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...