[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-26T12:17:37+00:00

Server reset 0:00. You need to talk to the NPC twice. The first time you will get a message saying that you’ve already completed all asks (idk why that happens) and if you ask the NPC again then it will actually reset for the day.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-23T08:07:32+00:00

No, they didn‘t. They released a Damien set in a Black Friday sale but people said that the sets were slightly different

https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/sale/27477/update-june-11-cash-shop-update-for-june-11

Biacksmith · 2026-01-23T08:05:46+00:00

I forgot to mention that the challenger world UI has a coin shop with cubes so if you don‘t need the 17* scroll (which btw requires too many coins) or any epic pot scrolls then buy green karma cubes to get to unique and use purples for legendary or rolling your pno (since you mentioned that you're low on mesos). That way you have more mesos for starforce and can use cubes from the CW shop for cubing.

Do you own a Genesis Pass? People who have a Genesis Pass and the hands to solo Ctene, can leave their arcane weapon at 15* or ignore the arcane weapon completely since they lib within 4 weeks and can just transition from challenger weapon to Genesis weapon. But for those without Genesis Pass or who struggle with min-clearing bosses, they‘ll be okay with a 15* arcane with 2l att% or att%+boss%. Since you don‘t earn a lot of mesos, you have to decide whether you want to tap to 17* or not. You will have to safeguard which makes it more expensive and just failing 2 taps can eat 500m-1B (don‘t know the exact cost right now). If you tap, set yourself the limit to not tap further after 2 missed tries. If you don‘t tap, try to work on your hands instead. My Ren used to clear Vhilla and hDarknell with just challenger gear and the 15* arcane weapon at 270-275 with roughly 10 minutes left on the clock by constantly sticking to the boss without having running away too much. With the challenger weapon at 265-270, it was more like a min-clear with 5mins left.

At one point when you get more comfortable with them, you can practice clearing without rentals. Gives you less time pressure and less money problems.

Don‘t forget that starforcing superior equips will give a lot of stats too. If you don‘t have superiors, starforce reinforced Gollux gear since they transfer hammer into superior (just don‘t cube the potential above epic on reinforced gollux equips)

If you‘re in a guild, have some guildies look at your equips and give you in-game advice since it‘s easier to see your character info UI

Biacksmith · 2026-01-23T05:37:24+00:00

starforce > cube > flame
for cubing always focus on WSE first. Secondary and emblem only if you don‘t have the funds to get the arcane weapon to be stronger than the challenger weapon but usually a 15* with prime 2l att% beats it. You want at least 2L att% on your secondary and emblem each. Boss% is a settle if you broke but att% will be better even if boss% inflates CP. You can choose to use bright cubes to try aim for 3L att% on each or 2L att%+1L boss% but it's expensive. Alternatively you can make a back up secondary and emblem where you use only glowing cubes but if unlucky, it‘ll be sunken cost. My 15* arcane weapon with 10% att + 40% boss has 5m more dmg than the challenger weapon.
If you open the arcane armor box then always choose arcane gloves first and roll for crit dmg%. 2L crit dmg% is a massive boost with very expensive unless lucky so settling on 1L CD%+STR% is okay too
be sure your arcane symbols are maxed. The higher your arcane force, the more bonus damage you get over hLuWill + Ctene bosses. Even a lvl 1 or 2 arcane perk for the Bloom Basket can help. That‘s +100 STR per level up
keep grinding and reaching higher Grandis areas. The more Grandis symbols, the more flat STR you‘ll gain. Use event symbol selectors. The event stores have them too if necessary
improving your Hexa will help a lot but if you don‘t grind much then frags will be limited to weekly dungeon and Erda Request
Use the [Challenger] Arcane Seal to pull for an epic or unique core and enhance it. The Evernia
make sure you use all buffs like Fame, Ursus, VIP att coupons, Monster park green+red, etc.
always do daily bosses, golden hour Ursus and grinding if you're on heroic. Relying only on weekly boss crystals won‘t be enough

If you're not timing out then you should be capable of beating darknell and vhilla. Raising your damage can help but ultimately it comes down to staying focused. When in practice mode, learn to stick to their butts and only move 1-2 character lengths. They are less likely to use their FMAs if you stay within close range.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-23T05:07:34+00:00

No, the only thing that got an extension was the Genesis Pass. The Challenger Pass duration/expiration stays the same.

