MapleCon Recap - MapleStory Live Updates!

Maplecon is replacing MapleStory's MapleFest for a special 25th anniversary conference where players will hear the latest news on MapleStory GMS, MapleStory Classic announcements and the chance to buy exclusive merch.

• MapleStory Classic
• MapleStory Winter Update
• MapleCon - The Saga of Althea
• MapleCon - Build A Monster
• MapleCon Program

This guide is currently being updated as the event unfolds, bringing you the latest news from the event!

MapleStory Classic

MapleStory Classic, which was announced back in April 2025, is going to be playable at MapleCon for attendees. We are going to get a lot of details regarding skill changes and what is currently playable in the game.

There is also a MapleStory Classic Developer Panel, where we hope to get details on the release date!

From the MapleStory Classic Playtest, players have been reporting all the skill changes they have discovered in the game!

Closed Online - Beta Announced for Early 2026.

No official release date was given.

NEW Discoveries

• Item Equipment have new stats, including adding Critical Rate!
• Assassin throwing star tracking is different and has a short delay after jump attacking. Tracking also appears to be off.
• Bandit's Savage Blow range seems to be the same as original MS.
• Cleric's Holy Arrow can hit 3 enemies
• Fire / Poison Fire Arrow can hit 3 enemies.

Note the skill descriptions below were transcribed from the event and may be incorrect.

Thief

Skill: Nimble Body

Increases Accuracy and Avoidability.
Level 15: Accuracy: +20, Avoidability: +20

Skill: Keen Eyes
Increases attack range for throwing weapons, throwing stars & knives.
Level 8: Attack range for throwing weapons: +150

Skill: Disorder
Temporarily decreases the Weapon Attack and Weapon Defense of an enemy and dissuades it from attacking you. Has no effect on a monster that's already in Disorder.
Level: 20: MP -10; Enemy's Weapon Attack: +25, Weapon Def: -20% for 30 sec

Skill: Dark Sight
Use MP to hide behind the shadows. Can't be attacked and can't attack either. The effect is activated when used and deactivated when used again
Level 20: MP -30, Disappear into the shadow, regular movement speed while active.

Skill: Double Stab
Use MP to quickly stab a monster twice in one turn using a dagger.
Level 20: MP -12, Damage: 175%

Skill: Lucky Seven
Use MP to throw 2 throwing stars and apply damage based on LUK regardless of the rate of Claw Mastery.
Level 20: MP -15, Damage: 130%

Bandit

Skill: Dagger Mastery
Increases Dagger Mastery and Critical Rate. It only applies when a dagger is in hand.
Level 20: Dagger Mastery level 10, Critical Rate: +20%

Skill: Nimble Recovery
Recover HP and MP with a certain chance when evading. Cannot Recover again with 30 seconds after a recovery.
Level 20: Recover 10% Hp and 10% MP with a 100% chance when evading

Skill: Dagger Booster
Uses HP and MP to temporarily increase the Attack Spped of the equipped dagger. It only applies when a dagger is in hand.
Level 20: MP -10, Increases Dagger Attack Spped by 2 stages for 300 sec.

Skill: Haste
Temporarily increases the speed and jump of all party members around the area.
Level 20: MP -36, Speed +30, Jump +10 for 300 sec

Skill: Steal
Steals one of the monster's items with a given success rate. On success, stuns the enemy for 1.5 seconds and increases Weapon Attack for 30 seconds. Stealing works only once against the same monster, and can be attempted until successful.
Level 30: MP -24, 60% chance to steal, apply 200% in damage on success +35 Weapon Attack for 30 sec.

Skill: Savage Blow
Uses MP to attack an enemy up to 6 times in a row with a dagger.
Level 30: MP -27, Attack 6x with 100% damage
 

Assassin

Skill: Claw Mastery
Increases Claw Mastery and Accuracy, and give a chance to recover used throwing stars when using throwing star attacks. Only applies when a claw is equipped.
Level 20: Claw Mastery level 10. Accuracy +25, 25% chance to retrieve used throwing stars

Skill: Critical Throw
Increases Critical Rate and Critical Damage.
Level 30: Critical Rate +15%, Critical Damage +35%

Skill: Agile Recovery
Recover HP and MP with a certain chance when jumping. Cannot recover again - 30 seconds after a recovery.
Level 20: Recover 10% HP and 10% MP with a 100% chance when jumping

Skill: Claw Booster
Uses HP and MP to temporarily increase the Attack Spped of the equipped claw. It only applies when the character is equipped with a claw and throwing stars.
Level 20: HP-10, MP -10. Increases Claw Attack Spped by 2 stages for 300 sec.

Skill: Haste
Temporarily increases the speed and jump of all party members around the area.
Level 20: MP -36, Spped +30, Jump + 10 for 300 sec

Skill: Drain
Absorbs some of the damage dished out to the enemy as HP. The most one can absorb at once is 25% of the character's MAX HP, and can't absorb more than t he MAX HP.
Level 20: Absorb 20% of damage as HP, damage: 300%.

