Adventurers, the long-awaited Old School MapleStory is finally back! As the first server to rebuild the old school, Artale is online in MapleStory Worlds, where you can create your own game using MapleStory resources.

However, it differs slightly from ordinary old school servers. It is not just a simple reproduction of Old School MapleStory, because there will be some surprising changes!

New Changes

Since this is a game completely rebuilt using the game creator of MapleStory Worlds, the physics effects in the game may be slightly different. For example, when your character falls from a certain height and the map needs to keep up, you will notice this, and UI also looks slightly different.

In addition, the creator of this server tried to eliminate some annoyances of Old School MapleStory. For example, Assassin and Archer will not start to regularly attack monsters that are too close, and your pet will never go hungry.

Free Market

It is worth mentioning that the fun Free Market is back! But since only 50 players can be online in one instance of the game, there are no shops set up. Instead, the game uses an Auction House, just like modern MapleStory. In Free Market, you can also visit a cash shop, where you can support the server.

Increased EXP Rate

After entering Artale, you will notice that leveling in this server is a little faster than you remember, because they have slightly increased EXP rate. There is double EXP from level 1 to level 70, and 1.5 times EXP from level 71 to level 100. But the drop rate of Artale Mesos remains the same.

And of course there is the nostalgic Party Quest. Currently, there are Moon Bunny PQ or Henesys PQ and Kerning PQ. The rewards for PQ have also been increased, and you will get double EXP through PQ. Therefore, this is also a good leveling option, in my opinion!

Party Quest

For Party Quest in Artale server, the global soft launch has already made quite a lot of content available! Victoria Island, Orbis, El Nath, Dead Mine, Ludibrium, and Zipangu are all there. Zakum and Papulatus are both coming later. They have been slightly modified to make the fights more exciting.

Grinding Tips

Even with the double EXP, grinding is still slow. However, it’s more fun than a 30 minute cutscene when creating Explorers now. If you’re also grinding on Artale MapleStory at a lower level, I recommend going to the hidden map on the way to Mushmom. It’s small, and there are a lot of Orange Mushrooms here, making it a perfect grinding spot for this level. If you’re lucky, you even have a chance to find a Scroll here.

If you want to make your grinding more efficient, you can find a Work Glove and some Gloves for Attack Scrolls. You can also invest in Artale Mesos to get an Icarus Cape, so you can move a little faster.

Final Thoughts

Currently, Artale is the first and only old school server officially released on MapleStory Worlds. There are a lot of people waiting for MapleLand, which is currently very popular in MapleStory Worlds Korea, because it is just a 1-to-1 copy of Old School MapleStory without any additional changes. We just rely on the development teams of these games to port the games to the global version of MapleStory Worlds.

But until now, there is no confirmation that the team is working on a global release for MapleStory Worlds. So for now we will use Artale, and it also touches on the nostalgia point.

Another cool thing coming to Artale MapleStory Worlds is mobile cross-platform play. When you are craving for some Orange Mushroom on your way to work, you can also play Artale on your mobile phone. It has not been released yet, but at least it is coming soon!

In short, this Artale server gives players the opportunity to relive the classic nostalgic adventure of Old School MapleStory, and on this basis, it adds new changes to the game, eliminating the annoyances of players in the old school server. Do you think this MapleStory Artale is worth trying? See you next time!