Minor correction reguarding the katara for dual blade. You NEVER want to transpose from tsukiumi katara to sweetwater, only fafnir. You end up with about 5 less attack if you transpose from tsukiumi and if you went into the hassle of transposing you might as well go for the best. Great video otherwise
@@theaveragemegaguy Flames don't transfer upon transposing like they used to but transposing is still a thing. Kataras can't be flamed so there was effectively no change for them.
New player having problem getting late game gear like Arcane set , they are way too expensive and only drop by end game bosses. And sometime not many options even you willing to buy from auction house. That makes MS dying.
This was hands down the most useful video I've found on maplestory and I've probably watched 30 hours of guide videos in the past 2 weeks of learning the game
All Maplestory guides feel like they're made for people who already have hundreds if not thousands of hours. As a completely new player, I'm totally lost within the first 2 minutes of practically every UA-cam video I watch. Wtf even is this game
Maple has a lot of players that have stuck around for years (sometimes a decade+) so a lot of newer players trying to get into it can easily get lost in translation, and those players & most places online don't detail out a lot of the early game, or how to get into it too easily for newer players without just outright giving a giant guideline without explaining anything. I try to make these videos easier to digest for newer players as best I can, but this game just has so much going on, it's hard to cover everything thoroughly!
Don't feel discouraged I've had 3 different eras of playing maple in my life, from old school, to post big bang, to this year and I'm still COMPLETELY lost 90% of the time. It's just the nature of the game that it is too hard to keep up with if you take 6months or more off 😅
I've been playing this game since I cannot remember, probably around their first year, and I still struggle to defeat chaos vellum and I'm level 272 😂😂😂 I wish I could go around asking for "mesos plz" as the old days, since I dont know how this people get funds for equipment, also cry when entering the action house and see all the things I cannot buy 😂😂😂😂
I 100% agree, its been a huge pain to push further in the game. I get on 1-2 times a year for a couples weeks at most before getting lost again and stopping lol basically just end up leveling alts Something people overlook in any game seems to be abbreviations. It just seems to go over peoples heads when theyre talking to new players.
Dawn warrior guide please and thank you. I'm hyper casual and it's my main at 253 (only absogear). This gear guide* was extremely helpful. Thank you for the time and effort you put into editing and making it easy to follow! Be well.
I've watched/read quite a few gear progression guides and so many of them just breeze through the beginning and say "just get cra gear" when the gap between the 140 pensalir set and cra gear is so astronomically huge for new players it's crazy that's it's skimmed through like an afternote. Basically if you aren't in a helpful guild or have a friend to help carry you to get cra this is pretty the wall where people quit. I think people who have been playing for so many years have forgotten just how much of a hurdle/leap it is to go from everything before it to CRA gear. To put it into perspective all the daily and weekly bosses up to that point have around 5b-10b or so hp so you can pretty much fumble and burst your way through them but then for the first big gear hurdle (cra) the bosses have 80B-200B hp which is 10x-20x more of a gear check than previous opponents.
All the guides literally do this! And I had a long standing account so I sold some of my retro crap to get this "basic" gear and I still can't even make a dent on a serious boss. All the guides say "build up so you can kill the bosses to make money" I currently have nearly full absolab, all link skills, and decent legion and can't beat a boss that pays more than 10mil a week... So by next year I can buy something nice to progress to the next step 😅😅😅
Step 1, get whatever gear you find as you level to 140 and eventually get a full set of pensalir gear. Step 1.5 Fight bosses to fill out the rest of your slots. Step all the rest if the numbers: grind to level 200 and start fighting all the rest of the bosses for their drops and also the mesos.
@@Tsumi784 Well it is that simple on Reboot since scrolls dont exist. The problem is that it's becoming way harder since nexon is trying really hard to kill the game these last few months
Geez!! Thank you very much for this quick and easy, straight forward guide! Althought I would prefer more captions or smth pointing on which bosses to kills, we missing a few there (coz as my POV, I have no idea how to get that sweetwater thingy for example) But then, I’ll look it up somewhere.. Thank you for taking ur time to make this video! Keep it up!
Fantastic video, hyper-useful. If you're looking for class videos. I can't for the life of me find a hyper skill point allocation guide for Dawn Warriors. Thanks again!
Thank you for this short, brief, no stupid fucking puns guide. I've been looking for something like this to help my F/P mage get better gear. I'm a returning player that started over on a new account.
Minor correction about Zero's weapon starforcing @ 16:35 - Zero is lucky in that after Type 6 (Lv150) their weapon never gets more expensive to SF. So you can essentially tap an Arcane wep for the cost of a Fafnir wep. (if you upgraded to arcane before getting 21/22 for some reason)
As a note regarding the secondaries. Besides the exceptions mentioned in the video (DB, Kanna, Demons, Shield classes). The BiS for Kaiser and AB are the evolab secondaries, not Princess No. Evolab will be removed in the New Age update in November, however the evolab secondaries will remain in the game and be sold by the general vendor.
Shields can be star forced, which at higher tiers gets a ton more stats than secondaries could. It depends on which classes you'd want shield over secondary for (yes to all staff mages & shadower, no to all 2h warriors like hero, dawn warrior, and paladin, etc), but generally speaking if it has a shield they'll more than likely use that instead of any type of secondary
@@Decatei That's nice to know. At which point would you do the swap? Is 16-17* already better or do you need to hit the 20-22* mark for it to be actually worth it over different upgrades?
That's why the asterisk(*) is there! I said it wrong and didn't catch the mistake until the video was already uploaded and had people point it out to me, so I did what I could making a correction in the captions
Yoo, thank you for the cube tips at the end, i was spending a lot in hard cubes. ALSO, maybe a honorable mention to Silent Cruzade equips? Ik they trash, but it took me a while to get pb belt and magnus shoulder...
