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[quote=DongInBong]Unless it's a perfectly scrolled/enhanced wep or something.[/quote]

Made that mistake in a past maple life </3

@KrazyKid132: No. I am not, but I can answer the same basic questions being asked about 300 times a day. There's a lot of things I personally am not familiar with and I, too, have questions to ask time to time. I don't mind helping new/returning players out though, makes the community a better place.

[quote=Traitor]It depends on the items you would like to have in the end and whether you'd rather make them or to buy them. Personally, if you wish to convert your $75 legally into mesos, you would purchase Cash Shop Surprise boxes and selling them. [I recommend doing so on a girl character because girl items are generally worth more]

As for gearing/scrolling and such I left an excerpt from a much longer guide below. Feel free to PM if you have more direct questions. If you need training help and training spots, don't bother making another thread, just shoot me a PM.

[b]Items to think about having eventually for end game:[/b] (This may prove to be expensive, but I will post the affordable equips after]
-Chaos Root Abyss Set [Hat, Top, Bottom, Weapon]
-Tyrant [Glove, Shoes, Cape, Belt]
-Sweet Water [Glasses(Eye), Tattoo(Face)]
-Superior/Reinforced Gollux Set [Ring, Pendant, Belt, Earring] (if you use Tyrant Belt, you would have to use NX to purchase a pendant slot to equip 2 pendants to get the full set bonus]
-Rings [Since the Gollux Set takes up a ring slot and unique equips, you can pretty much get one of each Gollux RIng, if not Lightning God Ring for the best stats]
[b]Note:[/b] This is the generally ideal set but by all means you do not need to chase this as this is VERY expensive.

[b]Cheap but Efficient Equipment Guide:[/b]
The CRA set is a couple hundred mil apiece but there may be some pieces out there depending on class for a couple mil. If you cannot get this, you can try to buy the empress set for the bonus effect stats. Personally, I would say save your money and at around 140, you can grind at the higher leveled monsters in Leafre or the Pirates in Herb town. They drop the new level 130-140 set which gives a set bonus as well. If you take this process, you can save your money but slowly increase your damage. These level 130-140 sets are also tradeable so you don't need to purchase use SoK or pSoK to transfer them character to character. Next I would try to purchase cheap solid/reinforced gollux pendant/belt for small range increase. If you hunt bosses, easy bosses around be Zak/Horntail/Hilla/Magnus/Ranmaru in the easy/regular modes(you can do these twice daily, bring a friend if you must), I wouldn't attempt harder modes until you're geared and much stronger. The bosses drop accessories[Eye,Face,Ring,Earring,Badge, etc.] that also have set equips. If you find some Epic / Unique accessories, you may make a quick buck. Remember, though you won't be getting rich fast but patience is the key.

[b]Scrolling:[/b]
-The scrolling system has been semi-replaced with the Spell Trace system which you collect a required amount of traces to use a scroll. How it works is you double click the Spell Trace in your etc tab or the Pink Hammer in your inventory window and place the item in there. You can then see how many traces is required per scroll. If you're poor, I recommend 70-100%ing your items, except for weapons which I always recommend at the very least 70%ing it.
-The enhancement system is semi-replaced by the Star Force system, this system takes effect after you finish scrolling an item. Once the item does not have any slots left, you can add additional stats by enhancing it with Star Force which is done by the Pink Hammer. I recommend Star Forcing all your equips until 10 stars because it is fairly cheap to do so. This will also increase your range by a pretty fair amount.

[b]Potentials:[/b]
There a certain tiers for items to have potential which has 4 different ranks. I wouldn't really worry about potential items unless they are above level 75 which is the 3rd tier.

First Tier: 1-30, items will generally have lines in multiples of 1%. (2%, 3%, 4%)
Second Tier: 31-74, items will generally have lines in multiples of 2%. (4%,6%,9%)
Third Tier: 75-159, items will generally have lines in multiples of 3%. (6%,9%,12%)
Fourth Tier: 160+, this one is a little unique because the lines are 4% (7%, 10%, 13%)

How it works:
if your item is Rare, you will generally have the lowest multiple.
if your item is Epic, you will get the maximum landing at 2nd multiple.
if your item is Unique you will get the maximum landing at 3rd multiple.
if your item is Legendary you will get the maximum landing at highest multiple.

So for example, your Legendary item unlocks the potential to have the maximum % but you can land any of the %s below it, such as rare, epic, unique. So if you get VERY lucky, your lines would all be of one stat but don't be so sure to expect to get that easily. You will be spending many, many, packs of cubes. The best time to cube is during miracle time when nexon does a 2x-like event for cubing, increasing the chances of rank up. Again, I don't recommend cubing anything below the third tier.

