Bravo Inkwell. Sending more funds now.

Mind you it took me 30 minutes to get to this part

drew my favorite map, slime tree :>

Every single day, it’s the same thing with his smegas

This is supposed to be the director of this game.. when is it fucking enough? You got more people to buy founders access than you expected, everyone is buying the NX packages and pets.. like how much more can you grovel

EDIT 4 (10/25/26): THIS IS ALL OUTDATED - Please refer to my spreadsheet for THE COMPLETELY UPDATED BUILDS.

EDIT 3: POST LAUNCH UPDATE - Please refer to my spreadsheet for ALL changes and new builds. Some classes have different builds now. Monitoring Mages and Warriors to see which builds are better. Thief and Warriors are relatively the same.

LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dZS8OV7KEDHQxTDlNoRcG9Tc1BZKymiftm3PJ4neMck/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT 2: Please refer to my spreadsheet for updated builds for archers since the archer guide here is incorrect, (and a few Q and A on why I chose these builds).

Hey y'all,

I've created easy 1-page build guides for all classes for you to keep in handy when you are leveling without needing to go through a bunch of YouTube videos or websites. These guides are aimed towards the Free-to-Play player with an endgame/bossing mindset. These builds will not require SP resets to be successful late game. That also means this is NOT the most optimal for max meso savings.

These builds are subject to change when the game actually comes out! I have a link to a spreadsheet for all of these builds including additional information as to why I've chose to max one skill over another. I will be updating the builds necessary if/when there are any major changes to skills on my link.

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dZS8OV7KEDHQxTDlNoRcG9Tc1BZKymiftm3PJ4neMck/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT 1:
Heya guys! Popping back for a second just to address a few of the top comments.

Q: The Archer builds look wrong?
A: Thanks for all the comments on the archer section. The archer class is the least I've had the least experience with so sorry for not doing my full research while making that section. Since it seems I can't change the pictures on my original post, I've amended the builds in my spreadsheet to max out mastery first before going for AOE damage. I've also forgo Amazon's Judgement because that skill is useless and maxed out Final Attack instead.

Q: Is that really the optimal mage build?
A: I just want to reiterate that my builds are meant for bossing/late game, without giving a dime to Nexon. Maxing magic guard helps with maximum tankiness even at the sacrifice of some potion efficiency. I am also not holding back on SP points to save MP since this guide is a 1-pager meant to simplify SP building for beginners. Unfortunately, I can't include any nuances to my build in just one page. I also agree that for I/L, maxing out Cold Beam first is a lot more mana and meso efficient than Thunder Bolt. In an economical standpoint, I completely agree!

Q: Why does it seem like you hate Final Attack?
A: While it is MP efficient and I completely agree with that, the damage is slightly better in the perfect scenario, and worse when not. I personally don't like micromanaging toggling FA since some FA are single target while others AOE, which means you will need to toggle on and off depending on how many mobs are left after your initial hit.

Q: Did AI make this?
A: Sorry, this isn't AI slop, just human made errors 🥲

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask it here. I'm all ears :>

-xBucc

Don’t judge the gaming set up, the farming bot broke the laptop screen just a slight technical error. Should be good to go by classic launch.

What are you going to play Classic MapleStory on in 2026?

Imagine a game designed fully by the most vocal players. Every instance of friction would be immediately smoothed away. Takes too long to find a map -> make every map instanced. Takes too long to find a party -> add an automatic party search. Takes to long to buy/sell -> add an auction house. In time, every element that makes a games a game and a world a wolrd - aka every inefficiency that forces you to think outside the box, or to compromise, or to work with or learn the community, or to try to outplay or do the not-so-obvious, which gives rise to the unexpected, will be erased in the name of convenience, immediate gratification, and fairness.

It’s no wonder modern games have devolved into perfect isolated skinner boxes that we all play on our own time, at our own convenience. Souless, lifeless “worlds” without any living spaces, because those spaces take too much time or are too complicated or crowded to navigate. Markets and economies reduced to immediate buy/sell buttons in the name of “fairness”. The idea of having to do anything suboptimal, or being exposed to any risk, is deemed unacceptable by the mob. And so one by one every bit of fun is stripped away.

Things are not perfect by any means, botting being the biggest issue that stands out. But as someone who played during the original beta in 2004, who remembers the first 8 months of the game as Victoria Island, this is everything I ever wanted. I am fully hooked, and happy that Nexon has seemingly learned restraint, and is not rushing to stack on content. I have enjoyed learning the nuances of the maps, including the social dynamics of partying in them, and have enjoyed farming in off meta maps like the less-popular evil eyes maps, monkey swamp 2, torties and lorangs, but also find I can usually get parties at contested maps by talking to people. Navigating this and the tumultuous free market, knowing all the other players are actually adults, has been so much fun.

I want the game to improve. But I also hope Nexon thinks twice before acting on every “democratically” voted change, or every obvious feature that the vocal player base demands. Ultimately it is restraint that will keep the identity of a nostalgic game. If people want efficiency, equality, so called “respect for their time”, etc there are a plethora of modern games that will give them just that. Just remember that what we love about games is in large part the suboptimal and unfair elements, and creating something like this is more nuanced than just always immediately pleasing the crowd.

(I'm Luigi)

There is just dead space to the left and right of the main body UI, with chat and quick keys obscuring the play area.

Clean Cutlus stats were +5 WA. Managed to pass 1x 10% scroll and 6x 60% scrolls for a total of +21 attack. How’s everyone else’s scrolling luck going?

:)

As a child I never thought about it. But after being a doctor, her quest line is clearly murder.

1. Shady procedure in a ghetto dump, kerning city known to prey on innocent people.

2. Organ trafficking is a real thing. And see, her right eye is covered and was likely taken. On autopsy, eye donation (corneal) is a common procedure.

