Von Leon Patch

So.... The Von Leon Patch was just released yesterday on the 17th of August 2011..... And I wasn't around to witness the epicness of the event..... Doesn't sound like I'm missing much :P Just a new job and a new training spot to train with your friends. Nothing that hasn't happened in the past few years cannot compare to this situation, so why do I feel bummed....?? .....

Moving on F3. The Von Leon Patch has restricted character creation, which I remember posting somewhere at the start of the month explaining what the reasons would be for such a thing happening, and the benefits and downhill falls it will bring to Maplers :P. Though Evan Hackers make up the majority of hackers in Maple, new jobs are rising up to the challenge with their hacks and bots. Such jobs would include Soul Masters, Arch Mages and, believe it or not, Buccaneers, though I've only encountered one Buccaneer Hacker somewhere in Time Temple a while ago..... So this Character Creation Blockage, which will be on for a while, is said to bring back the jobs with even GREATER power. -.-" That's not bad news, but at the same time, it ain't good either.

New Master Monsters?

[Master Monster] New Master Monsters!

• The Master Monsters are new boss monsters.
• Each has new quests associated with it.
• The quests to fight the Snow Witch begin at level 57 with Scadur’s Advice (El Nath)
• The quests to fight the Bamboo Warrior begin at level 100 with Shadow Ghost of the Herb Field (Herb Town)
• The quests to fight Richie begin at level 135 with Attack of the Zombies (El Nath)
• When defeating a Master Monster in a party will receive bonus EXP! 30% extra EXP for each additional party member up to a max of 150% extra EXP for parties of six.



.....As if we haven't encountered, and defeated, such monsters that have appeared while training, slacking or doing whatever the hell we were doing at the time of encounter. Snow Witch can sometimes be defeated just like that, but then again you might need the Hector Tail and put it somewhere so that she'd be weaker.... Makes no sense at all lol. The Bamboo Warrior can be encountered in Zipangu while training on Dreamy Ghosts, all you had to do was hit some bamboo to weaken this guy and then you can just attack him. Richie's a pain..... I haven't found a way to defeat him yet.... But I'll see if I can find a way. However, these "Master Monsters" will be assigned to new places, as stated above, but I'm sure you can still encounter them at their usual places.

4. [System Event] Fairy Pedant Event (Event Period: 17/08/2011 – 31/08/2011)

In celebration of the born of the new alliance between Explorer and Cynus, Queen Cygnus will be rewarding all Maplers by bestowing Fairy Pendants once again before the arrival of Chaos!
Talk to NPC Cassandra to find out more! For characters level 13 and above.

Now this is a BIG difference between the "More than 2 hr: 30% extra EXP" thing before Big Bang. This, being handed out to Maplers, would not be surprising if people ignore it. Some people are willing to ignore this because they probably have godly Horntail Necklaces or Mark of Nerricains.

5. [System Event] Crayon Event – Portrait of a Popular Monster (Event Period: 17/08/2011 – 31/08/2011)

Collect crayon of different color to complete the Rainbow Drawing! Remember, you can collect only one color per day.

Talk to NPC Cassandra to find out more! For characters level 13 and above.

Missed out one day and short of 1 color crayon? Not to worry! Gaga will give you the crayon of color that you want at the end of the event!

List of the Crayon quest is as follows:
• View of the Rainbow
• Gaga’s Indigo Crayon
• Gaga’s Purple Crayon
• Gaga’s Red Crayon
• Gaga’s Orange Crayon
• Gaga’s Yellow Crayon
• Gaga’s Green Crayon
• Gaga’s Crayons

Reward for completing the Rainbow Drawing

+2 weapon attack. The first Overall I've ever seen in the history of Maple to have ever added Weapon attack. Imagine using a Chaos scroll on it and it becomes 7 weapon attack @.@ You can continue Chaos-ing it a further 9 times. And to make it better is that you can enhance it as well, further increasing the weapon attack. However, funding might be a problem in this case :P

6. [System Event] La Tomatina Party Quest and Exchange Event! (Event Period: 17/08/2011 – 14/09/2011)

Giant Tomato on the loose in all towns!

Collect Strange baby tomato dropped by Giant Tomato that will appear in all towns randomly and find NPC Charles to exchange for special tomato related items!

Look for NPC Charles and Ben in Event Map! Complete 2 of Ben’s requests in a party of 3 to be able to activate the special exchange quest by Charles!

Ben’s requests are very tricky~~so stay alert! For characters level 12 and above.

Quest Name
• Ben’s tomato farm 1
• Ben’s tomato farm 2

Such a cute .... er "little" tomato :3. The word that really caught my attention was the "exchange for special tomato related items" sentence. Is it possible to achieve the Tomato Hat only available in Cash Shop? Or other tomato related equipment for example.... a tomato spear? xD Those weapons would be juicey :3 F3. Chances are there's gonna be a hat and a pair of shoes/belt involved.

8. [Gachapon Update] New Gachapon Rewards!

All new Gachapon items are available in ALL Towns.

Hurry down to the nearest Gachapon Machine and try your luck now!

As a chair .... erm... collecter (Jk i have no useful chairs XD) I find the Dunas Jet Chair rather appealing... And the same goes for the rest if I can ever achieve them through Gachapon....