Rexaar

Give it a shot if you meet many of the points
- The 2-D art style
- You don't mind grinding for stuff
- You like the RPG aspect of characters getting stronger
- You don't feel disappointed, rage, or self-destructing thoughts when other people progress much faster than you by spending real money
- Time gated content after lv 200 (even if you level fast, you cannot contribute effectively to bosses in that region due to the large amount of dailies quest/content to get a specific resource)
- Making multiple characters (most named class has their own story line that contribute to the main plot, passive bonus for having many high level characters)
- You don't feel shy looking for a social guild/alliance to not feel lonely in this game (no one party for exp, only when bossing and events)
- You like spending real money dressing up your character to be fabulous
- Not afraid to go bossing even if you have a 0% success rate for practice and thrill
- A lot of spare time for grinding

If you decide to play, the server you choose affect your play style.
Reboot: Meso spent directly equal power (upgrade stuff cost meso instead of real money), no trading allowed, cannot share any equipment between character on the same account (other stuff can be shared), non-boss monster has 10x HP and 3x EXP (monster above lv 200 tend to have 2.2x HP and EXP), Monster drops 5x more mesos, no pay to win content (cannot pay real money to progress faster), characters can learn all profession at once.
Any server that not Reboot: Trading and auction house is enabled (the market is part of the learning curve), grinding for meso is worthless, many pay to win upgrade system and equipment, equipments can have a 2nd set of potential (called bonus potential), still possible to progress to late game content without spending real money given enough time, can only learn 1 crafting profession per character.

In terms of population (NA region), Reboot > Bera > Scania > Aurora/Elysium.
Maple Story will feel empty due to how big it is and how little time people spend in 1 region before lv 200.
But when someone announce a +50% exp buff, >30 people (in a populated server) will come to the same map to receive the buff (lots of lag without a strong cpu).

Common mishaps that many mmorpg share that Maple Story also has
- Unscheduled maintenance
- Double maintenance
- The rare elusive triple maintenance
- The once in a blue moon 24 hours maintenance
- Botter
- Auto-ban system catching innocents

Put points into arcane power until you have 1.5x the needed arcane power when training at the arcane river (so you can do 1.5x damage and take only 1 damage from regular mobs (not the afk killer)).
Attack up to lv 4.
Str up to lv 3.

General advice due to not knowing how much %damage, %boss damage, % crit rate, % crit damage you have.
0-100% damage and %boss damage, crit rate 4 levels less than %boss hyper stat level, crit damage 5 levels less than %boss hyper stat level
101%- 200% damage and %boss damage, crit rate 3 levels less than %boss hyper stat level, crit damage 4 levels less than %boss hyper stat level
201%- 300% damage and %boss damage, crit rate 2 levels less than %boss hyper stat level, crit damage 3 levels less than %boss hyper stat level

For accurate calculation (only do this if you extremely close or barely soloing a boss and need the extra tiny tiny tiny bit of oomph), download a copy of the calculator https://bit.ly/maplestorycalculators, (guide how to use it here )

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/49946/v-205-pathfinder-patch-notes

Empress’ Might Quest
Fixed an issue where Jett could progress through some of the prerequisite quests.
Jett can no longer progress in Empress’ Might quests.

Only have Mihile's Soul Driver


Name of the other skill is so you can google it
Oz's Flame Gear
Irena's Wind Piercing
Eckhart's Vampire
Hawkeye's Shark Wave

You're fine (they just don't want to change the word "block" to "disconnected"), people usually get that message when they are lagging (because the server receive a bunch of packets at once, there is no fool proof way to differentiate it between a legit lag spike or someone intentionally spamming the server with packets)