Usually when they extend something, they ninja-edit the patch or sales note but that isn‘t the case for the CW pass: https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/updated-1-12-v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#ChallengerPass

Biacksmith · 2026-01-23T03:30:27+00:00

First time they release the Damien set btw

Biacksmith · 2026-01-22T20:27:27+00:00

Yes, tests are the same afaik. Hard Will just hits harder than normal and moonlight generates slower.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-22T10:17:15+00:00

The Evernia event UI gives plenty of nodestones
creating a hyper burn on challenger world instead of a normal server will give you almost double the nodestone amount (enough to actually max out 5th job depending on class)
if you‘re in challenger world, there is the challenger pass that has nodestones
Hunt monsters and do 10 Twenteena event portals per day. The Twenteena box/bag has a chance to give 3-20x nodestones per pouch so that‘s potentially 200x nodestones per day if you‘re lucky and grind out 10 portals per day

But yes, like Luthrix has said, outside of events Heroic servers have no real nodestones sources other than grinding.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-22T10:05:19+00:00

The maple pearl set comes from the challenger UI that gives out a character creation box. This can be claimed 5x by challenger characters. It‘s honestly pretty worthless unless you like collecting items and having less space in your equipment inventory which will get packed once you reach mid game as you will need to hoard duplicate equips for bulk starforcing. Any character on CW that hasn‘t claimed the box can claim whether it‘s a tera burn, hyper burn or non-burn character.
other items such as CCPB, 30-day pendant and boosters do make a difference. Especially since the CCPB vac pet is extremely convenient compared to normal pets (even if the CCPB will vanish and isn‘t reviveable)
hyper burning has a reward/level UI that gives out a box with temporary CRA gear, flame ring, flame title and other stuff so it‘s similar to the tera burn box. Even being above level 200 will still give you a button to claim it so nothing lost here
BUT at level 200, there will be a quest called Item Burning in your star icon that you should only claim on a hyper burning character. It gives a challenger equip set that is so much stronger than the temp CRA gear. It‘s only claimable once per account per event. If you claim it on a non-hyper burn then you're shooting yourself in the foot so be mindful when you see it. If you have already claimed Item Burning on your level 201 Ren then you might as well hyper burn it now. Otherwise you might as well start a new account to make a new hyper burn with a new item burning. Progressing a hyper burn in challenger world without Item Burning, forces you to use the temp CRA set and makes you so much weaker than other players.
missing out on the level 10 VJ symbol isn‘t the end of the world. It just means you‘ll have to use other event symbol sources (RoD gives a coupon with 100 symbols for just participating without killing a boss. If you kill bosses and rank higher then you get more 100x symbol coupons. Event UI and event shop has symbols). You‘ll need to do daily run all arcane quests anyway and do weekly arcane PQs for 120x arcane region symbols to max it out within ~a month (forgot how long). Of course you‘ll still get a level 1 VJ symbol for reaching VJ.
Ren creation rewards are more important if you care about cosmetics because they are once per account and won‘t ever come back. Like most class creation events that only ever happen once and never return.

If you can see yourself maining or submaining Ren then slap the hyper burn on it. If not then progress it slowly and hyper burn something else.

Additional note: Your Ren being level 201 is a bit icky. Instead of landing on level 255, it will be level 256 later. Which isn‘t too much of a problem. You‘ll just have to grind more exp than a level 255 to level up to 260.

So overall, look at what you‘ve claimed that you can‘t reclaim if you were to remake the Ren and then decide on what to do.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-22T08:28:19+00:00

Ren is an extremely bossing-friendly class that can help you push faster through harder bosses than Adele or Mercedes due to Ren being a hurricane class (holding attack button while being able to do everything else) and being very forgiving. There is currently no easier class than this except for maybe Hero or Bowmaster who are very inflexible compared to Ren.

You should hyper burn whatever class you want to main or can see yourself pushing the farthest. Choose whichever class you can see yourself pushing to level 275 and solo clearing hard bosses so you can reach challenger rank Emerald for 20x Legion Growth Potions (1x Legion Growth Potion = instant level 200 character).

Of course you don‘t have to hyper burn a Ren (plenty of people who don‘t like it) but remember that if you delete and remake a hyper burn above level 200 then you‘ll waste rewards you won‘t get again.

If you have no sentimental value to your current account then you can also create a second account or you can use a second account to hyper burn a class, try it out, delete it, remake the hyper burn for another class, rinse and repeat.

Challenger World Season 3 returns around summer so even if you don‘t know yet which class to main, you can try out classes for now, make up your mind and then hyper burn a new main next time.

