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nexon stated that was a glitch. they said this in third bug extermination thing
somthing like " we are aware of certian skills doing damage before the attack hits the monsters"

Well do you want to die or kill it?

It means you have no lag, congratulations!

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i didnt notice until now

It looks god awful. I hope it isnt permanent.

ikr, my merc's stunning strikes hits the mob once, then when the arrows hit the mob, it'll hit 3 times. Looks weird compared the the old one, like hitting the mob 4 at once

It's because they increased the attack speed of default attack so I'm guessing this didn't change the animation but rather just the hits.

This was a just a small change from before. Maplestory always calculated the damage to monster and dealt it as soon as the projectile is launched. If you paid attention to the HP bar, it would go down as soon as you attacked, not when the attack landed. The damage numbers appear only when the projectile hits.

If the projectile killed the monster, it would stop moving for the duration between your projectile launching and hitting the monster. I think some of you have noticed that sometimes monster stop moving and then die.

Now they unbound the damage numbers and death from the projectile animation. So that the projectile no longer has to hit for the damage numbers to appear. That's why we see damage and death animation before the projectile even hits.

It's the same with all ranged classes...I saw the same thing on my Assassin, it it looked utterly terrible.

i have that too, i thought it was because of my decent si that the animation had to catch up with my atk lol.

Same with my Carnival Edge. THought it was supposed to be like that.

Same with MM and Piercing Arrow

Man I hate this it looks really off. Hopefully they change it back to the way it was.

either a parody thread or hes serious...

Nexon updated the speed or something.
I am sorry if I am unclear.
It applies to the other classes as well.