Hi everyone!

Joining the Nexon PEAK Challenge

https://blog.naver.com/starha_0207/224341826779

—that's what I've decided to do!

Let's jump right in!

Contents

1. Equipment in MapleStory

2. MapleStory Bosses

1. Equipment in MapleStory

MapleStory has all kinds of gear!

You can roughly split it into accessories, armor, and weapons.

Here's what I want to get into in this post:

what makes all this gear so much fun!!

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It's both a good thing and a bad thing. So many types of gear, so much to do... you've got a lot of homework ahead of you!

I've posted a few guides on this stuff myself.

Just look at how many equipment slots there are in MapleStory!

You have to enhance each piece, too, using all those different enhancement systems people call the "five-layer gauntlet."

This is the equipment enhancement window. There's a lot going on, right?

I like thinking things through, analyzing stuff, and organizing it all on my own, so this kind of enhancement system is actually my thing!!

So much to organizeㅎㅎ

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Just look at how many posts I've written about gear alone...ㅋㅋㅋ Yeah, the gear in this game really is complicated.

https://blog.naver.com/starha_0207/224321426030

https://blog.naver.com/starha_0207/223561904073

https://blog.naver.com/starha_0207/223561904073

That's a lot, right?

Some details might have changed with updates, but the basics are still the same. I'd love it if you found these useful as a reference!!

The downsides, of course, are the RNG and the push to spend money.......

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So why is this such a hot game to stream?!!

That's exactly why. The RNG and the push to spend!

I work a regular office job, so compared to streamers, there's a limit to how much I can spend.

But our streamers?

They're rolling Cubes and rerolling Potentials—what people call "just clicking."

All that excitement without any of the consequences? It's seriously great.

It feels like we're all getting that dopamine rush together.

Look at this. There are so, so many bosses alone!

There's also a boss called 카이 who isn't shown here, and new bosses will keep coming out, too.

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What drops when you beat these bosses? How do you counter their attack patterns?

Figuring all that out and organizing the info is fun, too!!

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And it's fun watching streams of first clears or races to be among the first to beat a boss!

What's the most efficient way to beat this boss? Where do you dodge, and how?

Figuring all that out live is a big part of the fun, too.

To me, MapleStory is basically a solo game.

You have to build up your character yourself. It's not like you level up in a party.

Party grinding was a thing back in the day, and it still is in MapleStory M, but

I think of MapleStory on PC as a single-player game.

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Then again, there's guild content that... kind of holds the buff system hostage?

And there are bosses you team up to beat, so there's stuff to do together, too.

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Between Legion, Link Skills, gear, and buffs, there's a lot to talk through and analyze with other players as you work out how to progress.

That makes a community pretty essential, and I think the game makes good use of that.

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Along the way, watching streamers spend on randomized items gives us that dopamine rush—all the thrill without the consequences!!

There's streamer content that lets you live vicariously through their gear upgrades,

plus all the guides and videos explaining how to build your character, enhance gear, deal with boss patterns, and more.

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That's why I think it's such a hot game for streamers!