AKradian

Do you have five other characters wearing Synergy Rings?
The ring can only be worn simultaneously by five characters on the account. You'll have to unequip it from one of them if you want to wear it on a sixth character.

You need to learn the mining profession first (talk to the guy at the top left of Ardentmill, and then to the master of Mining at the bottom right).

They haven't told us whether we'll have a level-up NPC.

We shouldn't need it, because the idea is for people to test content on their real characters with all their existing gear and quest history and stuff.
I assume the people from Reboot and Luna will test low-level content or events that don't have level requirements. Somebody has to check that things like tutorial quests work right and have no typos.
One reason the previous Tespia was closed is that most people just went "oh I can finally be 200 and beat Zakum" and didn't do any testing, just played around with the free level up and gear on various classes they didn't know how to play. We don't want that happening again.

But as I said, they haven't told us. I suppose we'll find out when the Tespia Update Notes show up.

The new event notice http://maplestory.nexon.net/news//24509/ says

Nexon wrote:

PDT: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:00 PM – Tuesday, August 15, 2017 4:59 PM
EDT: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 8:00 PM – Tuesday, August 15, 2017 7:59 PM
CEST: Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:00 AM – Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:59 AM
AEST: Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:00 AM – Wednesday, August 16, 2017 9:59 AM

So, 24 hour later than the Update Notes said.

We shall see.

KushyDragon wrote: »

Anyone who doesn't want it in there, is because they're already funded enough to kill it...or they want to cut out the middle man bs with nexon and just make as much as they can off of it.

The people who want them in the Marvel Machine, are people like myself:
Those who don't do 10m-10m Clean range, or don't get funded like other people who have friends who donate to them, give them gear, etc.

Not true. I don't want it in there, and I'm not funded enough to kill Lucid
I also don't have funded friends to carry me, and I have no intention of buying anything on the black market.
I'm fine with not having an Arcane weapon. Unlike you, I don't feel entitled to everything in the game.

Arcane weapons are difficult to obtain, yes. They require getting strong enough and skilled enough to fight Lucid, and finding people to fight her with, and consistently beating her week after week for six months.
I think it would be wrong to allow any new player to simply throw money at the screen until they get one. It just makes the whole game pointless. What next, lv.250 potions in Marvel because "not everyone has the time to train"?

KushyDragon wrote: »

But overall you're just stating: Get good or suffer without it.

That's not exactly a positive insight.

Also...who do you know who's purely free to play, who doesn't ever get NX at all, and can have 10m-10m Clean range....?

It is a good insight. Money shortcuts ruin a game.
And I actually have a buddy who's never used NX and got to the point where he could solo Lotus and Damien. Now that we have Meso Market and he can cube his bonus potential without spending cash, he's rapidly closing in on Lucid. I don't know his range.
It can be done, but it's a lot of work.
However, even if it were not possible, there's still a difference. Paying to get better bit by bit with cubes and scrolls, and then using that gear (and your friends, and a little bit of character control) to earn greater rewards, is one thing. Paying some large sum all at once for a big "You Won the Game" banner, is a completely different thing.