Maplestory – Reboot Meso Farming Guide 2024

On the Reboot server of Maplestory, everything revolves around mesos.

You need mesos to star force enhance your equipment and to purchase cubes – two of the main ways to increase your damage on Reboot.

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Upgrades that cost NX on regular servers cost mesos instead on Reboot, making them vital if you wish to progress.

Given the importance of mesos on Reboot, you need to farm a bunch if you wish to make your character strong enough to take on the toughest bosses in the game.

In this guide, we give you all the information you need on meso farming on the Reboot server, both for early on in the game and for late game.

Table of contents

• General meso farming tips
• Getting drop rate to 67%
• How to get Mesos Obtained
• Bossing and Ursus
• Best map to farm mesos in Maplestory
• Alternative meso farming methods

General meso farming tips

Made as a way for players to experience gameplay closer to the original Maplestory, a lot of features were removed or changed on the Reboot server.

Most notably, mesos replace the cost of many cash-only items like Red and Black cubes, scrolling or spell tracing is disabled, and monsters have more HP but give more EXP and drop more mesos.

Another important difference between regular servers and the Reboot server is that you cannot trade with other players on Reboot.

These changes create an environment where contrary to regular servers, farming mesos becomes the main way to obtain them.

Many of the often-used meso making methods on regular servers require trading with and selling to other players, which you cannot do on Reboot.

Though farming mesos seems quite straightforward, there are some things you can do to significantly increase the number of mesos you get per hour.

Getting your mesos obtained stat and drop rate up is essential if you wish to improve your meso farming.

Here are the different things that can give you the mesos obtained buff:

• Equipment (potential lines)
• Inner Ability
• Legion Grid
• Useable Buffs

You can get a maximum of +100% Mesos Obtained from equipment, +20% Mesos Obtained from Inner Ability, +5% Mesos Obtained from the Legion Grid.

This means that you can get a maximum of +125% mesos obtained from passive buffs and boosts, but you can further increase your mesos obtained with useable buffs and when events are active.

There is a maximum cap on Mesos Obtained, though, which is set at +300% Mesos Obtained, no matter the combination of buffs, passives, and events.

You can get +% drop rate from potential on accessories. Getting to +67% drop rate guarantees that you get a meso pouch from each enemy that you defeat, greatly increasing your meso yield.

The higher your +% drop rate is, the higher the chance that you’ll get a meso pouch from an enemy, but it’s first at 67% that you are guaranteed one. You can check your current drop rate in the character stats window.

Farming mesos without a pet is almost impossible, as there are too many meso bags to pick up. The reboot server now also has VAC pets, known as Petite Luna Pets, which pull drops around it towards it, making it loot even faster than a regular pet.

We strongly recommend that you get yourself a pet, or your mesos earned per hour will drop by around 90%, depending on how many mobs you defeat per hour. Getting a VAC pet will increase your mesos earned per hour even further.

You can either purchase a pet from the Cash Shop with NX, get one from Hard Hilla if you are strong enough, or can find a carry.

Alternatively, you can sell mesos for NX on the meso market on regular servers and then buy one from the Cash Shop.

Having more than one pet will also increase the number of mesos you farm per hour, but from one to two or three pets will far from increase your mesos earned per hour as much as from zero to one pet will. If you are considering multiple regular pets or one VAC pet, we recommend getting one VAC pet.

With changes made to the game, the Kanna class, which used to be the best farming class in the game by far, no longer holds that title, given the removal of its Kishin skill, which increased the spawn rate of mobs.

It is, therefore, now recommended that you use your main character on the Reboot server to farm mesos, as that will likely yield you better results than creating a new dedicated farming class. If you still want to create a dedicated farming class, classes like Shadower with marks (projectiles that appear and automatically attack enemies on the map when you attack) are among the best farmers. However, the difference between the different classes’ farming capabilities is far from as big as it was when Kanna still had Kishin.

The most important thing is that you have a very high-level character. The higher level, the better, as you need to be able to one-shot the mobs you are farming to achieve the best results.

Using the battle analysis tool in the game is a great way to check and optimize your meso farming efforts.

With the battle analysis tool, you can test out different meso farming setups, maps, etc., until you find the combination that yields the most mesos per hour for you.

Getting drop rate to 67%

When you defeat mobs in Maplestory, there is a chance that it will drop mesos (a meso pouch at higher levels, coins and bundles at earlier levels).

