KMS has recently announced a new event that involves the new Dual Blade Class arriving in coming weeks.

Sealed boxes will drop from certain monsters and each box will have a chance to drop “Owl’s Tail Feather”, Unagi, Pure Water, Elixer, Blade scrolls, Chaos scrolls, and a few other things. You may use the “Owl’s Tail Feather” for a quest or can save it till 2/25. If you keep the feather you will receive a box. Inside this box is a random item. With this box however you have a chance to receive one of these new blades.

You also have to collect feathers for a chance to play in Tespia from February 18th until May 2nd. There’s a good chance that when Tespia opens February 18th that the Dual Blade class will be there waiting for all the lucky new people to play.

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KMS Maple Story

Nexon has released a new game called PopTag. It has been in development for about a year now and it seems like Nintendo has something to say… (Well, not really, but this game does seem like Bomberman.)

You know the very similar retro game back in the late 1990’s? Clueless? Well, don’t worry I’ll fill you in. Bomerman is a game that allows the user/player to play as a character in a map. The character on the screen has an objective: to kill the opponent. No matter how hard/tactical/ugly the monster is, the person must fight it. The character has bombs which are used to destroy the enemy.

In PopTag, it seems like the same exact thing. Except we aren’t using bombs, but something much safer: water balloons. The objective of the game is to try to get as many points as possible and to defeat the boss before you feel like a fool standing there with monsters “draining” your life. You are allowed to work in teams.

So let me ask you, (Yes, I mean you…the person staring at the screen) do these look familiar? Compare them and see for yourself.

What do you think? Share your opinions below.

Youtube- (Bomerman Video)

Wikipedia- Bomberman Info

Nexon’s Official PopTag Website

As many of you know KMS has recently released some new information on the next new hero class soon to be release in KMS. There has been no official release of what the name of the new class will be, but for now its just be called “Dual Blade”. A few names have been rumored to be thought of what it could possibly be called such as “Ryan”,”Ivan”, “Odan” and “Ian”. But we wont know for sure till they release more information in the KMS database. This new hero class will be the first class to harness dual wielding weapons instead of two-handed or one-handed/shield. From what has been leaked so far it will be for sure using a new weapon called “Blade”, but is still unsure if it will be Dagger/Blade or Blade/Blade. Once more information is release we will let you know as soon as we know. Currently the new Blade scrolls are dropping in KMS Tespia, but the class has yet 2 be release. KMS has announced a huge update will be arriving in March where the new hero will arrive, which is much sooner than most of us have anticipated. Another unique fact about the new Dual Blade class is that like Evan it will have more than 4 job advancements. It will supposedly have 6! Of course though since none of this has been release even in Tespia there is a good chance a lot of this could all change before the official release of this class to the main servers. Below is some more information about what has been release about the class. credit goes to http://forums.asiasoftsea.net/showthread.php?t=758965

02/03/10:
KMST Extraction 1.2.286: (The thief does not appear to have been released into the test server yet, but there’s some interesting things in here.)
http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23526

02/06/10:
KMST Extraction 1.2.288: (This thief is revealed to be a third branch of Adventurers instead. However, the thief appears to be far different than any other adventurer, as the thief appears to have SIX job advancements. There’s some speculation that the overall story might treat this new branch as part of the Legend/Hero story.)
http://www.southperry.net/forums/sho…t=23611&page=1

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Currently known information:

Story:
The KMST 1.2.286 extraction has some data of tiger mobs. Translating the quest data from the same extraction indicates that they’re part of an event, but I’m not sure if it’s a pre-event for this class or a completely unrelated event. They do mention something about a teacher, though.

Even though the latest KMST extraction indicates that this thief is not a Legend, I’m leaving this section here because Nexon has to have some interesting explanation for the third branch of Thieves suddenly appearing. After all, there is some interesting speculation that while this Thief is classified as an Adventurer in the data, the story might consider this to be a Legend/Hero thing (’starting out as a nobody, advancing towards a greater destiny’ type of thing).

