Hard magnus, 5th job preview and the evolution lab

THE TYRANT WAKES. THE GODDESS GIVES A FIRST LOOK AT THE FIFTH PATH. Hard Magnus takes his throne in Heliseum, the Goddess of Maple World arrives with a first look at the 5th job, the Evolution Lab fills with flying slimes and Pantheon, Heliseum and Tyrant's Castle grow to their full size. Plus Hyper III final attacks for every class, Umbra's Vengeance cosmetics, Luminous, a class balance pass and a big batch of new client features. HARD MAGNUS 5TH JOB PREVIEW EVOLUTION LAB LUMINOUS GRANDIS MAPS UMBRA'S VENGEANCE HYPER III FOR ALL DPM BALANCE CHAT STICKERS STAFF: EDIT THIS NOTICE BEFORE RELEASE The old desktop client is retiring. From this patch the original desktop client (the old game exe started from the Kuro launcher) can no longer log in. Play Kuro in your browser at play.playkuro.com , or with the KuroClient.exe desktop app. Your account, characters, items and Donation Points are the same on both: just log in with your usual account. Everything in these notes is built for the browser client and KuroClient.exe. Browser client: it updates itself. If you were online during the patch, press F5 or click OK on the update notice. New maps 74 New monsters 26 V skills previewed 7 Free Umbra cosmetics 45 Skills rebalanced 10 WHAT OPENS WHEN (JST) When What Now (October 26) Hard Magnus, the 5th job preview and Vanishing Journey, the Evolution Lab, the new Pantheon / Heliseum / Tyrant's Castle maps, Hyper III final attacks for every class, Umbra's Vengeance, the class balance pass, keep buffs on death and every change below From the first daily reset after the patch The new level 270 Daily Quest rewards (1,000 Hyper III, 100 Pantheon's Myth) Every Saturday, 00:00 Weekly boss reset: Hard Magnus and Gollux clears refresh Until November 1, 23:59 Halloween 2026 keeps running, including the +30% Daily Quest ETC bonus Until November 11, 23:59 Umbra's Vengeance: claim your free Arcane Umbra cosmetics. They expire at the end of November 11 THE PATCH IN TEN SECONDS Hard Magnus waits at the new Heliseum Heights Entry : level 240, Pantheon's Key, 1-6 players, 5 trillion HP, a guaranteed Tyrant Cloak and a 40 billion EXP clear reward. 5th job first look: the Goddess of Maple World now stands in Nameless Town, the Arcane Equipment window and the V skill tab are in your client, and Wind Archers get a preview of 7 V skills . This is a preview only: nobody can advance yet, and no 5th job items drop yet. They arrive with the 5th job in a later patch. The Evolution Lab: a 20-minute party run at Nova Sage Ilya with up to 300 flying Evolved Mutant Slimes, Perfect Pitch, Hyper III drops and Evolution Lab Boxes. 74 new maps and 26 new monsters in Pantheon, Heliseum and Tyrant's Castle, and denser spawns on the nine grind maps you already know. Every class's Hyper III final attack is now an active skill: 10 lines on 15 monsters anywhere on the map, every 10 seconds, castable from a macro. Umbra's Vengeance: 45 free Arcane Umbra NX cosmetics at the Maple Administrator until November 11. Luminous , the mage of light and darkness, arrives from level 8. Your buffs now survive death , Ironman milestones become per character, Pantheon's Crystal is now Pantheon's Myth , and the level 270 daily pays far more. Class balance: Snipe, Gungnir's Descent and Thunderbolt down, Mille Aiguilles, Blade Fury, Phantom Blow, Bomb Punch, Chain Lightning and Shadow Icicle up, plus a Night Walker change. New client features: chat stickers, a Hyper Stats and Legion window, a right-click item menu with item locking , totem figures, clickable Discord links in chat, the Arcane Equipment window and a V skill tab. HARD MAGNUS - THE TYRANT'S THRONE He walks, he turns, he swings, and the sky falls with him. This is the real fight. Entry Level 240+ Players 1-6 Time 20 min Deaths 5 shared Use the Bossing Mirror (Magnus, level 240) or Adobis in El Nath to