New Age
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| New Age | |
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| Initial release | June 2023 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous | Savior |
| Next | Dreamer / GO WEST! |
As the boundary between Maple World and Grandis is sundered, a new form of Erda has been unleashed. Taming this new power will do more than save the goddesses of the two worlds: it will unlock skills never seen before in either land.
New Age is an update following Savior which introduced the 6th Job Advancement system.
1st: Quality of Life updates
- Continental Grandis level entry requirement changes:
- Cernium and Burning Cernium: Level 260
- Hotel Arcus: Level 265
- Odium: Level 270
- Shangri-La: Level 275
- New Sacred Symbol: Shangri-La
- EXP curve changes: Reduction in EXP to level up for levels 210 to 299:
- Level 210 to 219: Reduced by 19%
- Level 220 to 229: Reduced by 21%
- Level 230 to 239: Reduced by 35%
- Level 240 to 249: Reduced by 50%
- Level 250 to 259: Reduced by 55%
- Level 260 to 269: Reduced by 32%
- Level 270 to 299: Reduced by 16%
- Hyper Burning: 1+2 Levels up to Level 260; existing characters that haven't reached Level 260 can be hyper burned as well
- Removed Defense, Jump, and Speed options from Inner Abilities
- New Monster Park maps: Labyrinth of Suffering and Limina
- Reboot World changes:
- Reduced monster HP and EXP to match Non-Reboot worlds.
- Changed damage bonus/penalty formula to match Non-Reboot worlds.
- Game resolution changes:
- Add support for 2560x1440, 2732x1536, and 3840x2160 resolution
- Resolution can be changed by dragging the window corner
- V Matrix changes:
- All 25 V Matrix slots can be unlocked at level 260
- Matrix Points double per level up from level 221 to 260
- Identisk Island event
2nd: 6th Job
- Damage cap increased to 700 billion
- 6th Job Released
- HEXA Matrix system
- Requirement level is 260
- New area: Arteria, with an entry requirement of level 280
- New Sacred Symbol: Arteria
3rd: Carcion
- New boss difficulties:
- New exceptional enhancements for Magic Eyepatch and Commanding Force Earrings
Videos
Trivia
- Starting from August 24, 2023, the director for KMS is Changseop Kim.
- In this update, the Login BGM changed for the first time in 13 years (the previous change was during the Chaos Update).
- To alleviate increasing population pressure in Continental Grandis maps, these maps were instanced during this update.
- A maximum of 2 players can share an instanced map.
- If a third player arrives at an instanced map, they will not see any monsters.
- If a player dies at an instanced map, or if a player leaves an instanced map (including entering Bounty Hunter Portals, event maps, etc.), they will lose access after returning to the map.
- Rune cooldowns have been reduced from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.
- In GlobalMS and TaiwanMS, the Frenzy Totem spawn enhancing effect would only apply to the player who owned it.
- Instanced maps were initially introduced in KoreaMS as a temporary measure during the second part of the update.
- KoreaMS has not announced when this feature would be removed, and the maps remain instanced as of now.
- Instanced maps were also introduced in GlobalMS, MapleSEA, JapanMS and TaiwanMS.
- Instanced maps were a topic of community concern in GlobalMS in Regular/Interactive Worlds. As such, GlobalMS removed instanced maps in regular worlds in v247, on December 10, 2023.
- Instanced maps are still implemented in MapleSEA, JapanMS and in Reboot/Heroic Worlds in GlobalMS.
- Instanced maps were removed in TaiwanMS on April 2, 2024, and were reinstated in the Dreamer Update.
- In ChinaMS, instanced maps weren't implemented until April 1, 2025, and it's only applied for newly created Blue Snail world, allowing at most 15 players sharing an instanced map. In addition to Continental Grandis maps, Level 259 or lower recommended maps listed in Maple Guide are also instanced.
- A few regional differences came across with this update:
- In Non-KoreaMS servers, a Daily Quest was added, offering additional Sol Erda Energy and Sol Erda Fragments.
- Character creation of Beast Tamer was disabled in GlobalMS, JapanMS, ChinaMS and TaiwanMS.
- In MapleSEA and TaiwanMS, the 6th Job Advancement system and all system changes were available upon rollout of the update.
- In GlobalMS and JapanMS, New Age came with the following additional content:
- In TaiwanMS and ChinaMS, New Age came with the following additional content:
- New Job: Lynn
- In MapleSEA, New Age came with the following additional content:
- New System: Guild Castle
- In ChinaMS, New Age came with the following additional content:
- New Item:
Limit Energy Stone
- Limit Energy Stone is an account-bound item that increases a player's damage cap.
- The damage cap increased by the Limit Energy Stone adds onto a weapon's damage cap (which can be increased by a regular Breakthrough Stone).
- The damage cap cannot exceed 700 billion.
- Players who have completed the Sixth Star event were rewarded with a 666 million Limit Energy Stone.[4]
- All characters who have completed 6th Job Advancement are capped to 40 Faint Sol Erda Energies from monster drops per day.
- The daily cap was later increased to 300 in second part of the Assemble Update, and eventually removed in the Abyssal Expedition Season 5 - Nihal Desert Update.
- New Item:
External links
- KMS official site
- MSEA official site
- GMS official site
- JMS official site
- TMS official site
- CMS official site - Part 1
- CMS official site - Part 2
- CMS official site - Part 3
- CMS official site - Part 4
Availability
| Availability of MapleStory: New Age | |||||
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| Korea | Japan | China | Global | SEA | Taiwan |
| Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available |
References
- ↑ https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/general/13369
- ↑ https://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/lynn
- ↑ Season 1 and Season 2 were unavailable in GlobalMS and JapanMS.
- ↑ https://mxd.web.sdo.com/web6/news/newsContent.asp?id=357107&CategoryID=273
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