MP

MP (short for Mana Points, occasionally Magic Points) is the resource every character spends to cast skills. Almost every active skill in the game, from a warrior's Power Strike to a magician's Cold Beam to a thief's Lucky Seven, debits MP per cast. When current MP drops below a skill's cost, the skill cannot be cast until MP is restored. Unlike HP, hitting zero MP is not fatal; it just temporarily disables MP-cost skills until the pool refills.

MP is a derived resource. It grows automatically with character level, gets bonus growth from job advancement, and can be padded by AP-into-MaxMP (Magician-only by default), equipment with MP bonuses, and the MaxMP Increase skill in the Magician 1st-job tree. The Magician branch is built around MP as its primary resource axis. At endgame, a well-built magician carries roughly four to five times the MP pool of a similarly-levelled warrior, because almost every magician action consumes MP and most skills consume a lot of it.

What MP does

Powers active skills. Every active skill in the game (basic attacks excluded) has an MP cost listed in its skill tree. The cost typically scales with skill level, a level-1 Magic Claw might cost 8 MP, a level-20 Magic Claw might cost 16. Cast attempts with insufficient MP simply fail silently; no animation, no cooldown burned.
Feeds Magic Guard. The Magician 1st-job passive Magic Guard redirects a fixed percentage of incoming damage from HP to MP. At max skill level, 85% of incoming damage hits the MP pool instead of HP. A magician's effective survivability is HP + (MP × Magic-Guard-ratio). This is the structural reason magicians invest so heavily in MP: it's their main defensive stat.
Gates cleric and bishop sustain. Healing skills (Heal at Cleric, Holy Magic Shell at Priest, Resurrection at Bishop) all have substantial MP costs. A cleric whose MP runs out mid-fight has nothing to contribute defensively until they sit, drink, or wait out regen.
Doesn't deal damage directly. MP is not a damage stat. The damage of a magic attack comes from INT, weapon Magic Attack, and the skill's coefficient, not from MP. Having more MP just lets you cast more times before running out.

MP has no effect on accuracy, avoidability, drop rates, or any other character mechanic outside its role as a skill-cost resource (and the Magic Guard interaction).

How MP grows

MP grows from five sources, roughly in order of contribution at endgame:

Per-level base growth. Every level-up grants a fixed MP increase set by the character's class. In Classic World the amount is deterministic (there is no random roll) and does not scale with INT, unlike some other MapleStory versions. Magicians gain the most MP per level; warriors and beginners gain the least. Exact values are in the gains table below.
Job advancement bonus. Each job advancement (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) adds a one-time MP bump, larger at each step. Magician advancements give the largest MP bumps.
AP into MaxMP. Magician-branch characters have an AP-into-MaxMP option in the stat menu, granting a flat amount of MP per AP point. In Classic World this gain does not scale with INT. Other classes do not see this option, with rare equipment-event exceptions.
MaxMP Increase skill. Magicians get a passive 1st-job skill (MaxMP Increase) that adds to the per-level MP growth. At max level, a magician's per-level MP gain roughly doubles, compounding through 2nd/3rd/4th job.
Equipment and scrolls. Hats, tops, overalls, gloves, accessories, and especially wands and staves carry flat MP bonuses on magician-aligned gear. MP scrolls applied to equipment add roughly +30 MP per slot for the most common variant.

Per-level and job advancement gains

In Classic World, the HP and MP gained on each level-up are fixed by class. The gains are deterministic (there is no random roll) and do not change with INT. Subclasses follow their parent class's rates: hunters and crossbowmen use the bowman values, assassins and bandits use the thief values. Class-specific MaxHP and MaxMP skills add further on top of these base figures.

Class	HP per level	MP per level
Beginner	+16	+12
Warrior	+28	+12
Bowman	+22	+17
Thief	+22	+17
Magician	+16	+22

Job advancement grants a one-time HP and MP bonus on top of the per-level gains, rolled within the range shown for the class.

Class	HP bonus	MP bonus
Warrior	+300 to +350	+100 to +125
Bowman	+200 to +250	+200 to +250
Thief	+200 to +250	+200 to +250
Magician	+100 to +125	+300 or more

The magician's MP advancement bonus starts at +300; its exact ceiling is unconfirmed. Because beginner per-level gains are lower than every advanced class on its primary resource, the standard recommendation is to take the first job advancement as soon as the level 10 requirement is met.