Weapons and armors have different potentials. Weapons have additional stats such as att/matt where as armor is generally stat based. You can make cubes but farming the materials and leveling the skill level takes time. I would recommend picking up professions as soon as possible to start leveling it up. Sometimes when you make equipment, such as earrings, you can get epic/unique items which you can sell for a fair amount, meaning you can make money this way. When you mine mysterious rocks you also have a chance to find cubes(other way would be bossing)!

[b]Nebulites:[/b]
You don't really get to see this much but people generally applies this to weapons. Select few rich players have acquired a lot of nebs for their armor as well.

How it works:
You can purchase a nebulite socket opener thing from the pot shop and apply it to your item. You can then apply your nebulite of choice depending what you have.

Weapon: I would put on a %boss or %pdr neb or % att neb for endgame. If you can't afford it, you can use an att neb or crit neb. Think wisely because removing a neb costs NX.
Armor: I always recommend %stat nebs but if you're poor, again you may choose to use simple +stat nebs

There are some useful but expensive skill nebs with skills such as Hyper Body for pants and Sharp Eyes for gloves meaning that regardless of class you can use both those skills but at a nerfed rate. The stats only apply to yourself however.

[b]Souls for Weapons:[/b]
This is a newer system where you can even more stats to your weapons.

How it works:
You use a soul enchanter on your weapon, these drop from monsters and some bosses. Once your item is a soul weapon, you equip your weapon and apply the soul. If you do not have a soul, you would have to hunt bosses which drop soul shards. Collect 10 shards to trade for a random stat soul in which you can apply to your weapon. Some souls are attacks, some are summons.[/quote]

Are you like prepared to explain any and everything maple?

[quote=yearn]play for the cosmetic kawaii super cuteness aspect of this game, it's much cheaper.[/quote]

Oh but of course

@Traitor: True to that..

[quote=SANsaurr]@Traitor I feel like that should be on the main page always for new players.[/quote]

Well even if it's on the front page with the same question being asked, people always tend to make a new thread around here. But yeah, I think there should be a section just for new/returning players to ask questions freely.

play for the cosmetic kawaii super cuteness aspect of this game, it's much cheaper.

$75 worth... Don't ever cube unless you have unique tier or up. Even cubing on a Epic tier is a waste of money.

If you want, you can use those 75$ for NX equips to sell for now. Meso is always the most important. Which new events coming up, abuse the heck outta it. Get as many goodies as you can and make as mesos as you can.
With a ton of mesos, learn the economy. and buy most of the end-tier equips that are already unique. Use the guy above^^^ for those equips.

If you stay dedicated, you can get around 150k range with some end-tier stuff by 3 months.

@Traitor I feel like that should be on the main page always for new players.

[quote=Traitor]It depends on the items you would like to have in the end and whether you'd rather make them or to buy them. Personally, if you wish to convert your $75 legally into mesos, you would purchase Cash Shop Surprise boxes and selling them. [I recommend doing so on a girl character because girl items are generally worth more]

As for gearing/scrolling and such I left an excerpt from a much longer guide below. Feel free to PM if you have more direct questions. If you need training help and training spots, don't bother making another thread, just shoot me a PM.

[b]Items to think about having eventually for end game:[/b] (This may prove to be expensive, but I will post the affordable equips after]
-Chaos Root Abyss Set [Hat, Top, Bottom, Weapon]
-Tyrant [Glove, Shoes, Cape, Belt]
-Sweet Water [Glasses(Eye), Tattoo(Face)]
-Superior/Reinforced Gollux Set [Ring, Pendant, Belt, Earring] (if you use Tyrant Belt, you would have to use NX to purchase a pendant slot to equip 2 pendants to get the full set bonus]
-Rings [Since the Gollux Set takes up a ring slot and unique equips, you can pretty much get one of each Gollux RIng, if not Lightning God Ring for the best stats]
[b]Note:[/b] This is the generally ideal set but by all means you do not need to chase this as this is VERY expensive.

[b]Cheap but Efficient Equipment Guide:[/b]
The CRA set is a couple hundred mil apiece but there may be some pieces out there depending on class for a couple mil. If you cannot get this, you can try to buy the empress set for the bonus effect stats. Personally, I would say save your money and at around 140, you can grind at the higher leveled monsters in Leafre or the Pirates in Herb town. They drop the new level 130-140 set which gives a set bonus as well. If you take this process, you can save your money but slowly increase your damage. These level 130-140 sets are also tradeable so you don't need to purchase use SoK or pSoK to transfer them character to character. Next I would try to purchase cheap solid/reinforced gollux pendant/belt for small range increase. If you hunt bosses, easy bosses around be Zak/Horntail/Hilla/Magnus/Ranmaru in the easy/regular modes(you can do these twice daily, bring a friend if you must), I wouldn't attempt harder modes until you're geared and much stronger. The bosses drop accessories[Eye,Face,Ring,Earring,Badge, etc.] that also have set equips. If you find some Epic / Unique accessories, you may make a quick buck. Remember, though you won't be getting rich fast but patience is the key.

