Break time

So ....yeah I'm going to take a break from Maple and blogging for 3 days. In the mean time I have a 3 day camp to attend (coincidence XD). So I'll post when I'm back. Ice Knight is fun but not really worth it in my opinion >.>

Review on Ice Knight Patch

So...yeah first I'd like to apologize for the lack of activity on my blog, but I've been rather....."preoccupied" recently so it's going to be hard to find time to go around Maple.

Anyway, greetings and salutations to everyone who visits this blog and to everyone else everywhere. First off, I'm going to review the latest patch, the Chaos : Ice Knight Patch, and then I'm going to go over to my experiences in Ice Knight and Capture the Flag.

The patch is mainly about the new features available in Player vs. Player battle, which would be Ice Knight and Capture the Flag. But I'll cover that later. 

3. [Game Content] Wedding Commitment

Attention all married couple! Have you ever wanted to re-new your wedding vows with your loved ones? The chance is here with the new Wedding Commitment content.

1. Receive the 30/100 Days Commitment Event from Maple Mailbox

2. Look for Ames the Wise inside Amoria

3. You will need to purchase the Commitment Ceremony Ticket from the Cash Shop.

Commitment Ceremony Guide
• 30 Days after your marriage date you will receive a letter from Ames the Wise. This applies too for couple who are married for more than 100 days.
• Party up with your partner
• Once you have activated the quest, purchase the Commitment Ceremony Ticket from the Cash Shop.
• Talk to Sister Margaret to reserve the ceremony chapel for you and your partner.
• After reservation, talk to Sister Clarence and select “I’m ready for my 30 days / 100 days wedding commitment wedding”
• Once done, both party member will be teleported to the wedding map.
• Talk to the Wedding Commitment NPC to complete the ceremony.
• After completion of the wedding ceremony, approach NPC Jacob to receive the wedding commitment rewards.

Wedding Commitment Event Period (23/11/2011 – 31/12/2011)

From 23/11/2011 till 31/12/2011, all in-game married couple will receive a “30 Days of Love Rain” quest from Cassandra.

“30 Days of Love Rain” Guide

• Party up with your partner

• Activate the “30 Days of Love Rain” quest from Cassandra
• Collect 30 or 100 Pink Water Drop from monsters

• Once the required amount of Pink Water Drop have been collected, look for Cassandra to complete the quest.

Reward for 30 Days Commitment Wedding
• “30 Days Commitment” Wedding Ring
• Love Chair
• Heart Return Stones

Reward for 100 Days Commitment Wedding
• “100 Days Commitment” Wedding Ring
• Love Rain
• Love Couple T-shirt
• Heart Return Stones

Ok now, whether or not the husband and wife both need the ticket, or just one will do, I'm not sure. And I tried looking for the Wedding Ring stats up on hidden street but there was no record of it's existence. So I checked it up on Global as well, with the same results. The South East Asian version of Hidden Street had a lot of the Evolving Ring stats, but nothing about the Wedding Rings. The website didn't list the rings available from Player vs Player either. So....yeah, the stats will remain unknown until someone acquires them XD.

4. [System Event] Ice Knight Event! (23/11/2011 – 31/12/2011)

From 23/11/2011 till 31/12/2011, talk to NPC Rosette to accept the various challenges.

Arena of the Ice Knight
Challenge: Achieve a score of 200 or more while playing as the Ice Knight
Reward: One Gallant Emblem

Ice Knight 500
Challenge:Achieve a score of 500 or more while playing as the Ice Knight.
Reward: One Iceman Transformation Potion and One Gallant Emblem

The Ice Knight’s Curse
Challenge: Log in between 1400hrs – 1500hrs(+8 GMT) and locate the Curse Knight in Henesys to accept the Ice Knight’s Curse challenge.
Reward: Ice Knight Medal


When I tried out the Ice Knight option in PvP, I already achieved a score of 500 or more, so I got the Transformation Potion and the Gallant Emblem. The only thing I have yet to accomplish is the Ice Knight's Curse challenge. But considering as to how I might be busy today, I'll try it out later. I checked out the stats of the Ice Knight Medal on Hidden street.

Ice Knight Medal : All stats +2 . Charm EXP +100. No time limit. So it's probably worth it to get this medal.

5. [System Event] Inkwell and the Red Buttons Event (23/11/2011 – 21/12/2011)

From 23/11/2011 till 21/12/2011, monsters all over MapleSEA will be dropping Ice Cubes . Collect the Ice Cubes piece and purchase a Microwave from the Cash Shop to melt the Ice Cubes, after which you will receive a Red Button

+ = + Random Reward

You will received a Red Button and a random reward when using the Microwave

Here are some of the items which you can received from the Microwave.

