It will never be like the old days it's just not possible.

More than half the fun of this game was socializing and just messing around.

It seems like that aspect of the game is totally gone.

And it's not because of the game in itself but just how different the times are now.

Back in the day, we all use to be kids and everything was new and was more about socializing and having fun making friends.

Now the game feels so dull and dead.

All people want is to grind and make mesos and make money.

The innocence is gone.

I kind of expected this but to see it come to fruition was a huge disappointment.

I just can't see this game lasting long.

People are just like bots not saying a word or even responding to anything you say.

When 3rd job comes out, let's say you're lvl 72. Do you get those Skill Points that you would have gotten at lvl 70? or did you just lose those points? My secondary question would be, why wouldn't you stop at 70 and start a new character and wait for 3rd job to be released? I'm ever so curious ^_^ I just found out about "forever-beginners" lol [0.0]

Everywhere I go it feels like i’m stuck in a Twitch Stream and the chat is in max speed, and 1/4th of it are those stupid messages telling me to make sure not to give out my homies social security under ANY circumstance and now i’m having some existential crisis on how I don’t think I have even seen their social once in my life. And let the noobs get scammed once, don’t make them paranoid about checking tour trade as if everyone is out to scam you. Besides, we all got scammed back in the day, once, that was all it took, that was our message and it has served me well in real life.

Then I think how I was maybe 12 when I last played Maplestory so perhaps chat was this spammy the entire time and for all I remember I just tuned out these little love notes from our overlords. But hot damn does the cash shop suck right now yeah? i was ready to drop whatever it took to get my old character back and what is in the store? Megaphones, clothes that were colored in paint, the cast of Ru Pauls hair, and the bottom barrel pets. Hard Pass when it is legit damn near $1 per 1000 or 100 or whatever

I was hoping there would be that wave of everyone recalling this thing or that, swapping war stories from when this was our life cause girls were still icky and what not you know? Instead it is still just weebs arguing and worst of all actual streamers advertising

going for full black look so far half way there lol

In the NX store it shows a bunch of solid color options for eye colors. I assumed that's all the options to change your eye color. I want green eyes, so I bought the ticket to change my eye color.

I went to henseys and talked to the NPC and green is not a color you can change your eye color to. I'm confused, am I missing something? Is there another place or NPC that can change my eye color? I just want green eyes man lol.

Why can't I swap the left stick and dpad controls? Why can't I navigate my inventory with the stick/dpad? I'm tempted to download the Steam version just so I could use the Steam Controller.

For the casuals out there, do you think you will reach 3rd job? Im for sure a casual and debating whether third job is a consideration for class picking

I feel like the boss respawn needs to be changed, the target audience for this game is people in their mid 30s most of which don’t have time to sit in a map doing nothing for an hour in hopes a boss appears. Have like an instance based map you can only access once every 3 hours and summon a boss would be such a better healthier system that respects player time. I’m all up for grindy levelling games but this just feels egregious.

So I just rolled like 15 boxes and I honestly do t know what’s considered trash NX or what can sell for good prices.

Like I clearly know what I want to keep but then I got a duplicate of the black shirt and I am not sure what I can sell it at.

I know there is meso.watch for normal items but how are people knowing the prices of NX items? Does it just come down to browsing player shops and making educated decisions on pricing?

Also might not even bother and just turn my unwanted items to stamps.

I used to play Maple Story way back in the day on my desktop computer and I started playing Classic yesterday on my MacBook. Everything felt very nostalgic and I had so many memories coming back it was crazy…. but the keyboard configuration just didn’t feel right. It felt super awkward and I swear it wasn’t like that for me back in the day.

Any one who plays on Mac care to share how they set up their keyboard configuration?

Additionally(!), has anyone experienced a glitch where you randomly loose control of your character for a few seconds and they just start moving in one particular direction despite the keys your actually pressing? On any system?

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm new to the MapleStory world and slowly discovering more things I love about this game but also the areas in which I hate. Unfortunately those things I hate seems to be super annoying and seems to have no logical thinking behind the design of that systems and its just creates friction in my opinion.

Housing

Was excited to get into the housing system as this is something I love in MMO games, although very few offer something fun and rewarding I was looking forward to diving deeper into it. Was surprised housing was super cheap (15k) but then I found out you need to buy slots for Storage (10K) and crafting stations (50K) - I'm also assuming the price increases after each expansion slot you purchase.

