I played the europe version, but i aren't good at RPG's.
I always level up extremely slowly.
You sound like my sister, it took me 4 hours to get to level 20 in Maplestory, it took her two months :l.
I play on GMS more than EMS since I have more stuff on my old account from way back when it was still "Global MapleStory".
Either way on GMS I play on Broa and on EMS I play on the first world, forget it's name.