A painfully detailed guide to Maplestory

Overview

Guide for returning/new players alike.

Foreword

This is my first time making a guide, so I hope it’s not too bad. I would’ve never thought of making a guide, especially a Maplestroy guide at that. But here I am. If you have any feedback I’d be open to hearing it. As long as it constructive feedback that I can work with.

I’d like to make it VERY clear that I am no expert in Maplestory, I am just here guide you to the right direction in Maplestory, that’s all. No pun intended. Everything after that is a journey and adventure on your own. I will try to update this guide as much as possible and keep it up to date. If you have any questions feel free to ask me in the comments section.

I will also try to make a less detailed version of this guide, for those who need a quick guide.

Sadly people tend to forget this, so I’ll start by saying this; DO NOT FORGET THAT THIS IS A GAME AND GAMES ARE MEANT TO BE FUN. THIS GAME IS NOT A RACE, IT’S A MARATHON. YOU’RE NOT COMPETING WITH ANYONE HERE. KEEP THAT IN MIND AND PLAY AT YOUR OWN PHASE.

Intro

Before we begin, I want all returning players to throw everything they knew about this game out of the window. The reason being that Maplestory is a completely different game from back then. Lots has changed since then, whether you like it or not. Maplestory can be overwhelming at times, there’s so much you can do and that often leads into demotivation. Don’t let that stop you though, after more experience and maybe after this guide, hopefully you will have a better understanding over everything. This guide will be a lot to take in. Take it a step at a time, at your own phase. Even if you have to come back several times to this guide. You can always ask me if you don’t understand something, I’ll be more than happy to help you.

Now that everyone is a “new player” in this regard let’s begin.

MapleStory is a premier side-scrolling MMORPG! Most MMOs transport you to fantastical worlds, but only MapleStory sends you to a retro, 2D universe that recalls the golden age of gaming.

Choose from over forty unique classes, from warriors and magicians to pirates and ninjas. Join millions of other players on an adventure of epic proportions as you hunt down the villainous Black Mage. Interact with dozens of colorful NPCs or form a guild with your friends. The possibilities are nearly endless, and new content is regularly added in thrilling updates. MapleStory may look cute, but don’t judge a book by its cover. Its challenging gameplay will put even seasoned veterans to the test.

Note: I will leave some useful link that other people/creators have made at the end. So even if you don’t care about this guide I would still recommend those links as they can help you a lot. Naturally all credit goes to those people who made those links.

Regions & worlds:

The very first thing you get when you start is which region you want to play in. It’s either; 1. North America or 2. Europe. Depending of which region you choose your experience will slightly change. I will get into that in a second.

Now what do we have?
Below you will find the two regions you can choose from & the worlds within those regions.

1. North America
   • Scania
   • Bera
   • Aurora
   • Elysium
   • Reboot
2. Europe
   • Luna
   • Reboot

The biggest difference in these two regions is the amount of players. This can either be a pro or a con, depending on your preference. NA being more populated than EU.

Sidenote; I’ve been playing NA even though I’m EU. Because of the fact that I have people on NA to play with, I can’t speak on EU since I don’t really have played on it(as of lately). I am sure EU is lots of fun too. (The latency on NA isn’t that bad for me.)

Depending on which region you chose the outcome of the worlds will be different. Let’s start with EU since it only has 2 regions. But before we start about worlds within each region you need to know the difference between a regular server and a “Reboot” server.

A “Reboot” server is a server where “p2w(pay2win)” features are removed. What does that mean? It means that everything you can buy with real life money to progress faster in the game is removed. Instead of that they made it to where you can buy those things with ingame money instead of real life money. But the trade off is, that you can’t trade with other people. No pun intended.

Reboot also has additional exp and meso drop rates. Meaning you will level up faster and gain more money ingame. This is a given because everything in this world cost ingame money. So you’ll be needing lots of it. At first this sound good on paper/sounds easier. But in reality this is and will be harder when you are a new player. The reason is that because you can’t trade you can’t progress further if you’re stuck. No new gear, no better potions etc. One of the other changes in this server is that you can have more than one profession. Unlike regular worlds, where you can only have one. I will go further into details about what a profession is later in this guide.