While I'd have loved to normally mention silent crusade gear in general, I didn't wanna outdate myself so soon as all of silent crusade (quests, boss portals, and gear) are all being removed in a couple months. Or at least, they were removed from KMS and GMS will most likely follow soon after. Their equips aren't trash and their set bonus is fairly alright! Good/easyish gear to get for the time being, but it won't be around much longer
For reboot I feel they aren't really worth the coins most of the time, unless you are having extremely bad luck on boss accessory drops and need to pad your star force for star force maps. The meso bags are ultimately more useful while you still lack meso gear and can't kill weekly bosses.
Small nitpick: Specifically for starforcing, weapons are actually usually the worst to upgrade past 15* efficiency wise. They give lower stats/attack beyond 15* as compared to armors and accessories. There are exceptions, mainly for classes reliant ring swapping and weapon jump rings, but for the most part, mesos should be invested into armors if possible. I often keep my weapon 2-3* behind my armors if possible, though in reboot you're most likely gated by dupes rather than mesos.
I actually made a text version of this video upon someone else asking for one a little while ago! docs.google.com/document/d/1EQaNxNQHmvFj4vy2exxfx-P93Q41DR_jdp8b8kNK668
I left out Oz rings from this mainly because I wanted to focus on general gear people want to aim for, also because I didn't understand them completely at the time. They're very good! The go-to amazing ones are obviously Ring of Restraint like you said, and others like Weapon Jump and Continuous etc. They're a very situational item (usually for burst) and most of them also aren't too terribly useful outside of bosses
Sorry to ask i didnt really understand the Gear part Pensalir -> Absolab -> CRA -> Arcane Gears. Would this be the order from starting to end game gear?
Yes, though CRA before AbsoLab since those bosses are a bit easier! Pensalir/sweetwater weapon optional but gives decent stats -> boss set & CRA -> AbsoLab -> Arcane & pitched boss
Not sure If you're still checking comments on this vid. Do you have any insight on when it is worth it to start using cubes? Should I be cubing utgard/pens stuff? Or wait till higher? I'm on reboot if it makes a difference.
Cubing both up to epic with mystical cubes to eventually transfer at least the hat and overalls to CRA is what I'd recommend. Past that not so much, because it will be replaced once you get stronger, and it doesn't take TOO too long to start upgrading beyond pensalir. Higher tier cubes past epic would be better spent on emblem/secondary if those aren't unique/legendary yet, same with pottable rings
Both really! The only difference is reg servers have the luxury of buying a lot of this gear for cheap minus the pitched/arcane stuff, and also have the options of way expensive BiS items like Outlaw Heart, BoD, etc.
While the set bonus itself is fine, nowadays it's more trouble than it's worth to grind out all those prequests early on and spend however many weeks it'll take to either farm the set or squares to get set pieces from Cygnus. I still love how the set looks, mainly the weapons but some of the armor too, but other than vanity it's vastly outclassed by the other power creeped sets nowadays that are way quicker to farm for.
It depends if you want a nice chunk of damage for a little while early on, vs if you have easy access to harder bosses through consistent boss parties. The dominator will be used for a little while longer if you don't get lucky from running normal Arkarium daily. The AbsoLab weapon is nice and useful for getting bosses back up to lotus and damien, and makes fighting them earlier a little more comfortable. Both eventually get replaced, but Abso is the biggest immediate damage upgrade if you have neither as the real deal quite yet
Got bat to the game after maaaaany years. So at level 140, should I get pensalir > upgrade pensalir > level up to 200 > get absolab > upgrade absolab > get arcane armor (if I can) > gg?
Yeah! Pensalir is more than good enough nowadays to reach 200, even with very light upgrades. Absolab and CRA/fafnir helps a lot, and there's not many other midway points between absolab and arcane with the same amount of gains from set bonus and clean stats, etc. Eternals is the only current thing past arcane, but that's at lv. 265/270 onward and quite a ways away for most people atm
So idk if I'm doing something wrong but Pensalir to CRA gear feels like such a monumental leap to reach. I took a lot of time off my main to get to ~4.2k legion and all the good lvl 2 links but I just can't seem to reach the damage needed to beat any of the bosses. Edit: no clue if anyone would bother to respond but figured id mention im NA Reboot
If you filled out your links and legion that much, you should have enough to take on CRA bosses. Getting more boss items part of the boss set for extra stats, making sure you have a good amount of %boss (around minimum 50-100 or more) and %Ignore Enemy Defense (around 80% or more). Also, since they changed star forcing, you can safely get your gear up to 15 stars without booming! Pensalir, utgard, or if you wanted some early weapon with built-in %stats - Sweetwater from doing a few voyages or CPQ. Familiars can get you a bit more %IED too, even at the lowest rarity they can still get 15% IED lines. Also don't forget monster park red/green pots, or blue if you're a mage class. And since you have some legion, if you have any coins lying around, the legion attack gives a nice 30 attack. Sorry for the wordwall, but I hope any of this helps!
Thanks for the replies folks. The character I'm most interested in is my 206 Adelle but I've mostly been chipping away at the levels with events so I basically have zero nodes to work with. IED is also something I struggle with but I haven't tinkered with a proper boss setup for my legion board which could help, and I also need to admit that Familiars are completely foreign to me, I had no idea I could get decent stats off them.
I always wondered about the ruin force shield for DA and DS. Since you take more damage from even %hp attacks, how much does it really affect your survivability? Having been part of some HLucid and HWill and HLomien boss parties, wouldn't a lot more attacks become oneshots?
Not an expert on DA/DS, but looking it up yeah it seems like the %FD boost is useful on most bosses, but other later ones like you mentioned way harder because of the extra damage taken. I'd say it mostly boils down to the boss and how well you understand their mechanics, mixed with their map-wide attacks etc.
For years in Commerci, there was a quirk to transposing that let people transfer the boss flames onto sweetwater equipment, which could not get boss flames. Many thought this was a feature with how well known it was amongst the community, but then Nexon suddenly removed it earlier this year, saying it was a bug. Those that already transposed their flames still kept them to this day, leaving them as a FOMO/legacy item. Transposing is still a good viable mid-game option as the main point of transposing still remains, which is transferring the stats from a 16 star item onto a Sweetwater down to 15 stars, so it gains a little extra stats, essentially a free star. It also is a higher item tier, meaning potential lines on them are bigger too!