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Equip Type and other Information:
This thief appears to wield a new type of weapon called “Legendary Dagger”, or “Dual Blades”. One such weapon has been found in KMST Extraction 1.2.286. There are even new scrolls for this type of weapon.

Also, they have a seperate cash shop from the other Adventurers at the moment. Perhaps in the future, they will be merged.

NULL (no name yet)
Legendary Dagger – Thieves only
Required Level: 12
Required DEX: 25
Required LUK: 25
Weapon Attack: +27
Slow(7)
7 Slots

There is a new equip slot available for all classes, Shoulderpads. The two currently existing shoulderpads are listed below. It is unknown at this point how to obtain them.

호랑이 발톱 (Tiger Claw)
Shoulderpad – All classes
Required Level: 20
Weapon Attack: +2
Magic Attack: +3
STR: +2
DEX: +2
INT: +2
LUK: +2
MDEF: +16
WDEF: +20
Tradeblock
Time Limited
One-of-a-kind

검은 호랑이 발톱 (Black Tiger Claw)
Shoulderpad – All classes
Required Level: 20
Weapon Attack: +2
Magic Attack: +3
STR: +2
DEX: +2
INT: +2
LUK: +2
MDEF: +16
WDEF: +20

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Skills:

This Thief has six job advancements. Their first job is the same as any other thief, the standard ‘Rogue’ stage. No confirmed animations yet.

All of the below information has been Google Translated from what Fiel has provided in the 1.2.288 KMST Extraction. So far, nobody knows at what level that these job advancements will occur.

General animations:
- Stab
- Swing D1
- Swing D2

All skill descriptions that I provide are max level unless noted otherwise. If you want to see skill effects at all levels, visit the KMST 1.2.288 extraction link provided in the Updates section above.

Also, note that since this is in the test server, these skills are subject to changes at any time during this testing phase. This is especially considering that a lot of them currently appear to have placeholder skill names, strings, and are generally incomplete.

Second Job: “Blade 1″ (the blade part is obviously a placeholder name)

1: Blade Mastery (20 SP to max)
- 60% Mastery and +20 Accuracy

2: TS (20 SP to max, placeholder name)
- MP -10, “Damage to Consumer” (?) 116%
- (This is at Level 10, the skill strings do not extend to 20 at the moment)

3: Blade Booster (20 SP to max)
- HP -10, MP -10, blade attack speed up for 200 seconds

Third Job: “Blade 2″

1: Endure (20 SP to max)
- Additional recovery of 60 HP and 20 MP every 10 seconds

2: SH (20 SP to max, placeholder name)
- MP -30, Speed +40 and Jump +20 for 200 seconds
- (Even though the skill currently has a placeholder name, I am very sure that this is basically Haste.)

3: Fatal (30 SP to max)
- MP -27, 80% Damage.
- (Unfortunately, the translation currently does not say how many times this attack hits. I’ll have to check with Fiel and Spadow later.)

4: SStorm (30 SP to max)
- MP -27, 80% Damage.
- (Uh… The skill strings are exactly the same as Fatal. Placeholder strings?)

Fourth Job: “Blade 3″ (Perhaps all of the Dash labels are placeholder names.)

1: Dash (1 SP to max)
- No skill strings attached. Obvious placeholder.

2: Dash Attack (1 SP to max)
- Same situation as Dash.

3: Flash (20 SP to max)
- MP -27, 140% damage, attacks 6 times

4: Dash (20 SP to max)
- MP -13 to jump a certain distance
- (Seems to be exactly like Flash Jump)

Fifth Job: “Blade 4″

1: BStorm (30 SP to max)
- MP -15, 74% Damage
- (This is at Level 10, the skill strings do not extend all the way to 30 at the moment)

2: Mirror (30 SP to max)
- MP -55, consumes 1 Summoning Rock, normal attack 80%, basic attack 50% for 180 seconds
- (This appears to be exactly the same as Shadow Partner)

3: SDTh (no mastery listing, placeholder name)
- MP -60, Damage 120%, Range 120%
- (This is at Level 20)

4: Assault (no mastery listing)
- MP -60, Damage 120%, Range 120%
- (This is exactly the same as the previous skill)

Sixth Job: “Blade 5″

1: N/A (no mastery listing, placeholder name)
- MP -40, 120% damage, 8 seconds accumulative damage, Critical Damage 250% with 90% probability
- (This appears to be exactly the same as Assassinate)

As more information is released I will keep you up to date.