Warrior

Skill: Improved HP Recovery
HP naturally generates over time, not just when a character is still. Also HP recovery from items and skills is boosted.
Level 15: HP generates every 10 seconds, and HP recovery from Alternative sources increased by 20%

Skill: Max HP Increase
Max HP increases
Level 15: Max HP +20%

Skill: Precise Strikes
Repeated practise with your weapon has increased Acurracy and Critical Rate.
Level 15: Accuracy +50, Critical Rate +5%

Skill: Iron Body

Skill: Power Strike

Skill: Slash Blast
 

MapleStory Winter Update

The name of the next major GMS MapleStory update has been announced as Every Little Thing Every Precious Thing.

Here are the items revealed:

Level 3 Link Skills will be added for all MapleStory Classes. Previously, only a certain number of classes had level 3.

 - Guaranteed Pitch Boss Drops
 - Restore Equipment destroyed during Star Force Enhancement by hunting bosses.
 - Boss Missions and Hunting can restore equipment

 - Star Force Items will be restored to new levels when destroyed.
 - Challenge Equipment Replacement - Challenger Equipment Set Effect to help with broken set affects.

 - Rent equipment you need for a day.

 - Familiar Card Inventory and Max Stack expansion and a new bag.
 - Familiar Presets added
 - Familiar Potential revamp with new lines and less popular ones being removed.
 - Familiar UI Revamp
 - Sol Erda Daily Quest will become weekly quest
 - Sacred Power Buff added when you first enter Cernium Region
 - Heroic Worlds, AbsoLab /Arcane bosses will be tradable between characters in the same world.

NEW JOB - Ren - The Red Eye Wanderer

 - Easy gameplay for new players and returning maplers.
 - Hyper Burning MAX for Ren.

Familiar System Expansion
 

 - Mystic Frontier System - Familiars obtain items on missions, including Pitched-Boss accessories.
 - Seems to be an idle system, easy to use.
 - Build a deck of Familiars to go out on missions

Ascent Skills 
 - New 6th Job skills; used 3 times in a row in boss battles have an invincibility period
 - The First Adversary Boss; drops Imortal Medal

Challenger World 2
 - Quick Level Up
 - Mid to long term progression goals
 - More rewards will end in April 2026 (5 months)

Twilight Eve
 - Main event of winter update
 - Transcendent of time
 - Event with check-in, hunting, and event skills.

Hyper Burning Max returning
Beyond Burning 260-270
Item Burning
Jump-Star Tutorial; core-guide after level 200.

New Inkwell Gift will be given to all players of MapleStory!

There was also a special cake made for MapleStory to celebrate the anniversary!

MapleCon - The Saga of Althea

A discussion panel about The Saga Of Althea content was also held at MapleCon.

This panel was a showcase of the behind the scenes on how this exclusive GMS content was concieved.

- Exclusive content for GMS
 - Independant story for GMS compared to KMS.
 - Recap of Episode 1 and Episode 2; they have been released previously.
 - Discuss the Parallel Worlds concept; Althea Saga is a parallel world that doesn't conflict with the current MapleStory lore.
 - Parallel World Inspectors are used to keep these worlds in check but their origin is shrouded in secrecy.
 - Quanah is the World where the Parallel World Inspectors reside. Several areas of this world are discussed.
 - Quanah is based on a real location in Korea.
 - Mapaes are carried by the inspectors. Their rank is defined by the number of horses on the Mapaes. It allows them to travel through space and time through various portals.
 - They have a charge limit which limits how long Inspectors can stay in each Parallel World.
 - Mapaes have the ability to erase memories.
 - Althea design concepts were shown.
 - Kazax, the main villain, is supporting the Black Mage and plotting a conspiracy with him.
 - General character who oversees the Inspectors. He has a unknown relationship with Althea.
 - Sen-D drone that assists the general.
 - Libae, an inspector, is an office worker who supports the other PWI. Plays a big role in Part 3 of the Althea Saga.
 - Showed behind the scenes of how they develop the story of the saga, including how they made the film animations.
 - Considered giving up on the production of the Althea Saga due to difficulty in producing the scenes.
 - More stories from the Althea Saga will be added in the future for GMS MapleStory.

MapleCon - Build A Monster

Audience members are creating a brand new monster to appear in MapleStory GMS!

Members need to choose between three attributes:

• Attack Type
• Appearance
• Personality

Audience members had to decide between these two mobs! They went with the cute little Alien guy!

And then a lucky member of the audience was allowed to make changes, and they decided to change the color and add a Frozen Tuna!

The final design that was designed by Saeyoun Kim (aka OtaKim) from Nexon Korea! This monster will be included in the game in the Winter Update!

MapleCon Program

Here is what to expect for the Maplecon Livestream, that is begins at 20:00 GMT. You can watch along on the Twitch MapleStory page.

All times are in GMT.

• 8:00 PM - Build A Monster - A monster will be created live on stream and added to the Winter MapleStory GMS update.
• 9:00 PM - The Saga of Althea - An update on the GMS update for The Saga of Althea, which is exclusive content
• 10:00 PM - Winter Update Announcement - The main GMS update for Winter 2025, featuring the GMS directors on what is coming next
• 11:30 PM - GMS Classic World Dev Panel - A discussion panel with MapleStory Classic devs about the state of the brand new MapleStory Classic World.