Crown

Under construction

This article or section is in the middle of an expansion or major restructuring. You can assist in its construction by editing it as well.

CrownPost-Crown

Crown
CrownRide The Lightning
Parts	3
Initial release	December 2025
Chronology
Previous	Fall 2025 / Post-Assemble / Post-Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing
Next	23rd Anniversary / Post-Crown / Post-Ride The Lightning

Crown (or Ride The Lightning in GMS) is an update following Assemble. The update includes revamps to Kinesis, a new HEXA Common Node, new Level 280+ Boss Malefic Star, new Level 295+ Boss Jupiter, new Level 200 Astra Secondary Weapon tier, as well as a new Level 295+ Geardock area. The update also includes many user experience and quality of life improvements, including EXP and Sacred Symbol improvements, V Matrix revamp, Buff Shopper system, as well as Worldwide Meso integration.

There are regional differences between the rollout of the update. In all servers other than KoreaMS and GlobalMS, the update also includes revamps to Wild Hunter that was delayed from the Post-Assemble Update, as well as various quality of life improvements introduced in the first part of the KoreaMS 23rd Anniversary Update. In GlobalMS, the update also includes a new job, Erel Light, Mystic Frontier Champions, as well as various quality of life improvements. In MapleSEA, the update also includes a new job, Lynn. In ChinaMS and TaiwanMS, the update also includes Party Paradise, a new permanent rotating minigame content. In TaiwanMS, the update also includes various exclusive quality of life improvements.

Original (KoreaMS)

