Quick MapleStory Professions Guide
Table of Contents Use [x] in find to skip to section Last Updated: October 2018
[1] Introduction
[2] Acquiring Materials
[3] Special Materials
[3.5] Not So Special Materials
[4] Material Bags
[5] Crafting Material Bags
[6] **Crafting Meister Ring**
[7] Training Professions
[8] Lowering Fatigue
[9] Miscellaneous Tips
[1] Introduction
Hi, I’m Sylvidian (name changed from ArtOfTao), a 221 Mercedes in Reboot. With the new 25* update, many people will probably be going for the new BiS ring, Meister Ring. I’ve gotten a lot of questions recently about how to make one, so that’s my motivation for making this guide. This is a work in progress. I don’t have all the answers and I may not have found the most optimal way to do things, but I’ll share with you how I got this far. For the record, I’ve played Reboot for 4 months, so while it may seem daunting, it doesn’t take as long as you think.
Here’s a look at my progression and materials I’ve acquired so far for professions. I have 2 Meister Rings made already. (Can’t enlarge the SS anymore :/ )
[2] Acquiring Materials
I’ve tried to take advantage of EVERY opportunity that I can to get materials so that when I actually try to train my professions, I actually have my materials ready to make things. **I’ve gone so far as to give all my mules professions at lvl 35 so I can mine and harvest on those characters as well. Makes it a lot easier to gain all materials.**
First, these SIX sources should be mined or harvested on sight, every time:
| Gold Flower(Oils) | Heartstone (Plates / Gems) | Mysterious Legendary Vein (Ores) | Mysterious Vein (Ores) | Mysterious Herb (Seeds / Flowers) | Mysterious Legendary Herb (Seeds / Flowers) |
These are your main sources of materials. Below, I’ve listed what type of materials they drop. It’s random how many materials they drop. They can be randomly found on most maps but I see them with a higher chance on maps that are very active (many people farming on it).
Suggested recommended locations to find them:
- Sahel
Ghost Ship / MP3(RIP)- Yu Garden Area (Diabolic Jiangshi Base / Mount Song Pathway / Shopping Center / etc)
- Moon Bunnies at KFT
- Popular Arcane River Maps (CLPs / Slurpy / BTC)
Secondly, you can go mine go mine at Secret Herb Patches that are found in Ardentmill.
- This place will not give you any of the above 6 sources that I listed.
- Unlocks after you complete Cole and Saffron’s quests.
- The rarity of the herb patch dictates which level of materials you will find. (i.e. Expert Patch gives lvl 8-10 ores / seeds / flowers)
- Go here if you want to:
- Find a Rose Clipping for a pocket slot
- Train your Herbalism and/or Mining
- Gather a specific material (i.e. Juniper Berry Seeds)
Lastly, you can get random materials from a couple of sources that I’ll list here.
- Monday Monster Park rewards
- (Exchange 100 at a time with Cole)
- (Exchange 100 at a time with Saffron)
[3] Special Materials
Side Note: Currently uncertain if you need to successfully mine / harvest to find these items.
Spell Essence
- Quality Level: Grand (Black) -> Fine (Red) -> Basic (Green)
- Source: Drops from any monster (Higher quality spell essences have lower drop rates)
Item Crystals (Recommended you get lvl 6 in any crafting type (not harvesting) profession to extract all lvl gears) (Ty u/Frucht4 and u/jwei92)
- Quality Level: Superior (Large, Pink) -> Advanced (Small, Pink) -> Intermediate (Yellow) -> Basic (Black)
- Source: Extraction of equipment
- Superior: (Lvl 120+ equipment)
- Farming lv 140 / lvl 130 / lvl 120 gears from daily training or bossing
- Gollux Shop (5 a day, 3 Gollux Coins each (Green))
- Advanced: (Lvl 90 – 120 equipment)
- Farming at mid level places like
MP3 / Ghost Ship(Training or Meso Farming) - Easy to kill Bosses (i.e. Hilla / Pink Bean / Magnus (normal or easy) / Zakum)
- Gollux Shop (10 a day, 10 Gollux Pennies each (Blue))
