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Implications of Monad for GMS (and fellow non-KMS)

CharniaCharnia
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edited August 2018 in General Chat
Story spoiler, if you care about that stuff.
The ending of Monad revealed the Antellion (and best boi Naricain) from Masteria content being the driving force behind this event, along with the Sengoku cast of Jipangu; it follows up on Stellar Detective's attempt to unify the major non-KMS storylines. There's also that helmet which belonged to PULSAR; I didn't pay that much attention to the story. Personally, this looks pretty good for the future non-KMS content for GMS. Having a unified storyline incentivizes revamps and updates to all of these prior locations, especially Masteria which felt like it got left behind in the dust like the KMS theme dungeons.

Masteria will finally, or hopefully get another update following up Monad. For content that has existed and was a integral part of pre-BB GMS Maplestory alongside Jipangu, I felt it got the losing end of things. Tynerum's Crimsonwood Castle really didn't do justice and just gave us a worse version of CWKPQ.

Jipangu may get an update past Tokyo (which we have on the map, also, when was Jipangu added to the world map?) and a continuation of Mushroom Shrine Tales. I don't know if the Tokyo storyline even connects with that, or if it's something akin to Ninja Castle. Sengoku will probably be expanded with a new raid boss, probably not Nobunaga, at least not for a while.

More Stellar Detectives . . . which is whatever really, but it's ok since it's what started the unification of the non-KMS content. Although, I love Captain Vaga for making link mules easier to level at the grindy portions.

That said, we will probably end up with way too many raid bosses filling up the boss tab. I mean, Will is being sandwiched in-between Princess No and Julieta. Which looks off, only because the non-KMS bosses were ordered after Lucid prior to Will, and new/revamped bosses like Omni-clean and Papulatus were not placed in random order of old to new.

Story wise, it looks like a cluster of stuff that doesn't belong together, but revisiting and updating content like Masteria is definitely something I look forward to.