Maplestory General Progression

Maplestory General Progression Guide

(Up to date as of October 2025)

(REGULAR/INTERACTIVE SERVER ONLY)

Haiii its meeee JoanOfPepsi leader of Meta and your friendly Bishop main from Bera coming to you today to teach you about ( almost) everything

you'll need to know as a beginner or returning player from early game

to (possibly) early mid game this is by no means a perfect guide it is impossible to cover absolutely everything and some stuff changes between classes depending on what you're playing and stuff updates (alot) so this is more like something to reference as you progress.

Topics for discussion in no particular order

● Leveling ● Using the in game guide (properly) ● EXP multipliers ● Taking Advantage of Events ● Using Cashshop Effectively ● Bosses Big Money Drops ● Nodestones (200+) (5th job) ● Symbols (200+) ● Link skills ● Legion Legion Artifact Legion Champion ● Familiar System ● Equipment Potentials Scrolling Flaming Star Forcing Boss Souls Liberation Sets to Aim for

Skill Sequencing Presets Character Presets ● Inner Ability + Hyper Stats ● Professions ● Maple Planner ● Using the Meso Market ● Using the Auction House ● Hexa 6th job (260+) Epic Dungeon ● Class Discords ● Maple Youtubers ● Other Useful Websites ● Closing Remarks

Don't be afraid if the guide looks suuuper long and a bit scary. Something to keep in mind is to take things at your own pace, it's not a race and my guide is only made to help maximize your efficiency, teach you about things you may not yet know, and to help correct and prevent any early game costly mistakes that may be made.

(Disclaimer)

The latest change Nexon has added that has come and this time its a UI overhaul that literally no one asked for as well as some other changes so some pictures may appear out of date but they for the most part are still pertinent to the explanation of the guide as such only the ones I deem necessary to change will change.

Leveling

Below is a list of maps for leveling your character from levels 1-275 which I used and recommend assuming you’re in the most ideal condition when training assuming you have optimized your damage to be one shotting the mobs you are killing while also maximizing the exp you acquire via multipliers (to be discussed in the exp multiplier section)

(Tip): When you enter a map if you see someone else training there it's considered a common courtesy to change channels so as to not steal kills from them and hinder their training.

Key: Maps will be in bold. (*) this will represent Star force maps consult the star force section before moving to these.

Levels 1-10 > Tutorial or Job Specific Quests Levels 10-30 > Flaming Mixed Golem in Golem’s temple 3 Levels 30-50 > Theme dungeon’s Goldbeach and Riena Strait Levels 50-60 > Wild boars in Perion Wild Boar Land Levels 60-70 > Copper Drakes in Sleepywood Silent Swamp Levels 70-80 > Cellions in Orbis : Stairway to the Sky I Levels 80-90 > Scorpions in Ariant : Sahel 2 Levels 90-100 > Roids in Alcadno Research Institute Lab Area C-2

Normal Zakum unlocked at level 100

At level 100 a new daily boss (Normal Zakum) is unlocked; you should be able to kill it with ease assuming you’ve done your 4th job advancement first and if you're lucky you can get a level 100 class weapon from him and a face or eye accessory.

Levels 100-110 > Blood harps in Minar Forest : Skynest II (5 star force required) Levels 110-120 > Robos in Ludibrium : Toy Factory Levels 120-125 > Gatekeepers in Ludibrium : Warped Passage (28 star force required)

(Tip): while in korean folk town follow the wanted poster quests and accept them as you grind to get both some meso and easy exp while grinding.

Levels 125130 > Moon bunny in Korean Folk Town : Black Mountain Entrance Levels 130-135 > King Goblins in Korean Folk Town : Haunted house & Goblin House Levels 135-145 _>_ []Bains in El Nath : The Cave of Trials III (55 Star force required)

Theme Dungeon unlocked Kerning Tower

At level 145 you will unlock the theme dungeon Kerning tower. The quest there is long and boring, mostly unnecessary you can ignore it but the mobs here have great exp until you’re level 165 you can accept and move there via the White lightbulb tab on the left of your screen.

Levels 145-155 > Enraged Espresso Machines in Kerning Tower : 2F Cafe <3> *Levels 155-165 > Enraged Espresso Machines in Kerning Tower : 2F Cafe <4> (80 star force required)

Theme Dungeon Unlocked Omega Sector

At Level 165 you will unlock the theme dungeon Omega Sector I recommend doing and following the questline here and hopefully by the end of it you're at least close to around level 185

Levels 165-175 > Gray luxury Saucer in Inside the Mothership : Corridor 202 *Levels 175-185 > Gray Commuter Saucer in Inside the Mothership : Corridor H01 (140 star force required) Levels 185-199 > Sinister Rocky Mask in Twilight Perion : Forsaken Excavation Site 2

At level 190 you will unlock a quest in the white light bulb tab for a place called Haven you will not accept it till you're 199 as the quests involve a lot of talking and if we hold off on doing it you can get a free level up from just skipping dialogue and talking to the npcs + a cutscene.

Congratulations, you're now level 200!~ (Tutorial over time for the real early game shit.)

At level 200 you will be introduced to a lot of new things like arcane power, symbols, 5th job, nodestones, etc. But this section is dedicated to just leveling up so go to those sections if you don't know what you're doing here it is at this point which I remind you again these are assuming you are not only one shotting the mobs in the listed maps but that you have the required Arcane Power to do so all while again maximizing your obtained exp.

At level 200 you will unlock the Vanishing journey questline; you must do this and the new 5th job quests and new areas with new symbols that come after this every 5 levels until 255

Levels 200-205 > Tranquil Erdas in Cave of Repose : Below the Cave Levels 205-210 > Strong Seekers T-Drone Model A in Reverse City : Hidden Research Train Levels 210-215 > Angry Flyons in Slurpy Forest : Slurpy Forest Depths Levels 215-220 > Potent Lytones in Yum Yum Island : Hidden Illiard Field

Levels 220-225 > Angry Masquerade Citizens in Lachelin ballroom : Revelation Place 3 Levels 225-235 > Befuddled Spirits in Arcana : Cavern Lower Path (At Level 230 you unlock morass but most people generally consider that area’s maps to be terrible so most stay here ^ until 235 when they unlock Esfera .)

Levels 235-240 > Aranyas in Esfera : Mirror-touched Sea 2 Levels 240-245 > Lilli Boreas in Sellas : Star-Swallowing Sea 1 Levels 245-255 > Crushing Glares in Moonbridge : Void Current 3 At level 250 you unlock Labyrinth but again you run into the same situation before where not a lot of maps are super good (depending on the class) so you gotta stay in void current 3 till you're 255 _BUT_ you still need to do the labyrinth quest in order to progress.

At level 255 you will unlock Limina. This area has a fair bit of decent spots to train at depending on your class but for the most general purposes I will only list the 4 most recommended assuming at least 1 of them works for you.

Levels 255-260 > Ascendions in Limina : End of the World 1-4 or 1-5 Levels 255-260 > Embrions in Limina : End of the World 2-4 or 2-5

Congratulations, you're now level 260!~ (welcome to whats technically mid game lol)

At level 260 you’ll be once again introduced to some new things like Sacred Power, Sacred Symbols, and 6th job.

For the most part it's almost basically the same as the Arcane river except harder. You still have a daily quest you do to earn exp and symbols to upgrade them to be able to deal full damage to the mobs there (6th Job is also unlocked at level 260 but will be talked about in another section.)

I will begin listing several maps many of which are in the same region with an additional explanation that can be found in (Exp Multipliers). It’s at this point while training you may also begin to notice a sizable slow down in your levels now taking several hours even with the best rates.

Levels 260-265 > Ghosts in Cernium : Royal Library Section 1 , 2 , or 4 Levels 260-265 > Fire Spirits in Cernium : Cernium Eastern City Ramparts 2

Levels 265-270 > Sandblade Marauder in Hotel Arcus : Outlaw-Infested Wastes 1 Levels 265-270 > Conductorbots in Hotel Arcus : Train with no destination 1, or 2

Levels 270-275 > Diamond Guardians in Odium : Road to the Castle’s Gate 1 Levels 270-275 > Angler Melee Tester in Odium : Captured Alley 2 Levels 270-275 > Failed Subjects in Odium : Laboratory Behind Locked Door 2

Using the in-game guide

Using the In-game Guide

This is a section added by request that works with the leveling section specifically just to show how to use the in-game guide provided since it's the cheapest version of what's basically a tele-rock especially for early game.

Starting out assuming you're not a weirdo and using the old default keys your guide will be found on the U key pressing it once will open the menu immediately recommending a quest or an area to train at according to your level.

Upon clicking on any of the options it lists it'll offer to teleport you there (some areas may require quests or medal completions to be able to teleport) at the bottom you will be shown several towns you may teleport to clicking the button on the bottom left to switch it to fields it will then switch to maps with mobs for you to kill.

Using the gear or Widget on the right side of the screen you can customize a personal “Fast Travel” for yourself by putting whatever map you frequent in it.

(tip): as of the most recent change this June you can now teleport where you want for free once every 5 minutes or pay maple points for a telerock

Boss “Content”

Looking at the top of the guide you will notice several tabs you may switch between clicking on the boss content tab it will show you the games way of telling you which boss is more difficult than the other and properly lining you up to give you a good idea of not only what the boss can possibly drop but also what you are able to personally do.

Clicking on one of the boss icons will show you not only what the boss can drop but also offer to teleport you there.

Something to remember is that the difficulty scaling for these bosses is not a linear graph as Nexon may be trying to show you here there are huge sudden jumps in difficulty due to increased boss hp or mechanics between

certain bosses some you may find too easy while some you may find too

difficult. (I will not be going over boss mechanics, there's

too many to fit on this guide)

Special Content

Progressing to the final tab in the guide named “special content” upon clicking it you'll be greeted with this.

This section will show you “content” that's available for you to do most of it old and out of date rarely even touched though some of it has chairs and medals if you care to collect those some of it is still useful though like

Maple Tour & Ursus : Free Meso

Mu Lung Dojo : Damage testing + ranks and a shop The Afterlands : Permanen t (free) Totems Stellar Detectives/Hyperspace cube : Special rings that you may need (depending on the class) Monster Park : Decent amount of exp after doing a small dungeon + important potions from an npc using the park's coins that you will need later on for literally everything.