I have an issue, i started my hyper burn character yesterday and i'm about to get to 200 but the burning event is over and i couldnt claim the armor set they give you and now i'm lacking a lot of dmge. Is becoming hard to get mesos or better items. What should i do?
You'll at least keep the extra 2 levels per level until November, but as for the other stuff: Ursus for mesos! Daily bosses helps too for both some mid-way items and mesos through the boss crystals, you could get some attack buffs through a guild or legion and atmospherics people cast in towns sometimes, and faming people on 250/275 chair once a day gives a 30 minute attack buff. You could also try star forcing a little bit, at least up to 10 stars (12 if you can afford it) and cubing with mystical cubes that drop from pollo/fritto/especia/inferno wolf portals, elite mobs/elite bosses, and some other daily bosses for cheap quick and easy potential lines. Link skills and beefing up legion even with just level 70 characters might help a bit too if you're absolutely in need of more damage!
For hyper-burning characters with the temporary CRA set, should we use our meso to star force and potential the real CRA set to unique/legendary right?
Can you cover buc, I kinda jumped from 100 to 200 with potions cuz event lmao 😅 that's why I'm here cuz my gear sucks in 198 with 80k dmg ☠️☠️ but I still want to know a good in depth guide about him
@@Decatei I'll definitely give it a check! Thanks for all the content it's a really big help with someone who's only played a few weeks I actually was able to start getting my mule up in equipment and went up 300k stats
You could get away with getting the Pensalir gear around 12 stars and some okay flames, and up to Epic potential for 6% your class's stats, and 6% att on weapon. Also having some IED familiars, and aiming for around 85-90%. It should be quite doable, but might take a little bit more time if soloing!
Amaterasu, Tsukuyoomi, and Sweetwater are all good in-betweens for CRA if you can get them! I soloed CRA on my Dawn Warrior with just pensalir and a SW sword
It's a system part of the Commerci area! Transposing moves over an extra star onto a Sweetwater item from other boss drops, like Dominator -> Sweetwater Pendant, Papulatus Mark -> Monocle, etc. while being one star less (16 -> 15, overall stronger). I can only explain it so much in a comment, but there are various other resources online that go more in-depth about it.
im confused, are u not able to wear two of the same rings or pendants? for badge what about the ghost exorcist one also for shields what about the vip shields
I purposefully excluded limited/FOMO items, as reboot players and in some cases ALL players can't get them anymore, and instead tried focusing on equips that are available year-round, hopefully into the future. As for rings and pendants it depends, since most will say "Unique Equipped Item", meaning only one of those can be on at a time
@@Decatei ohhh thanks i didn't even know those r limited/fomo (what does fomo mean lol), Hmm right now on nonreboot na server, I can equip 2 superior gollux pendants but one is unique potential and the other is legendary potential with a temporary second pendant slot expansion, is that why? I only have one super gollux ring tho i haven't tried wearing two of the same ones also for upgrading before the starforce, is it better to use 30% scrolls on main stat with spell trace or icogs 60% on armor/wep/shoulder equip
I have a whole video on it, but FOMO = "Fear of Missing Out"; feeling the need to get certain limited time items, usually event stuff, before they go away. No, Gollux Pendants have no unique restriction, but the Rings do (can't wear 2 superiors, but can wear a sup + reinforced, etc) I'm not too sure on scrolling nowadays, since I don't play reg servers often, only mainly Reboot
@@Decatei dang that's good to know, do u think starting fresh on reboot or burning is faster than just continuing on reg, i have like 9 120s and my main at 231 right now with just like 30b in items only at like 11k stat 1.8b dmg so not even whaled.. mainly just a lot of cash shop items for looks I guess the only paid aspect of reboot/burning would be that u have to pay to get ur own cash shop items then since nobody can trade
Hi i'm a returning player and towards the end of your video I see that you can buy bright and glowing cubes in the cash shop. Did they take out this option because I don't see them in the enhance tab. If so, is there another alternative where I can buy cubes for mesos in order to rank up to legendary potential?
Shortly after I made this guide, they moved where cubes are in Reboot. They're now under "Quick Move" in most major towns (Henesys, Leafre, Arcane River towns, etc), all the way to the right!
If i have 3 cra 5 abso and i get arcane weapon, can i immediately equip and break 5 abso set or do i wait till i can fully replace abso gear all at once (would take muuuch longer for me to do that tho)
I'd say you can comfortably scrap a 5-set abso if you get an arcane weapon! All you'd be losing is 30 attack 10% boss from the 5 set bonus, but gaining 10% IED and a ton more attack/main stats from the arcane weapon. (if it's scrolled/flamed/cubed well enough, that helps a lot too)
At 170, you should find the quest "Welcome back to NLC!" in the lightbulb; that's the starting quest. If it's not there and you're 170+, check the dimensional mirror in most major towns and scroll down to New Leaf City
I personally play reboot, but the guide should still apply to normal servers too! Some exceptions like BiS hearts with outlaw, things like potted badges, etc. which usually cost a bit of irl money anyway, so I excluded them from this as they aren't readily available for everyone
Nexon removed all the hyper burning rewards a month or two ago! Only the extra level ups per level remain. If you mean the burninators from daily gift/random event rewards that go up to 150, those don't give frozen set either sadly
Nexon removed all the hyper burning rewards a patch or two ago! If you mean the burninators from daily gift/random event rewards that go up to 150, those don't give frozen set either sadly
He didnt put that for Asolab gear you need to kill either Lotus or Damein to get a big coin as you need 1 big coin and 20 small coins... so good luck guys lol
love your tutorials. as a returning player, I get overwhelmed with the amount of information there is with maplestory. it's hard to tell if i'm doing something right, with any class. so far, i think your tutorials are the easiest to understand.