1st: Kinesis Revamp and QoL Improvements

• Job Revamp: Kinesis
  • Removal of Psychic Point system, while all Ultimate skills changed to regular skills with cooldown
  • HEXA Matrix Reset Scroll and new Change Circulator provided for existing Kinesis characters
    • Change Circulator allows a choice of one new Legendary ability, if the character already has one Legendary ability
• EXP improvements
  • Increased rewards from Epic Dungeons and Azmoth Chasm by 34%
  • Increased rewards from Monster Park Extreme for Level 275+ characters
    • Levels 275-279: ~1% to 4% increase
    • Levels 280-284: ~7% to 11% increase
    • Levels 285-289: ~25% to 29% increase
    • Level 290+: ~45% to 49% increase
  • Increased rewards from Advanced EXP Vouchers, Luxe Sauna, and MVP Resort for Level 270 to 272 characters
• Monster Park improvements
  • New Grandis area dungeons ranging from Shangri-La to Tallahart
  • Number of clears per world increased to 14 per day, and 2 free clears per day, though each character limited to 7 clears per day
  • MVP Express Pass no longer decreases the number of free clears
• Sacred Symbol and Grand Sacred Symbol improvements
  • All Sacred Symbols give up to +10% EXP when maxed
  • All Sacred and Grand Sacred Symbols +20% damage against the corresponding region's boss when maxed
• Field reorganization for Arcane River and Grandis maps, including Vanishing Journey to Esfera, Tenebris, Cernium, and Hotel Arcus
• New Level 3 Link Skills
  • Level 285+ characters will be rewarded with a new Proof of a Radiant Hero item, obtainable once per character, allowing upgrades to any character's Link Skill to Level 3
  • Certain Link Skills with no or low utility also provide additional damage passive to that character only
• Legion System improvements, where the rank can be raised at no cost when the corresponding legion level for the rank is reached, including increases via World Leaped characters
• V Matrix revamp
  • All skills directly enhanced via V Points instead of opening Nodestones directly
    • True Arachnid Reflection and Solar Crest still require opening the corresponding Nodestone once
  • V Points obtained via opening various Nodestones, with different values depending on the Nodestone type
  • Reclassification of V Nodes into Job, Enhanced, Common, and Special Nodes
  • V Point distribution can be reset with 10 million Mesos
  • 2 V Points can be converted into 1 Nodestone, which can be placed in storage
  • Removal of slot enhancements and expansions, as well as certain Special Nodes
  • Existing V Matrix information to be transferred to match the revised V Matrix information
  • Unequipped nodes converted into V Points corresponding to the disassembled V Point values
• Various Ascent Skill changes for all classes
• 6th Job Advancement questline improvements
  • Stones no longer needed to be charged before continuing with the questline
  • Certain quest difficulty adjustments
  • New Skip Cutscene feature
• Buff Shopper System and item changes
  • Players can view all buffs in the game, and all buffs can be bought within this UI
    • If buff can be purchased from Auction House, UI can open the Auction House screen with pre-filled search terms
    • Buffs can be registered in a Sequence even if the player does not currently have the items
    • New Buy Buffs in Bulk feature, allowing players to buy all buffs registered in a Sequence
  • New 30-minute atmosphere effects
  • Sayram, Aurelia, and Collector's Elixirs no longer expire and can be placed in storage
  • New Elixir of Honor from Collector, costing 5 million Mesos, providing ATT / MATT +60 for 30 minutes
  • Bright Moonlight Potions removed from Sealed Boxes and Chaos Sealed Boxes, and instead rewarded from Extreme Seren, Extreme Kalos, Extreme First Adversary, and Extreme Kaling
  • Champion's Renown available to be used in Practice Mode, allowing all stats to be used at the same time based on the Champion Raid's score
  • Boss clear count reset tickets no longer usable when weekly boss limit is reached
  • New Chair and Title bags, holding up to 80 slots per bag
• Soul Weapon UI and Soul Collection UI revamp
  • Allows crafting, registration, and extraction of multiple Boss Souls at once
  • New favorites feature to sort frequently used pages at the top of the list
  • All shards now displayed on the corresponding boss pages, with removal of all shards from various storage places
• Other UI changes and revamps
  • Regular and Cash Item Trades unified into one Item Trade UI, with new Registration process
  • Removal of Hyper Stats preset switching costs, though Hyper Stats no longer able to be switched during boss battles
  • Character right-click menu revamp, with new design and change of certain menu locations
  • Special Node skills can be registered in Buff Bookmarks
  • Quest Info window revamp, with multiple checkboxes in Story category can be selected at the same time
• Worldwide Meso Unification, where all characters of the same world share the Meso amount
  • Meso storage feature maintained
  • Meso limit increased to ~10 trillion
• Voice Chat feature, where players can talk to party members directly in-game
• Discord Connect feature, linking Discord accounts to MapleStory, allowing players to view Discord friend list in-game
• New Character Gender Swap Coupon, allowing gender swaps for a character
• MVP System changes
  • Calculation changed to past 13 weeks, including the current week
  • Monthly Sol Erda reward changed to weekly Sol Erda Energy rewards, with corresponding Sol Erda Energy based on the MVP tier
  • MVP Resort usage time changed to weekly, with unused usage time not reset and accumulated up to 90 hours
  • Various monthly items changed to expire weekly
• MapleStory Collection Cards
  • New physical merchandise where players can open packs of collection cards, with sets based on different jobs
  • QR code is scanned at the back of the card to be added into in-game collection, which can then be displayed in Maple Home and obtain various cosmetic rewards
• Custom Portrait Beta system
  • Utilizes generative AI to generate in-game illustrations of the player's character to be used in quest dialogues
  • Can also be added to Character Info
• Hyper Burning MAX, Beyond Burning, Jump-Start Tutorial, and Item Burning Plus events
  • Item Burning Plus only available for new characters
  • Missions for Item Burning PLUS expanded to include Verus Hilla, Seren, Kalos, and First Adversary
    • Such missions additionally require certain number of Crests of Challenge to clear and upgrade the equipment
    • Crests of Challenge work similar to Trace of Darkness and Adversary's Determination, which can be obtained by defeating Hard Lucid and above solo
  • Challenger equipment enhanced up to 22★, with mix of Legendary (Weapon), Unique (Weapon Bonus, Armor), and Epic (Armor Bonus) Potentials respectively
• Challenger World Season 3, with Challenger's Pass and Arcane Seal
  • Level missions changed to reward Challenger's Points and Coins for every level up to Level 290
  • Hunting missions no longer rewards Challenger's Points
  • Master and Challenger Tiers require successful Normal and Hard Kai defeats respectively
  • Shining Star Force event happens every 2 weeks in Challenger Worlds
  • New Season Boss: Kai (Normal and Hard)
    • Exclusive to Challenger Worlds, providing additional Challenger's Points and Coins (Normal and Advanced)
    • Weekly boss that does not count towards the weekly boss limit, and can only be done solo
    • Provides more powerful rewards than normal bosses, but does not provide any Intense Power Crystals
      • Golden Meso Pouch, providing 10 million Mesos
      • Kai's Pitched Armor Box, providing a random Pitched Boss Set item, similar to Chaos Pitched Accessory Box
      • Kai's Basic Sol Erda Fragment Box, providing untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Kai's Advanced Sol Erda Fragment Box from Hard Kai, providing more untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Asynchronous Time Shard from Hard Kai, tradable fragments which provides a Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder for every 10 fragments used
      • Temporal Eternal Armor Box from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder
      • Kai's Eternal Armor Box from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape
      • Kai's Soul Shard
  • Kai Clear event, where players can obtain Magnificent Kai's Soul Box, providing a guaranteed 3% ATT / MATT Boss Soul option
  • Challenger's Partner event, providing additional rewards including Sol Erda Fragments and various cosmetic items when partnered with another character of another Maple ID
  • Challenger EXP Duo event, allowing additional experience obtained on a character in an existing character based on the number of level range monster kills on a Challenger World character, lasting for 7 days for each ticket
• Night of Phantasms event
  • New event pet skill, providing additional damage when hunting mobs
    • Weekly buffs unlocked based on number of completed weekly missions, including increased base EXP for Epic Dungeons
  • New exchange function for 15 3x EXP Coupons for 1 4x EXP Coupon
  • New reward items
    • Leap Growth Potion, offering guaranteed level ups between Levels 200 to 259, or ~577.3 billion EXP at Level 260+
    • Legendary Growth Potion, offering guaranteed level ups between Levels 200 to 279, or ~16.7 trillion EXP at Level 280+
    • Mechaberry Farm Entry Ticket, similar to Golden Strawberry Farm but for Level 280+ characters
• KINETIC (Kinesis Revamp) event
• KINETIC Beauty Express event, providing players to extract existing Kinesis character's customization to a new Kinesis character using 30,000 Maple Points
• Winter Survival Missions event
• Momentum Pass event, for Level 280+ characters
• Luxe Sauna event
• New Name Auction event
• Nickname Express event, providing players to extract character names to another character using 30,000 Maple Points
• Prolific Portraitist event
• Little Snowman's Happiness event

