Night Lord Guide

Introduction
Hyper Stats and Skills
Inner Ability
Link Skills
Equips
Nodes
Pet Autobuffs
iFrames
Boss Rotations
Bosses
Culvert Rotations
Training Tips
Training Maps
Future Changes
Appendix
Maplestcouter
General Resources
Credits

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The purpose of this doc is to provide a singular source-of-truth, comprehensive guide on how to play Night Lord, along with specific nuances and details about the class. By having a single source of information it makes it easier to look up specific questions a player might have, as well as prevent any misinformation, misunderstanding, and miscommunication found in other guides created by those who don’t play the class.

The contents of this doc only reflect what is live on the GMS Maplestory servers (and mostly Heroic), so some discrepancies may exist between MSEA and KMS if changes and updates have not made it to the GMS live servers; generally, there is a 6 month lag between what goes live on KMS vs. when it arrives to GMS.

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Why Play Night Lord?

PROS CONS

• High and fast burst

• Mobility

• High Weapon Multiplier

• Weaker off burst DPS

• Ring of Restraint (ROR) reliant

• Glass Cannon

• Dark Sight

• Untouchable (via Showdown)

• Frailty Curse

• Must be close to boss for burst

Night Lord Boss Mules

If you want to make Night Lord as a boss mule, go for it, it’s a very fun class. Originally, it was not recommended to play NL as a boss mule. You can read the original text in the Appendix. However, this was written pre-Destiny patch, in the days when people were making ~700m - 1b / hour and star force costs were ~2x what it is today (pre-Savior). With the star force cost reduction, playing NL has become more affordable as we have the highest weapon attack multiplier in the game and sf gives flat attack. Combined with increased meso rates from boss mule meta, it costs less time now to push gear to 21 or 22.

🍄 Hyper Stats and Skills

Hyper Stats and Skills

Hyper Stats

Hyper stats are largely dependent on your own individual stats and what your character needs. You will always want to maintain 100% crit rate, but the other stats can vary based on where you are in terms of progress in the game. A popular calculator is MathBro's Hyper Stat Optimizer.

Hyper Passive Skills

I personally use the bossing setup 100% of the time since it’s annoying to change.

Hybrid Bossing Farming

🗿 Stats

Stats

Attack Speed

Night Lord does not need Attack Speed inner ability to reach AS0 (Level/Stage 10).

Type Lvl Source

Basic 6 Claw

Skills 2 Agile Claws

1 Decent Speed Infusion

Usable Items 1 Green Pot

Critical Rate

Night Lord has one of the highest base critical rates at 75%.

Source Amount

Basic 5%

Critical Throw (2nd Job) 50%

Expert Throwing Star Handling (3rd Job) 20%

Easily reach 100% by adding from various sources such as

Up to 5% from Night Lord Legion member bonus

Up to 5% from Marksman Legion member bonus

10% Decent Sharp Eyes

10% Focus Spirit link skill from Lynn

1% Holy Badge

1% Rebel Badge

1% Ocean Badge

Up to 20% from Legion Artifact

Hyper Stat

(not recommended since you can get from so many other sources and hyper stat is better used elsewhere)

Legion Outer Grid

(not recommended since you can get from so many other sources and other parts of the grid are better)

Ignore Enemy Defense (IED)

• See Grandis Library’s IED and PDR explanation

• Frailty Curse can give Night Lord a staggering 41% IED. This means that the visual IED required for Night Lord is lower than a lot of other classes.

• The IED required depends on the boss's PDR (

Maplestory IED Comparison Chart )

IED Requirements

With a visual IED of 95.47% and 41% IED from Frailty Curse’s, NL has 97.33% total effective IED and hits 90% dmg on 380% PDR bosses.

Boss PDR Visual IED

Required

IED to do

90% dmg

Lotus, Damien, Lucid, Will,

Gloom, VHilla, Darknell,

Black Mage

300% 94.34 96.66%

Seren, Kalos, Kaling, Limbo,

Baldrix

380% 95.47 97.33%

Note: This does not mean that anything above a visual of 95.47 IED is not worth it… it simply means that any additional IED will be less efficient. If you are min-maxing or want to know the exact FD you will gain or lose by swapping in more IED, use maplescouter.

300% PDR Bosses w/ Frailty Curse

Source IED Cumulative IED

Visual IED 94.34% 94.34%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 96.66%

380% PDR Bosses w/ Frailty Curse

Source IED Cumulative IED

Visual IED 95.47% 95.47%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 97.33%

Other IED Sources

While some NL skills give +20% IED, some of the most important NL skills do not.

Therefore, it’s better to not take into account any IED from our attacking skills.

Boost Nodes: Quad Star Boost and Assassin’s Mark have +20% IED

Skill Nodes: Throw Blasting, Shurrikane, and Dark Lord’s Omen do not have +20% IED

📈 Inner Ability

Inner Ability

Ideal Bossing Inner Ability

Night Lord’s ideal inner ability is Boss Damage, Attack, and Dmg to Abnormal%.

In addition, Night Lord does not need Attack Speed +1 to reach the cap.

Devil’s advocate from Hooning’s video to use Boss Damage + 20%, Buff Duration +38%,

8% Dmg to Abnormal.

About Buff Duration

Night Lord used to need at least 50% buff duration so that Terms and Conditions lasted long enough for all stacks of Throw Blasting to be used. Due to this, we used to prefer Buff Duration +38% over Attack +21. However, Attack +21 is preferred now because:

● More sources of buff duration exist

● Sequence makes casting skills faster and therefore Terms and Conditions is more efficient

● With the v263 patch, Throw Blasting was reduced from 68 to 46 charms

● Hexa Death Star allows us to use 20 charms almost instantly

There are many buff duration sources and you should prioritize them all for a stronger burst.

40% from legion grid effects

25% from Lv 250 Mechanic’s legion block effect

10% from Lv 100 Empathy

20% from Legion Artifact

10% from Sia’s Link Skill Tree of Stars

Ideal Farming Inner Ability

FARMING 1 FARMING 2

Line 1 Meso Obtained +20% Item Drop Rate +20%

Line 2 Item Drop Rate +15% Meso Obtained +15%

Line 3 +8% damage to normal monsters +8% damage to normal monsters

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Honor EXP Cost

Perfecting your Inner Ability is not cheap. Even with 50% Inner Ability Events, expect to spend millions of Honor Exp. See the estimated cost at MathBro’s Inner Ability Calculator.

Consider settling for non-perfect lines if you haven’t amassed Honor Exp.

If you are willing, you could also shell out some meso and save on honor.

Alternate Inner Abilities

Note: With the addition of Inner Ability presets, the viability of additional lines is also possible for just farming, but it’s ultimately your own preference on what you want to prioritize. Drop Rate on the top line is generally preferred for farming fragments, but Meso Rate is also a decent substitution.

MESO

While grinding, you may want to opt for a meso first or second line in your inner ability. This is fine and ultimately up to personal preference whether you’d trade the extra damage for the meso, or ignore one of the best in slot second lines (preferably abnormal damage) for meso while levelling. After all, we have access to enough damage to participate in and clear all the content in the game with or without an additional 8% damage or 20% crit rate.

ATTACK SPEED

Not recommended

However, if you can’t roll boss damage, another useful line, or are running out of honor, attack speed will allow you to save a node slot on speed infusion or avoid using green pot. As Night Lord does not need inner ability to cap attack speed, this line isn’t recommended to keep.

DROP RATE

Drop rate is an extremely viable IA to run, given that it affects Oz Boxes, Pitched Boss, Nodestones, and 6th job Sol Erda/Fragments

ATTACK +21

Previously, we did not use ATTACK +21. However, with the shift to DPM Meta, we do. Damage to monsters affected by abnormal statuses is strictly better than this if you are low on Honor EXP and deciding between the two.

🤝 Link Skills

Link Skills

Ideal Link Skills

This guide will only cover ideal link skills. It depends on your own personal stats to know which skills are most efficient; if you’re low on IED you might want to use the Luminous link skill; if you’re low on Crit Rate you might want to use the Phantom link skill.

