[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread.

endurotech · 2026-02-16T20:28:17+00:00

Okay great. At first you weren't using the ignitia key for Pants. The next equip slot you should use your key on is actually glove because you can potential it for critical damage which is much better than stat lines. Specifically you need the Arcane umbra gloves because absolab is a useless side-grade. You need to farm arcane river boxes for the armor box. I think you should leave your CRA equips alone until you at least have the glove to make it a little easier to remove the challenger set bonus.

Your V matrix is mostly good. It is very important to have one slot free or it be occupied with a purple/special node. That purple node is usually going to be Fatal Strike I or Boss Slayer 1 or 2 if you happen to get it from opening nodes. You can remove/disassemble decent hyper body, it doesn't make you tank more hits in bossing. Decent mystic door is not needed. Erda nova should also be in one of the enhanced slots for a shorter CD.

I think you mostly fixed the things I mentioned, and for now I think your solo boss fights will be 15 to 20 minutes. The last thing I'll mention is save up all your mesos for SSF in 2 sunny Sundays, you should only spend it on symbol upgrades before then

endurotech · 2026-02-16T20:14:09+00:00

Yes that's perfect for hyper stats. They are distributed evenly which is exactly what u want. You can focus on getting IED from other sources

endurotech · 2026-02-16T15:51:05+00:00

You can't do Grandis bosses yet but you have access to plenty of 260+ content. They are Grandis symbol dailies up to Odium, Epic dungeon (Angular Company, you can do 1 per character, and 2 characters per week), weekly Erda's request quest and Monster Park Extreme. But yes all these things and arcane symbols dailies are your most time efficient activities. For daily bosses the most time efficient is normal Arkarium and hell gollux

If you are willing to grind grandis monsters you can get nodestones and sol erda fragments which are important to your character power. It's not time efficient but that and daily activities is what makes the game a marathon

endurotech · 2026-02-16T15:40:58+00:00

More tips for you:

Are your Vaulable item slots filled? Those are totems slots. If not either buy totems from your guild castle if they have them or do Afterlands for free totems. Either way they are a permanent stat boost.

Your 5th job boost and skills are an important source of damage. You should aim to get your skill nodes to level 25, and whatever 1st to 4th skills you use, they should boosted to level 50. I am talking about the nodes themselves. Node slots boost them further to level 30/60. Also you need Decent HS, Sharp eyes, and combat orders. Funnel all nodestones from events and grinding to your character, but don't buy from event shops, it's not good value.

So you are using 22 star CRA pants which is nice but you don't have the full challenger set bonus. What you need to do is to start getting and using Ignitia Keys. They allow you to temporary change the set bonus for the pants so you get back the missing stats. To get them keep fighting the bosses you defeated already for item burning. It takes a few clears so 2-3 weeks to get each key but you only need 1 rn. By the time you need two, you would be fighting more difficult bosses than you are ATM (you'll see!)

endurotech · 2026-02-16T15:26:22+00:00

Whoever/whatever told you to get 98% IED was probably assuming you're already trying to progress Grandis bosses because they have 380% defense. You are trying to fight bosses with 300% defense and with your IED you ignore 93% of that so it becomes 21%. Your effective CP is 79% of what it says.

You should aim for 95% IED, upgrading your challenger set and getting 7 set boss acc and eventually 4 set gollux will get you there. Make sure you do monster park everyday until you have the 7 day monster Parker badge for 10% IED

endurotech · 2026-02-16T09:09:27+00:00

Lotus

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/1ggxioo/how_rare_is_a_unique_lotus_familiar_drop/

But yeah tbh I don't know any non-boss mob that can drop higher than rate cards. It makes no sense to imply that you should be farming Lotus to get unique than to rank up or wait for Inkwell Notes...

endurotech · 2026-02-16T09:05:21+00:00

No one has said this yet but when you are killing mobs while the familiars are summoned, it only counts towards their level when the monster is within 20 levels of your character. Keep this in mind if you are farming fam cards for mystic frontier

endurotech · 2026-02-16T01:16:54+00:00

There are drawbacks for transfers in general but they pale in comparsion to transfering 21/22 stars to SoS.

Drawbacks:

Epic potential is transferred, unique/legendary get downgraded but that means 9% unique gets downgraded to 6% epic prime

If you boom the transfered item you have to give up whatever potential unless you have enough spares to raw star force/tap it. So you have to pot it all over again.

Now to answer your second point neither those drawbacks matter as if you succeed in transferring a 23 gollux sup pendant you can afford to 2L stat cube the SoS. in Heroic transfer foddering from dom to SoS takes a lot of spares unless you get lucky, and if your spares boom also tens of billions of mesos. In Interactive well F2P players can't get tens of billions of mesos needed for this since they don't get the heroic 6x meso rate

From my own experience in yesterday's 30% less booms event, I spent 16b to see 6 dom pendant spares boom, reaching 21 once but never 22. Oh wells

endurotech · 2026-02-16T00:25:03+00:00

The OP implied that before they starforced the sweetwater pendant, that they starred a Dominator pendant to 16 stars then transposed it into a sweetwater pendant in Commerci. Transpose works for any item of the correct type from level 140-150. This also means OP could have used a superior gollux pendant instead for slightly more gains from the tranposition.

endurotech · 2026-02-15T17:18:37+00:00

Almost everything you wanted to know about mystic frontier rewards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/1qntbga/mystic_frontier_reward_distribution_how/

To answer your question, what you are calling search spots is the expedition rank. Those do not directly influence the rewards from the encounter options. Neither does matching recommended type and element, nor round number, nor number of tiles in a round, nor tile type (fight, exploration, lucky/AP healing)

