the Cash Shop should be quick again
- Performance improvements - Feedback as always on the client is welcome

.wz:
- Final preparations for Golden Temple non-GMS version (comes after CWKPQ)
- Krexel should behave again a little more nicely (bug fixes)
- New login theme to replace the Christmas one
- Christmas hair and faces should be fixed
- Implemented Pet HP scrolls for near future use
- The removal of Gachapon Tickets from the Cash Shop
- Fixed an issue that caused an invisible corrupted item to appear in Cash Shop randomly
- Gachapon Tickets description and names updated
- Merchant, Duey, and trade UI modified to include the changed taxes (Thanks! Krauser94)
- All pets should now have their proper 'Pet Quote' and 'Pet Label' (please report if something is wrong!)
- All Monster Book mobs should now have their proper drops, as well as being nicely organized based on item type
- Boat Quay Town have been made literally playable by fixing the fact you float 1 pixel into the air (Emrah)
- Complete Christmas Event end
- General file cleanup

Sincerely,

-MapleLegends Staff & Administration-

 

I also want to note that this is one of the bigger updates in a long time. Not only did shot an amazing job with the development, also the MapleLegends Staff as whole worked together on a a lot of content for this update. Some bugs like the one where Horntail isn't using all the buffs took a tiring amount of hours to debug and figured out, since it was quite stupid in the end. An other bug we are still spending a tiring amount of hours on is the bug where Zakum turns invisible during the arm phase. We found the initial problems why this happens, but no complete bug fix yet. Hopefully we can completely fix it soon.

Wolf Scroll Also did a fantastic job in assisting a few client related issues we came across, as well as some help when it came into a change we wanted to make that is hard-coded. The help he's been providing is very appreciated. Let it be known he's a great human being.

Complete conclusion of the CWKPQ items will be made when the content gets close to be released, which is hopefully soon after this maintenance. With this leap forward (Zombify, Damage Reflect) we push v0.62 into yet another level, and we are not done yet.

If you have any feedback than please let us know. We are listening, even when we don't directly respond to said feedback.

 

The depressing tables we have that shows the prices of all the books since 2015 to present - The Horntail books are pathetic and there's almost no reason anymore to even Horntail because the book prices got that low. The drop rate decrease is an attempt to at least get the stashed amount of books people have to decrease, which hopefully slowly increases the prices back to an amount that isn't sad. As always we will observe the changes.

Regarding the tax changes I am not the best to explain this, so I leave it for an other staff member that can explain it in a less engrish way.

Drop rates were custom since day one since we do not have Neckson's data. We've made many drop rate changes in the past, and that isn't going to change.

As always with updates in MapleLegends we observe how people will perform with this mechanic change and if there's indeed a lot of struggle we will buff based on the struggle and difficulty. We do not do immediate buffs without any kind of observation.

 

Of course it will be harder. However, we won't be buffing based on blind expectations without logs and observations.

 

RICEDUCK Likewise for the Horntail buff fix we have to see how hard things will be. Just let it be known that if we believe it's not right, we will fix it. Do note we can do drop rate changes without the need of a server restart, so tweaking it on the fly is a pretty easy task. When it comes to drop rates its unfortunately not something we can perfect immediately. Therefore we'll observe, check logs, check feedback, and so on. This also goes for the tax changes, and also for drops from other places like Zakum.

People will for sure experiment with reflect a lot. Some users indeed never experienced the buff because they played older versions of the game (myself included). People gotta learn things, improve it, and master it. That's how things like Horntail goes, and also new mechanics.

 

If we notice nobody is doing them anymore than its clear its not attractive enough, and thus goes back to what I said on my previous posts. Dunas was always meant to have reflect, and people benefiting from holding the hurricane button or whatever skill that pins her and getting a harmless kill is silly. We try to fix as much we can within our client (v0.62) and we managed to get reflect working. With reflect working we apply it to the mobs that are meant to have it, as well as future mobs such as Pink Bean.

 

Correct, and I hate the gameplay of these bosses. However, they are working as intended, while Dunas was missing skills she's meant to have.

Also, I know I have dedicated testers that are very willing to give me feedback on all the changes. If you do not wish to and wait for changes/buffs, that's fine. However, the faster I can get accurate info/feedback the faster things could change, assuming we all together agree with the said feedback.

This is also my last post since I've been flooding this maintenance and I think my point got across by now.

 

Oops, forgot to add that in the patch notes. Yes.