What link skills you want also depends on whether you’re bossing or training. For more information on specific link skills and their effects, see Grandis Library.

Many players also use the maplescouter link skill efficiency tool.

Below is an example from my Maplescouter input as of 11/13/25.

PS. do not actually put your link skills as max in scouter, only use what you plan to use or it inflates your scouter. I only maxed them all to show an example.

Link Skill Examples

NOTE: While I have updated the screenshots below to show the new level 3 links, I have not yet updated the examples to be optimal based on all new available level 3 links yet. However, the examples below are still very good and can be used.

Mobbing

Bossing

Glass Cannon

Survival with Additional IED

Note: The above link skill setups are examples. Modify based on the situation, especially during bossing.

Unfair Advantage should not be used when you are lower level than the boss

Add Spirit of Freedom for survivability and speedruns

Add Invincible Belief for survivability

Noble Fire is best when in a party of 6 and can replace another skill such as Hybrid Logic

Add Light Wash if you are low on Ignore Enemy Defense (IED)

You may choose to replace Elementalism with Time to Prepare in culvert

Available Link Skills

Category SKILL EFFECT (MAX LV) CLASS

Utility Phantom Instinct +20% Critical Rate Phantom

Survivability Spirit of Freedom

Invincible for 12 sec after being revived. Removed upon moving to another map.

Resistance

Survivability Invincible Belief

Automatically activates when your health falls to 15% of your Max HP or below. Restores 44% of Max HP every 1 sec for 3 sec

Explorer

Warrior

Survivability Innate Gift

Damage: +7%

Upon attacking, Recovery Chance: 100%, Recovery: 3% of Max HP/MP per sec, Duration: 5 sec Cooldown: 30 sec

Khali

Survivability Grounded Body

Damage Taken -6%, including attacks that inflict damage at a certain percentage of your Max HP

Ren

Survivability Close Call Fatal Attack Survival Chance: 15%

Shade

Damage Terms and Conditions +60% damage for 10 seconds

Angelic

Buster

Damage Fury Unleashed +20% boss damage

Demon

Slayer

Damage Qi Cultivation +24% Boss Damage at max stacks (6% + 3% * 6) Mo Xuan

Damage Solus +16% Damage at max stacks (1% + 3% * 5) Ark

Damage Wild Rage +15% damage

Demon

Avenger

Damage Light Wash +20% IED Luminous

Damage Noble Fire

Boss Damage: +6%. Increases damage by 3% up to 12% for each party member, including yourself, on the same map.

Adele

Damage Unfair Advantage

+9% damage vs weaker opponents

+9% damage vs monsters with Abnormal Statuses

Cadena

Damage Judgment +6% Critical Damage Kinesis

Damage Tree of Stars Buff Duration: +10%, Critical Damage: +3% Sia

Damage Focus Spirit

*if in server

+10% boss damage and critical rate

Lynn

*if in server

Damage Empirical Knowledge +15% damage, +15% IED

Explorer

Mage x3

Damage Elementalism +15% Damage Kanna

Damage Tide of Battle +16% Damage at max stacks (4% * 4) Illium

Damage Time to Prepare +25% damage increase for 20 sec at max stacks Kain

Damage Hybrid Logic +15% All Stat Xenon

Damage Cygnus Blessing

Attack Power and Magic ATT: +35

Abnormal Status Resistance: +22

All Elemental Resistance: +22%

Cygnus

Knight x5

Damage Pirate Blessing

STR: +100, DEX: +100, INT: +100, LUK: +100

Max HP: +1750, Max MP: +1750

Damage Taken: -21%

Explorer

Pirate x3

Damage Keen Edge

+35 All Stats

+20 Attack

Hayato

👕 Equips

Equips

WSE Optimization

The most common format for discussing WSE (Weapon, Secondary, Emblem) potential lines is Att/BD/IED. For example, 6/2/1 means between the 9 lines of potential on your WSE you have 6 lines of attack, 2 lines of boss damage, and 1 line of IED.

The below sections are guidelines. Use maplescouter to fit your unique situation.

Heroic (Reboot)

Rough Guideline

9/0/0 - best

8/1/0 - second best

Note: In general, both are similar, and the balance can be shifted by boss familiars. If you're not min maxing, settle with whatever you get first. All of the above doesn't matter if you luckerdog double/triple prime. Those will usually beat out any single prime.

Interactive (Regular)

This is a bit more complex as it is affected by your bonus potentials.

Assuming your bonus potentials have 21% attack or more, the optimal potentials would

Weapon: 2/1/0
Secondary: 1/2/0
Emblem: 2/0/1

This is also affected by your familiars. With an IED/Boss familiar the emblem will not need IED, for example. The fewer attack lines you have on bonus potentials the more will the optimal lines look like reboot lines. It will not matter so much if you have two lines of boss on the weapon instead of secondary, it’s just that the attack % potential is a bit lower.

Weapon Soul

In terms of raw damage output, the BIS order is: Mu Gong Soul, ATT +3%, Boss Damage +7%.

I personally prefer ATT +3% since I am not min clearing and it keeps things simple.

Mu Gong Soul Ideally LUK + 7, but the skill is more important.

Increases ATT by 25% for 20 seconds.

Cooldown: 120 seconds.

Any Tier 1 Soul Weapon ATT +3%

Boss Damage +7%

Note: Mu Gong Soul must be level 2 for 20 second duration. Also keep in mind the following:

• Soul duration is not affected by buff duration from IA and legion

• The skill requires charging to use and the charge will deplete when you die

○ This also means you cannot use it in Culvert

○ In Dojo, you should be able to charge enough for 1 cast around floor 5X (need to test for specific floor)

• Mu Gong soul has a fairly long cast time, so it will take time to get used to it

• See Appendix - Mu Gong Soul for how to obtain the soul

Stars

Star How to obtain

Balanced Fury (30) Phantom Forest Dailies

Flaming Throwing Stars (29) Craft

Recipe from Calico Timcat, Nest Golem, Thunder

Crystal Ilbi Throwing Stars (29) Phantom Forest Dailies

White Gold Throwing Star (28) Events, v.260 - Stargazer

Youtube Video

Infinite Throwing-Knives (27) Craft

Recipe from Eliza, Seruf, Raco, Snack Bar, Deo, Mossy Snail,

[*]Soul Teddy, Timer, Tae Room

Maple-Throwing Stars (21) Staff Sergeant Charlie’s Exchange Quest

Magic Throwing Knives Legacy item.

Only purchasable from other players in regular server.

Secondary

Princess No’s Charm is BIS.

Cooldown/CD Hat

Night Lord does NOT need a cooldown/CD hat. However, I see a lot of NLs using -2 for the QOL. -2 is even better if you can get with stat lines.

⚠️ NEW: 2 min patch testing is needed

Current thoughts right now from the NL discord are:

1. Stat hat has the strongest burst dmg (obviously)

2. Perm -2 cd hat is about equal in full rotation dpm to stat hat (extra deathstars) and provides a bit of QoL with miniburst cd

3. Perm -4+ cd hat is a little bit weaker than 1/2, but can help give a 17th burst in a mincut run.

4. Perm -4 cd hat with a stat line is about equal to a 36% stat line

5. Swap stat and cd hat is probably highest dmg output but requires 2 done eternal hats

Special Skill Rings

Using a Ring of Restraint (RoR) on burst with Totalling Ring on mini burst is best.

If you do not have a RoR, a Continuous can be an easy to use placeholder but you will not ring swap since the Cont requires charging before use.

Burst RoR 4+

Mini Tot 4

Below is a screenshot from my maplescouter.

Ring Level 4 Use

Ring of Restraint Attack Power: +100%, Magic ATT: +100% Best ring for NL, hands down.

Useful in Dojo, Culvert, and Bossing.

