MapleStory News

[Updated 5:45 PM PDT August 5] The maintenance has been completed! We have extended Cash Shop items for 3 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 3:00 PM PDT (6:00 PM EDT / 12:00 AM CEST August 6 / 8:00 AM AEST August 6). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 3 hours, concluding around 6:00 PM PDT (9:00 PM EDT / 3:00 AM CEST August 6 / 11:00 AM AEST August 6). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Thursday, August 5, 2021
PDT (UTC -7): 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
EDT (UTC -4): 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 12:00 AM (August 6) - 3:00 AM (August 6)
AEST (UTC +10): 8:00 AM (August 6) - 11:00 AM (August 6)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Reverted the following v.224 Better Maple changes as mentioned on the Update on Elite Mob Drop Change Investigation post:
    • Elite Monsters and Elite Champions now have a chance to drop cubes and flames when defeated.
    • The following items have been removed from the respective content (Ex. Elite Monster and Elite Champion's Golden Hammer 50%).

We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience you may have experienced due to this error and, as a token of our apology, we will be giving the following items once per account to players that have a character Lv. 101 and above and a login record 

Hi Maplers,

As briefly announced on our Community platforms, we are aware of the player concerns regarding the Elite mob drop changes after the v.224 update maintenance. We investigated the Cube and Rebirth Flame drop rates with high priority and confirmed that there was an error in the Elite mob drop rate logic that did not align with our development goals of improving the accessibility of these items.

After we discovered the error, we planned to conduct an in-depth review to determine the proper changes that would both provide an improved experience to players and meet our development goals. However, such a review requires additional time for us to thoroughly calculate the drop rate after reviewing players' levels and the number of Elite mobs that players defeated. As this delay would lengthen the time our players experience the inconvenience, we have decided to roll back the following parts of the v.224 Better Maple update:

• "Elite Monsters and Elite Champions now have a chance to drop cubes and flames when defeated"
• "The following items have been removed from the respective content (Ex. Elite Monster and Elite Champion's Golden Hammer 50%)"

We will revert the changes to how they used to be in the v.223 update while we continue to conduct an in-depth review of how to improve this experience in the future. The stated rollback is planned to be done during our August 5 unscheduled maintenance.

We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience you may have experienced due to this error and, as a token of our apology, we will be giving the following items once per account to players that have a character Lv. 101 and above and a login record between July 21 (after maintenance) and August 5 (before maintenance):

• 2x EXP Coupon (15 min) (x10): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  
• 2x Drop Coupon (15 min) (x10): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  
• Powerful Rebirth Flame (x10): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  
• Eternal Rebirth Flame (x5): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  
• Master Craftsman’s Cube (x30): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  
• Meister Cube (x15): Untradeable, 7-day duration.
  

Please claim the above items via Gift Drop on the left side of the screen after the August 5 maintenance until August 18 at 11:59 PM UTC. Once our in-depth review has been completed, we’ll provide an update about our next planned actions to improve the accessibility of Cubes and Rebirth Flames as an intended Better Maple Change. Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and delay.

- The MapleStory Team

[Updated July 29 at 9:58 AM PDT] The maintenance has been completed and we have extended Cash Shop items for 5 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client! Thank you.

We will be performing a scheduled minor patch on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 5:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM CEST / 10:00 PM AEST). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 5 hours, concluding around 10:00 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT / 7:00 PM CEST / 3:00 AM AEST July 30). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Thursday, July 29, 2021
PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 AM - 10:00 AM 
EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM 
CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM 
AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 PM - 3:00 AM (July 30)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • MapleStory will be updated to v.224.2.0.
  • Unique rank Lania Familiar has been added to the Premium Familiar Booster Pack and its sale will be resumed. Premium Familiar Booster Pack sale has been extended until August 11 at 8:00 AM UTC (August 11 at 1:00 AM PDT).
    • Due to an issue where the Princess No Familiar card rank did not match the announcement rank, we are resuming sales of the Premium Familiar Booster Pack after exchanging the card for another Unique-ranked Familiar. We will resolve this issue for players who have been affected separately.
  • The 'Exchange Rebirth Flame/Honor EXP Points' quest has been extended since the quest ended earlier than the intended end time.  Please make sure to claim the Rebirth Flame/Honor EXP Point compensation after the July 29 maintenance and by August 4 at 11:59 PM UTC.
  • Fixed the issue where Black Rebirth Flames could only be claimed one at a time via the 'Exchange Rebirth Flame/Honor EXP Points' quest.
  • Fixed the issue where Amoria Party was not available for characters Lv. 276 and above.
  • Fixed the issue where the in-game Event List displayed the '[Miracle Time] Miracle Pre-Registration!' event twice with different names.

 

[Updated 10:34 AM PDT July 23] The maintenance has been completed! We have extended Cash Shop items for 4 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on Friday, July 23, 2021 at 7:00 AM PDT (10:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM CEST / 12:00 AM AEST July 24). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 4 hours, concluding around 11:00 AM PDT (2:00 PM EDT / 8:00 PM CEST / 4:00 AM AEST July 24). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Friday, July 23, 2021
PDT (UTC -7): 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
EDT (UTC -4): 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM 
CEST (UTC +2): 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
AEST (UTC +10): 12:00 AM (July 24) - 4:00 AM (July 24)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Fixed the issue with characters that had the anviled Hotel Arcus medal equipped.
  • Fixed the issue where Zero and Beast Tamer characters could not be created in the Burning World.
    • You must have a character that is Lv. 100 or above in the same world that you would like to create a Zero character in.
  • As mentioned in the Update on Cube Removal from Bosses post, Cubes will be added back to the boss rewards in all worlds.
  • [Updated July 23] Fixed the issue where selecting the Mark Your Miracle Time 8/3 would take players to the Evolution Lab map instead of the event map.

 

Hi Maplers,

As the removal of Cubes from bosses in all worlds has been a recent hot topic in the community, we would like to share more details of the reasoning behind this implementation as well as our plans to address the community concerns. While implementing the Cubes and Rebirth Flames Obtainment Improvements as part of the Better Maple changes in the v.224 update, our goal was to improve the obtainment experience by removing the Cube and Rebirth Flame items that dropped at a chance from bosses and adding them to Elite Monsters and Elite Champions instead. We believed that this change would lower the hurdle of obtaining these items by allowing players to obtain them while training in maps where Elite Monsters and Elite Champions appear frequently. Our goal was to increase the accessibility of obtaining these items, as well as to provide better experiences through future boss reward revamps.

However, we realized that we may have overlooked the inconvenience this change would cause to players who rely on bosses as their primary source of obtaining Cubes. We apologize for not taking this into consideration when we worked on the change, and for not providing a detailed announcement ahead of time.

After the v.224 Patch Notes and game update went live, we kept a close eye on players’ feedback and saw the concerns regarding the Cube removal change. We urgently reviewed the decision to remove Cubes from bosses. We decided that, while keeping Cubes as drops from Elite Monsters and Elite Champions, we will add Cubes back to the boss rewards in all worlds, but at a lower obtainment of 70-80% of the amount that players used to obtain from bosses prior to the v.224 update. We plan to implement this change before the upcoming weekend during an unscheduled maintenance. Please keep an eye on the News page of our Official MapleStory website for more details on the upcoming maintenance.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and we will continue to monitor different aspects of the game to improve your MapleStory experience.

- The MapleStory Team