To maximize the meso you can farm per hour, you want to increase your drop rate, as this also affects the probability of a mob dropping mesos.

By default, mobs only have a 60% chance to drop meso pouches.

You can increase this probability to 100% by having enough additional drop rate stat on your character. To make this happen, you need to have minimum +67% drop rate.

Increased drop rate stat can be obtained from potential on accessories and familiars.

Once you reach at least +67% drop rate, every mob you defeat will drop a meso pouch, which is essential if you want to farm as many mesos as possible per hour.

How to get Mesos Obtained

Increasing your Mesos Obtained stat is essential if you want to maximize how many mesos you can farm per hour.

You can get passive +% Mesos Obtained boosts, which means they are active all the time, from equipment, the Legion Grid, and Inner Ability.

From equipment, you can get a maximum of +100% Mesos Obtained.

The types of equipment that can give +% Mesos Obtained through their potential include Pendants, Rings, Earrings, Face accessories, and Eye accessories.

Some of the best items in this category that can give +% Mesos Obtained and are of high enough level to give maximum potential stats are Gollux Rings, Sweetwater Tattoo, and Sweetwater Glasses.

You will be using these items for a very long time in the game, if not forever, so you can safely pour resources into them without the worry of having to replace them soon.

For the other types of equipment, just find items that are over level 71, as the maximum of +20% Mesos Obtained can be obtained on an item’s potential.

If you can find items that are over level 151, that is, of course, better, as the rest of the potential lines can be of higher values.

An item has to be of legendary rarity before the +% Mesos Obtained line can be rolled on their potential.

As mentioned, the cap of +% Mesos Obtained from equipment is +100%, so don’t keep cubing for more on other items if you already have +100%.

The +% Mesos Obtained boost can also be obtained from the Legion System in Maplestory by placing the Phantom piece on your Legion Grid.

If you aren’t familiar with the legion system, then check out our Comprehensive Legion System Guide.

The Phantom class gives + 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, and 5% Mesos Obtained as their effect bonus as ranks B, A, S, SS, and SSS.

We don’t recommend leveling a Phantom all the way to level 250 just to get the SSS rank, but if you can manage, level 200 for SS would be helpful.

Inner ability can give +20% Mesos Obtained from the first line if it is of Legendary rarity, +15% if it’s Unique, +10% if it’s Epic, and +5% if it’s Rare.

When just starting to increase your Mesos Obtained, we recommend just resetting your inner ability until you get a +% Mesos Obtained line that is at least Epic.

If you manage to roll a Unique or Legendary Mesos Obtained line before an epic one, that’s great, but you’ll probably find an Epic one before that happens.

The reason why you don’t want to go for a Unique or Legendary Mesos Obtained line yet is because it can be very costly in terms of mesos that you should use to cube instead.

Later on, when you have a lot of mesos and can farm a lot of mesos quickly, start going for the Legendary inner ability Mesos Obtained line.

Your Mesos Obtained can also be increased by using active useable buffs.

The most common buffs that boost your Mesos Obtained are Legion Wealth Buffs, Wealth Acquisition Potions, and event buffs.

• Legion Wealth Buffs increase Mesos Obtained by 50% and can be purchased with Legion Coins in the Legion Shop.
• Wealth Acquisition Points increase Mesos Obtained by 20% and can be crafted through the Alchemy profession.
• Event buffs that increase Mesos Obtained are not included in every event, but they have been a couple of times, including the Rainbow Spectrum Buff that gave +100% Mesos Obtained. So be sure to check current events and their shops.

Using these buffs, you can get your total Mesos Obtained rate above the +125% you can obtain passively.

The total maximum Mesos Obtained boost you can obtain is capped at +300%, though.

Having additional +% Drop Rate from equipment and buffs will further increase your mesos earned per hour, as more items and equips that you can sell will drop.

Bossing and Ursus

There are tons of bosses you can defeat every single day and some every week, each of which will yield a decent amount of mesos. If you don’t want to farm mesos for hours, doing bosses alone can yield you a great number of mesos.

From bosses, you will get both Intense Power Crystals, equipment, potions, etc items, and pure mesos.

If you are a regular player who can solo most daily bosses, you can make around 100-200m a day from them.

You can also choose to extract the equipment you get from bosses and sell the etc items you get – philosopher’s stones sell for a lot.

Intense Power Crystals have to be sold at the Collector located in the Free Market.