– Angelic Blessing Recipe
– Dark Angelic Blessing Recipe
– Infinite Throwing-Knives Recipe
– Timeless Equipment Recipes
– 3 Star Enhancement Scroll
– 4 Star Enhancement Scroll
– Soul Teddy Chair
– Lord Pirate Chair
– Teddy Bear Bed
– Chaos Scroll 60%
– Miraculous Chaos Scroll 60%
– Scroll for One-Handed Weapon for ATT 100%
– Scroll for Two-Handed Weapon for ATT 100%
– Scroll for Armor for STR 100%
– Scroll for Armor for INT 100%
– Scroll for Armor for DEX 100%
– Scroll for Armor for LUK 100%
– Scroll for Accessory for STR 100%
– Scroll for Accessory for INT 100%
– Scroll for Accessory for DEX 100%
– Scroll for Accessory for LUK 100%
– And many more!
>and many more
>and many more
>and many more
Now that's what makes me afraid of participating in this event XD. The "and many more" part scares me 
terribly. I remember the Peanut Machine event quite a while back. Power elixir + hot air balloon mount >_> Anyway, now is school holiday time, so I have no money to waste on this event :P However, the Dark Angelic Blessing Recipe looks rather promising....

6. [System Event] Attendant Check Event (01/12/2011 – 31/12/2011)

Remember to mark your attendance with Cassandra during the month of December as she will be giving out reward box to every Mapler who complete the daily attendance quest.

This is what you have to do:

1. Talk to NPC Cassandra and receive the Attendant Check Event daily quest.

2. You are required to hunt 30 Grapes from monsters and give them to Cassandra before she mark your attendance for the day.

3. For every attendance taken, you will receive 1 Attendance Box and a grape stamped on the date which you have completed the daily attendance quest.

4. That’s not all! You will receive additional rewards when you attend the event for a certain number of days.

Grapes Belt will be given to Mapler who attended the event for 3 days, 12 days and 21 days.

Grapes Pendant will be given to Mapler who attended the event for 6 days, 15 days and 24 days.

Grapes Earrings will be given to Mapler who attended the event for 9 days, 18 days and 27 days.
Perfect Attendance Medal will be given to Mapler who attended the event for 31 days.

Now I feel like I've seen this somewhere.... I think it was on Spadow's blog. It's a shame he stopped blogging ;_; He posts a lot of interesting stuff. Anyway, moving back to the topic. Now according to Global Maplestory Hidden Street. The stats of the items are :

Grape Belt : Weapon attack + 2. Magic Attack + 2 . Weapon & Magic Defence + 50 . Max HP and MP + 300.

Grape Pendant : Weapon defence and magic defence + 50. All stats + 5

Grape Earring : Weapon attack & Magic attack + 3.

Perfect Attendance Medal : Weapon attack & Magic attack + 5. All stats + 7. MaxHP&MP + 200.

Do take note though, ALL OF THE ITEMS HAVE A TIME LIMIT. Makes me wonder if this event is worth it to join :P.

rking your attendance with Cassandra for the month of December, Gaga will also be giving out cool rewards when you collect Ancient Artifacts from monsters. Each artifacts collected from the monsters will gives you random points. You may exchange these points with Gaga for different rewards.

1. 5000 Points – Artifact Hunter Medal

2. 10000 Points – Artifact Hunt Gift Box

3. 30000 Points – Archaeologist Hat

4. 40000 Points – Archaeologist Face Paint


5. 50000 Points – Archaeologist Glasses


6. 100000 Points – Choose one of the following Permanent item.
– Archaeologist Hat
– Archaeologist Face Paint

– Archaeologist Glasses
7. Artifact Hunt Top 10 – Top Artifact Hunter Medal

Below 50000 points, it's not permanent. So I recommend getting more points before you try to redeem anything. Now the face paint, glasses and hat are all part of a set that you can get through this event. Again, looking up the stats.

Archaeologist Hat : All stats +7 Weapon&Magic Defence + 30. MaxHP and MP + 50. Charm EXP + 100, and has 10 slots. No time limit

Archaeologist Glasses : All stats + 2 Weapon&Magic Defence + 20. Charm EXP + 100 and has 3 slots. No time limit as well.

Archaeologist Face Paint : All stats + 3. Weapon&Magic Defence + 10. Accuracy & Avoidability +30 with no slots. Charm EXP + 100. Has no time limit.

However, if you were to acquire all of the Archaeologist items as a set, the set will give you :

All stats + 3
MaxHP&MP +100

However, I would recommend that you don't trade in your points. Instead just keep it to be in the Artifact Hunt Top 10 and get the medal. Now, I can tell you, the stats of the medal are really worth getting for.

Top Artifact Hunter Medal : Weapon&Magic attack + 3. Weapon&Magic Defence + 150. All stats + 5 MaxHP&MP +100 Speed and Jump + 15. And the Charm EXP is good too. + 200 Charm EXP.