Iv been playing MS since the aran class got added to global and have never maxed a character or got very far except level 100 with no idea how gear works in this game. Iv also played on and off breaks for multiple years, and coming across this video has opened my eyes alot and has gotten me to start thinking about getting back into it, thank you!
Hey, new player, well returning from the pre-pirate days. I appreciate the work you put in to the guide, but I have some feedback. And I notice this in most other content creators videos as well. Its like you give us almost all the information we need but leave out the most important parts. I'm 1:30 into the video where you just said that you can use frozen set until pensalir. But how do we get pensalir? Is it purchased? Do we farm for it? Where do we farm for it? And WTF is astrolab? I don't see it in the guide on any of the tabs. Nothing comes up if you search the map for Astrolab. And I know I can just google it and search for the answers to these questions, but the entire reason I pull up a video is so that I can keep playing while gaining knowledge about the game. Just notes if you plan to update this video in the future. I guess I'll look for another video.
For reference. Pensalir is dropped by mobs around level 135-150 by just killing them. Absolab equipment can be received by doing both things below together. 1. Doing the weekly haven and dark world tree quests in the yellow lightbulb quest icon. Doing all the quests gives 20 items which you need a total of 120 of from Haven. And 140 of from Dark world tree. Can do them on multiple characters at level 200+ to speed things up. Ex. I have 2 level 200+ characters so it takes me 4 weeks in total to get the 120 and 140 items. 2. Killing normal lotus and Damien weekly ( you’ll need at LEAST 5-6 million combat power to solo, 1-2 mill to contribute to a party) they drop 1-4 items that lets you trade both them and the haven/DWT items for coins which can be used in the DWT/haven towns to buy absolab equipment by talking to NPCs there
I am a returning player (i return every couple years, and i have been there since the very beginning of the game, pig beach enjoyer) yet I have never been a hardcore player and I have only ever been past level 200 with one character. For the first time ever i am playing on reboot and trying to build my chars from the ground up. This video helped me immensely. Many thanks! I am planning on maining Shade because i like how chill and colorful the character is (i know they don't have the highest damage, but I like how everything looks).
Literally everything you said is exactly what I've been doing from enjoying the game at the beginning and trying to main Shade even though they're not the strongest, straight up doppelganger.
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Minor correction reguarding the katara for dual blade. You NEVER want to transpose from tsukiumi katara to sweetwater, only fafnir. You end up with about 5 less attack if you transpose from tsukiumi and if you went into the hassle of transposing you might as well go for the best. Great video otherwise
Maybe for reboot. I'm pretty sure its still better in reg server because of the extra scroll slot.
wasn't transpose removed anyway?
@@theaveragemegaguy Flames don't transfer upon transposing like they used to but transposing is still a thing. Kataras can't be flamed so there was effectively no change for them.
New player having problem getting late game gear like Arcane set , they are way too expensive and only drop by end game bosses. And sometime not many options even you willing to buy from auction house. That makes MS dying.
This was hands down the most useful video I've found on maplestory and I've probably watched 30 hours of guide videos in the past 2 weeks of learning the game
All Maplestory guides feel like they're made for people who already have hundreds if not thousands of hours. As a completely new player, I'm totally lost within the first 2 minutes of practically every UA-cam video I watch. Wtf even is this game
Maple has a lot of players that have stuck around for years (sometimes a decade+) so a lot of newer players trying to get into it can easily get lost in translation, and those players & most places online don't detail out a lot of the early game, or how to get into it too easily for newer players without just outright giving a giant guideline without explaining anything.
I try to make these videos easier to digest for newer players as best I can, but this game just has so much going on, it's hard to cover everything thoroughly!
Don't feel discouraged I've had 3 different eras of playing maple in my life, from old school, to post big bang, to this year and I'm still COMPLETELY lost 90% of the time. It's just the nature of the game that it is too hard to keep up with if you take 6months or more off 😅
I've been playing this game since I cannot remember, probably around their first year, and I still struggle to defeat chaos vellum and I'm level 272 😂😂😂 I wish I could go around asking for "mesos plz" as the old days, since I dont know how this people get funds for equipment, also cry when entering the action house and see all the things I cannot buy 😂😂😂😂
I 100% agree, its been a huge pain to push further in the game. I get on 1-2 times a year for a couples weeks at most before getting lost again and stopping lol basically just end up leveling alts
Something people overlook in any game seems to be abbreviations. It just seems to go over peoples heads when theyre talking to new players.
Dawn warrior guide please and thank you. I'm hyper casual and it's my main at 253 (only absogear). This gear guide* was extremely helpful. Thank you for the time and effort you put into editing and making it easy to follow! Be well.
How mch str u got?
I've watched/read quite a few gear progression guides and so many of them just breeze through the beginning and say "just get cra gear" when the gap between the 140 pensalir set and cra gear is so astronomically huge for new players it's crazy that's it's skimmed through like an afternote. Basically if you aren't in a helpful guild or have a friend to help carry you to get cra this is pretty the wall where people quit. I think people who have been playing for so many years have forgotten just how much of a hurdle/leap it is to go from everything before it to CRA gear.
To put it into perspective all the daily and weekly bosses up to that point have around 5b-10b or so hp so you can pretty much fumble and burst your way through them but then for the first big gear hurdle (cra) the bosses have 80B-200B hp which is 10x-20x more of a gear check than previous opponents.
All the guides literally do this! And I had a long standing account so I sold some of my retro crap to get this "basic" gear and I still can't even make a dent on a serious boss. All the guides say "build up so you can kill the bosses to make money" I currently have nearly full absolab, all link skills, and decent legion and can't beat a boss that pays more than 10mil a week... So by next year I can buy something nice to progress to the next step 😅😅😅
Great video! As someone who's been on and off with maple over the years, it's cool to see how gear progression stayed relatively the same.
bro holy shit this is such a clean and straight to the point solid guide, thanks so much!
