Money making guide

Making mesos is the problem of turning time into currency. This page collects the methods that work in MapleStory Classic World, what each one needs, and what it pays.

It carries no hourly figures, and that is deliberate. An hourly rate needs three numbers: how fast a monster dies, how often it drops a thing, and how many mesos it drops. The client stores none of them. Drop rates and meso drops on this wiki are measured by players and reported, and at launch nobody has reported any yet. Rather than invent a number, this page says which methods have a known payout and which do not.

The methods

The quest circuit

The one method whose payout is known exactly. 242 quests available at launch pay mesos, and running all of them is worth 211,800.0 mesos on top of the experience and items.

That is a one-time sum, not an income. It is the reason a new character is rarely short of mesos and a level 50 one often is: the quest money runs out.

Sort by payout to find what is worth a detour, or by level to see what is open now.

Selling to shopkeepers

Every item has a fixed price a shopkeeper will pay for it, and that price is the same at every shop. It is listed on each item's page.

Two things follow, and the second is the useful one.

There is no arbitrage. Every price was checked against every shop's stock: there is not a single item a shop sells for less than another shop pays for it. Buying low and selling high between vendors does not work in this game, so the only thing worth selling to a shopkeeper is what you did not pay for.

Junk is the income. What makes shop-selling worth anything is the equipment and etc items that fall out of monsters while you are hunting for something else. That is why the hunting figure below matters more than this one.

Hunting

Killing monsters pays in two ways: the mesos they drop directly, and the items they drop that a shopkeeper will buy.

Neither can be quantified yet. The client carries no drop data at all, so both the rate an item drops and the mesos a monster carries are measured by players and reported. Until enough reports arrive, this page cannot tell you which monster is worth hunting, and it would be dishonest to guess.

What is known is which items each monster drops, which is on every monster page, and what each of those items sells for, which is on every item page. The missing piece is how often.

If you are hunting anyway, reporting what you see is what fills this in. See how to report a drop.

Crafting

Crafting has six professions and 366 recipes, and its margins cannot be computed the way a shop's can.

The reason is that almost nothing a recipe consumes is bought. Of every recipe on the wiki, only two have ingredients a shop stocks, and both of those lose money against simply buying the finished item. Everything else is made from ore, gems and monster drops, so the real cost of a craft is the time spent gathering, which is the same unmeasured number the hunting section is waiting on.

Trading with players

The Free Market and player shops set their own prices, so no figure here can be anything but a snapshot. What is worth noting is that fame is itself traded for mesos, which makes it one of the few things with a price and no drop rate.

What this page is waiting on

Three numbers would turn most of the above from prose into a table:

• Meso drops per monster. Reported through the same form as drop rates.
• Item drop rates. Enough reports for a rate to pass the confidence threshold.
• Kill speed by class and level. Not derivable from the files at all.

The first two arrive as players report them. This page should be revisited once they do.

See also

• Meso: the currency, and the limit on how much a character can hold.
• Quests: every quest, including the ones above.
• Crafting: the six professions.
• Free Market and Trade: selling to other players.
• Training guide: where to hunt, chosen for experience rather than mesos.
• Report an item drop: what fills the gaps above.