🥷 Night Lord Guide

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A Comprehensive Guide to Night Lord

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👋 Introduction

Introduction

Class Overview

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% 94.35 96.67%

Seren, Kalos, Kaling, Limbo, Baldrix

380% 95.54 97.37%

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 94.35% 94.35%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 96.67%

https://beta.mapletools.app/calculators/ied

380% PDR Bosses w/ Frailty Curse

Source IED Cumulative IED

Visual IED 95.54% 95.54%

+Frailty Curse (Lvl 31 + Hyper) 41% 97.37%

https://beta.mapletools.app/calculators/ied

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

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

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 leveling. 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 in damage at a certain percentage of your Max HPflict 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 be ● 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. The important thing to take from this is that the optimal lines are interdependent and will dynamically change with your gear and familiars. 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.

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 20 (20 from node and 5 from slot enhancement to go from 216 sec to 120 sec cooldown. You could also just max it to 30 (25 + 5) 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 (can be done reactively when he disappears w/ Monster Silhouettes enabled in settings)

Guardian Angel Slime

Slime Pool DoT Slime minion touch damage (not attacks, i.e. Pink Slime seduce) Magma Slime touch + landing on head

Will P1 (Segment Test) ● Red Meteors P2 ● 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)

P3 ● 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)

Princess No (Miroku/4F All attacks except Infinite Flame), Butterfly Throw (except Black Butterfly Seduce), Sakura Shower

Shadow Leap

● Jump higher ● Additional “jump” forwards after regular jump and flash jump

Shadow Surge

● Movement and positioning ● Activates Dark Sight ● Movement to activate Illium Link Skill Tide of Battle GMS Night Lord culvert (180,000) ● Move forward while using Krrr Ring ● Almost zero cooldown when using Throwing Star Barrage (triggering assassin’s mark)

3rd Job

Dark Flare

● Activates Sol Janus: Dusk ● With the corsair legion block, dark flare’s duration is extended, this is useful for grinding. ● A fun tip for Dark Flare: If you are falling off of a platform you can place the skill and keep moving. Erda Fountain is the same.

4th Job

Frailty Curse

Level 31 (combat orders + hyper) gives an additional 41% IED against bosses.

Frailty Curse Reduces Attack Power and Defense by 30% and Movement Speed by -60 for enemies, excluding Boss Monsters

Frailty Curse Enhance Additional 10% Attack Power and Defense reduction

Frailty Curse Boss Rush Frailty Curse is applied to bosses

Slow (Movement Speed reduction) use cases: ● Pierre (Clown) blue hat spin ● Damien P2 blue balls ● Black Mage P3

Showdown (Untouchable)

Showdown applies the untouchable debuff for 140 seconds. When the debuff is applied, the entire party is immune to the following:

Magnus Dash

Papulatus Touch damage Hand Smash

Pierre Fire Spin (blue form)

Damien Dash (Demonic Charge)

Guardian Angel Slime

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

Lucid Golem touch damage

Will P2 Dash

Verus Hilla Corpse DoT

Black Mage P1 Knights' Rush/Dash P2 Touch Damage

Seren Phase 1 Dash

Phase 2 Dash (Noon, Sunset, Midnight, Dawn)

Phase 2 Sunset (Red) 1-2 for 1-2-3 Triple Slash

5th Job

Throw Blasting

Throw Blasting

● Usable Explosive Charms: 46 ● Uses min 2 and max 4 charms per attack skill ● Duration: 60 sec ● Cooldown: 120 sec

Uses Charms Does not use Charms

Last Resort

Last Resort is a common 5th job skill for thieves mainly used in Boss Rotations. ● It is best to use with iFrames or binds to minimize the chance of dying from the increased damage taken while using Last Resort ● It is recommended to use Action Customization (right click) so there is one less key to press during Night Lord’s front loaded burst ● Not affected by Buff Duration %

Last Resort

● Increases Final Damage % ● Decreases Avoidability ● Increases damage taken from enemy attacks, including %Max HP attacks ● 60 second cooldown ● To remove last resort, use the skill key again while in stage 2

Method Stage Steps

1 Press the skill key to enter Stage 1.

+^2

Press the Skill Key again to enter Stage 2 with 50% of the remaining duration.

+^2 Down Arrow Key and Skill Key together immediately enters Stage 2.

2 When Action Customization is turned on, pressing the skill key immediately enters Stage 2.

+^1

When Action Customization is turned on, Down Arrow Key and Skill Key together enters Stage 1. Be careful when ducking and setting up burst so that you do not accidentally enter Stage 1 instead of Stage 2.

Stage Avoidability Hit Damage

Final Damage

Duration

1 -20% +10% +10% 30 seconds

2 -90% +20% +24% 15 seconds if immediately entered or 50% of the remaining duration if not immediately entered

MapleStory Last Resort (Ready to Die) 5th Job Skill hit damage test: ● 100% or 17,904 without last resort ● 110% or 19,694 in Stage 1 ● 130% or 23,275 in Stage 2

Note : The video is outdated and shows 140% or 25,065 in Stage 2. Ride or Die V255 changed the hit damage from 40% to 30%. Octo Fest V263 changed the hit damage from 30% to 20%.

Throwing Star Barrage

Throwing Star Barrage

● Quad Star attacks in 3 extra directions, with extra projectiles dealing 379% damage ● Duration: 30 sec ● Cooldown: 120 sec

10 Attacks per throw without Throwing Star Barrage

25 Attacks per throw with Throwing Star Barrage

Make sure you are close enough to the target so that a total of 25 attacks per throw occur: ● HEXA Quad Star: 10 attacks ○ 5 attacks from you ○ 5 attacks from Shadow Partner ● Throwing Star Barrage: 15 attacks from you (3 x 5 quad star)

Throwing Star Barrage (red) are thrown in a fan formation.

If you are too far away from your target, you can visually see the stars missing the target.

Dark Lord’s Omen

Normally used with burst and do not need to trigger the early explosion.

However, there are a few scenarios to trigger to explode early for extra damage: ● If you know the boss will leave early such as Lucid is about to disappear in p2 ● To finish off the current phase so you can save throw blasting tags/charms for the next phase ● Seren if you think she will dash away ● HLimbo or HBaldrix min clear parties

Venom Burst

If you search for “Venom Burst” on the NL Discord, you will see a lot of negative comments. The general consensus is that Venom Burst is not a worthwhile investment. In fact, it isn’t even listed in the Node Priority. However, as a NL main, there are some use cases.

1. Passive: When you have spare node slots (ex. at 260), the Venom Burst skill node should always be equipped for the passive effect. You do not need to use the active effect.

2. Active: To hit bosses when they are invulnerable due to disappearing. See Sonto’s video for a great explanation on this use case Maplestory - Venom Burst (1:23 - 2:17)

3. Active: Assisting in full clearing maps

For an example of full clearing with Venom Burst on NL, see this video. In it, you can see me struggling to full clear even while using Sol Janus Dusk. Venom Burst is particularly useful in this training rotation since Showdown cannot hit the mobs below me. Keep in mind, this is just an example. In actuality, it would be best to use a lazier rotation where you one shot with just Sol Janus Dusk (+ Showdown if needed).

6 ⃣ Hexa

Hexa

Hexa Matrix Resources Most people use maplescouter.

Below are some additional resources I also like: ● MapleHub Fragment Calculator ● [Updated for Ren] HEXA Matrix Tracker by Subluxe/StiffNuts ● mason's maple matrix hexa calculator ● https://maplebot.io/tools/hexa-tracker ● https://beta.mapletools.app/tools/hexamatrix

Maplescouter Hexa Efficiency You can use maplescouter to input your current hexa and see what is next. Data and screenshots in this section were last updated on 11/24/25.