Note; that cosmetic items are still purchased through real life money. Keep that in mind.

Sidenote; there are a lot of botters(hackers) in this world. Making it sometimes impossible to play(because of no training spots). But this only applies to higher level areas. You won’t have to worry about it until very late. I do not know too much of this and neither do I know what Nexon has done to prevent this. Keep that in mind if you if you really want to play in this server. I’d suggest doing a more research for this world.

EU has two worlds to offer. One being the Reboot we just talked about and the other being a regular server called; “Luna”. This is the only regular server, unlike NA who has more than 1 regular server. EU used to have more worlds but they all merged into one, due to the fact that the worlds were underpopulated, making Luna the only world left. With this in mind, EU is a less populated region making it more calmer than NA. If you want a more calmer experience I’d recommend EU. The reason why this is a pro is because if you want to train in a spot it’s less likely to be taken by another person. A con, depending on your perspective, is that there are less people to interact with.

So unlike EU, NA has more regular worlds to choose from. And same as EU, it has Reboot in it. And this being more populated than EU means that this Reboot server will have more botters((hackers)but again, I do not know of this too much. So do your own research). You have more variety to choose from. NA has less populated worlds and also populated worlds. A bit of both, as it should be. Balanced. Out of all these worlds Bera is the most populated. Most streamers either play in Reboot or Bera. So if you want to play with streamers I’d recommend playing in one of those worlds(again I wouldn’t recommend Reboot, unless you know what you are doing). But if you don’t there are plent of worlds to choose from. But keep in mind that the more players in a server, means less training spots will be available but more gear you can buy from other players. So it’s a pro and a con. This goes the other way for less populated worlds, more trainingspots less gear to trade. And depending on which world you choose the economy will be different too. If there are more people, more people will sell the same stuff, making those items less valued. The other way around in less populated worlds. Less people means less items and that means higher prices.

I personally play in Bera, so if you need anyone to play with I’m more than happy to play with you. My recommendation depends on what you like. But I would for sure recommend NA as a region. Due to the fact that you have more options. Even if you are from EU, the latency isn’t that bad. Aside from the region I would recommend Bera, but do go to a less populated server if you don’t want to play with a lot of people. With that in mind I would recommend either Aurora or Elysium. Aurora being my first choice.

FAQ #1

So now that you have chosen a region and a world, what now? Now you can choose a class to play the game with.

There are two events that help you level your character extremely fast. These events are called burning events. Make sure you make use of these events as it’s extremely easy to level.

Burning events let’s you level 3 each normal level. Meaning if you would normally level 1 time, instead you leve 3 times. So from level 10 > 11 > 13. How do you acces a burning event? Well that depends on when the event is running. Only when this event is active can you make a burning character. And only a brand new character can be a burning character. Does burning last forever? Yes and no. Yes being that after the burning is done you get to keep your character. No being that you character will no longer level 3 times instead of 1 and will go back to the usual 1:1 levels. Does burning have a limit? Yes Burning has a limit. As I mentioned before there are two burning events. One goes till lv. 150. And the other one goes till lv. 200. 150 being Mega Burning and 200 being Tera Burning.

Note: That in this event you can get a lot of goodies. I.e. good gear and other various items. Make good use of these and these events.

Generally there are 5 types of classes.

1. Warrior
2. Mage
3. Pirate
4. Bowman
5. Assassin

Each of those classes have their sub-classes and those some of those sub-classes have their own sub-classes. That’ll make sense in a minute. So let me explain that. Let’s take the ancient explorer class for example. If you choose to make an explorer you can choose within that class what you want to become. You can choose one of the above mentioned classes. Let’s say you want to become a Warrior. You job advance into a warrior. But within that warrior job class, there are 3 different ways you can choose. Dark Knight, Hero or a Paladin. Depending on what kind of warriro you want you can choose between those three. Dark Knight being a Spear/Pole Arm user. A Hero being a Sword&shield/Two-handed Sword/Axe&shield/Two-handed Axe user. And lastly Paladin being a Sword&shield/Two-handed Sword/Blunt weapon&shield/Two-handed Blunt weapon user. And the same goes for Mages, Pirates, Bowmans & Assasins. But not all classes have these type of sub-classes. For example a Mihile is a warrior. But he can’t choose between other warriors because his job is also a Mihile. Unlike Explorers they have warrior class and Dark Knight, Hero & Paladin as jobs.

