MapleStory: THE ULTIMATE REBOOT GUIDE (very outdated)

Steam Community guide by RH1N0 P1LL P3T3R.

Introduction to Reboot

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Hi, I'm spreadnuts (Reboot: Nóvà), and I'd like to thank you for clicking this guide. It covers almost every major aspect of gameplay in Reboot. Beginners and intermediate players alike will get a kick out of this guide and also perhaps pick up a few new pieces of information or tips by reading. My goal with this guide is for players to not have to dig through wiki links and reddit posts just to advance in Maplestory anymore by compiling all the information I've amassed in one place. Some of the information in this guide is pasted from my older website, so I apologize if my syntax changes unaccountedly. Remember to share this guide with friends, family, pets, etc. I'd like also to plug my guild Song, we're open to all levels. Feel free to apply!
Maplestory: Reboot is a unique server for players who perhaps have gotten bored of or never liked the layout of Classic Maplestory, in a nutshell. It also was one of the many attempts by Nexon America to revive their dying game (it worked).

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What is different about Reboot compared to other servers?

• Completely free-to-play - Anything that would usually be bought with money on other servers can be obtained on Reboot with mesos or through other means.
• Stronger mobs and bosses - Reboot boasts a harder game for more dedicated players, but it is not too challenging. It welcomes casual and hardcore players alike.
• No pay-to-win gambling - Unlike other Nexon-hosted servers, Reboot has no gambling systems (Gachapon, Marvel Machine).
• Simpler equipment system - Scrolls and bonus potentials are nonexistent in Reboot. Focus more on the game, and less on the hassle of managing armor.
  Essentially, Reboot is tailored towards players who want a fuller singleplayer experience. In other servers, paying large sums of money / getting funded by other players is essential to progression towards later points in the game. In Reboot, these concepts are virtually nonexistant.

Starting Up (What do I pick?)

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This is always a big deal to new players, and for good reason. There's a huge amount of classes to choose from, and you want to pick a good one because it's going to be what you're playing with for the rest of your time in Maplestory.
Here's my tip to you: Play all the classes if you don't know what to pick!
First and second job advancement skills usually reflect how the class will be played for the rest of the game. A good idea would be to go on reddit.com/r/maplestory and make a post asking what class you should play, detailing your preferred way of play in the post so that people can help you narrow your choice out. Don't be afraid to make a new character because you don't like your current class. After all, this is the longest-term investment you'll be making in the game.
NOTE: If you have some characters past level 30 that you didn't enjoy, don't delete them! They might be useful later for a little game mechanic called Link Skills, which are covered in this guide.

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Setup and Keybindings
Troubles are unavoidable with the quick addition of multiple skills and limited keys to bind them to. In order to save you trouble down the line and make sense of the initial confusion, take into consideration this section.

Sampled here is a picture of my setup. I've in my setup removed more than half of the GUI bindings (most of which can be accessed through the main overlay) to make space for the multitude of skills and buffs I have. The idea of my setup is to have your pinky on 1, with the most frequently used skills in the close range of your hand. Buffs and Hyper Skill Actives are noticeably farther from the place of my resting hand.
Here's a list of bindings that I suggest removing because they're so unfrequently used / aren't used in states of urgency (Starts from top left):

• Say
• Party chat
• Friends chat
• Guild chat
• Alliance chat
• World map
• Boss party
• Item pot
• Enhance equip
• Menu
• Quick slots
• Key bindings
• Notifier
• Medals
• Toggle chat
• Maple chat
• Event
  By no means does this mean it's a horrible thing to have these as bindings, they're just keys that personally I've removed because I don't find them useful enough to take up space.
  Stylizing how you play Maplestory with your keybindings takes a long time. Try to find a setup based around what's most comfortable for you.

Levelling

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Note that farming with different classes will produce different results regarding speed of experience gain. Find what maps are right for your class. There are many different resources for levelling in Reboot online. Keep in mind that some of them may be outdated.
Maple World

