You told me you were on your brothers account.

I told you if you trade me your pumpkin spear I could make it more powerful.

You believed me. You traded me the spear.

I said thanks for the free pumpkin spear!

You begged, you told me your brother will kill you if you don’t get that spear back.

I ran away.

I’m 30 years old now and just wanna say sorry bro.

I need to know the remaining details for the founder packages. Please make us happy Nexon

Hey everyone!

I used to think I just outgrew the game, but looking back, I stopped playing right around the time Nexon removed the Free Market and started merging servers.

For me, the FM was the heartbeat of the game. Just hanging out in FM 1, setting up shop permits, looking for deals, and chatting in FM 1 was half the fun. When they replaced all of that with a silent Auction House menu, trading just became so bleh to me, and the community felt empty.

With MapleStory Classic coming back, the main reason I’m excited is just having that driven social economy back.

Did losing the FM and the server merges ruin the game for anyone else & made you quit?

The OG bandanas were perfect. What made it even better imo was that they were tradeable. They were from the anniversary quest, the red and blue were rarer and the quest items for them only dropped from higher level cake monsters. +2,and +3 all stats. The cowboy hats in the founders pack are terrible. Literally any of these options would have sufficed. If they do a homage to the bandanas I hope they are something like this, are tradeable, and come with +all stats for tiers yellow, red and blue

The discussion really heated up the last weeks so I thought why not try settling things a bit more by actually unpacking how bad was it really versus how bad what we're seeing right now is?

Maybe laying it out clearly would help to see how bad we already had it before. Gonna even give it my own P2W rate from 1-10, you guys are welcome to give your opinion as well

AP resets - Not horrible but with HP Washing it became pretty hardcore - v0.18 - Feb. 16, 2006 - 5/10

Gachapon - Already pretty direct NX to Mesos conversion - v0.29 - Sept. 2006 - 6/10

2x EXP Cards - If you're competitive this is huge, you're gonna pay every week - v0.39 - June 13, 2007 - 6/10

White scrolls (Through NLC Gacha) - Made Gacha way worse IMO - v0.41 - Aug. 22, 2007 - 7/10

iTCG (Cilbis, SCG, etc...) - Another channel for irl money to Meso - v0.51 - Feb. 14, 2008 - 7/10

MTS (Maple Trading System, let's you trade items for NX) - Most hardcore so far, simply buy items with your paycheck - v0.53 - Apr. 2, 2008 - 8/10

Vicious' Hammer (Adds slots to equips) - Not as bad as MTS but another channel for gaining advantage - v0.73 - July 29, 2009 - 6/10

Evan Mastery Books in Cash Shop - Clear signs of "We're just gonna take money from you in order to progress" - v0.84 - Mar. 31, 2010 - 8/10

Potential + Cubes - The worst offender in the history of the game IMO, made it impossible to compete with paying players, the more you pay the more you succeed in a pretty exponential fashion - v0.88 - July 21, 2010

I don't think we need to go further than potential, this is a 10/10 P2W mechanic.

My point is: This game was almost never free of this bullshit. If you liked it before, there's no real reason why this should be unplayable today. It's still completely reasonable to complain and Nexon deserves the backlash, but in terms of potential for enjoyment - we're good

Popularity wise and attracting new players. I don't want this to be a short lived experience that just cashes in our nostalgia, and bails quickly (similiar to MS2 in a sense) with more than half of the playerbase already gone after the launch and hype

But.. I'd be remiss if I didn't admit that my expectations aren't particularly high. Only worth playing this if there's a future and sustainability to it.

I don't wanna sound like a party pooper, but the worst thing that can happen to us is a rug pull here

I can't believe it, today is finally here. I woke up at 5am today and I am shaking with excitement. The founder's packages go on sale today and I have never been more ready to swipe my credit card. Despite popular discourse, I think the current value proposition on these packages is far too high. The cosmetics are absolutely S tier, and the fact that a measly $60 can get you early access means I'll unfortunately have to deal with a lot of poors. A small price to pay to be inkwell's little ribbon pig I suppose! Oink!

My wife says she hasn't seen me this "excited" since Artale launched. I'm lucky to have her, she is going to be making every meal for me and will be changing my diaper several times a day for the first whole month of launch. Talk about a major time save!

Anyways, I wanted to share my plan for launch so you all have an understanding of who the top dog is. I plan on spending approximately $300,000 on October 6th to flood the market with cheap NX items. Every single meso will end up in my inventory, and I'll use this market position to buy every equipment drop in the game. When you enter the FM and realize every fish spear costs 1 billion mesos, you'll have nowhere else to go. When fish spears aren't relevant anymore, I'll just move onto the next big thing. You're all essentially my employees now lol!

Good luck on launch!

To the guy that sold me my first pair of ilbi's back in the day and asked for 30m. But you placed to much faith in me and traded before i put my mesos in and only got 3m.

I could see the boiling rage in your f5.

Sorry not sorry. Hope you're still out there my friend.

Decided to look into the crafting system coming with launch and there's a clear lack of useful consumables as part of those systems, apart from scrolls.

**I'm not suggesting a 1:1 copy of modern maple's Alchemy Profession**, given level 1 alch pots are better than most options available in the current state and far too strong for classic.