When maplescouter shows hexa stat, it is only referring to Hexa Stat 3. Maplescouter already assumes that you have leveled Hexa Stat 1 and 2 and therefore does not include it in the hexa efficiency order.

It’s hard to say exactly when you should level Hexa Stat 1 and 2. A general recommendation is to max both Hexa Stat 1 and 2 after Hexa Quad Star and Hexa Assassin’s Mark are level 9 since going to level 10 quad and mark is very expensive.

Heroic (Frag/Piece Gated) GMS GMS Heroic.jpg

KMS (Future Changes) KMS Heroic.jpg

Interactive (Sol Erda Gated)

GMS GMS Interactive.jpg

KMS (Future Changes) KMS Interactive.jpg

Sol Janus

Sol Janus: Dusk

Having level 1 Sol Janus and using Dusk mode will allow for very simple rotations or even stationary showdown farming in a lot of maps. I personally like to level Sol Janus as my first hexa skill since Dusk helps so much with farming. Even better, Dark Flare triggers Dusk (but not Dawn). It is optimal to have a Dark Flare that takes more than 3 hits to kill mobs so that a second proc of Dusk can be guaranteed even if there are no mobs directly around you to hit with Showdown.

Lvl 01: 9 mobs Lvl 15: 10 mobs Lvl 30: 11 mobs

Sol Janus: Dawn In my opinion, Dawn is best if you are a semi-active farmer or are using Frenzy. For reboot and early NL grinding, level 1 Dusk is sufficient.

Lvl 01: 1 ring Lvl 10: 2 rings Lvl 20: 3 rings

Also see Training Tips

Hexa Stats

It’s hard to say exactly when you should level Hexa Stat 1 and 2. A general recommendation is to max both Hexa Stat 1 and 2 after Hexa Quad Star and Hexa Assassin’s Mark are level 9 since going to level 10 quad and mark is very expensive.

For each hexa stat core, it is recommended to get to level 20 and stay there since the cost of rerolling is high. In general, HEXA Stat configurations are about .5 FD from each other, so there are no "bad" HEXA stats. "Good" HEXA Stats either have very high primary stat (for an overall larger stat boost) or a very low one (for a higher damage/frag efficiency).

Stat Node Main Stat Additional Stat Additional Stat

1 Attack Stat Crit Dmg 2 Stat Crit Dmg Attack

3 Crit Dmg Attack Stat

You can use Maplescouters “Boss Setting Optimization” for Hexa Stats.

Also see HEXA Matrix. Alternatively, I created Hexa Stat Efficiency that you can use with maplescouter to see the final damage % that you gain from the various stat combinations.

Origin: Life and Death

It takes about 3.5 seconds from when Origin starts to when you can use another skill

Death Star

Good damage but also useful for procing throw blasting charms/stacks faster.

Death Star is prepped before burst so that Hexa Death Star can be used immediately after Origin to trigger additional throw blasting tags and ensure that all throw blasting tags are used inside of RoR. In my testing, Hexa Death Star causes 7 total attacks (1 regular and 6 annihilate attacks) that triggers around 20 of the total 46 throw blasting tags.

If possible, use Hexa Death Star during Fatal proc.

Sudden Raid

Only useful if you are out of range of the boss and sudden raid is the only way to hit the boss.

🐶 Pet Autobuffs

Pet Autobuffs

🫥 iFrames

iFrames

Source Duration Cooldown Notes

Nightfall Signet 2 sec 60 sec (^) ● You cannot use other skills while using this skill except for Flash Jump, Shadow Rush, or Shadow Leap. ● You can cancel the skill by re-using the skill. ● This skill is not affected by cooldown reset effects. Krrr Ring 9 sec 180 sec ● Makes you immune to all attacks for a short time, but unable to move. ● Prequest Stellar Detectives ● Dailies Hyperspace Cube ● Guide Aeonian Rise 10 sec 120 sec ● Use the skill again to end immediately. When the skill is ended early, activates Genesis Force to attack 12 enemies for 1500% damage 7 times.

💫 Boss Rotations

Boss Rotations

Burst

Manual (^) Prep Death Star ahead of time Manual Burst Sequence Manual (^) Hexa Death Star is prepped before burst so that Hexa Death Star can be used immediately after Origin to trigger additional throw blasting tags and ensure that all throw blasting tags are used inside of RoR. In my testing, Hexa Death Star causes 7 total attacks (1 regular and 6 annihilate attacks) that triggers around 20 of the total 68 throw blasting tags. If possible, use Death Star during Fatal proc. Should you weave Death Star between bursts? Yes. Should you use regular Death Star (non-enhanced version) during spread throw? No. Send me your BA if yours is, I have not yet seen an example where it is.

Mini Burst

You can use the main sequence since all of the other skills will be off cooldown (grey icons).

Manual (^) Prep Death Star ahead of time

Burst Sequence

Manual

You may also prefer to split up your mini burst into its own sequence, as seen below

Manual (^) Prep Death Star ahead of time Mini Sequence Manual

Notes

● These damage rotations are examples, also reference the discord night-lord-faq ● Use Key Bindings and Quick Slots in the rotation order so your hands and eyes can easily flow from key to key as you burst ● BA Dummy Settings Guide ● Buff Checker

RoR and Totalling Swap

I’ve been told that KMS uses Totalling more than us, take this section with a grain of salt. 나로 신규 마코 후기와 버프 시퀀스, 새로운 딜 사이클까지! 메이플스토리 나로학개론 2025

Manual

Sequence

Manual

Manual

Manual (^) Equipment Preset change to ring swap to Manual Sequence Manual

👺 Bosses

Bosses

Papulatus

MapleStory MIDGAME Game Boss Guide PART 1 (Chaos Papulatus, Hellux and Akec…

Dark Sight: ● Hand Smash ● Time Rift (blue floor) ● Timed Cursed/Seal (both cast + seal) ● Falling Debris (after red countdown timer)

Showdown (Untouchable): ● Touch Damage ● Hand Smash

Gollux

Pattern Guide MapleStory MIDGAME Game Boss Guide PART 1 (Chaos Papulatus, Hellux and Akec…

Phase 1: ● Proactively move to the side the head is not facing to avoid Poison Gas ● Dark Flare: Use on the middle of the bottom floor to prevent Veilstone KO counter

Phase 2:

● Dark Sight: Flame Bomb (99% Bomb + Reverse). Dark sight can dodge the bomb exploding but not the application. ● Dark Flare: Use on the middle of the bottom floor to prevent Veilstone KO counter

● Stay on the edge of the left platform and hand sweep will never activate. While underneath and slightly to the left of the platform, you can use rope jump to find the exact left edge.

Akechi

MapleStory MIDGAME Game Boss Guide PART 1 (Chaos Papulatus, Hellux and Akec…

Lotus

MapleStory Complete Remastered Lotus Guide MapleStory Complete Lotus Remaster Guide

Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Lotus never does touch damage Phase 2:

● Dark Sight: Falling Parts

Damien

Pattern Guide MapleStory Lotus & Damien Boss Guide (NORMAL & HARD Lomien)

Part 1:

● Dark Sight: Yellow Balls (Demon Flare) ● Showdown (Untouchable): Not used, Damien never does touch damage in P1

Part 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 ● 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 Verus Hilla Boss Guide | Elluel Network 하이퍼버닝 메린이들을 위한 진힐라 간단 공략!!

