Magician gear guide

Magician gear guide lays out the most efficient equipment progression for a magician in MapleStory Classic World, from the job advancement at level 10 to about level 40: the wand and staff ladders, the robe line that defines the class's armor, the shopping trips in Ellinia, and whether each upgrade is bought in a shop, hunted from a monster, or crafted. Every price, drop, and recipe comes from the wiki's shop, drop, and crafting data. For skills and training, see the Magician guide and the Training guide; this page is only about the gear.

The supply lines:

Shops. Both Ellinia vendors carry you to level 30: Flora the Fairy sells the wand and staff ladders, and Serabi the Fairy the armor and robe ladder. Past 30, the shelves end.
Drops. The robe line's best pieces fall along the training route: Jr. Wraith drops the White Doros Robe, Zombie Mushroom the level 35 Chaos Robes, and Cold Eye the level 40 Starlights.
Crafting. Tailoring owns magician gloves outright and shoes from level 30; Arcforge builds the wands and staves, including every tier past the shops.

Tip: Serabi's tiers come in paired colors with different bonus stats at the same price: one leans INT (more damage), its sibling leans LUK (which wands and staves demand more of as they level). The tables pick the INT color; swap to the LUK sibling whenever your next weapon's requirement is the thing holding you back.

Before level 10

Spend nothing on Maple Island; bank for the Ellinia climb. Victoria Island starts the kit for free: Stumps drop the level 10 Wooden Staff and Slimes the level 15 Lemona gloves.

Wands or staves

Both come from Flora the Fairy and both scale magic attack; the staff ladder in this level range stops at the level 25 Wizard Staff, while wands continue to 40, so most magicians ride the wand ladder after 25. Both lines demand LUK alongside INT, which is why the LUK armor variants exist.

Wands

Lv	Item	Type	Stats	Requires	Source
10	Wooden Wand	Wand	W.ATK +18, M.ATK +27	20 INT	Flora the Fairy, 3,000 Stump drop Woodcrafting 2
15	Hardwood Wand	Wand	W.ATK +23, M.ATK +34	30 INT	Flora the Fairy, 5,000 Woodcrafting 3
20	Metal Wand	Wand	W.ATK +21, M.ATK +41	40 INT, 10 LUK	Flora the Fairy, 10,500 Arcforge 4
25	Ice Wand	Wand	W.ATK +24, M.ATK +48	50 INT, 15 LUK	Flora the Fairy, 13,500 Arcforge 5
30	Mithril Wand	Wand	W.ATK +27, M.ATK +55	60 INT, 20 LUK	Arcforge 6
35	Wizard Wand	Wand	W.ATK +43, M.ATK +62	70 INT, 25 LUK	Arcforge 7
40	Fairy Wand	Wand	W.ATK +48, M.ATK +69	80 INT, 30 LUK	Arcforge 8

Staves

Lv	Item	Type	Stats	Requires	Source
10	Wooden Staff	Staff	W.ATK +20, M.ATK +24	20 INT	Flora the Fairy, 3,000 Woodcrafting 2
15	Emerald Staff	Staff	W.ATK +25, M.ATK +31	30 INT, 10 LUK	Flora the Fairy, 5,000 Arcforge 3
20	Old Wooden Staff	Staff	W.ATK +30, M.ATK +38	40 INT, 15 LUK	Flora the Fairy, 10,500 Woodcrafting 4
25	Wizard Staff	Staff	W.ATK +35, M.ATK +45	50 INT, 20 LUK	Flora the Fairy, 13,500 Arcforge 5

Levels 10 to 20: first robes

The level 15 stop matters more for a magician than anyone else: it is where the robe line starts, and a single Blue Plain Robe out-armors the top-and-bottom pieces it replaces while carrying INT+3.

Lv	Item	Type	Stats	Requires	Source
10	Brown Apprentice Hat	Hat	W.DEF +8, M.DEF +10, INT +1	10 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 1,200 Tailoring 2
10	Black Armine	Top	W.DEF +13, M.DEF +18, INT +1	10 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 2,000
10	Black Armine Skirt	Bottom	W.DEF +9, M.DEF +12, INT +1	10 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 1,600
10	Blue Basic Boots	Shoes	W.DEF +5, M.DEF +6, AVO +1, Speed +1	10 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 1,200
15	Brown Moon Conehat	Hat	W.DEF +10, M.DEF +12, INT +1, HP +5	20 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 1,800
15	Blue Plain Robe	Overall	W.DEF +29, M.DEF +38, INT +3	20 INT	Serabi the Fairy, 5,400
15	Lemona	Gloves	W.DEF +3, M.DEF +5, INT +1	20 INT	Slime drop Tailoring 3
20	Blue Wizardry Hat	Hat	W.DEF +12, M.DEF +14, INT +1, MP +10	30 INT, 10 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 3,600
20	Blue Split Piece	Top	W.DEF +19, M.DEF +24, INT +2	30 INT, 10 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 6,000
20	White Split Pants	Bottom	W.DEF +13, M.DEF +16, INT +2	30 INT, 10 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 4,800
20	Blue Jewelry Boots	Shoes	W.DEF +7, M.DEF +8, AVO +2, LUK +2	30 INT, 10 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 3,600
20	Blue Morrican	Gloves	W.DEF +4, M.DEF +6, INT +2	30 INT, 10 LUK	Tailoring 4