2nd: Sol Hecate, Malefic Star, and Astra Secondary Weapons

• 2nd HEXA Common Node: Sol Hecate, a summoning skill mainly used for bossing
  • Level 1 (Styx) provides a bind for 4 additional seconds, with 1-minute cooldown once activated and enhanced damage at Level 10
  • Level 20 (Charon) ignores death and provides 10-second invincibility, with 10-minute cooldown once activated
  • Level 30 (Phlegethon) provides large burst damage every 2 minutes, with damage count based on the class
  • Can be set to automatically activate when certain skills are used, or deactivate when certain key is pressed
  • Damage dealt is different depending on the class
• New Boss: Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in the Dark Sea, accessible via Arteria, and is a Level 280+ Boss for up to 3 party members
  • Not Ymir, but rather like a clone of her, which was seen in Epic Dungeon: Nightmare Paradise
• New Equipment: Blissful Nightmare (fourth piece of the Brilliant Boss Set), a Level 250 ring
• New boss rewards
  • Maleficroid and Malefic Star's Soul Shard from Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Blissful Fantasy Fragment from Normal Malefic Star
  • Blissful Fantasy Shard and Eternal Armor of Phantasm Box (Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder) from Hard Malefic Star
• New Secondary Weapon: Astra Secondary Weapon (Level 200)
  • Available after Genesis Weapon has been fully liberated, and for Level 265+ Characters who have completed Hotel Arcus quests
  • Direct upgrade to the current secondary weapons, with potentials and Star Force Enhancements transferred to the new secondary weapon, if applicable
    • Certain secondary weapons have special scrolls that can be used to enhance the stats
    • Star Force Enhancement transfers cost additional Meso, with up to 180 billion Mesos for a 26★ Katara
      • Item scores can further adjust the Star Force Enhancement Level
    • Ruin Force Shield feature turned into a toggle when upgraded to an Astra Force Shield
  • Requires Fierce Battle Traces and Erion's Fragments for upgrading to Astra as well as subsequent upgrades
    • Fierce Battle Traces obtained from defeating Normal Seren and above
    • Erion's Fragments obtained from Grandis daily quests (untradable) or Grandis endgame bosses (tradable)
  • 3 stages of growth, with maximum of 15★ at Level 1, 20★ at Level 2, and 30★ at Level 3
  • If Astra Secondary Weapon is destroyed during Star Force Enhancement, replacements can be bought using 1 billion Mesos
• Skill balancing for certain classes
• Epic Dungeon changes
  • Can be completed on up to 3 characters per week (one per Epic Dungeon) per Maple ID
  • Maple Gold Coins replaced with Selazar Coins, which can be sold to NPCs for 40 million Mesos
• Removal of Azmoth Chasm, while related monster collection can be registered via purchasing Azmoth Chasm Monsterblooms via the Monster Park shop, costing 150 coins each up to 5 per week per world
• MAPLE Daily Gift reward changes for certain days, mainly replacing Maple Coin rewards with other usable items including Flames and Cubes
• Reward Point Shop stock change, replacing Maple Gold Coin with Cubes
• Proof of a Radiant Hero item extraction function
  • Provided free once per world, costing 2 billion Mesos after
  • Extracted item can be transferred between any characters within the same world
• UI improvements
  • New Buff Shopper hotkey, with Buff Favorites tab and feature in Buff Shopper UI
  • Auction House can be entered from boss entry maps, with double clicking items being able to be registered for sale
• Siren's Song (Malefic Star Boss Clear) event
• Burning Express event, rewarding Express Boosters which work similar to current Booster items though the monsters summoned are not affected by additional EXP effects
• Momentum Pass event
• Weekly Portrait Commission Ticket Sale event