Use three healing familiars. General strategy is to hug vHilla and stay in the two invincible spots on the left and right pillar. If you aren’t cheesing on the far right side, the left side is also a good spot to burst. During most of the fight, you should hug vHilla from behind. Stick to vHilla or it will be hard to avoid bind. To avoid skulls from Spinning Slash (2nd health bar), hug from behind. If you get caught in bind and get thrown in the air, hold down blink to float in a safe spot. Use hero’s will and erda will to “fast cleanse”.

Dark Flare: ● On boss start/entrance, place in the middle of the map

● When ready for burst, place next to summons and move to a safe zone

Shadow Surge: Use as vHilla’s bind animation starts to avoid bind Shadow Leap: ● Leap to avoid Downward Slash (green scythe during 1st Health Bar) ● Leap to avoid skulls from Spinning Slash (2nd Health Bar) ● Leap to avoid bind Dark Sight: ● Corpse DoT ● Use when cleansing/altar. Manually turn off dark sight when done.

Showdown (Untouchable): ● Corpse DoT ● Not used on boss since vHilla never does touch damage

Darknell

Post-Nerf DARKNELL Boss Guide | Hard and Normal (2024)

Darksight: Red Diagonal Meteors

Showdown (Untouchable): ● Small Minion touch damage (except sword swing) ● Not used on boss, Darknell never does touch damage

Black Mage

Pattern Guide Black Mage Guide BLACK MAGE Boss Guide | Liberate Nearly 50% Faster

Part 1:

● Binding:

○ How to stack bind Black Mage Phase 1 ○ Normal bind on white ○ Origin after dash/rush ○ Origin after teleport ○ Normal bind with Aeonian Rise to avoid curse from rush ● Dark Sight: ○ Knights' Rush/Dash (still applies curse) ○ Red Lightning ○ Vertical Falling Debris (White Meteors) ● Showdown (Untouchable): ○ Knights' Rush/Dash (still applies curse)

Part 2:

● Dark Sight: Diagonal/Rolling Debris (only while midair). Only the left-half of the map is vulnerable to purple Diagonal Meteors. ● Showdown (Untouchable): Touch damage from Black Mage

Part 3:

● Dark Sight: ○ Diagonal/Rolling Debris (only while midair) ○ Down FMA

Seren

MapleStory Chosen Seren Guide Maplestory Comprehensive Seren Guide

Phase 1:

● Dark Sight: ○ Falling Debris (no gauge with or without dark sight) ○ Dash (still adds sun gauge if untouchable is not applied)

● Showdown (Untouchable): ○ Dash (negates sun gauge)

Phase 2:

● Dark Sight: ○ Dash (still adds sun gauge if untouchable is not applied) ○ Daylight (Yellow): Balls (still adds gauge) ○ Sunset (Red): Falling Debris (still adds gauge)

● Showdown (Untouchable): ○ Dash (negates sun gauge) ○ Sunset (Red) 1-2 for 1-23 Triple Slash

Kalos

[MAPLESTORY] KALOS PATTERN GUIDEㅣBOSS GUIDE Watcher Kalos/Attack Pattern NamuWiki MapleStory Comprehensive Kalos Boss Guide 2024 https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/kalos-the-guardian

Darksight: 2-3 blue bomb explosion (departed wing)

Kaling

[MAPLESTORY] KALING PATTERN GUIDEㅣBOSS GUIDE MapleStory Comprehensive Kaling Guide (Cheese Strat) Kaling Guide Kaling P3 Cheese TL;DR String Guide Infographic https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/kaling

Limbo

Limbo Guide https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/limbo

Baldrix

Baldrix Guide_EngTranslation https://maplehub.app/guide/boss-guides/baldrix

⏱ Culvert Rotations

Culvert Rotations

Rotations Intro

Huning RoR 4 + Totalling + Fatal Strike Huning RoR 5 + Totalling + Fatal Strike Pluff’s Culvert Rotation (2 Min) Cont4 + RoR5 Future RoR5 + Totalling + Fatal Strike + Ascent

General Tips :

● is fatal strike from the V Matrix Special Node

● Shuriken Burst before entering lets you pop Darkness Shuriken without

using Throw Blasting tags. The CD of Darkness Shuriken starts when you proc them but they hold for 15 seconds so you will get them 2 times, including around the last 20 seconds

● Frailty Curse can be spammed to stack Ark link in the prep room

● If you plan on swapping cd hat/cape after entering, popping Frailty Curse before swapping will make you unable to swap

● Death Star is prepped before burst so that Hexa Death Star can be used to trigger additional throw blasting tags during burst and ensure that all throw blasting tags are used inside of RoR.

● With higher hexa, try and time with

Do YOU have a culvert rotation that you want to share? Save a copy of my Night Lord Culvert Template and ping @Lukishi in the NL discord! With the 2 minute changes, there are a variety of culvert rotations. See #promos in the discord. If you wish to view the old 3 minute culvert rotations, you can in Appendix 3 Minute Culvert.

Huning RoR 4 + Totalling + Fatal Strike

메이플스토리 나로학개론 2025 Huning RoR4.jpg

2:00 left

1:30 left

1:29 left (^) attack the air 1:22 left (^) on scarecrow + immediately enter After enter Early stage 105 sec 90 sec 81 sec 75 sec 61 sec 58 sec 52 sec 50 sec 45 sec 41 sec 30 sec 22 sec

17 sec

15 sec

Huning RoR 5 + Totalling + Fatal Strike

메이플스토리 나로학개론 2025 Huning RoR5.jpg

2:00 left

1:34 left (^) attack the air 1:29 left 1:22 left on scarecrow and then Immediately enter After entering Early stages 110 sec 95 sec 81 sec 80 sec 65 sec 61 sec 52 sec 50 sec

41 sec

35 sec

22 sec

19 sec

Pluff’s Culvert Rotation (2 Min)

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2:00 left

1:30 left

1:20 left

1:12 left Enter After enter Early stage 105 sec

90 sec

81 sec

75 sec

61 sec

58 sec

52 sec

50 sec

45 sec

41 sec

30 sec

20 sec

15 sec

Cont4 + RoR5

Cont4 + RoR5.jpg

More advanced rotation and requires Shuriken Burst 5th job nodes. Not as demanding as triple ring swap.

Start

36s (^) pop Fatal 30s 29s (^) scarecrow and immediately enter Stage 1 4 Stage 5 (^) and still stage 6 Stage 6 Notes : ● Use death Star and Shurrikane off cd ● Use EA + Goddess again off cd

● to RoR at 28-30s left

● Full burst at 20s left (ror5 ) ● Usually you have a cd hat when buffing (and -1 cape if optimized), and you swap back when you enter the boss, before it spawns.

Future RoR5 + Totalling + Fatal Strike + Ascent

[메이플] 나로 어센트 추가 수로빌드 이거 기다렸지!?! This is a draft for the future when we get Ascent Skills. I may have missed something, ping @Lukishi in discord if I did.

