Founders are two weeks ahead
Founder's Access opened Oct 6 and those characters carry over. Until the Oct 15 patch, kills from burn and bleed damage gave double EXP and drops.
NexonGrand Launch · Oct 21, 2026
ClassicWorld
Unofficial field guide · updated Oct 30, 2026Old-school MapleStory is back as its own game. It's Maple Island and Victoria Island only, with four jobs, a level cap of 100, no 3rd job yet, and a few systems the original never had.
- 4jobs
- Lv. 100level cap
- 2ndhighest job
- 6bosses
- 3characters per account
Lv 1Mesos 0Kills 0
Tap fast to combo. Numbers are for fun.
Your journey
What your level opens up, from Maple Island to the cap. It follows the character in the bar at the bottom; drag the slider to look ahead.
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Your level and jobFighter
Crafting skill cap
6 / 10Crafting Lv. 1 and 2 need character Lv. 10, then 5 more per level. Crafting stops at Lv. 8 for now. Game data
Party EXP bonus
+20–30%Added to your share: 10% for each other member on the map, up to 30%, plus 5% for each other member who hit the monster. Formula from meowdb's EXP guide. Game data Medium
Job guide
Pick a 2nd job and drag the level. The skill window spends SP the way meowdb's level-by-level guides do, with the matching stats and training maps beside it.
Skill numbers are datamined Game data from meowdb, checked against maplestory.quest. Build orders, stat plans and maps follow meowdb's guides. The confidence pills: high means two sources agree, medium means one trusted source, low means the sources disagree.
1st job · Lv 10
2nd job · Lv 30
LV.
Build milestones · tap to jump
Skill point 0
All ten 2nd jobs at Lv 70 in meowdb's benchmark. Sort by what you care about.
Numbers come from realistic Lv 70 builds by Grummash, hitting a 0-DEF target with no elemental bonus, so they compare jobs rather than predict your own damage. meowdb re-ran them on Oct 29 with the v1.1.0 skills. Toughness is effective HP against physical hits. Game data Medium confidence
Sources: meowdb (skill data, class guides, Lv 70 benchmarks, Training Advisor) · maplestory.quest (skill cross-check) · MapleClassic Wiki · Metaroad (Classic changes, play-feel tiers) · maplestory-classic.com. Builds and maps are the guides' picks for their sample characters; your gear and party can change what works best.
Abilities
What STR, DEX, INT and LUK do for your class, where this level's 5 AP go, and what your next weapon needs. It follows your character.
Tap + and −, or type a number. Put in the AP you placed in game, without gear, and "Did I mess up?" below checks it.
Weapon type
What each stat does
Ability points
Weapons
Sources: the formulas players read from the client at OSMS Data Explorer, republished by maplestory.quest; weapons from two reads of the client (OSMS and maplestory.quest); meowdb (its formulas, class guides, shop records and players' drop records, used with its permission); the AP Reset Scroll from Nexon; builds and HP/MP from the Job guide's data. Stats here are what you placed, without gear; requirements and formulas count gear too.
Where to train
Set your level to see the best hunting maps for it, ranked from the game's own numbers. Then look up who drops what.
30your level
You hit with
Warriors, Bowmen and Thieves hit with weapons, Magicians with magic. Monsters defend against each differently. It follows your job pick above.
How the maps are ranked
A map's score is the EXP its monsters pay for every 100 damage you deal, each kind counted by how often it spawns. A monster's defence and the damage you lose against monsters above your level both count, using the client's formulas Game data.
Only monsters from 10 levels under you to 3 over you count, and a map needs at least half its spawns in that band. When fewer than 5 maps qualify, the band reaches 5 levels further down. Maps where more than a quarter of the monsters are over 3 levels above you are left out.
A map that holds fewer than 12 monsters at a time counts for less in proportion (one that holds 6 counts half), since you wait for respawns. Spawn points on a long timer count less, and field bosses don't count.
It doesn't know your damage, so it can't tell when you kill in one hit. Then the EXP per kill matters more than the EXP per HP. The job guide above has each job's picks from meowdb's class guides.
Matches show below as you type.
Nothing by that name in our data yet.
