A guild is a named, persistent group of characters, larger and longer-lived than a party. Where a party forms for one hunt and dissolves, a guild keeps its members, its name and its roster between sessions.
The client carries the system. What it does not appear to carry is a way to reach it at Grand Launch.
Where the guild system lives
Everything the wiki has catalogued about guilds sits in Ossyria, which is not in the game at launch:
- Heracle, the only NPC associated with guilds, stands in Guild Head Quarters (Hall of Fame).
- Guild Head Quarters (Hall of Fame) is the only guild location, an interior area off Orbis.
None of the 197 NPCs reachable at launch carries a guild-related role. The roles that exist at launch cover shops, job instructors, storage keepers, cab drivers, pet handlers, hair stylists and crafting stations, and none of them mention guilds.
Not in the game at launch. This article covers content that is confirmed and was playable in the second Closed Online Test, but which is not part of MapleStory Classic World at Grand Launch on October 21, 2026. Nexon has said it will be reworked before being introduced gradually, and has not given a date. See Differences from MapleStory for what has been confirmed so far.
So on the evidence the wiki has, a character cannot form a guild at Grand Launch, because the NPC who would do it is on a continent that is not in the build. That is a statement about the catalogued data rather than a promise about the server: if guild creation turns out to work another way at launch, this page should be corrected from what players find in game.
What is known
Little, and it is worth being plain about that rather than filling the gap:
- What it costs to found one. Not in the client data.
- How many members a guild holds. Not in the client data.
- What a guild grants. No skill, item or buff on this wiki references a guild.
- Whether the Hall of Fame ranks guilds, as its name suggests. The map exists; nothing describes what happens there.
The party system, by contrast, is fully described by the skills that feed it, which is why that page can say a great deal more.
See also
- Party: the grouping that does work at launch, and the five skills that reward it.
- Party quests: content that requires a group.
- Orbis and Ossyria: where the guild system sits.
- MapleStory Classic World: what the launch build contains.