Before you make a class there are a few things to point out. Just like any MMORPG, there are classes to choose from. Meaning there will be a class “better” than one another. But this is a stupid way of choosing your class. Never, and I mean never, choose a class based on this. Unlike a MOBA where you playing META will give you advantage over another player, here that wont be it. Mainly because of the fact that this game isn’t a PVP game. And just as I stated in the intro, this game is NOT A RACE. NOT A COMPETITION. So choose a class YOU LIKE. Not because it’s “better”/”META” or because someone else tells you that class “sucks”.

That being said there are some classes that are “essential” to make.

Which classes are “essential” and why?

Let’s start with the why. Why are they essential you ask? Because they change the fundamental of how you play this game. Depending on the class, it can change how your main plays. The reason why you need these classes are they buff your main class. How? Because of a thing called “link skills”. Link skills lets you give a fixed skill of that class to another class. Each class has their own fixed link skill, that you can’t change. Let’s take a Mercedes(archer type class) for example. Her link skill is “Elven Blessing”. Her link skill allows you to gain more %EXP. So it’s easier to level. And that’s one of the many link skills you can get. You can give that to any of your other classes. This is why it’s important to make lots of other classes, solely for that purpose. To buff up your main. But to be able to get these “link skills” you have to have that specific class to at least level 70. There are usually 3 levels of a link skill. First level unlocks at lv. 70, to be able to be used by other classes. After that the second level will be unlocked at lv. 120. And last but not least at lv. 210. Usually level 2 is enough as you start.

So which classes would I recommend for links skills?

First and foremost I would say wait for a Burning Event. So it’s easier to level them and get their link skills.

As of which I would recommend? A Mercedes, just as I said in my example, her link skill is essential. To be able to level faster is a godsend.

So first and foremost I would recommend Mercedes(you don’t say). Lv. 120 should be enough for now. As wel as every other link skill until you either reach a wall or when you’re reaching end game. Secondly I would recommend Aran & Evan. As these three classes have EXP boosting link skills. But feel free to skip Aran & Evan. There are others that have a bigger impact on your gameplay than these, but for the time being leveling is your focus untill you reach 200. Besides it’s good to have EXP based link skills so if you make more characters you can level them up more quickly.

For all other classes link skills, go here[docs.google.com]. There you can see not only the link skills but also the Legion.

What is Legion?

Much like Link Skills, Legion is a grid system buff for your whole world. It’s a bit like Tetris, Legion being the grid and your characters are the blocks. And much like Link Skills each class gives their own fixed stat. Your character will be graded according to your lv. The higher the level of the character the higher the grade. For example a SS grade is linked to lv. 200+ and so on. And with that grade comes their own “Tetris” block. Just like how to grade gets better as the level gets higher, the block also gets bigger as the level of your character increases. And just like the fixed stats from the characters the Legion grid also gives bonus stats. You can see the legion in the above mentioned link, along with the link skills.

How should I choose my main?

This all depends on what you like. Who you think looks cool. Because your first character will always be a gamble. You have no idea how each class plays, and each class is different from one another. You can always look at a DPS chart and say; “yeah, I want the strongest class”. But do you really want that? What’s the fun in that? Like I said in the beginning, and I really can’t state this enough, this game is meant to have fun not to be the strongest, nor is it a race/competition of who is better/stronger. Play who you like and who you enjoy playing as. If that’s a Pirate, YARR away.

With that being said if you still want to be the strongest I will link a DPS chart below. I can’t stop you, but I can make it easier for you to find. That’s what this guide is about.

If you really aren’t sure or if you think multiple are cool looking I would recommend a channel called; “https://www.youtube.com/user/KyoWantsCute“. He is a Maple content creator and goes over all the classes and their skills. So you can get a general idea of how each class plays and how they look like and if it’s for you or not.

You can go to his channel by clicking https://www.youtube.com/user/KyoWantsCute

Sidenote; KyoWantsCute plays on Bera.

