Mercedes, halloween 2026 and the real Gollux

THE ELVEN ARCHER ARRIVES. MAPLE WORLD GOES HAUNTED. Mercedes takes up her bowguns, Halloween takes over the Free Market, the real Gollux wakes up and the JMS Limited Gachapon opens its second wave. Plus five house sizes, a haunted Donation Hall, a stance rework and a full set of new native windows on the web client. MERCEDES HALLOWEEN 2026 REAL GOLLUX JMS GACHAPON WAVE 2 HOUSE STAGES DONATION HALL DPM BALANCE WEB CLIENT WINDOWS On the desktop client? Patch with the launcher before you log in. Mercedes, the Halloween items and skill skins, the new house designs, the Donation Hall and the stance icons all need the new client files. The web client updates itself: just reload the page. Free Halloween ghost skins: every account receives Ghost Miffy Orange , Ghost Miffy Pink and Ghost Bear automatically at login (once per account). Patch gift: a Banked Reset for every account. Until October 19, about 15:30 JST (72 hours after the patch), claim one extra 2x EXP or 2x Drop booster box from the Maple Admin in the Free Market, on top of your normal daily purchase. Event days 14 Skill skins 75 New gachapon chairs 28 New gachapon mounts 20 House designs 10 WHAT OPENS WHEN (JST) When What Now (October 16) Mercedes, Player Housing stages, the Halloween Free Market and Donation Hall, LoL match bets, DPM balance and Hyper III changes, region keys removed, free Halloween ghost skins, all fixes below Until October 19, ~15:30 Banked Reset: one extra 2x booster box from the Maple Admin October 17, 00:00 The real Gollux fight (weekly boss reset, level 235+) and JMS Limited Gachapon wave 2 (until November 2, 00:00) October 19, 00:00 to November 1, 23:59 Halloween 2026: candy, Malady's shops, skill skins, Trick or Treat, Masters Killian and LeFay, Halloween Pass boxes, +30% Daily Quest ETC. Event items expire November 2, 00:00 After November 1 Amy sells permanent skill skins for 1,000 DP THE PATCH IN TEN SECONDS Mercedes is here: any Beginner at level 10 can join at the Mercedes recruiter in the Bowman Instructional School (Henesys). Her skill attacks never miss and need no arrows. Halloween 2026, October 19 to November 1: Halloween Candy from every monster, Malady's Trick and Treat shops, 75 skill skins, the Trick or Treat party buff, the Masters Killian and LeFay, and +30% Daily Quest rewards. The real Gollux opens with the weekly boss reset on Saturday, October 17, 00:00 JST : level 235+, a 1 trillion HP Head, new mechanics and Superior Gollux drops. JMS Limited Gachapon wave 2, October 17 to November 2: 28 new chairs (1,500 DP) and 20 new mounts (2,500 DP), no duplicates. Player Housing grows to five stages from a 10,000 DP Cottage to a 50,000 DP Mansion, with show homes you can tour first. A haunted Donation Hall with two floors and its own music. Stance rework: stance now scales 1% per skill level up to 100% at max, and the Akatsuki stance is retired. DPM balance: Dawn Warrior, Aran, Cannoneer, Dual Blade and Bishop, plus reworked Hyper III skills for Dark Knight and Bishop. Web client: new native windows for the Gachapon, Maker, Daily Login, Ore and Guild Storage, Online Players, Damage Skins, Scroll Workshop, Amy and more. MERCEDES - THE ELVEN ARCHER Two bowguns, one queen, and arrows that never run out. Becoming a Mercedes Reach level 10 as a Beginner and talk to the Mercedes recruiter in the Bowman Instructional School (Henesys). The change is permanent. You start with a War Bow , a Crossbow (now level 10), 1,000 arrows for each and the Mercedes dual bowgun cover . Amdusias trial: from level 10 the recruiter sends you after Amdusias. Beat him before level 20 and you jump straight to level 20 , plus a guaranteed Amdusias Hat . Job advancements are automatic at levels 30, 70 and 120 . How she plays Stat DEX