I played KR MSM hardcore -- what do you want to know?

I love to help out! The more information is widely available the better we can learn the game and further expand our knowledge and enjoyment :)

1.) Sort of.. There are a few more dungeons global doesn't have where you can complete them in a party. Davy jones (? some pirate dungeon, not sure if this is the name), Rex (monster-wave type dungeon.. haven't really done it), and some guild dungeons that I never experienced because I can't read or write Korean.

2.) Yes :(

I want to second the PQ's

BM has been very good in KR for a while, but like u/Daravil said, stats are so different in our version it is hard to tell what will happen in global.

Can't answer this one, the stats in korea are so different that they are actually good over there. But we have a whole different equipment system and stats

I might have the order wrong here but up next are... KoC (Dawn Warrior, Wind Archer, Night Walker, Blaze Wizard, Thunder Breaker) > Aran > Mercedes > Evan > Luminous > 2nd round of explorers (Shadower, Marksman, Hero, I/L Mage, Paladin, Brawler) > Phantom

1.) The gearing system is way different in KR. Equips have different levels, where your character needs to be that level to equip it (like the PC version). There are equips of normal > rare > epic > unique rarity for every level set, meaning there are hundreds if not thousands of different equips in the game.

2.) End game equips went from level 120 > 140 > 160. I quit before 160 equips came out - here is an example of my maxed level 140 weapon. Level 120 unique gear can be bought with gold leaves, 50k for weapon. Leaves are pretty useless outside of this. 140 and 160 gear come from treasure boxes, at about the same rate as emblem weapons here. Theoretically they can come from the high level elite dungeons, but the drop rate is so abysmally low it's not really relevant to consider it. Epic-tier gear is considered trash.

3.) There are far fewer potentials in Korea, and their potency is much higher. Check out the screenshot above of my weapon - 7,028 HP, 4.5% Crit rate, 12.5% phys dmg. I had an image of every potential you could roll, but can't find it atm. I have all 3L unique almost perfect rolls on pretty much all of my gear, from smart playing and event cubes. I think I bought some cubes but that could easily be avoided. I bought trash level 10 equips from an NPC, and revealed them until 3L. Used occult cubes (since it requires so few on level 10 stuff) until I got epic, and used transfer hammer to get those potentials to my current gear. Always max enhanced on lower level equips since it was much cheaper to buy replacements so I wouldn't have to use shield/protection scrolls.

Potentials on my other gear: Overall: 7,028 HP, 6.7% boss damage, 8.4% item drop rate Helmet: 5% crit rate, 4,232 HP (can roll the 7k version as well), 10% exp gain Gloves: 10% boss damage, 4.5% accuracy, 7,028 HP Shoes: 2,811 MP, 7,028 HP, 15% evasion (no offensive stats on shoes. Ideally you would want drop rate instead of MP here) Shoulder (epic): 7% magic damage, 4,000 HP, 8% Phys damage Belt: 4,232 HP (can roll 7k as well), 6% boss damage (I think this can roll higher too?), 10% exp gain Cape (epic): 4,000 HP, 13 MP recovery, 4% drop rate (drop rate and hp are the only useful rolls on capes) Nothing else can have potential, unlike global where rings can.

4.) Trade system is basically the same as global. However, in KR, there is a golden apple item in the cash shop that gives all sorts of awesome stuff (for $..) but it can all be listed on the trade station. Everything you can think of is on here - star force scrolls, epic/unique pots, cubes, chairs, mounts, damage skins, buff foods, exp buffs, etc. I also just noticed there is a system to trade meso for maple points, which can buy red gems, which can buy pretty much everything blue gems can. Not sure what the fine details of this system are though.

5.) I have never encountered or heard about hackers in KR. I do not know what the situation is for them.

Dojo rankings in my server (Luna) are dominated by phantoms, wind archers, and night walkers. The 151~200 ranking actually has decent variety - I see the previous mentioned classes and a mercedes, I/L mage (or whatever the new explorer mage is..), NL, hero, marksman, BW, corsair, bishop... all in the top 25

I am actually also just noticing you get auto battle coupons for clearing certain dojo floors! 10min for 30f, 40f, 30min for 45f and 51f (top floor is 51)

Level 1 link skill is at 70, level 2 is at 120. Max level is 2.

