The final patch of the MapleStory Ark update has been released! The Sea of Beginning, Esfera, the sixth area of Arcane River, as well as the new boss, Commander Will are now available! Here’s the Maple Update Info Centre video for this patch. Here’s the Esfera background they have on the MapleStory homepage! The Sea of Beginning, Esfera The new Arcane River area, the Sea of Beginning, Esfera, has been added. Characters level 235 or higher who have completed the ‘It’s Not Time Yet’ quest in Morass can go to Esfera by accepting the ‘Strangers’ quest. The beginning of the end, a new world without Transcendents. Esfera, the Sea of Beginning is found at the end of Arcane River. The waves of life swaying in the blue light were beautiful enough to move your soul, but deep inside, the powerful aura of the end was sleeping. New monsters have been added. Atuin (Lv. 240) Atus (Lv. 241) Velaryon (Lv. 242) Velarys (Lv. 243) Aranha (Lv. 244) Aranea (Lv. 245) Watcher of Light (Lv. 246) Watcher of Darkness (Lv. 247) Executioner of Light (Lv. 248) Executioner of Darkness (Lv. 249) New NPCs have been added. Ollie Melan Shumet Will ??? Tana Aiona Kanto Dimo Gate Here’s all the NPC illustrations! New quests have been added. Strangers (Lv. 235, Jean) Sea of Beginning (Lv. 235, Ollie) Find the Signal Flare (Lv. 235, Ollie) Finding the Dry Thing 1 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Finding the Dry Thing 2 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Base Camp (Lv. 235, Ollie) Absence of the Sun (Lv. 235, Melan) Mild Greetings (Lv. 235, Ollie) Fricatives 1 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Fricatives 2 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Secure Tana (Lv. 235, Ollie) Spider Hunting 1 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Spider Hunting 2 (Lv. 235, Ollie) Spider Hunting 3 (Lv. 235, Ollie) The One who Abandoned their Name (Lv. 235, Ollie) Light and Darkness (Lv. 235, Executioner) Weakening 1 (Lv. 235, Executioner) Weakening 2 (Lv. 235, Executioner) Settling (Lv. 235, Ollie) Choice of Time (Lv. 235, Ollie) Trap (Lv. 235, Melan) Qualified to Wield Power 1 (Lv. 235, Melan) Qualified to Wield Power 2 (Lv. 235, Melan) Swapped (Lv. 235, Melan) Mirror Inside the Mirror (Lv. 235, Melan) New items have been added. Arcane Symbol: Esfera Temple of Light Chair Click to view slideshow. Here are all the maps of the area, super pretty! Esfera’s maps require 560/600/640 Arcane Force. Blood Cage https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-bloodcage_new1.mp3 Contaminated Sea https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-comteminatedsea_new1.mp3 Diffraction https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-diffraction_new1.mp3 Mirror Cage https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-mirrorcage_new1.mp3 Soup of Life https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-soupoflife_new1.mp3 Temple in the Mirror https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/bgm49-img-templeinthemirror_new1.mp3 Here’s the new background music that was added in this patch. The thing I found most interesting about the story that I can gleam from just extractions is that the Tana with purple hair and red clothes is actually Aiona, who is the Transcendent of Light of Grandis. She was said to be in the place where only the light could reach. The map on the left is the Temple of Light, in Esfera, but there’s another version of the map in Grandis. It seems Esfera is tied in with Grandis and its Transcendents somehow… In addition, the map on the right is called The Place Where She Slept, which could mean that Esfera is the place where Tana hid herself away after the events of Kritias. Hopefully we find out about her past and why she is so powerful! Also, the NPC beside her is just called ??? and seems to be able to transport through dimensions. He is probably pretty important as he’s the one that destroyed the Cygnus ship when you first enter Esfera and he shows up beside Will in the illustrations. Who could he be? I will hopefully be translating the