Continuous Boss Damage: +140%, Attack Power: +10%,

Magic ATT: +10%

Dojo and Culvert

Totalling Increases the main stats by 2% of the sum

of all your stats

Dojo and Culvert

Weapon Jump L Increases LUK by 400% of your equipped

main weapon's Attack Power

Dojo and Culvert

Risk Taker Attack Power: +50%, ends when hit Dojo and Culvert

Crisis HM Activates when your HP and MP are 5% or lower, Attack Power +20%

Dojo and Culvert

Must also get Health Cut Ring 1/2/3/4

Mana Cut Ring 1/2/3/4

As of the April 2025 KMS update, the attack boost has been decreased from 100% to 20%, making Crisis HM culvert tech basically dead.

Critical Damage Critical Damage +28% Dojo and Culvert

Overdrive Ignores enemy Attack Ignore and attack

reflection effects, does 100% damage

Don’t need Overdrive Ring on NL since you

should avoid bursting during Damage Reflect

Reflective Amplifies incoming damage by 1500% and

reflects it

Level 1/2/3/4 for Princess No Pink Whale

Cleansing Grants a 100% chance to cancel all

Abnormal Statuses and be immune to

Abnormal Status for 3 sec after use

Level 1/2/3/4 for bossing

Note: For Dojo and Culvert, see this video and this video on how to rotate between rings

Note: With the release of the Dreamer patch, you are now able to swap Oz rings while summons/projectiles are out. Details on how to setup the configuration to ring swap can be found in this reddit post.

Does NL need a Ring of Restraint (RoR)?

Yes. But, don’t just take my word. Here are other pros from around the Maple world:

Even asked Sugar about playing NL without a RoR:

Also see:

● Ring Box Odds

● How To Get The BEST Rings in MapleStory - MapleStory Oz Rings Guide

Flames

Spratz on the NL Discord:

Easiest way to calculate flames is to transform every flame into t6 atk + x% boss

You can use different conversions to get that:

1% boss = 1% dmg = 10 stats = 1% stats

t7 diff = t6 atk + 23atk = t6 atk + 7% dmg

whackybeanz:

Use the whackybeanz Flame Calculator to view possible flame values based on item type

and level. You can also view the probability of getting better flame outcomes as

compared to your current flame values.

I created https://aaronlefkow.github.io/flamedistribution/ to help you pick values in

whackbeanz’s calculator. Better yet, you can use the unofficial WhackyBeanz Extension.

🪨 Nodes

Nodes

Boost Node Trios

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

TRIO 1 TRIO 2 (OPTIONAL) TRIO 1 TRIO 2 (OPTIONALl)

Showdown Sudden Raid Quad Star Showdown

Quad Star Death Star Assassin's Mark Sudden Raid

Assassin's Mark Dark Flare Dark Flare Death Star

Note: Level boost nodes for training until

Showdown 1 shots mobs

Note: Although Trio 2 is marked as optional for the

recommended setup, Dark Flare is a key mobbing

skill which can clear a section of the map by itself

into endgame maps with strong enough drop/meso

gear. However, to synergize with Sol Janus Dusk,

being overgeared for the area you’re in can result

in less Dusk procs: see Training Tips for more

details.

Note: This setup can be more node slot efficient if

your showdown can 1hko mobs w/o boost node

Node Priority

General Priority

Boost Node Trios > > > > > > > > >

Bossing

1. Throw Blasting

2. Throwing Star Barrage

3. Shadow Walker and Last Resort

4. Maple World Goddess’s Blessing

5. Erda Nova lvl 25* (to go from 216 sec to 120 sec cooldown. You could also

just maxed it if you don’t want to worry about cooldown desynch issues.)

6. Blink

7. Dark Lord’s Omen and Shurrikane

8. Will of Erda

9. Level 1 (CO, SE, SI, AB)

10.

11. maxed

Leveling

1. Decent Holy Symbol

2. Dark Lord’s Omen and Shurrikane

3. Rope Lift

4. Erda Shower/Fountain - Low priority because it is much stronger than dark

flare and assassin’s mark, so you shouldn't have problems 1hko with it. In Grandis,

if Dark Flare is not 1 or 2 hko, you can't rely on the summons, so you will be doing

a circular rotation. After the Dreamer update, Shadow Partner now also applies to

both Erda Shower and Erda Fountain, which makes it even easier to 1 shot.

Example Node Setup

I haven’t done it yet but you should level your decent nodes to level 26 for the maximum stat boost.

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⭐ NL Skills (1st - 5th)

Skills

For a full list of skill details, see Grandis Library.

1st Job

Dark Sight

Dark Sight allows you to dodge certain attacks. Night Lord obtains Dark Sight from three

sources:

Dark Sight (1st)

Activated via hotkey'd skill, lasts for 200 seconds unless canceled,

cooldown is variable - increases by 3 seconds per %hp attack

blocked to a maximum of 15 seconds

Shadow Surge (2nd)

Dashes and briefly grants the effects of darksight. Each attack

against an enemy with Assassin's Mark or Night Lord's Mark

reduces cooldown by 1 second. Can be used while casting other

skills.

Shadow Walker (5th)

Activated via hotkey'd skill, lasts for 20 seconds and will not be

canceled by attacks or skills. Cooldown 120 sec.

Below is a list of avoidable attacks:

Global Touch Damage

Magnus Immobilizing Gas

Debris

Hilla Lightning Bolt

Flame Breath

Papulatus Hand Smash

Time Rift (blue floor)

Timed Cursed/Seal (both cast + seal)

Falling Debris (after red countdown timer)

Pierre Falling Hats

Fire Spin (Blue Form)

Von Bon Debris

Crimson Queen Burn DoT (gain stacks but no damage taken)

Vellum Falling Stun Rocks

Pink Bean Statuses: All attacks except Laser, Poison Clouds, Mini Pink Beans

Pink Bean: Blue ground attack, Big Bang, Mini Pink Beans

Gollux Flame Bomb (99% Bomb + Reverse)

Cygnus All minions (including Instructors) touch damage + attacks

Lotus Falling Parts (P2 Stun Debris)

Damien P1: Yellow Falling Fireballs

P2: Red Falling Fireballs, Dash, Thorn Bind (World Tree Override) - can be done reactively

when he disappears w/ Monster Silhouettes enabled in settings)

Guardian Angel

Slime

Slime Pool DoT

Slime minion touch damage (not their attacks, i.e. Pink Slime's seduce)

Magma Slime touch + landing on head

Will P1 (Segment Test)

● Red Meteors

● Web (Abyssal Veil)

● Dash

Gloom Falling Debris (does not add curse)

Verus Hilla Corpse DoT

Darknell Debris (red diagonal meteors)

Small Minion touch damage (except sword swing)

Black Mage P1

● Knights' Rush/Dash (still applies curse)

● Red Lightning

● Vertical Falling Debris (White Meteors)

P2 & P3

● Diagonal/Rolling Debris (only while midair)

● Down FMA

Seren Phase 1

● Falling Debris (no gauge with or without)

● Dash (still adds sun gauge)

Phase 2

Daylight (Yellow):

● Dash (still adds sun gauge)

● Balls (still adds sun gauge)

Sunset (Red):

● Falling Debris (still adds sun gauge)

Kalos 2-3 blue bomb explosion (departed wing)

String Guide Infographic

https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/kaling

Kaling

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Kaling Guide

Kaling P3 Cheese TL;DR

Phase 1:

● Dark Sight: Yellow Balls (Demon Flare)

● Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Damien never does touch damage in P1

Phase 2:

● Dark Sight: Red Balls (Flame Orbs)

● Dark Sight: Thorn Bind (World Tree Override) - can be done reactively when he disappears w/ Monster Silhouettes enabled in settings. Alternatively, use Hero’s will.

● Frailty Curse: On Blue Balls (Transcendent Stone) to slow them

● Showdown (Untouchable): Use to avoid Dash (Demonic Charge). Shadow Surge (Dark Sight) or ducking can also be done if untouchable is not applied.