Waiting room

2:00 left

1:55 left

38 left to activate

36 left

28 left scarecrow and immediately enter

After Enter

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

107 sec

93 sec (^) + + ascent 3 times 80 sec

77 sec

63 sec

54 sec

50 sec

47 sec

40 sec

33 sec

22 sec

🌫 Fog Forest Training Grounds

Fog Forest Training Grounds: Dummy Settings

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🔳 Legion

Legion

Tips

● MapleStory Wiki Legion System ● Efficient Legion Leveling Order MapleStory Legion Guide ● BEST Way To Grow Legion in MapleStory 2025 6000 Legion Guide

Legion Grid

Below are the grid sections for bossing with their maximums and some thoughts: ● ATT +15 , LUK +75 : Good but at lower legion levels I think it’s best to minimize the squares in this section and just use them to reach the outer parts of the grid. ● Boss Damage +40% : BiS ● Critical Damage +20% : BiS

● Ignore Defense +40% : Dependent on cumulative IED, see Ignore Enemy Defense (IED). ● Buff Duration +40% : Good but not as necessary since there are so many sources of Buff Duration these days. ● Critical Rate +40% : Only used if you are unable to hit 100% crit rate from other sources. You shouldn’t really need this part of the grid since there are so many other sources of Crit Rate.

Legion Members

Below are Legion Member Effects grouped by their effect. The order does not necessarily match what is best but I have generally put better effects on the top and less useful effects on the bottom. If you are a newer player, you will most likely be focusing on leveling characters based on their Link Skills instead of Legion Member Effects.

Job Bonus (B/A/S/SS/SSS) Bonus (60-99, 100-139, 140-199, 200-249, 250+)

Night Lord

Critical Rate: +1/2/3/4/5%

Shade (Eunwol)

Critical Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Hayato

Critical Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Mo Xuan

Critical Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Mercedes

Skill Cooldown: -2/3/4/5/6%[2]

Demon Avenger

Boss Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Kanna

Boss Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Sia Astelle

Abnormal Status Damage: +1/2/3/5/6%

Wild Hunter

20% chance to deal increased damage when attacking: 4/8/12/16/20%

Mechanic

Buff Duration: +5/10/15/20/25%

Lynn

Ignored Enemy Defense: +1/2/3/5/6%

Blaster

Ignored Enemy Defense: +1/2/3/5/6%

Marksman (Crossbow Master)

Critical Rate: +1/2/3/4/5%

Night Walker

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Shadower

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Dual Blade

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Cadena

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Khali

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Hoyoung

LUK: +10/20/40/80/100

Xenon

STR, DEX, and LUK: +5/10/20/40/50

Demon Slayer

Abnormal Status Resistance: +1/2/3/4/5

Aran

70% chance to recover 2/4/6/8/10% of Max HP with each attack.

Evan

70% chance to recover 2/4/6/8/10% of Max MP with each attack.

Corsair (Captain)

Summon Duration: +4/6/8/10/12%

Zero

EXP Obtained: +4/6/8/10/12%

Phantom

Mesos Obtained: +1/2/3/4/5%

Bowmaster

DEX: +10/20/40/80/100

Pathfinder

DEX: +10/20/40/80/100

Kain (Kaine)

DEX: +10/20/40/80/100

Angelic Buster

DEX: +10/20/40/80/100

Wind Archer (Wind Breaker)

DEX: +10/20/40/80/100

Dark Knight

Max HP: +2/3/4/5/6%

Dawn Warrior (Soul Master)

Max HP: +250/500/1000/2000/2500

Mihile

Max HP: +250/500/1000/2000/2500

Arch Mage (Fire, Poison)

Max MP: +2/3/4/5/6%

Kinesis

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Battle Mage

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Illium

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Luminous

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Lara

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Arch Mage (Ice, Lightning)

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Blaze Wizard (Flame Wizard)

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Bishop

INT: +10/20/40/80/100

Kaiser

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Ark

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Adele

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Buccaneer (Viper)

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Cannoneer (Cannon Shooter)

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Hero

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Paladin

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Thunder Breaker (Striker)

STR: +10/20/40/80/100

🏛 Legion Artifact

Legion Artifact

Tips

Casual's Guide To The Legion Artifact System : MapleStory Reboot/Heroic Guide MapleStory Legion Artifact FULL GUIDE The Digital Crowns Legion Artifact Guide DigitalTQ Legion Artifact Guide

Legion Artifacts work similarly to boost nodes; each artifact can boost 3 stats, and each stat needs to be boosted 2 times. As there are 16 different stats total and 9 artifact slots, you will eventually be able to max 13 stats with one half boosted. The remaining stats are fairly useless and can be safely ignored.

However, unlocking all Artifact slots takes a long time, as Artifact XP is gained from weekly missions and one-time rewards. Therefore, prioritizing artifacts as shown below can get you the largest increases earlier, though the placement of certain stats like EXP/Meso/Drop is up to personal preference.

Note that Status Resistance is a very marginal stat and can be swapped out for Final Attack-Type damage to help other classes that you play. Newer players may want to prioritize Critical Rate / IED / Damage as their first two artifacts instead, to shore up an early lack of said stats.

Some tools: ● [Maplestory] Legion Artifact ● Legion Artifact

Optimal Artifacts

Legion artifact heavily depends on which characters you play. I have 8 artifacts and my stats look like below

🫎 Familiars

Familiars

Tips

● MapleStory Wiki Familiars ● Wiki Stat Tables ● List of Potentials ● DigitalTQ Familiar Guide (Aug 2024) ● The Digital Crowns Familiar Revamp Guide (Dec 2021) ● Expanding Familiar Slots : The second Familiar slot is unlocked after collecting any single badge, and the third is unlocked after collecting ten. ● Summon Gauge : The rate at which the gauge is depleted is based on the cumulative defense value of all summoned Familiars. It’s best to have the maximum number of familiars equipped (3) since the higher the total defense, the slower the gauge will deplete.

Short guide for new players:

1. Unlock the second Familiar slot by collecting any single badge

2. Obtain two familiars with Attacks ignore 15% Monster DEF ○ Unlock using Common familiars since they are extremely easy to obtain ○ Unlock Rares instead of Commons if you don’t want to click as much and already have a lot stored up ○ Two lines of Ignore Enemy Defense (IED) are extremely easy to get and increase your damage A LOT as a new player/character.

3. Once you reach level 260, unlock the third Familiar slot and obtain a third familiar with Attacks ignore 15% Monster DEF

4. Push new familiars to Unique and try to replace your IED familiars with: ○ Boss Damage 20% - 40% ○ Attack Power +5% - 6% ○ Better IED lines if needed to maintain an optimal Ignore Enemy Defense (IED) ○ One Increases Item Drop Rate by a large amount [100%] for farming and boss loot ○ Healing familiars for Verus Hilla and Black Mage

Potential Lines

Lines : ● Each Familiar has 2 lines of potential ( List of Potentials) ● One line of potential from current rank, one from previous rank (DigitalTQ Guide) ● An Epic card has: ○ 1 line from the Epic tier ○ 1 line from the Rare tier

Boss Damage is capped at 120% from the below lines: ● Epic : +20%, +30% ● Unique : +30%, +35%, +40%

Item Drop Rate only takes into account the highest drop rate familiar: ● Increases Item Drop Rate by a small amount [30%] ( Common / Rare ) ● Increases Item Drop Rate [50%] ( Rare ) ● Increases Item Drop Rate [60%] ( Epic ) ● Increases Item Drop Rate by a large amount [100%] ( Epic / Unique )

Healing : ● THE DESCRIPTIONS ARE OUT OF DATE, NEEDS UPDATES ● HP Familiar lines stack ● Self Healing Lines : ○ Epic : ■ Periodically recovers 7% HP/MP ■ Periodically recovers 10% HP/MP ■ Continually restores HP [12%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP [15%] ○ Unique : ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP [12%/12%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP [15%/15%] ● Party Members works even if you're not in the same map (ex. Black Mage part 4): ○ Epic : ■ Continually restores HP & MP to party members [10%/10%] ■ Continually restores HP to party members [10%] ○ Unique : ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP to party members [12%/12%]

■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP to party members [15%/15%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP to party members [12%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP to party members [15%] ● Nearby Allies works on everyone on the same map: ○ Epic : ■ Continually restores HP & MP to nearby allies [10%/10%] ■ Continually restores HP to nearby allies [10%] ○ Unique : ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP to nearby allies [12%/12%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP & MP to nearby allies [15%/15%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP to nearby allies [12%] ■ Continually restores a large amount of HP to nearby allies [15%]

Lines to Avoid: ● Increases Item and Meso Drop Rate. Always worse than Increases Item Drop Rate. ● Increased Meso Drop Rate. Not the same as Mesos Obtained. ○ Equips gives "Meso Obtained" that increases the meso bag value, but caps at 100% (5 lines). If the monster dropped 5k mesos bags, it will now drop 10k bags. ○ Familiars meso drop rate increases the chance of Mesos being dropped, not the actual value (Wiki). Drop % on your gear already does this. In addition, drop rate on familiars does not affect meso bag drop rate.