story line just like I did with Morass and Ark as soon as possible, so keep an eye here or on my Twitter for when that’s done! Boss: Will Will, the ruler of the Mirror World has finally appeared in the Sea of Beginning, Esfera. You can meet him while completing the Esfera quests in the Corridor of Diffraction. You can fight Commander Will in a party of 1~6 people. Currently, there is only a Hard mode. Will’s boss map requires 760 Arcane Force. Mechanics A new mechanic that you will encounter as soon as you fight Will is the Moonlight Gauge. It will be a circle on your screen that fills up as you attack. When it’s completely filled, you’ll be able to use a special Moonlight skill, depending on which stage of Will you are on. Will has a total of 3 stages, but some of his attacks are common across all of them. Randomly, Will will summon Beholders around the map, which will shoot out bullets either straight or diagonally. If you are hit by these bullets, your Moonlight Gauge will be decreased, so try to avoid them! Randomly, spider legs will shoot down from the sky. Phase 1 In Will’s first phase, he actually has three HP bars! He is actually in both the real world and the Mirror World, so you’ll have to fight him in both. At the top, you’ll see his red HP bar, which is his ‘true health’, when that hits 0 he’ll transition to phase 2. Below that one, you’ll see two thinner bars. One will be blue/purple and one will be grey. These two HP bars are his HP in the real world and the Mirror World. They are separate and will only go down when each version of Will is attacked. While in one world, you’ll see the other world’s HP bar as grey. Occasionally, Will will use his screen crack skill. After he does this, all 3 HP bars will be set to the same amount as the blue or purple HP bar with the highest remaining HP. For example, if the red bar was at 100%, the blue bar at 70%, and the purple bar at 50%, they would all be set to 70% HP remaining. Therefore, you’ll need good communication and coordination to split your party among the two worlds and whittle down the HP bars at a similar rate. Now, how can you attack him in two different worlds? You’ll need to use the Moonlight Gauge – Space Move skill, which allows you to move to the other dimension. T Phase 2 In phase two, you’ll be moved to a map with reflections of both your characters and Will on the ground. As you can see, Will’s reflection will attack while he is attacking as well, which means you’ll need to dodge not only his real attacks but also the attacks from his reflection that would hit yours. In addition, this phase blocks all forms of recovery. Again, you’ll need to charge up your Moonlight to use Moonlight Gauge – Health Recovery, which will allow you to use health recovering potions and skills once more. Phase 3 In phase 3, Will goes full spider king and transforms for most of his attacks. There’s not much information as no one reached this stage in KMST but maybe we’ll see some more videos soon. These three animations are titled Infection, with the last one being labelled After Host Death. Maybe this skill is a status that is inflicted one one person and can spread to others nearby, even after death? In this phase, Will seems to be able to summon spiderwebs that bind your movement (maybe something else, not sure). You can use the Moonlight Gauge – Spiderweb Removal skill to remove them when needed. Rewards A new 5th job Skill Core has been added. This skill cannot be acquired through Core Gemstones or Core Crafting. You can only receive it by using Mirror World’s Core Gemstones, which can be acquired from Will. You also receive one of these Gemstones after defeating Story Mode Will, so you can at least get level 1 without having to face the real boss haha. Spider in Mirror: Will’s Erda disrupts space, connecting reality with the Mirror World. For a certain period of time, spiders from inside the mirror will appear in reality. (max level: 25) Level 1: Consumes 15% max HP. Disrupt space, dealing 780% damage 12 times on up to 15 enemies. For 48 seconds, a mirror will be