Guardian Angel Slime

[Maplestory] Guardian Angel Slime Guide / Normal Mode / Pattern Guide / Adele Sol…

Guardian Angel Slime Boss Guide for Normal and Chaos

Dark Sight:

● Slime Pool DoT

● Slime minion touch damage (not their attacks, i.e. Pink Slime seduce)

● Magma Slime touch + landing on head

Showdown (Untouchable):

● Use on slime minions to avoid touch damage

● Not useful on the boss since it never does touch damage

Lucid

Pattern Guide: [메이플스토리] 루시드 패턴 공략ㅣ보스 공략

Rath GMS: Lucid Boss Guide (Normal & Hard difficulty)

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Golems spawn in the same spot every 2 minutes. In P3 for Hard Lucid you can wait till the middle platform breaks and respawns so that you won’t be interrupted during burst.

Will

Pattern Guide

WILL Boss Guide | Tests Simplified (Hard & Normal) | 2024

Part 1:

● Dark Sight: Red Meteors in segment test

● Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Will never does touch damage in P1

● Origin: Use right away so that the 6 minute cooldown timer starts ticking. In [GMS Kronos] 60m CP Night Lord solo Hwill , you can see origin being used on entrance and then being ready to use for part 2. Of course, clear timing varies. I use origin on the first segment and the cooldown ends around when I enter part 3.

Part 2:

● Dark Sight: Web (Abyssal Veil)

● Dark Sight: Dash

● Showdown (Untouchable): Dash

● Poison:

○ Every 30 seconds, Will creates a poison cloud (in the form of a green aura) on the character for 20 seconds. There is no damage to the character affected by this, but the poison cloud wave coming from the green aura inflicts 44% damage per second to surrounding characters.

○ The infected character's final damage to Will increases by 30% during the duration.

○ If the character with the aura does not inflict damage to Will more than a certain number of times for about 10 seconds, ignores all resurrection skills and invincibility skills and kills you instantly.

○ If an infected character dies for any reason, the aura is transferred to another random survivor and a poison cloud is left where the infected character died. The poison cloud also inflicts damage proportional to health, and the aura's duration is not reset. The poison cloud disappears when the aura's duration ends.

Gloom

Pattern Guide

GLOOM Boss Guide for Chaos & Normal

[Maplestory] Gloom Guide

Dusk - Namu Wiki

The “tentacle defense” will occur immediately at 70%, 40%, and 15% in Chaos mode.

Dark Sight: Falling Debris/Meteors (does not add curse)

Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Gloom never does touch damage

During darkness: Keep moving and use Dark Flare, Dark Lord’s Omen, and True Arachnid reflection to kill mobs

Verus Hilla

Pattern Guide

Safe Areas from Strings (the pattern guide is missing the far left safe area)

VERUS HILLA Guide Made Easy (Hard & Normal) | 2025

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하이퍼버닝 메린이들을 위한 진힐라 간단 공략!!

... (content continues with numerous boss pattern guides, culvert rotations, and skill specifics) ...

appendix - inner ability details and cost

🫂 Version History & Credits

Version History

Only bigger changes will be added, minor changes will not have version history.

Nov 13, 2025

• Ring swap skill changes

• Link Skills updated for level 3 but not fully optimized yet

Nov 5, 2025

• Cont4 + RoR5 culvert rotation added

Nov 2, 2025

• Fog Forest Training Grounds added

• Legion added

• Familiars added

• Familiars Badges added

• Legion Artifact added

• Pet Autobuffs added

Nov 1, 2024

• Added Three Minute Burst visualization

• Added Frailty Curse and Shadow Surge to NL Skills

Credits

Lukishi

Author and casual Mapler. I updated the guide with new visuals and topics, mostly plagiarizing from the Night Lord FAQ , other guides, and the Night Lord discord.

spicedcuttlefish#2780

Original author of the Night Lord FAQ .

Other guides that set the standard for what a class guide looks like.

(Lukishi copied word for word and took formatting inspiration from these)

The Comprehensive Guide to Mercedes

Dawn Warrior Coloring Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing Dawn Warrior

A Pocket Guide to Bishop

Special Mentions:

iBussin: For providing writing while wapping

Knjfe: For taking 0 credit and yet still providing screenshots and pins

AbsoluteLuck: For yapping non stop and doing math while I secretly take notes

(Note: The document includes a lot of images, tables, and code-like blocks that were preserved in the narrative above where possible. The original guide contains many visual references for Hexa stats, Flames, Stars, and Culvert rotations; screenshots are referenced by file names and linked resources within the guide.)

Hyper Stats and Skills (continued)

Hexa Stat Efficiency and related matrices are discussed with a variety of best-practice recommendations.
Origin: Life and Death is introduced as a crafting/guiding concept for early rotations and for Buckets of burst windows.

Appendix - 3 Minute Culvert

Culvert (V1A)

A good way to tell when throw blasting is about to hit 60 seconds is to use buff favorites:

Too early

right before the shadow hits above 68

Too slow

Culvert (V1B)

From Rama on the NL Discord

Culvert (V2) - Crisis HM

While there is an uber optimal rotation using 5 oz rings as seen in this video, it is up to you whether you want to go for it, those optional steps to do so are listed in BLUE below.

Note that you should be liberated or have a Krr ring. There are many ways to set up Crisis HM, this is just one method.

The rings you need to use the strategy below are:

• Crisis HM 4

• Health Cut (any level)

• Limit (any level - the flat health cost scales with level)

Alternate timings if you’re using a CD hat are also below in RED.

Continuous 4 is also a viable entry ring, setting it up is much simpler now that there is a dummy in the room. Basic attack the dummy approximately 3 seconds before entering.

Preparation before entering Culvert

Legion Grid

• Level 200 Mercedes for Skill Cooldown -5%

• Ensure that you do not have Aran or Evan legion blocks in your grid

Buffs

• Decents: Make sure your pets haven’t just used your decents so they can be used when you enter the waiting room

• External Buffs: Organize in inventory for faster buffing

Potions

• Ensure that you have regular mana potions

• If you use auto HP/MP, ensure that you do not have potions in your auto MP slot. You can leave your auto HP slotted on but for it to work, you will have to be iframed until you activate Crisis HM. If you take a “miss” while your HP is under your autopot threshold, you will still drink a potion.

Preparation while inside the 2-minute waiting room

Marks and

Familiars

Use these first so you don’t forget later

Assassin’s Marks

Summon Familiars

Throw Blasting Pop Throw Blasting (The 90s duration will leave you 60s to buff up)

External Buffs Use External Buffs

Health Cut

Ring, Limit

Ring, MP

Potions

Use your Health Cut and your Limit ring, you want to be between 25% and 30% HP.

Use mana potions until you have about 3500-4000 MP.

Start casting frailty curse to stack and maintain Ark link.

Your goal is to be at approximately 3000 MP when you enter.

Epic

Adventurer When throw blasting reaches 60s, use EA and MG

Fatal Strike

Punch the air at 35s (+ CD hat) for fatal strike. Make sure you face left, do not hit the dummy in the waiting room as it will waste throw blasting stacks

Enter Enter the altar when throw blasting reaches 25s (+ CD hat)

How to burst while inside the Boss room

On Entry Dark Flare and Frailty Curse

Gene iframe Use gene iframe before the first attack from the boss

Normal Attack

Attack the boss little by little until it does not instantly die anymore

Between stages 2 and 5, use Erda Nova Bind as this costs 15% hp. Your

hp will now be between 10% and 15% and Crisis HM will activate once you use last resort

Mini Burst

AB Link and Last Resort buffs

Second Oz Ring

Shurikane and Omen

Waiting Normal Attack until 81s

81s left

Frailty Curse

If not using Cont4, swap to RoR after fatal ends

61s left Origin

55s left Seren and Will

51s left Spread Throw EA MG

41s left Frailty Curse

31s left Shadow Walker

20s left Throw Blasting should be coming off CD

Full Burst Pop everything and full burst with Ror3/4 in the last ~16s

Note: GMS buffs can be extended by server lag. Notably Fatal Strike, with a duration of 2s normally, often can be extended to 4s or more. Other skills can also be extended similarly. Play with the timings above and with different channels if you like minmaxing.

Culvert (V3) - Crisis HM

From 04/29/2024 Discord Pin and modified on 12/03 by me for Goddess’s Blessing

changes

2.5k MP on entry

Level of Limit/Health cut ring doesn't matter, only Crisis HM3/4

🫂 Version History & Credits

Version History

Only bigger changes will be added, minor changes will not have version history.