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FAQ #2

Now that you created your character and have gone through the tutorial. You start your STORY in the Maple world. Now there’s two ways to play this game. You either skip all the quests and go straight to grinding or you explore the Maple world and embark on various quest to explore the story. If you choose the latter I have to warn you that it will be a painful journey and that lots of quests are outdated but that doesn’t mean that their not interesting. Especially when you are a new player. You get to explore the Maple world and see what it has to offer. And just as I stated previously. TAKE THIS GAME ON YOUR OWN PHASE. TAKE YOUR TIME WITH IT AND HAVE FUN. That being said regardless of what you choose there are some quests that are worth doing.

Note; Some classes have their own storyline, which you have to do in order to do certain stuff. Like job advancement. I will talk about this in the paragraph below.

Regarding the job advancement’s there was four job advancements, but that all changed and now there are five job advancements in total. The job advancements goes as follows;

1. st job advancement = Lv. 10
2. nd job advancement = Lv. 30
3. rd job advancement = Lv. 60
4. th job advancement = Lv. 100
5. th job advancement = Lv. 200

• BiS = Best in Slot
• MVP xx:35 ard/cyg = EXP buff at xx:minutes Ardentmill or Cygnus boss
• SF = Starforce
• FZ = Frenzy(increases the spawn rate of mobs in that map)
• FS = Firestarter(increases the burning stage % inside a map)
• AH = Auction House(previously called FM(Free Market))
• POT = Potential
• BPOT = Bonus Potental
• CDHAT = A helm with cooldown reduction(CDR) as potential
• CC = Change Channel/Current Channel
• CS = Cash Shop

What are theme dungeons?
Theme dungeons is a quest-line that gives you various rewards. Some are good some are bad. That’s why it’s important to know which ones to do and which ones not to do. Theme dungeons take a long time to complete due to the fact that the story of the quest-line is long. It can take around two hours each, maybe even more if you don’t know what to do. That’s why I will always recommend watching a walk-through for the most efficient way of clearing the dungeon. As it can cut down on how long you spend for each dungeon.

What is a burning stage/map?
A burning stage/map is a map with 0-100% bonus EXP. These stages begin from maps that are lv. 100 above. You wont encounter these stages on maps with mobs below lv. 100.

What is a rune?
Runes spawn on most maps after being in the map for a certain amount of time. Most of the time they’re already spawned. You can use these runes to get a +100% EXP buff. Which lasts for 180 seconds. You can activate them with NPC chat. A rune has a cooldown of 15 minutes.

What are EXP orbs?
You get EXP orbs by getting chain kills. If you get a combo of 50, 100, 150, 200 etc. you get a EXP orb. These orbs, as stated, give EXP when walked through it. The amount of EXP varies as you get a higher combo count. There’s no cooldown to this EXP orb thing. It just works with combos. You have to kill them successfully back to back without leaving too much time in between to get it to work.

What are potentials?
Potentials are bonus stats on an item. Not all items have potentials. Potentials are gained by a potential scroll or comes with the item itself when dropped by a monster. Potentials have four tiers. Rare, Epic, Unique and Legendary(Legendary being the best rank you can get). Each with their own color, indicating which rank it is. Rare being Blue, Epic being Purple, Unique being Yellow and Legendary being Green. The better the rank the better the bonus stat is.

What are inner abilities?
Inner abilities unlock when you reach lv. 70. Much like the potentials, It’s a RNG based system to get bonus stats. With the same ranks and the same colors. Each class has their own BiS.

What is Starforce?
Starforce is the amount of stars you have on your equipment. Each star adds a lot of stats to the equipment, the higher the stars the better the stats. But it comes at a cost, one being it costs a lot of mesos, the higher the equipment the more it costs. And the other one being that the chances of success decreases after each star. And at later stages of SF you can destroy your equipment’s upon failure.

What is Transfer hammer?
Transfer hammer allows you to recover or move your stars from One Piece of an equipment to another. I.e. just like mentioned here above if you fail your SF you will “boom” your equipment. You need the same equipment to transfer it over. But you can also use it to transfer the SF to a better piece of equipment. The requirements are as followed; you need an equipment that is within 10 levels and must be the same type of equipment/same type of class. Meaning if you want to transfer all your stars it needs to be from Warrior to Warrior, 2h-sword to 2h-sword and lastly from 110 to 120, 120 to 130, 130 to 140 and so on.

