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There are several boss monsters which can be found throughout the MapleStory world. Each boss is located at their respective map and do not appear at other maps beyond their bounds expect on a few occasions when summoning bags are used. Most boss monsters have special privileges such as high attack and HP, summoning abilities, and dispelling abilities. Spoils from bosses are also typically dominant over other similar items in the boss' level group. Bosses spawn less frequently than normal monsters.

Although not listed as a quest, accompaniments are a special type of quest where a party of players must work together to complete several challenges. Although officially called "Accompaniments", they are commonly referred to as "Party Quests" or "PQs" interchangeably. Each of the six PQs have their own level limits which every character in the party must be within to enter the quest.

Jump quests are a unique type of quest in which a character starts at one area of a map and uses timed jumps to get from one to another specific platform. The player attempts to avoid enemies and obstacles that can knock them off the platform. Enemies would be invincible and have less attack power than normal. Jump quests typically require precise timing, although the reaped rewards are re-attainable. Mobility skills are disabled in Jump Quests, as are speed and jump boosts.

Items can be acquired from monster drops, purchased from other characters or shops, or as rewards for completing a quest. In some versions of the game, items can be obtained through cash with the gachapon system. Players buy gachapon tickets with cash and each of these tickets can be exchanged for a random item. Unnecessary items can be dropped (where they can be picked up by any other character), sold to any shop for a sum of meso, or sold/traded to other characters. Generally the stronger the monsters are the better the items they drop. Due to the time required to sell valuable items to other players as well as the quantity of items received, many players create a [[alternate character|mule]] account to store excess items and act as a dedicated trading account.

There are five different item categories in the game: Equipment (clothes, accessories, and weapons); Use (potions, scrolls and other consumables); Set-up (decorations and special items); Etc. (monster drops, ores, and quest items); and Cash (items bought from the cash shop). In the inventory window, each category has its own section, each of which is only able to contain a limited amount of items; however, extra inventory space can be purchased in the Cash Shop. Extra inventory space is also awarded after each job advancement.

Equipment can be upgraded by using item upgrade scrolls which give stat bonuses to equipment.  Using a scroll on an item can only be attempted a limited number of times irrespective of the scroll's success or failure, the number of attempts varying with the item type.  Scrolls have a certain percentage of success, and the lower the success percentage, the higher the stat gains provided by the scrolls. Scrolls can only be used when you have equipped the item that you wish to upgrade, but in KoreanMS, MapleSEA, GlobalMS and JapanMS, there is a new skill (listed in the beginner skill book) that allows you to scroll an item without the need of equipping it, called Legendary Spirit.

Many people take advantage of the fact that people are unable to pay for Nexon Cash and are accepting items and Mesos to trade for Nexon Cash. People are also attracting people using referral sites that give PayPal money as a reward for doing offers. However, such transactions are deemed illegal and any user involved in such a transaction may be banned if caught by a Game Master.

On 23 June 2006, GlobalMS announced that people had been abusing the Nexon Cash "gifting" feature, and ultimately decided to disable the feature indefinitely. The reason GlobalMS has given for this decision is that many people have been fraudulent towards PayPal and Wizet itself. The "gift" function has since been reinstated with new security modifications.

In MapleSEA's case, in addition to credit card payment (through PayPal), it has also released Prepaid cards. As for GlobalMS, Prepaid cash-value cards, or "Nexon Cards", are now released.

 

The Nexon prepaid cash cards are currently available in nationwide (US) Target stores. They are in the Music Card Section. An event has been added, named "Spot On" to introduce the partnership.  Completing the quest involves talking to two NPCs who give information about the sale of cash cards.  Nexon prepaid cash cards have become available from other additional stores and the availability should increase in the future.