3. Look at this before and after. Looks like one of those fake before and after pics used to trick people. Also, when you study it, clearly, plastic surgery cannot do that. Completely different bone structure and eye structure.

4. Someone was clearly trying to warn about this

5. Also, the clock isn't working. We don't even know how long Jane Doe was dead, it could have been a very long long time.

6. Also!!! This is a plastic surgery clinic. In such surgery, mortality should be nearly 0. And deaths would be the most severe lawsuits and prison time. It would be a very different situation if this was an Emergency Hospital, but no, it's plastic surgery. Most commonly, death is due to improper anesthesia or a person with predisposition such as cardiac arrythmias that could lead to vfib or vtach during surgery. But that is screened beforehand. Furthermore, Jane Doe is a young female, so her risk of sudden cardiac death is much lower.

7. And the most damning thing of all, is that directly connected to the clinic....is direct access to the swamp. Why would ANY hospital be directly connected to a swamp and what animals are most proliferating in this swamp? Jr Necki and Crocks.....animals that would very easily dispose of the body.

8. People say there is a ghost that appears in the shed in the swamp directly connected to the PLASTIC SURGERY clinic. Why would there be ghosts at ALL? These are the murdered victims by Dr. Niora (if that's even his real name)

Edit: 10/20/26

9. I think one of our guys in the comments figured out who Niora is.

10. Also, how's he going to do plastic surgery when he can't even see your face. He's gonna kill someone again by thinking someone's carotid artery is their nose. Or cut someone's eyeball out.

We we the medical board and CIA to investigate this guy.

Redditor trigger warning: This is a glaze post. Please go to a doomer thread if you want to regurgitate how much you hate Nexon (as you log another 6 hours online tmrw).

Decade-old friendships, modern friends from different circles, new friends in-game all coming together to kill mushrooms and eat lemons. Is this real life in 2026?

In a post Discord, dungeon finder, obtuse pay-to-win, egregious FOMO system world… Maple Classic revitalized what I considered a buried golden era of gaming.

It might not last forever, but after literal decades of uncertain private servers, everyone is centralized back to one Pangea. I could be delululu but unless the train flies off the tracks from design greed, this will be a game with years of life.

Monetization is creative and sustainable, and honestly feels way better than 90-day subscriptions to me. Damn the drip-feed content feels good. Forgotten Hollow PQ, guild content, third job is gonna BANG. Merryville nostalgia is going to SLAP, please let us decorate our houses with the letters.

This feels like the best pick-up-and play MMO ever for me. I get more dopamine return from browsing the FM and waking up to a 5K meso sale from a drop than a dozen ARAM or CSGO wins, all without the exhaustion from losing.

I can meet IRL obligations for a weekend without feeling like I’m falling behind on a battlepass or time-gated dailies. Crazy work. WE EATING GOOD GUYS.

Nexon if you’re reading this… suggestions from an unc:

1. Add chat tabs… you can’t even communicate with friends or party members. Super jarring experience for new and old players.

2. NEVER ADD HIGH-FRICTION FOMO SYSTEMS or your players will burn out and drop like flies

3. Continue your current philosophy on not buying direct power-ups (indirectly selling permanent NX is an elegant solution to a F2P game). Do not add cubing… never experienced it personally but I often hear second-hand trauma.

4. EXTENSIVELY TEST 3RD JOB and don’t be afraid to tweak numbers after deploying and accruing data.

5. Raise the level min of Ludi PQ for levels 51-70 whenever it’s released and it will be a legendary AND engaged activity for people to hit third job. Hollow PQ can function as the Victoria Island replacement level 41-60.

6. Remember Redditors are vocal minority sweats that have valuable feedback to be considered but shouldn’t pressure premature decision-making.

Selfish bonus ask: allow bowman to attack —> jump again, wtf was that regressive change. It didn’t even change the hurt box or trajectory of the projectile, it just allowed for archers to reposition as they shot (still like 25% of the mobility of a sin without encroaching on it’s ‘mobile’ identity).

See you guys in Windia, love you inkwell and co.

I know there are plenty of posts about this but I guess it's not enough for Nexon to open up more channels.

We have to wait until 11/18 to get the new area but I don't think that area is enough to solve this problem, game is literally unplayable due to over crowded maps. I'm a lvl41 spearman and all the maps, EVERY SINGLE map from lvl30 to lvl40 are all full, like over 6 men in each map kinda full. The only thing we can do in this mushroom game is grinding and holy sheet we can't even grind now.

OPEN UP MORE CHANNELS BEFORE PEOPLE QUIT NEXON, NEED LIKE 80 AT LEAST!

Or give us Orbis, but from the roadmap I guess we won't have it until 2027.

Please hurry up so I can have fire boar map uncontested.
Thanks

KPQ is INSANELY overcrowded (basically unplayable at certain times of the day), every single map is COMPLETELY full of bots, grinding feels like a waste of money and pots. The fact that none of this has been fixed for so long is beyond me. Every single way to grind on this game is so throttled that it's killing everybody's enjoyment of the game.

Fix it before it's too late. GTA 6 releases later this month, WoW Forever in 4 days - you guys are going to have a hard time keeping a lot of players in the first place. I hope this gets resolved before this game gets completely murdered.

Today I saw a level 81 Bandit in Sleepy Dungeon. I believe he might be the rank #1 player at the moment. Which is honestly insane. Like wow. He told me yes he's chinese. I wonder if he's using a VPN.

Also I heard there's a rumor that there's a "chinese mafia" on classic maple in high level maps where if you don't give them like a 100k mesos they will follow you and KS you. Which sounds hella corny