As someone who hasn't played maple in 15 years I have been immensely confused this entire video
Step 1, get whatever gear you find as you level to 140 and eventually get a full set of pensalir gear.
Step 1.5 Fight bosses to fill out the rest of your slots.
Step all the rest if the numbers: grind to level 200 and start fighting all the rest of the bosses for their drops and also the mesos.
I thought I'm the only one 😂 last I time played at 2009, and just started over yesterday, boy I'm overwhelmed 😢
@@Ed-1749its not as easy as u make it sound, cubing, starforcing, scrolling… its confusing
@@Tsumi784 Well it is that simple on Reboot since scrolls dont exist. The problem is that it's becoming way harder since nexon is trying really hard to kill the game these last few months
@@Ed-1749 id rather play on regular servers than reboot servers, i actually think reboots servers were a bad move on nexons part.
Can't be any clearer. Thank you so much for this guide!
Geez!! Thank you very much for this quick and easy, straight forward guide!
Althought I would prefer more captions or smth pointing on which bosses to kills, we missing a few there (coz as my POV, I have no idea how to get that sweetwater thingy for example)
But then, I’ll look it up somewhere..
Thank you for taking ur time to make this video! Keep it up!
cant tell you how many times i come back to this video to make sure im not doing something dumb on my main of mules! Great video man!
honestly thank you i've been wondering if people go from fafnir to abso but good to know you can just stick with fafnir until later
Fantastic video, hyper-useful. If you're looking for class videos. I can't for the life of me find a hyper skill point allocation guide for Dawn Warriors.
Thanks again!
Thank you for this short, brief, no stupid fucking puns guide. I've been looking for something like this to help my F/P mage get better gear. I'm a returning player that started over on a new account.
Thank you for this, I was so lost on gear progression. This really helps me set goals and what to aim for to continue moving forward.
Best Maplestory content for sure! Insane quality for such a small creator.
Phantom guide next? 🥺🙏
Minor correction about Zero's weapon starforcing @ 16:35 - Zero is lucky in that after Type 6 (Lv150) their weapon never gets more expensive to SF. So you can essentially tap an Arcane wep for the cost of a Fafnir wep. (if you upgraded to arcane before getting 21/22 for some reason)
You can use Cygnus boots, shoulder and cape before going to absolab, it’s pretty good because it has boss flames.
This needs to be in a google doc lmao. Thnaks for the info, my guy!
Amazing video dude. Thank you very much!!
Good tips mate for newer players. You make interesting videos to watch, keep it up
Finallllylyyylyllylylyl6 no one explains this. No idea how long I was searching for something like this thank you!
As a note regarding the secondaries. Besides the exceptions mentioned in the video (DB, Kanna, Demons, Shield classes). The BiS for Kaiser and AB are the evolab secondaries, not Princess No. Evolab will be removed in the New Age update in November, however the evolab secondaries will remain in the game and be sold by the general vendor.
Are the shields really better than secondaries? And is that at every stage of the game?
Woops, I should have checked up on that; I omitted them thinking they'd be unavailable after evo lab was gone. Thank you for the clarification! 💜
Shields can be star forced, which at higher tiers gets a ton more stats than secondaries could. It depends on which classes you'd want shield over secondary for (yes to all staff mages & shadower, no to all 2h warriors like hero, dawn warrior, and paladin, etc), but generally speaking if it has a shield they'll more than likely use that instead of any type of secondary
@@Decatei That's nice to know. At which point would you do the swap? Is 16-17* already better or do you need to hit the 20-22* mark for it to be actually worth it over different upgrades?
@@Feanor1988bis Shields are always better. They get the same potential, shield just also gets starforce. If you can use a shield, use a shield.
This was an amazing guide!! Thanks!
FYI, at 15:35 you say Arcane Umbra weapon gets a higher potential tier than Abso, but the captions says same potential tier.
That's why the asterisk(*) is there! I said it wrong and didn't catch the mistake until the video was already uploaded and had people point it out to me, so I did what I could making a correction in the captions
Yoo, thank you for the cube tips at the end, i was spending a lot in hard cubes.
ALSO, maybe a honorable mention to Silent Cruzade equips? Ik they trash, but it took me a while to get pb belt and magnus shoulder...
While I'd have loved to normally mention silent crusade gear in general, I didn't wanna outdate myself so soon as all of silent crusade (quests, boss portals, and gear) are all being removed in a couple months.
Or at least, they were removed from KMS and GMS will most likely follow soon after. Their equips aren't trash and their set bonus is fairly alright! Good/easyish gear to get for the time being, but it won't be around much longer
For reboot I feel they aren't really worth the coins most of the time, unless you are having extremely bad luck on boss accessory drops and need to pad your star force for star force maps. The meso bags are ultimately more useful while you still lack meso gear and can't kill weekly bosses.
@@Decatei ohh, i didnt knew they are about to be removed.
Thats a fair point!
1:54 lmao
Couldnt be me coming back literally every day to make sure im on the right track
This helped so much appreciate it
thx man, im new to the game and was very lost is a lot of stuff fkn overwhelming xd
I/L PLEASE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
oh wait, this is my comment lol
anyways, my I/L is lvl 253 now and the dmg is really not idea, I just started chaos Pierre and finds it difficult. I need some advice on it
That Kaling solo footage 😳
Great guide, thanks a lot!
could it be?? yep, thats another banger video.
Small nitpick: Specifically for starforcing, weapons are actually usually the worst to upgrade past 15* efficiency wise. They give lower stats/attack beyond 15* as compared to armors and accessories. There are exceptions, mainly for classes reliant ring swapping and weapon jump rings, but for the most part, mesos should be invested into armors if possible. I often keep my weapon 2-3* behind my armors if possible, though in reboot you're most likely gated by dupes rather than mesos.
Awesome guide! If you have the bandwidth a text version would be pretty great.
