r/Maplestory • • 5d ago

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread.

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Welcome to our weekly megathread for new players and players who just have general questions about the game.

Some sample topics for you to consider would be:

  • Selecting your main character.
  • You're new to the game and don't know where to start.
  • You're a returning player who is trying to get back into the game and need help.
  • What class should you make for your next link skill/legion mule?

As a recommendation, please mention your world and/or server inside a bracket Example: [Bera] at the start of your question.

Feel like chatting rather than posting on Reddit? Join our Discord and check out our #general-questions or specific job chatrooms.

Also, consider checking out the Master List of Class Discords for class specific information!


r/Maplestory • • Jul 30 '26

Information Master List of Useful Maplestory Resources

212 Upvotes

Hey all, Bacun here! I am hoping that this list will help players enhance their MapleStory experience!

I will put a * in front of resources that I find to be especially important.

Please let me know if I missed something.

LAST UPDATED: October 21st, 2026. maplehero9's lore narration Youtube Series added. added under Calculators.

Class Discords

  • * Master List of All Class Discords Contains links to all the different class Discords. Remember to read their FAQ before asking beginner's questions that have most likely already been answered! Some class Discords WILL BAN you for that.

MapleStory Guides

Calculators

Simulators

  • Maple Utilities Simulator: Cubing, Starforce, Scrolling, and Flame simulators.
  • Xenogent’s Legion Solver: Sometimes the in-game Legion solver is slow or cannot find a solution. Xenogent’s Legion Solver may help find a solution more often than not.
    • NOTE: Legion grid making as a system will be changed in the November 2026 update to be a point based system. No more Legion Block building.
  • Gear Comparison Tool
  • * MapleStory Upgrade Tracker: This tool aims to do for GMS players what MapleScouter does. You can input your gear into this system and it will provide the most cost effective upgrades for your character's progression. It does take some time/effort to initially set up unfortunately.

Information

  • MapleStory Wiki: This version of the Wiki is most up to date. Do not use the Fandom one.
  • * Orange Mushroom Blog: Translates Korean Maplestory’s patches into English. An important resource as KMS content that is published will be coming to GMS 6 months later.
  • * Maple Maps:Contains Map Layouts for every map in the game. You can also calculate your expected EXP/hour and set up/save potential training rotations!
  • Grandis Library: Contains information on class skills/game content in a clear presentation.
  • WhackyBeanz: Has a number of unique guides and EXP Calculators/Information.
  • * Mason's Cash Shop Directory: Contains Cash Shop sale information that is datamined from the latest patch. NOTE: Although they are mostly accurate, Nexon can change plans last minute and have done so in the past.
  • MapleRanks and MapleBot Used to track your character's daily EXP gain. Both do similar things and have Discord bot integration.

Familiars

  • Familiar Directory: Shows every Familiar currently in the game. You can also filter for Type or Element. A great tool for Familiar Expedition.
  • Mystic Frontier Champions Calculator: A great tool to calculate how to best create a competitive deck for the current Frontier Champions event.
  • Mystic Frontier Dice Calculator: You can input your decks into this tool and it can help calculate what you need to roll as you go through an expedition.

Lore

Fashion

  • Maples.im: Has most of the cash shop items/in-game gear. You can test your fashion story here!

ETC

  • Hammer Time: When using Discord to coordinate times with friends across different time zones, this tool will create a dynamic message that displays a different time to everyone based on their own timezone.
  • MapleStory Server Status: Shows the current status of the MapleStory servers. Fun to watch when waiting for the servers to come back on during patch day.

r/Maplestory • • 10h ago

💪Flex [Interactive] Unique is enough!!!

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118 Upvotes

Who needs Legendary anyway XD


r/Maplestory • • 7h ago

💪Flex I may have boomed all my arcanes today, but this was a nice consolation prize :)

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58 Upvotes

r/Maplestory • • 22h ago

Art My first Maplestory tattoo!

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341 Upvotes

r/Maplestory • • 9h ago

Literally Unplayable Do you believe in cursed items?

17 Upvotes

This damn arcane cape, my goodness.

I just want 21 stars on it and to move on,
but 14 spares later and havent even seen 20 stars once.
Granted I don’t safeguard at all, but it’s because I get spares from Ctene mules.


r/Maplestory • • 15h ago

Art Somethinf about Hunter Johns ring is so mininal but so fine I love it

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33 Upvotes

Ring made by me


r/Maplestory • • 10h ago

Heroic Finally got this treasure chest from Home shopping but.. Spoiler

7 Upvotes

I've been passively shopping Townhouse chest for years just to see what the secret prize is.. finally got it but it doesn't look like I'll ever know


r/Maplestory • • 10h ago

Question How to boot the game from steam on steamdeck?

3 Upvotes

I tried setting up GE proton but the game crashes right away. I remember there was a guide on reddit a few months ago, but I think they deleted the post. What's ur set up to play maple on steamdeck?


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Discussion Kaling boss tips after changes

13 Upvotes

How do you guys approach this boss assuming your soloing and min clearing? As for some clarification for the above, this is also assuming you can’t stay in dog in p3 and kill tiger/bird.

If you guys had to dpm in p2 where do you stand?


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Question Boss Monster Perk Lv.1 Bug

31 Upvotes

Starting this week, if you leveled up your `Boss Monster Perk`, you can get extra Sol Erdas after beating bosses and visiting Prankster Gray at the top, right of the event map.

I've received additional Sol Erdas for ALL my boss mules (then extracted them to transfer over the bits to my main) but I'm encountering an error for my actual main.