reach the new Heliseum Heights Entry , then talk to the Tyrant's Throne Entrance . You can also walk there through Tyrant's Castle. Hold a Pantheon's Key (it is never used up). The quest "The Tyrant's Summons" is no longer required. You can still play it. Magnus HP: 5 trillion. Clears and practice 1 clear per week for normal characters. Ironman: 4 per week, max 2 per day . The same rule as Gollux, shared by your household, reset Saturday 00:00 JST. A clear is only spent when Magnus dies. The usual boss retry rule applies: 3 failed tries with the same party use up the run. Practice run: the same fight with no loot, no reward and no clear spent. A real expedition always takes priority at the desk. The fight Shared deaths: the party has 5 deaths in total, and every death takes 1 minute off the clock. The 5th death ends the run. A Bishop's Resurrection gives the death and its minute back. Spin Slash: his big swing hits about 2 seconds after the windup starts. Lie down (prone) to dodge it , but only if you stop attacking while you are down. Rush: he dashes at a player and stuns everyone in his path for 2 seconds. Green portals: six portals appear one by one and each strikes 2 seconds after it shows up. They never overlap. Falling stones: green, blue and red meteors rain down, more as his HP drops. Blue and red fall straight and slowly, and a blue stone takes 100% of your max HP. Sleeping gas: six vents fire in order, one every 5 seconds. Only the active vent's cloud puts you to sleep (5 seconds). Dark Sight does not protect you from meteors or gas. In the arena your speed is capped at 150 and jump at 100. Holy Shield blocks his stuns: a Bishop's Holy Shield (party) and a Luminous's Shadow Shell (self) protect you from the Rush stun and the sleeping gas. Stay in his zone: outside it you lose 10% of your max HP every 2 seconds, your damage to Magnus drops by 90% and the healing you receive by 40%. His Zombify halves your healing instead of turning it into damage. Clear reward (every member present at the kill) 250 Perfect Pitch 40,000,000,000 EXP 80% chance for 5 Magnus's Letters Your character's first clear also gives a Root Abyss's Key (untradeable, never used up). Loot Tyrant Cloak : one of the five, guaranteed every kill Power Elixir x40 : guaranteed Crystal Ventus Badge : 10% Magnus Horn Throne (new chair): 3% Cursed Kaiserium : 2% Tyrant Cloaks are now tradeable. They are still Superior items (red name, Superior Chaos Scroll III). And at the Maker, every Tyrant glove, boot and cloak recipe now costs 1 Magnus's Letter and 2 Cygnus's Circlet on top of its other materials. 5TH JOB PREVIEW AND VANISHING JOURNEY Past the 4th job, the Goddess is waiting. Her door opens soon. This is a preview. Nobody can advance to the 5th job yet, and no 5th job items (Arcane Symbols, V Skill items) can be obtained yet. Everything below is a first look at what is coming, so you can get ready. The 5th job opens in a later patch, and we will announce it here. Coming Soon: Advancing The Goddess of Maple World is already in Nameless Town (Vanishing Journey). Visit her for a first look, but she cannot advance anyone yet. Planned requirements: level 200 , 4th job and 10 Twisted Stigma Spirit Stones (taken when you advance). Start saving your stones now. Every class will be able to advance once it opens. Wind Archers are the first class with V skills, more classes follow. Coming Soon: Arcane Symbols The new Arcane Equipment window (the ARCANE button on your Equipment window) is already in the client so you can see its six Arcane Symbol slots . It stays empty until the 5th job opens. The first symbol will be the Arcane Symbol: Vanishing Journey . It cannot be obtained yet: it arrives with the 5th job. Vanishing Journey monsters now have 10 billion HP . They do not drop the Arcane Symbol or the Wind Archer's V Skill yet: those drops arrive together with the 5th job. Wind