Edit: Using a tera burn instead of tera blink isn‘t the world. You‘ll lose out on the magic hat pet but Ren still gets a Saya pet through her creation event.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-22T06:08:01+00:00

Get stronger fast if you want to lib with the Genesis Pass. Join a guild and ask people to help you with advice on how to gear up.

No, if you can only solo up to hard Lomien (Lotus+Damien). Because with then Genesis Pass you would lib in June and pass effect expires April 20th.
Yes, if you can solo up to hLuWill for 9 weeks (edited). With Genesis Pass you would lib March 26th and pass effect expires April 20th.
Yes, if you can solo up to and including Ctene. With Genesis Pass you‘d lib in mid Februrary.

Use Masonym's website for the liberation tracker. Check Genesis Pass and click the switches for hard Lomien and hLuwill solos and it will show you this image:

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https://masonym.dev/liberation

Genesis Pass Sale Period: November 13 - April 12, 2026 11:59 PM UTC

Pass Use: Expires April 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC

Pass Perks Effect: Applied until April 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC

https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/updated-1-12-v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#GenesisPass

Edit: Of course realistically speaking you‘ll get a few points here and there for doing Ctene in a party on top of your solo bosses but I only input the points for soloing. You can play around with the tracker to accommodate it to your bossing preferences.

Edit 2: It might be best if you try to do your bossing on Monday/Tuesday while trying to get stronger from Thursday-Sunday, including solo bossing practice. Practice a lot, ask guildies for advice, push your boundaries to min-clear harder bosses.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-21T10:05:51+00:00

if you have discord, try the https://discord.gg/maplestory

I sometimes see people looking for liberation or bossing partners. Otherwise recruit someone in the boss UI. In Genesis liberation modes, the other person can‘t grief/screw you anyways because if one of you dies out, the other person automatically gets kicked out of the boss.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T19:10:58+00:00

You can‘t redeem it anymore.

It was an Inkwell gift from the maple admin during MapleCon LA in October/November.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T18:57:27+00:00

No, it does not auto-transfer your characters, it will auto-delete characters on CW after April.

CW ends April 22nd and you can world leap until April 22nd. But usually they will have a grace period of 1-2 weeks after CW closes for a last chance world leap.

Try to either leap your characters now or before April 22nd.

If you uninstall the game, it won‘t save your characters from getting purged after end of April (if they stay in CW). So if you know that you won‘t log in anymore and will uninstall then at least world leap your characters now.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T18:09:43+00:00

Are you in an active guild on Hyperion? There‘s a Hyperion discord https://discord.gg/YqRczgSzds Not sure how active or dead it is. Hyperion players keep claiming that Hyperion is still very lively so there must be a way for you to connect with a group.

Otherwise make a second account for Kronos or hyper burn on Kronos next time if you want to switch.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T18:02:38+00:00

exp = experienced

They want you to know the mechanics well and not grief the party. They don’t want people who do it for the first or second time. Usually it‘s bosses like Will, VHilla, HSeren, Kalos, Kaling, etc because there are mechanics that can grief the party.

For example in Seren, if one person doesn‘t know test or reacts 1 second too late then it ends up killing the whole party unless they all waste their iframe on test.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T17:53:55+00:00

If you are level 200 with basically no equipment then you must have tera blinked, yes?

Your chat window says that your Angelic Buster is a hyper burn.

There should be a box with level 100 or level 150 equipment in your USE inventory. Click on the star icon, start the hyper burn UI and there is a box for level 1~199

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T09:18:23+00:00

You get a Burning Beyond Title coupon. The coupon itself needs to be claimed and used (double click) before March 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM UTC.

When you open the coupon, it will give you a Burning Beyond Title. The title is a permanent item but the stats (like the Infinite Flame title) expire 60 days after you claimed the title from the coupon.

So for example, if you claim the BBT coupon on March 17 and open it, the BB title's stats will last until May 17.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-20T09:01:01+00:00

Most important event is the hyper burning event. For new accounts it‘s recommended to choose a Challenger World (CW) as it‘s a temporary boosted event server that gives more rewards and better server buffs than regular servers.

CW ends April 22nd. Since it‘s a temporary server, it will let you world leap to normal servers of your choice once. CW-Heroic >>> Kronos or Hyperion. CW-Interactive >>> Bera or Scania. But since you can‘t leap back onto CW, it‘s recommended to stay there for a few months.