🛡 Familiars Badges

Familiar Badges

Tips 10 Easy Badges to Unlock 3 Familiar Slots 8 Badges with Optimal Stats

Tips

● Maplestory Wiki Familiar Badges ● Familiar Badge List Check V1 can be used to track badge progress ● Maximum Cumulative Stats : Stats from equipped Familiar Badges are capped

●

10 Easy Badges to Unlock 3 Familiar Slots

The below are just examples and require you to be level 260.

1. Starter

2. Snowflake

3. Opressor

4. Lion

5. Void

6. Labyrinth

7. Apocalypse

8. Ocean

9. Swamp

10. Holy

Starter Max HP: +5

Snowflake Max HP: +5 (Note: You could also do the mineral badge instead since the spawn rate of the snowflake mobs is so low)

Oppressor Max HP: +5

Lion Attack Power: +1% Max HP: +1%

Void Magic Attack: +1% Magic Attack: +2

Labyrinth All Stats: +1% Damage +1%

Apocalypse Attack Power: +1% Attack Power: +2

Ocean Critical Rate: +1% Damage: +1%

Swamp All Stats: +1%

Holy Attack Power: +1% Critical Rate: +1%

8 Badges with Optimal Stats See the Wiki pages for Badges and Maximum Cumulative Stats. Cumulative Stats: ● Attack Power +2 (MAX) ● Attack Power: +3% (MAX) ● Damage +3% (MAX) ● Critical Rate +2% ● All Stats +1% ● Ignore Defense +6%

Attack Power +3% (MAX)

Lion Lion King's Castle

Attack Power: +1% Max HP: +1%

Apocalypse Limina

Attack Power: +1% Attack Power: +2

Holy Cernium

Attack Power: +1% Critical Rate: +1%

Damage +3% (MAX)

Ocean Esfera

Critical Rate: +1% Damage: +1%

Labyrinth Labyrinth of Suffering

All Stats +1% Damage +1%

Researcher Odium

Damage: +1% Max HP: +1%

Ignored Enemy Defense 6%

Mineral Edelstein

Defense: +5 Ignored Enemy Defense: +3%

Wasteland Hotel Arcus

Magic Attack: +1% Ignored Enemy Defense: +3%

🚂 Training Tips

Training Tips

Level Advantage

It is recommended to be in a map where you are 0 to 1 levels above or below the monster’s level for a +20% experience modifier from level advantage. ● 0 to 1 levels above or below monster's level: +20% ● 2 to 4 levels above or below monster's level: +10% ● 5 to 9 levels above or below monster's level: +5%

Rotations

Work on your rotation and watch other people’s rotations on youtube to min max mob kill count. However, this game is a marathon, so in the end, pick the rotation and kill count that will allow you to farm for the most hours without pulling your hair out. Make use of https://maplemaps.net/ to craft rotations in maps with high base spawn. Also see Training Maps for premade rotations.

General Guideline

Train in high level maps (Level Advantage) with high mob count. To maximize kills per hour, ensure you have:

Dark Flare 1hko (or 3hko once you start using Sol Janus: Dusk)

Assassin’s Mark at least 2hko

Having level 1 Sol Janus and using Dusk Mode will allow for very simple rotations or even stationary showdown farming in a lot of maps.

Dark Flare will proc Sol Janus: Dusk. Therefore, it is optimal to have a Dark Flare that takes more than 3 hits to kill mobs, so that a second proc of Dusk can be guaranteed even if there are no mobs directly around you to hit with Showdown.

When lazy farming, one thing I like to do is make sure that Dusk does not overlap with Dark Flare so that DF gets as many procs as possible. Your mileage will of course vary

based on how fast your DF kills. The image below is also a good example of only needing to attack every 60 seconds but losing a few mobs in map coverage. It’s up to you on how active or lazy you want to grind.

Assassin’s Mark 1hko Requirements

How to Maximize Your Marks Damage as a Night Lord MapleStory Comprehensive Night Lord Guide Burst, DPS, Mobbing/Training, 5th J…

🗺 Training Maps

Training Maps

Notes

● Ping @Lukishi in #grinding-related with suggestions or feedback! ● If images are broken, try refreshing the page. ● Sourced from recommendations on the Night Lord discord and youtube. ● Depending on your level, it may be more efficient to complete dailies and skip grinding at maps. See Maple Info Corner’s EXP Contents Breakdown. ● The hitbox of Sol Janus decreases as you place more of them.

260+ Maps

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260 Cernium Poll/Results

260 Burning Cernium Poll/Results

265 Hotel Arcus Poll/Results

270 Odium Poll/Results

275 Shangri-La Poll/Results

280 Arteria Poll/Results

285 Carcion Poll/Results

290 Tallahart Poll/Results

Note : Due to large file sizes from screenshots, 260+ maps are split out into separate files

200 255 Maps

200 Vanishing Journey ● Anything you can 1hko with Showdown, but cave maps have best layout for NL ● 201~202 Weathered Land of Rage and Sorrow ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ● 206 T-Boy's Research Train 1 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ● 209 Hidden Cave ○ 나이트로드^ 아케인지역^ 추천^ 사냥터^ 여로부터^ 리멘까지^ #1 (빌드와^ 경… ○ 나로 여로 숨겨진 동굴 사냥(6분 1407 마리, 마크원킬, 리마스터)[메이플…

205 Reverse City ● Hidden Research/Underground Train

210 Chu Chu ● Stay in Reverse City ● 210 Mottled Forest 2 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ● 219 Skywhale Mountainside 1 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경…

215 Yum Yum ● 220 Hidden Illiard Field ● 220 Hidden Fungos Forest ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경…

220 Lachelin ● 220/1 Outlaw’s Street 1 / 2 / 3 (OS1/2/3) ● 221/2 Chicken Festival 3

○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ○ 리마스터 나이트로드 닭뛰3 6분 1805 마리 (마크 원킬) ● 222 Victory Plate Street 1 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ○ 나로 우승 접시의 거리1 6분 1467 마리(7.28 개선후)[메이플스토리] ● 223 Victory Plate Street 2 ○ 나로 우승 접시의 거리2 6분 1483 마리(7.28 개선후)[메이플스토리] ● 225 Occupied Dance Floor 2 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ○ 나로 춤추는 구두 점령지2 6분 1470 마리(7.28 개선후)[메이플스토리]

225 Arcana

● 232 The Forest of Earth ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ● 235~236 The Volatile and Toxic Forest 1 ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경… ● 237 Deep in the Cavern Upper Path 1 (DCup1) ● 240 Beneath the Spirit Tree ○ 나이트로드 아케인지역 추천 사냥터 여로부터 리멘까지 #1 (빌드와 경…