I actually made a text version of this video upon someone else asking for one a little while ago! docs.google.com/document/d/1EQaNxNQHmvFj4vy2exxfx-P93Q41DR_jdp8b8kNK668
Anything about ROR rings? Is what you said the BIS for rings?
I left out Oz rings from this mainly because I wanted to focus on general gear people want to aim for, also because I didn't understand them completely at the time.
They're very good! The go-to amazing ones are obviously Ring of Restraint like you said, and others like Weapon Jump and Continuous etc. They're a very situational item (usually for burst) and most of them also aren't too terribly useful outside of bosses
Question about BIS rings, you said reinforce ring why is that instead of kanna treasure whihc is replaced bt ET? 7:10
Kanna Treasure's base stats give 5 all stats and 1 attack, whereas Reinforced Gollux base stats give 8 all stats and 5 attack!
As a returning player, thank you so much! Canadian Sub
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Thanks for the video! it would be nice a shadower made easy video guide n.n
Sorry to ask i didnt really understand the Gear part Pensalir -> Absolab -> CRA -> Arcane Gears. Would this be the order from starting to end game gear?
Yes, though CRA before AbsoLab since those bosses are a bit easier!
Pensalir/sweetwater weapon optional but gives decent stats -> boss set & CRA -> AbsoLab -> Arcane & pitched boss
Where do superior items (Tyrant belt, cape, gloves, boots) lie in the progression?
Not sure If you're still checking comments on this vid. Do you have any insight on when it is worth it to start using cubes? Should I be cubing utgard/pens stuff? Or wait till higher? I'm on reboot if it makes a difference.
Cubing both up to epic with mystical cubes to eventually transfer at least the hat and overalls to CRA is what I'd recommend. Past that not so much, because it will be replaced once you get stronger, and it doesn't take TOO too long to start upgrading beyond pensalir.
Higher tier cubes past epic would be better spent on emblem/secondary if those aren't unique/legendary yet, same with pottable rings
is this for reboot or regular?
Both really! The only difference is reg servers have the luxury of buying a lot of this gear for cheap minus the pitched/arcane stuff, and also have the options of way expensive BiS items like Outlaw Heart, BoD, etc.
please give a class guide on dual blade!
Dam no mention of Cygnus equips? I've been using that set for years on my f/p
While the set bonus itself is fine, nowadays it's more trouble than it's worth to grind out all those prequests early on and spend however many weeks it'll take to either farm the set or squares to get set pieces from Cygnus.
I still love how the set looks, mainly the weapons but some of the armor too, but other than vanity it's vastly outclassed by the other power creeped sets nowadays that are way quicker to farm for.
for the burning event lvl220 box, should i choose the absolab weapon or dominator pendant?
It depends if you want a nice chunk of damage for a little while early on, vs if you have easy access to harder bosses through consistent boss parties.
The dominator will be used for a little while longer if you don't get lucky from running normal Arkarium daily. The AbsoLab weapon is nice and useful for getting bosses back up to lotus and damien, and makes fighting them earlier a little more comfortable.
Both eventually get replaced, but Abso is the biggest immediate damage upgrade if you have neither as the real deal quite yet
@@Decatei gotchu, thank you for answering
Please do a battlemage guide
So much info eventhough I'm clueless on some 😅
Got bat to the game after maaaaany years.
So at level 140, should I get pensalir > upgrade pensalir > level up to 200 > get absolab > upgrade absolab > get arcane armor (if I can) > gg?
Yeah! Pensalir is more than good enough nowadays to reach 200, even with very light upgrades.
Absolab and CRA/fafnir helps a lot, and there's not many other midway points between absolab and arcane with the same amount of gains from set bonus and clean stats, etc.
Eternals is the only current thing past arcane, but that's at lv. 265/270 onward and quite a ways away for most people atm
Thanks buddy, sub from Belgium. Are you in LUNA?
Reboot NA!
Gonna try to get my girl into this! Maybe ill do reboot. Havent played since 2012
What do you mean with 5 squares from bosses to get gear? Thanks for the vid tho!
Yo pretty good vid!
So idk if I'm doing something wrong but Pensalir to CRA gear feels like such a monumental leap to reach. I took a lot of time off my main to get to ~4.2k legion and all the good lvl 2 links but I just can't seem to reach the damage needed to beat any of the bosses.
Edit: no clue if anyone would bother to respond but figured id mention im NA Reboot
what class are you and what level are your nodes my brother maybe i can help you out and what level are you?
If you filled out your links and legion that much, you should have enough to take on CRA bosses.
Getting more boss items part of the boss set for extra stats, making sure you have a good amount of %boss (around minimum 50-100 or more) and %Ignore Enemy Defense (around 80% or more).
Also, since they changed star forcing, you can safely get your gear up to 15 stars without booming! Pensalir, utgard, or if you wanted some early weapon with built-in %stats - Sweetwater from doing a few voyages or CPQ.
Familiars can get you a bit more %IED too, even at the lowest rarity they can still get 15% IED lines. Also don't forget monster park red/green pots, or blue if you're a mage class. And since you have some legion, if you have any coins lying around, the legion attack gives a nice 30 attack.
Sorry for the wordwall, but I hope any of this helps!
You can also get star potions from the vendor after your normal RA runs for extra juice!
Thanks for the replies folks. The character I'm most interested in is my 206 Adelle but I've mostly been chipping away at the levels with events so I basically have zero nodes to work with. IED is also something I struggle with but I haven't tinkered with a proper boss setup for my legion board which could help, and I also need to admit that Familiars are completely foreign to me, I had no idea I could get decent stats off them.
I always wondered about the ruin force shield for DA and DS. Since you take more damage from even %hp attacks, how much does it really affect your survivability? Having been part of some HLucid and HWill and HLomien boss parties, wouldn't a lot more attacks become oneshots?
Not an expert on DA/DS, but looking it up yeah it seems like the %FD boost is useful on most bosses, but other later ones like you mentioned way harder because of the extra damage taken.