summoned. Every few seconds, it will enter an attacking state, during which it will use up to 10 spider legs to deal 182% damage 8 times. If a single enemy is hit by 5 spider legs, the attacking state will immediately end. After the attacking state ends, there is a reactivation cooldown of 5 seconds. Cooldown: 250 seconds. Level 25: Consumes 15% max HP. Disrupt space, dealing 1560% damage 12 times on up to 15 enemies. For 48 seconds, a mirror will appear. Every few seconds, it will enter an attacking state, during which it will summon up to 10 spider legs to deal 364% damage 8 times. If a single enemy is hit by 5 spider legs, the attacking state will immediately end. After the attacking state ends, there is a reactivation cooldown of 5 seconds. Cooldown: 250 seconds. Will’s Boss Souls and Soul Skills have been added. Grasp of Destruction: Consumes 300 Soul. Will transforms into a spider and unleashes a devastating attack, dealing 1000%/1200% damage 4 times on up to 15 enemies. Cooldown: 40 seconds. (max level: 2) Spider King: Consumes 250 Soul. For 120 seconds, summon the Spider King Will, who deals 1800%/2200% damage. Cooldown: 150 seconds. (max level: 2) Will has also been added to the Soul Collector, with two new illustrations. “A person’s true worth is revealed through their choices.” “Wah, what a surprise! I didn’t make this choice!” New Pocket items have been added. These are part of the Dark Boss set, along with the Rouge Control Machine Mark, Magic Eye Patch, Black Heart, and Dreamy Belt. I assume that Will will drop them, just like these other equips are dropped by their respective bosses. Cursed Red Grimoire (20 STR, 10 DEX/INT/LUK, 100 HP/MP, 10 attack/magic attack, tradeable until equipped) Cursed Blue Grimoire (20 INT, 10 STR/DEX/LUK, 100 HP/MP, 10 attack/magic attack, tradeable until equipped) Cursed Green Grimoire (20 LUK, 10 STR/DEX/INT, 100 HP/MP, 10 attack/magic attack, tradeable until equipped) Cursed Yellow Grimoire (20 DEX, 10 STR/INT/LUK, 100 HP/MP, 10 attack/magic attack, tradeable until equipped) A new medal has been added. The One Who Pierced the Truth (15 all stats, 1000 HP/MP, 4 attack/magic attack) New items have been added. Primal Droplet Stone (dropped from monsters in Esfera) Cobweb Droplet Stone (dropped by Will) Arachno Coin Similar to the the Phantasma Coins in Lacheln, in Esfera you’ll have to hunt monsters to collect Primal Droplet Stones and defeat Will for Cobweb Droplet Stones. You can trade in 10 Primal Stones and 1 Cobweb Stone for 1 Arachno Coin. (Thanks to 세벽 on Inven for the screenshot!) You can spend the Arachno Coins in the Arachno Coin Shop. Here you can buy the Arcane Shade weapons for 24 coins each, or the Arcane Shade overalls/hats/shoulders for 16 coins each. (Thanks to 일감 on Inven for the screenshot!) Maple Achievements New Achievements have been added. Ultimate Light from the Ultimate Darkness (complete the Esfera quest line) [Area Exploration] Explore Esfera [Will] Stronger Spider (defeat Hard Will 1 time) [Will] Spider Elimination Expert (defeat Hard Will 10 times) [Will] Spider Annihilator (defeat Hard Will 100 times) [Will] Let’s Kill Will. Will is our Enemy. (get the last hit on Hard Will as Zero while dealing the most damage) Game Related The settlement period for Mileage has been changed from 7 days to the same day. Now, any Mileage that you earn through item use must be settled by entering the Cash Shop by 11:59 PM on the same day. Otherwise, the unsettled Mileage will disappear at 12:00 AM the next day. When you exit the game, you’ll receive a notification if you have any unsettled Mileage. Stability on the Windows 10 operating system has been improved. The following errors have been fixed. Fixed an error where Ark could not see Pierre’s hat colour while in Spectre mode. Fixed an error where certain content that changed your character or equipment would cancel Ark’s Spectre mode. Fixed an error where Sina appeared during the conversation in Illium’s quest ‘The Ancient God’s Sanctuary is… in Leafre?’