230 Morass

● 239 Shadowdance Hall 2 ○ 230-240 Shadowdance Hall 2 17.6k ○ 리마스터 나로 그춤 2 마크 2 킬 6 분 1700 마리 빌드 플레어x ○ 리마스터 나로 사냥 그춤2 6분 1700 마리+ ● 241 Abandoned Area 2 ○ 메이플 나이트로드 모라스 폐쇄구역2 1752+

235 Esfera

● 244/5 Mirror-touched Sea 2 / 3 / 4

240 Sellas

● 245 The Final Edge of Light 3

○ 리마스터 나로 마크 2 킬 빛마닿3 (6분 1650) ● 246 The Final Edge of Light 6 ○ 241-247 Final Edge of Light 6 18k ○ 나이트로드 셀라스 빛마닿6 6분 1800 마리+ ● 248 Plunging Depths 3 ○ 나이트로드 셀라스 끝추심3 6분 1750 마리+

245 Moonbridge

● 254 Void Current 3 (VC3) ● 250/1 Last Horizon 6 ○ 248-251 Last Horizon 6 (LH6) 18k ● 252/3 Mysterious Fog 3 ○ 252-254 Mysterious Fog 3 (Fog3) 17.4k

250 Labyrinth of Suffering

● 256 Labyrinth of Suffering Interior 4 ○ 255-257 Interior 4 16k ● 258 Labyrinth of Suffering Core 6 ○ 258-260 Suffering Core 6 16k

255 Limina

● End of World: 1-4, 1-5, 2-5, 2-6, 1-7 ● 262/3 End of the World 1-5 ○ Night Lord Training Guide at 1-5 Limina (480mil p/h) ● 263 End of the World 1-7 ○ 255+ End of the World 1-7 15.6k ○ 나로 세계가 끝나는곳 1-7 6분 1669 마리(7.28 개선후)[메이플스토리]

🔮 Future Changes

Future Changes

● Ascent Skills KMS ver. 1.2.405 July 2025 ● MapleStory Assemble: The First Adversary! – KMS ver. 1.2.406 – August 2025 ● KMS ver. 1.2.407 – Epic Dungeon: Nightmare Paradise! September 2025 ● KMS ver. 1.2.408 – Wild Hunter Remaster & World Archive!

Ascent Skills KMS ver. 1.2.405 July 2025

Orange Mushroom MapleStory All Explorers 6th Job ASCENT Skills Showcase!

Crucial Assault [Master Level: 30] Use a talisman filled with the ultimate power to instantly erase enemies’ resistances. Level 10: 10% defense ignore, 10% boss damage Level 20: 10% defense ignore, 10% boss damage Level 30: 20% defense ignore

[Level 30] Consumes 1000 MP. You are invincible during the cast action. Activate 10 shockwaves that deal 7000% damage 13 times on up to 15 enemies. Afterwards, activate 12 explosions that deal 7910% damage 15 times. Additional 60% defense ignore, 40% boss damage, 100% critical rate.

Death Star VI

● If you die when you can use Four Seasons VI: Rampant and then revive, the next Four Seasons VI you use will be used as Four Seasons VI: Rampant.

The First Adversary & Skill Changes KMS ver. 1.2.406 – August

2025

Orange Mushroom

Ready to Die ● The effects where this skill reduced avoid rate and increased damage taken from % HP attacks have been removed.

Venom Burst ● This skill has been changed into a passive skill. ● The effect has been changed. ● The feature where you could consume the DoT to attack enemies has been removed. ● The feature where the DoT spread has been removed. ● The DoT attack logic has been changed to be the same as regular skill’s attack damage logic. ● The DoT duration has been increased from 8 seconds to 30 seconds. ● The chance of applying DoT when attacking has been increased from 50% to 100%. ● The damage has been increased from 310% to 750%. ● The number of hits has been increased from 1 to 2. ● The attack interval has been decreased by about 22%.

A new beginner passive skill that increases final damage has been added to the following jobs. ● Night Lord – 2% final damage ● “We will implement a temporary final damage increasing passive skill for jobs that were not included in the August update. This passive skill will be removed when the job-specific work is implemented.”

Life and Death ● The giant throwing stars will no longer hit the reward monsters in boss battles.

KMS ver. 1.2.407 – Epic Dungeon: Nightmare Paradise!

MapleStory 2025 Sept GAME CHANGING Skill Balancing Showcase & Summary! https://orangemushroom.net/2025/09/24/kms-ver-1-2-407-epic-dungeon-nightmare-para dise/

The ‘Final Damage Increase’ beginner passive skill has been removed from certain jobs. The jobs that have had it removed are as follows. ● Night Lord

Mark of Assassin ● This skill has been change into a passive skill.

Shadow Blink (NEW)

[Master Level: 1] Move forwards quickly by using your own shadow. ● [Level 1] Consumes 20 MP. Move a certain distance.

Javelin Acceleration ● The master level has been decreased from 10 to 9. ● The LUK boost formula has been changed.

Quadruple Throw ● The action delay has been decreased by about 15%. ● The damage has been decreased from 708% to 605%.

Four Seasons ● The action delay has been decreased by about 31%.

Purge Area ● This skill will now be displayed as a buff icon.

Nightfall Signet ● You can now use other skills during this skill.

Spread Throw ● The throwing stars can now attack up to 4 enemies. ● The additionally thrown stars’ angles have been narrowed.

Dark Lord’s Omen ● This skill can now be registered in a Skill Sequence. ● This skill can now be used while in the air.

Quadruple Throw VI ● The action delay has been decreased by about 15%. ● This skill can now hit up to 4 enemies. ● This skill will now prioritize attacking the boss monster with the highest max HP. ● The damage has been decreased from 750% to 670%. ● Enhanced Quadruple Throw VI’s damage has been decreased from 990% to 890%. ● Enhanced Quadruple Throw VI’s action delay has been decreased by about 15%.

Mark of Assassin VI ● The damage has been decreased from 615% to 520%.

Showdown Challenge VI ● The action delay has been decreased by about 15%. ● The damage has been decreased from 1170% to 980%.

Sudden Raid VI ● The action delay has been decreased by about 8%.

Four Seasons VI ● The action delay has been decreased by about 21%.

Four Seasons VI: Rampant ● The action delay has been decreased by about 21%.

Life and Death ● The giant throwing star’s trajectory effect will now be affected by skill effect transparency.

Crucial Assault ● The explosion’s damage has been decreased from 7910% to 7805%.

KMS ver. 1.2.408 – Wild Hunter Remaster & World Archive!

https://orangemushroom.net/2025/11/01/kms-ver-1-2-408-wild-hunter-remaster-world-archive/#skill 7

Spirit Throwing ● Fixed an issue where if you used skills that threw stars after learning this skill, sometimes throwing stars would still be consumed.

Quadruple Throw ● Fixed an issue where if you used this skill while crouching, sometimes a basic attack would be used.

⚖ Maplescouter

MapleScouter

Maplescouter Tips

● https://maplescouter.com/ ● GMS Conversion Help Sheet ● Find Out How Strong You Are and More! MapleStory Scouter Guide ● A More Detailed Gear Score & Bossing Cuts! Using Maple Scouter for Non-K… ● Use the New Character UI to fill out MapleScouter | 해외 메이플 환산 도움

Normal vs HEXA Score

Normal score is your score when 6th job hexa skills are all maxed. Hexa score takes into account your score based on your current hexa levels.