Try
- Seen Player-tested: a player logged it on mapleclassic.wiki, with the kills it took (Founder's Access, Oct 11).
- Quest text Game data: the quest that needs it says which monster carries it.
- Voted Player-tested: players voted it up at meowdb. The score is its up votes minus its down votes, as meowdb counts them. 5 or more is Medium, under 5 is Low, and 0 or less isn't shown.
- Old table Game data: only an older version's drop table lists it. Not seen in Classic yet.
- Any two of Seen, Quest text and Voted together is High; votes alone never are. Drop tables live on the server, so no rate here is datamined.
- The Oct 29 patch added more drops to Victoria Island monsters Nexon. Nexon didn't say which, and nobody has logged them yet, so some new drops are missing here.
Sources: maplestory.quest (monster stats, spawn points, how many monsters a map holds, the damage and accuracy formulas players reverse engineered from the client), cross-checked against meowdb (all 448 stats and 692 spawn counts agree) · the HP the Oct 29 patch gave Copper Drake, Tortie, Clang and Drake from the OSMS Data Explorer's read of that client, matching meowdb · drops one player logged on mapleclassic.wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; this drop list is shared under the same licence) · drop votes from meowdb's players, used with its permission · our quest and crafting research. Party quests, job tests, events and Forgotten Hollow (opens Nov 18) are left out.
Quest route
One walk through 125 quests on Maple Island and Victoria Island, from Lv 1 to about Lv 48. You take every quest before you hunt for it, and you pick up drops for later quests on the maps you already pass.
Pick a leg by level
Stop 1
STOPS0 / 0
All stops in this leg
Keep for a later legPicked up at this stop
0fewer maps to walk
The same 125 quests done one at a time, each finished before the next, against this route. Game data
We counted moves between maps on meowdb's portal map. "One at a time" walks from each quest giver to the nearest map with its monsters or drops, then to the NPC who takes it, and rides a cab whenever that saves 4 or more maps. It leaves out training trips, which the route includes, so the real gap is larger. It is an estimate.
What the route assumes
- Levels come from replaying the route with base monster EXP and no rate bonus. You will usually be a little ahead. Game data
- One kill counts for every quest in your log that wants that monster. Nobody has confirmed this for Classic yet.
- Drop rates are not in the data. Item counts assume you keep hunting until you have them.
- Four moves are not portals in the map data: the Free Market Entrance, the party quest through Lakelis, the Forest of Patience through Shane, and Shumi's jump quests from the subway.
- Training stops use meowdb's spots for each level band. Each stop's tip lists other classes' picks.
- Mark of the Beta: nobody says yet whether you must go back to Jay between pages. The event ends Nov 18.
Why this order
Take every quest before you hunt
Olaf and Teo both want Slimes. Take both in Lith Harbor first, and each of the 10 Slimes counts for both.
Wait until it's in your log
Leave the pigs east of Henesys alone at Lv 11. Nella's and JM's pig kills only count once you accept them in Kerning City, so the pig drops come from L Forest I.
Farm once for many quests
One stump batch on West Street Corner of Perion drops 142 Tree Branches and 70 Leaves. They cover Blackbull, Icarus, Vicious, Francois, Wing and Sophia, plus 10 Processed Wood.
Carry drops to the town that wants them
Perion's Tree Branches ride along the west road to Icarus in Kerning City, then on the coast road to Vicious's crafting station in Henesys.
One stay, two quests
A single stop in the Kerning City subway gives Ronnie his 50 Jr. Wraith kills and drops the 80 Tablecloths that Ronnie and Icarus share.
Hand in on the way
Jay's six Mark of the Beta pages lead past NPCs who want what's in your bag. On the way, Utah gets Camila's marble, Wing gets the snail shells you saved since Lith Harbor, and Nella, Jane Doe, Manji and Sophia take your drops.
Type
Worth it
Quests marked Medium confidence rest on one source, usually datamined game data. Low confidence means the sources disagree or a detail is inferred. Unmarked quests are confirmed by two sources.
Quest, monster, drop and map data: meowdb, checked against maplestory.quest and mapleclassic.wiki. Mark of the Beta pages: maplestory-classic.com. Party quest and events: Nexon's Grand Launch notes. The route order and the walking counts are ours.
