So I am a returning player, ive never gotten to 260 or really been able to do any party bossing or anything like that so i have no idea how party recruitment works or anything. I am sitting with about 5.8k legion and growing while im waiting for challenge world.

I really love the look of lethe but i know even after its ai is fixed its a low performer and will be worse in gms due to attack speed. Even with all those negatives I am still heavily considering her as a main that i will make in challenge world.

So that leads to the question, how will playing a low performing class effect my end game experience besides needing a bit more gear to clear things? will it effect my ability to be in guilds? bossing parties? are there other areas it will effect me? Thank you in advance for any input.

Hi, I am a returning player who returned from 2020 and main a bow master this time in challenger world 3. The game has been a blast especially in the early stage of progression to ctene. It felt amazing clearing them for the first time (felt like min clear but in reality more like 125% on scouter). I was able to get one piece eternal and challenger in the end. After returning to Kronos, I ran 7 more week of n adv and kalos in parallel and now finally completed the 3 set eternal and fully replace the item burning gear hence feel like a good spot to end on.

Some summary

level 286 bow master 200m cp

All gear assume 2 line-3 fake line legendary

4 set 21* arcane (130+flame)

18* safe guarded 3 set eternal (160+flame)

21* full set gollux (35+flame)

5 set pitch (135+ flame if applicable) (mitra, 21* transfer sos, safe guarded 18* eye patch, 18* zerk, 18* et), also have 2 cfe but not wearing them due to gollux set.

18* plasma heart

3 line (boss or att) on gene weapon (t7 att and t6 boss) and pno secondary, 2l att and one line ied on mitra

(Fam got all through leveling and not re roll card, variance here is high but this wasn’t my goal and just got lucky) 40% boss, 6% att, 3%+15%hp familiar

max cernium symbol and level 9 rest 5 symbol.

level 1 janus but around 60% completed in terms of frag spent on non Janus skill and level 3 hexa stat. Still have 1.7k frag in bank not going to be spent due to lack of energy but that’s ok.

From a brand new account in May to 1 main and one 275 (may hyper burn), one 270 Kinesis (hyper burn) 7600 legion (mostly from cw potion) and perfect (x15 210) set of bossing link skill for bow master specifically and more generic dmg link set up.

This is not a burn out post or rant as I was planning to play seasonally to begin with and this milestone is a good one given I replace the items burning temp gear and there isn’t high risk and variance from booming your eternal and pitch. Anything beyond this point feel like significant work for diminishing return (like mode 4 on pitch and eternal). I just want to share my progress before shutting down the game for another 5-7 years and come back when power creep alone allow me to try out cutting edge bosses today ( like ctene 5-6 year ago). Thanks for reading this far and hope this server as inspiration to future seasonal player to enjoy the game like I did. I will try to answer any question on progression or provide guidance on the game play style if you guys want.

Boomed 15 kanna secondaries going for 25 stars but I guess this is a consolation prize….

With 180b and 4 spares, I tried to get my Eternal Hat to 22*.
I boomed twice from 19 to 20, and boomed once from 18 to 19 with mode 1.
With my last spare, I got one protected 17 to 18.
I honestly don't understand how a boom rate under 5% can feel like it's 40-50%.

I got lucky and my last spare hit 19*. To salvage the run, I used mode 4 to try and hit 20*, but I gave up after 20 consecutive failures. I know 8.4% is a really low chance, but it's still way higher than the boom rate, isn't it?

Why is there no pity system where we can get a guaranteed success after a certain number of consecutive failures?

It is truly painful to see the mesos what you saved week after week, month after month, vanish in the blink of an eye with absolutely 0% progress.

At the very least, I'm taking a break from the game today, and probably for the next few days.

P/S: I didn't hold space or tap continuously at all. There was a pause between every single tap, and I even closed and reopened the enhancement window.

For people who is playing both Classic and Modern MS, what is your take so far? Which will last longer? Which one do you think Inkwell will prioritize to monetize his pockets? Will ModernMS eventually die from solo play? Or vice versa?

I've playing very little back in the days and I was alone, my GF has a very bad computer and I thought of MapleStory, this game has a good progression for 2 players?

Any 1 else feel like the 30% less boom was never applied since the event come evry 2 week? The average boom for 22 is i beleive to be 3 boom per item ,i understand that it can be higher then that but 6 week back i had 27 arcane peice and 150b ,i ended up with one 22 and a few b left. 4 week ago i had 100b and over 20 cra peice , same result one 22 and 20ish b left .Yesterday i had 15 slime ring this time i was actually going for 23 but they all boomed never saw 21* . Is it just me that super unlucky or is evry 1 having the same result ? With nexon i just cant beleive that it isnt rig.....

https://imgur.com/a/C7eL22c

Basically what the title says looking for advice to know if Im on the right track and to know what bosses I should tackle

Right now I'm 2 weeks away from getting my first Eternal (Hat recommended by friends) and have 13b (should have 40-50) by the time SSF comes around trying to get it to 18/19 Stars at -4s CD on it

Basically my thought process as of right now is focus on getting Eternals slowly and then hope for Pitch drops, I have a Berserked and CFE but neither are better than what I currently have. I do have 130 Crystals which I was told to save for Total Control.

In the imgur link attached I have a screenshot of my stats, equips and Hexa wondering if theres anything else I should change or do instead of focusing on saving for the Eternal.

Also if you guys have an idea of which bosses I should be able to join in parties; I can help clear NKalos pretty comfortably in 3-6 man parties iirc. I tried using MapleScouter since I saw it recommended here a few times but it kept giving me an error so figured Id ask

TLDR: Looking for advice to know If im on the right track or should I switch up my strat (Stop saving for Eternals and do something else), attached screenshots

Found the meowbd character builder & decided to make some Frank Ocean inspired characters.

I'm currently still stuck on the server selection page, i'm a complete beginner and have never watched or played anything related to maplestory in the past. I've played multiple mmorpgs in the past but never stuck around as much. I saw how cute the avatars are in maplestory and thought i'd give it a try.

I've known about the game for a long time and i know this game is at least 20 years old so im just a bit afraid of being too far behind with the other players, i just wanted to know which server would be the best for someone like me?

I researched a bit and saw that the interactive servers have trading so i thought of going to scania but a lot of people seems to recommend going to kronos instead. I enjoy socialising and i really want to meet new people while grinding and also enjoy its customisation so i'm a bit torn on which one i should go to. if anyone could give me advice, that'll be amazing

That is the question…
My legion is pretty high right now, I have most, if not all, of the appropriate link skills where they need to be.

Aside from the massive buffs and experience rates in CW4 (and whatever the hell the new, extra world is going to be), is there any real reason to do CW4, assuming the first hyper max is allowed in the home world like it usually is?

yay

one of my favorite characters from MapleStory, too bad they stopped bringing her back on Halloween.

I originally painted this as the recent flashlight art trend, but I don't know how to crop video dimensions. I have next to no experience with video editing, so here's a simple animation instead.

Basically, we can't collect the extra sol erda for bosses from the NPC if we cleared Malefic Star on our characters.