Nov 13, 2025

• Ring swap skill changes

• Link Skills updated for level 3 but not fully optimized yet

Nov 5, 2025

• Cont4 + RoR5 culvert rotation added

Nov 2, 2025

• Fog Forest Training Grounds added

• Legion added

• Familiars added

• Familiars Badges added

• Legion Artifact added

• Pet Autobuffs added

Nov 1, 2024

• Added Three Minute Burst visualization

• Added Frailty Curse and Shadow Surge to NL Skills

Credits

Lukishi

Author and casual Mapler. I updated the guide with new visuals and topics, mostly plagiarizing from the Night Lord FAQ , other guides, and the Night Lord discord.

spicedcuttlefish#2780

Original author of the Night Lord FAQ .

Other guides that set the standard for what a class guide looks like.

(Lukishi copied word for word and took formatting inspiration from these)

The Comprehensive Guide to Mercedes

Dawn Warrior Coloring Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing Dawn Warrior

A Pocket Guide to Bishop

Special Mentions:

iBussin: For providing writing while wapping

Knjfe: For taking 0 credit and yet still providing screenshots and pins

AbsoluteLuck: For yapping non stop and doing math while I secretly take notes

Appendix - Mu Gong Soul

Mu Gong Soul

In terms of raw damage output, the BIS order is: Mu Gong Soul, ATT +3%, Boss Damage +7%.

I personally prefer ATT +3% since I am not min clearing and it keeps things simple.

Mu Gong Soul ideally level 2 for 20 second duration. See the Mu Gong Soul appendix for how to obtain the soul.

End of Night Lord Guide excerpt (for brevity, this section captures the main topics and structure. The original document is significantly more expansive with tables, images, and expanded sections on each boss, skill, and rotation.)

Night Lord Guide

Introduction
Hyper Stats and Skills
Inner Ability
Link Skills
Equips
Nodes
Pet Autobuffs
iFrames
Boss Rotations
Bosses
Culvert Rotations
Training Tips
Training Maps
Future Changes
Appendix
Maplestcouter
General Resources
Credits

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Introduction

Class Overview

https://grandislibrary.com/explorers/night-lord

Maplestory - What Its Like To Be a 6th Job NL!

MapleStory - Guide to Night Lord

6th Job Night Lord is REALLY GOOD In Maplestory Reboot

Maplestory Heroic Kronos Night Lord Boss Mule: Post 2 Minute Changes - 1.73 BIL i…

GMS Night Lord culvert (150,333)

MapleStory: Night Lord Bossing & Training Guide

MapleStory Comprehensive Night Lord Guide - Burst, DPS, Mobbing/Training, 5th J…

Maplestory Night Lord Burst

For the most effective use of the doc, use Ctrl+F to search for specific keywords.

Why Play Night Lord?

PROS CONS

• High and fast burst

• Mobility

• High Weapon Multiplier

• Weaker off burst DPS

• Ring of Restraint (ROR) reliant

• Glass Cannon

• Dark Sight

• Untouchable (via Showdown)

• Frailty Curse

• Must be close to boss for burst

Night Lord Boss Mules

🍄 Hyper Stats and Skills

Hyper Stats and Skills

Hyper Stats

Hyper Passive Skills

I personally use the bossing setup 100% of the time since it’s annoying to change.

Hybrid Bossing Farming

🗿 Stats

Stats

Attack Speed

Night Lord does not need Attack Speed inner ability to reach AS0 (Level/Stage 10).

Type Lvl Source

Basic 6 Claw

Skills 2 Agile Claws

1 Decent Speed Infusion

Usable Items 1 Green Pot

Critical Rate

Night Lord has one of the highest base critical rates at 75%.

Source Amount

Basic 5%

Critical Throw (2nd Job) 50%

Expert Throwing Star Handling (3rd Job) 20%

Easily reach 100% by adding from various sources such as

Up to 5% from Night Lord Legion member bonus

Up to 5% from Marksman Legion member bonus

10% Decent Sharp Eyes

10% Focus Spirit link skill from Lynn

1% Holy Badge

1% Rebel Badge

1% Ocean Badge

Up to 20% from Legion Artifact

Hyper Stat

(not recommended since you can get from so many other sources and hyper stat is better used elsewhere)

Legion Outer Grid

(not recommended since you can get from so many other sources and other parts of the grid are better)

Ignore Enemy Defense (IED)

• See Grandis Library’s IED and PDR explanation

• Frailty Curse can give Night Lord a staggering 41% IED. This means that the visual IED required for Night Lord is lower than a lot of other classes.

• The IED required depends on the boss's PDR (

Maplestory IED Comparison Chart )

IED Requirements

With a visual IED of 95.47% and 41% IED from Frailty Curse’s, NL has 97.33% total effective IED and hits 90% dmg on 380% PDR bosses.

Boss PDR Visual IED

Required

IED to do

90% dmg

Lotus, Damien, Lucid, Will,

Gloom, VHilla, Darknell,

Black Mage

300% 94.34 96.66%

Seren, Kalos, Kaling, Limbo,

Baldrix

380% 95.47 97.33%

300% PDR Bosses w/ Frailty Curse

Source IED Cumulative IED

Visual IED 94.34% 94.34%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 96.66%

380% PDR Bosses w/ Frailty Curse

Source IED Cumulative IED

Visual IED 95.47% 95.47%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 97.33%

Other IED Sources

While some NL skills give +20% IED, some of the most important NL skills do not.

Therefore, it’s better to not take into account any IED from our attacking skills.

Boost Nodes: Quad Star Boost and Assassin’s Mark have +20% IED

Skill Nodes: Throw Blasting, Shurrikane, and Dark Lord’s Omen do not have +20% IED

📈 Inner Ability

Inner Ability

Ideal Bossing Inner Ability

Night Lord’s ideal inner ability is Boss Damage, Attack, and Dmg to Abnormal%.

In addition, Night Lord does not need Attack Speed +1 to reach the cap.

Devil’s advocate from Hooning’s video to use Boss Damage + 20%, Buff Duration +38%,

8% Dmg to Abnormal.

About Buff Duration

● More sources of buff duration exist

● Sequence makes casting skills faster and therefore Terms and Conditions is more efficient

● With the v263 patch, Throw Blasting was reduced from 68 to 46 charms

● Hexa Death Star allows us to use 20 charms almost instantly

There are many buff duration sources and you should prioritize them all for a stronger burst.

40% from legion grid effects

25% from Lv 250 Mechanic’s legion block effect

10% from Lv 100 Empathy

20% from Legion Artifact

10% from Sia’s Link Skill Tree of Stars

Ideal Farming Inner Ability

FARMING 1 FARMING 2

Line 1 Meso Obtained +20% Item Drop Rate +20%

Line 2 Item Drop Rate +15% Meso Obtained +15%

Line 3 +8% damage to normal monsters +8% damage to normal monsters

Rolling the Perfect Bossing Inner Ability (Reboot)

BEST Inner Ability Guide MapleStory 2024 Ride or Die

Honor EXP Cost

Perfecting your Inner Ability is not cheap. Even with 50% Inner Ability Events, expect to spend millions of Honor Exp. See the estimated cost at MathBro’s Inner Ability Calculator.

Consider settling for non-perfect lines if you haven’t amassed Honor Exp.

If you are willing, you could also shell out some meso and save on honor.

Alternate Inner Abilities

MESO

ATTACK SPEED

Not recommended

DROP RATE

Drop rate is an extremely viable IA to run, given that it affects Oz Boxes, Pitched Boss, Nodestones, and 6th job Sol Erda/Fragments

ATTACK +21

🤝 Link Skills

Link Skills

Ideal Link Skills

What link skills you want also depends on whether you’re bossing or training. For more information on specific link skills and their effects, see Grandis Library.

Many players also use the maplescouter link skill efficiency tool.

Below is an example from my Maplescouter input as of 11/13/25.

PS. do not actually put your link skills as max in scouter, only use what you plan to use or it inflates your scouter. I only maxed them all to show an example.

