MapleStory: Chaos

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Chaos is a large update following Big Bang, before Ascension. Ever since the arise of the Black Mage, the world has been thrown into greater chaos, thus Maplers must rise to become stronger through three different sequences. Like Big Bang, the update comes in 3 patches.

Part 1 : Age of Heroes This patch brings back Heroes, Dual Blade, Resistance and revamps every class. Heroes and Dual Blade will have a new artwork, with Aran wearing a headband, and Evan wearing a black robe. Maplers from KoreaMS is able to create a Dual Blade character again for 3 months.

Part 2 : Age of Artisans This patch introduces 5 skills that you can choose to help you with your leveling. You can choose only 2 of them: Herbalism, Mining, Blacksmith, Jewel Making, and Alchemy. Maker skill is removed and replaced by these skills in this patch.

Part 3 : Age of Battle This patch introduces a PvP system which players can battle against each other. PvP consists of 3 (or 4) modes:

Free-for-all: Defeat as many enemies as you can.

Team Battle: Score more points than the opposing team.

Ice Knight: One player becomes the Ice Knight and others have to defeat him within 7 minutes.

Capture the Flag: Capture the opposing team's flag 3 times. (Global Exclusive)

This update also releases a new set of equipments, a new area, and a new boss, for Maplers over Level 160. However, the boss expedition is only for Maplers over Level 170





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Part 1 : Monster Familiar This first part of the update contains Monster Familiar, a new function enabling Maplers to summon monsters which can help attack other monsters, Spirit Weapons, a weapon allowing Maplers to summon Bosses, Gate to the Future, and Skill Changes.

Part 2 : Way of the Artisans This part introduces Professions which is also featured in Chaos, but with Jewel Making and Blacksmithing merged, and the release of two new, JapanMS-exclusive professions: Tamer and Huntsman.

Trivia

 * The patch names for MapleSEA used the fan translation of the Korean names, which are Return of the Heroes, Technological Age and Super Fight.
 * ChinaMS, TaiwanMS, MapleSEA and EuropeMS have Capture the Flag, so GlobalMS's Capture the Flag hadn't been exclusive for more than 3 months.