. Fixed an error where the trash can in Monster Life showed a different image and tooltip. Fixed an error where certain quest items did not disappear after the quests were completed. Fixed an error where certain equipment were excluded from the set effects of the 2nd Warrior/Mage/Archer/Rogue/Pirate sets. Fixed an error where you could complete the ‘Violetta’s Guardian’ quest by talking to Mushking instead of Violetta. Fixed an error where Polo and Fritto did not give experience sometimes in certain maps. Fixed an error where you could sit on a chair inside Mu Lung Dojo. Fixed an error where some ladders were cut off in Fuzzy Forest. Fixed an error where your guild application would be cancelled after changing channels. Fixed an error where Mix Dyes were applied abnormally in certain hair’s animations. Fixed an error where the Snail pet was not shown properly in the Cash Shop preview window. Fixed an error where the attack would not activate when using a Rune of Destruction at the same time as hanging on a rope. Fixed an error where the Zero Weapon UI’s mesos would appear abnormally if you had more than 10 billion mesos. Skill Related The following errors have been fixed. Fixed an error where some attacks would knock you back while using Body of Steel. Fixed an error where after using a Buff Freezer, Paladin’s Blessed Hammer would disappear even if Elemental Charge was still active. Fixed an error where Mercedes could not use Soul Contract while using Sylphidia. Fixed an error where Kaiser could not activate Sword Strike using commands while in the air. Fixed an error where Zero could use Time Holding in the Forest of Patience and Forest of Tenacity. Fixed an error where Ark’s willpower gauge would reset after using a Buff Freezer. Fixed an error where if Ark died while in Spectre mode inside Urus, you would not be able to leave that mode. Fixed an error where Battle Frenzy would not activate if entering Spectre mode while using Plain Charge Drive after learning the Looming Spectre – Advanced skill. Fixed an error where using a potion at the same time as the final attack of Ark’s Endless Pain would cause the final attack to not activate. Fixed an error where the client would sometimes exit if Ark used Memory of Root while using movement skills. Fixed an error where Ark did not see the Lucky Dice skill after installing the Loaded Dice skill core. Cash Shop The Odette and Odil packages as well as the Toy Soldier King package will be on sale until February 1. The Arcana spirit pets have returned and will be on sale until February 7. The Royal Style Coupon has been updated with new items and will be on sale from January 25 to February 18. It has new items like the Bear Paw Hoodie/Padding/Uggs, the Ark Aura cape, the Pink Horn Beanie, and more! This month’s Special Label is the Plum Blossom set. If you collect all 5 pieces, you’ll also get the Under the Plum Blossom Flowers Chair! The Master Label is still the Master Blood set. The February Royal Hair Coupon has been added and will be on sale until February 21. The Trendy Royal Face Coupon has been updated with a new set of faces. Events Ark Coin Shop The Ark Coin Shop season 2 will run from January 25 to March 4. The shop now has a few new items including the Bonding Ring, new Damage Skins, and the Maple Tree of Beginnings Chair. Scrolls Eternal Rebirth Flame (200 coins) [limit of 3] Strong Rebirth Flame (80 coins) [limit of 5] 50% Epic Potential Scroll (100 coins) [limit of 3] 10% Clean Slate Scroll (30 coins) [limit of 20] Craftsman’s Cube (70 coins) [limit of 5] Special Medal of Honour (70 coins) [limit of 5] SP Reset Scroll (50 coins) [limit of 1] AP Reset Scroll (50 coins) [limit of 1] 60% Miraculous Positive Chaos Scroll (100 coins) [limit of 3] Strange Cube (5 coins) [limit of 5] Gold Potential Stamp (20 coins) [limit of 7] Special Additional Potential Stamp (30 coins) [limit of 3] 60% Innocent Scroll (50 coins) [limit of 3] 50% Golden Hammer (30 coins) [limit of 3] 50% Additional Potential Scroll (150 coins) [limit of 3] Special Core Gemstone (50 coins) [limit of 10 per week] Selective Arcane Symbol Voucher (50 coins) [limit of 20 