Link Skill Examples

Mobbing

Bossing

Glass Cannon

Survival with Additional IED

Note: The above link skill setups are examples. Modify based on the situation, especially during bossing.

Unfair Advantage should not be used when you are lower level than the boss

Add Spirit of Freedom for survivability and speedruns

Add Invincible Belief for survivability

Noble Fire is best when in a party of 6 and can replace another skill such as Hybrid Logic

Add Light Wash if you are low on Ignore Enemy Defense (IED)

You may choose to replace Elementalism with Time to Prepare in culvert

Available Link Skills

Category SKILL EFFECT (MAX LV) CLASS

Utility Phantom Instinct +20% Critical Rate Phantom

Survivability Spirit of Freedom

Invincible for 12 sec after being revived. Removed upon moving to another map.

Resistance

Survivability Invincible Belief

Automatically activates when your health falls to 15% of your Max HP or below. Restores 44% of Max HP every 1 sec for 3 sec

Explorer

Warrior

Survivability Innate Gift

Damage: +7%

Upon attacking, Recovery Chance: 100%, Recovery: 3% of Max HP/MP per sec, Duration: 5 sec Cooldown: 30 sec

Khali

Survivability Grounded Body

Damage Taken -6%, including attacks that inflict damage at a certain percentage of your Max HP

Ren

Survivability Close Call Fatal Attack Survival Chance: 15%

Shade

Damage Terms and Conditions +60% damage for 10 seconds

Angelic

Buster

Damage Fury Unleashed +20% boss damage

Demon

Slayer

Damage Qi Cultivation +24% Boss Damage at max stacks (6% + 3% * 6) Mo Xuan

Damage Solus +16% Damage at max stacks (1% + 3% * 5) Ark

Damage Wild Rage +15% damage

Demon

Avenger

Damage Light Wash +20% IED Luminous

Damage Noble Fire

Boss Damage: +6%. Increases damage by 3% up to 12% for each party member, including yourself, on the same map.

Adele

Damage Unfair Advantage

+9% damage vs weaker opponents

+9% damage vs monsters with Abnormal Statuses

Cadena

Damage Judgment +6% Critical Damage Kinesis

Damage Tree of Stars Buff Duration: +10%, Critical Damage: +3% Sia

Damage Focus Spirit

*if in server

+10% boss damage and critical rate

Lynn

*if in server

Damage Empirical Knowledge +15% damage, +15% IED

Explorer

Mage x3

Damage Elementalism +15% Damage Kanna

Damage Tide of Battle +16% Damage at max stacks (4% * 4) Illium

Damage Time to Prepare +25% damage increase for 20 sec at max stacks Kain

Damage Hybrid Logic +15% All Stat Xenon

Damage Cygnus Blessing

Attack Power and Magic ATT: +35

Abnormal Status Resistance: +22

All Elemental Resistance: +22%

Cygnus

Knight x5

Damage Pirate Blessing

STR: +100, DEX: +100, INT: +100, LUK: +100

Max HP: +1750, Max MP: +1750

Damage Taken: -21%

Explorer

Pirate x3

Damage Keen Edge

+35 All Stats

+20 Attack

Hayato

👕 Equips

Equips

WSE Optimization

The below sections are guidelines. Use maplescouter to fit your unique situation.

Heroic (Reboot)

Rough Guideline

9/0/0 - best

8/1/0 - second best

Interactive (Regular)

This is a bit more complex as it is affected by your bonus potentials.

Assuming your bonus potentials have 21% attack or more, the optimal potentials would

Weapon: 2/1/0
Secondary: 1/2/0
Emblem: 2/0/1

Weapon Soul

In terms of raw damage output, the BIS order is: Mu Gong Soul, ATT +3%, Boss Damage +7%.

I personally prefer ATT +3% since I am not min clearing and it keeps things simple.

Mu Gong Soul Ideally LUK + 7, but the skill is more important.

Increases ATT by 25% for 20 seconds.

Cooldown: 120 seconds.

Any Tier 1 Soul Weapon ATT +3%

Boss Damage +7%

Note: Mu Gong Soul must be level 2 for 20 second duration. Also keep in mind the following:

• Soul duration is not affected by buff duration from IA and legion

• The skill requires charging to use and the charge will deplete when you die

○ This also means you cannot use it in Culvert

○ In Dojo, you should be able to charge enough for 1 cast around floor 5X (need to test for specific floor)

• Mu Gong soul has a fairly long cast time, so it will take time to get used to it

• See Appendix - Mu Gong Soul for how to obtain the soul

Stars

Star How to obtain

Balanced Fury (30) Phantom Forest Dailies

Flaming Throwing Stars (29) Craft

Recipe from Calico Timcat, Nest Golem, Thunder

Crystal Ilbi Throwing Stars (29) Phantom Forest Dailies

White Gold Throwing Star (28) Events, v.260 - Stargazer

Youtube Video

Infinite Throwing-Knives (27) Craft

Recipe from Eliza, Seruf, Raco, Snack Bar, Deo, Mossy Snail,

[*]Soul Teddy, Timer, Tae Room

Maple-Throwing Stars (21) Staff Sergeant Charlie’s Exchange Quest

Magic Throwing Knives Legacy item.

Only purchasable from other players in regular server.

Secondary

Princess No’s Charm is BIS.

Cooldown/CD Hat

Night Lord does NOT need a cooldown/CD hat. However, I see a lot of NLs using -2 for the QOL. -2 is even better if you can get with stat lines.

⚠️ NEW: 2 min patch testing is needed

Current thoughts right now from the NL discord are:

1. Stat hat has the strongest burst dmg (obviously)

2. Perm -2 cd hat is about equal in full rotation dpm to stat hat (extra deathstars) and provides a bit of QoL with miniburst cd

3. Perm -4+ cd hat is a little bit weaker than 1/2, but can help give a 17th burst in a mincut run.

4. Perm -4 cd hat with a stat line is about equal to a 36% stat line

5. Swap stat and cd hat is probably highest dmg output but requires 2 done eternal hats

Special Skill Rings

Using a Ring of Restraint (RoR) on burst with Totalling Ring on mini burst is best.

If you do not have a RoR, a Continuous can be an easy to use placeholder but you will not ring swap since the Cont requires charging before use.

Burst RoR 4+

Mini Tot 4

Below is a screenshot from my maplescouter.

Ring Level 4 Use

Ring of Restraint Attack Power: +100%, Magic ATT: +100% Best ring for NL, hands down.

Useful in Dojo, Culvert, and Bossing.

Continuous Boss Damage: +140%, Attack Power: +10%,

Magic ATT: +10%

Dojo and Culvert

Totalling Increases the main stats by 2% of the sum

of all your stats

Dojo and Culvert

Weapon Jump L Increases LUK by 400% of your equipped

main weapon's Attack Power

Dojo and Culvert

Risk Taker Attack Power: +50%, ends when hit Dojo and Culvert

Crisis HM Activates when your HP and MP are 5% or lower, Attack Power +20%

Dojo and Culvert

Must also get Health Cut Ring 1/2/3/4

Mana Cut Ring 1/2/3/4

As of the April 2025 KMS update, the attack boost has been decreased from 100% to 20%, making Crisis HM culvert tech basically dead.

Critical Damage Critical Damage +28% Dojo and Culvert

Overdrive Ignores enemy Attack Ignore and attack

reflection effects, does 100% damage

Don’t need Overdrive Ring on NL since you

should avoid bursting during Damage Reflect

Reflective Amplifies incoming damage by 1500% and

reflects it

Level 1/2/3/4 for Princess No Pink Whale

Cleansing Grants a 100% chance to cancel all

Abnormal Statuses and be immune to

Abnormal Status for 3 sec after use

Level 1/2/3/4 for bossing

Note: For Dojo and Culvert, see this video and this video on how to rotate between rings

Does NL need a Ring of Restraint (RoR)?