Weapons Bow / Crossbow Ammo None Every Mercedes skill attack never misses and needs no arrows or bolts . Normal attacks still roll to hit like every class. Her shots fly her own green elven arrows ; Staggering Strikes keeps its classic red. Works with a bow or a crossbow, on the desktop client and the web client. Job Key skills 1st Swift Dual Shot (25% x3, 3 targets), Spirit Jump (flash jump), Sylvidia (mount), Potential Power (+20% final damage, +20% dodge, +30 speed), Sharp Aim (+20% crit), Elven Healing, Elven Grace, Elven Blessing (+20% EXP) 2nd Piercing Storm (25% x4, 6 targets), Rising Rush (300% x2 lunge), Agile Bowguns (booster + 20 DEX), Spirit Surge (+10% crit damage, max level 10), Physical Training (+30 STR and DEX), Parting Shot (35% x4, 6 targets: learned from the Suspicious Man for 100 Piece of Balrog Leather) 3rd Stunning Strikes (150% x4, 5 targets, 80% stun for 6 s), Unicorn Spike (lowers monster attack, defense and accuracy), Water Shield (up to 100% stance), Elemental Knights (burn on hit), Ignis Roar (+25% final damage, +40 attack) 4th Ishtar's Ring (hold-down, 3 lines every 120 ms, 159% per line at level 40), Staggering Strikes (166% x5, 6 targets, 80% stun), Spirit Nimble Flight (backward teleport), Ancient Warding (party +25% crit, +15% crit damage, does not stack with Sharp Eyes), Defense Break, Maple Warrior, Hero's Will Hyper Wrath of Enlil (3000% x6 on 15 targets, 10 s cooldown), Heroic Memories (+10% final damage), Elvish Blessing (shadow lines), Ishtar's Ring Reinforce / Guardbreak / Boss Rush (+20% each), Staggering Strikes Reinforce and Spread (+1 target per level), Water Shield Reinforce See her in action Ishtar's Ring Hold the key and she never stops: three green arrows every 120 ms, drinking potions while you hold. Wrath of Enlil Her hyper: a rain of spirit spears, 3000% x6 on up to 15 monsters every 10 seconds. Staggering Strikes Five hits on up to 6 monsters with an 80% stun. Stunning Strikes Her 3rd job combo: 150% x4 on 5 monsters, 80% stun for 6 seconds. Piercing Storm 2nd job: a volley of green arrows, 25% x4 on up to 6 monsters. Spirit Nimble Flight Fairy wings flash open as she darts backwards out of danger. Ishtar's Ring plays like Hurricane: hold the key, it ticks every 120 ms, drinks potions while held and stops when your MP runs out. Other players see it too. HALLOWEEN 2026 - OCTOBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 1 Something is stirring at the Free Market entrance. Bring candy. The event runs October 19 to November 1 (JST). Event-only items and the event skill expire on November 2 at 00:00 JST. Malady and her candy Malady waits at the Free Market entrance . Claim a free Black Moon Face Accessory , an NX face accessory with +5 all stats and +5 attack and magic attack. Once per character, untradeable, and it lasts until November 1 . Halloween Candy drops from every monster (1%) and is tradable. "Could it be a Trick?" opens the skill skin shop. "Could it be a Treat?" opens the candy shop. Treats (1,000 candy each) Ayame's Treasure (+8 / +8, permanent) Halloween Haunted Store (permanent): a witch shopkeeper, a purple and orange signboard and flying bats Flock of Witches : everyone in the map gets +30 attack and magic attack for 60 minutes, and every different player who uses one adds another +30. Reusable until the event ends. Halloween Board (permanent): a purple chalkboard with an orange frame and pumpkins Princess No Effect (permanent) Shadow Swiftness: a permanent flash jump for every job, no SP, one per character. Skill skins What a skin is: the animation of another class's 4th job attack. Put it on one of your own 4th job attacks and that attack looks like the other skill. For example, a Bishop can make Angel Ray look like the Bowmaster's Hurricane , or like the Arch Mage's