Passive regeneration

MP ticks up automatically over time when the character is out of combat, using the same out-of-combat detection that gates HP regen. Baseline MP regen is roughly comparable to baseline HP regen in absolute terms but feels much faster for low-MP-pool classes because the same flat tick represents a larger fraction of the pool. For magicians at endgame, who carry 9,000+ MP, the same tick is a smaller relative fraction and matters less.

Three mechanics affect the passive MP tick, same shape as for HP:

Sitting on a chair. Set-up tab chairs accelerate MP regen by roughly the same multiplier as HP regen (4-6× the natural rate). The same chair regenerates both pools simultaneously, there is no MP-specific chair tier. Magicians use chairs more than any other class because the combination of large MP pool + Magic Guard's MP drain rewards downtime regen heavily.
Sitting in a town inn. Inns restore HP and MP simultaneously to full for a meso fee. For a magician, the MP refill is the more valuable half of the transaction; warriors use inns mainly for the HP side.
Map regen modifiers. A handful of maps modify regen for both pools at the same time.

Magicians who park on a chair between mob spawns can sustain extended training with no potion expenditure at all in low-level brackets; the regen tick keeps up with Magic Claw's per-cast cost as long as the rest interval matches the cast interval.

Active recovery

For mid-combat or "my MP is about to hit zero" situations, the recovery options are:

Potions. MP-restoring potions (Blue Potion, Mana Elixir, Elixir, and the dual HP/MP Power Elixir at endgame) restore a flat amount with no cooldown. Magicians carry MP potions as their primary consumable in almost every situation, often 200+ in stack. Quick-slotting an MP potion as the highest-priority hotkey is standard magician practice. The full MP-restoring item list is below.
Town inn. Full HP+MP refill for a meso fee. Most-used early; rarely worth the time at higher levels when better potions are affordable.
Magic Claw refund effect. (Magician-only) Some MapleStory versions document Magic Claw as having a small MP-recovery side effect on crit or kill; the wiki has not yet confirmed this for Classic World.

MP-restoring consumables

Every item on the wiki that restores MP on consumption, broken out by type and sorted by amount restored. Each table is independently sortable; click a column header to reorder by that field. The lists auto-populate from the items table, so new potions and foods appear here as their item pages are added.

Potions

Item	HP	MP
Blue Potion	—	200

Food

Item	HP	MP
Green Apple	—	30
Orange	—	50
Cake	100	100
Lemon	—	150
Salad	—	200
Andre's Seafood Soup	300	300
Mrs. Ming Ming's Stew	300	300
Orange Juice	—	450
Pure Water	—	800
Watermelon	800	800
Grape Juice	—	900
Red Bean Sundae	—	1,500
Sunrise Dew	—	2,000
Sunset Dew	—	2,500

Other consumables

Mana elixirs, buff potions, and anything else with an MP-restore side effect that isn't a basic potion or food.

No other MP-restoring items on the wiki yet.

Magic Guard interaction

A magician's MP pool is doubly important because of Magic Guard, the 1st-job passive that redirects incoming damage to MP instead of HP. At max skill level, 85% of an incoming attack is paid out of MP rather than HP, effectively turning the MP pool into a second, much larger HP pool.

The practical consequence: a magician with 4,000 HP and 10,000 MP has roughly 4,000 + (10,000 / 0.85) ≈ 15,800 effective HP against incoming attacks, as long as Magic Guard is active and MP holds. This is why magician builds emphasize MP almost as strongly as INT, every point of MaxMP is also a point of effective survivability, not just casting capacity.

Running out of MP while Magic Guard is active is unusually punishing: the next hit comes through at full HP cost. Cleric and Bishop builds in particular keep an MP buffer to avoid this state during boss fights.

Equipment and scrolls

MP bonuses appear most reliably on:

Wands and staves: the magician weapons carry both Magic Attack and flat MP bonuses as near-default rolls.
Hats and overalls: magician-aligned variants carry +MP rolls.
Capes: many cape variants roll +MP as the primary stat.
Accessories: earrings and pendants, particularly INT-themed pieces, often add MP.

MP scrolls applied to equipment slots add flat MP per successful application. The standard tiered scroll system applies (Intermediate / Greater / Chaos).

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