(theres alot im not listing them all just the important ones I can remember)

The entire right side section titled “Arcane River” shows all the weekly quests you’re able to do (they're basically mini party quests or minigames) they give a large amount of exp (depending on your level) and symbols which you'll need for (200+)

Due to the update on June 10th you can now teleport anywhere once for free every 5 minutes buying a telerock in the bottom left for maple points will cost maple points and get rid of the timer.

EXP Multipliers

This section will list the many EXP multipliers in game (as of April 2025) that you can use as when it comes to grinding your characters from level 1 to 200 or even beyond you’ll of course want to be doing it as efficiently as you can to not only get there fast but to also waste less time as every level will naturally increase in exp required to get to the next.

The most important thing to keep in note when looking into maximizing your exp obtained is to always 1 shot mobs. 1 shotting mobs is more important than whatever exp multiplier you have and not 1 shotting mobs will reduce your efficiency heavily.

(i will include pictures)

Frenzy Totem - This is one of the MOST important things when training above 200+ some use it even earlier to get out of the 1-200 zones faster it increases not only the spawn rate of mobs by about 3.5x but the amount of mobs that can spawn as well for 10 minutes each cast.

Chains Of Resentment - This totem is Nexons response to Frenzy no longer being obtainable and as of April 2025 they are available to get either from special events, through auction house, or through the cash shop by gambling the only difference between these and frenzy is COR has a time limit and will eventually expire.

Cashshop EXP coupons - within cashshop there are coupons that you can buy using either reward points (only 2 a month), real money, or Maple Points they stack with everything but can only be used on characters that are below level 250.

EXP Coupons - These coupons are the one of the most important to remember to use. They come in many variants from 1.2-3x coupons and last anywhere from 15 minutes up to 1 hour. They are available from a lot of places like events, monster park, and legion coin shop.

MVP / Bonus EXP coupons - These coupons drop from bosses or can be obtained as a bonus reward for spending a certain amount of real money in the cash shop they can also be bought and sold on the Auction House; they give a basic 50% exp effect that stacks with almost everything except what it lists.

Runes - Within maple as you're training you will run into these they're on almost every map usually on your minimap as a purple icon getting close to them and pressing your interact/harvest will give you a 100% exp multiplier that lasts only 3 minutes but it can be extended upto 5 with the Evan class link.

Monster Park Extreme Gold Potion - completing a round of monster park will give you coins and using them at the nearby shop will allow you to buy this potion which grants 10% EXP for 30 minutes.

EXP Accumulation Potion - This potion can be crafted using the profession tab however it can also be obtained from boss drops as well as from events or bought from auction house upon use it grants 10% exp for 30 minutes however there are larger bottles that grants 10% for 2 hours and even a concentrated version that grants 20% exp for 30 minutes.

Mercedes Link Skill - Upon getting a level 70 Mercedes you'll be able to move the link skill to other characters starting off at just 10% exp but getting it to 20% at level 210.

EXP Hyper Stats - Pulling up your character info at the bottom of the hyper stats section on the left you'll see an EXP obtained stat putting it upto level 15 will earn you 10% EXP.

Burning Field - While cycling through channels and maps looking for a place to train you will occasionally see a message appear across your screen indicating the field is “burning” and has a 0-100% EXP boost on it depending on how long someone has been there it slowly decreases until eventually reaching 0%.

Legion Grid Bonus - once you have at least 500 total levels and a level 200 character the grid will be unlocked upon hitting 6000 total levels you'll fully unlock the grid upon slotting in the full EXP section you will receive a total of 10% EXP

Zero Legion Grid Block - Upon making a zero if you slot it anywhere into the legion grid it will give you an additional 4% EXP but upon hitting level 200 it will become 10% EXP.

Aran Link Skill - This is more useful for the early levels but this still helps to a small degree later on increasing the amount of EXP the combo kill orbs give you which already give you 5x monster exp with the link increasing it by another 400%/650%/900% depending on the Aran’s level 70/120/210.

Decent Holy Symbol - Upon unlocking 5th job and opening nodes you can obtain a buff skill called Decent Holy Symbol upgrading it to level 30 (25 + 5) will give you a 35% EXP bonus.

Pendant of the spirit - This pendant can be obtained from events, doing your daily 300 mob kills, or from Auction house with them varying in duration the way it works is upon wearing it you gain a 10% EXP bonus

which will increase to 20% then 30% after having it equipped for 2 hours resetting it back down to 10% if you unequip it. (some can have their duration extended)

Prepared Pendant of the Spirit - Does everything the same as listed above without having to charge it gives a 30% EXP bonus while equipped. Usually only available from events. (these CANNOT be extended)

Character Building I node - once you've unlocked 5th job one of the purple nodes you can use will grant a 50% EXP bonus for 20 seconds after you've been hit by an enemy 100 times.

Holy Symbol - If you're a cool awesome person who plays a cool awesome class like Bishop (not biased btw) then at your 3rd job you'll unlock the real gucci holy symbol which gives 50% EXP bonus and once you unlock hyper skills you can upgrade it once more even further to get a 70% EXP bonus

Firestarter - similar to Frenzy this is a cast item you can buy from sellers for about 40-50m a cast giving the map a “burning field” effect starting at 100% extra exp on top of all your buffs and decreasing once every 15 minutes.

Frenzy Totem is unable to be acquired anymore (unless you buy it from someone who already has it) and as such you must instead purchase it as a service people offer.

As of the time of writing this the price for service is around 40 million meso an hour.

As for who sells it I will not be listing them as these Totems change hands ALOT.

(tip): if you're having trouble one shotting mobs I recommend you look at the following sections which I find are often overlooked.

Link skills, legion, Artifact, inner ability/hyperstats and dont forget to use things like guild skills since they're now only on a 5 minute cooldown.

Taking Advantage of Events

This section will simply give a quick brief idea and list of what to look for during an event and to keep an eye out for a number of goodies a lot of events will likely offer.

In no particular order either as depending on where you are in the game you may or may not need or want some of these.

1. Cubes

2. Clean slate scrolls

3. Flames

4. Event rings

5. Unique, legendary potential scrolls, or epic bonus potential scrolls

6. EXP Nodestones

7. Symbols

8. nx outfits

9. chairs

10. Mounts

11. Exp coupons

12. Prepared pendant of the spirit

13. Ark innocence scrolls

14. Star force scrolls

15. Sol Erda Fragments/energy

16. Free level potions

Using Cash shop Effectively

Using the Cash shop Effectively

(not buying useless shit)

While playing maplestory you will be tempted to purchase SHIT

out of the cash shop while most of it is mostly cosmetic a lot of

stuff either is no longer useful or just completely useless (like

these)

There is very few items in the cash shop that aren't purely just for

cosmetic purposes that are truly useful to progression like the

Monster park additional run tickets

Many of the items in here involving gambling (surprise style boxes, Gachapon tickets,

philosopher books, lucky boxes, and that's just naming what's currently in the shop rotation) these are just

basically scams and that's not to say you can't get lucky and get

something actually worthwhile or extremely expensive and useful

but it’s best not to approach these things unless you truly want to

gamble but do understand the risk you may be incurring by

throwing money into a large pit.

The only scam item that's actually worth something and

absolutely necessary for progression are cubes (glowing, bright, bonus glowing)

These items while once again being gambling are REQUIRED to

progress you do not have to buy them from the cash shop to get

far into the game but you will have to suffer their terrible rates

regardless eventually.

(tip): You dont actually have to “buy” these cubes you can get f2p cubes from bosses daily or weekly except for the “Bonus Glowing Cubes” you can only get them from events or the cashshop

I ultimately cannot tell you how to spend your money or what

to spend it on all I aim to do here is to help encourage you to

do your own research on the games rates of the items in the

cash shop before spending to make you a wiser spender and

to not bankrupt yourself trying for something with a .00001%

chance.

MVP

Pets

Bosses

Bossing is ultimately where most of the game lies nowadays. Partying up or even soloing bosses can increase your gains massively from equip drops and splitting it amongst the party to selling their souls for money each week. This section will talk about how to sell the boss souls, go over which daily bosses are worth running still, and about Reward Points, how they work, what you can buy with them, and what's worth buying with them.

After you kill a boss depending on if its a daily or a weekly boss the crystal that drops will be either Blue (daily), Purple (weekly) or Gold (Monthly)

(ignore the gold one i couldnt find a better pic lol)

At the top left of your screen in any town you will see a gray button that has an arrow clicking on it will give you a menu with the important things in the area. It's a quick way to access stuff you'd have to otherwise find. The “Crystals & Elixirs” section is the one we want.

Upon click it you'll be brought to his “store” where you'll immediately notice a couple things including a limit on how many souls you can sell and even a price list which is based off of how many people you cleared the boss with (the more people you clear it with the less money you get) as well some extremely useful potions for bossing assuming you’ve done the required quest beforehand.

What (early game) Bosses are still worth running

This section is quick and simple. Almost every boss is still worth running even if it's just for the reward points you get after you turn it in; however some are worth more than just the reward points such as.

Zakum can give decent weapons as well as a face and eye accessory for your level 100 characters.

Horntail can drop a good early game pendant as well as a pair of earrings and one of the best early game rings for your characters.

Von Leon - can drop several very useful accessories and assuming you've done the latter half of his questline with his dead wife in the garden you can turn 10 of them in for a Ifia’s ring that's just as good as the ring from horntail that can have potential lines.

Arkarium - Can drop 1 fairly decent mule pendant and 1 other slightly better pendant.

Pink Bean - can drop numerous accessories that are useful like the Pink Bean Cup, Golden Clover Belt, and Black Bean Mark.

Magnus - can drop one of the few badges in game as well as a decent early game shoulder

Hard Ranmaru - can drop a multitude of items including stamps which are required for making an item 3 lines of potential instead of 2

Normal Vellum and Normal Crimson Queen - they can still drop their soul shards at normal which makes them worth farming to potentially get a mag soul that is SSS rank

This is just listing the few bosses that most decently geared up mules/characters can solo kill with a couple deaths assuming you know the mechanics well enough to not wipe.

(tip):If you open the boss menu and the boss is grayed out it's more than likely you're either not the required level to do the boss or you haven't done the pre-quest required to do the boss at least once.

