[General]v.108 Flame Wizard Awakening

1. Flame Wizard Awakens!
- The level cap for Flame Wizards has been increased from 120 to 250.
- All new skills, including Hyper Skills, have been added.
- All AP and SP have been reset.
- The Flame Wizard Character Card now has the following effects:
Magic Damage + 0.5/1/1.5/2 per character level.

Skills:

Beginner
[NEW] Elemental Slash: Attack enemies in front of you with pure, primal energy.
[NEW] Imperial Recall: Return to the Empress using Shinsoo's power.
[NEW] Elemental Harmony: Use the harmony of nature to build affinity for an element of your choosing.
[NEW] Elemental Shift: Jump in any direction except down by pressing a direction key and jump in midair.
[REMOVED] Recovery
[REMOVED] Nimble Feet

1st Job
[NEW] Orbital Flame: Project a ball of flame onto enemies around you.
Use the arrow keys to direct.
[NEW] Flame Bite: Send out a jet of flame to burn enemies ahead of you.
[NEW] Flame Elemental: Use Orbital Flame to temporarily summon a
Flame Elemental which will increase the caster's Magic ATT.
[NEW] Firewalk: Jump into the air and disappear in a burst of flame,
appearing some distance ahead.
Permanently raises your Weapon DEF in proportion to your Magic DEF.
Replaces Elemental Shift.
Fire Repulsion: The flow of flames repulses some of the damage from the caster.
Natural Talent: Blessed with talent, your max MP is increased.
Amount increased depends on your level.
[REMOVED] Magic Claw
[REMOVED] Flame
[REMOVED] Magic Guard
[REMOVED] Magic Armor
[REMOVED] MP Boost

2nd Job
[NEW] Greater Orbital Flame: Enhances damage and allows you to use
up to 2 Orbital Flames at once.
[NEW] Flame Vortex: Burns enemies and pushes them back with swirling flames.
[NEW] Ignition: Empower your flames to cause all skills to create and
spread additional damage over time.
[NEW] Flashfire: Leave a trail of fire from your current location.
While the trail remains, you can use Flashfire again to teleport back to your original position.
[NEW] Word of Fire: Call on the hidden words of fire to temporarily increase Magic ATT and attack speed.
[NEW] Controlled Burn: Escape from the heat of battle and transform your internal flame to MP.
[NEW] Greater Flame Elemental: Use Orbital Flame to temporarily
summon a Flame Elemental which will increase the caster's Magic ATT.
[NEW] Spell Control: Your desire to push your magical skills to the limit gives you
greater control over magic itself.
[REMOVED] Meditation
[REMOVED] Slow
[REMOVED] Fire Arrow
[REMOVED] Teleport
[REMOVED] Spell Booster
[REMOVED] Elemental Reset
[REMOVED] Fire Pillar
[REMOVED] Spell Mastery
[REMOVED] High Wisdom

3rd Job
[NEW] Grand Orbital Flame: Enhances range and damage,
and allows you to use up to 3 Orbital Flames at once.
[NEW] Flame Tempest: Damages and pushes enemies away from both sides of
the caster with huge surging flames.
[NEW] Cinder Maelstrom: Blows up one enemy by filling them with fire,
drawing in and damaging other nearby enemies.
[NEW] Phoenix Run: When hit by a fatal attack,
saves you by moving backwards and healing
a percentage of HP through the blessings of fire.
[NEW] Grand Flame Elemental: Use Orbital Flame to temporarily summon a Flame Elemental
which will increase the caster's Magic ATT.
[NEW] Liberated Magic: Liberates the flame-flow from within you, allowing it to grow in power.
[NEW] Burning Focus: Critically analyzes enemy weaknesses and increases the chance of landing fatal blows.
[NEW] Brilliant Enlightenment: Reach enlightenment through command of magic.
[REMOVED] Magic Critical
[REMOVED] Elemental Amplification
[REMOVED] Seal
[REMOVED] Meteor Shower
[REMOVED] Ifrit
[REMOVED] Flame Gear
[REMOVED] Fire Strike
[REMOVED] Teleport Mastery