- Farming at mid level places like
- Intermediate: (Lvl 70 – 90 equipment)
- Farming at lower level places / possibly easy bosses
- Buy lvl 70 equipment from Ariant Armor/Weapon Dealer
- Gollux Shop (10 a day, 7 Gollux Pennies each (Blue))
- Basic: (Lvl 1- 70 equipment)
- Farming at lowest level places
- Buy equipment lvl 60 and under from NPC Armor/Weapon Dealer/Shops
- Gollux Shop (10 a day, 5 Gollux Pennies each (Blue))
Philosopher’s Stone
- Extraction of high lvl equipment (Lvl 100+?) *Unsure of lvl*
Mana Crystal
- Drops from any monster
Rock of Time
- Drops every time from Pink Bean and sometimes from Arkarium
Piece of Time
- Drops occasionally from monsters in Temple of Time
- Drops (almost?) every time from Heartstones, both Mysterious Veins
Twisted TIme
- Drops occasionally from monsters and bosses
Primal Essence (EXTREMELY RARE DROP)
- Drops from Heartstones, Gold Flowers, both Mysterious Veins, both Mysterious Herbs
- Drops occasionally from Arkarium (Ty u/IrresistablePizza)
Confusion Fragment (PRETTY RARE DROP)
- Drops from lvl 180+ monsters
- Drops from Heartstones, both Mysterious Veins
- Drops from Arkarium, Madman Ranmaru
Dream Fragment (PRETTY RARE DROP)
- Drops from lvl 180+ monsters
- Drops from Heartstones, both Mysterious Veins
Dream Stone
- Drops every time from Cygnus and possibly from her Knights (Oz, Irene, Eckhart, Mihile, Hawkeye)
Japanese ETC Items
- Drops most of the time from Ranmaru / Madman Ranmaru, sometimes from Zakum, PB
Rose Clipping (SEMI-RARE DROP)
- Drops from any type of herb (Confirmed that it can drop while failing to harvest)
- Drops more frequently from higher rarity herbs
[3.5] Not So Special Materials
These materials are sold by Nack, an NPC at Ardentmill. All are available in FOUR grades: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Superior
- Molds
- Herb Oil Bottles
- Empty Potion Bottles
- Potion Coagulant
- Abrasives
- Alchemist Stone (for Fusing) (No grades for this)
[4] Material Bags
You can only have up to 5 bags used at one time, however, so be wise in your choices. Dropping them is the only way to lower your count. I went for are two 12 Slot Herb Bags and Mineral Bags each and one Production Bag. Here are some bags that you can obtain:
Cole’s Mineral Bag (4 Slots)
- Easy quest from Cole after you learn Mining
Saffron’s Herb Bag (4 Slots)
- Easy quest from Saffron after you learn Herbalism
Grant’s Mineral Bag (8 Slots) or Grant’s Herb Bag (8 Slots)
- Only one can be chosen per character? Or account? (I forget)
- Quest is given upon reaching lvl 4? (possibly 3) in mining or herbalism respectively
8 Slot Mineral Bag / 8 Slot Herb Bag
- Event shop
- Craftable with Master Craftsman Alchemy
10 Slot Mineral Bag / 10 Slot Herb Bag
- Event shop
- Craftable with Master Craftsman Alchemy
12 Slot Mineral Bag / 12 Slot Herb Bag
- Event shop
- Sometimes in Strange Ornate Chest in Temple of Time (Ty u/GoryImpaler)
- Craftable with Meister Alchemy
20 Slot Mineral Bag / 20 Slot Herb Bag (Unsure where you can get these)
- Event shop?
Production Bag (8 Slots) (Holds only Magic Powders and Item Crystals)
- Event shop
[5] Crafting Material Bags
This is the route I took to get my bags. Master Craftsman Alchemy is needed to make 10 slot bags. Meister Alchemy is needed to make 12 slot bags.
Here are the accumulated materials needed to make 12 slot bags.
12 Slot Herb Bag
| Patchouli Flower Oil | 15 |
| Patchouli Seed Oil | 15 |
| Chamomile Flower Oil | 15 |
| Dusk Essence | 4 |
| Brilliant Dusk Essence | 1 |
| Mana Crystals | 95 |
| Hyssop Flower Oil | 10 |
12 Slot Mineral Bag
| Patchouli Flower Oil | 10 |
| Intermediate Item Crystal | 15 |
| Advanced Item Crystal | 25 |
| Dusk Essence | 4 |
| Brilliant Dusk Essence | 1 |
| Mana Crystals | 95 |
| Superior Item Crystal | 10 |
[6] **Crafting Meister Ring and Meister Earring**
Please refer to the materials section to see how to get everything.
