Director Chang-seop Kim announces follow-up adjustments to September balance patch

Balance Patch Follow-up Adjustments, Extreme Mode Added to Limbo & Baldrix! Maple NOW Key Summary

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✅ Oct. 15, 2026 Maple NOW Summary

 

▪ Skill overhaul follow-up patch and Training Grounds record resets for certain classes

▪ System improvements including MapleTalk, Soul Effects, and Maple Home

▪ Addition of Extreme Limbo & Baldrix and First Clear Mission events

▪ Personal Growth Mission expanded to Stage 45 and Momentum Pass PLUS rollout

▪ Maple Escape and Hangul Day events underway

▪ World Leap starting October 22 and channel count adjustments for select worlds

▪ Cash Item QoL improvements and 2nd Golden Hands Awards announcement

 

#. Skill Overhaul Follow-Up Measures

▪ Follow-up patch applied for elements from the September update that functioned differently than intended

▪ Follow-up patch applied to select classes including Dark Knight, Ark, and Len

▪ Improvements made to allow for smoother damage output in actual combat

▪ Numerical adjustments implemented for Kain, Hoyoung, and Kaiser

▪ Resolved various issues, including bugs with toggle skill persistence

▪ Overhaul follow-up measures: Training Grounds records reset for select classes, HEXA Matrix Reset Scrolls distributed to Dark Knight, Phantom, Windbreaker, Ark, Kain, Hoyoung, Len, and Shade

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#. System and Content Improvements

▪ MapleTalk: System revamp including cross-world chat functionality (requires setting a representative character)

▪ Soul Effects: Added options to toggle Soul Effect displays independently for yourself and other characters

▪ Ability Circulator: Applied a new UI to the ability reset system

▪ Maple Home: Town convenience features like Quick Move are now accessible in Home, plus the addition of an Illustrated Furniture system

▪ Upcoming updates include expanding daily quest EXP rewards to twice per world

▪ Added an option to directly receive Highest Grade Crystals from AbsoLab and Arcane Umbra boxes

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#. Extreme Difficulty Added to Top-Tier Bosses

▪ Added Extreme Limbo and Extreme Baldrix; entry requirements remain the same

▪ Gauge management difficulty will increase, with new patterns added and difficulty adjusted upward

▪ Certain patterns revised in existing difficulties as well; Baldrix's authority pattern duration adjusted

▪ Rewards include 2 types of Exceptional Hammers (Pocket, Pendant)

▪ First Clear Mission held: applies to entries starting October 23 (Fri) from 19:00 for Extreme Limbo and 20:00 for Extreme Baldrix

▪ Extreme Kaling HP lowered; Intense Power Crystal sale prices for Extreme Kaling and Hard Jupiter adjusted

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#. Events: Visitors of the Argo, Personal Burning, Momentum Pass PLUS

▪ Follow-up event for Visitors of the Argo, which began in the September update

▪ Expanded Personal Burning's Personal Growth Missions from Stage 30 to Stage 45; starting at Stage 31, coins are no longer granted and EXP provided is lower than previous stages

▪ Hunting event "Detective Yeti's Suspicious Magnifying Glass": Similar to the "Eternal Golden Clockwork" event providing large amounts of EXP. Items drop in fields and can be traded

▪ Suspicious Magnifying Glasses can be used up to 10 times daily per character, and Detective Yeti's Suspicious Magnifying Glass up to 3 times daily. Monsters summoned via Detective Yeti's Suspicious Magnifying Glass are not affected by bonus EXP rate buffs

▪ Momentum Pass PLUS: Premium Pass and Prime Pass can be purchased only once across September and October

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#. Events: Maple Escape and Hangul Day Event

▪ Escape room-themed event

▪ Completing the event rewards cosmetic items such as Damage Skins and Medals

▪ Maple Escape tickets awarded via raffle

▪ Visual updates to Elite Monsters and Runes

▪ Moa Moa Medal reward claim requirement adjusted to 200,000 points

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#. World Leap

▪ World Leap active from after maintenance on Thursday, October 22 until 10:00 AM on Thursday, November 5

▪ Regular worlds cannot transfer into Scania or Luna, but transfers to other regular worlds are permitted. Eos and Helios can only leap between each other

▪ Transfers may end early depending on server load, and queues or delays may occur

▪ Scania and Luna channels expanded from 40 to 60, while Zenith, Union, Elysium, Red, Arcane, and Nova channels reduced from 30 to 16

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#. Cash Items and QoL Improvements

▪ 90-day version added for Boutique Titles

▪ Fusion Anvil updated to allow applying Overall appearances to Tops

▪ Added World-shared slots for Master Label items

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#. 2nd Golden Hands Awards Announcement

▪ Oct 22 (Thu) – Nov 11 (Wed)

▪ Categories: Hair, Face, Outfit Sets, Pets, Sol Hecate Skins

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