per week] Damage Skin Extractor (1,500 coins) [limit of 3] ARK Random Damage Skin Box II (80 coins) [no limit] Discovery Damage Skin Esfera Damage Skin LatteDamage Skin Pink Bean Damage Skin Blue Strike Damage Skin Orange Mushroom Damage Skin Purple Damage Skin xoxo Damage Skin Graffitti Damage Skin Reminiscence Damage Skin Sky Damage Skin (300 coins) [limit of 1] Hybrid Damage Skin (200 coins) [limit of 1] Maple Tree of Beginnings Char (1,000 coins) [limit of 1] Cave of Life Chair (400 coins) [limit of 1] Snow Pepe Chair (300 coins) [limit of 1] Flying Whale Riding Voucher (600 coins) [limit of 1] Yephynx Riding Voucher (400 coins) [limit of 1] Flying Treasure Map Riding Voucher (400 coins) [limit of 1] Sledding with Kemdi Riding Voucher (350 coins) [limit of 1] Damage Skin Storage Slot Expansion Coupon (100 coins) [limit of 1] Personality Growth Potion (300 coins) [limit of 1] Free Advancement Coin (300 coins) [limit of 1] Character Slot Expansion Coupon (200 coins) [limit of 1] Teleport World Map (1 day) Voucher (15 coins) [limit of 1 per day] Mastery Book 20 (10 coins) [limit of 10] Mastery Book 30 (20 coins) [limit of 20] Final Figuration Main Colour Change Coupon (50 coins) [no limit] Final Figuration Sub Colour Change Coupon (50 coins) [no limit] Final Figuration Colour Reset Coupon (30 coins) [no limit] 100 Power Elixirs Voucher (5 coins) [no limit] Polo and Fritto Entry Ticket (20 coins) [limit of 1 per day] Accessories Chaos Ring Voucher (3,500 coins) [limit of 1] Bonding Ring Voucher (800 coins) [limit of 1] Bonding Ring Only Cube (30 coins) [limit of 5 per day] Ark Mega Burning The Ark Mega Burning event will run from January 25 to February 7. When you create a new character during this event, you can choose to make them a Mega Burning character! Note that you cannot burn an Ark or Zero, and you can only do this once per world per Maple ID. Characters can only become Mega Burning characters when they are created. You cannot change your Mega Burning character but if you delete it, you can make another one. The main benefit of a Mega Burning character is the ability to gain two extra levels per level up. This effect will take place until level 130! You’ll also receive the Keep on Burning title which gives 10 all stats, 10 attack/magic attack, 10% boss damage, 10% defense ignore, and 400 HP/MP. The title can only be equipped after reaching level 130 and its stats will expire in 14 days. At level 100, you’ll receive the Legendary Secret Box which when opened will reward you with 2 Mastery Book 20’s, 2 Mastery Book 30’s, and a full Black set. At level 30, you’ll receive the Level 30 Equipment Box which is self-explanatory. Finally, when your Mega Burning character is created, it will receive a Snail pet that has 5 hours of magic. It comes with meso loot, item loot, auto loot, and auto HP/MP. You cannot use the Water of Life on it. Ark Sugar Time The Ark Sugar Time event will run for only one day, January 27, from 12 PM to 12 AM. Characters level 33 or higher (or Zeroes who have completed Chapter 2) can access the Ark Sugar Time UI using the event icon. During this event, the amount of time that you are logged in will be recorded in the Ark Sugar Time UI. When you stay logged in for a total of 30/60/90/120 minutes, you can click the button on the UI to receive the following rewards: 30 Minutes 10 Ark Coins 60 Minutes 10 Ark Coins 2x Experience Coupon (15 minutes) 90 Minutes 10 Ark Coins 120 Minutes Ark Sugar Box (gives 500 Mileage and a chance to win 5,000/10,000/100,000/500,000/1,000,000 Maple Points) Ark Sugar Coin Box (gives 10 Ark Coins the first time you open the box, then 5 additional coins per box opened) 2x Experience Coupon (15 minutes) Once you have received all of the rewards above, your cumulative time will be reset and you can collect them starting from the beginning again. You can receive the rewards up to 5 times per Maple ID. Your cumulative time will be shared between all characters on your Maple ID and will continue to add up until you reach the maximum 120 minutes. Once you have reached the maximum