Auction House(AH) is what’s formerly known as “Free Market” but easier. AH let’s you sell items with ease and let’s you buy items with ease too. Good way to find gear and other items you need. You can also check how much each item is being sold for, so you can sell it around that price range.

Dailies are daily things you do ingame. I.e. Bossing, Ursus, Monster Park, Maple Tour etc.
Weeklies are weekly things you do in the game. I.e. Dark Tree & Haven, Hard bosses.

Ursus is a daily 18 member party boss run that gives you a lot of mesos. Mesos double when it’s a specific time. I don’t know this exact time because my time will be different from yours. That’s because I’m from the EU and our timezones differ. You can only use abilities till 4th job in this boss run. The more dmg you do the more mesos you get. You get a rank based on your dmg. Your rank isn’t only affected by the dmg though, it’s also affected if you revive members etc.

MP is a daily dungeon where you go in and clear stages, with the last stage having a boss, and get tons of fixed EXP. So 2x EXP buff won’t work here. You can do this a total of 7 times, where 3/7 are free entree. The other entree’s you have to pay for with RP(Rewards points) and/or NX cash. In Reboot you can buy these with mesos.

MT is a daily dungeon where you go in and clear stages, with the last stage having a boss, and get tons of fixed mesos that counts up after each full run. You can claim the mesos after 1 week to be exact. Meaing you have to wait seven days to get your reward. You can claim it earlier than that but you will get less mesos this way. You can do this a total of 7 times, 2 times being free. The other entree’s you have to pay for with RP(Rewards points) and/or NX cash. In Reboot you can buy these with mesos.

RP is gained through beating bosses. You can get these points daily but will expire after a month. You can buy various items, that restock each month, in the CS with RP.

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FAQ #3

A familiar is a monster that you can use in battle. You get these familiars by monster drops. Not all monsters drop a familiar card. Familiars are a lot like potentials. Each familiar gets a potential. COMMON, RARE, EPIC, UNIQUE & LEGENDARY. Legendary being a payed option. So for this instance well talk up to Unique. Familiar cards have a chance to be one of these ranks. Common being the most common out of those, again no pun intended. You can alternatively rank up the familiars by combining 100 of the same familiar into one and getting that same familiar to lv. 5. You can level familiars by having them out in battle and grinding. Max level of a familiar is lv. 5. Once you reach those requirements you can level them up. By leveling them up you have a chance to increase their ranks. But by doing this you reset the potential on the familiar. So make sure don’t have a good potential on it. There is no way to reset the potential on a familiar other than to rank it up. So once you’ve reached the max, in this case being unique, unless you want to pay for legendary, you have to start all over again with a new familiar. Leveling it up to 5 and fusing 100 of the same into one. That being said the potential are really good. You can get %IED(Ignore Enemy Defense), %Boss DMG, increase meso and drop rate etc. The amount goes up at each rank. So 10% IED on RARE up to 30% IED on unique, for example. The numbers given just now aren’t accurate, just for an example purpose.

Grinding

Most of the tutorial quests will level you up to lv. 30. If not I would recommend doing a few quests up until lv. 30. At lv. 30 you can get your second job of your class, to unlock this you have to do a quest. Usually these quests are easy and you don’t really have to do anything beforehand, but some classes you have to complete the storyline to be able to job advance. You unlock more skills and get stronger. At lv. 30 I would suggest doing theme dungeons till around lv. 55. This is the easiest way to level up for that specific level and you will get good rewards out of those theme dungeons. These items will get you a long way. Until about lv. 100/130. There are a few theme dungeons that Maplestory itself recommends. You can access these quest recommendations by a key-bind. The key-binding is by default “U”. If not you can open your key-binding settings and look for a key called “GUIDE” and set that to a key. Here you can get all the recommended quests you can do at your current level. This guide will be really useful throughout all your levels. I will get into this later. But after reaching lv. 30 you have three options to choose from. I would recommend doing two of those. There will be a “Fairy Academia” theme dungeon and a “Rien Strait” theme dungeon. But focus on the first two theme dungeons as those give you the best rewards. After you’ve done the two/three dungeons, you should be at around 50/60.