Bowmaster: 2/4% increased chance of disassembling gold leaf (분해 골드리프 확률 증가)

Bishop: 2/4% Party EXP (파티 시 경험치 증가)

Wind Archer: 50/100 HP&MP recovery (lol)

Aran:2/4% Increase fever buff charge (피버 버프 충전율 증가)

Dawn Warrior: 2/4% magic defense increase

Night Walker: 2/4% item drop rate increase

Mercedes: 2/4% EXP gain

Evan: 2/4% Boss damage increase

**Not sure which classes these are for, but:

2%/? physical defense increase

2%/? Meso gain increase

5/? knockback resistance

2s/? fever buff time increase (피버 버프 시간 증가)

2%/? max fever probability increase (맥스 피버 확률 증가)

(probably luminous): 2%/? piercing

2%/? Boss defense increase

(probably marksman) 2%/? accuracy

2%/? crit rate

2%/? max hp

2%/? max mp

2%/? physical damage increase

(probably phantom) 2%/? crit dmg

All of the ? are probably double the original value but I am not 100% positive on that.

Probably not

Yes, Pink Bean and Empress. All bosses have Normal, Hard, and Chaos modes. Time limits, hp, and rewards are the only differences I believe.

There are no jewel set bonuses in KR.

1.) Yes, when evan was released it was mega-busted up until I quit. Not sure what the status of classes are now.

2.) Link skills got added after I quit - I can only assume that their benefits will be extremely useful in our version, given how much harder we have it.

See my lengthy post below - gear and stats are significantly more powerful than the global version. You need scissors to trade, same limit of 10, but there is no equip leveling system like we have in global.

Less p2w mostly in terms of equips. With enough grinding you can get legendary or even mythic - in Korea you HAVE to spend money, or spend mesos to buy it off of someone else who spent money. Meso is worth a lot less in KR, but a level 160 unique costs 1b+

Grind is much easier in KR. I think this was partially overlooked in the localization, because getting to 120 on a new character is fairy standard and only takes a few days. There's also burning events in KR (not sure what level it goes to, but I am pretty sure it's not 150).

I got my character to level 150 just by doing quests and daily hunts over the course of a few months. Level cap went from 120 > 130 > 140 > 150 > 200.

1.) Not sure - I try to read forums (ty google translate) and have never seen any discussion of this. But a lot of the posts are locked behind needed a forum account which requires a korean ssn so... very likely I am missing a lot of useful posts.

2.) The Korean version does not use a different joystick. I also agree there should be a smarter version. Movement can be very frustrating.

Also, in terms of UI, one thing that was weird for me is the switch tabs and jump buttons are reversed in global compared to KR. I'm always tapping the wrong spot from habit!

It's the same as PC version! Every class that can use a certain weapon can use the same one. I transferred my bow over to my wind archer while I was leveling it at one point.

Unfortunately, this also means most classes have a unique weapon like the PC version. I think it's overall good for the market, though.

Nope :( The random delay from when you list it to when it becomes available was specifically implemented to discourage that. They do not want 1:1 trades, and I think that's good for the overall health of the economy.

I'm just a player like everyone else, but I doubt we will be following the Korean version's equip system. I am not part of the dev team though so I can't say anything for sure.

See a previous comment for class list, and I believe we received a free slot for every new class. There were events that gave out free slots as well and you can buy them for pretty cheap in the trade station off of someone who got it from a golden apple (cash item, also see another comment for description).

I'm not sure of this. Maybe u/Imhullu can help?

What do you mean rank?
They definitely aren't used as healers, just their revive skill is nice.
Their skills are all the same as yours before you got Nerfed from what I can tell.

I actually am blocked from global version because I have a korean sim card in my phone, so I can't really give information on both like Bryan can. It's extremely difficult to guess about nerfs and buffs because global is already vastly different and not following the korean version exactly. This is shown by your versions nerfs to the class already. As far as I can tell from old patch notes, bishop was only ever buffed here, starting with the major class revamp that gave them the 12 or so buffs they have no compared to the 3-4 it had when our version launched.

Hell last patch notes when Phantom came out was 100% buffs across the board to characters that were weak. Global seems to prefer nerfs instead of buffing to make classes on an even playing field.

I'm not sure on the status of classes in KMSM. There have been quite a few skill patches since I quit.