Monday, January 31, 2011

Big Bang Patch Summarized For You

Skills: Most have been changed, removed, merged or replaced by new ones.

Magic Attack/Weapon Attack Formula: 100% revamped, expect higher damages at lower levels too!

Magic Defence/Weapon Defence: 100% revamped too, expect lower damage from monsters/bosses.

Monsters: 100% revamped, less exp from monsters now, all monster levels changed.

Maps: 50-70% changed mostly in Victoria Island, Ludibrium, El Nath

Bosses: All bosses get 50% bonus defence in both weapon and magic defence giving them up to 50% free hp boost.

Jobs: Most have been revamped, all jobs get base Critical including 3 new jobs for the patch: Wild Hunter, Mechanic and Battle Mage

Wild Hunter: Crossbow user riding mount with ultimate skill at 4th job
Mechanic: Gun user riding a mechanical mount with ultimate skill at 4th job
BattleMage: Staff user using melee attacks based on magic attack

EXP Curve: Reduced drastically.

Resolution: 1024x768 for both windowed and full screen is available, expect higher quality graphics.

Party Quests: Most PQ have level limits removed, even a 200 Mapler can do Kerning PQ too!

Potion Drops: Drops in bundles from monsters.

Map Limiters: Some maps including Sleepywood dungeon now have level limits.

Travelling via Ships: All ships leave from the center of Victoria instead from Ellinia.

Mastery books/ Skill books: Now given from NPCs. Bosses drop a new Mastery Book with a ? meaning it can give u any random Mastery Book.

Patching System: Expect Big Bang Patch to come over 3-4 patches in series.

Compatiblity with Vista/Win7: Not yet 100% resolved.

Cash Shop: X2 EXP cards will be removed. (happened in GlobalMapleStory)

Family X2 EXP Buff: Nerfed to x1.2 EXP instead (happened in KoreaMapleStory and GlobalMapleStory)

Archmage/Bishop Ultimates: Now have a 30 second cooldown at max level.

DualBlader Ultimate: Now have a 30 second cooldown and will gradually be removed in future patches after Big Bang Patch.

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