Item

Items are things that can be purchased in MapleStory through Mesos, Maple Points or NX or earned from quests, or dropped by monsters. There are 5 main groups of items, namely Equipment, Usable, ETC, Set-Up and Cash. By default, the item window is opened with the I key.

Equipment
Equipment is designed to augment a character's abilities or just to improve their looks. There are several different categories of equipment depending on where the items is to be worn. Some equipment is designed to be worn on top of other equipment so that a player can improve his looks whilst keeping the stats of the equipment below. Players can change to a higher leveled equipment after meeting the minimum required stats, though some high level equipment can still be considered bad due to their purpose of not being worn for e.g a boss fight.