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MapleStory 2 Project New Leaf got its latest sequel published. This one is about Enchantment changes and 64-bit client. As the third unveiled portion of the reputed "Progression Improvement Update" which tentatively would be launched on the 25th of this month, this major improvement will allegedly save much more cost of enchanting than any updates did before and thusly ease player's progression path.  Progression Improvement Update is considered as the second major update that the developers plan on bringing up into MapleStory 2, right behind the Economy Improvement Update which mostly features resolving MapleStory 2 Mesos ' issues. Enchantment Changes are reportedly concerned with two NPCs who help players enchant their equipment in the game, mostly. Those two NPCs are known as Ophelia and Peachy. In most cases, the post written about Enchant Changes was talking about how to make a difference to the current Peachy's enchants, due to its being priced out of th...

Nexon just opened up a small online shop for Maplers who'd like to invest a big load of money on Maple-themed toys in the real world the same as they did in the game. The small booth is called MapleStory Merch Store. As far as we know, this store is sort of a front of the Nexon Store where some more products and services are still in development and their putaway is around the corner. This MapleStory Merch Store features nothing but T-shirts, plushies, and tumblers. All of them are unexceptionally branded with all sorts of Maple World NPC figures or other typical symbols respectively. By a rough calculation, The store shelf doesn't hold no more than 12 different kinds of products.  This little online shop is a veritable booth, theatrically, founded by a big company like Nexon. Although it was probably coming out as a marketing strategy, Nexon also stressed that all the first-launched merchandises are of limited quantities. The post implies these adorable fluffy...

As most of the Maplers might have known about, MapleStory 2 was officially rolling out Mar. 28th update and already deployed into the game. The so-called Mar. 28th update features 3 diverse main aspects, including the establishment of the MapleStory 2 Mesos Market, an escalation of Epic Pet drop rate and fixes of Meso Sink Reduction issue. Although it was made clear in the last announcement that this update would be merely a prelude to the massive subsequent fix-ups, still, many praised for the improvements the update have brought along after an immersive experience of the new game.  In the meantime, MapleStory 2 is still sticking to the Project New Leaf, which has been inaugurated for an overhaul to the game inside out, and ready to surmount another obstacle ahead of it - Accessory Socket.  Earlier today, In the official announcement, MapleStory 2 pledged to release another update concerned with Progression Improvement in the next month, as well as expanded on the s...

MapleStory 2 is now celebrating the final result of a poll which was held back in Valentine's day just to pick up the most popular NPC in the game, as well as rewarding the participants in this poll with some giveaways that won't be dispatched until the Mar. 28th update. The Valentine's poll, which was originally one of the last sections of the so-called "Decadent Delivery Event", is designed to collect the data of which Maple World denizen is most lovable in the game and then sort all six candidates and choose the winner by votes.  Maplers even get rewards at the start of this event simply by giving you hand-made chocolates to the favorite candidate of yours. Of course, crafting your own chocolates and sending them as a vote is actually part of the task too. If you complete your vote, you will be rewarded with five more Valentine's exclusive chocolates plus some other bonus on a daily basis.  I am thrilled to tell you that the vote has now officiall...

MapleStory 2 Project New Leaf has recently extended the longevity of a band-aid solution to current Progression issues, which would be replaced by the Progression Improvement update in the next month, according to the latest post issued on the official website.  As is well known for all Maplers, the Progression Mechanics in MapleStory 2 has been drowning in the mire of unfairness and suppression for a very long time. For the majority of players whose progressions are way below the ones from the apex of the pyramid, all progression mechanics and other correlatives this game has now almost backfired and did more harm than good to bridge the gap between low-level players and high-level ones. Even the FairFight system, which basically nerfs players' damages towards dungeon bosses up to a certain point, has devoted nothing to the redemption of the wide disparity between these two classes.  The band-aid solution called Dungeon Delight event was initially announced a...

MapleStory Fest, which was inaugurated in the April of the last year, seemingly comes back to Maplers again in the next month, according to the official statement from Nexon. Allegedly, MapleStory Fest is able to pull off due to massive quantities of followings and diehards, mostly driven by nostalgia and fixating on their childhoods. It is why MapleStory is still updating and evolving since its debut in 2005 and MapleStory 2, the orthodox sequel of MapleStory, could get so much attention and engagement in the first month of its release. However, nothing will last forever, even includes video games. After over 5 months of exploration and progressing, MapleStory 2 turned itself into a cover-girl-esque has-been. According to Steam records, 95% of the concurrent players of this game have vanished and evaporated during the five months, and most importantly, it didn't get any better recently. It was gladly seeing the decline of active players' number take a pause for some cau...

