With Black Day, the holiday made to comfort people without a partner, here again,

the solo content to run in MapleStory is Epic Dungeon: Nightmare Sun-gyeong.

When Epic Dungeon first launched, the gimmicks were hard and pretty complicated,

but they’ve been toned down a lot now, so it’s easy, and I end up running it every weekend.

Stage 1 is about using the Fierce Tiger Slash you build up by hunting monsters

to remove the scroll pillars.

Fierce Tiger Slash uses 200 Seon energy each time,

and when the number or letter keys appear after using Fierce Tiger Slash, you just need to input them in either the original order or the reverse order.

For example, if the keys SDF appear,

entering SDF or FDS counts as a success.

Stage 2 triggers a gimmick once you catch Shinseong,

and since Shinseong is a monkey Anima and can use clone techniques, you just need to find the real Shinseong twice.

The real one is distinguished by the jade-colored jeogori and the ornament on the tail.

Stage 3, just like Stage 1, uses Fierce Tiger Slash built up from hunting monsters

to remove the scroll pillars, but the difference is that Stage 3 has one more scroll pillar than Stage 1,

and while Stage 1 uses 3 number/letter keys, Stage 3 uses 4.

Once you clear all the scroll pillars, a boss monster called the Corrupted Wolf appears, and beating it finishes the stage.

Stage 4 is about catching Shinseong after it runs across the waterfall,

so you ride the Geunduun you get from killing monsters and head across the waterfall.

Back when it first released, this part was the hardest,

but after all the steady nerfs, you can clear it even if you play it a bit loosely.

Once you get there, Corrupted Shinseong is waiting,

and because Corrupted Shinseong only stays for 20 seconds at a time, if you kill Shinseong within 20 seconds you move on to the next stage, but

if you fail, you have to go back to the other side and do the same thing again,

so if your damage is on the lower side, it’s worth using your burst, including Origin here.

Stage 5 is just beating Corrupted Ara,

and right at the start, a cutscene plays where Ara is choking Gaon,

and if you succeed on Fierce Tiger Slash at that moment, Gaon stabs Ara and deals damage equal to 10% of its max HP, so definitely do it.

Attacking Ara builds up Fierce Tiger Slash,

and if you keep using it whenever you gain 200 Fierce Tiger Slash while attacking, the fight is pretty easy.

Stage 6 is about avoiding obstacles and carrying Janghwa’s key all the way to the top.

You can move Janghwa’s key by using Fierce Tiger Slash, but as you go, you’ll usually run short on Fierce Tiger Slash.

When that happens, picking up the orb that appears on the map gives you 500 Fierce Tiger Slash,

so grab it whenever you need it.

Stage 7 starts when you attack with Fierce Tiger Slash built up by hitting the corrupted lantern,

and Corrupted Jagang appears,

and you can defeat Corrupted Jagang once you collect 4 scroll pillar fragments.

There are 3 ways to get 1 scroll pillar fragment:

Defeat Corrupted Jagang with burst

Clear the special gimmick that appears every 2 minutes

Successfully interrupt Jagang’s wind-up animation 3 times with Fierce Tiger Slash

Those are the 3 methods.

Jagang’s wind-up animation is marked by this purple barrier,

and whenever that shows up, just use Fierce Tiger Slash.

The reason I recommend running Epic Dungeon regularly is that

the EXP, coins, and Sol Erda rewards are pretty sweet.

The base rewards are already good, but if you use Maple Points, you get even more rewards,

so if you need them, spending Maple Points is worth considering.