Blizzard . How to get one: talk to Malady , choose "Could it be a Trick?" and buy a skin for 1,000 Halloween Candy . There are 75 skins from 24 jobs to pick from. How to use it: in the same menu choose "Put a skin on one of my skills" , pick your attack, then pick the skin. "Remove a skin" puts the original look back, and "My skins" shows what you own and what is in use. Only the look changes: damage, range, number of targets and cooldown stay exactly the same as your own skill. Everyone around you sees your skin, and a Kuro Prism dye on your skill tints the skin too. Skins bought with candy last until November 1 . After the event, Amy sells permanent skill skins for 1,000 DP . Trick or Treat Learn the Trick or Treat party buff from the Trick or Treat Mastery Book (tradable). Each book adds one level, up to 10. Each level gives your party +3 all stats and +3 attack and magic attack for 10 minutes, so +30 / +30 at level 10 . It stacks with potions and disappears after the event. Hidden book: every hour a book is hidden in a random Free Market store on an announced channel. The first visitor to open that store takes it, and the Owl of Minerva cannot find it. Masters Killian and LeFay appear every 6 hours in a random Free Market room (or the entrance) on a random channel, and the announcement tells you where. Only one pair exists at a time. They have 250,000 HP, every damage line deals exactly 10 damage, they never hurt you, and the kill drops 6 Trick or Treat books . Bring friends. Boxes and quests Halloween Box : 2,000 DP from Amy during the event (it can still be opened after it). One random permanent cosmetic from 17 chairs, 38 NX items, 28 Dance items and 6 mounts, and items you do not own come first. Includes the Haunted Mansion Chair , the Pumpkin Star cover and Halloween mounts. Chairs and mounts from the box are untradeable. Halloween Pass: the permanent Seraphine skin (once per account, delivered at login or from Amy) plus one Halloween Box per day per account for the whole event. Daily Quests pay +30% ETC rewards for every quest day inside the event (days banked before it get no bonus), for example level 260: 1,000 -> 1,300 Hyper II and 100 -> 130 Raven Ninja Coins. THE REAL GOLLUX AWAKENS The real Gollux fight opens with the weekly boss reset on Saturday, October 17, 00:00 JST. Until then the Imitation Gollux Heart offers the practice run only. Entry Level 235+ Players 1-6 Time 20 min Deaths 5 Enter at the Imitation Gollux Heart or the Dimensional Mirror at level 235+ . 1 attempt per day per account , spent only when the Head dies. Practice runs stay free. Every rift is open from the start. The Heart's rift into the Head room opens once the Abdomen, both Shoulders and every climb-map monster are dead. HP Head: 1 trillion Abdomen and Shoulders: 100 billion each Veilstone Alpha: 50 billion (3-minute kill window) Regular mobs and Veilstone Beta / Gamma / Delta: 1.5 billion Head room mechanics Breath, Suck In, Stone Hand and Arm fists in rotation. Suck In pulls you toward the mouth for 6 seconds, and the open mouth kills. Tree Corruption: 60 seconds of reversed controls and 40,000 HP per second, every 2 minutes. It cannot be blocked. Wood Spikes: one per minute, up to 5. A normal jump clears them. Damage reflect shows as a visible barrier, and the Seduce every 2 minutes can be blocked with Holy Shield. The two side platforms are back, and the Arm fist only kills on the floor: stand on a platform to be safe . The Stone Hand always rises from the bottom floor. A death undone by a Bishop's Resurrection is refunded in full, including its minute. No Gollux monster has an elemental weakness or resistance any more, and the Abdomen's vine rifts lead to the Heart. Gollux Coins and Pennies no longer drop (coins you already hold stay). Ironman practice: an Ironman leader can pick 1/6 to 6/6 boss HP for a practice run (no loot, no rewards, no attempt spent). Head drops (real runs only): 2x Superior Gollux Earrings, 2x Superior Engraved Gollux Pendant, 2x Superior Gollux Ring, 2x Superior Engraved Gollux Belt and 2x Advanced Gollux Scroll. Every single copy rolls 80% on its own. JMS LIMITED GACHAPON - WAVE 2 October 17, 00:00 JST to November 2, 00:00 JST Same machine in the Donation Hall: 28 new chairs at 1,500 DP and 20 new mounts at 2,500 DP . No duplicates, permanent and untradeable. Featured chairs: Light vs. Darkness, Game Show Grand Stage, Pink Bean's Live Stage, Sweet Cookie House, Halloween Maple Family, Chess Master's Throne, Memories of Lith Harbor, Fox Tree, Fantasia Music Box, Cherry Blossom Picnic. Featured mounts: Golden Thunderbird, Glory Crystal Portal, Nibelung Starfighter, Anubis Guardian, Hot Dog Parade, Inferno Wolf, White Tiger Spirit, Crowned Sapphire Cobra, Grumpy Sun Cloud, Giant Ripe Tomato. Wave 2 takes over the moment wave 1 ends, on October 17 at 00:00 JST . On the web client the machine now opens a full Gachapon window : capsule animation, Pull x5, Open All, an Instant toggle, skip at any time and a recent prizes row. PLAYER HOUSING - FIVE STAGES, TEN DESIGNS Cottage - 10,000 DP (40 furniture, 10 platforms): Little Mushroom House House - 20,000 DP (60 furniture, 20 platforms): Cozy Mushroom House, Colonial-Style Home Manor - 30,000 DP (80 furniture, 30 platforms): Halloween Manor, Beach Townhouse Estate - 40,000 DP (100 furniture, 40 platforms): Maya's Garden House, Eastern-Style Home Mansion - 50,000 DP (150 furniture, 40 platforms): Grand Mushroom Mansion, Grand Halloween Manor, Grand Eastern Palace Already own a house? It is a Maya's Garden House (Estate). Your house is worth what you paid: moving to an equal or cheaper design is free, a bigger one costs only the difference. A 40,000 DP owner reaches any Mansion for 10,000 DP. Furniture goes back to storage. Show homes: tour an empty copy of every design through @house , Amy or Elma, and buy from inside. Each design plays its own music. A HAUNTED DONATION HALL The Donation Hall gets a Halloween makeover with an upper and a lower floor and its own new music. The Mount Gachapon and Fleta are on the upper floor, the JMS Limited Gachapon on the lower floor. The finished F2P event NPCs (Greedy Gia, Blake, Sinister, Myra) have left, and the F2P Coin no longer drops. STANCE REWORK AND EVENT AFTERMATH The Sengoku and F2P events are over: the Akatsuki Warrior 100% stance and Akatsuki Will are retired . Kishin Earrings, Kanna's Treasure, Hayato's Treasure, Letters to the Moon and the Agent 26 Belt are retired too (day-26 claimers keep one belt). Ayame's Treasure is now permanent. Stance now scales with skill level, 1% per level, reaching 100% at max: Infinity and Concentrate 61-100%, Umbrage 61-100%, Battleship 81-100% while mounted, Night Lord Critical Mastery 91-100%, Chakra 71-100%. New Marksman passive: Marksmanship , 20 levels, 81-100% stance. Fortitude no longer gives stance: it now gives the party +1 to +20 weapon and magic attack. Curse Tolerance is now a cast buff: 81-100% stance, +2% status and +2% elemental resistance for 600 s. Phantom: Impeccable Memory IV can copy Power Stance (held at level 30 for 100% stance), Fortitude copies are held at level 30 (+20 / +20), and a weaker stance no longer replaces a stronger one. Hidden stance passives no longer show as buff icons, so your buff bar stops shifting at login. DPM BALANCE Class Skill (level 40) Change Dawn Warrior Moon Dancer 147 154 Dawn Warrior Equinox Slash 45 43 Aran Final Blow 175 184 Aran Beyond Blade 412 433 Cannoneer Cannon Barrage 843 885 Cannoneer Cannon Bazooka 215 226 (levels 31-39 now ramp evenly from 160) Dual Blade Blade Fury 87 91 Bishop