Archer's V Skill (coming with the 5th job): an item that will unlock one random V skill for an advanced Wind Archer, which they then level with SP. The Skill window already shows the new V tab . It stays empty until the 5th job opens. Wind Archer V skill (preview) At max level Song of Heaven V Hold-down like Song of Heaven: 4 lines of 100% (level 30) Fairy Spiral V 6 lines of 100% on up to 8 monsters (level 30), uses no arrows Trifling Wind V 60% chance on every attack to launch a seeking arrow for 300%, up to 5 in the air (level 30) Albatross Max V +20% critical damage (level 30) Cygnus Knights' Will V +300 attack for 600 seconds (level 30) Storm Elemental V +10% final damage for 600 seconds (level 10) Call of Cygnus V Party all stats +%, up to 40% at level 40 (the level cap starts at 10) THE EVOLUTION LAB Three hundred slimes. Twenty minutes. Bring a party. Entry Level 170+ Party 1-6 Time 20 min Runs 2 a day Talk to Nova Sage Ilya in Pantheon and pick Evolution Lab . The party leader starts the run. 2 runs per day per household (JST day), spent when you enter. Ironman: start it solo from Ilya. The exit portal asks before you leave, so nobody walks out by accident. Evolved Mutant Slimes Up to 300 green slimes fly around the whole lab and refill constantly. Each one: 2 billion HP, 133,333,333 EXP and 20 Perfect Pitch . Every class's Hyper III item can drop (10% each). Evolution Lab Box When the timer ends (or the leader walks out), every player in the lab gets 1 Evolution Lab Box . A solo Ironman gets 6 . Open it for: 98% 100 of a random class's Hyper III (untradeable), 1% the Evolution Lab Master medal , 1% the Evolution Pendant (a cash pendant). You can carry only one of each: store yours before opening more boxes. Both are Superior items with 10 slots: Superior Chaos Scroll III and Innocence Scrolls only, Superior Gems allowed, no hammers. The medal gives +2 all stats and +2 attack and magic attack. Upgrade them 9 times at Nova Sage Ilya for 300 Pantheon's Myth per level . PANTHEON, HELISEUM AND TYRANT'S CASTLE GROW UP 74 new maps: 25 in Pantheon, 25 in Heliseum and 24 in Tyrant's Castle (including the Heliseum Heights Entry), all connected the way they should be, with their world map spots. 26 new monsters on the regional curve: 2.0 billion HP and 20 Perfect Pitch in Pantheon, 2.5 billion and 25 in Heliseum, 3.0 billion and 30 in Tyrant's Castle. They drop the same loot as each region's grind monsters. Full spawn layouts on 51 grind maps , including the nine Pantheon, Heliseum and Tyrant's Castle grind maps you already farm: 180 to 300 monsters per map, spread over every platform, instead of the old boosted copies. You can walk to Hard Magnus: from Tyrant's Castle through the Sitting Room Entry to the Heliseum Heights Entry. HYPER III FOR EVERY CLASS Every class's Hyper III final attack is now an active skill , like the Dark Knight's Nightshade Explosion: cast it from its key, the Skill window or a macro . 10 lines on up to 15 monsters anywhere on the map , 10-second cooldown . Every class's lines were measured in game and tuned to within about 1% of the Dark Knight's. Nova Sage Ilya: a Hyper III level now costs 1,000,000 30,000 of your class's Hyper III items. The Hyper III reset moved to Claudine , next to the Hyper I and II resets, and works the same way (it refunds 30,000 per level). UMBRA'S VENGEANCE - FREE ARCANE UMBRA COSMETICS Talk to the Maple Administrator and choose Umbra's Vengeance . 