MapleStory 2 previews quality-of-life improvements coming in its next patch

As part of its ongoing Project New Leaf initiative, MapleStory 2 has announced a slew of new quality-of-life changes coming to the game in its upcoming February 28th update. For starters, the devs will be adding a new fragment tab to the game’s inventory, which should make it a bit easier for players to manage and organize all the gear fragments they’ve acquired over the course of the game without all the additional clutter of the miscellaneous tab where they were previously stored.

Dear Maplers,

The goal of Project New Leaf is to bring you a better MapleStory 2 experience through iterated changes based on feedback, not only making big, sweeping changes but smaller improvements as well. To get us closer to that goal, we’ll keep adding quality of life (QoL) changes to the game alongside the main changes we disclosed earlier. Below is what we are planning on adding with the February 28th “Farewell Fairfight” update.

• Fragment Tab in the Inventory: MapleStory 2 grants you all sorts of fragments for rare, powerful and special gear, but it’s often difficult to reorganize the “Misc” tab with all the boxes and fragments mingled together. We will be adding a separate “Fragments” tab to your inventory where all of these fragments will be stored instead.
• Inventory Expansion: With the above change, we will also be increasing the default inventory size of the following tabs from 36 to 48 slots.
  • Gear
  • Mounts
  • Catalysts
  • Fishing / Music
  • Quest
  • Gemstones
  • Currency
• Notification Pop-up for Legendary Gear with Purple Bonus Stats: Legendary gear with purple bonus stats can be the most valuable possessions you have in MapleStory 2. To prevent these items from accidently getting destroyed, we will be adding an additional notification pop-up to confirm your action for the following cases:
  • Changing bonus stats
  • Selling to NPC
  • Dismantling
  • Throwing away or destroying
  • Using as material for unlocking sockets
• Available Quest Window Improvement: The Available Quest window you get when clicking “!” above your portrait will display additional details, such as quest types (including Epic or Event) and quest levels.

In addition, all players will be getting a whole bunch more inventory slots, with 12 new slots being added to the gear, mounts, catalysts, fishing/music, quest, gemstones, and currency tabs of their inventory. There will also be new pop-up notifications when players attempt to alter, sell, or destroy legendary gear with bonus stats, which should hopefully reduce the likelihood of players accidentally getting rid of valuable equipment.

And last but not least, the available quest window will be getting a minor improvement that will show players a bit of additional information about the quests available to them, such as their levels and types, to give players a bit more guidance in deciding where to continue their adventures.

Obviously, these updates are not nearly as major and potentially controversial as the sweeping changes proposed in the previous dev blog, but players can still head to the game’s forum or subreddit to give their feedback.