Reward Points

After you've finished bossing you can claim reward points for each boss you've done you get 30 for a daily, 200 for a weekly, and 1000 for a monthly boss. On the left side of the screen you'll find the pink little gift box and upon clicking it you'll be greeted with this now assuming you've defeated a

boss without having already claimed them once for the day you can click the button to receive all your reward points which will be deposited into

your cash shop

Once you have claimed them be sure to collect them by entering the cash shop at least once on the left side of the shop you'll find your reward points total as well as the button to take you to the reward points section where you can buy a lot of things most importantly however there are 15 cubes a month available for reward points 5 glowing cubes, 5 bright cubes, and 5 bonus glowing cubes. I absolutely recommend buying them out before the month is over as it will help speed along your progression for free. Now as for what to do with the rest of your points? Save them or spend them on stuff like the monster park tickets or the 2x cashshop coupon if you're training a character below level 250.

(Tip): If you run weekly bosses on one character claim the reward points then wait till reset and run it on another character you'll then be able to claim the reward points again

You may do this ^ until you either run out of mules to run on or until you hit the daily cap of 5000 reward points or the monthly cap of 50000 reward points.

Big Money Drops

Depending on the boss you run some of the stuff they drop can actually be worth something instead of just pennies. This list will go over the boss and what the drop is that's actually worth something.

(tip): most of these bosses are really strong and as such i do not recommend you to read through this section unless you already have a good understanding of what you're doing and are sufficiently strong.

I will not be going over the market price of the item I list as the market fluctuates heavily and depending on when you're reading this the items i list could be worth literally nothing or everything.

Arkarium Dominator Pendant

Chaos Papulatus Papulatus Mark

Guardian Angel Slime Guardian Angel Ring

Hard Lotus Berserked, and Black heart

Hard Damien Magic Eyepatch

Hard Will Cursed Spellbook, Twilight Mark, and Arcane wep/armor box

Hard Lucid Dreamy Belt, Twilight Mark, and Arcane wep/armor box

The Red highlighted bosses can all drop a Red Jade Boss Ring Box which can contain level 1-4 Oz Rings.

Chaos Guardian Angel Slime Guardian Angel Ring

Hard Darknell Commanding Force Earrings, Arcane wep/armor box

Hard Verus Hilla Source of Suffering, Arcane wep/armor box

The Gray highlighted bosses can all drop the Black Jade Boss Ring Box which can contain a level 1-4 Oz ring with a slightly better chance for the higher level ones.

Hard Black Mage Genesis badge, Arcane wep/armor box

Hard Chosen Seren Mitra’s rage

Easy Kalos Residual Determination Fragment, Grindstone of Life

Normal Kalos Residual Determination, Grindstone of Life

Easy Kaling Ferocious Entanglement Ring Fragment, Grindstone of Life

Normal Kaling Ferocious Entanglement Ring, Grindstone of Life

Extreme Lotus Total Control, Berserked, Black heart

The Bosses Not highlighted above can all drop a White Jade Boss Ring Box which can only drop either a level 3 or 4 Oz ring.

I will not be including anything past Extreme Lotus as if you can

do any of the bosses even close to him then why are you even

reading this guide?

Honorable Mention : Princess No

She doesn't drop anything particularly expensive however she does drop “captivating fragments” which are used to craft princess no secondaries which are a lot of classes Best in slot secondaries.

Now keep in mind all these Items have suuuper low drop chances and as such you should temper your expectations so as to not get your hopes up

Nodestones

In this section I will simply be explaining a bit more about nodestones and the node system as there is a beautiful website that more properly explains each class's best boost nodes and saves me the hassle of explaining that mess.

When it comes to nodes there are only 4 different kinds you can open From left to right you have the classic nodestone opening it grants you a

random node skill or node boost, next is the experience nodeston e opening it grants a node that’s used to enhance nodes granting a large amount of xp to the selected node when upgrading it, next up is the Mirror world nodestone obtained from defeating Will opening it grants the Arachnid Reflection Skill it can only be enhanced with other red nodes or the green experience nodes. And finally we have the Mitra’s nodestone obtained only after defeating Seren only useable for people who have completed the Cernium questline (260+) using it grants you the Solar Crest Skill once again just like the mirror world node it can only be enhanced with nodes like itself or the green experience nodes.

(you can also buy all these nodes in the Auction House except for the green one its only obtained by events)

To open the 5th job tab all you have to do is open your skills tab and go to the 5th section and click on the blue V to open it.

Upon Opening your 5th job section you'll be greeted with something similar to this just empty and with fewer slots and no yellow border. (by the time you're 260 you'll have unlocked them all) You will start with some class specific skills or even race specific skills depending on your class or race, upon opening nodes you will obtain skill, boost, or special nodes randomly.

You can craft a specific node of your choice by clicking on node crafting opening up a new section. Once again this will look different for you depending on what kind of class you are playing. The max level of all nodes except for the purple special one is level 25 however the slot the

node is in can be leveled up 5 times eventually equaling out to (25+5) or level 30 and giving it the yellow border. (See Examples above)

There are going to be certain skill nodes that are more useful to use depending on your class and some that are absolutely necessary I will list just some of them.

1. Decent Holy Symbol - this skill grants additional EXP every class should grab this unless you're a Bishop who has the real holy symbol.

2. Decent Sharp Eyes - this skill gives more crit damage and critical rate once used once again every class should have this unless you're an archer class which has the real sharp eyes (only some do so double check)

3. Decent Speed Infusion - passive skill which grants you more attack speed absolutely necessary unless you're already hitting attack speed cap.

4. Decent Combat Orders- buff skill which when used gives all your 4th job skills an extra level going over the cap and increasing certain skill damage immensely.

5. Decent Advanced Blessing - another buff skill which when used grants an att/M-att boost

6. Blink - this skill isn't very useful for early game but once you get further into learning the mechanics of bosses this skill becomes a life saver and a requirement in some.

7. Erda Nova - Depending on your class when bossing you'll come to find out you do not have a bind which is a skill that when used can stun the boss for 10 seconds allowing you to deal massive damage to it before it continues moving. This skill is a bind.

8. Erda Shower - this skill is an absolute must have for training its alternate toggle puts down a summon which lasts 60 seconds and has a 60 second cool down and will help you farm more efficiently.

And finally boost nodes , these are the most important notes besides skills. Instead of explaining everything about them I'm going to give you a link that has all the info for boost node trios your class will need. I recommend reading the top half of what it says before looking for what your class needs. It goes into great depth and is fairly up to date and correct.

https://thedigitalcrowns.com/perfect-boost-nodes-for-every-class-maplestor y-2021/

PLEASE read what it says and follow along carefully because the

difference between proper and improper boost node trios is tremendous in some cases literally 120% final damage to the skill it's boosting.

Symbols

Symbols are self explanatory maplestory originally made them to artificially add time to the game making a tedious annoying task that hindered the players ability to push forward even if they were the required level due to “Arcane Power” nowadays it is faster and cheaper than ever before to go through the arcane river so long as you keep up with your dailies and do your weekly bosses you should never struggle to have enough money to upgrade your Arcane symbols from level 1-20 with the total stat gained at the end assuming you've upgraded all 6 to level 20 coming out to 13,200 stat and 1320 arcane power.

Getting past the Arcane river and into 260+ Nexon throws another one of these at you this time changing the name to “Sacred Force” changing little to nothing about how it works once more forcing you to wait and waste time to have enough power to farm at mobs you're probably already 3 levels

ahead of. The only difference this time besides the amount of stat it gives is the ungodly cost to upgrade these symbols which is ridiculously high with the last upgrade costing usually around or over 1 billion meso.

Here is a picture showing the total cost to max out a sacred symbol and below will be one for Arcane symbols

Link Skills

kLink Skills

In this section I will show you two link skill set examples that I use, one for bossing and one for training. Unless you are a bishop yours will not look exactly like mine as it is entirely dependent on your class and character setup as to what link skills may be more valuable and useful to you than others. For that info I recommend consulting your class discord for what link skills are best for your class.

(Tip): Certain skills may need more than 1 character to hit the max level for example the resistance class link (spirit of freedom) needs all resistance classes (mechanic, wild hunter, battle mage, and blaster) to become level 8.

Something to keep in mind while reading this section is that a link becomes first available as early as level 70 starting at level 1, depending on the class and the link skill upon hitting level 120 it'll go up once more to level 2 and upon hitting level 210 it'll become the max level 3.

Starting us off first with my Bossing link skills I use I will list the class required to make for the link skill and what it does.

Elementalism Kanna max level 2 - Gives 10% Damage Focus Spirit Lynn max level 3 - Gives 10% Boss DMG, 10% crit rate and 5% hp/mp Fury Unleashed Demon Slayer max level 3 - Gives 20% Boss DMG Judgement Kinesis max level 2 - Gives 4% crit DMG Light Wash Luminous max level 3 - Gives 20% IED Qi Cultivation Mo Xuan max level 2 Gives 16% Boss DMG (while attacking a boss) Solus Ark max level 3 - 16% DMG (while attacking) Spirit of freedom resistance classes max level 8 - Gives an 8s iframe upon respawning after dying. Terms and Conditions Angelic Buster max level 3 - a buff skill you can use for 60% DMG for 10s Thief’s Cunning Explorer Thieves max level 6 - Gives 18% DMG upon debuffing an enemy Unfair Advantage Cadena max level 2 - 6% DMG against debuffed mobs Wild Rage Demon Avenger max level 3 - Gives 15% DMG

(Freebie because im a mage and i dont need to slot it in for it to stack)

Empirical Knowledge Explorer Mages max level 6 - Gives enemy a debuff upon attacking them giving you the following bonuses against them 9% DMG and 9% IED

(Im being forced to include this as some people do use these links instead of luminous if they already have too much IED or they swap out spirit of freedom)

Time to Prepare Kain max level 2 - Gives 17% DMG upon meeting specific conditions Hybrid Logic Xenon max level 2 - All stats +10% Tree of Stars Sia max level 3 - gives 10% buff duration and 3% critical damage

Next is going to be what links I use while im training again some links may vary depending on the class you're playing so you do not have to follow it 100% I will once again mention if you do not know what's best to use for you consult your class discord or someone else who is also playing your class.

Some link skills that were previously mentioned are going to be here. I will not be explaining them again. I will only be explaining what links haven't been explained yet.

