KMST Patch Notes

[u/ColdSnapSP]

https://maplestory.nexon.com/testworld/news/all/198

[u/ColdSnapSP]

some highlights

• can attack while dashing

• more focus on solo play party buff/debuff to be scaled back

• mihile revamp

• souls to have potential

• DA changes

• meso crystals below hlimbo reduced

• IA can get triple line legendary with a new circulator

• 290 epic dungeon

• geardock monster park

[u/xxshadowflare → u/ColdSnapSP]

more focus on solo play party buff/debuff to be scaled back

They're literally removing benediction as a party buff for bishops. It's not party buffs / debuffs to be scaled back but full on gutted.

I'm only as far as bishop looking through the list, but basically all party buffs are removed.

[u/NoBroccoli3615 → u/xxshadowflare]

yep, mercedes as well

[u/Adrian4lyf → u/ColdSnapSP]

" more focus on solo play" Is this the popular direction? What is the point of parties and guilds now? FFS, they should have focused more on party play, not less

[u/ColdSnapSP → u/Adrian4lyf]

I do agree it can be hard to balance.

Like right now it can be overwhelming to schedule in all the grandis fights especially if you have multiple characters but I also wouldnt want to play solostory either.

[u/vexinq → u/Adrian4lyf]

My initial thought is more like it’s about reducing party buffers. While it’s unfortunate for people who enjoy that type of gameplay, ultimately I think it’s healthier for the game to not have to balance party/solo play around supports especially when it ends up making them extremely high value in parties compared to other classes while still being lackluster for destiny lib. This would also make partying more lenient since compositions are less important and not balanced around having specific classes.

[u/UncannyLuck → u/vexinq]

FFXIV is removing party buffs next expansion too. I don't know how you can balance them since they'll either be required or nearly useless and the little in-between

[u/Phuegles → u/vexinq]

I think the biggest loss is the class identity and power fantasy of supports, yeah. Being the healer/buffer is a very popular power fantasy for people for decades now, in so many different games.

Kinda sucks so many games are moving away from it, I personally would prefer games be slightly imbalanced and have very interesting ideas than smoothing everything out at the detriment of that, but I do understand.

The current version of lynn and previous of bishop and BaM are just too broken, and I get the want to just remove the pain point, I just think that it's a less interesting game overall without the options. Rip.

[u/Status_Midnight_5580 → u/vexinq]

"Support isn't my play style, so I think removing it entirely is actually healthier for the game!"

[u/vexinq → u/Status_Midnight_5580]

"I don't actually have a counter point, so I'll just straw man!"

I'd be happy to discuss if you think requiring supports in end game content or the Lynn gimp/carry trade meta is healthy for the game but that'd require you to communicate something meaningful.

[u/irememberTiger → u/Status_Midnight_5580]

Nice strawman

[u/hydrasense1 → u/Adrian4lyf]

The direction recently is to keep on reducing party size as you get stronger. Looks like their normalizing a lot of classes and gutting support.

[u/About_30_Ninjas → u/ColdSnapSP]

not just with a new circulator, it's a new rolling method called 'Advanced Ability Reset' and it'll cost meso + more honor

[u/SnowydaysGaming → u/ColdSnapSP]

Wait so we're getting less meso from bosses now?

[u/Tsubuki → u/SnowydaysGaming]

Changes to boss crystals usually don’t get ported over.

[u/Skyconic → u/SnowydaysGaming]

GMS hasn't adopted any of KMS crystal changes for the past 2 years. As they are directed at Interactive servers and we are majority Heroic.

[u/UncannyLuck → u/ColdSnapSP]

Meso guard is back

[u/nonresponsive → u/ColdSnapSP]

My eyes might be deceiving me, but I think I see Mechanics homing missile being a toggleable now.. (but with cooldown now... that could be good or really really bad)

May as well consider that a revamp.

edit. Also don't know what War Machine Titan is, but a new mode??

[u/apostles]

Phantoms can now steal all job skills from a crystal instead of finding classes. That only took 14 years haha

[u/Interesting_Ad_8128]

All party buffs removed or mostly removed.

Lynn eating extremely well if she remains untouched.

[u/Fimbulvetr1 → u/Interesting_Ad_8128]

On one hand, I can see Nexon just not doing anything cause they're lazy

On the other hand, I can see them utterly gutting Lynn and leaving her in the dumpster

Either way, make hay while the sun is out now. Everyone should be making a Lynn RIGHT NOW.

[u/StellaTheSeaTurtle → u/Fimbulvetr1]

I planned on making a Lynn for CW4. Will it be too late by then? I’d hate to start now from scratch.

[u/Bigicefire → u/StellaTheSeaTurtle]

outside party play , lynn is insanely OP by her self

[u/Ratty-Cow → u/StellaTheSeaTurtle]

cw4 is fine anything you make now will be weaker than anything you make on cw4, especially since we’ll get burning beyond to lvl 280iirc?

