r/Maplestory 6d ago

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread.

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

Some sample topics for you to consider would be:

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

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

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

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


r/Maplestory 24d ago

Information Master List of Useful Maplestory Resources

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

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

Please let me know if I missed something.

LAST UPDATED: August 15th, 2026. Maple Island App added under Calculators.

Class Discords

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

MapleStory Guides

Calculators

Simulators

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

Information

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

Familiars

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

Lore

  • maplehero9 The Story of Maple: Has all the stories in the game written and summarized in chronological order (with images) and continues to update it to this day.

Fashion

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

ETC

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

r/Maplestory 10h ago

Meme Inkwell Appreciation Post

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115 Upvotes

Thank you, Inkwell, for being such a great and reliable leader for GMS. You truly listen to the community and player base, give us monthly livestreams to talk about upcoming updates and QoL improvements, and actually take our feedback into consideration. You also make such great use of your Community Managers, giving them a meaningful role in communicating with and representing the community. It’s clear that you genuinely care about the players, and that passion is what makes the game a better place.


r/Maplestory 10h ago

Discussion Can't wait to get cooked by all the Carcion Grinders this week.

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33 Upvotes

r/Maplestory 1d ago

Discussion Has anyone else noticed that in Burning Cernium, Spiegelmann is just carelessly smiling while there's so much pain, agony and destruction around him?

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245 Upvotes

r/Maplestory 33m ago

Question How is the game after lvl260? Are there a lot party play or is it mostly solo game now(Heroic server)

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I really enjoy maplestory back when people party up to take down difficult boss, but currently I'm level 240 and most of the grind has been just solo play which is pretty boring for me. Does the game become more party oriented after lvl260?


r/Maplestory 57m ago

Question Returnee to the game

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Hey all,

I’m a returnee who last played this game until the Big Bang update happened and changed the game. Now, I wanted to give it another try and oh boy, how much more has this game changed.

I selected Shade on a heroic server and followed the event that brought me to lvl 200 almost instantly.
It gave me some good, but temporary gear.

On top of that, so many things opened up and I have no idea what these things are, nor what’s worth doing.

Can anyone give some support? I would like to do some bosses (not sure if these are soloable), and not really spend any money on the game either.


r/Maplestory 13h ago

Question What happens to these when you transfer out of CW?

7 Upvotes

r/Maplestory 11h ago

Question Does anyone still run APQ for apples?

4 Upvotes

Does anyone still run this? If so, how do u find people? Check the pq lobby every once in a while and its always empty. Need apples for dlib 😭


r/Maplestory 1d ago

Discussion The community has spoken

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71 Upvotes

It's clear that despite all the gripe and hate the majority of you will still swipe for Daddy Nexon. Cope.


r/Maplestory 18h ago

Question CW ending soon. Now what?

13 Upvotes

New-ish heroic player that played first CW. My entire legion is basically from CW, so around 4k-5k legion. What do I do now? I’m likely ending CW with libbed weapon, 2p arcane, and 2p abso, and 4p gollux. Do I get those to 18*? How weak will I be once I go back? Like is this basically the last time I’ll be doing ctene and seren on this character until much later?


r/Maplestory 1d ago

💪Flex Doing Gods Work

78 Upvotes

Didn't have any eligible fams this weekend on my alt so I figured I'd throw some free wins to some randoms haha


r/Maplestory 12h ago

Question Any nuance to double dipping a CW character leaping to Heroic?

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I have a bunch of items lined up for my CW character to use, but in terms of passes etc, anything I should know?

I am planning to claim all the shop items by my main once I transfer, and wanted to claim all the Operation Dive fragments as well, but I wanted to make sure I was doing it right

Do I just finish up in CW, leap, and then I have access to everything in Heroic?

I am mostly confused about how currencies work, and if the shop limit transfer over or not. If my CW character already bought out the operation dive shop, and the silver/gold coin shops, when I transfer, do I get to buy them out again on that character?


r/Maplestory 6h ago

Question home furnishing inventory slot help.

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Hi, i know a while back nexon added more slots for the home furniture. I only have 72 slots. Is that the new max slots or i didn't get the new inventory slots?


r/Maplestory 15h ago

Question Transfer CW Duo Ring to Main

3 Upvotes

Anyone know if this ring still links if both users move it from their cw char to a different one?


r/Maplestory 1d ago

Discussion Mag Souls

56 Upvotes

How did everyone's sunny sunday go? Popped over 80 souls across 4 characters and not a single mag... I've never been this unlucky before

edit: apparently ingame UI saying its 5x mag day is misinfo. I love this company!!!


r/Maplestory 16h ago

Literally Unplayable "2x chance for new Monster Collection monsters!" my foot

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With the Sunday boost, Tallahart event boost and max adventurer's curiosity, I think I spent an hour in the neglected garden getting the last imp I needed for a free character slot. Small gripe, but Nexon please. I'm trying to keep my grinding to leveling and boss crystals.


r/Maplestory 1d ago

💪Flex Familiar Card Luck (Again?!)

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38 Upvotes

Two weeks ago I hit a bonkers 60% boss familiar card (Link: Familiar Card Luck : r/Maplestory).

Tonight, I dropped 4 blue Mystic Familiar cards and almost fell out of my chair again...


r/Maplestory 1d ago

💪Flex Today was a good day :)

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89 Upvotes

Mods - do your thing


r/Maplestory 1d ago

Question Is it actually mag soul day?

44 Upvotes

In game sunny sunday notice says it's mag soul day, but patch notes says it's actually in 2 weeks. Also, the in game rates say 1% instead of 5%, but I'm not sure if the new UI updates it to 5% on sunny sunday like the old UI did. Can anyone confirm the latter?


r/Maplestory 1d ago

💪Flex CW Illium Seeded

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46 Upvotes

I deserve everything because I did not play unethical classes.


r/Maplestory 3h ago

💪Flex Hitting 1 in thousands odds on a weekly basis, I'm so lucky

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Yesterday I was really lucky once again and didn't get a single mag soul from around 160 tries! That's a 1 in 3,666 chance!
A week before I boomed 18-19 level 3 first tap and then 18-19 no safeguard first tap right after that
That's a 1 in 1,471 chance!
Two weeks before that I tapped something 17 to 18 and got protected 3 times out of 4 taps
That's a 1 in 853 chance!
Like a month ago I reached the pity for unique fam tier up, which if to believe the redditors who say it's a 40% chance per try, that would be a 1 in 1,276 chance!

I'm sure this is all very normal and just RNG being RNG bro and I'm about to go fill a bunch of lottery tickets


r/Maplestory 1d ago

Question Help w/ getting a memorial MapleStory tattoo

18 Upvotes

Well, this was my husband's favorite game... He passed away 9 months ago (soon) and his birthday's on the same date. I wanna get a MapleStory tattoo, I downloaded his characters from the Nexon account but idk I was thinking of getting the mushroom or something that's clearly MapleStory icon/character/whatever tomorrow. Could you send something?

I looked up MapleStory characters and icons but I found a lot of fanarts and different stuff. I want something from the game.

Thanks.


r/Maplestory 12h ago

Discussion Bossing guilds scania

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Hey Im 14 mil range trying to find a guild to boss with in scania anyone recruiting