So now that you are lv. 60 being, you hit your third job advancement. After getting your third job advancement I would recommend one more theme dungeon. This theme dungeon will most likely level you up to 80-100. This theme dungeon is called “Afterlands”. This is a good theme dungeon because it will give you something special. It wil give you totems, these totems are extremely good, as you can’t get any other permanent totems as of now(there are some events that give better permanent totems, but those event rarely come). Again I would highly recommend a tutorial for this one. As this theme dungeon can be done much faster in one swoop.

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Grinding is the main thing you will be doing throughout all of Maplestory. Just as every other MMORPG. There’s an overwhelming amount of things to do in Maplestory. But we will go about that as we level. At level 100 you will unlock your 4th job. There’s a trick that will net you 12 levels if done correctly. First and foremost you will need to be lv. 100, exact lv. 100. If you meet this requirement you will be able to unlock your “first” boss. This boss is called Zakum. We will want to defeat normal Zakum. But before we do that we need to activate a rune, to get the most EXP out of it as possible. Now when fighting Zakum make sure to target his arms first as those arms give the most EXP. Each arm gives huge amount of EXP. He has six arms in total, three on each side. If done correctly you will gain around 6 levels. Making you around lv. 106.

After this it’s a long grind till 200. I’d recommend skipping all quests and going straight to grinding. But don’t let me stop you from doing quests, make sure to have fun and progress on your own phase.

One last trick you can do is when you reached lv. 199 with 50% EXP in the EXP bar. You can go to Scrapyard Haven and accept a quest where it’s all dialog and you will gain the remainder 50% EXP to level to 200. But this will be a long way, so skip this for now. But make sure you keep this in mind because it save you a lot of trouble and time.

Trainingspots

LVL 10 – 20 = Savage Terminal, Wasted Treatment Planet 1/Henesys, Golem’s Temple Entrance
LVL 20 – 30 = Savage Terminal, Stray Dog Alley 1/Ellinia, Giant Tree
LVL 30 – 50 = Savage Terminal, Mr. Hazard’s Lair 3/Shaded Dump Site
LVL 50 – 60 = Perion, Wild Boar Land
LVL 60 – 70 = Sleepywood, Silent Swamp/Humid Swamp
LVL 65 – 80 = Orbis, Stairway to the Sky 1
LVL 70 – 75 = Aqua Road, Red Coral Forest
LVL 75 – 80 = Verne Mine, Shaft 4
LVL 75 – 85 = El Nath, Ice Valley 1
LVL 80 – 90/100 = Ariant, Sahel 2/Desert of Serenity
LVL 97 – 100 = Leafre, West Leafre Forest
LVL 100 – 106 = Normal Zakum boss(solo) + rune and/or 2x EXP
LVL 100 – 110 = Minar Forest, Cranky Forest/Steep Hill
LVL 110 – 120 = Ludibrium, Toy Factory <Apparatus Room>
LVL 110 – 130 = El Nath, Sharp Cliff 2/3
LVL 130 – 135 = Korean Folk Town, Wanted Sign Quest till Goblins
LVL 130 – 140 = Korean Folk Town, Black Mountain Entrance
LVL 135 – 145 = Korean Folk Town, Goblin House
LVL 140 – 150 = Kerning Tower, 2F cafe/higher levels
LVL 150 – 160 = Leafre(theme dungeon), Colossus West Road 2
LVL 160 – 161 = Normal Horntail boss(solo) + rune and/or 2x EXP
LVL 160 – 165 = Omega Sector, Boswell Field 2
LVL 165 – 170 = Omega Sector(Inside the Mothership), Corridor 103
LVL 170 – 175 = Omega Sector(Inside the Mothership), Corridor 203
LVL 175 – 190 = Temple of Time(Gate to the Future), Knights Stronghold
LVL 180 – 190 = Temple of Time(Gate to the Future), Twilight Perion: desolate Rocky Road
LVL 190 – 200 = Temple of Time(Gate to the Future), Forsaken Excavation Site 2
LVL 199(50% EXP) – 200 = Scrapyard Haven, introduction quest(talking only)
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Guilds

Once you’re level 100+ you can join a guild. I would highly recommend joining a guild. There are plenty of people offering you to join their guild. Guild gives a lot of benefits, such as get carried, free stuff and you can also get Guild buffs which js probably themain thing you’ll want. Guild buffs are but not limited to; EXP BUFF, MESO BUFF, G-POTS and more.