Levels 25 to 30: the Doros era

The level 25 Doros robes are the bracket's centerpiece, INT+5 on the Blue Doros Robe and LUK+5 on the Yellow Doros Robe, and the Training guide's subway route can hand you one: Jr. Wraith drops the White Doros Robe, the balanced INT and LUK version.

Lv	Item	Type	Stats	Requires	Source
25	Blue Doros Robe	Overall	W.DEF +40, M.DEF +49, INT +5	40 INT, 15 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 13,500
25	Silver Wind Shoes	Shoes	W.DEF +8, M.DEF +9, AVO +2, LUK +2, MP +5	40 INT, 15 LUK	Serabi the Fairy, 3,500 Tailoring 5 Cutthroat Manny's Request reward
25	Ocean Mesana	Gloves	W.DEF +5, M.DEF +7, INT +2, MP +5	40 INT, 15 LUK	Tailoring 5
30	Green Jester	Hat	W.DEF +16, M.DEF +18, LUK +3	50 INT, 20 LUK	—
30	Blue Wizard Robe	Overall	W.DEF +46, M.DEF +55, INT +6	50 INT, 20 LUK	—
30	Blue Magic Shoes	Shoes	W.DEF +9, M.DEF +10, AVO +3, LUK +3	50 INT, 20 LUK	Tailoring 6
30	Blue Lutia	Gloves	W.DEF +6, M.DEF +8, INT +3	50 INT, 20 LUK	Tailoring 6

Levels 30 to 40: robes from the hunt

Past 30 the robe line is drop-only, and every source is a Training guide regular: Zombie Mushroom in the Ant Tunnel drops both level 35 Chaos Robes (Blue Chaos Robe INT+6, White Chaos Robe LUK+6), and Cold Eye in the Tunnel That Lost Light drops both level 40 Starlights (Blue Starlight INT+8, Brown Starlight LUK+8). Hats follow the same pattern: Green Matty from Curse Eye, Red Matty from Fire Boar, Red Guiltian from Fire Boar.

Lv	Item	Type	Stats	Requires	Source
35	Blue Chaos Robe	Overall	W.DEF +51, M.DEF +60, INT +6, MP +5	60 INT, 25 LUK	—
35	Green Matty	Hat	W.DEF +18, M.DEF +20, LUK +3, HP +5	60 INT, 25 LUK	—
35	Red Amoria Skirt	Bottom	W.DEF +19, M.DEF +22, INT +3, HP +5	60 INT, 25 LUK	—
35	Black Salt Shoes	Shoes	W.DEF +10, M.DEF +11, AVO +3, LUK +3, MP +5	60 INT, 25 LUK	Tailoring 7
35	Blue Noel	Gloves	W.DEF +7, M.DEF +9, INT +3, MP +5	60 INT, 25 LUK	Tailoring 7
40	Blue Starlight	Overall	W.DEF +57, M.DEF +66, INT +8	70 INT, 30 LUK	—
40	Red Guiltian	Hat	W.DEF +20, M.DEF +22, HP +40	70 INT, 30 LUK	—
40	Gold Moon Shoes	Shoes	W.DEF +11, M.DEF +12, AVO +4, LUK +4	70 INT, 30 LUK	Tailoring 8
40	Blue Arten	Gloves	W.DEF +8, M.DEF +10, INT +4	70 INT, 30 LUK	Tailoring 8

The level 30 to 40 Moonlight robes, most Matty and Guiltian colors, and the magician shields (Mystic Shield, Esther Shield) are documented with no confirmed source yet; if the beta shows you where they come from, the wiki wants to know.

When crafting takes over

Tailoring makes magician gloves at every tier (Lemona through Arten) and shoes from level 30 up; it can also produce the shop hats and early shoes cheaper than buying if you are leveling it anyway. Arcforge builds the wand and staff ladders, and is the only source of wands past level 30. How professions level is on the Crafting page.