I'd say it mostly boils down to the boss and how well you understand their mechanics, mixed with their map-wide attacks etc.
I have a question please. What's the transpose nerf and sweetwater pendant transpose is still viable?
For years in Commerci, there was a quirk to transposing that let people transfer the boss flames onto sweetwater equipment, which could not get boss flames. Many thought this was a feature with how well known it was amongst the community, but then Nexon suddenly removed it earlier this year, saying it was a bug. Those that already transposed their flames still kept them to this day, leaving them as a FOMO/legacy item.
Transposing is still a good viable mid-game option as the main point of transposing still remains, which is transferring the stats from a 16 star item onto a Sweetwater down to 15 stars, so it gains a little extra stats, essentially a free star. It also is a higher item tier, meaning potential lines on them are bigger too!
@@Decatei Nexon with FOMO always. Thanks, then in go ro sw
I have an issue, i started my hyper burn character yesterday and i'm about to get to 200 but the burning event is over and i couldnt claim the armor set they give you and now i'm lacking a lot of dmge. Is becoming hard to get mesos or better items. What should i do?
You'll at least keep the extra 2 levels per level until November, but as for the other stuff: Ursus for mesos! Daily bosses helps too for both some mid-way items and mesos through the boss crystals, you could get some attack buffs through a guild or legion and atmospherics people cast in towns sometimes, and faming people on 250/275 chair once a day gives a 30 minute attack buff.
You could also try star forcing a little bit, at least up to 10 stars (12 if you can afford it) and cubing with mystical cubes that drop from pollo/fritto/especia/inferno wolf portals, elite mobs/elite bosses, and some other daily bosses for cheap quick and easy potential lines.
Link skills and beefing up legion even with just level 70 characters might help a bit too if you're absolutely in need of more damage!
Thanks for the fast answer, ill give it a try to each tips that you gave me!!!
@@Decatei
Please do wind archer class guide :(
Is the alien gear good til superior items? I have the pendant, belt, and earrings
Alien gear is still good if you have it! I didn't mention it because of it's removal earlier this year
For hyper-burning characters with the temporary CRA set, should we use our meso to star force and potential the real CRA set to unique/legendary right?
Yeah! Take advantage of the temporary CRA while you can, and at the least get the real deal/start working on them for when the temporary goes away
Can you cover buc, I kinda jumped from 100 to 200 with potions cuz event lmao 😅 that's why I'm here cuz my gear sucks in 198 with 80k dmg ☠️☠️ but I still want to know a good in depth guide about him
My newest video I uploaded the other day just so happens to be a guide for buccaneer!
@@Decatei I'll definitely give it a check! Thanks for all the content it's a really big help with someone who's only played a few weeks I actually was able to start getting my mule up in equipment and went up 300k stats
Man how do you get your gear to those stats???
will i need to enhance pensalir to solo chaos root abyss?
You could get away with getting the Pensalir gear around 12 stars and some okay flames, and up to Epic potential for 6% your class's stats, and 6% att on weapon.
Also having some IED familiars, and aiming for around 85-90%. It should be quite doable, but might take a little bit more time if soloing!
@@Decatei i was thinking about gear Amaterasu too, bcuz of high ATT and BD%
Amaterasu, Tsukuyoomi, and Sweetwater are all good in-betweens for CRA if you can get them! I soloed CRA on my Dawn Warrior with just pensalir and a SW sword
What does it mean to transpose an item onto another item?
It's a system part of the Commerci area! Transposing moves over an extra star onto a Sweetwater item from other boss drops, like Dominator -> Sweetwater Pendant, Papulatus Mark -> Monocle, etc. while being one star less (16 -> 15, overall stronger).
I can only explain it so much in a comment, but there are various other resources online that go more in-depth about it.
im confused, are u not able to wear two of the same rings or pendants?
for badge what about the ghost exorcist one
also for shields what about the vip shields
I purposefully excluded limited/FOMO items, as reboot players and in some cases ALL players can't get them anymore, and instead tried focusing on equips that are available year-round, hopefully into the future.
As for rings and pendants it depends, since most will say "Unique Equipped Item", meaning only one of those can be on at a time
@@Decatei ohhh thanks i didn't even know those r limited/fomo (what does fomo mean lol),
Hmm right now on nonreboot na server, I can equip 2 superior gollux pendants but one is unique potential and the other is legendary potential with a temporary second pendant slot expansion, is that why?
I only have one super gollux ring tho i haven't tried wearing two of the same ones
also for upgrading before the starforce, is it better to use 30% scrolls on main stat with spell trace or icogs 60% on armor/wep/shoulder equip
I have a whole video on it, but FOMO = "Fear of Missing Out"; feeling the need to get certain limited time items, usually event stuff, before they go away.
No, Gollux Pendants have no unique restriction, but the Rings do (can't wear 2 superiors, but can wear a sup + reinforced, etc)
I'm not too sure on scrolling nowadays, since I don't play reg servers often, only mainly Reboot
@@Decatei dang that's good to know, do u think starting fresh on reboot or burning is faster than just continuing on reg, i have like 9 120s and my main at 231 right now with just like 30b in items only at like 11k stat 1.8b dmg so not even whaled.. mainly just a lot of cash shop items for looks
I guess the only paid aspect of reboot/burning would be that u have to pay to get ur own cash shop items then since nobody can trade
Hi i'm a returning player and towards the end of your video I see that you can buy bright and glowing cubes in the cash shop. Did they take out this option because I don't see them in the enhance tab. If so, is there another alternative where I can buy cubes for mesos in order to rank up to legendary potential?
Shortly after I made this guide, they moved where cubes are in Reboot.
They're now under "Quick Move" in most major towns (Henesys, Leafre, Arcane River towns, etc), all the way to the right!
@@Decatei Thanks a whole lot, I was going crazy thinking that they didn't add an alternative.
