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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. 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.

Most equipment in the game is class specific (Thief Equipment, Magician Equipment, Warrior Equipment, Bowman Equipment, Pirate Equipment), but there is also a fair amount of equipment that can be worn by any class as long as the character meets the minimum level and stat requirements.