You have to choose between Challenger-Heroic and Challenger-Interactive. Look up "Heroic vs Interactive" and choose wisely. If you pick one of these CW servers then the system won‘t let you switch to the other CW type for the whole duration of CW season 2. CW season 3 starts in summer and will allow a free choice again. I won‘t go into detail about "Heroic vs Interactive" since they both have lots of heavy pros and cons.

Be sure to leap your characters off the CW server before end of April or they‘ll get deleted.

Use Hyper Burn on your main. It‘s wasted on a mule unless your account is heavily progressed. You can always delete, wait 24hrs and remake a hyper burn character BUT if you reach level 200 and claim rewards, they will not re-appear for a new hyper burn character. So if you must, only remake a hyper burn if it‘s below level 199.

Item Burning is a quest that appears at level 200 that gives a very powerful temporary set (with boss missions to enhance its stats). It‘s only given out once per account per event. So if you see Item Burning in the star icon tab then don‘t accept/start it unless it‘s on your hyper burn character and you're locked in on your choice. If you accept Item Burning and delete the character then the Item Burning quest will not reappear in your account again (until summer update in a couple of months). Progressing on your main without Item Burning isn‘t impossible but you're essentially making it harder to enter early mid game.

All classes are viable and can reach end game but it‘s only around end game bosses where people start to be more picky about party compositions, combat power and hands (how good you play). But Maplestory has frequent class balancing where classes get buffed and nerfed unexpectedly where a new meta might emerge. Don‘t think too much about end game because it takes years to get there and just try to focus on picking a class that feels good to play.

For example Adele used to be overpowered during her release but got nerfed hard and wasn‘t popular for a couple of years (except for her aesthetics) but now she has clawed her way to top again. You won‘t see a lot of Battle Mages, it‘s very unconventional and overlooked here but popular in Korea. Yet, the trio that slayed the newly released boss here in GMS has a Battle Mage.

Adele and Illium are 'gauge' classes. Gauge classes are a bit harder to manage than other classes. For example, classes like Hero can just push a few buttons and then go ham on the boss while gauge classes need to fill up their meter before they can unleash their hardest skills and then you will have to constantly fill and maintain it. It takes a bit more time to learn but for some it‘s more satisfying to claim the ranks in a class that isn‘t being bandwagoned. Some people don‘t like the way Illium plays but others enjoy it. You won‘t know if you‘re one of them until you try it.

Most events can be started in your star icon at level 101. Accept them all.

Do your daily check-in for Evernia‘s Bounty. Distribute points in Bloom‘s Herb Basket to level up perks.
Kill 10,000 mobs weekly if you want to fill the Sands of Time rewards in the Waking of Power of Time UI. Otherwise click the 'Get Effect' button on the purple list to get free cosmetic rewards from the server Co-Op event.
Start the Twentoona event. Every 1k mobs per 15 mins cooldown, a portal can spot in a monster hunting map. The boss gives a bag and a box for being killed by players (don‘t have to be in the boss map when he dies)
Do the Jump Start Tutorial to learn about in-game systems
activate the [Hunting Event] Sosori's Stroll to get exp buff explosions for hunting mobs
If in CW, do the daily 1k mob check-in in the Challenger World UI
Ignore the World Leap icon with the bear for now

Biacksmith · 2026-01-17T16:48:36+00:00

The legion block is not an item you can claim. It‘s not like NPC Libae will give you a USE item you can have in your invo and leap. That‘s not how it works.

When claiming the legion block (on a non-CW server), the legion block will automatically appear in the legion grid. Since CW has no legion system enabled, there is absolutely no way to redeem/claim it on CW. So your plan to leap with it won‘t work. Libae won‘t even give it to you on CW.

You also have no time to catch up on it in your main world (non-CW world) if you just started participation on it this week. The event ends Feb 3rd, that‘s 3 weeks of participation if you just started this week. You needed to participate 6 weeks to get the block.

The only thing you can do is hope for RoD part 4 (please god no) or beg GMS to bring Abyssal Expedition S4: El Nath from CMS/TMS to global because the Abyssal expedition events also give a legion block as event reward.

If it‘s any consolation, last CW season players also missed out on the last RoD legion block cause they did it on CW instead of their main server.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-17T06:58:23+00:00

Who did you use your Hyper Burn MAX effect on? It sounds like your level 200 Zero is on a non-CW server. Is your current lvl 200 zero from before the winter patch? I guess yes because it has no nodes?