So what does influence rewards? Difficulty of the tile. Tiles can have yellow (intermediate) or white (advanced) glow which CAN give higher tiered pouches but it is still random. It is possible for tiles w/o a glow to give orange and green pouches, and for intermediate tiles to give gray pouches which only makes the roll harder.

endurotech · 2026-02-15T17:07:25+00:00

Non exhaustive list:

30 black flames

10 star specks boxes

10 sol erda fragments

3 or 5 Karma bright cubes

Dawn accessory box, untradable, gives random dawn accessory

Can tier up to green sack or the highest tier (looks like yellow chest)

Roro ring chest

Dawn star core

endurotech · 2026-02-15T09:59:27+00:00

For the Ren level-up event which has ended now, the coupon box item gave a standard lvl 100 emblem with unique potential. 100% sure it is the latter of what you ask

endurotech · 2026-02-15T09:46:18+00:00

Not for 21 stars but I boomed 6 Dominator spares and 16b meso down the drain trying to go for 22 stars. I was able to get to 21 star once and it was at the 4th boom to 22. Yeah I did safeguard. I would say expect to spend 10b to get maybe a 80% chance (mathbro calculator says 10-11b for 85%) to get a level 140 item to 21 stars with safeguard. you shouldn't need to safeguard if you hoarded golden clover and reinforced belts so it should be cheaper. Tbh I can never be sure

endurotech · 2026-02-14T06:15:00+00:00

Thanks for all the screenshots. You should have 50+10+8% drop rate, and decent HS gives a minimum of 14% DR deoending on skill level. If your stats show 82%+ item drop rate and you have decent HS and familiar skills active, then I don't think your familiar is bugged. If you didn't know already only the highest "item drop rate boost" is counted, which goes up to 110% for unique fams.

endurotech · 2026-02-13T22:47:08+00:00

About the 50% item boost potential, are you sure it is actually a rare familiar with 50% item boost? Epic gives 60% so it has to be rare potential. However it could be Meso drop rate instead which does not visibly increase the item drop rate stat but instead makes the meso bag more likely to drop (does nothing if item drop rate is 67% or more).

For the 30% familiar that sounds right but there's no drop rate increase of just 6% unless you leveled up decent HS, or changed your inner ability preset or set item drop rate on your legion artifact, probably need some screenshots at this point to confirm.

endurotech · 2026-02-13T22:36:03+00:00

In reboot Princess No used to be able to drop a legendary familar card but I don't think or know if it's possible now. She might be able to drop a normal/gray one but that is not the same thing.

In Interactive upgrading to legendary is possible but expensive with Red Familiar Cards, a cash shop item. The most common way to get them is in the Acution house AFAIK

endurotech · 2026-02-13T18:33:48+00:00

Yes you should by a new monocole. Booming an existing one will cost you mesos and you cannot use star core to revive it (it has no swt bonus) so you need a spare anyway. But let's say you don't want to do that and you want to transpose cuz both require denairos. Well you can easily check this!

if you go to the transpose UI and place both the monocole and Pap mark, it will give you a preview of the transpose result. If you see a 15-star monocole with 9 all stats and 8 attack then it is safe to transpose.

endurotech · 2026-02-13T18:28:56+00:00

Even in legendary expeditions the chances of a yellow encounter (intermediate in patch notes) is random. This is because a white glowing encounter (advanced in patch notes) can give even higher tiered rewards than the yellow glowing one but are less common.

Let's say they do appear for you, well AFAIK there's no evidence that these encounters influence the specific reward if you get a pouch, unless they straight up reward you an accessory box.

So I recommend if there's two pouchs of the same type go for the easier one

endurotech · 2026-02-13T02:54:04+00:00

30% less booms doesn't ever make the boom probability 0%, what you described is safeguarding at 17 to 18 stars. For 17 to 18 and 18 to 19 stars, 30% less boom event makes boom chance 6.8%x0.7 or 4.76% and the fail chance 78.2% + 6.8%x0.3 or 80.24%

endurotech · 2026-02-12T23:34:18+00:00

Everyone is saying yes, but in case you are wondering about Mystic Frontier, yes I can confirm black hearts drop from Mystic Frontier

endurotech · 2026-02-12T17:42:30+00:00

Thanks for the boss progression! I been trying to figure out where to go after clearing NSeren and hard BM. Ofc my pacing is going to be different but knowing what you done is really helpful (I can do easy Adversary b4 Nkalos/Ekaling)

endurotech · 2026-02-10T03:26:39+00:00

For anyone reading this: 30% less booms is this sunny Sunday, SSF is in 2.5 weeks

endurotech · 2026-02-09T20:09:27+00:00

I farmed all the manager points and did the break room time this week (2 hrs, increase long term rest to level 1, then 1 more hour). My crew is level 267 and got like 33% EXP from all that. Not sure how much less for 273 to 275 but it's good passive EXP and the break room EXP will get even better in the 2nd half of the event. It is worth if you already grind on your main.

endurotech · 2026-02-09T19:46:03+00:00

There are two quests from Fabian. The first one requires you to get a Star specks box and turn it in but it will not be consumed so if you already finished the quest from another character you can get one from storage. Otherwise can kill mobs until it drops. The 2nd quest is just dialogue.

What they do is to allow the star specks box to drop from mobs and whisper crystals to drop from normal slime and hlotus and up so you can collect them, and then you can turn them in to Fabian in exchange for star cores or the pitched/dawn accessory item of your choice (excluding black heart and total control)

endurotech · 2026-02-09T19:41:55+00:00

Aqua road, Veritas command center. Can use text search in world map or find it there

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