45 Arcane Umbra NX cosmetics: 25 armor pieces (hats, suits, gloves, shoes and capes) and 20 weapon covers, each with +2 all stats and +2 attack and magic attack . Free, one of each per character , with a "claim everything" button. Gloves and shoes fit male and female characters. Untradeable. Claims are open until November 11 , and the items expire at the end of November 11 (JST) . LUMINOUS - LIGHT AND DARKNESS Becoming a Luminous Reach level 8 as a Beginner and talk to Vieren in the Magic Library (Ellinia). The change is permanent. The Marbas trial takes you to level 20, and Marbas now drops the Marbas Hat every time. Job advancements are automatic at levels 30, 70 and 120 . Wields wands, staves and Shining Rods . How she plays Stat INT Buffs 600 s Gauge None No Light / Dark gauge to manage: every skill is always available. Light Speed teleports with a short moment of invincibility. Ray of Redemption and Apocalypse heal you and your party, Shadow Shell blocks status effects. The Crossroads of Destiny resets your cooldowns like Time Leap. Job Key skills 1st Flash Shower, Abyssal Drop, Light Speed, Magic Guard, Light Affinity (lifesteal), Dark Affinity (MP steal), Equilibrium (+20% boss damage), Mana Well 2nd Sylvan Lance, Blinding Pillar (pushes monsters away, bosses included), Pressure Void (hold-down: learned from the Suspicious Man for 100 Piece of Balrog Leather), Black Blessing, Agile Magic, Spell Mastery, High Wisdom 3rd Spectral Light (hold-down), Ray of Redemption, Moonlight Spear, Death Scythe, Shadow Shell, Photic Meditation, Light Speed Boost, Dusk Guard, Self Recovery, Equilibrium Liberation 4th Reflection, Morning Star, Apocalypse, Arcane Pitch (stance), Dark Crescendo, The Crossroads of Destiny, Magic Mastery, Darkness Mastery, Maple Warrior, Hero's Will. Reflection, Apocalypse and Arcane Pitch go to level 40 with Jay Hyper Armageddon (Hyper III final attack), Equalize (shadow partner lines), Heroic Memories, Apocalypse and Reflection Reinforce, Reflection Spread and more Luminous main attacks (balanced in game) Skill Max level Damage Hits Enemies Notes Reflection 40 (31-40 from Jay) 563% 5 6 Main attack for groups Morning Star 30 338% 7 15 30-second cooldown Apocalypse 40 (31-40 from Jay) 2,920% 3 1 Boss attack, heals you and your party like Angel Ray Armageddon 10 1,075% 10 15 Hyper III final attack, 10-second cooldown These numbers were measured in game with the staff damage test: a Luminous deals about as much as a Bishop, on groups and on a single boss. Equilibrium's +20% boss damage comes on top. Equilibrium Liberation: @luminous . From 3rd job a Luminous can reset one boss's weekly attempts for that character. Type @luminous to see your status and @luminous to use it. Once every 15 days , shared by your character, account, IP and device. CLASS BALANCE Class Skill (level 40) Change Marksman Snipe 542 509 (-6%) Dark Knight Gungnir's Descent 139 131 (-6%) Thunder Breaker Thunderbolt 199 187 (-6%) Phantom Mille Aiguilles 172 189 (+10%) Dual Blade Blade Fury 91 98 (+8%) Dual Blade Phantom Blow 364 379 (+4%) Shade Bomb Punch 138 145 (+5%) Shade Spirit Claw 172 156 Ice / Lightning Arch Mage Chain Lightning (magic attack) 669 736 (+10%) Ice / Lightning Arch Mage Shadow Icicle (magic attack) 663 696 (+5%) Every level from 1 to 40 scales the same way; lines and targets are unchanged. Night Walker: Quintuple Star and Dark Omen still hit through a boss's Weapon / Magic Cancel and Damage Reflect, but deal 50% damage during those windows. Outside them nothing changes. Shade: Soul Splitter is now part of @empowerme and Sinaria's buff roster. Dual Blade: Thorns II now shows the real Thorns animation. Skill levels 31-40, explained in the tooltip: SP raises a skill to level 30; Jay raises it to level 40. Every skill whose last levels come from Jay (Henesys Ruins) now says so in its tooltip, so you know when to stop saving SP and visit him. A few skills use a lower band, for example SP to 20 and Jay to 30, and their tooltips show those numbers. Sinaria (DPM Test NPC): the full buff pack now gives party buffs plus your own class's buffs only, so test numbers match a real party. ECONOMY AND REWARDS Pantheon's Crystal is now called Pantheon's Myth. Same item, new name. Level 270 Daily Quest: now pays 1,000 of your class's Hyper III, 100 Pantheon's Myth, 1 Heliseum's Crystal and 1 Tyrant's