Bravado Hoyoung max level 2 - Gives you 10% IED and 14% DMG against enemies with 100% hp Elven Blessing Mercedes max level 3 - Gives you a passive 20% EXP boost Nature’s Friend Lara max level 2 - Gives 11% normal monster DMG for 30s Rune Persistence Evan max level 3 Increases the amount of time a runes exp boost lasts by 70% Tide of Battle Illium max level 2 - Gives 12% dmg while moving

Combo Kill Blessing Aran max level 3 - Increases the amount of exp you get from the combo kill orbs by 900% (some use this link when training new early game characters some even use it late game I just dont)

(tip): This tip is brought to you by popular demand as so many people

seem to mess this up but PLEASE remember that Demon Avenger’s main

stat is HP and as such his gear must be HP scrolled and HP Potential’d.

Legion

This section will be quite long as we will be going over Legion ,

the Legion shop , the Legion Grid , as well as the new Legion

Artifacts. Starting us off with a brief explanation on what Legion

is, how to unlock it, and why it's so important.

What is Legion?

Legion is an important system that allows players to use their characters as attackers on a battlefield while having them give huge bonuses account-wide based on the level and job of each character.

Unlocking Legion

To unlock Legion your account must first have

1. A level 200 character thats completed the 5th job quest

2. A total level of 500 across the account

The Legion Grid

Upon hitting the requirement and after opening the legion tab you'll see this, this is the Legion Grid the best way to think of this grid is to imagine it is like a game of Tetris you want to find the most efficient way of filling up the grid with only what stats you want/need.

It is small but as you get more legion you will slowly begin to unlock the full board size until you hit 6000 and have unlocked the full board looking a little something like this.

As you can already guess by now the amount of important stat you can get here for basically free is tremendous and absolutely necessary to do if you ever plan on being a mid to end game player

You not only get bonus stats from the board but you also get bonus stats depending on the class, and level of the character you slot into the board (see examples)

Depending on the class and level of the character you slot into the board the “tetris” piece will look different (see example)

Your characters rank is determined by its level heres a chart showing the requirements to “level up” a character to the next rank up

Each class will also give you its own different bonus when put onto the board but there's way too many classes to list here for a short list so your best bet is to research it yourself with the link provided.

https://maplestorywiki.net/w/Legion_System

Legion raids and the Legion Shop

Once you've built your legion up adequately you'll begin to collect coins based on how much power your legion raid has which is based on the “strength” of the characters you have slotted into your legion raid team accruing coins while offline or afk until you hit the cap and you collect them.

Here's the formula to determine how much legion raid power you'll earn from a single character.

Within every town using the quick move button (or you can find them in town) you can access the legion coin shop to use the coins you've obtained and grab a bunch of useful items for training, bossing, or even progression starting out you'll be earning almost no coins but once you've got a decently strong legion you'll be earning a couple hundred a day.

The most ideal legion is at the MINIMUM 6000 with the most perfect being

8000 anything over is just for tryhards

With only the highest level 42 characters you make counting towards your legion you'll need to have at least every character in your legion level 191 assuming you do not have a main chosen yet to hit 8k legion

(tip): if you’re lazy and only want 6k legion you'll only need to have your top 42 characters level 143 again assuming you do not have a main.

(update)

Finally after forever Maplestory finally added a “legion Solver” no more playing tetris now the game will automatically do it for you.

After you click “assign members” at the bottom left of the board you will

see the new “ Auto Place” button appear clicking it will pull this up. This will show you all the characters you have that you can select and have them place for you once you're done selecting all that you can proceed to the blue button on the right that says “select placement area”

(be sure to go through and make sure you've selected the characters you want the auto solver to place for you)

After you've clicked the button you'll be presented with a clear board that will allow you to fill in what you want or need for your legion board.

Depending on the level of your characters and what you've selected you'll be able to see just how many blocks you can have filled in at the top

Upon filling it in with exactly what you want you’ll go ahead and click auto

placement at the bottom right the game will then calculate how to fit in the characters you gave it to fill the board how youre telling it

Once it is done it will show you the results of what you selected

(if it doesn't calculate it right away just give it a minute and if it takes longer than that you may need to select either a different character to slot in or a different

board set up as the game is having difficulty playing tetris with the pieces you gave it.)

Once you’re sure it's given you what you wanted go ahead and click “confirm placement” at the bottom right where you'll be taken back one more screen where you will then yet again click the bright blue button that says “confirm”

Congratulations your legion board is now pretty and not a mess lol.

Almost forgot there is also “Legion Presets” which allow you to swap in and out of legion boards allowing you to have multiple boards for different character set ups or different purposes like training or bossing.

I will show you my presets just for examples

Pictured here is my legion preset 3 as shown down in the middle which I use for bossing on my other characters

Once again pictured above is my training legion I use this for when im training on my main or training new characters it is set to preset 1

(tip): Your preset will probably look quite a bit different than mine unless you're a Bishop so check with your class discord for what you should focus

(tip): The more astute couple of you may have noticed that i have 2 legion blocks that aren't characters they're from older events and allow me to go over the limit by 2 whole pieces they're pretty nice so be sure to keep an eye out for them since they have rereleased before.

(tip): if you click on the middle sections of the board with the stat you can swap out the place and move them around allowing you to customize the middle of the board to better suit your class and prevent wasteful placements.

Legion Artifact

This section will give you a brief explanation of Legion Artifact ; it will not be telling you what stat to focus on putting on your crystals first as it is entirely dependent on your class and current gear as for what you'll need. Please discuss that with your class discord to figure it out.

Legion Artifact allows characters to level up Crystals (also known as Artifacts) which give various huge stat boosts to ALL characters within the world.

In order to obtain and level up Crystals you will need to complete missions and obtain Artifact EXP and Artifact Points to do so you will need to complete missions; These are the three types of missions:

● Normal missions ○ These missions reset weekly, and require the player to defeat a certain number of monsters within level range or log in for a certain number of days. The missions reward an equal amount of Artifact EXP and Artifact Points. ● Boss missions ○ These missions reset weekly. The player will be rewarded an equal amount of Artifact EXP and Artifact Points based on the difficulty of the 3 hardest weekly bosses they defeated in that week. ● Special missions ○ These missions can be completed only once per world and reward players with only Artifact EXP. The missions are a mix of challenges including reaching certain ranks in Legion System, completing area quests, defeating bosses for the first time, acquiring medals, and more.

These are the key things regarding Legion Artifact:

● Artifact Level the current Legion Artifact level. Crystals are unlocked as you level up.

● Artifact EXP used to increase your Artifact Level. ● Artifact AP used to level up Crystals which will boost the stats on each Crystal. ( AP is rewarded when reaching a new Artifact Level.) ● Artifact Points used to change and extend the duration of a Crystal's stats, and to reset all assigned Artifact AP.

Upon right clicking one of the artifacts/crystals in the Artifact UI you'll be shown some options

● Convert Stats Opens a menu for you to select and change the stats to whatever of your choosing (see example)

● Level up Rank Using Artifact AP (at the bottom right of the artifact UI) you can rank up the Artifact up to a maximum of level 5

● Extend duration it’s a bit self explanatory but using your Artifact points you've obtained from missions you can extend the duration the stats the Artifact gives you.

One of the key things to remember when setting up your Artifacts is that the max level of any stat can only be 10 and if you go over the limit it will not count or go higher instead showing a red line indicating you're over the limit and it's not applying above the specified level.

(tip): If you're insistent on not consulting your class discord and instead just want immediate damage increase I recommend you do the following bonuses first but for a proper increase in damage please ask them because you might use something different than what i use.

MAKE SURE THERE'S 2 ARTIFACTS WITH EACH OF THE 3 LISTED SO YOU GET THE FULL LEVEL 10 BONUS

Damage Boss Damage Crit Damage

All stats Attack Power Ignore Defense

Buff duration Item drop rate

EXP obtained

Legion Champion

Upon hitting 8k legion you will be able to begin a quest from the Legion NPC “Dame Appropriation” called "Champion's Path” introducing you to the new Champion Legion system which can be found in the tab below Artifacts

Opening the tab you'll be greeted with 6 slots 2 of which are unlocked to you at the start you'll want to slot in your 1st, 2nd, and later your 3rd main if you have one starting off with no rank or bonus at first you'll have to do some quests to unlock the rank up steadily increasing in difficulty as you go

B rank : Solo Hard lotus in 20 minutes

A rank : solo Hard Verus Hilla in 20 minutes

S rank : solo Hard Black Mage in 40 minutes

SS rank : solo Hard Seren in 20 minutes

SSS Rank : solo Normal Kalos in 20 minutes

(tip): The bosses do not need to be defeated in a regular run and will instead have a special “champion” mode which you can also do in practice mode so that it doesn't count towards a real run just in case you run those bosses with others.

Each rank up presents you with account wide bonuses for each character stacking as you go up in starting first with

B rank : 20 all stat and 1000 hp/mp A rank : 10 attack/magic attack S rank : 5% boss damage SS rank : 3% crit damage SSS rank : 5% IED

(tip): upon completing the required rank up quest be sure to right click and “rank up” the character so you can then unlock and begin the next rank up quest

Once you've ranked them up as much as you can and you’ve hopefully slotted in all 2 or 3 you can then click on the big purple button labeled “Champion Battleground”

To explain it very quickly and simply you will be taken to a large map with a bunch of mobs on it where you will kill as many as you can as fast as you can eventually spawning in a boss monster which you will then kill.

Each character you have in there will have an individual 3 minute time limit on them meaning you can only be on one for 3 minutes each before you are forced out

Depending on the score you obtain and how far you get into the battleground will determine the score/points you obtain and can then use on a special buff called “Champion’s renown” which can be found in your beginner tab clicking it will pull up this screen

This will allow you to create your own custom 30 minute buff depending on what you want the cost will increase as well as the power of the buff

Familiar System

This section can be skipped if you're in early game as Familiars is something you will concern yourself with later in game and can be expensive, annoying, and painful. (its basically gambling) ( ╯ °□°) ╯︵ ┻━┻

Upon opening your UI you’ll be greeted with this and while it may seem confusing its actually quite simple

Starting out you will only have 1 card slot for you to put a “familiar” into to summon it. To unlock the max which is 3 you'll need to have 10 total familiar badges.

Now unlocking these familiar badges will require you to hunt the mob it specifies and collect one of its cards and use it which may take a while or may not even be possible as some mobs just don't exist anymore; Or you can buy the card from the auction house which can be expensive.