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Maplestory has been a great MMORPG, and with great updates. Apparently, Nexon Korea is releasing another “legendary ” job. Just like Aran, and Evan, looks like we have a legendary thief.  This new job may feature thiefs that are capable with blades. Thief lovers watch out, cause looks like we have an upgraded bandit job. (There is bad news, GMS/MSEA may not get it until late 2010.) More to come soon…

Source 1:  http://maplestory.nexon.com/

Source: Youtube (Video)

Youtube Video- View of KMS Page

Oh dang, get ready for something shocking.

In the Aran video, it has been said that one of the five ancient classes was the Aran.
That means there are 4 more jobs we have yet seen.

Some hours ago, kMST just updated their files and people looked into it and found out new equips that require Str and Int. Now, some say that there will be a Magician like job that summons because the armor looks like for mounts. But who knows?

Source: http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20346&highlight=summon

Credits to southperry and its staff.

MapleSEA has always been about the same level as GlobalMS. MSEA got the Knights of Cygnus, GMS got Koc, MapleSEA got the Pirate class first, then we got it. Basically MSEA has been getting content first. There was much speculation over when GMS or MSEA would get Pirates or who would get it first, or when MSEA or GMS will get KoC first? Now there is much speculation over the new Aran Class. Currently KMS is the only version of Maple Story that has this class, but will MSEA get it first or will GMS get it? By these images that were found by Me(Impulse) and by one of our members DragonDraco.

Image Found By: DragonDraco:

In this image is says that “Aran is coming and that you will not have to wait until next year.”

So, we know that MSEA will be getting it sometime this year.

Image Found By: Impulse:

In this image MapleSEA talks about the unique combo system of the Aran Class and that “Aran is coming to SG and MY SOON! Let’s just say all Maplers are gonna have a super fun end to 2009! *wink*.”

From this image we can tell that they will be getting the Aran Class around the end of 2009. Nexon has not yet dropped any hints on this class that we know of yet.

MapleSEA already has vicious hammer and is soon to get Kaede castle from the new banner they have on their website.

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If you have anymore information or need to ask any questions please post a comment on here, go to the forums or you can email me directly at impulse@maple-news.com.

Credits: Images found off MapleSEA’s Facebook.  Images Found By: DragonDraco, and Impulse.

Remember those times where after the Wizet, Asiasoft, and Nexon logos… you here a soft… smoorth sensation of a BGM when trying to log in?

Well, forget that in jMS because I’m sure you will be wondering “Wow… is this techno?” when you here jMS’s new Title Screen BGM. They actually have someone singing stuff so… yeah.

I was doing a “more into research” by copying and pasting from the jMS webpage about this to Google translator to find out what this song is about. Apparantly, jMS wanted to make a song dedicated to all the players of jMS. Pretty cool huh?
This song will be soon released along with other songs (Not MS related) in an album called… Ahh I can’t type it!

If you didn’t know, jMS= Japan MapleStory!

Credits to mazefind for it.
Composer: Mikuni Shimokawa
Song: Memories of MapleStory

Link:
Full Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvEmXMHYK6c
Short Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxZSsAQuPY

Credits to Kenny Li for the following information.

This job, Aran, is actually one of the most creative videos on how you start out as an Aran.
It actually has a moral storyline from the BEGINNING!

Credits goes to mazefind for the video and skycombat for the storyline.
Revision of the storyline:

You start out as a mighty Lv 200 Aran.