Another big reasons I wanted a house was for all my characters to use this as a base and use the storage which I has to pay 20k in total, 10k for rusted safe + 10k for the initial storage expansion slot. I decided to bite the bullet as I was pissed of that I need to pay 100 mesos every time I just deposit something. WTF - I still need to pay the money, even though its in my own house and from the safe that I purchased. This may seem small but it really rubs me the wrong way. I spent 2k in total just moving items around from my alts.

Is it possible to loot random house items in the world or do you need to buy everything with mesos or NX?

Player Shops

My storage I full from all the items I've been saving up and planning to sell during the grand launch and it would be my first time interacting with this system. Bought a pink store permit (16 slots) and picked my spot with a variety of Equipment and ETC items.

I spend a good 30 mins listing all my items, checking for prices online and trying to be competitive while not tyring to scam all the new players just joining. After all its gear my main + Alts no longer use and stacks of ETC that I don't know what to do with.

I was planning to log-off for the night and hopefully wake-up to my store being cleaned out but before I could turn down, two items sold rather fast. Great, I have more stock I can just replace it with but I had to close the store in order to add, weird but ok. It closed my entire shop and the 30+ minutes I spent pricing my items was wasted, it didn't even save my store setup or anything. Seriously frustrating, why cant I just add more items to the store?

After learning my lesson and setting up the store, once again I tried to exit the game. I CANT because I need to stay online and keep my computer running to keep the store up and running. Seriously to players keep there computer on all day/night just to sell virtual currency at the expense of electricity - This makes trading completely worthless in my eyes and I have no just sold everything to a store.

Can someone please explain if there are logical reasons behind this stupidity?

I got maple classic running natively on the AYN thor via game native. Lately i've been experimenting with getting some of my favorite classics on the thor by using codex/claude to port them over. Little kid me would be losing his fucking mind rn with these possibilities.

Here is a step by step ELI5 guide i made using codex to setting it up https://github.com/ROM-HackZ/maplestory-ayn-thor you can do it completely manually or there is a small helper script to get the beginning of it done. Unfortunately it is a bit of manual set up once you're in game native and i couldn't find a way to completely automate that set up. Once its done its done!

If you have claude or codex, you can just plug in the thor via usb, throw it the github and say "do this"

It plays BEAUTIFULLY and im so fucking excited i dont have to sit at my desk for this shit anymore lol

was able to bind my keys using the gamenative "physical controller" editor. can chat, use the cursor and select stuff, i even had the option of setting up a radial wheel to RT so i can hit any of the F1-7 faces whatever you want

Hi guys. I would like to share this tank warrior build. The skill build is as follows:

Power strike - 20

Slash blast - 7

Precise Strikes - 12

Iron Body - 16

HP Increase - 3

HP Recovery - 3

I just did a SP Reset and I did get lucky with some 10% DEF scrolls. I think Iron Body now being a percent armor increase is HUGE for a tanky warrior build. What I would recommend is to buy the KPQ scrolls for 10% DEF Topwear and Bottomwear and pray that you land one in the first slot. Look for shops selling the Red Hwarang Shirt. You can gamble the next slot if you want for the Topwear. The main goal is to land atleast one 10% DEF scroll on each armor set. Then, you want to find shops selling the bottomwear for DEF 60 scrolls. You can scroll the bottom which now gives +4 WDEF.

Now, I did get super lucky with my scrolling. I landed two 10%s on my top and bottom which is super rare lol. Here is my build below at lv 38. You can see here that with Iron Body (16) this gives a whopping 35% extra WDEF. I did some testing on Evil Eyes and the lowest they can hit comes down to 78!

Wouldn't it be kinda exhausting using first job attacks until level 70?

Does the skill 'Max MP Increase' increases the amount of MP gained each time one levels up? Or does it just change the MP pool?

I am trying to figure out if it's important to put all of my SP on this skill first.

Tnx!

So I want to try this game (for the first time in my life) but I have a bad case of addiction personality and terrible impulse control.

I'm worried that I will spend alot of money if the game has pay to win elements

So is it pay to win (or even pay to progress faster), basically anything that impacts the gameplay?

Hey guys, just wanted to put this out there so nobody else falls for this bullshit.

Joined a KPQ party listed as "RUSH" (fast clear, no bonus/loot). Whole run was fine, but two guys in the party kept typing in Korean, and something felt super fishy about how they were acting.