3rd: Geardock and Jupiter

• New Area: Geardock (Level 295+), with corresponding Grand Sacred Symbol with similar stats as Tallahart
  • Secret underground workshop in the desert accessible from Hotel Arcus, where Gob used to craft weapons from Kronos, a giant furnace
  • Conclusion of the Ancient Gods storyline
• New Boss: Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in Geardock, and is a Level 295+ Boss for up to 3 party members
• New Equipment: Original Sin of Pride (fifth piece of the Brilliant Boss Set), a Level 250 face accessory
• New boss rewards
  • Jupiteroid, Twisted Yearning Fragment and Jupiter's Soul Shard from Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Yearning Eternal Armor Box (Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape) from Hard Jupiter
• Normal Malefic Star HP decreased by ~30%
• Destiny Weapon 2nd Transcendence
  • Decisive Battles for The First Adversary, Limbo, and Baldrix
  • Upgrade to existing skills tied to the weapon, with maximum Star Force Enhancement increased to 25★
    • Requires players to manually enhance the weapon from 22★ , with replacements costing 10 billion Mesos from new Destiny Weapon Shop
    • Additional 15% Boss Damage and Ignored Enemy Defense from Decisive Willpower skill
    • New First Legacy skill providing additional 10% ATT / MATT for 60 seconds
• Guild improvements
  • Guild Castle, requiring existing guild to be at least Level 20, with assets borrowed from Non-KoreaMS servers, but with various changes similar to Maple Home
  • Attendance automatically marked when logged in
  • Normal Guild Skill changes, including moving Blessing of the Guild buffs to passive skills
    • Removal of G Potions and Blessing of the Guild
  • Noblesse Guild Skill improvements, including no resets on skill point distribution if the guild acquires the same or more skill points in the previous week
  • Flag Race changes, including removal of entry requirements, and guaranteed 1,000 points upon completion within the time limit
  • Guild Bulletin Board revamp, including addition of post headings as well as other features such as pinned posts, voting, and reply to comments
• Field improvements, including reduction of number of monsters required to spawn a Treasure Hunter chest as well as Rune of Destruction changes
• New warning window displayed when players try to use portals while Booster effect is active
• Sol Janus can now be used in Mechaberry Farm map
• Link Skills, Hyper Stats, and Ability can now be changed in Epic Dungeon boss stages
• UI improvements
  • Drag-and-drop and right click can be used to register, store, or withdraw items in Item Trade and Storage UIs
  • Smoother Buff Shopper UI scrolling
  • Boss tier changes in Maple Guide Boss Contents section
• Maple Home Preset feature, allowing players to save up to 3 preset slots for the decorated Home
• MapleStory x Frieren: Beyond Journey's End collaboration event
• The One Who Swallowed a God (Jupiter Boss Clear) event
• Accelerated Hunting! Haste BEYOND event
• Frontier Pass event
• Momentum Pass event
• Tell Me Your New Year's Wish event

Non-KoreaMS (Except GlobalMS)

Note: This section uses mostly MapleSEA translations as the other Non-KoreaMS servers, except GlobalMS, use similar translated names in their respective languages. Unless otherwise stated, the release order in this section is also mainly based on MapleSEA timeline.

1st: Wild Hunter and Kinesis Revamps, and QoL Improvements

Various quality of life updates introduced in all of KoreaMS Crown and the first part of the 23rd Anniversary Updates are rolled out in the first part of the update. In addition, the update also includes:

• Job Revamps: Wild Hunter and Kinesis
• Challengers World Season 3, including Barrier Core
  • New Seasonal Boss: Kai (Normal and Hard), including Kai First Defeat event
    • Exclusive to Challenger Worlds, providing additional Challenger's Points and Coins (Normal and Advanced)
    • Provides more powerful rewards than normal bosses, but does not provide any Glowing Soul Crystals
      • Gold Meso Pouch, providing 10 million Mesos
      • Kai's Accessory Box of Darkness, providing a random Boss of Darkness Set item, similar to Chaos Accessory Box of Darkness
      • Kai's Lesser Sol Erda Fragment Box, providing untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Kai's Greater Sol Erda Fragment Box from Hard Kai, providing more untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Vestige of Unstable Time from Hard Kai, tradable fragments which provides a Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder for every 10 fragments used
      • Eternal Armor Box of Time from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder
      • Kai's Eternal Armor Box from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape
      • Kai's Soul Shard
• Genesis Pass, available for purchase twice, once for Challengers World, and another for all worlds
• Hyper Burning BEYOND and Hyper Mush Pass events
  • Enhanced rewards from Hyper Mush Pass include 4x EXP Coupons as well as Legend Growth Potion
• Primal Intuition (Wild Hunter and Kinesis Revamp) events, combining both job revamp events into one UI
  • Includes Hyper Burning Booster as well as Beauty Express for each revamped class
  • Change Circulator also provided for existing Kinesis characters
• Crown Step Up event, similar to Winter Survival Missions event in KoreaMS with changes to account for server differences
• Burning EXPress event
• Momentum Pass event
• Nickname Express event, providing players to extract character names to another character using 30,000 Maple Points
• Night of Falling Illusion event
  • Potential rewards include an event Luna Petite Pet that can be revived, alongside 8 Karma Premium Pet Equipment Scroll Selection Coupons

The following changes from KoreaMS are not implemented:

• Voice Chat feature
• Discord Connect feature

Lynn and Additional QoL Improvements (MapleSEA only)

In MapleSEA, the update also includes:

• New Job: Lynn, a Jianghu Magician class
  • Additional Hyper Burning BEYOND and Hyper Mush Pass exclusively available for Lynn
• Simplified Chinese language beta support
• Challengers World Season 3 additions
  • Exclusive Totem that can be carried to regular worlds
  • Shining Star Force event happens every 2 weeks in Challengers World
  • Challengers Partners event, similar to the KoreaMS implementation
  • EXPlode Trio, which replaces the Challengers EXP Duo event introduced in KoreaMS, allows players to get 3 Level 260 characters by training only one character to Level 260
  • Secret Book of Destiny, similar to the implementation in the previous Assemble Update, with additional missions and rewards including a 22★ Complete Under Control
  • Kai First Defeat event rewards include Augmented Kai's Soul Box, providing a guaranteed 3% ATT / MATT Boss Soul option, similar to the KoreaMS implementation
• Memories of the Tree of Life (New Job Lynn) event

Additional QoL Improvements (JapanMS only)

In JapanMS, the update also includes:

• Paid items and probability-related changes
  • New permanent 24% item drop rate effect
  • Updated description of item drop rate stat in Character Info UI
• Challengers EXP Duo and Challengers Partners events, similar to the KoreaMS implementation

Additional QoL Improvements (ChinaMS and TaiwanMS only)

In ChinaMS and TaiwanMS, the update also includes:

• New Preset feature for Pets and Cash items
• My Home improvements, including improved Caretaker dialogue and buff utility
• Familiar improvements, including free first slot
• Challengers World Season 3 additions
  • Exclusive Totem that can be carried to regular worlds
  • Mentorship Storm Training event, replacing the Challengers Partners event introduced in KoreaMS
  • EXPlode Trio, which replaces the Challengers EXP Duo event introduced in KoreaMS, allows players to get 3 Level 260 characters by training only one character to Level 260
  • Secret Book of Destiny, similar to the implementation in the previous Assemble Update, with additional missions and rewards including a 22★ Complete Under Control

In TaiwanMS, the update also includes:

• Game download improvements, including reduced time taken to download and install client
• VIP System improvements
  • VIP Lounge Shop now accessible via the VIP UI, with various stock changes
  • New Quick Pass benefit for Guild Castle weekly
  • More Daily Gift rewards for players with VIP status
• Item Lock feature added to Set-Up items
• Cube UI improvements, including clearer displays of locking and consumption costs
• New Beauty Points system, allowing players to choose certain Hairs / Face
• Custom Mix Hair Dye Coupons made available for sale at all times
• Character name change now available via Mesos
• OpenAPI improvements, featuring more available information than previous iterations
• MapleStory Collection Cards, including exclusive overseas classes
• Challengers Boxes, offering various rewards exclusive to Challengers World

2nd: Radiant Malefic Star and Astra Secondary Weapon

• New Boss: Radiant Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in the Black Sea, accessible via Arteria, and is a Level 280+ Boss for up to 3 party members
• New Equipment: Entrancing Nightmare (fourth piece of the Boss of Brilliant Set), a Level 250 ring
• New boss rewards
  • Ominous Staroid and Radiant Malefic Star's Soul Shard from Radiant Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Entrancing Phantasm Shard from Normal Radiant Malefic Star
  • Entrancing Phantasm Fragment and Eternal Armor Box of Phantasm (Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder) from Hard Radiant Malefic Star
• New Secondary Weapon: Astra Secondary Weapon (Level 200)
  • Available after Genesis Weapon has been fully liberated, and for Level 265+ Characters who have completed Hotel Arcs quests
  • Direct upgrade to the current secondary weapons including Princess Nou, Terminus, and Sweetwater weapons, with potentials and Star Force Enhancements transferred to the new secondary weapon, if applicable
    • Upgrades to Sweetwater weapons have slightly lower stats than other secondary weapons
• Call of Temptation (Radiant Malefic Star Boss Clear) event

3rd: Sol Hecate

• 2nd HEXA Common Core: Sol Hecate, a summoning skill mainly used for bossing

Abyssal Expedition Season 5 - Nihal Desert (MapleSEA and JapanMS only)

In MapleSEA and JapanMS, the update also includes:

• Abyssal Expedition Season 5 - Nihal Desert event

In JapanMS, the update also includes:

• Oshi Discovery Project+ event

Party Paradise (ChinaMS and TaiwanMS only)

In ChinaMS and TaiwanMS, the update also includes:

• Party Paradise, featuring rotating challenges every 2 weeks

In TaiwanMS, the update also includes:

• Exclusive Soul Weapon revamp, requiring weekly boss defeats to increase stats

4th: Geardrock and Jupiter

• New Area: Geardrock (Level 295+), with corresponding Grand Authentic Symbol with similar stats as Talahart
• New Boss: Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in Geardrock, and is a Level 295+ Boss for up to 3 party members
• New Equipment: Sin of Arrogance (fifth piece of the Boss of Brilliant Set), a Level 250 face accessory
• New boss rewards
  • Jupiteroid, Twisted Yearning Fragment and Jupiter's Soul Shard from Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Yearning Eternal Armor Box (Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape) from Hard Jupiter
• Destiny Weapon 2nd Transcendence
• The One Who Swallowed a God (Jupiter Boss Clear) event

Ride The Lightning (GlobalMS)

In GlobalMS, the update is instead named as Ride The Lightning, based on the KoreaMS Crown Update. The update is consolidated into two parts instead of three.