As shown in the example picture above each badge will give you a different set of monsters you'll need to collect and upon collecting and using all their cards you'll unlock the badge allowing you to then equip it and obtain the stats it lists on the left

This is more for min-maxing so skip if you don't care but this will be useful later on in the future.

(tip): The stat the badges can give you can only be stacked a total of 3 times before turning yellow meaning you're only getting half the amount of stat it tells you from that line upon getting one more line of the same stat it will turn red meaning you are not receiving anything from that line.

As you collect mob cards you will more than likely fill up your monster card “collection” this tab's purpose is so that you may check out what cards you’ve collected. Here you can decide what you want to do with them either keeping them and leveling them up, ranking their rarity up along the way or scraping them for points to use in the familiar points shop.

(tip): to equip a card go to setup and either double click or drag and drop it into one of the empty slots.

(tip:) To summon the familiar go to your beginner skill tab and at the bottom there will be a skill to summon them.

The card's rarity will determine the amount of what kind of stats that can roll on it and what can even roll on it. These are the 5 rarities with only the first 4 able to be obtained for “free” so for our purposes we will not mention legendary.

Common, Rare, Epic, Unique, Legendary

To unveil a familiar’s potential you have to first click on the card in the collection and click on the question mark it shows below it, If you get a familiar with a line you wish to keep you can go to the right near the rest of the cards and click the lock to lock it and prevent it from being scraped

Any familiar below Epic rank is useless to unveil its potential as they do not have the lines of stat that we want on them until Epic or above

At epic, unique, and legendary you will have to keep your eye out for a couple of lines that the familiar can reveal itself with such as

1. Increases Item Drop Rate by a Large Amount (100%)

2. Any line that says it restores or heals you and party members

3. Boss damage 20-40%

4. Ignore Enemy Defense (IED) 20-40%

5. Item Drop Rate +10%

Depending on the rarity of the familiar you get any of these lines on will determine the minimum and maximum the line can be for example Epic grade familiars can get as low as 20% boss damage whereas Unique grade can achieve a maximum of 40% boss damage.

Now to rank up a familiar you will first need to level it up to level 5 which can be done by training with it while it's summoned.

Upon hitting level 5 you will then need to (fuse) other cards of the same monster into it the amount of which goes up with its rarity with it costing 50 at common, 100 at rare, and 150 at epic.

Assuming you've done all the previous steps once you click rank up it'll flash a bit before either ranking up or failing to rank up which will require you to fuse more cards into it to try again the % chance to rank up a card is dependent on the rarity you're trying to rank it up to

Common to Rare is a 100% chance Rare to Epic is a 80% chance Epic to Unique is a 40% chance

Upon ranking up a familiar its potential you had revealed on it will be reset allowing you to once more reveal it and see if you got anything useful.

However once it hits unique you can no longer rank it up for free using the fusion method presenting you with a couple of things you can do

Either you scrap it and start all over again, you use money and buy red familiar cards from cashshop which can be used to reroll a familiar with a ridiculously low chance of tiering it up to legendary, or you can use the “free” familiar cards that are within the familiar shop however they cannot tier up a familiar and instead just reroll it.

(tip): They keep removing and re-adding these free cards from the familiar shop so good luck lmao.

Equipment Progression

This section has A LOT of stuff to go over so do your best not to get confused. First we’re going to go over the basics before we get to the final most important part which will be what most of you want to know.

Potentials

When you pick up an item you may find the item has a border around it looking something like this.

If you move over to the Magnifying glass at the bottom of your inventory screen and click on it then drag your cursor over to the item with the unrevealed potential you can reveal its potential and bonus potential for mesos the amount of which depends on the level of the item you're revealing.

The color will indicate the rarity of the potential starting at Rare which is Blue to Epic which is Purple then to Unique which is Yellow, and finally Legendary which is Green.

Potentials will either have 2 or 3 lines when revealed totaling 6 lines of stat on a single item. Using a Stamp you can increase the lines from 2 to 3 if you got unlucky and only got 2 lines. If the item has no potential you can also buy a Potential scroll to put a potential onto it.

If the item you put a potential on reveals and does not have a potential you want you can use items called Mystical Cubes to change the items potential or even potentially rank it up from rare to epic, keep in mind it will cost meso to roll the potential of an item costing more depending once again on the level of the item being rolled.

There are various different kinds of cubes that can do all kinds of things and only those cubes can take your item to higher ranks.

The purple ones are called “ Solid Cubes” and the green ones are called “Hard Cubes” both can be obtained rarely from killing bosses of any difficulty the green ones can only take your item up to unique and reroll unique or lower potentials where as the purple one can take your item up to legendary and reroll legendary or lower potentials.

In most cases the Ideal Potential on an item depends on what the item is if its an Accessory, top, bottom, shoes, cape, shoulder, or android heart the ideal potential lines for those would be whatever you main stat is for your class for example if you're a mage you'd want something like this.

(tip): keep in mind when cubing an item the bonus potential is much harder to roll and as such 2 line bonus potential items are typically a good keeper as 3 line items are either too expensive or super difficult to roll for.

Now when it comes to the rest of the basic equipment like your hat and gloves there are very specific potential lines you want on these items with your gloves you're going to want something like this.

The Critical damage lines are worth more than whatever amount of stat you could get on gloves.

Now when it comes to the Hat what you may need is entirely dependent on your class as some classes just need whatever stat they require however if you're for example a Dual blade your class is going to require Cooldown Reduction lines in the potential instead of stat. For your hat I recommend consulting your class discord to see what it is you need exactly.

Now onto the final 3 most important equipment you have to be careful with. Your Weapon, Secondary Weapon, and Emblem.

These 3 Items can roll numerous amounts of potential lines however there are only 3 potentials lines you will ever want to consider and they are

1. Attack/Magic Attack%

2. Boss Damage%

3. Ignore Enemy Defense%

Depending on your class you will have to carefully balance out what you want on these 3 items as some classes by default have a little too much IED or Boss damage.

(tip): DAMAGE% LINES ARE FAKE LINES. DO NOT EVER KEEP THEM. THEY INFLATE YOUR DAMAGE RANGE AND WHILE THEY LOOK GOOD NUMBER WISE THEY ARE ACTUALLY BAD AND DO VERY LITTLE FOR YOU THEY ARE ONLY WORTH TO KEEP IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO.

(tip): Emblems cannot roll boss damage so keep that in mind when making your WSE that's an acronym for Weapon, Secondary, and Emblem.

Ideally you'd want something like this for your WSE.

As you can see my WSE, while not completed to perfection, it still gives a good idea of the kind of potentials you'd want to aim for on your WSE.

(dependent on your class, and current set up as previously stated. duh.)

Scrolling

This section will go over Scrolling items specifically “spell trace” scrolling as these are the most easily available and cheap to a new or returning player.

Starting us off first with “spell traces” these little things.

They used to be really cheap back in the day but nowadays they're ridiculously expensive and kinda hard to come by so your only real option is to buy them from Auction House which will run you close to 100 mil meso even on the cheapest day (currently as of 5/13/2025) for a single stack of 9000. Or save and grind them out by killing bosses and mobs.

Now when it comes to scrolling your items you have a couple options obviously if its just for a temporary power boost you can do a cheap 100% spell trace scrolling which will give you a lil boost for a lil cost with no chance to fail

However, for real power you will be sticking close to the 15% spell trace scrolls the cost of which will be higher depending on the item's level and the % scroll you plan to use with the lower % chance ones costing the most they however also grant the most power.

To begin scrolling an item you'll need to open up your inventory and going down to the bottom half of it you'll see the Blue enhance button clicking it will open this UI.

From here all you have to do is drag and place an item and click on the “scroll” option to begin scrolling it.

Looking down at the bottom you can see the options available to you but again obviously you'll only be scrolling items with the stat you use.

(tip): As of September 24th there is now a “special scrolls” section that lets you see what scroll you have in your inventory at the time of scrolling it also shows you how much spell traces you currently own total.

It is not recommended to scroll whenever you want however as nowadays every weekend we get “Spell Trace Fever” which makes scrolls twice as likely to pass and sometimes we even have 50% off spell traces making it cheaper to scroll and finish your items so it is best to aim for one of these days.

Now while scrolling unless you're the luckiest man/woman alive you will inevitably fail a scroll leaving your item with an “Available Recovery” in order to recover these lost slots you'll need to use a “Clean Slate Scroll” these are usually available in event shops, Auction House, and are even dropped from field bosses that spawn while grinding there are even 100% versions in the spell trace menu however they're super expensive so rarely worth using unless you're desperate or during a 50% spell trace event.

Now if you mess up somehow and accidentally scroll an item with the wrong scrolls you can use a different kind of scroll called “innocence scroll” completely wiping any scrolls or starforce applied to the item but

leaving the potential and the flame allowing you to restart the item from the beginning.

Now if you don't want to wipe the starforce off an item because its already high starforce but you still need to redo the scrolls on it what you need is a special scroll called the “Ark Innocence Scroll” usually available from events but can also be bought with spell traces in the enhancement menu.

Please be cautious while doing all this however as if you mess up nexon will not fix your mistake for you.

(tip): When scrolling an item you can tell what stat you're adding to it by hovering over the item. The scrolled stat will be Purple colored numbers for example.

Flames

This section will go over flames and flame scores for your items

Flames are random additional stats that are added on your item upon obtaining it represented by the turqoise green numbers on your items like this.

The “Flame” on an item can be rerolled with the use of rebirth flames usable items that are found in event shops, legion shops, boss drops, elite mob drops, and even crafted.

There are 3 flames you can use on high level items starting us with “Red Flames” otherwise known as “Powerful Rebirth Flames” they can reroll

flames but the chance they give you anything majorly useful is slim to none. Next is the “Rainbow Flame” or the “Eternal Rebirth Flame” these flames will reroll the already existing bonus stats on an item however unlike red flames they have a much higher chance of rolling higher “tiers” of flames and finally we have “Black Flames” or “Black Rebirth Flame” these operate much like “Bright Cubes” not only having the highest chance of a putting a good flame on an item but also allowing you to

choose if you want to keep the new or the old flame. (tip): Karma just means the item can only be used on already untradable gear.

I will be providing a website which while it does have some relatively out of date into it still has some useful stuff related to flames.