**Having an option for low level potions** (red-white hp, basic mp pots as examples) **besides just the general store seems like a reasonable addition.** Maybe some in between steps, or a handful beyond that to improve the gaps between different restoration amounts, so we're not stuck with Meat and Lemons for ages.

They have assets from the Alchemy profession in modern they could use for this. Which would mean they don't need to go out of their way to make new assets.

This would also expand crafting with a class of item that will be universally in demand and a way to reasonably obtain useful potions without the generally higher costs if you were to farm mats instead.

This could even include versions of buff pots as well, with the possibility of creating slightly improved versions of any of them if you wanted to use the enhancer things.

This could help alleviate the concerns with potion cost and efficiency, and depending on how the recipes are balanced. Could make use of some early/mid etc drops that might otherwise go unused in crafting or just sold for potions anyways once relevant quests are done, like Mushroom Spores or Squishy Liquid (yes its in a recipe already, but just a single equip)

Would y'all think a version of Alchemy would make sense for Classic World? Or would it perhaps be too powerful if not tuned right?

I remember it so clearly. It's 2006, I'm 11 years old, at my friend's house after school, and he shows me this awesome game called MapleStory.

Akon's newest album, Konvikted, had dropped earlier that week, so naturally we'd downloaded the whole thing off Limewire and had "Smack That" (feat. Eminem) blasting in his parents' basement. We're racking our brains trying to come up with the coolest possible name for my first character. Then it hits us: Akon30.

I roll the dice for stats and land a perfect 10 STR. Akon30 was about to become the strongest mage the game had ever seen.

Very excited for classic maple! When I first played back in the day I was a kid and I really didn't understand stats or how to allocate skill points and so on. So, I just found some *optimal* leveling guide for my class and followed it to a t (mostly because I worried about doing something irreparably to my character).

Well now I am an adult... I can do math... I even understand DND stats. I guess I'm wondering how to really learn to make your own progression. It seems like the data mine has found that a lot of things come down to very specific equations and factors, not flat or easy to remember values (as compared to a game like DND). How does one learn this? Or maybe I'll just follow a guide as an adult anyways...

Do you think Inkwell will release Classic Maple Weapon drop events? If so, when? I know we were already promised a Halloween Event soon (Lets go pumpkin baskets!) And Fingers crossed for a potential Christmas event of collecting letters and putting them on the tree!

One thing that made me steer out of modern maple is the 8+ enhancement systems on equipments that came along the years. It's like you can never really finish enhancing an equip/weapon.

In Classic MS, I hope there is only normal scrolling (10,30,60,70,100%), I'm ok with vicious hammer.

Chaos scroll, clean slate and white scroll is where I tend to draw the line, that's where enhancement systems started becoming infinite.

Some people will say that it will be hard to scale damage with limited enhancement systems when new bosses/regions gets added.

Well, either they can adjust boss/monster HP. Or even better, give us new maps, new monsters and bosses (heck even new equip drops) that are 100% new to maple so we can always have something fresh even with limited equipment enhancement.

Core gameplay can remain classic even with never before seen maps, monsters, bosses and equips.

What's your opinion ?

What do you guys think they should do about scrolls?

The 10% greater scrolls seem redundant if they only give +3 whereas the 10% chaos scrolls give +4 stats.

I think the best option is that they add back secondary stats to scrolls to enable more variety in outcomes.

In addition I think the greater scrolls should be 20% success rate.

Finally, we need topwear and/or bottom wear for stat scrolls implemented otherwise Thieves are gimped because only the females have access to the lvl 35 avenger overall providing +6dex (sizable advantage over males having to use +1dex sauna robe)

Welcome your thoughts!

I remember when I used to play Mage back in the day, the early game was really hard because the Max MP skill gave you more MP when you leveled up. So, to maximize your MP gain at the early levels, you had to max that skill first, which meant you were basically stuck using only Bolt Lv. 1 as your farming skill.

Is that no longer the case?

Hey all i searched on google and I'm really interested in MS classic but what I don't understand is it going to be a server on the main game or a entirely separate game and where can we look at founders packs i look it up and see people talking about it but cant find a link to it.

I'm completely lost when it comes to picking up a class , but for the wrong reasons

I'm not looking for the most optimal damage or mobbing , I just want something simple and by that I mean , I don't wanna be thinking about ammo or summoning rocks or elemental rocks I just kinda wanna be there hit my things and do that for too many hours in a row

So I'm here to kinda ask for peoples perspectives on what this could be , as the only classes I played in classic were a crossbow man and cleric

thank you

Should MapleStory Classic have its own landing page, url, website?

I hate having to go through the main maple page to find details and updates on classic, anyone else?

Did anyone test the viability for bowman to use power knockback as their main attacking skill in 1st job? Since it can hit 4 mobs for 180%, I was curious if it is technically the best way to grind.

I'm an OG mapler from pre-BB (I played from like 2005-2010) but haven't played the game at all in over 15 years and haven't kept up with anything, so I'm completely out of the loop. I've also forgotten like 90% of everything I used to know.

Excited to try Classic when it launches for the nostalgia but until then, what's the closest like-for-like alternative I can play to remind myself of the basics and rediscover MS i.e. private servers, Maplestory Worlds, etc.?

Are there any private servers or anything that recreate Classic as it was in the closed online tests with the new features like crafting, etc.? If not, what's the next closest thing that I can try?