4th Job
[NEW] Final Orbital Flame: Enhances damage and allows up to 4 uses of Orbital Flame.
[NEW] Blazing Extinction: Launches an intense flame sphere that
burns nearby enemies with seeking chains of fire.
[NEW] Towering Inferno: Concentrates the flow of flame into a single spot,
applying the Ignition effect to enemies. Enemies already affected by Ignition will take greater damage.
[NEW] Fires of Creation: Summons the very essence of fire itself.
While summoned, your MP costs increase but your attacks
ignore some enemy defenses and Ignition reduces their resistances.
[NEW] Burning Conduit: Creates a pentacle on the ground,
increasing the damage and attack speed of everyone standing on it.
[NEW] Flame Barrier: Summons a wall of flames to reduce the damage you take.
[NEW] Final Flame Elemental: Use Orbital Flame to temporarily
summon a Flame Elemental which will increase your Magic ATT.
[NEW] Pure Magic: Uncover the very essence of your magic,
releasing all its potential at once.
[NEW] Wild Blaze: Summon roaring flames to burn enemies.
[REMOVED] Unrelenting Flame

Hyper Skills
[NEW] Orbital Flame – Reinforce: Orbital Flame's damage is increased by 20%.
[NEW] Orbital Flame – Guardbreak: Orbital Flame's Ignore DEF is increased by 20%.
[NEW] Orbital Flame - Split Attack: Final Orbital Flame’s damage
increases to 280% and number of attacks are increased by 1.
[NEW] Blazing Extinction – Reinforce: Blazing Extinction’s damage is increased by 20%.
[NEW] Blazing Extinction – Spread: Increases the number of monsters that Blazing Extinction hits by 2.
[NEW] Blazing Extinction – Add Attack: Increases Blazing Extinction's attack count by 1.
[NEW] Ignition – Reinforce: Ignition’s damage over time is increased by 20%.
[NEW] Ignition – Mass Explosion: Increases the explosion damage of Ignition by 20%.
[NEW] Ignition – Max Ignition: Decreases Ignition’s damage over time interval by 0.5 seconds.
[NEW] Cataclysm: Summons a giant flame and drops it on enemies around you.
The flame explodes as it hits the ground and burns all nearby enemies.
[NEW] Glory of the Guardians: A ceremony for Cygnus Knights to prove their devotion to the Empress.
[NEW] Dragon Blaze: Unleashes the full potential of your flames, overwhelming a single enemy with fire.
Ends with a focused blast as a finishing blow. When the key is held down,
the skill can be maintained for up to 2 seconds.

2. Mystic Gates Return!

Every weekend during 21.01.2015 – 04.03.2015
Requirement: Lv. 75 or above
The Mystic Gate has returned!

Defeat the Mystic Bosses it summons and win random gift boxes and special medals.
- This event is only available on the weekends during the event period.
- During the event period, Mystic Gate can be found in Henesys, Pantheon and Leafre.
- One of the 5 Mystic Bosses - Von Leon, Akarium, Hilla, Zakum, and Horntail
will be randomly summoned in the Mystic Field and will stay for 15 minutes.
A warning message will pop up 10 and 5 minutes before the boss appears.
- You need to defeat the bosses before they disappear in order to receive EXP bonuses and rewards.
- If you deal damage to the Mystic Bosses, you will receive a random gift box after defeating the boss.
If you cannot deal any damage, or if you leave the Mystic Field during the fight, you will not receive a gift box.
- The map of Mystic Field has a special UI that displays the top 5 Maplers
that deal the most damage for each Mystic Boss fight.
These Maplers will receive additional random gift boxes depending on their ranks.
- The Mapler who lands the final hit on the boss will receive an additional 5 random boxes.
Also, one random Mapler not on the top 5 list will receive 3 more random boxes.

Rewards:
Open the random gift boxes to receive restorative potions,
Spell Traces, as well as some special equipment, including:
Mystic Von Leon's Nightmare: Medal, Req. Lv. 75, STR +10;
Weapon ATT +2, Magic ATT +2
Mystic Arkarium's Nightmare: Medal, Req. Lv. 75, INT +10;
Weapon ATT +2, Magic ATT +2
Mystic Hilla's Nightmare: Medal, Req. Lv. 75, DEX +10;
Weapon ATT +2, Magic ATT +2
Mystic Zakum's Nightmare: Medal, Req. Lv. 75, LUK +10;
Weapon ATT +2, Magic ATT +2
Mystic Horntail's Nightmare: Medal, Req. Lv. 75, Max HP/MP +500,
Weapon ATT +2, Magic ATT +2
Mystic Gate Master: Medal, Req. Lv. 100, All Stats +10,
Weapon ATT +4, Magic ATT +4

Mystic Zakum's Helmet: Hat, Req. Lv. 75, All Stats +18,
Max HP / MP +5%, DEF / MDEF +165, ACC / AVD +30, TUC +10.
Mystic Horntail Necklace: Pendant, Req. Lv. 120, All Stats +8,
Max HP / MP +5%, DEF / MDEF +115, AVD +28, TUC +3.