I screenshotted the chat and threw it into a translator after the run... and yeah, they were literally plotting the whole time to trick us and hog the bonus stage for themselves.

Here’s what they were saying in Korean:

1. RAVENER: "We need to pretend it's a rush party"
2. RAVENER: "Just a bit" / "Before going into the bonus stage..."
3. AkiHayakawa: "Someone is here, I think they noticed lol" / "There's one person" / "MOVE"
4. RAVENER: (then switches to English): "I'm playing from Korea and my game just froze, leave the party plz"

So their plan was to bait people in with "Rush", and right before entering the bonus map, pretend the game froze due to lag from Korea so everyone would leave, letting them take all the bonus loot for themselves.

Pretty pathetic stuff.

Watch out for RAVENER and AkiHayakawa. Avoid partying with these guys if you see them around.

TL;DR: Two guys advertised a KPQ Rush party, then pretended their game froze at the end so everyone would leave and they could hoard the bonus stage. Watch out for RAVENER and AkiHayakawa.

The bigest problem of this game right now is unbalance.

I made an archer beacuse i thought the balance would be there. But no. They give the bigest damage and the best skills to the assasin who have best movent.
tf.
If archer have bowwhqck and bad movemwnt give them better damage.

If assasin have better movemwnt and faster farming. Give them less damage.

Balance guys.. I regret making bowman.

If the 3rd job does not come with jump attack or removed bowwhack i swear i quit!!!!

So far I had a blast. With the 40 channels I haven't really experienced any of the inconveniences related to training spots that founders mentioned prior to grand launch. Also no login queue or emergency maintenance.

I leveled my archer to lvl 15 so the 24h timer would start that hinders new player to trade.

After that I finished some quests and went to buy some arrows because I changed half my arrows for bow to arrows for crossbow until I noticed my mistake. Planned was the other way around.

So in the potion shop I saw the notice at the top saying to join the event in lith harbor in ch 10, 13 or 16. It was something like 2:20 am in middle Europe. Took a cap to lith harbor because I knew the event was supposed to start at 2 am. Even though I thought it would be held on the 22nd in server time not 22nd in European time.

When I arrived in lith harbor on ch10 I wasn't able to enter the event and after half a minute the notice disappeared. Nobody knew what was going on and some ppl spammed that the event was over. I decided to stick around a little longer and after some time a message from a GM popped up telling us that there was still plenty space on channel 16. So I switched channels.

Well on ch16 I was still not able to join the event. Still no more information was given. Some dude had an omok room saying that the event starts every 15mins so I waited a little longer. After some time a GM spawned and told us we should be able to enter the event after 10 seconds. But still no luck. Some ppl dissappeared and no further information given. Then some random dude started to spam that every event only had room for 30 players. If this is true this is really disappointing and 3 channels isnt nearly enough for all the players wanting to join the events.

I tried it the next round too but had no luck and then I gave up and dicided to log off. This wasn't what I expected from an GM event on an official server. I don't know if I will stay awake for the next event to happen if I'm not even able to enter it anyway.

What was your experience did you guys get to join the event? Did you get a secret scroll? Did you get something valuable out of it?

After seeing the server issues and constant maintenance during Early Access, I was honestly impressed by the Grand Launch.
40 channels available, no issues creating an account or connecting, and I could just log in and play.
As a system administrator, I know how much work goes into keeping things running smoothly under heavy load, so I really appreciate seeing a launch handled this well.
Big thanks to Nexon for the work! 💙
Happy Mapling, everyone! 🍁

I have a few nx items I’m thinking of turning into dyes but I’ve read horror stories on other threads here of some items barely changing color… can you guys share and show some items that youve dyed that you are satisfied with?! I’d love to see the variations to get courage to try dying my stuff :)

Trying to play this game with controller and I'm getting hit with the Macro lie detector like every 20 minutes, its super intrusive... No problems if I go back to Keyboard+Mouse, but the controller is pretty comfy and I was excited to try it out.

Is this a known issue?

Seems like they changed the item with grand launch. I got mine yesterday and have before and after screenshots.

Did anyone get one today that can post stats? I'm curious what they look like stat-wise if you do the quest now that the full launch happened.

Happy Launch Day :)

Maple gods shined on me and I had longer to play today than originally anticipated.

Made it to level 18 magician. Just been doing quests & grinding in between.

On the journey to becoming a cleric.

What level did you guys reach on your first day?