1st: Erel Light, Sol Hecate, and Malefic Star

Various quality of life updates introduced in KoreaMS Crown Update are rolled out in this update. In addition, the update also includes:

• New Job: Erel Light, a SHINE Warrior class
• 2nd HEXA Common Node: Sol Hecate, a summoning skill mainly used for bossing
• New Boss: Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in the Dark Sea, accessible via Arteria, and is a Level 280+ Boss for up to 3 party members
• New Equipment: Blissful Nightmare (fourth piece of the Brilliant Boss Set), a Level 250 ring
• New boss rewards
  • Maleficroid and Malefic Star's Soul Shard from Malefic Star (Normal and Hard)
  • Blissful Fantasy Fragment from Normal Malefic Star
  • Blissful Fantasy Shard and Eternal Armor of Radiance Box (Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder) from Hard Malefic Star
• Paid items and probability-related changes
  • New permanent 24% item drop rate effect
  • Updated description of item drop rate stat in Character Info UI
• Exclusive quality of life improvements
  • Star Force Enhancement improvements
    • Players can choose to pay at once to enhance equipment up to 22★ without risk of destruction, with adjustments of success and destruction rates up to 4 levels
    • Shining Star Force event runs bi-weekly for all worlds, while not diminishing existing Sunny Sunday benefits
  • Equipment Trace Restoration System improvements
    • 20% increase in daily acquisition limit for Mysterious Star Speck Boxes
    • Maximum limit for Boss Mission Recovery Points increased to 5,000
  • Familiar System improvements
    • Familiar unlocks shared between all characters within the same world
    • New feature to skip extraction and fusion animations
    • New individual sound controls for Familiars
    • New Mystic Frontier exploration complete alerts, with reduction of rest time
  • Skill improvements
    • Toggle skills retain their state upon login
    • True Arachnid Reflection and Solar Crest skills can be added to the Skill Sequence System
    • Cooldown immediately reset upon entering Monster Park Extreme
  • Item acquisition improvements
    • Ruin Force Shield can be crafted using Dawn Whisper Crystals
    • Profession Mastery Coupon added to Profession Credit Shop
    • Superior Item Crystals added to Monster Park Shop
    • Weekly purchase limit for Legion's Honor EXP Guarantees increased to 10
    • Chains of Resentment added to Mystic Frontier reward list
  • MAPLE Daily Gift can be checked twice on Sundays
  • Fog Forest Training Grounds now accessible via Quick Move
  • Cash Inventory Transfer Events increased to once per quarter, or 4 times a year
  • Cubing improvements
    • Miracle Time frequency increased to 4 times a year, with each day of the event featuring a different equipment slot, replacing the previous weekend-only format
    • Increased number of Cube Sales
• Hyper Burning MAX, Beyond Burning, Jump-Start Tutorial, Item Burning Plus, and Genesis Pass events
  • Item Burning Plus only available for new characters
  • Missions for Item Burning PLUS expanded to include Verus Hilla, Seren, Kalos, and First Adversary
    • Such missions additionally require certain number of Crests of Challenge to clear and upgrade the equipment
    • Crests of Challenge work similar to Trace of Darkness and Adversary's Determination, which can be obtained by defeating Hard Lucid and above solo
  • Challenger equipment enhanced up to 22★, with mix of Legendary (Weapon), Unique (Weapon Bonus, Armor), and Epic (Armor Bonus) Potentials respectively
• Challenger World Season 3, with Challenger EXP Duo, Challenger Partners, Challenger Pass and Arcane Seal
  • New Season Boss: Kai (Normal and Hard)
    • Exclusive to Challenger Worlds, providing additional Challenger's Points and Coins (Normal and Advanced)
    • Provides more powerful rewards than normal bosses, but does not provide any Intense Power Crystals
      • Golden Meso Pouch, providing 10 million Mesos
      • Kai's Pitched Armor Box, providing a random Pitched Boss Set item, similar to Chaos Pitched Accessory Box
      • Kai's Basic Sol Erda Fragment Box, providing untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Kai's Advanced Sol Erda Fragment Box from Hard Kai, providing more untradable Sol Erda Fragments
      • Asynchronous Time Shard from Hard Kai, tradable fragments which provides a Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder for every 10 fragments used
      • Temporal Eternal Armor Box from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Hat, Top, Bottom, or Shoulder
      • Kai's Eternal Armor Box from Hard Kai, providing Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape
      • Kai's Soul Shard
    • Kai Clear event, where players can obtain Magnificent Kai's Soul Box, providing a guaranteed 3% ATT / MATT Boss Soul option
• Arthur's Equipment Rental event
  • New totems providing additional Sacred and Arcane Power stats
  • Interactive Worlds cost to rent equipment reduced by 50%
• SHINE: The Power of Starlight (New Job Erel Light) event
• Siren's Song (Malefic Star Boss Clear) event
• Operation: Dive exclusive event, with rewards including Sol Erda Fragments
• Night of Phantasms event
• Luxe Sauna event
• Momentum Pass event
• Prolific Portraitist event
• Burning Express event
• Chroma Essence event