[b]Scrolling:[/b]
-The scrolling system has been semi-replaced with the Spell Trace system which you collect a required amount of traces to use a scroll. How it works is you double click the Spell Trace in your etc tab or the Pink Hammer in your inventory window and place the item in there. You can then see how many traces is required per scroll. If you're poor, I recommend 70-100%ing your items, except for weapons which I always recommend at the very least 70%ing it.
-The enhancement system is semi-replaced by the Star Force system, this system takes effect after you finish scrolling an item. Once the item does not have any slots left, you can add additional stats by enhancing it with Star Force which is done by the Pink Hammer. I recommend Star Forcing all your equips until 10 stars because it is fairly cheap to do so. This will also increase your range by a pretty fair amount.

[b]Potentials:[/b]
There a certain tiers for items to have potential which has 4 different ranks. I wouldn't really worry about potential items unless they are above level 75 which is the 3rd tier.

First Tier: 1-30, items will generally have lines in multiples of 1%. (2%, 3%, 4%)
Second Tier: 31-74, items will generally have lines in multiples of 2%. (4%,6%,9%)
Third Tier: 75-159, items will generally have lines in multiples of 3%. (6%,9%,12%)
Fourth Tier: 160+, this one is a little unique because the lines are 4% (7%, 10%, 13%)

How it works:
if your item is Rare, you will generally have the lowest multiple.
if your item is Epic, you will get the maximum landing at 2nd multiple.
if your item is Unique you will get the maximum landing at 3rd multiple.
if your item is Legendary you will get the maximum landing at highest multiple.

So for example, your Legendary item unlocks the potential to have the maximum % but you can land any of the %s below it, such as rare, epic, unique. So if you get VERY lucky, your lines would all be of one stat but don't be so sure to expect to get that easily. You will be spending many, many, packs of cubes. The best time to cube is during miracle time when nexon does a 2x-like event for cubing, increasing the chances of rank up. Again, I don't recommend cubing anything below the third tier.

Weapons and armors have different potentials. Weapons have additional stats such as att/matt where as armor is generally stat based. You can make cubes but farming the materials and leveling the skill level takes time. I would recommend picking up professions as soon as possible to start leveling it up. Sometimes when you make equipment, such as earrings, you can get epic/unique items which you can sell for a fair amount, meaning you can make money this way. When you mine mysterious rocks you also have a chance to find cubes(other way would be bossing)!

[b]Nebulites:[/b]
You don't really get to see this much but people generally applies this to weapons. Select few rich players have acquired a lot of nebs for their armor as well.

How it works:
You can purchase a nebulite socket opener thing from the pot shop and apply it to your item. You can then apply your nebulite of choice depending what you have.

Weapon: I would put on a %boss or %pdr neb or % att neb for endgame. If you can't afford it, you can use an att neb or crit neb. Think wisely because removing a neb costs NX.
Armor: I always recommend %stat nebs but if you're poor, again you may choose to use simple +stat nebs

There are some useful but expensive skill nebs with skills such as Hyper Body for pants and Sharp Eyes for gloves meaning that regardless of class you can use both those skills but at a nerfed rate. The stats only apply to yourself however.

[b]Souls for Weapons:[/b]
This is a newer system where you can even more stats to your weapons.

How it works:
You use a soul enchanter on your weapon, these drop from monsters and some bosses. Once your item is a soul weapon, you equip your weapon and apply the soul. If you do not have a soul, you would have to hunt bosses which drop soul shards. Collect 10 shards to trade for a random stat soul in which you can apply to your weapon. Some souls are attacks, some are summons.[/quote]

Thanks for being so helpful

It depends on the items you would like to have in the end and whether you'd rather make them or to buy them. Personally, if you wish to convert your $75 legally into mesos, you would purchase Cash Shop Surprise boxes and selling them. [I recommend doing so on a girl character because girl items are generally worth more]

As for gearing/scrolling and such I left an excerpt from a much longer guide below. Feel free to PM if you have more direct questions. If you need training help and training spots, don't bother making another thread, just shoot me a PM.

[b]Items to think about having eventually for end game:[/b] (This may prove to be expensive, but I will post the affordable equips after]
-Chaos Root Abyss Set [Hat, Top, Bottom, Weapon]
-Tyrant [Glove, Shoes, Cape, Belt]
-Sweet Water [Glasses(Eye), Tattoo(Face)]
-Superior/Reinforced Gollux Set [Ring, Pendant, Belt, Earring] (if you use Tyrant Belt, you would have to use NX to purchase a pendant slot to equip 2 pendants to get the full set bonus]
-Rings [Since the Gollux Set takes up a ring slot and unique equips, you can pretty much get one of each Gollux RIng, if not Lightning God Ring for the best stats]
[b]Note:[/b] This is the generally ideal set but by all means you do not need to chase this as this is VERY expensive.