Workshop Street
Walk into a shop for the full numbers behind each new system. Most figures come from the game files, read by fan databases.
Six masters, one Crafting window
Pick a master. Ask them about their trade, then step through crafting levels to see every recipe they teach and where each material comes from.
Lv 1
The cheapest way up, one crafting level at a time. Open a level, gather what it lists, tick it off and craft. Game data
How the plan picks
How crafting worksRules, catalysts, EXP table
Workshop rules
Crafting levels
Catalysts
Most profitable at NPC prices
Climb the citizen ladder
Choose a hometown and tap a grade to see what it takes, what it unlocks and what the Community Board asks of you there.
Town facts come from the game data and fan guides. Game data
Citizenship rules
Furnish a home
Your housewarming gifts are already in. Pick furniture from the catalog to see how to get it, then place it. Tap a placed piece to take it back out.
Flip through the Beauty Album
The album keeps looks you've had so you can switch back. These saved looks are examples. Tap one to try it on.
Sources: MeowDB crafting, citizenship, furniture and NPC shops · maplestory.quest crafting, citizenship and housing · MapleClassic Wiki · Nexon Grand Launch notes and Cash Shop notice. All 366 recipes were checked field by field between MeowDB and maplestory.quest; 359 match exactly and the other 7 come from MeowDB alone. The level plan's drops and maps come from Where to train: kills one player logged on mapleclassic.wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, shared here under the same licence), quest drops players reported, and spawns from maplestory.quest. Market prices are the launch-week medians in MeowDB's exploration report.
Before you log in
The things that catch people out in their first days.
Where each fact comes from
- Nexon
- Nexon's own posts
- Game data
- datamined by fan databases like meowdb
- Fan recap
- fan write-ups of the Oct 17 stream
- Player-tested
- measured by players, in the beta or reported through this guide
How sure we are
- High
- two sources agree, or Nexon says it
- Medium
- one trusted source, usually game data
- Low
- sources disagree, or it's inferred. Also marked Unconfirmed
Community Board
New accounts can't trade yet
Trading unlocks 24 hours after a character on your account reaches Lv. 15.
NexonOwe mesos? Repay in town
Nexon's Debt System takes back mesos from accounts tied to real-money trading. While you owe, you can't trade, gift, drop items, open a store or pick up other players' drops. Repay with the "Repay Illegal Mesos" button at the top of the screen, in a town.
NexonOnly 3 characters
That's the limit per account. Deleting a character has a waiting period before it's gone.
NexonNo 3rd job yet
The cap is Lv. 100, but jobs stop at 2nd job. Nexon is reworking 3rd job, Orbis and El Nath before they return.
NexonMegaphones need Lv. 15
It was Lv. 10 before launch. Megaphones already in your inventory keep the old requirement.
NexonWhispers need Lv. 10
Since the Oct 29 patch, a character under Lv. 10 can't send whispers.
NexonOnly NX is shared
Maple Points, MVP perks, character names and items stay in regular MapleStory. Bans apply to both games.
NexonSince Founder's Access
What Nexon's patches changed since launch on Oct 21. Below that, Founder's Access (from Oct 6) against launch: what launch added and what got fixed along the way.
Oct 29 · v1.1.0
Stronger Focus, Poison Breath and Thunder Bolt, less HP on four Lv 45–50 monsters, 50 arrows per swap, cheaper citizenship grades and whispers from Lv. 10.
- CHANGEFocus gives Accuracy +5 to +25 (was +1 to +20)
- CHANGEPoison Breath's Basic Attack is 60 to 90 (was 50 to 80), Thunder Bolt's 50 to 80 (was 40 to 70)
- CHANGECopper Drake, Tortie, Clang and Drake have less HP
- CHANGEWoodcrafting's arrow swaps make 50 arrows from 100 (was 5 from 10)
- CHANGECitizenship grades 4 to 10 need less contribution
- CHANGEWhispers need Lv. 10
- NEWMore drops for Victoria Island monsters. Nexon didn't say which
- CHANGEIn debt, you can't pick up other players' mesos or items. Drops from your own kills and some party quest items still work, and you can still drop Kerning City PQ coupons and passes
- FIXRush's range grows to 150 at Lv. 10, as its text says
- FIXPoison Breath deals its damage properly at Lv. 10
- FIXFinal Attack: Spear and Polearm heal at most 15% of your Max HP a hit, as the skill text now says
- FIXMushroom Garden by Henesys counted as a town, which blocked Store Permits and the Lie Detector Test there
- FIXCitizenship dailies could be done twice in one day
- FIXMark of the Beta hats from before Grand Launch had less Weapon DEF than later ones
- FIXDisconnects at Character Select and after a channel change with Final Attack on, getting stuck in the Free Market, and Cash Shop previews and icons
Oct 22
The Debt System for real-money trading, work on server stability after the launch crowd, and two fixes.