Hexa Final Damage Efficiency

Additional Spec Simulation

On maplescouter, you can simulate FD gain from upgraded hexa skills. Below are my current hexa skill levels.

You can see below that when I simulate mastery 3 and 4 going from level 0 to 15 I gain ~11% FD.

Level 1 Efficiency

If you hover over a specific skill in hexa efficiency you can see the damage efficiency.

If we look at maplescouter’s hexa efficiency order we see that it is extremely efficient to focus on Mastery’s well before any Boost or Origin skills.

Here is a chart to show just how much more efficient Mastery’s are at level 1 compared to others.

Efficiency at level 1

Mastery 143.704 %

Mastery 64.769 %

Mastery 56.343 %

Mastery 32.546

Boost 25.833 %

Boost 24.815 %

Boost 12.454 %

Skill 10.185 % (this is actually for level 2, not level 1)

Boost 9.444 %

Hexa Checkpoints I thought it would be useful to see how much FD % you can at various fragment and sol erda costs. The below chart does this with example FD % gain on my Night Lord’s maplescouter if I followed the suggested Hexa Efficiency as of 07/15/2025. You can see that it becomes less efficient in terms of fragment cost as you level hexa further and further.

FD % FD % per Frag 301 18 13.731% .045617% 3 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0

1,001 54 25.048% .025022% (^9 9 8 3 1 1 0 1 1) 1,497 77 29.459% .0196786% (^9 14 9 6 2 1 1 1 1) 2,115 101 33.915% .0160354% (^14 17 9 6 4 1 1 1 1) 2,519 129 36.479% .0144815% (^16 19 9 9 5 2 1 1 2) Calculations above are based on a combination of maplescouter’s Hexa Efficiency and Additional Spec Simulation and do not take into account hexa stat. Below is an example of how I calculated the cost of 301 Frags and 18 Sol Erda giving an FD % gain of

13.731%.

Other Final Damage Thoughts

I recommend you skip this section, it’s not for everyone. Use maplescouter’s Hexa Efficiency to choose your leveling order, not this section. If you keep on reading, good luck.🙏

The following numbers were generated using maplescouter’s additional spec simulation on my Night Lord. Your FD gain will not be the same. It’s also important to keep in mind that maplescouter does not calculate hexa skills linearly. For example, if I enter quad star, assassin’s mark, and dark flare individually and add up their FD gains I do not get the same result as if I calculate them all together.

2.080 + 2.158 + 5.172 = 9.41 ≠ 9.805

With that said, the chart at the end of this section is NOT meant to be used when deciding how to level hexa. If anything, it’s very inaccurate since the FD gain for each skill was calculated as if every other skill was zero. If you really want to know your FD gain then you should use the maplescouter additional spec simulation yourself. I made this grid to clearly show how some hexa skills are better than others and visualize the difference between skill level checkpoints. To better show how you should NOT dig too deep into these numbers , know that the cumulative level 30 FD % gain on scouter for maxed hexa skills is 87.863% but my grid of isolated skills is only 79.195%. Regardless, I still think the grid is still a fun experiment.

Again, use maplescouter’s Hexa Efficiency to choose your leveling order, not this grid. Below, you can see the isolated gain from each skill (only leveling that skill and every other hexa skill is level zero). It’s not very realistic but it's still useful. For example, Death Star is a 1.190% FD gain at level 1 and only a 3.974% FD gain at level 30. Compared to the rest of the skills, Death Star by itself seems to have a low FD % gain.

Skill 1 4 5 9 10 14 15 19 20 24 25 30

Mastery 5.172^ 5.888^ 6.129^ 7.085^ 7.328^ 8.282^ 8.523^ 9.480^ 9.718^ 10.675^ 10.915^ 12.112

Mastery 2.158^ 3.466^ 3.899^ 5.643^ 6.079^ 7.819^ 8.256^ 10.000^ 10.435^ 12.178^ 12.614^ 14.793

Mastery 2.080^ 3.279^ 3.678^ 5.281^ 5.681^ 7.285^ 7.682^ 9.286^ 9.684^ 11.287^ 11.685^ 13.691

Mastery 1.190^ 1.480^ 1.575^ 1.957^ 2.055^ 2.439^ 2.534^ 2.918^ 3.014^ 3.399^ 3.495^ 3.974

Boost 1.591^ 2.027^ 2.171^ 2.753^ 3.620^ 4.199^ 4.346^ 4.924^ 5.795^ 6.375^ 6.519^ 8.690

Boost 1.550^ 1.973^ 2.113^ 2.678^ 3.524^ 4.087^ 4.228^ 4.794^ 5.639^ 6.205^ 6.345^ 8.458

Boost 0.834^ 1.063^ 1.140^ 1.443^ 1.899^ 2.204^ 2.278^ 2.583^ 3.038^ 3.341^ 3.416^ 4.559

Skill N/A^ 0.830^ 1.108^ 2.212^ 2.604^ 3.720^ 4.003^ 5.121^ 5.753^ 6.897^ 7.187^ 9.402

Boost 0.642^ 0.818^ 0.879^ 1.112^ 1.464^ 1.698^ 1.755^ 1.990^ 2.344^ 2.575^ 2.637^ 3.516

🔗 General Resources

General Resources

Maplestory Bookmarks Compilation A list of bookmarks for various maplestory resources

Maplescouter GMS Conversion Help Sheet Find Out How Strong You Are and Mor…

Boss clear times Stat Efficiency Additional Spec Simulation

Maplemaps Website designed to simulate and help estimate rates with Sol Janus

[Maplestory] Legion Artifact Artifact Optimizer

MathBro's Calculators SuckHard/BrendonMay’s Maplestory Tools

https://starlinez.github.io/games/maplest ory/item-flames Flame Score Calculator

Xenogent's Legion Solver (^) Legion Solver Maple Info Corner General Guide to Game Elements Maplestory Reboot BIS Upgrade Order Reboot Progression Spreadsheet Maplestory Korean Search Query Builder MapleStory KMS Class Lookup KMS Search Terms Minastory KMS Search Terms MapleStory KMS Class Lookup (^) MapleStory KMS Class Lookup https://discord.gg/maple-legion-862672 763404025896 Maplestory Legion Discord Server (has links to all other class servers)

ℹ Appendix

Appendix

Appendix Should I play Night Lord?

THIS SECTION IS OUTDATED. SEE NIGHT LORD BOSS MULES. Well, it depends. Are you going to main Night Lord or play it as a bossing mule?

Night Lord Boss mule? Just don’t. It’s not just me, even in the pre-Destiny survey, 60% of NL mains voted against this. Read Why play NL? for more details. TLDR: NL requires a lot of funding. Otherwise, you get avg/below avg damage with none of the survivability skills other classes have.

Why play NL? The strongest aspect of the Night Lord is our burst. Even Wonky admitted that Night Lord class is made to be a Glass Cannon (it’s ok if you don’t understand Korean. Translation: He said Night Lord who doesn’t do damage is useless ).

So, what makes NL so strong? It’s combination of our weapon multiplier (x1.75) and class design that trades off survivability for a huge burst of damage in a burst meta game.

NL doesn’t have built in healing, damage reduction, party buffs, etc. In return, we get the highest burst ratio in the game ( ~460% dps on burst / dps off burst with just self buffs). Stacked with other party burst buffs like Bishop’s Benediction, Paladin’s sacro, Kanna’s Domain, etc, NL has the highest burst potential in the game by a long shot.

But, to reach this point, you have to make most of the weapon multiplier by going for 21 or 22 and get a Ring of Restraint.