Their city.. was attacked by the Black Magician.. first with monsters.. then.. with fire. The people in the village were waiting for a lost kid.. they didn’t know where he was and.. Helena (the girl NPC) told the explorer (the guy in the video) to go look for him before they took off in their only escape of a giant airship.. (They were probably going to escape to the Altair Camp. Makes sense because you see Helena there too.)

(Once you found the kid, he’s actually a replica of you.) You asked him to go back to the ship where everyone can escape. In the mean time, Black Magician burnt the tents and everything else.. even his own monsters.. there was so much fire that even the Black Magician’s army was gone (as you can see, when he goes back, there aren’t monsters, but when he went to take the kid there were).. and they (the people) had to escape as soon as possible.. the explorer (you) arrived with the kid.. and gave him to Helena. She told the traveler (also you) to get in the boat, but he/she refused – he/she wanted to fight with the Black Magician to defeat him and save the village. But he was too strong. And he froze the Aran.

Well Helena and the rest of the people got to escape in the boat, safe to Altair Camp (Ellin Forest if you haven’t noticed what Altair Camp was) but you were trapped in your icey doom. Probably thousands of years later (Because I’m trying to compare this with Altair Camp being in the past ‘cuz you have to be in a time machine to get there) you got rid of your icey doom from a mysterious girl who supposedly “found you”. You are back to LV 1 (probably amnesia or something). The “village” that you tried to save is now a solid icey… place called… Rien. And now that you got rid of your doom, you now can try to find your way back to what your main goal was… to defeat the Black Magician.

In the latest patch update in KMS (1.2.75) Nexon added a new Jump Party Quest because our lack of ‘koreaness’ we still don’t know if its a Jump Quest or a PQ. From the video you see the object of this quest is obtain a certain amount of keys without dying there will be severall obstacles but in the end you are rewarded with a very nice boss inspired overall and hat.

for more information you can refer to the official KMS Article(Internet Explorer only)

If your not currently in Internet Explorer you can Copy and paste this URL:

http://maplestory.nexon.com/MapleStory/Page/Gnx.aspx?URL=News/UpdatePreBoard&maskPageType=2&oidArticle=2628

A new class coming to KMS (Korean MapleStory) on July 9th, 2009. Rumored to be an ice-based job and related to the warrior class, but different all the same.

From skycombat’s video description:

With the latest KMS website maintenance, the Aran Trailer was released on their website. The trailer is similar to the Knights of Cygnus’ one, and it will show you some of the upcoming content.

First of all, you will see some new NPCs. Those are from Lienne (or Rien), the new upcoming area where you’ll be able to advance as an Aran. Then, you’ll see some of the Aran’s Skills in the video, and a wolf near a character with white hair at the end. They put a white-haired character in the video probably because the Aran job is an ice-based job (and so will be the town); the wolf, instead, is the level 200 Aran mount. There are more mounts for the Aran job:

Level 50

Level 100

Level 150

Level 200

(credits to Spadow for the images)

Also, at around 00:12 you will see a character stuck in the ice, screaming. That’s the Black Magician’s seal which sealed the Aran people in the ice for hundreds of years. The Aran people were a group of warriors who tried to defeat the evil force of the Black Magician long time ago, so the Black Magician sealed them in the ice. Now that they’re finally free, they’re back, to help with the fight against the Black Magician. I don’t know ALL the story, but that should be a good “piece” of it.
You can see their pld fight against the Black Magician at 00:05.
At around 00:25 you can see a short fight of an Aran character against some monsters. Those are modified versions of the Leafre monsters. Same HP and everything, they just are different. They look like.. more evil. Probably under the influence of the Black Magician’s evil power, or something like that.

Most importantly, the trailer shows at the end that the Aran class is coming out on the official KMS servers on July 7th.

Also, credits to Spadow for posting the trailer first, and to NEXON Korea for making it.

It’s suggested to watch in high quality!

Enjoy!

Thanks to Kenny Li for the tip.