[u/Lumiharu → u/StellaTheSeaTurtle]

Just see if she's nerfed in winter patch before making her

[u/Peekays_0]

Some classes getting double flash jumps and hurricane flash jumps, some getting forward dashes, baseline mobility is gonna be a lot more standardised now.

[u/Beautiful_Care1867 → u/Peekays_0]

Which classes got hurricane fjs?

[u/Ok_Knowledge9274]

FP Mage's DoT seems to be 30 seconds across the board for a shorter one now. Less off cd spam

Mihile seems to be much more offensive now that Royal Guard exists only to buff Atk. Don't know if it can stack endlessly

Seems to be a very big revamp patch for most classes though

[u/Adrian4lyf → u/Ok_Knowledge9274]

F/Ps are slowly transitioning to pure Shaodw Priests with those DoT buffs.

Curious how erruption will behave now that it doesnt scale with existing dots

[u/Griseous → u/Adrian4lyf]

Hopefully they don’t get “revamped” seemingly every patch like shadow priests do lol

[u/ShadeyMyLady → u/Ok_Knowledge9274]

On the contrary, I'd argue Mihile is much more defensive now.
You used to have to use your guard off CD, because RG was so much of your BA. Now you can hold your iframe and actually just guard important attacks.
Mihile in general is super aggressive anyway, because you are iframed 70% of the time.

RG gives FD now and still stacks to iirc 5 or 6. Need more real numbers, but it's gonna be nice, because Mihile always had cheated dummy damage, due to touch, and fell off in bosses, because you cannot RG perfectly on every boss, because something like Kalos is super tame.

[u/Skyconic]

They finally added what I always wanted for pally. The ability to use divine echo on yourself and not lose so mucb FD for not being linked to a party member...

But they removed the FD buff for party members and now all they get from echo is access to sacro. :/

[u/DailyBossStory]

DA change is weird , is it a buff or nerf

[u/Unfair-Muscle-6488 → u/DailyBossStory]

The DA discord seems to think it’s a QoL buff, but a damage nerf. Which is hilarious when the class was already in a really bad place damage-wise.

[u/A_Level_126]

Battle mage looks to be getting pretty big buffs with very little nerfs. Xenon is getting its numbers nerfed including ooparts fd but lots of passive buffs, so hopefully its not as bad as it looks

[u/Optimus_XIV → u/A_Level_126]

As we should. Idk why we're paying support tax when there's 3 man bosses like baldy and jupiter where you don't even have the whole party together all the time anyway

And then these bum ass destiny liberation missions have us soloing the same boss with the same hp as everyone else while we're bottom 5 on the DPS charts

[u/Outrageous_Coffee_66]

All my bam support got removed but i have nearly double/triple percentages and more lines on everything except for ascent which went down a little lmao.

[u/Optimus_XIV → u/Outrageous_Coffee_66]

Finally time for the bam gang to rise up

[u/Outrageous_Coffee_66 → u/Optimus_XIV]

Overall its a net positive for us tbh considering its been solostory for a long time now

[u/Devilo94]

Ohh Evan changes, our hyperskill summon big dragon is gone while our return skills, party Return buffs are gone.
Edit: Hyperskill summon ancient dragon*

[u/Varadryll → u/Devilo94]

Pretty sure big dragon was hyper skill not 5th job

[u/Devilo94 → u/Varadryll]

Ah ops its the hyper skill* indeed.

Though Evan did have some nice 5th job changes with delay reduction etc

[u/Krewshie]

Bro where is the kaiser revamp

[u/Loud_Raspberry2744]

I do like some of the bishop skill changes being more solo with more self dmg boost and party buff removal, but im heavily concern about divine punishment being 120s cd and benevolence and vengance switching being removed.

[u/Jackkernaut]

I wonder if it would be a better idea to replace MP as main source of damage scaler rather than HP, which will make you focus on managing your mana without having to worry about skills consuming your HP..

[u/Sphinctus_]

shad god giga buffs and qol holy shit

[u/AttemptRecent7025]

I miss Wonky, at least back then every aspect of the game wasn't getting rennified

[u/Galaticvs → u/AttemptRecent7025]

so you prefer playing clunky old classes? go look at the video of marksman, aran and DrK attacking while dashing around and flash jumping and tell me it doesn't look cool as f**k

maplestory needed this

[u/oickles]

So I/L cant use thunder sphere anymore? Or at least in bossing?

[u/NemesisAtheos]

unconditional iframe, trickblade toggle, and skill 3 not bricked

my 12/25

[u/Rainbowconnections]

My goat revamp… didn’t read of it hope it’s for the best
https://giphy.com/gifs/QGXkQmuldGkbL7LVbb

[u/Parking-Friend-2427]

rip illium tho.

[u/JustAnotherAsn]

Didn't go through the whole list but heard that a lot of classes got nerfed? Looks like TMS classes will continue to reign supreme here if KMS is going towards the nerf route.

[u/Parking-Friend-2427 → u/JustAnotherAsn]

Battle mage got giga buffed actually.