- NEWThe Debt System takes back mesos from accounts tied to real-money trading. Until they repay, in a town, they can't trade, gift, drop items or open a store
- FIXAccounts that can't trade yet can drop Kerning City PQ coupons and passes
- FIXGreen works with the Signature Eye Color Coupon
- NEWHousing in Henesys and Kerning City
- NEWStumpy joins as the 6th boss
- NEWExcavation Site in Perion
- NEWLie Detector Test and the Truth Booth
- CHANGETrade lock on new accounts
- CHANGEMegaphones need Lv. 15
- CHANGEKerning City PQ on channels 3–12 (was 3–6)
- CHANGEKorean (beta) added. Chat only accepts English, Spanish and Korean charactersOct 15
- FIXBurn and bleed kills gave double EXP and dropsOct 15
- FIXCoconuts sold to shops for 145 mesos, now 10Oct 8
- FIXBandit's Steal worked even on missed attacksOct 15
- FIXCleric's Heal reached too far and worked without enough MPOct 8
- FIXShops opened during Dark Sight were invisibleOct 15
- FIXThe Lucky Day effect blocked 100% scrollsOct 15
- SAIDBusy training maps, with players competing for spawns
- SAIDLogin queues. One video describes 2-hour waits
- SAIDToo few channels for the crowd
- SAIDBots and macro users in popular maps
- FIXNexon did move Kerning City PQ off channels 1 and 2 because they were too busy NexonOct 8
The first four come from reviews, videos and Steam comments, so treat them as unverified. Expect launch day to be at least as busy, since the game is now free for everyone.
Victoria Island
At launch, the whole world is Maple Island and Victoria Island. Places sit where the in-game world map puts them, and Classic moved some towns: Kerning City is in the west and Ellinia in the east. Pick a place to see what's there.
Positions: the datamined world map on meowdb, checked against Nexon's launch world map and maplestory.quest.
Field bosses
Six bosses at launch. Players report they respawn about every hour, and Jr. Balrog every 3 hours. Player-tested
Pick a job
Four Explorer jobs and two advancements. Pirates aren't in, and 3rd job is still being reworked.
New in Classic
Systems the original game never had. Forgotten Hollow and Citizenship were built just for Classic World.
Combat and scrolls
Most of these come from launch game data, checked against a second fan source. Nexon hasn't published the formulas, and a few rows rely on player testing.
| Mechanic | Original | Classic World |
|---|
Monster defense is a percentage. Damage is multiplied by 100 ÷ (100 + DEF), so Mushmom (DEF 15) takes 87%. Fighting above your level costs about a third of your damage at 10 levels up. Player-tested
Dying costs EXP. A Safety Charm prevents it. Nexon Lv. 90 to 99 are steep. Each costs 2.1 times the one before, so Lv. 99 alone costs more than Lv. 1 to 98 together. The level cap is 100, and the closed test's slower table up to 120 is gone. Game data
Pumpkin Basket
One-handed Sword · Halloween reward
- Attack speed
- Fast
- Weapon ATT
- +27
- Speed
- +3
- Enhancements left
- 7
- Successful
- 0
Classic uses old-style scrolls. Each try uses one of the item's enhancement slots, and Chaos scrolls can destroy it. Try your luck on the Pumpkin Basket from the Halloween event.
Player-tested rates
Nexon hasn't published how many stats each tier adds, so this only counts successes. It assumes a failed scroll still uses up the slot, as in the original.