[b]Cheap but Efficient Equipment Guide:[/b]
The CRA set is a couple hundred mil apiece but there may be some pieces out there depending on class for a couple mil. If you cannot get this, you can try to buy the empress set for the bonus effect stats. Personally, I would say save your money and at around 140, you can grind at the higher leveled monsters in Leafre or the Pirates in Herb town. They drop the new level 130-140 set which gives a set bonus as well. If you take this process, you can save your money but slowly increase your damage. These level 130-140 sets are also tradeable so you don't need to purchase use SoK or pSoK to transfer them character to character. Next I would try to purchase cheap solid/reinforced gollux pendant/belt for small range increase. If you hunt bosses, easy bosses around be Zak/Horntail/Hilla/Magnus/Ranmaru in the easy/regular modes(you can do these twice daily, bring a friend if you must), I wouldn't attempt harder modes until you're geared and much stronger. The bosses drop accessories[Eye,Face,Ring,Earring,Badge, etc.] that also have set equips. If you find some Epic / Unique accessories, you may make a quick buck. Remember, though you won't be getting rich fast but patience is the key.

[b]Scrolling:[/b]
-The scrolling system has been semi-replaced with the Spell Trace system which you collect a required amount of traces to use a scroll. How it works is you double click the Spell Trace in your etc tab or the Pink Hammer in your inventory window and place the item in there. You can then see how many traces is required per scroll. If you're poor, I recommend 70-100%ing your items, except for weapons which I always recommend at the very least 70%ing it.
-The enhancement system is semi-replaced by the Star Force system, this system takes effect after you finish scrolling an item. Once the item does not have any slots left, you can add additional stats by enhancing it with Star Force which is done by the Pink Hammer. I recommend Star Forcing all your equips until 10 stars because it is fairly cheap to do so. This will also increase your range by a pretty fair amount.

[b]Potentials:[/b]
There a certain tiers for items to have potential which has 4 different ranks. I wouldn't really worry about potential items unless they are above level 75 which is the 3rd tier.

First Tier: 1-30, items will generally have lines in multiples of 1%. (2%, 3%, 4%)
Second Tier: 31-74, items will generally have lines in multiples of 2%. (4%,6%,9%)
Third Tier: 75-159, items will generally have lines in multiples of 3%. (6%,9%,12%)
Fourth Tier: 160+, this one is a little unique because the lines are 4% (7%, 10%, 13%)

How it works:
if your item is Rare, you will generally have the lowest multiple.
if your item is Epic, you will get the maximum landing at 2nd multiple.
if your item is Unique you will get the maximum landing at 3rd multiple.
if your item is Legendary you will get the maximum landing at highest multiple.

So for example, your Legendary item unlocks the potential to have the maximum % but you can land any of the %s below it, such as rare, epic, unique. So if you get VERY lucky, your lines would all be of one stat but don't be so sure to expect to get that easily. You will be spending many, many, packs of cubes. The best time to cube is during miracle time when nexon does a 2x-like event for cubing, increasing the chances of rank up. Again, I don't recommend cubing anything below the third tier.

Weapons and armors have different potentials. Weapons have additional stats such as att/matt where as armor is generally stat based. You can make cubes but farming the materials and leveling the skill level takes time. I would recommend picking up professions as soon as possible to start leveling it up. Sometimes when you make equipment, such as earrings, you can get epic/unique items which you can sell for a fair amount, meaning you can make money this way. When you mine mysterious rocks you also have a chance to find cubes(other way would be bossing)!

[b]Nebulites:[/b]
You don't really get to see this much but people generally applies this to weapons. Select few rich players have acquired a lot of nebs for their armor as well.

How it works:
You can purchase a nebulite socket opener thing from the pot shop and apply it to your item. You can then apply your nebulite of choice depending what you have.

Weapon: I would put on a %boss or %pdr neb or % att neb for endgame. If you can't afford it, you can use an att neb or crit neb. Think wisely because removing a neb costs NX.
Armor: I always recommend %stat nebs but if you're poor, again you may choose to use simple +stat nebs

There are some useful but expensive skill nebs with skills such as Hyper Body for pants and Sharp Eyes for gloves meaning that regardless of class you can use both those skills but at a nerfed rate. The stats only apply to yourself however.

[b]Souls for Weapons:[/b]
This is a newer system where you can even more stats to your weapons.

How it works:
You use a soul enchanter on your weapon, these drop from monsters and some bosses. Once your item is a soul weapon, you equip your weapon and apply the soul. If you do not have a soul, you would have to hunt bosses which drop soul shards. Collect 10 shards to trade for a random stat soul in which you can apply to your weapon. Some souls are attacks, some are summons.