​[Lv. 0 - 10] Job Quests
[Lv. 10 - 30] Golem's Temple 3
[Lv. 30 - 37] Seaside 2
[Lv. 37 - 50] Hardwave Beach
[Lv. 50 - 60] Riena Strait Theme Dungeon
[Lv. 50 - 60] Wild Boar Land
[Lv. 61 - 76] Silent Swamp
​[Lv. 76 - 85] Ice Valley II
[Lv. 85 - 90] Sahel 2
[Lv. 90 - 100] Lab - Area C-1
[Lv. 100] Normal Zakum Arms (2 runs per day)
[Lv. 100 - 107] West Leafre Forest
[Lv. 107 - 124] Toy Factory <Apparatus Room>
[Lv. 125 - 130] Black Mountain Entrance
[Lv. 130 - 137] Red-Nose Piraate Den 2
[Lv. 137 - 146] Goblin House
[Lv. 140 - 150] Dimensional Invasion Party Quest
[Lv. 140 - 150] Monster Park PQ
[Lv. 150 - 158] Temple of Time Questline
[Lv. 146 - 157] [*70] The Dragon Nest Left Behind 2
[Lv. 157 - 170] Road to Oblivion 4
[Lv. 170 - 180] [*120] Armory 2
[Lv. 170 - 180] Knights' Chamber 1
[Lv. 180 - 190] Deserted Southern Ridge
[Lv. 190 - 203] Forsaken Excavation Site 2
[Lv. 203 - 213] Scrapyard Hill 5
[Lv. 213 - 231] Black Heaven Deck 1
[Lv. 221 - 250] Black Heaven Maze 5/7
Arcane River
[Lv. 200 - 203] Fire Zone
[Lv. 203 - 210] Forked Road 2
[Lv. 210 - 217] Deep Forest of Chew
[Lv. 211 - 220] Torrent Zone 3
[Lv. 220 - 231] Lachelein (Galluses)
[Lv. 221 - 250] Lachelein (Dreamkeepers)
[Lv. 224 - 250] Hidden Area (Chu Chu Island)
This levelling guide is meant for fast grinding to higher levels. Nowhere does the game tell you you must follow this path. Maple World is a vast, interesting place, so by all means, explore it your own way.

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Powerlevelling

• At level 33, you'll get a quest bubble above your head. Save it because it can be used as a timesaver. When you find yourself done the Riena Strait Theme Dungeon, click the bubble and spam through the dialogue until you've entered Alishan. From there, you can get to Henesys fast by going to the portal found at the top left of the map.
• Assign a key to the Maple Guide. As soon as you're level 10, you can open it using the key and skip your main questline to get to Henesys instantly, where you can head to golems. In general, the Maple Guide is a very useful resource, in that it's a crude guideline for levelling and can help you get around maps quickly if you haven't invested in or don't have enough Mesos for a Hyper Teleport Rock.
  Possible ways to multiply your experience
• Pendant of the Spirit (10 - 30%)
• Kin Ring (10% + 5% BONUS exp)
• Monster Park Extreme Gold Potion (10%)
• Experience Coupon (1.5x - 4x)
• Bishop Skill: Holy Symbol (50%)
• Event: 2x Drop and EXP Weekends (2x)
• Kanna Skill: Kishin Shoukai (Instant mob respawns, higher mob cap)

Progression and Essentials

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This is a hard section to organize. Maplestory is littered with quests and out-of-place or random, unexplained GUIs which can get confusing, very fast. Beginners find themselves often turned away from the game due to a lack of linearity or a sense of goal, which is to most veteran players an asset but nevertheless one not handled well by the developers. Prequests, Crusader Codex, bosses and much else will be covered in order to help you achieve a better sense of what to do next in this section.

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Level 1-150
Maplestory gets saturated at level 150. It should be very straightforward, simple and fairly fast to get to this point in the game, but some still may need a little bit of help. A few tips can be found here:

• Unless you're a heavily farming-oriented class such as a Luminous, get in to a 2 man party whenever the possibility arises. Oftentimes people will tell you that they do not want to party, usually due to a lack of understanding of the system's benefits. As long as you and your party members are within 10 levels of eachother, you will, unless you are clearing more than half of the map on each spawn (unlikely at early levels), both gain more experience no matter what. If you are on a map such as Copper Drakes, consider even adding 1 or 2 more members. The key is to have everyone grinding at full capacity and having only 1 or 2 mobs left on the map when they respawn. More info on EXP[strategywiki.org]
• Can't kill Normal Zakum at level 100? Make sure that all of your equipment has at least 5 stars' worth of Starforce Power on it. Though it falls off in the late-game until all of your gear is cubed, Starforce Enhancement is the only practical method of gaining extra range in the early game. To access the Starforce Enhancement tab, open your Inventory and click the Equipment Enchant button on the bottom right of the GUI window.
• Refer back to the Levelling section on how to grind faster with the use of EXP coupons and equipment.
  Guilds will take interest in you at this point. Find a guild that you like, and do daily bosses with them when you can. Don't be afraid to ask questions. The majority of the wikis are outdated, so the main way of getting information if not from here is through other players. Shameless plug to my guild, Song!
  Prequesting Post - Lv. 150
  Once you've gotten to Level 150, almost every significant prequest will be available to get endgame gear.
• Temple of Time: Pink Bean access (Pocket item)
  