The following changes from KoreaMS are not implemented:

• Level 3 Link Skills for Level 285+ characters
• MapleStory Collection Cards

2nd: Kinesis Remaster, Geardock, and Jupiter

• Job Revamp: Kinesis
  • Exclusive Hyper Burninator and Petite Luna pet support offered for Kinesis
• New Area: Geardock (Level 295+), with corresponding Grand Sacred Symbol with similar stats as Tallahart
• New Boss: Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Takes place in Geardock, and is a Level 295+ Boss for up to 3 party members
• New Equipment: Original Sin of Pride (fifth piece of the Brilliant Boss Set), a Level 250 face accessory
• New boss rewards
  • Jupiteroid, Twisted Yearning Fragment and Jupiter's Soul Shard from Jupiter (Normal and Hard)
  • Yearning Eternal Armor Box (Eternal Shoes, Gloves, or Cape) from Hard Jupiter
• Destiny Weapon 2nd Transcendence
• New Secondary Weapon: Astra Secondary Weapon (Level 200)
  • Available after Genesis Weapon has been fully liberated, and for Level 265+ Characters who have completed Hotel Arcus quests
  • Direct upgrade to the current secondary weapons, with potentials and Star Force Enhancements transferred to the new secondary weapon, if applicable
• Operation: Dive Phase 2, with rewards including Sol Erda Fragments
• Mystic Frontier Champions, where players can compete amongst one another based on collected and grown familiar decks
• Ride or Die Season 4 event
  • Event revamp, including complete unique challenges build over the event period to achieve most efficient clear results
  • Rewards include Sol Erda Fragments

Videos

2025 WINTER SHOWCASE | CROWN

2025 MapleStory WINTER SHOWCASE - CROWN

CROWN SHOWCASE 쿠키 영상 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

두 번째 공용 코어 솔 헤카테 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

신규 보스 유피테르 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

신규 보스 찬란한 흉성 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

챌린저스 월드 시즌3 X 시즌 보스 카이 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

키네시스 리마스터 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

2025 WINTER SHOWCASE CROWN 현장 스케치 | 메이플스토리

키네시스 리마스터 in 서울 | 메이플스토리 CROWN

Maple Now | 김창섭 디렉터 (26.01.08)

Maple Now | 김창섭 디렉터 (26.02.05)

MapleStorySEA CROWN | A New Dimension Awaits

MapleStorySEA - CROWN Update Showcase

MapleStorySEA CROWN Showcase - A Tribute to Our Maplers

MapleStorySEA - Night of Falling Illusions

MapleStorySEA - Challengers World Season 3 x Seasonal Boss: Kai

MapleStorySEA - Wild Hunter Remaster

MapleStorySEA - Kinesis Remaster

MapleStorySEA - Child of the Forest, Lynn

MapleStorySEA - New Boss: Radiant Malefic Star

The Savior of Light, Erel Light | MapleStory

The Protector of Helia Descends | Erel Light | MapleStory

Malefic Star | MapleStory

Erel Light Main Skill Showcase | MapleStory

Challenger World S3 | New Boss: Kai | MapleStory

Ride the Lightning | Coming June 17th | MapleStory

【新楓之谷】CROWN 版本發布會

【新楓之谷】凱內西斯 Remaster

【新楓之谷】狂豹獵人 Remaster

【新楓之谷】挑戰者伺服器 S3 賽季BOSS 時間的流浪者 凱伊

【新楓之谷】全新BOSS 燦爛的凶星

【新楓之谷】新六轉共用核心 靈魂赫卡忒

【新楓之谷】派對樂園 歡樂登場

【新楓之谷】全新BOSS 尤比太

【新楓之谷】泰里到你家 ep2

【メイプルストーリー】SUMMER SHOWCASE 2026 'CROWN' | Teaser PV

【メイプルストーリー】SUMMER SHOWCASE 2026 'CROWN'