Yes. But, don’t just take my word. Here are other pros from around the Maple world:

Even asked Sugar about playing NL without a RoR:

Also see:

● Ring Box Odds

● How To Get The BEST Rings in MapleStory - MapleStory Oz Rings Guide

Flames

Spratz on the NL Discord:

Easiest way to calculate flames is to transform every flame into t6 atk + x% boss

You can use different conversions to get that:

1% boss = 1% dmg = 10 stats = 1% stats

t7 diff = t6 atk + 23atk = t6 atk + 7% dmg

whackybeanz:

Use the whackybeanz Flame Calculator to view possible flame values based on item type

and level. You can also view the probability of getting better flame outcomes as

compared to your current flame values.

I created https://aaronlefkow.github.io/flamedistribution/ to help you pick values in

whackbeanz’s calculator. Better yet, you can use the unofficial WhackyBeanz Extension.

🪨 Nodes

Nodes

Boost Node Trios

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

TRIO 1 TRIO 2 (OPTIONAL) TRIO 1 TRIO 2 (OPTIONALl)

Showdown Sudden Raid Quad Star Showdown

Quad Star Death Star Assassin's Mark Sudden Raid

Assassin's Mark Dark Flare Dark Flare Death Star

Note: Level boost nodes for training until

Showdown 1 shots mobs

Note: Although Trio 2 is marked as optional for the

recommended setup, Dark Flare is a key mobbing

skill which can clear a section of the map by itself

into endgame maps with strong enough drop/meso

gear. However, to synergize with Sol Janus Dusk,

being overgeared for the area you’re in can result

in less Dusk procs: see Training Tips for more

details.

Note: This setup can be more node slot efficient if

your showdown can 1hko mobs w/o boost node

Node Priority

General Priority

Boost Node Trios > > > > > > > > >

Bossing

1. Throw Blasting

2. Throwing Star Barrage

3. Shadow Walker and Last Resort

4. Maple World Goddess’s Blessing

5. Erda Nova lvl 25* (to go from 216 sec to 120 sec cooldown. You could also

just maxed it if you don’t want to worry about cooldown desynch issues.)

6. Blink

7. Dark Lord’s Omen and Shurrikane

8. Will of Erda

9. Level 1 (CO, SE, SI, AB)

10.

11. maxed

Leveling

1. Decent Holy Symbol

2. Dark Lord’s Omen and Shurrikane

3. Rope Lift

4. Erda Shower/Fountain - Low priority because it is much stronger than dark

flare and assassin’s mark, so you shouldn't have problems 1hko with it. In Grandis,

if Dark Flare is not 1 or 2 hko, you can't rely on the summons, so you will be doing

a circular rotation. After the Dreamer update, Shadow Partner now also applies to

both Erda Shower and Erda Fountain, which makes it even easier to 1 shot.

Example Node Setup

I haven’t done it yet but you should level your decent nodes to level 26 for the maximum stat boost.

Obscure Tips & Tricks You Never Knew | Part 3 | MapleStory

⭐ NL Skills (1st - 5th)

Skills

For a full list of skill details, see Grandis Library.

1st Job

Dark Sight

Dark Sight allows you to dodge certain attacks. Night Lord obtains Dark Sight from three

sources:

Dark Sight (1st)

Activated via hotkey'd skill, lasts for 200 seconds unless canceled,

cooldown is variable - increases by 3 seconds per %hp attack

blocked to a maximum of 15 seconds

Shadow Surge (2nd)

Dashes and briefly grants the effects of darksight. Each attack

against an enemy with Assassin's Mark or Night Lord's Mark

reduces cooldown by 1 second. Can be used while casting other

skills.

Shadow Walker (5th)

Activated via hotkey'd skill, lasts for 20 seconds and will not be

canceled by attacks or skills. Cooldown 120 sec.

Below is a list of avoidable attacks:

Global Touch Damage

Magnus Immobilizing Gas

Debris

Hilla Lightning Bolt

Flame Breath

Papulatus Hand Smash

Time Rift (blue floor)

Timed Cursed/Seal (both cast + seal)

Falling Debris (after red countdown timer)

Pierre Falling Hats

Fire Spin (Blue Form)

Von Bon Debris

Crimson Queen Burn DoT (gain stacks but no damage taken)

Vellum Falling Stun Rocks

Pink Bean Statuses: All attacks except Laser, Poison Clouds, Mini Pink Beans

Pink Bean: Blue ground attack, Big Bang, Mini Pink Beans

Gollux Flame Bomb (99% Bomb + Reverse)

Cygnus All minions (including Instructors) touch damage + attacks

Lotus Falling Parts (P2 Stun Debris)

Damien P1: Yellow Falling Fireballs

P2: Red Falling Fireballs, Dash, Thorn Bind (World Tree Override) - can be done reactively

when he disappears w/ Monster Silhouettes enabled in settings)

Guardian Angel

Slime

Slime Pool DoT

Slime minion touch damage (not their attacks, i.e. Pink Slime's seduce)

Magma Slime touch + landing on head

Will P1 (Segment Test)

● Red Meteors

● Web (Abyssal Veil)

● Dash

Gloom Falling Debris (does not add curse)

Verus Hilla Corpse DoT

Darknell Debris (red diagonal meteors)

Small Minion touch damage (except sword swing)

Black Mage P1

● Knights' Rush/Dash (still applies curse)

● Red Lightning

● Vertical Falling Debris (White Meteors)

P2 & P3

● Diagonal/Rolling Debris (only while midair)

● Down FMA

Seren Phase 1

● Falling Debris (no gauge with or without)

● Dash (still adds sun gauge)

Phase 2

Daylight (Yellow):

● Dash (still adds sun gauge)

● Balls (still adds sun gauge)

Sunset (Red):

● Falling Debris (still adds sun gauge)

Kalos 2-3 blue bomb explosion (departed wing)

String Guide Infographic

https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/kaling

Kaling

[MAPLESTORY] KALING PATTERN GUIDEㅣBOSS GUIDE

MapleStory - Comprehensive Kaling Guide (Cheese Strat)

Kaling Guide

Kaling P3 Cheese TL;DR

Phase 1:

● Dark Sight: Yellow Balls (Demon Flare)

● Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Damien never does touch damage in P1

Phase 2:

● Dark Sight: Red Balls (Flame Orbs)

● Dark Sight: Thorn Bind (World Tree Override) - can be done reactively when he disappears w/ Monster Silhouettes enabled in settings. Alternatively, use Hero’s will.

● Frailty Curse: On Blue Balls (Transcendent Stone) to slow them

● Showdown (Untouchable): Use to avoid Dash (Demonic Charge). Shadow Surge (Dark Sight) or ducking can also be done if untouchable is not applied.

Guardian Angel Slime

[Maplestory] Guardian Angel Slime Guide / Normal Mode / Pattern Guide / Adele Sol…

Guardian Angel Slime Boss Guide for Normal and Chaos

Dark Sight:

● Slime Pool DoT

● Slime minion touch damage (not their attacks, i.e. Pink Slime seduce)

● Magma Slime touch + landing on head

Showdown (Untouchable):

● Use on slime minions to avoid touch damage

● Not useful on the boss since it never does touch damage

Lucid

Pattern Guide: [메이플스토리] 루시드 패턴 공략ㅣ보스 공략

Rath GMS: Lucid Boss Guide (Normal & Hard difficulty)

Night Lord: 나이트로드로 대충 보스 잡기, 약간의 팁과 함께 (하루시, 하스데)

Golems spawn in the same spot every 2 minutes. In P3 for Hard Lucid you can wait till the middle platform breaks and respawns so that you won’t be interrupted during burst.

Will

Pattern Guide

WILL Boss Guide | Tests Simplified (Hard & Normal) | 2024

Part 1:

● Dark Sight: Red Meteors in segment test

● Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Will never does touch damage in P1

Part 2:

● Dark Sight: Web (Abyssal Veil)

● Dark Sight: Dash

● Showdown (Untouchable): Dash

● Poison:

○ The infected character's final damage to Will increases by 30% during the duration.

Gloom

Pattern Guide

GLOOM Boss Guide for Chaos & Normal

[Maplestory] Gloom Guide

Dusk - Namu Wiki

The “tentacle defense” will occur immediately at 70%, 40%, and 15% in Chaos mode.