The rest of the items can be sold to any vendor in the game.

You can, however, only sell up to 60 Intense Power Crystals to the Collector every week, so if you farm all weekly and daily bosses throughout an entire week, you’ll get more Intense Power Crystals than you can sell.

Therefore, if you wish to maximize the amount of mesos you earn, you should prioritize selling the Intense Power Crystals that give the most mesos.

In the chart below, you can see a complete overview of the bosses you can farm as well as how much their Intense Power Crystal sells for.

All weekly bosses, and of course, Black Mage, the only monthly boss, have the Intense Power Crystals that sell for the most.

Therefore, you should sell the Intense Power Crystal of every weekly boss that you can defeat each week, and then sell the Intense Power Crystal with the highest price of daily bosses you can defeat.

Ursus, who is technically also a boss, but not like the ones listed above, also offers a great way to earn some mesos on the Reboot server.

Every single day, you can challenge Ursus three times by selecting Ursus the Mighty in the Dimensional Mirror.

In the Ursus lobby, you can just choose quick start through Masarayu, which will queue you up for a party with up to 17 other random players.

Against Ursus, you need to deal as much damage as possible.

The more damage you deal, the more mesos you get as a reward.

Best map to farm mesos in Maplestory

The best way to farm mesos on the Reboot server in Maplestory is to use your high-level main character against high-level enemies in the Arcane River with as many meso-boosting traits as possible.

To achieve the highest amounts of mesos per hour from farming mobs, you need to meet a couple of requirements.

Firstly, you need to be high level. Level 230+ is optimal, but at least level 200 is required as you want to farm in the Arcane River.

The best maps for farming are in the Arcane River, with the single best map being Last Horizon 6 in Moonbridge. Anther great map includes Labyrinth of Suffering Core 6 in Tenebris.

No matter what level you are at, you need to find a map where you can one-shot mobs or at least almost instantly kill mobs.

Some other specific meso-farming maps that work well for players at levels 225-250 include:

• Arcana: Deep in the Cavern – Lower Path 1
• Arcana: Deep in the Cavern – Upper Path 1
• Limina: End of the World 1-5
• Limina: End of the World 2-5

Most of the mesos you’ll earn from this method are pure meso drops, but you’ll also get a significant part from item drops, including spell traces, equipment, and other etc items that you can sell, as well as nodes and familiars.

This means that you can further increase the mesos you earn per hour by getting a higher Drop Rate if you have already acquired the highest Mesos Obtained you can get.

Having a powerful soul like the Lucid weapon soul will help you increase your mesos per hour further, as you can place it to take out monsters in a place on the map where it’s hard to reach or beneficial to keep out of your rotation.

You want to find a setup and rotation on a map that enables you to take clear out as many mobs as possible as fast as possible.

Be sure to use the in-game battle analysis tool to measure how many mesos you farm per hour.

You can use this data to optimize your setup, find new maps, and in the end, get more mesos per hour.

Alternative meso farming methods

There are a couple of other ways to farm a decent amount of mesos on Reboot in Maplestory than the ones listed earlier in this guide.

Maple Tour

Maple Tour is a system you can access through the Dimensional Mirror, where you fight levels of mobs.

You can enter twice a day for free and purchase additional entrances up to a total of seven daily entrances.

Doing runs in Maple Tour earns you mesos that you can claim from Lulu Spinel.

The mesos you earn from a run are not given instantly but instead kept as a wage for seven days.

After seven days, you can collect the full amount of mesos.

If you choose to claim it before the seven days, you will only receive half the amount, so you should always wait the seven days.

Maple Tour has been nerfed by Nexon, so it doesn’t give as many mesos as it used to, but it’s still a great way to get extra mesos on Reboot, especially if you don’t have a strong meso farming character.

Silent Crusade coins

When bossing in Maplestory, you’ll quickly get a bunch of Crusader Coins.

Most bosses in the game drop them, and you can only use them in one place, the Silent Crusade shop.

One of the things you can purchase in the Silent Crusade shop is meso bags that contain a random amount of mesos up to 5m per bag.

You can also complete Silent Crusade quests to get more Crusader Coins, but it’s not recommended as a way to earn mesos.

Spending your Crusader Coins on meso bags is a nice way to increase the amount of mesos you earn from bossing.

That’s everything you need to know about farming mesos on the Reboot server in Maplestory!

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