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Bonus_Stats

(tip): a flame's highest tier is dependent on the level of the item with the higher level the item the higher the flame can be.

Now we can discuss “Flame Score” which is the rating of a flame based on what stat it gives you. I will provide an example and explain the math behind it.

Here is my CRA Top with a flame of 20 dex, 60 int, 5 jump, and 7% all stat

In order to calculate the flame score all you have to do is ignore the numbers that don't benefit me and only factor in the important ones for my class and being im a mage that means I only have to care about 2 numbers here

60 int is counted as 60 score and for every 1% all stat you count that as 10 so with 7% and 60 int we should have a flame score of around 130

It gets confusing once you start counting in secondary stats or even factoring in att/matt so instead of doing that here's a calculator you can use.

https://starlinez.github.io/games/maplestory/item-flames

Star Forcing

This section will be going over Maplestory’s worst possible mechanic and also its most expensive “Star Forcing”

In order to begin “ Star Forcing” the item you want to star must first already be fully scrolled otherwise it won't let you. Now assuming you've done that to begin you must click on the Blue “Enhance” button mentioned in the scrolling tab at the bottom right of your inventory and click and drag the item you want to star force into the square and click the section titled “Star Force”.

Now that you have the item on the operating table be ready to kiss your meso and your sanity goodbye.

Each star on the item will cost more and will get harder to hit as you go higher. The cost of the item will also scale with its level.

(tip): when star forcing it will begin a little mini game with a star bouncing left to right. If you can catch it in the highlighted area it will give you an extra 5% chance to succeed

Once you get an item to 15 stars the item can now “Boom” meaning that if you are unlucky the item will blow up and leave you with a “trace” of the item it was.

Don’t panic however as you don't actually lose the item or its potentials and scrolls all it requires now is for you to buy a replacement for it to “Transfer” itself to however it will now restart back down at 12 stars requiring you to begin star forcing it again to get it back up.

Now starting at 15 stars you can use the “Safe Guard” option to prevent the item from blowing up from stars 15 to 16 however the cost of star forcing will double in price.

Obviously just like with spell tracing there are certain days, events, and maps which are better for star forcing i’ll list them

Guild Castle star forcing room - a room that auto catches the star minigame for you.

Sunny Sunday - sometimes its 30% off star forcing or sometimes another one called 5,10,15 where those 3 star forcing levels are guaranteed to hit 100%.

Ideally you aim for the first 2 events when “Star Forcing” your main characters gear or you wait to see if there will be a “Shining” all to save as much meso as possible.

(tip): Do not ever go above 22 stars on any item as anything past this is basically impossible to hit (at least for now)

(tip): 17 or 18 stars is a decent stopping point nowadays if you're strapped for meso but still want some decent star force benefits.

Skill Sequencing

If you never got the hang of having to press like 200 buttons to fully buff this is perfect for you instead of having to memorize where all of your buffs are Maplestory instead finally put this handy single key button which will pop all your buffs in the order you select!

Depending on your class and preference you skills will of course be different as will the order of which goes first so yet again you’re gonna wanna consult your class discord.

First off to get to it you’re gonna wanna open your skill tab and look for “sequence” at the bottom

Upon clicking it you'll be presented with this clicking “layout settings” set up at least 1 to 2 rows depending on if you're a ring swapping class or not

Then from here you set up the skills in the sequence you want once again following either your preference or your class discords recommendations once you're done be sure to click save and drag and place the pink “skill sequence” button on a key and upon pressing it the button will cast all the skills in the order you told it to.

Boss Souls

This section will go over “Boss Souls” What they do, how to make your weapon a soul weapon, and which ones you should get as not all souls are good as well as how to get them.

Starting us off with first how to make your weapon a soul weapon

To make your weapon a soul one all you need is a soul enchanter and all you do is click on it then click on your weapon and if you're lucky it becomes a soul weapon.

These are the 3 that are available with the first two able to be dropped by elite mobs, and some bosses you can also buy them in auction house.

Upon making your weapon into a soul one now you have to slot a boss soul in however not all of them are worth putting into your weapon as you ideally want the highest tier which is Rank SSS souls here's a list of the ones that are Rank SSS

● Magnus ● Cygnus ● Crimson Bloody Queen ● Vellum ● Lotus ● Damien ● Lucid ● Will ● Verus/Heretic Hilla ● Guard Captain Darknell ● Kaling

● Kalos ● Annihilation Weapon Lotus

Any of these Souls listed here would be best in slot for your weapon however there are two types of souls there are regular souls which have set stat bonuses and skills they can give as well as Magnificent Souls which have random but far greater stat bonuses and skills.

If you're just making a throwaway weapon and want a lil power boost you can use a regular soul of these listed however if you're going to make your actual weapon it is recommended you use a Magnificent soul heres a list of the random stats a “Mag Soul” can give.

● HP +2,000

● All Stats +5% ● Weapon ATT +3% ● Magic ATT +3% ● Critical Rate +12% ● Ignore DEF +7% ● Damage to Boss Monsters +7%

Now Ideally you want to roll whatever att% you need for your class the others are okay but they won't benefit you nearly as much.

Now in order to make a Boss Soul you need the boss’s “ soul Shards” which can be obtained by defeating the boss giving you anywhere from 1-3 soul shards you will require 10 shards to be able to craft 1 soul

(tip): You can buy a 40 slot soul shard bag from event shops or Auction house which will help keep your inventory space neat and tidy.

Upon clicking the soul shards it will show you a UI showing you the appearance rate of the souls with magnificent being the lowest chance at only 1% however during “Sunny Sunday” sometimes the 5x mag soul event begins going from 1% to 5%

When crafting souls if you do not get what you want do not throw them away instead look for the keybind for your “Soul Weapon” and click it then click on the little button called “Soul Collector”

It will pull up a book UI where you can click on the boss and slot in the extra souls you aren't going to use if you fill it out completely it permanently upgrades the skill of that boss’s soul (only on that character though)

Sets to Aim For

THIS IS ONLY FOR EARLY TO MID GAME I WILL NOT BE GOING

OVER ETERNAL GEAR OR PITCHED ACCESSORY SET.

This section is the most important in terms of progression. it will give you an idea of what kind of gear to go for and what set effects are going to be most useful. At the end I will include some extra info on how to go about obtaining some of this gear. As well as info on “drop gear”

We’re going to start off with the CRA set or the “Root Abyss” set

(tip): the blank spaces are left blank because the name of that would be whatever class item you need.

For this set you'll need these ● Royal _______ hat ● Eagle Eye _______ Top ● Trixter ______ pants

This will give you the 3 set effect of the Root abyss set

(tip): the reason my CRA set shows 4 pieces is because of my liberated Genesis weapon which is a lucky item and can count as any set. So ignore it.

The next set you'll want to aim for will be the Superior Gollux Accessory set which consists of a pendant , ring , earrings , and belt totaling 4 pieces.

For this set you'll need these ● Superior Engraved Gollux Pendant ● Superior Engraved Gollux Belt ● Superior Gollux Ring ● Superior Gollux Belt

This set will give you the 4 set effect of the Superior Gollux set

(Tip): ALL GOLLUX ITEMS MUST BE SCROLLED WITH THE “ADVANCED GOLLUX SCROLLS THE MERCHANT SELLS OUTSIDE OF THE BOSS GOLLUX FOR 40 COINS EACH.

Next on the list is more accessories with the Dawn Boss Set. You'll only want the 2 piece set effect but the 3 piece is okay too. This set consists of a ring, and your choice of either a pendant or a face accessory.

For this set you'll need ● Dawn Guardian Angel Ring And your choice of either ● Twilight Mark ● Daybreak Pendant (preferred)

This set will give you the 2 set effect of the Dawn Boss set or 3 if you grabbed both of the choices listed.

(Tip): use premium accessory scrolls available from event shops on them if you can.

The next set is going to be expensive but absolutely worth it as it's your Arcane Umbra set comprising a weapon , shoes , gloves , shoulder , and cape for a total of 5 pieces of the Arcane Umbra set.

For this set you'll need ● Arcane Weapon for your class ● Arcane Umbra _____ Shoulder ● Arcane Umbra _____ Cape ● Arcane Umbra _____ Shoes ● Arcane Umbra _____ Gloves

This will give you the 5 piece set effect of the Arcane Umbra set.

Below here will be the Miscellaneous equips which will not have a complete set but will fill in the rest of our equipment slots.

Reinforced Gollux Ring for the 3rd ring slot (Scrolled with “Advanced Gollux scrolls”)

Either a Ring of Restraint 4 or a Continuous Ring 4 (check your class discord to see which oz ring you'll need)

Sweetwater Monocle for the eye slot (spell traced or premium acc. scrolled)

Sweetwater Tattoo if you didn't grab a Twilight Mark (spell traced or premium acc. scrolled)

Gold _____ Emblem

Crystal Ventus Badge

Pink Holy Cup

Android Heart (either superior lidium or higher events nowadays usually have fairy hearts with special event heart scrolls which give 3 all stat and 9 attack/magic attack)

Your Choice of secondary (ask your class discord which is best for you.)

Totems (if you don't mind an annoying questline that has an online video guide the afterlands totems are technically free but you can also buy totems from the Auction house)

(tip): if i didnt specify the scrolling assume im telling you to use Spell traces.

(tip): the only item I didn't specify scrolling for which can use a special scroll is the arcane umbra shoulder but that's because it's optional to use them. So either use spell traces or incredible chaos scrolls of goodness on them.

Obtaining These Items

There are several ways to get some of these items with the obvious answer being you can buy them in the Auction house however that can be expensive. For more info on what specific bosses drop these items go check the “Big Money Section”

Gollux Set dropped from defeating hard gollux/hellux he can only drop the earrings and the belt so you will have to farm him daily for coins which can then be used on the merchant to buy the rings and pendant.

Dawn Guardian Angel ring by talking to a slime npc in Ramuramu you can buy a scroll for 10 mil which will turn your slime ring into a dawn boss slime ring.

Twilight mark and Daybreak pendant both can be dropped by bosses in the Arcane River or early Cernium.

Pink Holy cup killing pink bean drops one almost every time.

Crystal Ventus Badge dropped by killing Magnus.

Sweetwater monocle/tattoo involves running Commerci PQ. (look up a guide im not teaching that)

CRA/Root abyss set defeating the root abyss bosses drops little emblems you can use to craft any CRA item you want.