• Crimsonheart Castle: Gollux access (Ring, earring, belt, pendant)
• Cave of Horntail: Horntail access (Daily boss)
• Magnus Simulator: Easy Magnus access (Daily boss)
• Heliseum: Normal / Hard Magnus access (Boots, cape)
• Lion King's Castle: Von Leon access (Daily boss)
• San Commerci: Commerci PQ access, Solo Voyage access (Gloves, weapon, eye accessory)
• Ghost Ship: Questline reward (Badge)
• Job quests: Questline reward (Emblem)
• Boss Arena: If your job does not have a questline for an emblem, do this instead. (Emblem)
• Root Abyss: Root Abyss boss access (Hat, top, pants, title)
• Masteria Through Time: Questline reward (Title, level 9 shop android)
• Kritias: Kritias dailies access (Boss reset tickets)
• Yu Garden: Yu Garden dailies access (6 epic pot scrolls per week)
• Arcane River (Lv. 200+): Arcane symbol dailies access (Arcane symbol level up)
• Alien PQ (Lv. 200+): Alien PQ access (Nebulites)
  During and After Questing
  Here's what you should be doing while you finish all these prequests every day so far:
• Normal Zakum x2 (Mesos)
• Normal Hilla x2 (Mesos)
• Easy / Normal Horntail x2 (Mesos, decent filler accessories)
• Easy Ranmaru x2 (Pick up and learn as many recipes as possible)
• Commerci Solo Runs (You can get PQ carries early if you're in a good guild)
• Easy Gollux x3 (Kill all body parts and leave twice, killing it the third time for 11 coins a day)
• Root Abyss (Mesos, CRA access after 10 kills and guild contribution)
• Monster Park (Coins used for Extreme Potions and perhaps a Greed Pendant)
  Assuming you have the full Pensalir / Frozen set, here's what you should do with all of your cubes, potential scrolls and stamps.
• Use all epic potential scrolls on your BiS items and then after that in conventional cubing order (Secondary > emblem > badge > weapon > armor (highest to lowest level) > accessories)
• Master Craftsman's Cubes go on each epic potentialled gearpiece. Continue cubing each piece until it has at least 3% mainstat on it.
• Stamps go on your BiS gear until 3 lines is reached. If you have absolutely no use for them (unlikely), put it into your storage if possible, otherwise keep it.
  
  Start working on Smithing, Mining, Herbalism and Alchemy as much as possible (Ardentmill). When your Smithing is level 10, create a Japanese Weapon for your character (recipes obtained from Ranmaru). This will be your main weapon until Fafnir. You should aim to get every profession to level 10, but if you're too lazy, focus on Smithing, Alchemy and Herbalism. You'll thank yourself later!
  Begin cubing your gear in conventional cubing order for 6% mainstat epic potentials. Your weapon, secondary and emblem should have %MAtt / %Att instead of mainstat. By the time this is done, you should have around ~800k (super rough estimate) range. If you cannot be carried by players in your guild, find those of equal skill so you can beat bosses like Hard Gollux and Pink Bean.
  Get and max out a Big Spider familiar. It's essentially a permanent 1.6x drop coupon that can be summoned at will.
  Somewhere between this, you'll be level 200. Do Arcane River ASAP so you can begin your Arcane Symbol dailies, which increase your range a fair amount and allow access to true endgame bosses.
  If at this point you refuse to join a guild which can provide CRA or HMag carries, your workload will be significantly heavier. Start working on Link Skill characters, meso farming mules and perfecting BiS gearpieces. If you're in a guild, get your full Fafnir set and Tyrant Boots + Cape.
  By now you should be completely set up with endgame equipment other than your armor set. After this comes hours upon hours of meso farming, dailies and events so that you can solo endgame bosses like CVellum, HMag, Hellux, Damien, etc. If you're lucky, you might have a few Sweetwater pieces.
  Here's what your dailies should look like post - Lv. 200:
• Normal / Chaos Zakum x2
• Normal / Chaos Horntail x2
• Normal Hilla x2
• Normal Von Leon x1
• Hard Von Leon x1
• Easy Gollux x2
• Hardlux / Hellux x1
• Commerci Solo Voyages
• Commerci PQ
• Root Abyss
• Monster Park
• Yu Garden dailies
• Kritias dailies
• Arcane River dailies

Link Skills

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Link Skills are a feature that was introduced in the 2011 Legends Update. Players by the update are encouraged to play all of the classes offered in MapleStory, though admittedly it becomes very monotonous and grind-ey over a short period of time. Accessible through the [●] tab, link skills increase the stats of a character once thresholds of other characters are met. These thresholds are level 70, level 120 and level 210. Players looking for the next step in upping their range usually find themself grinding for long hours, stopping with 12 (maximum) characters at level 120.