What's next
Dates come from Nexon's Classic World panel at MapleStory Fest on Oct 17. Nexon hasn't posted a written recap, so these rely on three fan write-ups that agree with each other.
Oct 21
Grand Launch
- Housing, the Lie Detector Test, Stumpy and the Excavation Site
- The Journey Begins and The Marks We Leave Behind events
- Free to play for everyone
Nexon
Oct 28
Halloween
- Malady's Halloween Candies quest and the Pumpkin Basket
- Orange Slimes invade Henesys, Ellinia, Kerning City and Perion
- Both run until Nov 18
Nexon Unconfirmed
Nexon's launch notes schedule it from Oct 28, but no Nexon post or player report says it has started yet (checked Oct 30).
Nov 18
Forgotten Hollow
- A new area for Lv. 39–59 with a new field boss, Rotten Mushmom
- Enter from the Tree Dungeon near Ellinia or deep in Sleepywood
- Moon Bunny's Rice Cake PQ (Lv. 11+) for a limited time
Fan recap Nexon's own notes say "November".
Dec 9
Guilds and Happyville
- Create guilds in Lith Harbor, with a guild mark. Guild houses come later
- A new Forgotten Hollow party quest for Lv. 41+
- Happyville returns with Christmas events
Fan recap
Early 2027
3rd job test server
- 3rd job was playable in August's closed test, then pulled to rework the progression
- The live release has no date yet
Nexon Fan recap
No date
Ossyria and the first raid
- Orbis and El Nath return after their rework
- Archon, Classic World's first boss raid
- Pirates weren't mentioned at all
Fan recap
Launch events
The event cards show dates in your time zone. Everything here is from Nexon's release notes.
The Journey Begins
Oct 21 18:00 – Nov 18 23:59 UTC · Lv. 10+
Accept the quest from Maple Administrator, collect 30 Maple Leaves from Lv. 10+ monsters, and hand them in once a day per account. Missing a day doesn't reset your count.
Tap a day to stamp it as claimed. Stamps are saved in this browser only.
| Date | Event | How to win | Your time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22 | Jump quest | Finish the course in 15 minutes. Haste and Teleport are off. | |
| Nov 6 | Coconut Harvest | Two teams, 5 minutes, melee only. Harry sells melee weapons on the map. | |
| Dec 19 | Up and Up | Climb three stages of ladders and portals in 6 minutes. Wrong portals send you back. |
Talk to Paul when the Event Door opens. Everyone gets an Event Trophy. You can't enter if you already hold a Scroll of Secrets or joined a GM event in the last 24 hours.
Win a GM event→Scroll of Secrets→Chun Ji, Kerning City Construction Site→Magic Box→Mr. Pickall→Random prize
Cash Shop
Nexon says Classic won't sell anything that raises stats or speeds up leveling. This is what's for sale since its Oct 28 update, with end dates in your time zone. 1,000 NX is about US$1.
Convenience
Cosmetics
Mystery crates can't be bought in Belgium, Slovakia or Brazil.
- EXP coupons
- Cubes and Potential
- Anything that raises stats
Nexon's stated policy. None of these appear in the listings so far, up to Oct 28. Nexon
The grey areaPet auto-potion and auto-pickup skills are only sold for NX. They don't add stats, but they make grinding much easier.
Leaf PointsA Classic-only cash currency you earn from events. Founders got 11,000 in their first week. NX is shared with regular MapleStory, Leaf Points aren't.
Founder's PackagesSales ended Oct 14. Buyers must claim their items from the in-game mailbox by Nov 30.
Sources
First compiled on Oct 21, 2026, a few hours before launch. Job, quest and workshop data added Oct 22.
- meowdb: Classic World database (skills, quests, monsters, crafting, citizenship)
- maplestory.quest and mapleclassic.wiki (used to cross-check)
- MapleStatus.info (the login server check in Server status)
- meowdb: MapleStory Fest roadmap
- MetaRoad: MapleStory Fest roadmap
- MetaRoad: Classic World changes explained
- IGGM: Founder's Access reviews
- Steam community discussions
Help Wanted
Nobody has confirmed these for Classic yet. Check one in game and report what you saw. When 3 or more maplers agree and nobody disagrees, the answer goes on the page as Player-tested.