If i have 3 cra 5 abso and i get arcane weapon, can i immediately equip and break 5 abso set or do i wait till i can fully replace abso gear all at once (would take muuuch longer for me to do that tho)
I'd say you can comfortably scrap a 5-set abso if you get an arcane weapon!
All you'd be losing is 30 attack 10% boss from the 5 set bonus, but gaining 10% IED and a ton more attack/main stats from the arcane weapon.
(if it's scrolled/flamed/cubed well enough, that helps a lot too)
@@Decatei thanks will def be using it. Havent invested a lot in abso so i think its gonna be a good upgrade 😂
Best gear guide for new players
can you give us an ayame guide
for the one speck of time you can play her in princess no questline? That'd be kinda fun tbh
@@Decatei its mainly jokes tbh maybe as an april fools video
I cant even get magnus to drop a single dam item
Is this still useful to this day?
No new gear (best in slot, in-between, or otherwise) has been added since making this video, so yes! It's still useful to this day
how do you get john’s treasure ring? i cant get to new leaf city
At 170, you should find the quest "Welcome back to NLC!" in the lightbulb; that's the starting quest. If it's not there and you're 170+, check the dimensional mirror in most major towns and scroll down to New Leaf City
How strong my pensalir need to be in reboot to carry me?
Great video! Definitely will tune in when you drop those class guides
My request is Mercedes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
my friend and I play Demon Slayer, so I vote that plez!
Hi, is this for normal server or reboot?
I personally play reboot, but the guide should still apply to normal servers too!
Some exceptions like BiS hearts with outlaw, things like potted badges, etc. which usually cost a bit of irl money anyway, so I excluded them from this as they aren't readily available for everyone
@@Decatei I’m playing reboot too! returning player hahaha. thanks! Your guide is awesome 👍🏻
can i ask why i dont have the lv 100 equip forzen box to claim? i cant find it anywhere. i hyper burned a hero
Nexon removed all the hyper burning rewards a month or two ago! Only the extra level ups per level remain.
If you mean the burninators from daily gift/random event rewards that go up to 150, those don't give frozen set either sadly
@@Decatei aww that’s sad.. ok thanks again
Blaster made easy please!
Where does one get the frozen set? Got to my burning char to 122 and i havent recieved it. Thanks
Nexon removed all the hyper burning rewards a patch or two ago!
If you mean the burninators from daily gift/random event rewards that go up to 150, those don't give frozen set either sadly
Ahhh gear progression.. my only weakness.
anybody has a guild for a veteran to join?
Go kain
Please do demon slayer guide ❤❤
bro what has this game become
wtf is this lol
Angelic buster guide or just how to lv your stuff
He didnt put that for Asolab gear you need to kill either Lotus or Damein to get a big coin as you need 1 big coin and 20 small coins... so good luck guys lol
Why are you still playing
How is progression so trash in an mmo that’s 20 years old. Even lost ark did it better smfh
love your tutorials. as a returning player, I get overwhelmed with the amount of information there is with maplestory. it's hard to tell if i'm doing something right, with any class. so far, i think your tutorials are the easiest to understand.
At 9:03, you say that Will o' the Wisps drops from Normal Hilla but it only drops from Hard Hilla.
just finding this in 2024. nice vid
I thought Nexon got rid of Commerci Transposing.
Transposing the flames was removed, but not transposing the star force stats of certain 16 star items onto sweetwater!
Iv been playing MS since the aran class got added to global and have never maxed a character or got very far except level 100 with no idea how gear works in this game. Iv also played on and off breaks for multiple years, and coming across this video has opened my eyes alot and has gotten me to start thinking about getting back into it, thank you!
bro tysm, this guide was probably the most helpful i’ve found so far
Penilsir gear can carry you till Daimien? No way😮
This video is amazing, i have been searching so much for a gear progression guide, that ACTUALLY visualises the items and explain all the stuff
Hey, new player, well returning from the pre-pirate days. I appreciate the work you put in to the guide, but I have some feedback. And I notice this in most other content creators videos as well. Its like you give us almost all the information we need but leave out the most important parts. I'm 1:30 into the video where you just said that you can use frozen set until pensalir. But how do we get pensalir? Is it purchased? Do we farm for it? Where do we farm for it?
And WTF is astrolab? I don't see it in the guide on any of the tabs. Nothing comes up if you search the map for Astrolab. And I know I can just google it and search for the answers to these questions, but the entire reason I pull up a video is so that I can keep playing while gaining knowledge about the game.
Just notes if you plan to update this video in the future. I guess I'll look for another video.
For reference. Pensalir is dropped by mobs around level 135-150 by just killing them. Absolab equipment can be received by doing both things below together.
1. Doing the weekly haven and dark world tree quests in the yellow lightbulb quest icon. Doing all the quests gives 20 items which you need a total of 120 of from Haven. And 140 of from Dark world tree. Can do them on multiple characters at level 200+ to speed things up. Ex. I have 2 level 200+ characters so it takes me 4 weeks in total to get the 120 and 140 items.
2. Killing normal lotus and Damien weekly ( you’ll need at LEAST 5-6 million combat power to solo, 1-2 mill to contribute to a party) they drop 1-4 items that lets you trade both them and the haven/DWT items for coins which can be used in the DWT/haven towns to buy absolab equipment by talking to NPCs there
I am a returning player (i return every couple years, and i have been there since the very beginning of the game, pig beach enjoyer) yet I have never been a hardcore player and I have only ever been past level 200 with one character.
For the first time ever i am playing on reboot and trying to build my chars from the ground up. This video helped me immensely. Many thanks!
I am planning on maining Shade because i like how chill and colorful the character is (i know they don't have the highest damage, but I like how everything looks).
Shade is fun! Not too much mobility but they have a lot of control with pushing and pulling mobs around, and some fun boss utility with soul splitter
Literally everything you said is exactly what I've been doing from enjoying the game at the beginning and trying to main Shade even though they're not the strongest, straight up doppelganger.
thank you so much! i'm a returning player and just reached 5th job and i was so lost on what to do next, but this was very helpful!