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Class Link Skill
Skills can be linked in the basic skill tab [●].
Level 1: Level 70
Level 2: Level 120
Level 3: Level 210
Angelic Buster (Terms and Conditions)
Increase skill damage for 10 seconds when activated (90 second cooldown).
Level 1: +60% skill damage when active.
Level 2: +90% skill damage when active.
Level 3: +120% skill damage when active.
Beast Tamer (Elf Focus)
Permanently increases boss damage, critical rate, max HP and max MP.
Level 1: Boss damage +4%, Critical rate +4%, MaxHP + MaxMP +3%.
Level 2: Boss damage +7%, Critical rate +7%, MaxHP + MaxMP +4%.
Level 3: Boss damage +10%, Critical rate +10%, MaxHP + MaxMP +5%.
Cannonneer (Pirate Blessing)
Permanently boosts all stats, Max HP and Max MP.
Level 1: All Stats +15, MaxHP +5%, MaxMP +5%
Level 2: All Stats +25, MaxHP +10%, MaxMP +10%
Level 3: All Stats +35, MaxHP +15%, MaxMP +15%
Demon Avenger (Wild Rage)
Permanently increases damage.
Level 1: +5% Damage.
Level 2: +10% Damage.
Level 3: +15% Damage.
Demon Slayer (Fury Unleashed)
Permanently increases boss damage.
Level 1: +10% Damage to Bosses.
Level 2: +15% Damage to Bosses.
Level 3: +20% Damage to Bosses.
Eunwol / Shade (Close Call)
Chance to ignore death.
Level 1: Ignore Death Chance +5%
Level 2: Ignore Death Chance +10%
Level 3: Ignore Death Chance +15%
Kinesis (Judgement)
Permanently increases minimum critical damage.
Level 1: Minimum Critical Damage +4%.
Level 2: Minimum Critical Damage +8%.
Hayato (Keen Edge)
Permanently increases all stats, weapon attack and magic attack.
Level 1: All Stats +10, Weapon Attack +5, Magic Attack +5.
Level 2: Unavailable.
Level 3: Unavailable.
Zen/Jett (Core Aura)
Adds random stats to STR, DEX, INT, LUK, Magic Attack and Weapon Attack.
Level 1: STR, DEX, INT, LUK, Weapon ATT, Magic ATT. (Small Boost)
Level 2: N/A
Level 3: N/A
Kaiser (Iron Will)
Permanently boosts max HP.
Level 1: +10% MaxHP.
Level 2: +15% MaxHP.
Level 3: +20% MaxHP.
Kanna (Elementalism)
Permanently increases damage.
Level 1: +5% Damage.
Level 2: +10% Damage.
Level 3: Unavailable.
Luminous (Light Wash / Permeate)
Increases Ignore Defense (PDR).
Level 1: Ignores 10% Defense.
Level 2: Ignores 15% Defense.
Level 3: Ignores 20% Defense.
Mercedes (Elven Blessing)
Sends you to Elluel (30 minute cooldown). Passively permanently increases experience gain.
Level 1: (Passive) +10% EXP. (Active) Sends you to Elluel.
Level 2: (Passive) +15% EXP. (Active) Sends you to Elluel.
Level 3: (Passive) +20% EXP. (Active) Sends you to Elluel.
Mihile (Knight's Watch)
Temporarily increases knockback resistance to 100% (180 second cooldown).
Level 1: 100% Knockback Resist for 90 sec.
Level 2: 100% Knockback Resist for 110 sec.
Level 3: 100% Knockback Resist for 130 sec.
Phantom (Deadly Instinct)
Permanently increases Critical Rate.
Level 1: +10% Critical Rate.
Level 2: +15% Critical Rate.
Level 3: +20% Critical Rate.
Xenon (Hybrid Logic)
Permanently increases all stats.
Level 1: All Stats +5%.
Level 2: All Stats +10%.
Level 3: Unavailable.
Evan (Rune Persistence)
Increases the duration of runes.
Level 1: Rune Duration +30%
Level 2: Rune Duration +50%
Level 3: Rune Duration +70%
Aran (Combo Kill Blessing)
Increases Combo Kill Marble Experience. (Blue, purple and red orbs that appear on the map)
Level 1: Combo Kill Marble EXP +400%
Level 2: Combo Kill Marble EXP +650%
Level 3: Combo Kill Marble Exp +900%

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Best Link Skills
In rough order of prioritization. You can't link a 2nd duplicate class to your own. Some of these may not be good for your class, which is why the list goes to 15.

1. Mercedes: Passive experience boost for grinding from level 1-250.
2. Evan: Runes grant 200% EXP and help grind faster.
3. Aran: EXP baubles give great boosts of EXP for grinding.
4. Kanna: Damage for bossing and mobbing.
5. Demon Avenger: Damage for bossing and mobbing.
6. Luminious: Ignore Defense (PDR) for bossing and mobbing.
7. Zen/Jett: All Stat