Meister Ring
| Twisted Time | 800 |
| Mana Crystal | 100 |
| Philosopher’s Stone | 35 |
| Primal Essence | 1 |
| Superior Abrasive | 50 |
| Grand Spell Essence | 150 |
Meister Earring
| Twisted Time | 600 |
| Mana Crystal | 100 |
| Philosopher’s Stone | 35 |
| Confusion Fragment | 10 |
| Superior Abrasive | 50 |
| Grand Spell Essence | 150 |
[7] Training Professions
Try to maximize the amount of mastery you get using the least amount of materials
From my experience, mastery at lvl 10 and master craftsman starts to decay after 24 hrs. Meister starts decaying after ~17 hrs. Make anything with mastery to prevent the decay.
Alchemy
- Lvl 1 – 7: (108 – 136 Mastery per potion / pill)
- Make any of the buff potions / pills or recovery potions/pills that you have 70%+ chance of making and uses 3 or less oils. There’s no way around this anymore.
- It’s recommended that you make a potion that has an advanced or pill version. That away, you save on seeds / flowers. Note: The advanced or pill version takes plates / gems
- Make any of the buff potions / pills or recovery potions/pills that you have 70%+ chance of making and uses 3 or less oils. There’s no way around this anymore.
- Lvl 8+: (120, 510, 700 Mastery per potion / pill)
- Make Defense Potions -> Pills (Each batch of 25 can make 5x 5 pills, to maximize mastery)
- Recovery Potions -> Pills (Recommend making Mana 7000 pills as I have not found another use for Juniper Berry Flower oils)
- Transformation potions (I recommend Yeti / Ghost Pirate, basically the 700 mastery ones)
- Lvl 10+: (700, 2196 Mastery per potion / pill)
- Material Bags
- Boss Rush Boost Potion
- Wealth Potions, EXP Potions (SAVE UP RECIPES! You can make them with a 5 minute CD for 24 hours every time you use a recipe)
- Superior Empty Bottle x 1
- Juniper Berry Seed Oil x 10
- Superior Item Crystal x 3
- Philosopher’s Stone x 5
- Everything in lvl 8+
Smithing
- Lvl 1-9: (164 – 210 Mastery per batch of arrows)
- Make highest mastery arrows you can. Recommend that you prioritize higher % success over mastery, though, to gain mastery faster.
- 10+:
- Ty to u/Tasarom for linking this guide by u/Riisso (TY TY) for 10+ Smithing https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/8wni0c/meister_smithing_guide_2018/
Accessory Crafting
See u/MagianZexis’s guide for a more detailed version
- Lvl 1-7: (164 – 210 Mastery per ring / earring)
- Make rings that take 1 or 2 gems / plates
- Make earrings that take 3 gems / pates
- Lvl 8-10: (200, 512, 900, 2000 Mastery per ring)
Recommended that you make lvl 80 Gray Face Accessories(Make all jobs)- It takes up space, so I’m not recommending you make Face Accessories
- Ring IV – VI (Only consistent source of mastery at Lvl 10)
- (Lvl 10+ Only) If you have recipes for Almighty Rings, etc, these are 1-time makes that are worth it (2000 Mastery Rings)
- Just don’t make things that need Primal Essence, unless you want to. Idk, I can’t stop you. (I made a WABR, btw… ignoring my own advice)
- Master Craftsman: (5325 Mastery per face accessory)
- Make Meister Gray Face Accessories (Craft the lvl 80 Gray ones too)
- There’s a 15 minute CD, so to speed things up, MAKE ALL JOBS
- Make Meister Gray Face Accessories (Craft the lvl 80 Gray ones too)
[8] Lowering Fatigue
Ty to u/f_em_Bucky94 because I forgot to add this section
- Wait for reset or maintenance (Fatigue will go to 0, no matter what) (ty u/tallcatox)
- After a certain amount of time, it will lower by 20 (Every hour, on the hour)
- You can buy a Fatigue Potion from Cash Shop (ty u/I-EAT-PANCAKES)
[9] Miscellaneous Tips
- You can fuse equipment together to reroll potential and flames (pink holy cup, pensalir gear)
- You can stand anywhere in Ardent and extract by pressing the gear option on the bottom of your inventory
- You will get 10 slots if Alchemy is the highest or equal level and mastery and 5 if Smithing or Accessory Crafting is higher
- Master Craftsman Cubes drop from harvesting Mysterious Veins / Herbs
Thank you to Unit guild for their suggestions on the guide. (Specifically Danny, Kelly, Ji Woo, Brian, Jacob, Minsoo) ^.^