8. [System Event] Christmas Season of Joy 2011 (07/12/2011 – 21/12/2011)

Suni’s family are having problems clearing their debts and need our help. If this goes on, Suni and her family will be sleeping on the streets before the New Year. However, Suni have some powerful equipments which have been accidentally enhanced by Spiruna and she is putting them up for rental to earn some meso. She needs to clear the debts as soon as possible.

From 07/12/2011 till 21/12/2011, you will be able to rent powerful equipment from Suni for a small fee.

The following Evan Series Rental Equipments are available from Suni:

• Evan Headband
• Evan Outfit(M)
• Evan Outfit(F)
• Evan Gloves
• Evan Bootes
• Evan Cape
• Maple Pyrope Magic Pendant
• Maple Pyrope Power Pendant
• Gold Source Earrings
• Gold Source Belt
Note(1): Each equipment comes with 9%, 6% and 3% potential stats of your desired attributes.
Note(2): Each rented equipment can be worn by all class.
Note(3): Each rented equipment will last for 7 days before expiry.

As a bonus from Suni, she will be changing all the rented equipments from temporary to permanent if you are able to enhance the rented weapon to 8 Stars enhancement. What’s more, Suni will reward you with 1 Miracle Cube as well for each successfully enhanced 8 Stars equipment.

In additional to this event, you will be able to purchase Lucky Enhancement Box from NPC Joyce. Each Lucky Enhancement Box will gives you random chance to obtain an Enhancement Scroll or an Advance Enhancement Scroll to assist you with enhancing your rental equipments.

._. Are you joking me? 80Million for 7 days? You have to scroll it to a 8 Star successful enhancement to keep it? Skip this event unless you want to try your luck.

9. [Changelogs] Bug Fixed & Changes

Bug Fixed
• Fixed auto reset of Battle Points after every exit
• Fixed character experiencing “trouble logging in” at character selection page
• Various minor bugs fixed

Changes
• Revised pricing for all Materials & Recipe sold by NPCs inside Ardentmill.

Well now that the pricing of all the materials and recipes sold at Ardentmill are affordable again, I might give mining another shot.

So yeah, I guess this is it for now. My arms are aching and I'm sleepy.

So I guess this is it for now. I'll be randomly changing music videos from time to time while waiting for the poll to finish. Feel free to vote on it.












      

PvP nerf on Dark Knight skills

Didn't really notice that they nerf your skills. But on the plus side they make some awesome skills better XD.

Normally Sacrifice would have do 690% damage and consume up to 11% of a Dark Knight's health.

756% damage and 5% hp...... and yet I cannot use it when my health is below 20%...... So much for a kamikaze move, Sacrifice Sacrifice Sacrifice die XD.

My Dragon Roar has also received a rather generous boost. 10% hp consumption and 580% damage.

Hp consumption is pretty much the same, but the damage has been increase to 858%. That might explain the deaths from jumping down(after dying) and roaring XD.

Not really sure how Battle Mode attack works.... But I guess it's another form of attack in PvP. My Dragon Blood's weapon attack buff has been replaced with Battle Mode attack.

Though my regular attacking skill has been nerfed by 30% :\

That explains my lack of good attacks >.> Because most of the time I use this skill it ALWAYS has 3 hits and 1 critical. I'd be lucky to even get 2 criticals.

PvP gives you an extra 2 skills. One is Guardian Armor, which gives 1 Battle Mode Attack per 400 DEF.

There's a skill called Hidden Potential (Explorer) I noticed.

20% attack and defence increase when health is below 20%. ....

35% attack from Berserk.... + 20% attack from this skill.....
It would be better to just get critical. The only reliable Critical attack skill I have is Dragon Roar and Sacrifice. Confirmed Great Critical for Sacrifice, but Dragon Roar gives mixed results.

Oh yeah there were a few skills I didn't post because they got nerfed as well. That, and the fact I forgot to screenshot them =3=.

Beholder's healing (mine is level 1) Heals 120 hp every 9 seconds. After PvP nerf it gives only 70 hp per 9 seconds.
Dragon Fury does 410% damage outside PvP zone. But inside PvP it does 342% damage :(.
Magic Crash suffered the most I guess. 100% chance to cancel enemy buffs outside PvP. Inside PvP it's only a 60% chance.....
Berserk got a terrible nerf as well. At master level (level 30) it adds 60% damage if HP is more than 20%.
Now it gives 35% damage.... But the good part is this skill activates when HP is greater than 0% XD MUAHAHAHAHA free 35% damage :P.
And.....Hex of Beholder got nerfed as well. 560% damage (at level 3) has been brought down to 360% damage. Wat.

So yeah I went online one more time to screenshot my skills.

So yeah I guess that's it for now. I'll screenshot the other characters when I have the time.

I'll post more stuff later. Got a fever on a Saturday morning >.> Will see you guys later