number of rewards (5), you will no longer accumulate logged in time. Discovery Arena The Discovery Arena event will run from January 25 to February 7. Win battles to earn tremendous rewards! ~ this event is sorta complicated to understand just from the text so I’m gonna play it tomorrow and add information about it then ~ Discovery Life The Discovery Life event will run from January 25 to February 7. Raise your own parrot to get unique colours and special buffs! When you start the quest, you’ll receive the Parrot Summon item. When you use it, you’ll summon your Parrot and it will give you various stat boosts. It can only be used until February 15. While hunting monsters around your level, they can drop 5 different colours of fruit, which will give you 50 Ark Points and that colour of fruit when you loot them. You can get up to 20,000 Ark Points per day through this method. There is no limit on the number of fruit you can loot or use in a day. You can use fruit in your inventory to change your Parrot’s colour and level it up. As your Parrot levels up (to a maximum of 10), the stat boosts will increase. The Parrot requires 40/60/80/100/120/140/160/180/200 fruit to level up. Every few levels, it will grow up! The Parrot gives 2~20 attack/magic attack, 2%~20% damage to regular monsters, 2%~20% damage to boss monsters, 2%~20% defense ignore, and 2%~20% critical rate, based on its level. Discovery Link The Discovery Link event will run from January 25 to February 7. Enter Discovery Link to hunt and gain levels fast! Characters level 100 or higher can use the Discovery Map to enter the Discovery Link waiting map. You can then talk to Cndra assato enter a hunting ground where up to 10 people can be placed in the same map at the same time. In Discovery Link, you can only see and kill your own monsters. Monsters here also give 120% additional bonus experience. You can pay 10 Ark Coins to spawn 500 monsters. The daily limit of how many times you can spawn monsters is based on your level. Level 100~119: 500 monsters Level 120~139: 1,000 monsters Level 140~159: 1,500 monsters Level 160~179: 2,000 monsters Level 180~199: 2,500 monsters Level 200+: 3,000 monsters The number of monsters remaining will be maintained even if you leave the map or disconnect from the game. You can also change the summoned monsters to others that are within 20 levels of your character level. However, Arcane River area monsters cannot be summoned unless you have access to the area. Discovery Treasure Ship The Discovery Treasure Ship event will return from January 25 to January 31. Every day from 10:15 AM to 11:45 PM, you’ll receive an invitation every XX:15 and XX:45. You can accept the invitation to play with other players. This is a game where you must guess the correct 3 digit password on a keypad! You can input 1 guess every 10 seconds (maximum of 15 tries). There will be 4 rounds in total. Each time you enter a guess, Kemdi will tell you how many numbers you got right and how many numbers were in the right position. Based on the rankings of who found the password first, you’ll receive Ark Points. Discovery Desert The Discovery Desert event will return from February 1 to February 7. Every day from 10:15 AM to 11:45 PM, you’ll receive an invitation every XX:15 and XX:45. You can accept the invitation to play Bingo with other players. Kemdi will call out a number every 3 seconds and you can click the numbers on your Bingo board to complete it. You’ll get Ark Points based on your ranking at the end of the game. Sunday Maple The Sunday Maple event will take place on January 28 and February 4. On January 28, the following benefits will take place: 100% discount in Discovery Link (no Ark Coins required to spawn monsters) 2x Ark Points acquisition rate and 2x daily limit On February 4, the following benefits will take place: 30% discount on the Ark Coin Shop 2x Ark Points acquisition rate and 2x daily limit Source: Orange Mushroom's Blog
Nah, just gotta get 6x perfect legendary lines on every single piece of equipment you have, max out all nodes and be level 250