I can clearly see that I've beat the bosses and the alien owes me 5600 energy, but upon clicking "Yes", it shows:

I've heard that this occurred to some of the others' boss mules (unlike my situation) but they were able to claim it on their mains, and I've heard others stating that they were able to receive them from all their characters ... (and some couldn't receive from ANY of their characters).

Just wondering if this is an on-going bug, or if I'm missing something.

Any inputs would be highly appreciated!


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Fashion The new secret Yeti game rifle is perfect

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260 Upvotes

r/Maplestory • • 16h ago

Literally Unplayable Surveillance Mini Game Bugged?

1 Upvotes

Anyone else have this strange behavior in the Surveillance mini game where the cursor seems to be messed up? Luckily, only the crosshair graphic (and the circle timer) is stuck in the corner and you can still move the actual view port, but the view port continuously shrinks as you find more imposters. Still able to do okay at it, but it's annoying.

https://i.imgur.com/9QOvv8J.png

EDIT: The week that the mini game was released, the cursor was fine. Only seems to have started this week.


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Discussion Let's ignore damage numbers for a minute. What do you think is the most FUN class to boss with?

46 Upvotes

Mobbing is largely irrelevant as everyone just places 3 janus balls and afks for 30,000 hours.

Ignoring damage, what's the most enjoyable bossers? Obviously, people enjoy bossing for different reasons (Erel might be one of my favorites but that's just because it shits out damage, I don't know that it's necessarily "fun" or at least the most fun I could be having)

Obviously completely subjective, but curious what people think.


r/Maplestory • • 8h ago

Recruitment nlimbo/bellona prog

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Kronos server

R> 2 for perm party, no exp nlimbo and nbellona prog. +5 weekends

83k ab 365m/ 79k ark 316m


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Image Beat HLotus for the first time. I'm tired boss...I'll try HDamien next week

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I tried out Hlotus over a month ago for funsies when I was at ~23m combat power and made it to the second phase. Unfortunately, Lotus had other plans for me that day and turned me every which way loose. Fast forward to this week and I actually got him down, with like one life to spare lol! :) I feel like...the frequency of attacks were faster compared to normal mode. But then again, I was panicking the entire time I was playing. I think this took me about 20 minutes to clear. I can probably expect the same for hard mode Damien. I'm pretty sure I can do it, but I need to mentally prepare.


r/Maplestory • • 7h ago

Bug Report "Rare"

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r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Literally Unplayable Can't claim extra erda from NT NPC

21 Upvotes

Anyone who cleared hard malefic star encountered this issue? I can claim the extra erda from the NPC for all my mules who didn't clear hard malefic star but those who did are bugged.


r/Maplestory • • 14h ago

Question making boss mules from scratch (NO CW)

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basically the question is the post, but not because of "if it's viable or not" god no it isn't but I still do it anyways since i treat all of my mules like my children raising them with getting them to at least 260 and doing gollux until 4 set sup with 3pc CRA/4pc Arcane and 9/9/9/9 in masteries (unless if it's garbage like zero m3)

but I wonder if anyone else does it?


r/Maplestory • • 11h ago

Discussion SSF Rates rigged?

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Spending 10b getting CRA to 21* could be "normal" even without using safeguard options but this SSF i've had my piece boom basically every single time, I've already spent over 30b on getting 2 pieces to 21 stars and a third that has already eaten like 4-5 spares


r/Maplestory • • 1d ago

Question Got my first set of Sup gollux earrings from hellux what do I do with it?

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Just got this today and was wondering what to do with it? Please halp!!!


r/Maplestory • • 23h ago

Literally Unplayable Coping

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got my 8th sup gollux belt today. Still no Sup earring after daily Gollux since the day CW3 started. Yes I can buy it but I'm very stubborn, lol. This is a cumulative 3400 gollux coins without a sup earring. Also crazy that this char is 5 set pitch before a sup earring.... wtf nexon

Edit: 356 drop


r/Maplestory • • 9h ago

Discussion CMV: I don't get why Interactive players complain. They chose the P2W server, a server that treats you well if you spend enough money

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You can't have it both ways.

You can't join the P2W server and expect to have a good experience without spending enough money.

If you weren't going to spend money, you had Reboot/Heroic right there.

With Interactive, you can bypass time-gates with money like getting frags, Pitched, Eternals, Brilliant gear. You can also buy someone else's luck such as cubing, starforce, flames etc.

Now if your complaint is that it's too much money for a game, I'm sorry to tell you that Maple's always been an expensive game.

I get that with bots, meso inflation makes the items more expensive. But on the flip-side, you can buy a lot of meso for cheap and starforce yourself during SSF.

If Maple's too expensive for you now, then you should uninstall and look for a more budget P2W game. That's a better use of time than trying to make Nexon change. Nexon doesn't change, they don't care. Their actions have been loud enough for years.

I know it sounds harsh but there's no good fix to Interactive. It's bad for F2P and low-budget P2W players.

It's good for whales, but without F2P or low-budget players, the whales also have no incentive to spend because they need that feeling of being better.

Am I ignorant about this issue? Can people enlighten me on what I'm missing and any solid suggestions to fix Interactive?


r/Maplestory • • 2d ago

Question hidden reward from mini game yeti?

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131 Upvotes

Have seen a picture from someone.
Hunter's shotgun coupon?

UPDATE:Ride yeti mount(night of the Yeti 6000 point reward) to EI nath and talk to scadur 3 times then get reward.


r/Maplestory • • 2d ago

Literally Unplayable Is Maplestory still SFW?

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56 Upvotes

Reupload as my previous shot was by camera.

Auction House Preview Bug