KURO 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW

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KURO 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW

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As 2025 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who joined us on this journey.

KuroMS started way back in March 2025 and went into early Beta. The server had its hiccups, but we managed to push through with steady updates throughout the year. Starting with daily updates in May, we hit 102 daily updates this year. Yes, I counted.

Through the year we kept pushing the limits on what we thought was possible for this server.

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2025 SERVER STATISTICS

SERVER MILESTONES

• New Characters Created: 2,014
  
• Total Accounts: 1,956
  
• Level 200+ Players: 61
  
• Ironman Players: 95
  
• Total Guilds: 12
  
• Marriages: 21
  

BOSS HUNTING

• Total Expedition Completions: 5,319
  
• Bigfoot Kills: 3,579
  
• Total Boss Damage Dealt: 1.9 TRILLION
  
• Unique Boss Hunters: 283
  

Most Killed Bosses:

• Papulatus - 2,276 kills
  
• Zakum - 1,467 kills (655.8B damage)
  
• Scarga - 711 kills
  
• Horntail - 253 kills (523.3B damage)
  
• Pink Bean - 73 kills
  

Chaos Boss Kills: 23 CZak, 10 CPB, 9 CHT

SCROLLING STATS

• Total Scrolls Used: 47,388
  
• Server Success Rate: 36.9%
  
• Items Boomed: 10,595
  
• White Scrolls Used: 11,251
  
• Unique Scrollers: 559
  

Most Used Scrolls:

• Chaos Scroll 60% - 5,710 uses (59.9% rate)
  
• Clean Slate 5% - 4,308 uses (4.5% rate)
  
• Clean Slate 1% - 2,706 uses (1.2% rate)
  

ECONOMY

• NX Earned: 23.2M
  
• NX Spent: 37M
  
• Gachapon Pulls: 77
  

Top Cash Shop Items:

• Wheel of Destiny - 1,159 purchases
  
• AP Reset - 530 purchases
  
• Auto HP Potion Pouch - 519 purchases
  

COMMUNITY

• Votes Cast: 4,894
  
• Unique Voters: 908
  
• Fame Given: 1,106
  

MINI-GAMES

• Flappybird Games Played: 11,264
  
• Flappybird High Score: 38 (Devastation)
  
• Chess Matches: 21
  

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TOP PLAYERS OF 2025

• Expedition King: JasThief - 314 expeditions
  
• Damage Dealer: JasThief - 158.9B damage
  
• Bigfoot Hunter: Carcass - 472 kills
  
• Scroll Addict: Ghost - 4,964 scrolls
  
• NX Whale: TemuDK - 1,638,600 NX spent
  
• Top Voter: Rosa - 46 votes
  
• Most Loved: Pyna - 51 fame received
  
• Flappybird Champ: Devastation - Score 38
  

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BIGGEST GUILDS

• Akatsuki - 96 members
  
• Konoha - 41 members
  
• BigBadWolves - 27 members
  
• Rodents - 26 members
  
• WOOT - 25 members
  

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YOUR 2025 RECAP

Each player gets their own personalized 2025 recap showing your boss kills, scrolling stats, rankings, mini-game scores, and more.

Check yours here: https://playkuro.com/recap2025

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PATCH NOTES - DECEMBER 2025

BUG FIXES - GENERAL

• Cash Weapons - Can now wear any cash weapon without needing a command
  
• Pet Equips - Fixed pet equips that broke during last patch; affected players will be refunded
  
• Storage - Fixed issue where you were unable to withdraw items
  
• Agent E - Removed useless Mdef/HP scrolls (also removed from various NPCs and PQs) - fixes a DC issue
  
• Kerning PQ - Fixed boss not dropping ticket
  
• Warrior Timeless Shield - Now sokable
  
• Piercing Arrow - Fixed skill showing level 0, now correctly hits flying mobs
  
• Meso Up - Fixed skill functionality for Night Walker
  
• Alliance Guild - Fixed online player display showing players as online when they aren't
  
• Party Quests - Fixed PQs not dropping necessary ETC items due to being overwritten by event drops
  
• Party Quests - Fixed dark debuff issue (thank you @Serena)
  
• Zipangu Sakura, Kitty & Orange Marble Quest - Fixed crash on submission
  
• Final Attack (Archer) - Fixed, now correctly applies double damage as mentioned in tooltip
  