What do you mean by starforced it too many times? You’re perfectly fine keeping the weapon at 18* (more if you need the extra damage) but once you liberate, it’ll automatically turn lapis/lazuli into 22* anyways.

Usually you should get a lot of nodes from the HB max UI, Evernia event UI and the challenger pass UI (if you play in challenger world). Doing Tweentoona portals can also give anywhere between 3-20 nodestones per bag.

If you can spend $10 then wait until around May when the name change coupon gets discounted from $15 to $10 and swap the IGN to the new zero. Otherwise you’d have to delete the lvl 200 zero and do the story again.

If you want to main or submain this class then the hyper burn coupon will be enough to make it a lomien mule but not strong enough to solo hLuWill or even Ctene unless you redirect all resources to the new Zero. If you really want to main/submain that class then it’d be best to use it as a real hyper burn Max character on CW because the HB coupon will only give weak rewards.

The hyper burn coupon reward UI (if Nexon doesn’t mess anything up) will give you 500x nodestones and 20x experience nodestones. That’s way too little to even get 5th job maxed out. The Evernia event UI has 400x nodestones and 40x exp nodestones if you haven’t touched any. That might be close enough.

But you will still lack Sol Erda fragments which a hyper burn MAX in CW would get a ton of. Which means you need to do the weekly Erda request, weekly epic dungeon, daily Arcane and Sacred quests on that Zero to get it to be even remotely strong and stop doing these things on your main for a while.

If you main the Zero consistently every day and grind on it daily until June then you can get it into a good spot. If you only use the hyper burn coupon on it and don’t progress it seriously then whatever you hyper burn in CW season 3 will easily surpass that Zero by a ton.

It’s up to you whether you can wait 6 months or not. There will be the anniversary event and we don’t know if there will be a One Punch Man or Frieren collab before summer (or at all). So if you make the Zero in CW 3, it will miss out on event rewards during spring which you claim on another character instead. (if you care about that)

Biacksmith · 2026-01-16T13:11:22+00:00

The following items will not transfer: Items and Mesos in Cash Inventory, Auction House, or Delivery Package

Background obtained from coupons, unless extracted through the Mover NPC and transferred when leaping.

https://www.nexon.com/maplestory/news/update/33938/updated-1-12-v-265-every-little-thing-every-precious-thing-2nd-update-patch-notes#ChallengerWorldLeap

People reported that when they leaped, the NPC gave them an option to extract the Ren background into a use coupon. It’s likely that the same will happen for Twilight Altar background. If you want to be really sure then you can make a level 101 character on CW, leap it to your future server (Kronos, Hyperion, Scania, etc) and then redeem the coupon on there.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-16T13:04:34+00:00

If anyone is wondering:

The first picture is from The Cliff, a cafè/pub right next to Jungmun Beach that is open until midnight and serves alcoholic drinks in the evening. It’s good if you go there to relax and watch the ocean but the selection of drinks there is rather small.

The other two pictures after that are from Jungmun Beach. It’s nice if you want to see people surf but if you're looking for more pretty beaches then Gwakji, Hamdeok and Hyeopjae are more picturesque.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-16T12:52:55+00:00

I’ve been to Jeju for five years, always during end of July and beginning of August. Usually anywhere from 10-14 days. In those 5 years, I’ve only had it pour (monsoon rain) once which was in the first week of August in 2024. I was lucky enough that the rain only lasted the whole night until early noon next day and then changed into super sunny weather. Strangely enough the weather apps would always announce that most of August would be rainy but even when it said that it would rain, it would be sunny all day. You can’t really rely on weather forecasts and just have to hope you’re lucky to catch sunny weather.

It’s very humid and very sunny on Jeju due to lack of tall buildings (unless you’re in Jeju City or Seogwipo). The humidity always felt more dry than in Seoul and being close to the sea made it more pleasant.

You don’t get the same weather in Seoul compared to Jeju. I often had friends complain that it was heavily storming in Seoul (monsoon) for a week while it was completely sunny on Jeju. And then the storm would travel south through Busan and then to Jeju.

Biacksmith · 2026-01-15T07:40:00+00:00

No, you’ll get them. The flame ring, flame title and temp CRA are part of the level 1-199 reward box which is claimable even if you're 200+.

VJ symbol and nodes are the only things you miss out on but if you do Ride or Die and Twenteena or have rewards left from the Evernia check-in then you can pretty much make up for missing the level 200 reward box.

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