If you keep opening random gift boxes, you can obtain two special medals:
Open 100 or more random gift boxes
Mystic Field Researcher: Medal, Req. Lv. 75; All Stats +5,
Weapon ATT +3, Magic ATT +3.
Open 200 or more random gift boxes
Mystic Field Master: Medal, Req. Lv. 100, All Stats +10,
Weapon ATT +4, Magic ATT +4

Special Quests
You can also accept special quests from NPC Doctor Moon in the Mystic Field,
to get additional EXP rewards and Crusader Coins for defeating Mystic Bosses.

3. Party and Friends menu update:
The Party Search Menu has been merged into the Maple User List menu.
- Party leaders can now set party names when first creating a Party
or by selecting Settings in the Party tab.
- Party leaders can now set the party to ‘Private’ when first
creating a Party or by selecting Settings in the Party tab.
- The Party Tab in the Maple User List menu now allows you to search
for a Party and search for members to invite to your own party.
- Right-clicking a party member's name in the My Party list will give you the following options:
Follow to Channel, Make Party Leader, Whisper, Invite to Chat, Add Friends, and Kick.
- The Party icon has been updated.
- When sending a chat message to your party, the word bubble for
that message will only be viewable by your party members.
*Word Bubble Ring effects will not be applied to party chat bubbles.
- You can now select 'Add Friend' when you right-click another player's character.
- The 'Request Friend' functionality in the Guild screen
right-click menu has changed to the 'Add Friend' menu.
- Selecting 'Add Friend' when right-clicking a character or their name
will automatically fill their character name into the pop-up menu.

4. Boss Menu Update

The Expedition tab in the Maple User List menu is now called the Boss Tab.
- All Expedition related functionality such as chatrooms, commands, and UI have been removed.
- You can now encounter bosses that were only available as Expeditions by entering as a party.
- Within the Boss tab of the Maple User List, you can see the min/max level requirements,
prerequisite quests, required items, and restrictions on the available bosses
by moving your mouse over the UI.
- For some bosses, you must complete the relevant entry quests first
before you can select that boss in the Boss tab.
- Once you select a Boss and Difficulty level and press ‘GO’, you will be matched with
other players who have also selected that Boss and Difficulty level.
- You will be moved to the Boss waiting area once you are matched with party members.
- You can return to your original location by using the exit portal in the boss waiting area map.
- If you get matched while you are already in a party,
your party members will also get matched with other players.
- However, when you are in a full party (6 members) or one of the party members
is offline or in a different channel, you cannot get matched with other players.
- Only a party leader can request the party matching through the Boss tab.
- When using the Boss tab to match with other players,
you will gain a buff that is only effective for certain bosses.

5. Boss Entry Level Update
Boss entry level requirement has changed.
- Normal Horntail and Chaos Horntail entry requirement levels
have changed to Lv. 120 and Lv. 135, respectively.
- Easy and Normal Von Leon entry level requirements have changed to Lv. 130.
- Easy and Normal Arkarium entry level requirements have changed to Lv. 140.
- Normal Pink Bean entry level requirement has changed to Lv. 160.
- Easy, Normal, and Hard Magnus entry level requirements
have changed to Lv. 115, Lv. 155, and Lv. 175, respectively.

6. Tower of Oz Changes
The following changes have been made to ensure
a better experience in Tower of Oz:
1st Floor - The number of monsters required to clear the stage has been reduced to 100.
2nd Floor - The number of Explorations has been increased to 3.
3rd Floor - Players now only need to collect 1,000 Ancient Turtle Eggs.
4th Floor - The frequency of the balance between each side of the tower has been increased.
7th Floor - Ripley's HP amount has been slightly increased.

The rewarded Skill Rings now have a longer activation time and cool down time.
The probability of other rewards has been increased.

7. World Selection Screen
The World and Channel selection screen has been updated with a new look.