https://maplestory.quest/feed.xml MapleStory Classic wiki and database for Classic World: every item, monster, map and quest in the Grand Launch client, with guides and a build planner. 2026-10-29T20:24:36.396Z MapleStory Questhttps://maplestory.quest https://maplestory.quest/brand/emblem-512.png © 2026 MapleStory Quest. Fan project, not affiliated with Nexon. https://maplestory.quest/guides/training 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Every map ranked by the EXP its spawns pay with the map at its mob capacity, cut into level brackets, with the monster carrying each one.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/forgotten-hollow 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Closed Online Test 2's area under Shallow Passage, read whole: every monster, every spawn, what only drops here, and the quests that point at it. The Grand Launch does not have it; the site keeps it, marked.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/mesos 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

A table per level band: the quests that pay, the drops an NPC pays most for, the crafts that sell for more than their fee, and what to keep rather than sell.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/first-steps 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Maple Island in the order the game opens it, the four branches as the Grand Launch client describes them, and where each advancement happens.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/bosses 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Every boss in the Grand Launch client: level, HP and EXP, the map it spawns on and how often, what it is weak to and what it casts, what players have confirmed it drops, and what each build changed.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/tier-list 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Every second-job class tiered at Lv 70 on what the damage engine can measure: one target, a crowd, damage per MP and accuracy, each with its cutoffs printed and no blended grade.

https://maplestory.quest/changelog?v=launch 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Everything that changed in the MapleStory Classic World client between the Public Release and the Grand Launch: 242 additions, 227 removals and 291 revisions, 760 rows in all, field by field.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/crafting-levels 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

The eight crafting levels in all six disciplines: the craft EXP and character level each takes, what it opens, what that pays and what it costs.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/crafting-efficiency 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Every recipe the Grand Launch can craft, ranked by what it charges against what it teaches, with the ones that pay for themselves flagged.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/housing 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

The two homes the Grand Launch sets up in Henesys and Kerning City, who stands at each door, and every piece of furniture, storage and crafting station the client says goes inside.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/party-quests 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Kerning stage by stage, and the four that every community guide describes and this game has no map for.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/what-is-classic-world 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

What this build actually contains, counted: maps, monsters, quests and classes, and the things people go looking for that are not in it.

https://maplestory.quest/news/grand-launch-release-notes 2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon put out the release notes for Grand Launch on 20 October, the day before Classic World opens to everyone. Much of it is the Founder’s Access notes again. What’s new is a sixth boss, an area in Perion, Housing, the Lie Detector Test, a trading restriction on new accounts and a month of events. Here’s all of it, with Nexon’s pictures.

https://maplestory.quest/news/classic-world-roadmap 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon closed the Classic World Dev Panel at MapleStory Fest on 17 October with a roadmap: what arrives with Grand Launch on 21 October, the two updates after it, and what is planned beyond them. There is no written post of it yet, so this is the broadcast, with Nexon’s own slides.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/damage-formulas 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

The formulas the site computes with, worked through once: the physical roll, the magic roll, mastery, criticals, the level penalty and elements.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/spawn-rate 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

How many monsters a map holds at once and why it is not the spawn point count, how fast a cleared map refills, and what its rate multiplier does.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/weapon-reach 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

The skills the client gives a measured hit box: how far in front, how far above and below, and how the box grows with the rank.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/dinofries-training-route 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Every map from his Closed Online Test 2 training video, kept in video order with his party advice separated from the Public Release data, and the five Forgotten Hollow stops the release does not have marked.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/archer 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to kill monsters that never get near you.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/assassin 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You are a Rogue with a claw and you like big irregular numbers.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/bandit 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You are a Rogue with a dagger and you want the hardest single-target hit in 2nd job.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/chief-bandit 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Bandit and you want the crowd attack you have been missing since level 30.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/cleric 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to never buy a potion again, and you like being the reason a party survives.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/crossbowman 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You would rather hit harder per shot than stun what you are shooting at.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/crusader 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Fighter and you want the damage to keep going up.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/dps-rankings 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Every second-job attack run through the damage engine against a stated level 70 character: per cast, per monster caught, and per MP. The tier list reads the same numbers across classes.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/dragon-knight 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Spearman, and you would like other people to be glad you turned up.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/fp-mage 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are an F/P Wizard and you want the ceiling rather than the convenience.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/fp-wizard 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want damage over time, and you would rather leave a monster dying than kill it outright.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/fighter 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want the warrior that hits hardest and does not mind that the answer is "swing again".