Dark Sight: Falling Debris/Meteors (does not add curse)

Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Gloom never does touch damage

During darkness: Keep moving and use Dark Flare, Dark Lord’s Omen, and True Arachnid reflection to kill mobs

Verus Hilla

Pattern Guide

Safe Areas from Strings (the pattern guide is missing the far left safe area)

VERUS HILLA Guide Made Easy (Hard & Normal) | 2025

Verus Hilla Boss Guide | Elluel Network

하이퍼버닝 메린이들을 위한 진힐라 간단 공략!!

... (content continues with numerous boss pattern guides, culvert rotations, and skill specifics) ...

appendix - inner ability details and cost

🫂 Version History & Credits

Version History

Only bigger changes will be added, minor changes will not have version history.

Nov 13, 2025

• Ring swap skill changes

• Link Skills updated for level 3 but not fully optimized yet

Nov 5, 2025

• Cont4 + RoR5 culvert rotation added

Nov 2, 2025

• Fog Forest Training Grounds added

• Legion added

• Familiars added

• Familiars Badges added

• Legion Artifact added

• Pet Autobuffs added

Nov 1, 2024

• Added Three Minute Burst visualization

• Added Frailty Curse and Shadow Surge to NL Skills

Credits

Lukishi

Author and casual Mapler. I updated the guide with new visuals and topics, mostly plagiarizing from the Night Lord FAQ , other guides, and the Night Lord discord.

spicedcuttlefish#2780

Original author of the Night Lord FAQ .

Other guides that set the standard for what a class guide looks like.

(Lukishi copied word for word and took formatting inspiration from these)

The Comprehensive Guide to Mercedes

Dawn Warrior Coloring Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing Dawn Warrior

A Pocket Guide to Bishop

Special Mentions:

iBussin: For providing writing while wapping

Knjfe: For taking 0 credit and yet still providing screenshots and pins

AbsoluteLuck: For yapping non stop and doing math while I secretly take notes

Hyper Stats and Skills (continued)

Hexa Stat Efficiency and related matrices are discussed with a variety of best-practice recommendations.
Origin: Life and Death is introduced as a crafting/guiding concept for early rotations and for Buckets of burst windows.

Appendix - 3 Minute Culvert

Culvert (V1A)

A good way to tell when throw blasting is about to hit 60 seconds is to use buff favorites:

Too early

right before the shadow hits above 68

Too slow

Culvert (V1B)

From Rama on the NL Discord

Culvert (V2) - Crisis HM

While there is an uber optimal rotation using 5 oz rings as seen in this video, it is up to you whether you want to go for it, those optional steps to do so are listed in BLUE below.

Note that you should be liberated or have a Krr ring. There are many ways to set up Crisis HM, this is just one method.

The rings you need to use the strategy below are:

• Crisis HM 4

• Health Cut (any level)

• Limit (any level - the flat health cost scales with level)

Alternate timings if you’re using a CD hat are also below in RED.

Continuous 4 is also a viable entry ring, setting it up is much simpler now that there is a dummy in the room. Basic attack the dummy approximately 3 seconds before entering.

Preparation before entering Culvert

Legion Grid

• Level 200 Mercedes for Skill Cooldown -5%

• Ensure that you do not have Aran or Evan legion blocks in your grid

Buffs

• Decents: Make sure your pets haven’t just used your decents so they can be used when you enter the waiting room

• External Buffs: Organize in inventory for faster buffing

Potions

• Ensure that you have regular mana potions

Preparation while inside the 2-minute waiting room

Marks and

Familiars

Use these first so you don’t forget later

Assassin’s Marks

Summon Familiars

Throw Blasting Pop Throw Blasting (The 90s duration will leave you 60s to buff up)

External Buffs Use External Buffs

Health Cut

Ring, Limit

Ring, MP

Potions

Use your Health Cut and your Limit ring, you want to be between 25% and 30% HP.

Use mana potions until you have about 3500-4000 MP.

Start casting frailty curse to stack and maintain Ark link.

Your goal is to be at approximately 3000 MP when you enter.

Epic

Adventurer When throw blasting reaches 60s, use EA and MG

Fatal Strike

Punch the air at 35s (+ CD hat) for fatal strike. Make sure you face left, do not hit the dummy in the waiting room as it will waste throw blasting stacks

Enter Enter the altar when throw blasting reaches 25s (+ CD hat)

How to burst while inside the Boss room

On Entry Dark Flare and Frailty Curse

Gene iframe Use gene iframe before the first attack from the boss

Normal Attack

Attack the boss little by little until it does not instantly die anymore

Between stages 2 and 5, use Erda Nova Bind as this costs 15% hp. Your

hp will now be between 10% and 15% and Crisis HM will activate once you use last resort

Mini Burst

AB Link and Last Resort buffs

Second Oz Ring

Shurikane and Omen

Waiting Normal Attack until 81s

81s left

Frailty Curse

If not using Cont4, swap to RoR after fatal ends

61s left Origin

55s left Seren and Will

51s left Spread Throw EA MG

41s left Frailty Curse

31s left Shadow Walker

20s left Throw Blasting should be coming off CD

Full Burst Pop everything and full burst with Ror3/4 in the last ~16s

Culvert (V3) - Crisis HM

From 04/29/2024 Discord Pin and modified on 12/03 by me for Goddess’s Blessing

changes

2.5k MP on entry

Level of Limit/Health cut ring doesn't matter, only Crisis HM3/4

🫂 Version History & Credits

Version History

Only bigger changes will be added, minor changes will not have version history.

Nov 13, 2025

• Ring swap skill changes

• Link Skills updated for level 3 but not fully optimized yet

Nov 5, 2025

• Cont4 + RoR5 culvert rotation added

Nov 2, 2025

• Fog Forest Training Grounds added

• Legion added

• Familiars added

• Familiars Badges added

• Legion Artifact added

• Pet Autobuffs added

Nov 1, 2024

• Added Three Minute Burst visualization

• Added Frailty Curse and Shadow Surge to NL Skills

Credits

Lukishi

Author and casual Mapler. I updated the guide with new visuals and topics, mostly plagiarizing from the Night Lord FAQ , other guides, and the Night Lord discord.

spicedcuttlefish#2780

Original author of the Night Lord FAQ .

Other guides that set the standard for what a class guide looks like.

(Lukishi copied word for word and took formatting inspiration from these)

The Comprehensive Guide to Mercedes

Dawn Warrior Coloring Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing Dawn Warrior

A Pocket Guide to Bishop

Special Mentions:

iBussin: For providing writing while wapping

Knjfe: For taking 0 credit and yet still providing screenshots and pins

AbsoluteLuck: For yapping non stop and doing math while I secretly take notes

Appendix - Mu Gong Soul

Mu Gong Soul

In terms of raw damage output, the BIS order is: Mu Gong Soul, ATT +3%, Boss Damage +7%.

I personally prefer ATT +3% since I am not min clearing and it keeps things simple.

Mu Gong Soul ideally level 2 for 20 second duration. See the Mu Gong Soul appendix for how to obtain the soul.

End of Night Lord Guide excerpt (for brevity, this section captures the main topics and structure. The original document is significantly more expansive with tables, images, and expanded sections on each boss, skill, and rotation.)

Night Lord Guide: Burst, Skills & Mobbing 2025

Document

Summary & Guide

Night Lord Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Hyper Stats and Skills (continued)

Appendix - 3 Minute Culvert

Appendix - Mu Gong Soul

End of Night Lord Guide excerpt (for brevity, this section captures the main topics and structure. The original document is significantly more expansive with tables, images, and expanded sections on each boss, skill, and rotation.)

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Night Lord Guide: Burst, Skills & Mobbing 2025

Document

Summary & Guide

Night Lord Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Hyper Stats and Skills (continued)

Appendix - 3 Minute Culvert

Appendix - Mu Gong Soul

End of Night Lord Guide excerpt (for brevity, this section captures the main topics and structure. The original document is significantly more expansive with tables, images, and expanded sections on each boss, skill, and rotation.)

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