冒险岛CMS 王冠版本前瞻发布会 - Part 1

冒险岛CMS 王冠版本前瞻发布会 - Part 2

[CMS v226]《冒险岛》“最”帅职业——超能力者重制！就在V226王冠版本！

[CMS v226] 锁定《冒险岛》V226王冠版本，经典职业——豹弩游侠重制上线！

[CMS v226] 如梦似幻的噩梦？！《冒险岛》新首领“灿烂的凶星”华丽登场！

[CMS v226] 挑战者世界第三季赛季首领凯伊登场！《冒险岛》V226王冠版本给你惊喜！

[CMS v227] 《冒险岛》六转新通用核心——索尔赫卡忒7月29日实装！

[CMS v227] 挑战《冒险岛》首领极限？！V227版本朱庇特傲慢来袭！

Trivia

• Server Naming Difference
  • GMS: Ride The Lightning
  • MSEA/TMS/JMS: Crown
  • CMS: 王冠 (Crown)
• As of this update, both Kinesis and Kanna use MP as energy gauge instead of their respective special energy gauges.
• In KoreaMS, Genesis Pass did not return for this update due to game economy issues, as stated during the KoreaMS Crown Showcase.
  • In Non-KoreaMS servers, Genesis Pass returned in this update.
• In GlobalMS, a Public Test Server was made available to test and report bugs on incoming content related to this update.
• A number of regional differences came across with this update:
  • The MapleStory x Frieren collaboration event was handled differently depending on the server:
    • In JapanMS, this was released in the Post-NEXT Update with additional events associated with the collaboration.
    • In KoreaMS, this was released in this update, though it was only cosmetic items for sale with no additional events.
    • In MapleSEA and TaiwanMS, this will be released in the Post-Crown Update.
  • In Non-KoreaMS servers, the following differences apply, with some notable exceptions:
    • Guild Castle was added before this update. This was initially introduced in ChinaMS and TaiwanMS, before expanding to the other Non-KoreaMS servers.
    • Wild Hunter job revamp, which was released in the Post-Assemble Update in KoreaMS, was released upon rollout of this update.
      • In GlobalMS, this was released in the Post-Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing Update, similar to KoreaMS.
    • Quality of life improvements introduced in the first part of the KoreaMS 23rd Anniversary / Post-Crown Update were released upon rollout of this update.
      • In GlobalMS, this was not released in this update, and is likely to be released in the Post-Ride The Lightning Update, similar to KoreaMS.
    • Azmoth Chasm was not available, hence the removal of such content was omitted.
      • In GlobalMS, Azmoth Chasm Monsterblooms were introduced even though Azmoth Chasm was not available.
    • Meso Shop items were more limited than in KoreaMS, with notable omissions include Mechaberry Farm tickets as well as various cosmetic items.
      • In GlobalMS and JapanMS, Mechaberry Farm tickets remained available for purchase from the Meso Shop.
    • MapleStory Collection Cards were not available for purchase.
      • In TaiwanMS, this was made available for purchase and included all overseas classes.
  • In GlobalMS and JapanMS, the paid items and probability-related changes were brought forward from the Post-Crown Update to this update.
  • In GlobalMS, the following quality of life improvements were added in the Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing Update:
    • Level 3 Link Skills for all classes, albeit with some differences:
      • Level 3 unlocks at Level 210 instead of Level 285.
      • Certain Link Skills were already at Level 3 before the update.
      • Every Link Skill upgrade requires the corresponding character providing the Link Skill to be at least Level 210, instead of a choice of any Link Skill via Proof of a Radiant Hero item.
      • Additional damage not provided for certain Link Skills.
    • Removal of Hyper Stats preset switching costs

External links

• KMS official site - Part 1
• KMS official site - Part 2
• KMS official site - Part 3
• MSEA official site
• GMS official site - Inkwell's Note: Summer is Coming
• GMS official site
• TMS official site - 2026 Summer Showcase: Crown
• JMS official site - Crown
• JMS official site - Kinesis and Wild Hunter Revamps

Availability

Availability of MapleStory: Crown
Korea	Japan	China	Global	SEA	Taiwan
Available	July 2	June 24	Part 1	Part 1	June 24

References

Major Updates
Year
	Title
2010
	Big Bang (July) Chaos (December)
2011
	Jump! (March) Legends (July) Advance of the Union (October) Justice (December)
2012
	Tempest (July) Unlimited (December)
	Exclusive	Mark of Honor (July)
2013
	Cygnus Returns (January) RED (July) FLY (September) You & I (December)
	Exclusive	Season 2 (April) Spark (July) Gentleman (August)
2014
	Coordinator's Touch: Star Force (July) Maple Ice & Burn (December)
2015
	Giseungjeon12 (February) Reboot (June) Heroes of Maple (November)
2016
	V (June) Beyond (December)
2017
	Nova (June) ARK (December)
2018
	Black Mage (June) Adventure (December)
2019
	Glory (June) RISE (December)
2020
	Awake (June) NEO (December)
2021
	Maple Live (June) Destiny (December)
2022
	Ignition (June) Savior (December)
2023
	New Age (June) Dreamer (December)
2024
	Milestone (June) NEXT (December)
2025
	Assemble (June) Crown (December)
2026
	Overdrive (June)
Mainly based on Korean MapleStory timeline and title