So, no. Don’t make a NL boss mule. Play the class if you are maining it.

Appendix Mu Gong Soul

How do I get the Mu Gong soul? You can buy 2 Mu Gong soul shards per week from the Dojo shop. They are 6,000 pts each for 12,000 pts per week. You will need 10 soul shards to make 1 soul. To get level 2 Mu Gong soul skill, you will need 8 unique souls in the Soul Collector.

On average, it will take ~91.6 weeks or 1.76 year to get a lvl 2 soul, so the recommendation is to start as early as possible even if you don’t plan to use the Mu Gong soul. This way, you will have the option to swap in future when/if you really want to min max.

of attempts to get Mu Gong Soul level 2

Appendix Rolling Buff Skill Duration +38% Inner

Ability

The most efficient strategy for rolling and optimizing your inner ability is to do the following:

1. Roll for 38% buff duration on the 2nd or 3rd line using either honor or circulators.

2. Lock the 38% buff duration and roll for 7/8% abnormal third line (or your desired 3rd line).

3. Use chaos/black circulators to max out your 2nd and 3rd lines. As this may take a while, you will likely also have a boss damage first line while you’re optimizing these lines.

4. Lock 2nd and 3rd lines and roll for 20% boss first line rerolling manually. If you get low on honor, just sit on any boss until the next event.

Note : Buff Duration is the rarest inner ability to get on the second/third line, which is why it is targeted first. This way you can spend less honor looking for the last two lines. If you do not play reboot, rolling with circulators can get very expensive, so you might want to roll exclusively with honor, outside event-given circulators.

IDEAL BOSSING USE IF BUFF DURATION >50%

ALTERNATE BOSSING USE IF BUFF DURATION <50%

Line 1 Boss Damage +20%^ Boss Damage +20%

Line 2 Weapon ATT +21^ Buff^ Skill Duration +38%

Line 3

+8% damage when attacking targets inflicted with Abnormal Status

+8% damage when attacking targets inflicted with Abnormal Status

Buff Skill Duration +38% adds 3.8s to the Angelic Buster link skill Terms and Conditions

Appendix Inner Ability

Detailed Instructions (Reboot)

1. Reroll with honor experience until Unique Potential

2. Reroll with honor experience or Miracle Circulator until Legendary

3. Miracle Circulator until perfect Unique line on 2nd or 3rd line ● Miracle Circulator always gives you the perfect/maximum value per line ● Roll for Weapon ATT +21 or +8% damage when attacking targets inflicted with Abnormal Status

4. Wait for 50% off Inner Ability Sunny Sunday

5. Lock perfect Unique line and roll for perfect other line. Note that it is usually more cost effective to lock your first perfect Unique line and roll for the 2nd/3rd line and do the 1st line of Boss Damage last. This is because the top line will always be Legendary but the 2nd and 3rd lines may be either Unique or Epic.

6. Lock both perfect lines and roll for third line

Note : You may also use Chaos or Black Circulators. See a video explanation here. Chaos Circulator : Keeps tiers and rerolls values Black Circulator : Keeps tiers, rerolls values, and lets you decide to keep the before or after

Appendix Manual Burst

Below is our 3 minute burst before skill sequence was introduced. I’ve left it here if I want to reference it in the future.

LR & RoR before Origin To maximize dmg when the boss does not move and there is no risk of losing RoR

Skill

Dur. 90s 60s 60s 30s 50s 12s 13.8s 15s 15s 60s

CD 180s 120s 120s 180s 180s 90s 60s 75s 180s 360s 25s

Origin before LR & RoR Origin is used as QoL to bind the boss in risky moments when it is moving

Skill

Dur. 90s 60s 60s 30s 50s 12s 13.8s 60s 15s 15s

CD 180s 120s 120s 180s 180s 90s 60s 360s 75s 180s 25s

Manual Mini Burst Cast mini burst off CD, situationally

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 (^) before the shadowright 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 forEnsure that you do not have Aran or Evan legion blocks in your grid^ Skill Cooldown -5%

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 16, 2025 ● Slight tweak to Ignore Enemy Defense calculations using MapleTool’s IED Calculator ● Removed Night Lord 6th Tracker [NEXT] since it was out of date and no longer updated

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

Sep 28, 2025 ● Shifted skills sequence order around for 2 minute changes

Sep 23, 2025 ● Updated for 2 minute change patch notes. Waiting on maplescouter updates. ● Erda Nova updated to go to level 25 or higher for 120 sec cd to synch with 2 min ● Updated Inner Ability to no longer recommend buff duration inner ability line due to Throw Blasting being 68 -> 46 charms

Jul 29, 2025 ● Updated Boss Rotations to include Hexa Death Star

Jul 13, 2025 ● Updated Hexa recommendations for when to level Hexa Stat

May 12, 2025 ● Skill Sequence section removed and incorporated into Boss Rotations ● Sia Link Skill Tree of Stars added

May 1, 2025 ● Maplescouter Hexa Efficiency added ● Night Lord 6th Tracker [NEXT] added

May 1, 2025 ● Mo Xuan Link Skill added

Apr 13, 2025

● Added future culvert rotations based off of 메이플스토리 나로학개론 2025

Apr 13, 2025 ● Added a placeholder section for Skill Sequence ● Updated Introduction with a note about KMST changing everyone to 2 minute burst cycles ● Updated Equips with a note about KMST changing skill rings to 2 minute cooldown

Jan 16, 2025 ● Added whackybeanz Flame Calculator to Equips

Dec 19, 2024

● Added Hexa Stat Efficiency to Hexa Stat

Dec 14, 2024 ● Updated Inner Ability to use ATT over Buff Duration if your buff duration is >50% due to the shift to DPM meta

Dec 1, 2024 ● Updated for v255 Ride or Die

○ Last Resort ○ Omen ○ Decent Holy Fountain ○ Goddess’s Blessing ○ Culvert

Nov 14, 2024 ● Removed 7/2/0 from WSE Optimization due to shift to DPM meta

Nov 3, 2024 ● Added Bosses

Nov 1, 2024 ● Added Three Minute Burst visualization ● Added Frailty Curse and Shadow Surge to NL Skills

Oct 23, 2024 ● NL Skills reorganized by job and alphabetized. ● Added Venom Burst to NL Skills

Oct 14, 2024 ● Redid Ignore Enemy Defense (IED) to not include +20% IED from boost nodes since a lot of our damage comes from Skill Nodes and we do not receive a +20% IED boost from skills nodes.

Oct 10, 2024 ● Migrated to Document Tabs ● Training Maps overhaul ● Map image crop and compression

Oct 2, 2024 ● Added Origin: Life and Death ● Removed old Damage Rotations and added new rotations from discord by iBussin and Knjfe

Sep 17, 2024

● Updated Link Skills with more examples and added more detail to notes about why you would switch out different skills

Sep 4, 2024 ● Added Culvert (V3) Crisis HM from Night Lord Discord ● Updated Maps with levels

Sep 3, 2024 ● Added Level Advantage ● Added Throwing Star Barrage ● Added Throw Blasting ● Added Critical Rate ● Added Ignore Enemy Defense (IED)

Sep 2, 2024 ● Added Shadow Surge to Dark Sight ● Added Last Resort ● Updated Damage Rotations to show Last Resort with Customization Action and a duration of 15 seconds instead of 30 seconds

Aug 28, 2024 ● Doc released to the public

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

Many other Night Lords that have helped in collaboratively discovering and sharing information, without whom this guide would never have been possible. Additional thanks to the people that went through this and offered spelling, grammar and formatting corrections.

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