Crystal (was 1 of each), from the first daily reset after the patch. Days already banked keep their old rewards, and the Halloween +30% still applies until November 1. Crystal Ventus Badge at Nova Sage Ilya: crafting costs 1,000,000 3,000 Pantheon's Myth, and each of its 9 upgrades 1,000,000 300 . Keep your buffs when you die: buffs now survive death and revive with their own timers, including EXP, drop and meso buffs and party buffs. Mounts, transformations, summons, Dark Sight / Wind Walk, chairs, healing over time, Dragon Blood, Recovery and boss encounter effects still end. Ironman milestones are per character: every Ironman character claims its own level milestone rewards, and the old limit of two level 180+ characters per account is gone. The level 30 / 40 meso bonus stays once per household. Ironman CWKPQ milestone: every 15th Crimsonwood Keep clear of an Ironman character pays a Mark of Naricain and a Forest's Nightmare . If your inventory is full, Jack pays it later. Raven Envoy Nyx (Ironman): trade 1,500 Raven Ninja Coins for a Forest's Earring Scroll . Bulk exchanges for Ironman: Sasuke's premium scroll exchanges and Nyx's Forest's Earring Scroll now trade 1 to 100 at once. Dark Fusion Fragments now drop in stacks of 2. Aura Pendant + another cash pendant: you can now wear the Aura Pendant in the second cash pendant slot next to another cash pendant (for example the Mark of Naricain NX). Still one Aura at a time. NEW CLIENT FEATURES Chat stickers: 9 emoticon packs with 62 stickers. Type :Name: in chat (with autocomplete after a colon), or use the emoticon button inside the chat box and its picker with favourites. Stickers also show above your head. Hyper Stats and Legion now share one native window docked to your Stat window, with tabs and per-level tooltips. Item locking: right-click an item in your Item window (or long-press it on your phone) and choose LOCK (Equip, Use and Etc items). A locked item shows a padlock and a red frame, and it is protected from Sell All , from being dropped and from being sold one at a time in a shop. Choose UNLOCK to free it again. The same item menu also has Equip / Use , Trade / Put in Shop , Drop and Ignore / Unignore Item (the same pickup ignore list as the Mob Info window). Totem figures: a totem you wear now shows its figure behind your character, like in later versions of the game. The first ones are the two Goo Totem figures. Discord links you post in chat are now clickable , just like in Discord itself. Arcane Equipment window and the V skill tab , a first look at the 5th job (the 5th job and its items arrive in a later patch). Hard Magnus is drawn with his real animations, telegraphs, meteors and gas clouds. The Banked Reset notice, the Online Players search button and the update badge now use the classic game art. HOTFIXES AFTER RELEASE (OCTOBER 26) Class balance on the new client (22:05 JST): the new client now uses the balance numbers above for Snipe, Gungnir's Descent, Thunderbolt, Mille Aiguilles, Blade Fury, Phantom Blow, Bomb Punch, Chain Lightning and Shadow Icicle, in both the skill tooltips and your damage. Refresh the game once to load them. New client update (22:15 JST): System Option, Game Option and Key Config open again after changing character or after tonight's server move. Transparent Weapon covers now hide every weapon type. Arcane Umbra cane (and the cosmetic siege gun) now show over Phantom canes and Cannoneer cannons. A second cash pendant now shows its stats in the Stat window (the stats always counted in battle). Item Megaphones show the item name again in the Modern chat. Luminous (22:32 JST): the Maple Warrior and the Maple Warrior 20 / 30 / 40 books now work for Luminous (and Firm Hand lists Luminous Hero's Will). Books you tried before were not used up. Claim your Umbra set, take a party into the Evolution Lab, and go knock the Tyrant off his throne. - The Kuro Team