As the most Maplers might have seen, MapleStory 2 and its developers were progressing the so-called "Project New Leaf" and gradually extended the untouched categories that have been publically recognized as "contents with fatal flaws". Last Friday, The Project New Leaf updated and published a new announcement about patching up some new contents which have been bothering the game and affected players' retention so long as the others. These patchy contents include Epic Pets, Mesos Sink Reduction, Legendary Gear, Accessory Fragment Fusion and so on. It looks like the fourth overhaul to the game is nailed down and scheduled. Meanwhile, as far as we know, MapleStory 2 developers do not want it as the last stop. It means that there will be definitely one or more sequels of this update in order to address MapleStory 2 Mesos issues successfully.  Although someone might argue with the very first intention from MapleStory 2 developers to issue these overhauls, this...

In Today's announcement on MapleStory 2 New Project Leaf site, the game's producer expands on the new trading system which will be deployed into Maplestory 2 within 20 days - Mesos Market. Mesos Market, allegedly is a place in the game where low-level players, especially newcomers, will gain relatively substantial MS2 Mesos for progression, as well as well-equipped players acquiring Merets for cosmetical purposes.  The game producer outlines the strengths of this new Market which in his words, will never lead the game into astray. He also enumerates a couple of calamities that the previous trading system may get entangled in but the new system wouldn't, such as the in-game balance collapse, pay-to-win domination over the system, and so on. Also, there are a series of specifics of how the new trading system works and what buyers and sellers can benefit from.  In the blueprint, Mesos Market is a currency trading platform that will be constructed under Black Market UI. ...

MapleStory 2 is, in some extents, shows the sign of its downfall clearly. As many have explained and elaborated previously, the reasons that the game is on the verge of collapse can't be fully covered with one paragraph at least. But today, we may get enlightened by a different angle of making an economic scanning through all the decisions from Jagex upon the game that finally crash to its biggest defeat in history.  MapleStory 2 has globally released for almost five months. In these months, MapleStory 2 has managed to pull some hard work off, such as UGC, Dungeon Raids, all kinds of holiday event etc. One of them that we focus on here is a load of untradeable, even character-bond items, rewards, and gifts. The fact in MapleStory 2 is over 90% of items are excessively prevalent and aren't allowed to appear in the circulation domain. So when it comes to calculating the time investment on this game and the payback from these investments, it appears that your investmen...

So, you’re a new  Maplestory 2  player and you need Maplestory 2 Mesos? Well, you’ve come to the right place, as we’ll be guiding you about all the dungeons where you can farm lots of the stuff. Be prepared to run the same dungeons over and over again in the name of in-game wealth! Taking It Easy Dungeons are a great, if not the best, way for you to farm all-important Mesos. You can run them ten times a day and thirty in one week, with some tasks accomplishable in just three to six minutes. That breakneck speed in dungeon running, however, is only possible if you’re with a competent and dedicated party. Of course, having in-depth knowledge about the dungeon in question also helps. There are two kinds of dungeons in Maplestory 2:  Normal Mode  and  Hard Mode . For the former, the most popular one is the  Tronix Bunker . With the fact that it can be finished in less than ten minutes, it also yields lots of  onyx crystals , which are worth a...

The bombshell that was dropped from Nexon, the developer of MapleStory franchise earlier today was rather unprecedented and infusive. After having been downplaying the pile of MapleStory 2's detrimental mechanics and its highly controversial contents and neglecting of their endangerments to its community and its fanbase, Nexon finally picked itself up again and made up its own mind to bite the bullet in order to avoid the further loss of the game's active players. A fresh project named "New Leaf", which was created by MapleStory 2 devs and already owned a themed website page, officially go live by now. Project New Leaf is designed to address all the most-concerned and troublesome issues from MapleStory 2 that basically have haunted the game for a long period, or from the very beginning, such as RNG, Progression issues, Fairfight system, Meso Trades, and so on. Considering MapleStory 2 developers initially belittled the size of these issues and ignored most of t...

