Oh man

[Kirov]

Kanna is all well and good but maybe they can bring over the JMS slot increase as well so I can actually have a free slot to make one.

[byakugan]

The one on the bottom confirms tempest/luminous(which is in tempest) and the top confirms we will eventually get kanna. He kepts asking us to check back at the site for updates. I don't see why he'd tell us that 2 months early though.

Telling you to check the site for updates is just their generic answer when they can't say or don't know dates.

I find it pretty easy to place Hayato and Kanna right after Tempest starting by February, considering KMS updates were pretty bleak a couple months after the finished updating Heilisium. People might rage if they delay Hyper Skills but I consider getting Hayato / Kanna in exchange as an excellent trade off.

[Chilly]

Isn't Kanna still broken in JMS? And by broken, I don't mean OP, I mean her skills don't work appropriately or cause D/Cs or something of that nature.

[Killmeplsok]

For some reason the first thing that catches my eyes is "Lumanuons".

[Justin]

Kanna and Hayato? holy pomegranate, screw tempest, those are the ones I'm REALLY excited about.

[Locked]

I may play again if it happens.
Not sure though. Can't bring myself to really care about MapleStory unfortunately.

[Sephie]

Psh... if Hayato releases AND it's not gender locked AND Kaiser isn't released, I'll probably... maybe... might think about trying Hayato somehow someway sometime, I guess.

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I'm still really happy about GMS copying all the good things about JMS! Now they need to copy their royal hair, their max character limit, their shared cash shop, their NeoTokyo and CWK, and their expanded Silent Crusade and we'll be well on our way to a better game~

[Link]

Well, this is dumb. I am curious about how they will actually implement these classes. They'll have to do more than just porting the classes themselves.

[Polantaris]

Isn't Kanna still broken in JMS? And by broken, I don't mean OP, I mean her skills don't work appropriately or cause D/Cs or something of that nature.

Yes, her skills are still pineappleed up to all hell. That's why I stopped playing, sick of Nexon not fixing pomegranate, even exclusive content. They note bugs in news reports, and don't even mention bugs that have been peached about by players for months, it's absolute ridiculous.

If GMS is truly getting Kanna and Hayato, expect their bugs to be around for at least a year, or more. If JMS can't fix its own exclusive content in over two months, who knows how long it will take GMS to get said fixes if they ever occur.

What makes no sense to me is: After Tempest for Kanna/Hayato? Why? They're not optimized for Post-Tempest changes. Just more room for horrible problems that should make the idea less appealing to you guys.

[Elven Emily]

Yay Kanna! I wish they would combine Kaiser and JMS slot changes.
There are just two problems: (1) Hayato and Kanna don't have Hyper Skills. (2) Their skills are not changed to work with the Job Advancement changes.

[Thorr]

Kanna is all well and good but maybe they can bring over the JMS slot increase as well so I can actually have a free slot to make one.

KMS had a slot increase during the Tempest cycle as well. I am sure we will see that.

[Ninjaman43]

pineapple luminous,Kaiser, AB, and Tempest i want Hayato

[CrazyForDex]

Holy s'hit Tempest is/was already confirmed for Decemeber? Hyper skills = ALL OF MY WANT.

[Thorr]

Holy s'hit Tempest is/was already confirmed for Decemeber? Hyper skills = ALL OF MY WANT.

Hyper skills are at the END of tempest. Tempest will BEGIN in december.

I predict the following patch cycle -

Oct 24 - Masquerade
Nov 14 - Resistance Revamp/Chaos PB (indicated by the events that all end on Nov 13)

Tempest Cycle
Dec 12 - Prelude
Dec 19 - Luminous
Jan 8 - Kaiser with Nova/Pantheon
Jan 22- Angelic Burster
Feb 5 - Magnus
Feb 12 - Hyper Skills

Reasoning - Most the intervals I used are the same intervals used in KMS. I would suspect there may be some combining of updates in GMS, though. For instance, Magnus was a separate small update in KMS. I see it being combined with either AB or Hyper skills. We may also get the Nova/Pantheon update in combination with Kaiser instead of separate. They want to start Tempest in December, so I see the Prelude early on with the first major part of Tempest (the Luminous update) happening a week before Christmas. They will have time to iron out any major bugs before the holidays. That way they can basically take off for the week between Xmas and New year's and then have another week to prepare for the Kaiser release. I don't think they will pull a Chaos on us and release it all at once, but they may pull a Legends on us and give us one big patch with all the data and then unlock stuff on specific dates. After all, we already have the start of the Luminous data and that class is easily 3 updates away.

EDIT - Timeline adjusted to reflect actual KMS intervals. The 6 parts of Tempest were released on the following dates -
Prelude Jul 4,
Luminous Jul 12,
Kaiser/Nova Jul 26,
angelic Burster Aug 9,
Magnus Aug 15,
Hyper Skills I Aug 23

[CrazyForDex]

Feb 26 - Magnus/Hyper skills

Right after my winter break ends. Perfect.

[Thorr]

Right after my winter break ends. Perfect.

I knew that feel, bro. I am really hoping for Luminous to be released before Christmas because I have 2 weeks off at that time. My timeline reflects my wishes, but if they push off and make the Prelude happen at like Dec 20 or so and then wait til after New Year's to release luminous, I am gonna be so very upset. I want to spend my vacation with my Luminous.

EDIT - I changed the timeline of Tempest to more closely match the KMS intervals but still sprinkle in a little common sense. It's more favorable for your Winter Break.

[Arrol]

KMS had a slot increase during the Tempest cycle as well. I am sure we will see that.

Only 3 slots, not enough.

[Kirov]

KMS had a slot increase during the Tempest cycle as well. I am sure we will see that.

Increasing the cap by 3 while releasing 3 new classes didn’t really solve anything.

[Storm]

I'm looking forward to Kaiser coming out.

As for Kanna and Hayato, that's a hit or miss, but if they both are released for GMS, it would be nice to have them.

[Thorr]

Increasing the cap by 3 while releasing 3 new classes didn’t really solve anything.

I wasn't indicating it would. I am just pointing out that we will very likely get -some- increase in max slots. It's not JMS level, but we are at least 90% likely to get the KMS increase.