Sol Reaper wrote:
Balrog can also refer to a boss monster in Maple Story.
But who remembers that game, amirite? 
Believe it or not they overhauled that game a bitch ton, like vanilla WoW with cataclysm.
Leveling is tons easier for not mages, you no longer have to travel 30 screens to get from one town to another (now it's like 5), you don't lose as much exp as you used to when you die, questing is tons more forgivable, they made it much harder to wander into high leveled areas while you're low leveled (unless you try and go through sleepywood), and they've separated high and low leveled monsters from each other.
Also they added in other variations of the base classes in case you didn't like the standard ones, so now we have dual wielding melee thieves like they were meant to be. (but they lack any ranged attacks)
Yes, I did decide to play again to see how much it changed since I quit. what took me 2 years to get to level 34 with spare time I did in a couple of days after they made all these changes.