• Dark Omen & Showdown (Night Walker) - Fixed, now work with Shadow Partner and crit applied correctly
  
• Thrust (Wind Archer) - Fixed skill functionality
  
• Knuckle Mastery (Thunder Breaker) - Fixed skill functionality
  
• Quintuple Throw (Night Walker) - Fixed skill functionality
  
• Krexel Twig - Fixed respawn
  
• Boss Drops - Fixed bosses sometimes dropping Christmas loot instead of their original loot
  
• Quest Medal - No longer disappears from inventory on update
  
• Spiraling Vortex - Fixed to hit horizontally as it should
  
• Game Freeze - Fixed random freezing when Windows notifications pop up
  

SYSTEMS

• Gachapon - Can no longer be purchased from the Cash Shop
  
• Hired Merchants - Now last 1 week instead of 24 hours (may revert to 24 hours on release)
  
• Version Management - Added strict version checking; must have latest files to play
  
• Chat - Can now type up to 200 characters without hitting the limit
  

NEW FEATURES

• Character Select - Return to character select directly from widget (Extra >> Character Select) or use @charselect command
  
• KIN Faces - New faces added based on forum thread
  
• KIN Storage - Any new premium faces/hairs you purchase can now be stored inside KIN
  
• Set Effects - Items with set effects now display the set effect tooltip on mouse hover; various set effect stats fixed
  
• Splash Screen - Updated game startup splash to match our theme
  

QUEST CHANGES

• Faust & Dyle Questlines - Removed time-gated restrictions
  
• Zipangu Quests - Moved the following from Victoria Island to World Tour category:
  • Kino Konoko's Concern
    
  • Kino Konoko vs Fire Raccoon
    
  • Hanako's Foxtail Wardrobe
    
  • The Lantern at Mushroom Shrine
    

MAP CHANGES

• Ninja Castle - Adjusted maps to include at least one high-density spawn of each mob type for easier farming
  
• Dead Mines - Can now teleport to these maps
  

NEW CONTENT

• Agent E - Crafting Recipes:
  • Rock of Time: 500 Pieces of Time, 10 Sapphire, 10 Emerald, 150m mesos
    
  • Noble Lion King Medal: 250 Totems, 10 Silver Plates, 300m mesos
    
• PP Shop:
  • Rock of Time - 100 PP
    
  • Noble Lion King Medal - 250 PP
    

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SKILL BALANCING
(Thanks @Raboniel)

ALL KOC

• Cygnus Warrior time scaled to match Maple Warrior
  

DAWN WARRIOR 4TH JOB

• Equinox Slash - Lines 6 → 2
  

BLAZE WIZARD 3RD JOB

• Fire Strike - Lines 1 → 2
  
• Meteor Shower - Mob count 15 → 8
  

BLAZE WIZARD 4TH JOB

• Towering Inferno - Damage at max 2950 → 950, scaled per level; animation fixed
  
• All attack skills now deal fire damage
  
• Dragon Fireballs - Damage at max 140 → 280, scaled at all levels; animation adjusted
  
• Dragon Strike - Animation adjusted
  

WIND ARCHER 3RD JOB

• Arrow Rain - Lines 2 → 3
  
• Storm Break - Lines 4 → 2
  

WIND ARCHER 4TH JOB

• Song of Heaven - Lines 3 → 5
  
• Spiraling Vortex - Lines 4 → 3
  
• Wind Shot - Lines and Bullet count 3 → 1
  

NIGHT WALKER 4TH JOB

• Quintuple Throw - Damage at max 150 → 125 → 100, scaled at all levels (thanks @Nifty for crit math)
  
• Showdown - Scaled damage per level for better player experience
  

THUNDER BREAKER 4TH JOB

• Annihilate - Lines 5 → 3
  
• Thunderbolt - Animation adjusted
  
• Moon Dancer - Animation adjusted
  

EQUIPMENT

• Von Leon Spear - Attack speed 4 → 5
  
• Von Leon Polearm - Attack speed 6 → 5
  

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THANK YOU TO THE TEAM

• Junior GMs: Hero, Pyna
  
• Balance Team: Raboniel
  
• Developer: leej
  

And everyone who reported bugs, suggested features, and helped test throughout 2025.

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LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026

Everyone keeps asking about the launch. Well... we're looking forward to Lunch.

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Please run the launcher to patch before logging in.

Happy New Year and Happy Mapling!
~ Kuro