Classic World launches 21 October, and Orbis, El Nath and 3rd job are not in it

Global MapleStory Classic World has a release schedule. The Ossyria Exploration Report, published 21 August 2026, ends the second Closed Online Test with a recap of what the test produced and a letter from Hanbyeol Oh, Chief Product Officer for Global MapleStory, who signs as Inkwell. The letter names three dates and, more usefully, names what is being left out of them.

The headline is that there is no third test. Nexon says it will finish reviewing the Closed Online Test 2 feedback, make the changes it thinks are needed, and go straight into live service. That makes the snapshot this site is built on the last one before launch.

Founder’s Access, on 6 October, is live service rather than another test: characters and progression made in it carry over into Grand Launch. From 21 October anyone can play, with or without a Founder’s Package. The package itself goes on sale on 2 September, ahead of both, and Nexon has said it will centre on commemorative cosmetics drawn from MapleStory’s early years, with the detail to follow on the official site.

This is the part that changes how you should read a lot of pages on this site. Three of the biggest things the second test added are being held back, and Nexon is explicit that it is not simply re-shipping what testers saw.

Read against the second test’s own release notes, that is a lot of content: the airship from Ellinia Station opened on 8 August for characters level 10 and up, 3rd Job Advancement sat at level 70, and El Nath is where the instructors who granted it stood. Nexon says the content returns gradually, at a pace that suits live service, and that Grand Launch will also carry content that has not been shown at all yet.

The one thing that moved the other way is Mark of the Beta. It had been widely assumed to be a Founder reward; the letter says everyone who joins in Classic World’s early days can earn it, through an in-game quest scheduled to end in November.

• The Cash Shop is meant to stay cosmetic. Nexon says it intends to avoid selling anything that directly boosts EXP gain or makes a character stronger, and to focus on cosmetics and convenience.
• Region expansion will be slow on purpose. The letter calls it the “beauty of taking it slow” and says content will arrive at a measured pace rather than retracing MapleStory’s original path at its original speed.
• The old stories continue rather than repeat. It asks what happened next to Manji and the Hero’s Gladius, and what Henesys’s Chief Stan and Kerning City’s Dark Lord have been keeping to themselves, and says former early-era developers are involved in answering.
• The second test was aimed at four things in particular: the improvements made from Closed Online Test 1 feedback, broader macOS and controller testing after smaller closed trials, the locale system behind the Spanish localisation, and Classic World originals such as Citizenship following the earlier introduction of Crafting.

The first half of the report is an infographic of what the test’s players got up to between 4 and 12 August. The rounding is Nexon’s own.

Every number on MapleStory Quest is read out of the Closed Online Test 2 client, and that does not change: it is still the most recent build there is, and it is now the last one before launch. What changes is that part of it describes content the launch build will not have. The Ossyria maps, the monsters that spawn only there, and the 3rd job skill tables are all still accurate about the test client and are all now provisional about the game people will play in October.

Rather than delete any of it, the pages that lean on it say what they are. When Nexon publishes launch notes, the changelog is where the difference between this snapshot and that build will be shown, field by field, the same way the Closed Online Test 1 to Closed Online Test 2 diff already is.

The Public Release datamine is out, and this site now reads it. It has none of Ossyria’s 92 maps and no 3rd job: the ten classes and their 70 skills are gone from it, which is the client agreeing with this letter. Forgotten Hollow, which the letter does not mention, is gone too, all but one nameless map of it. None of those pages was deleted. Each stays, marked CoT2, because what it says is still true of the second test, and the changelog now opens on Closed Online Test 2 against the Public Release, field by field, as promised above.