In Brief:
- MapleStory N releases the third update of its Hyper Summer season on July 23, adding the boss Will and Cursed Spellbook equipment.
- MapleStory Universe opened this weekend’s Maple Weekend login rewards on July 18, five days before the patch.
- The update closes a three-part rollout that added the Adele, Ark and Hoyoung classes, the Arcana and Morass lands and a level cap of 275.
MapleStory N will release the third update of its Hyper Summer season on July 23, adding the boss Will and new Cursed Spellbook equipment.
The patch is “just 5 days away,” MapleStory Universe said in a July 18 post that also opened Maple Weekend, a run of special login rewards over the weekend.
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What the update adds
Will headlines the release. The fight comes with a Will First Clear Event that rewards the first players to take the boss down.
The update also ships new Arcane Umbra parts alongside the Cursed Spellbook gear. In the same patch, the fifth skill trees get their fourth update.
The rest of Hyper Summer
July 23 closes the three updates that made up the season. They arrived roughly three weeks apart.
The first, on June 11, added the Adele and Ark classes and pushed the level cap to 275. It opened Arcana, an Arcane River area built around the Arcane Symbol and the Spirit Savior activity, and ran the Tera Burning event with two Giga benefits, a Bonus White Cube and a VIP Membership event.
The second update landed July 2 with the Hoyoung class and the Morass land.
Across the three, the roadmap counted three new classes, four new lands and the higher cap. A fourth update is teased with no date, listing Esfera, Sellas, a character selection screen revamp and V Matrix improvements.
Gear that trades
New equipment carries weight beyond stats here. Drops marked with the mintable icon can become NFTs and sell on the MSU Marketplace, so a gear tier like Cursed Spellbook feeds directly into the token economy.
That economy runs on NESO and NXPC. Players earn NESOLET from hunting monsters and clearing bosses, then mint it into NESO to spend, trade or enhance gear. NESO swaps to NXPC, the wider MapleStory Universe token, at a fixed rate reported at 100,000 NESO to 1 NXPC.
MapleStory N is the first game on the MapleStory Universe platform. It runs on Avalanche, with gas-free trading on its marketplace.
For now the studio is steering players toward the weekend giveaway ahead of the drop. “Grab this weekend’s special login rewards and share your biggest hype below,” MapleStory Universe said.