After the January 31 game update, MapleStory 2 devs noticed that players were experiencing a fundamental change regarding how animations work in MapleStory 2. Upon investigation, they found that transitional animations (animations that appear between two actions) were not displaying for all actions. This was a bug and not an intended change to the way the game works. it became clear to devs that this bug had beneficial side effects that some players preferred, such as faster casting time for certain skills or quicker responses with the game’s action at the cost of jarring animation transitions. Because of this, an internal discussion about how they might be able to retain the benefits while addressing the “broken animation” aspect was issued. However, after carefully reviewing the issue in full, devs found out that the impact of this bug differs significantly between classes, due to differences in each class’s skill animations and transitions. This meant that certain classes w...

MapleStory 2 devs team finally stepped up for genuinely paying attention to what its player base thinks and wants, even if, as a matter of fact, they haven't been able to address certain catastrophes or apply some viable ideas from fans into the game in the first place.  Jungsoo Lee, the general manager of Nexon America and the leader of the MapleStory 2 devs team, after drawing back intentionally from the center of the media storm for almost one month, was now back to the game and officially announced his elaborate project for MapleStory 2 in the official website.  As opposed to the previous producer blog the spokesman has always published, today's announcement was peculiarly out of ordinary, where he uncommonly indicated that the devs team desperately intend to hear the opinions, rants, suggestions and other forms of feedback from MapleStory 2 fanbase. The feedback collection is seemingly so prominent that he publicly rolled out a 3-month project called "feedb...

As the growing clamour for the permanent ban over the exploit's abusers is running rampant, Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory 2, started to take this crisis more seriously than it had ever been. The crisis of this exploit abuse, which firstly was revealed by a Redditor two days ago, has been temporarily taken care of by the official emergency measures a few hours later. But clearly, many MapleStory 2 players considering themselves as "victims" or "punchbags" in this crisis or some previous ones have been calling for a severer punishment such as permanent suspensions for all their accounts, upon the "criminals" - cheaters been abusing in-game exploit for months. They now assemble in the official website forum, Discord, FaceBook and any other social media frontlines to denounce the abuse incident and scream for crackdowns.  So far, Nexon hasn't taken further actions against the abusers other than the first quick fix released two days ago.  P...

With more and more participants making in the rant line, the aftershock of the exposure of a severe exploit's abuse in MapleStory 2 still has no sign of quieting down in a short time. Would this unexpected emergency be the final nail in the coffin of MapleStory 2, after the game has experienced consistent loss of player base and its irreparable framework failures? And how do the game publisher Nexon and its devs manage to get through the crisis? Besides an exploit that has been neglected by the Devs and abused by cheaters for months, what's the general reaction and suggestions from ordinary players in the game? We're here to get the bottom of these questions and explore more about that.  There are something interest going on in the MapleStory 2 official forum. shortly after the disclosure of this catastrophic incident in Reddit, some players were starting a few threads on the forum to make a rant, complaint, or manifesto over the company's attitude towards this i...

Another calamity happened to MapleStory 2 and its Devs Team again just hours ago. A Redditor who has declined to reveal his real name reported a severe exploit that had been illicitly taken advantage of by plenty of MapleStory 2 players for months while Nexon was unable to inflict any form of punishment for them all the time. The Redditor, named  TewiUsagi , was so positive about the allegations against this mass exploit's abuses and Nexon's last-for-months negligence that he even called on the forum moderator to inspect whether there is any form of "witch hunting" or "offending any rules" in his report or not and take actions on that accordingly.  Based on the report he posted on Reddit, an exploit, which has been discovered and abused in MapleStory 2 since the first week of CPap's release (Short for Chaos Papulatus), allows players to transfer their weapons between characters, even if these weapons were equipped and bond to one character before. ...

Despite plenty of major issues remained remediless, MapleStory is heading over to the Skybound Expansion Phase two. According to the official website announcement, The new Skybound Phase is fast approaching to MapleStory 2 and will go live on January 10th, 2019. At that appointed time, there will be more new contents and fresh challenges oriented towards Veteran Maplers and newcomers. The first and one of the most significant new contents adding in the near future is Wrath of Infernog, which is believed to function as a new type of Chaos Raid, features more fierce and vicious enemies and a more brutal battle environment in Sky Fortress. The new Chaos Raid requires both 9,000 Gear Score and the consent from Maple Alliance Reputation as the proper access clearance. And a new internal challenge, called Fortress Rumble, will arrive in Sky Fortress at that time. The main purpose of this Challenge is to keep Maplers well-trained and sharp enough to cope with the real battles. ...