G-pots is a guild skill that the guildleader has to level in order for you to receive the G-pots. These are given to you each week from the guild. You’ll get 200 elixers(elixers heal 99,999 HP & MP) and 30 MAP BUFFS(ATT & MATT buff for the whole map). These are renewed every week.

Gear progression

Everything up until 150 doesn’t really matter, with a few exceptions. But I’ll go over that as we go. Just wear gear for each appropriate level up until you reach 150. After that it’s all about min/maxing. From 150 onward you’ll have reached “end gear”.

Note;Pensalir gear(lv. 140) will just do fine if you can’t get lv. 150+ gear. Pensalir gear will get you really far till even lv. 200+. This set is dropped by monsters that are lv. 140+.

There are some exceptions for some gears. Typically for mules. As I mentioned lv. 140 gear is generally really good for content even beyond lv. 200. Other gears that are good to know, especially for bossing is the lv. 120 Necromancer set dropped from the Boss Hilla.

Getting accessories. While doing bosses you can get various accessories. You will want to do Zakum, (Chaos)Horn Tail & Von Leon. Zakum will give you EYE & FACE accessories. (C)HT((Chaos)Horn Tail) will give you PENDANT & RING. And lastly Von Leon will give you RING, EARRINGS & PENDANT.

Other accessories that you’ll want to get later one are from; Arkarium, (Chaos)Pink Bean, Hilla, Magnus & Gollux. Arkarium will give you MECHANATOR/DOMINATOR PENDANT. (C)Pink Bean will give you Pink Bean Mark & Holy Cup(pocket slot). Hilla will give you, (other than the Necromancer set), A free PET(that can loot items for you, very low chance though), EARRINGS & STONE OF ETERNAL LIFE(pocket slot). Magnus will give you a BADGE, ROYAL BLACK METAL SHOULDER. Lastely you’ll want to grind Gollux as you have to buy his accessories. What you want to aim for is Superiour Gollux accessories. It’s gonna take a long time to collect those coins and be able to buy Superiour Gollux accessories, but are very well worth it.

Chaos Root Abyss or CRA for short is your first “end gear” equipment, it’s level requirement is lv. 150. You’ll get this gear by defeating the Chaos versions of Root Abyss bosses. Chaos Queen, Chaos Pierre, Chaos Von Bon and lastly Chaos Vellum. Queen nets you the Bottom, Pierre the Top, Von Bon the Hat and Vellum the Weapon. CRA doesn’t have gloves, boots, shoulders and cape. Your CRA top and bottom will be your end gear equipment. You won’t be changing this.

This bosses are extremely hard, especially when you’re just starting out. But if you’re playing in a normal world you’re in luck. As you can buy these items in the Auction House(AH for short). They usually don’t cost too much. Depending on what class you are playing the prices increases/decreases. Since warrior is the most used class their gear is also the most expensive.

Absolab is your next progression. You get this gear by doing “weeklies”. Weeklies are quests that you can do each week. These quests are from lv. 200+. You can acces these quest by going to either HAVEN or DARK TREE. Each weekly quest gives “coins” that you need to gather. After gathering those coins you still need another coin, a “boss coin”(by defeating Lotus and Damien) to make 1 Absolab coin. You need a lot of these Absolab coins in order to make gear. For more explanation you can go to either maps and talk to a NPC. Generally you’d want to keep the TOP and BOTTOM from CRA. Because TOP&BOTTOM > OVERALL. You can get way more stats on a top and bottom as to an overall. But everything else around that will be changed to Absolab. Unlike CRA, Absolab does have gloves, boots, shoulders and a cape. So you’ll be using that.

Note;Absolab is a pain in the a55 to get. Tedious weekly quest and really annoying. Getting this on AH isn’t it either. Too expensive, coming at 300mill a piece.

TBA

Potential progression

Familiar progress

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