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/hermit 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are an Assassin and you want your damage roughly to double.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/hp-mp 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

The skills that raise the ceiling, the ones that spend from it, the gear that adds to it, and the one number the export does not carry.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/hunter 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to level fast and stop paying for ammunition.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/il-mage 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are an I/L Wizard and you liked hitting several things at once.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/il-wizard 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to clear whole platforms in 2nd job and can live with thin single-target damage.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/magician 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to kill things from across the screen and do not mind being fragile while you learn how.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/page 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You like the idea that the fight gets easier because of something you did to the monsters.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/priest 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Cleric and you want to keep being the reason the party is alive.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/ranger 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Hunter and you want both halves: bosses and platforms.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/release-date 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Grand Launch and Founder’s Access with the hour each opens, the announcement each date came from, and the questions people ask next.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/rogue 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to move fast, dodge instead of soaking, and land a lot of small hits.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/sniper 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Crossbowman and you want the biggest numbers the branch can produce.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/spearman 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want the warrior that stands its ground.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/warrior 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

You want to stand in the middle of the fight and would rather learn one thing at a time.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/classes/white-knight 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Kept from Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2); the Public Release does not have it. You are a Page and you want your damage to depend on what you are fighting.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/public-release 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Housing first, then everything else the release brought that the original game never had, what is new since Closed Online Test 2, and what the test had that the release does not.

https://maplestory.quest/changelog?v=release 2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Everything that changed in the MapleStory Classic World client between Closed Online Test 2 and the Public Release: 2,795 additions, 366 removals and 800 revisions, 3,961 rows in all, field by field.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/attack-speed 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Every attack animation with the milliseconds the client holds it for, every weapon type's speed stage, and what a Booster really buys.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/glossary 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

AP, SP, mastery, mobbing, knockback. The words every other guide assumes you already have.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/shop-efficiency 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Every recorded shop item ranked by HP, MP or attack per meso, so the cheapest potion by price and the cheapest by value stop being confused.

https://maplestory.quest/news/founders-access-release-notes 2026-10-03T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon put out the release notes for Founder’s Access on 3 October, three days before it opens. It’s the first proper look at the live game: how far you can level, who hands out jobs, which bosses are around, and two weeks of GM events. Here’s all of it, with Nexon’s pictures.

https://maplestory.quest/news/inkwell-interview 2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon America published a long interview with Hanbyeol Oh, Inkwell, on 2 October: where he has been, why Classic World exists, and how it is meant to sit beside Global MapleStory rather than against it. Most of it is history and philosophy. The handful of answers that are about the game itself are pulled out first.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/class-costs 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

A launch-budget comparison across every second-job path, including consumables, weapon ladders, scrolling pressure and where each class can save.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/crafting-strategy 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

A practical profession order, the shared components that feed many recipes, level 5 catalyst quests and the launch markets worth watching.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/valuable-quest-rewards 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

The quests that award Sauna Robes, Icarus Capes, scrolls, catalysts and other launch-economy standouts, with the reward odds and risks called out.

https://maplestory.quest/guides/valuable-drops 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

Victoria Island farms from Green Mushrooms to bosses, with valuable materials, historical jackpot drops and launch-market caveats separated clearly.

https://maplestory.quest/news/maple-memo-private-servers 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon published an open letter on 11 September about unauthorised MapleStory servers: what it says its position is, that it is taking formal legal action and has already closed a number of them, and what it says playing on one costs the player. This is that letter, recorded in full-enough detail to be argued with.

https://maplestory.quest/news/founders-package 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon opened the Founder’s Package sale on 2 September and published the detail with it, then kept adding to the page. This is that page: the three tiers and what is in each box, what every item is worth in duration and tradability, the two storefronts that sell one and the reason there are only two, Nexon’s own two videos, the Frieren collection it put on sale beside them on 9 September with the drop rates written out, and all twenty-two of its answers.

https://maplestory.quest/news/ossyria-exploration-report 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Nexon closed the second Classic World test with an infographic of what players did in it and a letter from Inkwell about what happens next. The letter is the part that matters: there are dates now, and there is a list of what will not be there on the day.

https://maplestory.quest/changelog?v=cot2 2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Everything that changed in the MapleStory Classic World client between Closed Online Test 1 and Closed Online Test 2: 1,155 additions, 853 removals and 2,335 revisions, 4,343 rows in all, field by field.