Oz ring when defeating hard bosses they can sometimes drop a ring box which can be opened for a small chance to contain something good.

Android Heart gotta buy it or get a fairy one from events.

Secondary if your class uses princess no secondaries then you have to kill princess no for the emblems to make the secondary. (otherwise consult your class discord)

Arcane Umbra items can be obtained from boxes dropped by hard bosses in the Arcane River area.

Emblem Obtained through a level 100 class quest usually. (or bought from a merchant if you’re a kaiser or Angelic Buster)

Drop Gear

This is just a super quick little section I couldn't find somewhere to squeeze it into and it wasn't long enough for its own so here's just a quick little explanation.

Through potentials you can get item drop rate% or meso drop rate%

Using event rings you can ideally get about 80% free item drop rate or if you're lucky you can get 160% assuming all 4 event rings have 2 lines of drop.

You can only get item/meso drop rate on your eye, face, pendant, earrings and rings. (YOU CANNOT GET IT ON A BELT)

(tip): the max item drop rate you can have for equipment specifically is a total of 200% the max meso drop rate you can have for equipment specifically is 100%

You can get over 300% item and 200% meso drop rate with the use of potions and usables as well as familiars.

(tip): You can also get a pendant from monster park that gives 20% equipment item drop and can also potential it to have 20% item drop rate.

Liberation

This section WAS going to be the last of the “Equipment Progression” section and would be going over the Genesis Weapon Liberation Quest which can only be obtained once you reach level 255 and do a lengthy 8 month questline involving defeating Black Mage and his Commanders.

However the questline has changed by now and I honestly don't know what it's like anymore at least enough to make a section over it since I liberated my weapon ages ago so I will instead link you to a video of someone who probably knows way more about it than I do.

https://youtu.be/kwCe5bWPlyA?si=d6dJ2ih5uPKFTYe2

Presets

This section will just be going over all the other “preset” stuff I

didn't mention in other sections just so you’re ready for the next

section which will make life a lot easier

Starting with “Equipment presets” its fairly self explanatory but

you can set up multiple equipment sets so that you can swap in

and out of them like if you have 1 set that is for bossing and

another set of gear for drop gear

By clicking one the three “preset” buttons there it will swap the

items out into a new set putting a number so you know exactly

what preset the original items are in allowing you to then put in

new equipment over top of them letting you quickly swap in and

out of full sets of gear

Next up is “Hotkey Presets” once again pretty self explanatory

similar to this.

(please ignore my ugly keyboard preset ill never change it lmao)

At the top right you should see the “presets” key which will swap

out the entire keyboard to a whole new clean preset allowing you

once again to customize a full keyboard for a different task like

mobbing so you don't have to constantly swap in and out skills or

fill a keyboard full of skills like mine lol.

And finally the last preset is “NX Presets” this section is mostly

purely cosmetic but it does have its uses if you're an older player

with one of 2 very specific event NX sets

Opening up your equipment once more you will go to the “cash”

tab allowing you to see this.

On the left you have the NX that you have on and on the right you

have the nx that goes over that NX

If you have either the “Starlight Adventurer Set” or the

“ChuChu Island set”

You can put them on under everything and collect the stat

bonuses they give from their set effect and then have the actually

NX you want shown on the right swapping through preset 1, 2, or

3 lets you quickly swap out of full sets of nx for the ultimate

fashionstory.

Character Presets

Is switching between everything like your gear, links, legion, hotkeys too much of a hassle and kind of a pain in the ass especially when you gotta do it everytime you boss, or train?

In the middle of your screen on the left you'll see a bunch of gray buttons clicking the one with the 3 little bars will pull up this

Upon clicking it you will then go to “Character Presets”

(tip): At the bottom of this new UI tab they made you can slot in other tabs that you find yourself going to alot like familiar or the maple planner etc.

Which upon clicking will pull up this which may look confusing at first but if you followed along in the other parts of the guide and made multiple

presets for your hyper stats, inner ability, link skills, equipment, and Hotkeys.

What you see here is presets which if set up properly allow you to quickly swap in and out of different setups you may use like mine you can have sets made for

Bossing, grinding, drop gear, or ring swapping if you're a ring swap class

Properly setting this up will make life a lot easier for you instead of having to swap out each item, skill, key, or legion individually making the process that originally took forever as quick as clicking a button.

(personally i dont use this that often but I recommend you do I just dont because im kind of old school lmao)

Inner Ability, and Hyper Stats

This section will go over inner abilities and the hyper stats both found in the character info tab in game starting us off with inner ability.

Inner Ability

(warning): not every class uses the same inner ability, do not copy mine from the examples unless you are playing bishop.

At the bottom right of your character info tab you'll find your inner ability tab opening it you'll be presented with 3 different stats assuming you're on a new character it'll start at rare in order to rank it up from rare to legendary you'll need to spend honor exp which you'll earn be able to earn from doing dailies, bossing, buying them from events, or buying them from auction house.

When “resetting” your inner ability you'll first want to get it to legendary thankfully nowadays it can no longer de-rank. When resetting your ability it'll randomly reroll all 3 sections with the top one remaining the highest rank its obtained or tiering up if its not yet legendary, the bottom 2 will however continue to change becoming either rare, epic, or unique

The link that I will be posting below will have a list of every class's best in slot inner ability. It should be relatively up to date but viewer discretion is advised.

(tip): when making your inner ability you can switch to another preset and make a “training” inner ability you would want it to look a little something like this.

https://thedigitalcrowns.com/best-inner-ability-for-every-class-maplestory/

Hyper Stats

In this section I will post 2 examples of hyper stats, one for bossing, and

you copy exactly what i have as not every class requires the exact same

amount of the stat this is just to give you an idea of a baseline to strive towards. For a more concise guide on hyper stats consult your class discord.

(tip): the hyper stats menu is at the bottom left of your character info board.

Bossing

When making a preset for bossing it's fairly obvious what to go for

but just in case here's the example of mine.

The most obvious ones that won't require an explanation as to

why I have them will be boss damage, damage, Ignore defense,

and critical damage.

The level is entirely dependant on where you are in the game as

each level you put into a stat in hyper stats the cost goes up and

once it gets to level 10 the cost gets super high so you have to be

careful and balance it depending on the level of your character

Ideally you should strive for something like this for a baseline.

10 boss dmg

10 crit dmg

10 dmg

10 ignore defense

10 att/matt

Some classes may require critical rate (like hayato) but as I am a Bishop I do not require any in the hyper stat section.

I also have 12 in INT which being my Bishop’s main stat I benefit from putting points into it immensely whereas while it may benefit you a bit to put some points into your classes stat it will not benefit you nearly as much as

me (depending on the class) and is wasteful so it is better to focus on the 5 stats i listed unless told to otherwise by your classes discord.

Grinding/Mobbing

When making a preset for Grinding/Mobbing the most important thing to remember is to always make sure you're able to 1 shot first before worrying about increased EXP as if you aren't able to 1 shot the increased EXP is worthless now heres an example once again of what i use.

When making a hyper stat preset for mobbing/grinding you'll be focusing on the following stats.

Damage, Crit Damage, Normal Damage, att/matt, and EXP obtained.

Once again I will state it is MORE IMPORTANT to be one shotting than to worry about EXP obtained. When training if you are not one shotting do not put any points into exp and instead focus on the others to increase your power and hopefully begin to one shot and then start putting points into exp.

You will also notice I have some points in other stats like my main stat int which again is self explanatory as it boosts my damage the other stat I have is critical rate which I need 5 points in to hit 100% critical rate when grinding.

Professions

This section will go over many of the useful things with professions as well as what to craft to most efficiently level up the skills. I will not be going over everything that'd be way too long.

To start us off I'll first teach you how to most efficiently level up your chosen professions to the max before explaining the benefits of doing such

Smithing When leveling smithing to the max to maximize efficiency

you'll want to craft arrows until you can no longer gain EXP from making them once you've done that you will have to spend a lil more meso to then start crafting a hat until you hit max the (Timeless Conrad Henkel) which while costing more meso to get the stuff together to craft it will still level your smithing to the max level. (Meister)

Alchemy When leveling Alchemy to the max your best bet is to do some

market research in the auction house and craft the cheapest potions you can for the most exp you can get as it varies too much i wont list specific potions.

Accessory when leveling Accessory crafting to the max your best bet

similar to alchemy is to research the cost of the materials and craft a bunch of rings for the cheapest you can while maximizing your exp

Mining and Herbalism just harvest the ore or herb spots and

craft whatever potions or ores it recommends.

Benefits to leveling professions to the max

This section will list off the benefits of maxing out the professions starting us first with

Smithing One of the most useful professions for a f2p player the first

and most immediate thing you can take note of is that you can craft cubes and while it is expensive it can still be largely beneficial for you. Upon achieving meister rank it grants you a skill in the beginner tab called “ Advanced Weapon Tempering” Which grants a 5% critical damage buff by using 2 Magic Whetstones which can be crafted relatively cheap.

Alchemy Besides being able to craft your own exp/wealth pots you can

also craft boss damage potions stat potions and just a general lot of things that can buff you. You can also drink 2 potions now like exp and wealth pots together

Accessory Crafting upon hitting Meister in accessory crafting you can

craft eternal and black flames as well as the other flame options once again while it can be pricey it can also be profitable as a f2p and is considered extremely beneficial for solo progression. It also gives a skill at meister rank which is kinda useless as it only blocks 1 single debilitating debuff.

( They now have an auto harvest system so you don't have to farm items to craft

potions and equips I don’t know much about it personally as I don’t go out of my way to farm these items so for more info please consult someone else with more knowledge on it)

Maple Planner

This section will discuss and show you how to add your dailies and other things to your “Maple Planner” a newly added system that assists in helping you know what you either have to do or have left to do for the day.

In the middle of your screen on the left by your HP bar you'll find the gray bars tab clicking it once again you'll be shown the huge UI table shown previously in the “Character presets” section

Upon clicking it you'll have to find the planner in the “Adventure tab” clicking it will take you to the “Maple Planner” From here on it's a bit self explanatory but just in case.

Next you'll click on any of the 3 little gears presented to you and upon clicking them you'll be shown a bunch of options that you may click on and whatever you check mark will then be shown on the planner from that day on looking a little something like this once you've customized it to what you want to remember to do.