Angel Ray 2025 1924 Every level from 1 to 40 scales the same way, and the level 31 dips in Angel Ray and Equinox Slash are fixed. Hyper III changes Dark Knight - Nightshade Explosion: now an active skill you cast: 10 hits of 220% to 400% on up to 15 monsters anywhere on the map, 10-second cooldown, and it can go in a skill macro. Bishop - Epic Adventure: now +1% final damage per level for yourself (+10% at max). Bishop - Holy Magic Shell: now the shadow-line hyper (2% per level). The old party final damage and automatic party shell are removed. WEB CLIENT - NEW WINDOWS AND FIXES New native windows Gachapon Machine: a full window for the Gachapon NPCs with the capsule opening, rare-prize tension, Pull x5, Open All and an Instant toggle. Amy's Services: talking to Amy opens her own window instead of NPC chat. Maker: recipe list with tabs, search and filters, ready / missing marks, a quantity box with MAX and a gem picker. Daily Login: native window with tabs, resizable from 1x to 2x. Ore Storage and Guild Storage: native windows with a resize grip and the bag and wallet fixes. Online Players: list and grid views with filters. Damage Skins, Scroll Workshop and Android windows redesigned. Kuro Settings (formerly Widget Settings) with v83 tabs and sliders, and the widget now has a native look with a small collapsed bar. Equipment window: every Kuro slot has its own cell and totems have their own panel. The character info window and set-effect panel got a native look too. Kuro Prism: a search box filters by name, id or job. Forgotten Hollow now has its own World Map under Victoria Island. Cash Shop HD view: the Cash Shop fills your screen with sharp 2x art. Skills and fixes Mercedes fully playable on the web client: Spirit Jump, Rising Rush, Spirit Nimble Flight, Sylvidia, hold-down Ishtar's Ring and green arrows. Gollux: the Stone Hand can no longer be targeted (like desktop), and Suck In now pulls your character toward the boss. Phantom and Mercedes now see the Maker and Monster Rider skills in their skill window. Phantom can copy Power Stance, and Curse Tolerance casts as a stance buff. Pathfinder Double Jump has its own skill entry and art, and Shadow Swiftness works as a Flash Jump for every class. The Cash Shop Surprise gachapon sounds play again. Housing: the new house designs, platforms and furniture depth work on the web client. QUALITY OF LIFE AND BUG FIXES No more region keys: Lion King's Castle, Future Henesys / Twilight Perion and Leafre in Flames can be entered without a key. Gollux and Chaos Root Abyss still need theirs. Forest's Earring Scroll now also gives +10 magic attack. The Free Market and the Donation Hall play a new song, a piano cover of "Birds of a Feather" . Halloween Free Market: the dock end walls now reach the ground, so nobody walks off into the water. Arkarium: a Shadower's Smoke Screen now also protects you from the Netherworld Monk's touch, and a Wheel of Fortune revive puts you at the altar entrance instead of next to the monks. Weddings: an unanswered proposal no longer leaves you stuck as "already engaged" (proposals expire after 10 minutes, and a new one replaces your old one). Web players can answer a proposal with @propose accept or @propose decline , and both players are told why if the engagement fails. Damage skins: coupons whose skin cannot be activated are no longer sold in the Skin Gachapon or the Cash Shop. Forest's Nightmare now adds its weapon and magic attack on the web client too. Cannon Bazooka levels 31-39 now ramp evenly to level 40. Hired Merchants: the update closed every open shop. Your items, prices and mesos are safe with Fredrick in the Free Market: collect them and reopen your shop. Make a Mercedes, farm some candy, and go wake up Gollux. Happy Halloween from Maple World. - The Kuro Team