Using the Meso Market

This section will discuss the in-game “ Meso Market” and will mostly be about how to use it, why it's useful, and tips on how to use it to your advantage.

Starting us off with how to use it and why it's useful. The “Meso Market” is accessed through an NPC found either in the “Quick Move” tab or at the Free Market portal

Talking to her will pull up a UI which will allow you to either buy or sell meso for “maple points” looking like this

Buying mesos will cost you (X) amount of Maple points netting you 100m for each (X) amount you put in adjusting how much Maple points you pay you can gain or lose a little here and there similar to working with a stock market think of this as “Maplestory’s economy” where a strong economy will mean meso is worth more maple points and a weak economy makes meso worth less maple points.

Buying meso will cost maple points whereas selling meso will give you maple points.

Now why would you want “Maple points” you may be wandering?

Because if you’re free to play with some spare meso or a whale who's got too much meso you can sell the meso gaining some maple points which you can then use in the “ Cashshop” to buy various items like cubes or other cosmetic purchases making it so instead of using real money to buy these items you can instead use in-game meso.

Taking Advantage of the Market

Much like a real economy during holidays or “events” in-game will cause the value of meso to rise or fall and taking advantage of this is where you can easily turn a profit if you're careful and turn your 1b into 2b or your 20k maple points into 40k or more. I'll provide an example of such a case.

About a year ago during a “Cube Sale” event where cubes in the cashshop went on sale people who had excess meso began to sell it to turn it into maple points to then turn around and buy cubes to tier up their items driving the price of meso down immensely by over 200 points as the market was flooded with meso

If you had lets say for example 20k maple points before the sale began you could have bought around 5b mesos total assuming the price of points were at a stable 400 points per 100m

Now assuming you didnt exchange your points and instead waited for the peak of the event during the sale your 20k maple points could now instead be used to buy 10b doubling what you could get because of the people flooding the meso market dropping the price of meso down to 200 points.

Using the Auction House

This section has come about by popular demand and will just be going over some tips on using the auction house

To start with to find the auction house button it'll be near the bottom left of your screen in the Menu

Upon clicking it you'll be taken the auction house

(tip): for some reason it likes to d/c people like the cashshop does so beware of when youre using it lol

I'm just going to go over some key things, not everything.

The first page you'll be shown when you load into the auction will be the most recently listed items tab showing you the last listed item before you opened it.

On the left you can see the various filters which you can plug stuff into to sort through all the junk allowing you to search for exactly what you want to see

Next is the “Market Price” this tab is by far the most useful allowing you to accurately gauge the current market value of an item according to what its past sale data is to allow you to better tell if an item is at a good or bad price to either buy or sell.

The “Wish List” tab is a section that shows you all the items you wish listed in the auction house allowing you to go back and check on them and not make you manually search for them again

The “Sell” tab is pretty self explanatory upon opening it, it will show you everything you have in your inventory which you can list and sell

If you aren't MVP silver or higher you're only able to list up to 10 items at a time and you pay more taxes when you sell something

(tip): BEFORE YOU LIST AN ITEM TO SELL PLEASE CHECK THAT YOU LISTED IT FOR

THE RIGHT PRICE OR YOU WILL BE CLOWNED ON RELENTLESSLY.

And the final tab is the “Complete” tab there you can see what items you've bought or sold with a history going back about a month

When you sell or buy an item you must go to the complete tab to pick up the item or meso you got.

The last tip to tell you about in regards to the auction house is about these little arrows.

By clicking the arrow all the way on the left it'll show you more results/items as the game tells you (too many seem to people forget.)

(tip): any item with the green “W” by it means it's a crossworld item.

Hexa 6th Job (260+)

This section will go over and explain a lil bit of everything regarding the 6th job for a more in depth guide. I again recommend joining your classes discord as they will have the most info for you regarding 6th Job.

Upon hitting level 260 you’ll be introduced to Cernium as well as get a new quest to obtain your 6th job. It is very similar to the 5th job pre-quest just a lot of talking and collecting stones which you have to fill up by grinding with them on a total of 9 stones assuming you’re 1 shotting in Cernium and getting decent rates it'll take less than an hour with fz to finish this quest and unlock your 6th job immediately showing you this UI.

From left to right starting at the top you have your origin skill node which should come automatically unlocked and level 1 it is a huge skill that had a CD of 5 minutes but deals massive damage and binds whatever it hits for 10 seconds

(Tip): This can be combined with your class bind or Erda nova to achieve 20 total seconds of bind.

Next you have your Mastery nodes (the pink ones) which directly enhance an already existing skill, upgrading its damage and usually giving it a new ability.

(tip): depending on when you're reading this we may already have our 3rd and 4th mastery node.

At the bottom left you have Boost Nodes, these boost certain stats of the skills it shows usually the Final Damage by a total of 60% at level 30

And finally on the bottom right you have the Common nodes, for now it only consists of one skill which is called “Sol Janus” Which heavily increases your mobbing capabilities acting as basically another Erda Shower summon which you can put down and let it attack the nearby mobs.

Pain.

Now Nexon wouldn't make this kind of huge damage gains free you will also be introduced to the newest kind of torture Nexon cooked up which will inhibit your ability to get these abilities right away starting with

(These will be your biggest problem)

Sol Erda Energy - You can only hold 20 of them at the max and with good rates and decent drop you will maybe see 3-6 for each hour you train and to upgrade or unlock your new skills it'll cost a ridiculous amount of these, the cost increasing with each level.

(tip): Sol Erda energy must first hit 1000 total energy to make a single “Sol Erda”

Sol Erda Fragments - these will drop from mobs as you grind with good rates and drop gear you'll maybe see 30-50 an hour however unlike the energy these can actually be bought off the auction house making these much less of a concern.

(tip): sol erda and sol erda frags are also obtainable through the daily which is given to you upon completing the 260 pre-quest the quest requires you to kill 3000 mobs and gives you 12 frags and 600 energy a day.

Hexa Stat

Before we begin I must state that this tab is purely RNG but gives massive gains and will suck fragments out of you like no tomorrow if you aren't careful.

To start with I will mention that not every class may require or focus the same stat as much as the other and as such if you want to know exactly what you'll need the most please consult your class specific discord as a mess up here can be an expensive mistake.

Upon switching tabs you'll be greeted with this, there are 2 different stat nodes currently unlocked allowing you to choose 3 different stats each node to enhance 1 main stat and 2 additional stats.

Once you've chosen your stats you will begin enhancing them costing frags each level up

If the main stat at the top gets a level you get much more stat compared to if you get a level up on the additional stats but it's much harder and rare which makes it much more expensive.

As of September 24th 2025 there are now 3 Hexa Stat unlocks.

(tip): its best to follow your class’s discord while an immediate stat boost may sound worth it's also extremely expensive and may not be recommended to start with in the beginning.

(tip): this system is different for the class Sia so go check their discord for that

As of July, 2025 they added the ability to convert extra sol

erda energy into one of two things shown here

The energy can be turned into extra energy that you can

trade within your account its sadly not 1 to 1 but still useful if

your main is maxed out on energy with nothing to use it on

so you can put it in storage and trade it to your 2nd mains or

mules

The other option “Hexa Booster” is similar to “VIP Boosters”

it spawns monsters that give even more exp than vip

boosters for 100 seconds as stated

(tip): if you're having trouble doing the pre-quest for 6th job get ahold of some of the red vip exp booster items some events have and use them while filling the stones with exp

since the mobs have a high amount of exp they help fill all the stone in under 20ish minutes. Here's a list of the total required amount of energy and fragments 6th job will cost.

Epic Dungeon

This section will go over the extreme basics of the weekly content called Epic Dungeons. Currently there are 2 different ones available after a lengthy story quest one in Cernium (lvl 260) and the other in Odium (lvl 270)

High Mountain is a sort of dungeon that can be done weekly with 9 stages where you have to slog through mobs, mini bosses, and finishing with a final boss.

Upon completing High Mountain, you can talk to Selazar to receive your rewards. You will obtain EXP based on your character's level and other rewards.

You may also choose to spend 10,000 Maple Points to auto-complete the Epic Dungeon and receive the basic rewards immediately, provided you have completed it at least once on that character. You may also choose between either the EXP Bonus Reward or the Sol Erda Bonus Reward. Paying 7,500 Maple Points yields a 4x bonus (for a total of 5x the chosen reward type), or 30,000 Maple Points yields an 8x bonus (for a total of 9x the chosen reward type).

Similarly the other Epic Dungeon titled “Angler Company” which as mentioned earlier only unlocks at level 270 in Odium has the same premise

with a story you must first do which then unlocks the weekly dungeon which nets you large amounts of exp, sol erda energy, and sol erda frags.

I will not be going over that Epic Dungeon however as I hate it and refuse to ever do it. Instead I will link a video to someone who made a guide over it.

https://youtu.be/Y-14-LU3M_M?si=qnLVKmMdJpvesNaF

Class Discords

This section will be just a link to every class discord.

The class discord will be filled with tons of info related to any class you may be training or planning to main and will give you much better in-depth information than I ever could on your class.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/1b8zv9o/master_list_of_all_ class_discords/

Maple Youtubers

This section will contain links to Maple Youtubers who make other

various guides or super helpful content that you can view if you

prefer it in video format.

https://www.youtube.com/@iSIingGunz maple news and future updates + guides

https://www.youtube.com/@coppersan/featured maple news and future updates + guides

https://www.youtube.com/@Ereklo_Game Streamer with guides

https://www.youtube.com/@Decatei maple youtuber with guides

https://www.youtube.com/@Duky Streamer with guides

https://www.youtube.com/@x3TheAran59/featured maple news and future updates

https://www.youtube.com/@lucyperin this guy is awesome and makes super good detailed boss pattern guides.

Closing Remarks

Hello! This is just a little ribbon on top just to finish things off you dont have to read this lol

At the end of the day, the most important thing is to have fun and enjoy playing the game and class you've chosen. Don't stress over nerfs and buffs or worry about DPS charts. Every class is viable and no matter what you'll only be as strong as the effort, time, and money you put into the class!

A big thank you to those of you who are reading and chose to use this guide. Sorry if it was a bit of a mess lol hopefully I was able to assist you and make your progression through Maplestory easier!

And finally I'd also like to give a HUGE thanks to all my friends who’ve helped me make this guide and helped go over it with me making sure it was the best it could be!

Happy Mapling!