Deciphering the CodeTo both better organize this guide and make things easier for the newbies of Maplestory, I’ve added classifications to every meso-making section of this guide. The classification tells you the level of difficulty for the specified method and whether or not you’ll need NX to do it. A simple key:
-Beginner: All methods labeled as “beginner” are extremely easy to perform, and are mostly for those new to serious meso-making, or Maplestory in general. You really don’t need to know much about the game to understand what I’m talking about in the “beginner” sections of the guide. The amount of money you’ll make with these tactics will probably be lower than the amount of money you’ll make using more complex approaches, though.
-Intermediate: Anyone who’s been playing Maplestory for a couple of months should be able to do it with a little practice. Intermediate methods are for people in the middle: the players who are neither newbies nor multi-millionaire 3rd job merchants (yet). These rather easy approaches to meso-making are mostly just basic merchanting, along with some more game-related tasks such as PQing.
-Hard: This guide contains relatively few “hard” methods. This is because such techniques are difficult and boring to describe fully. Anyways, hard methods usually require at least a couple hours of practice (sometimes longer) to pull off. I suggest that players who are “fresh off the boat” stay away from these, in general.
There are many methods of making money even more difficult than the ones labeled “hard”, but I’m not going to be covering any of these (especially since I don’t even know how to do some of them). This guide is really more for beginners, anyways.
-No @cash Required: Methods that have this label… don’t require Nexon Cash to perform. It’s pretty self explanatory.
-@cash Required: You MUST have Nexon Cash to use these methods. No exceptions.
-@cash Recommended: Methods bearing this label are easiest performed with @Cash. However, it is not required, and you can use “NX Recommended” money-making techniques without Nexon Cash while still achieving similar or possibly even equivalent results.
Picking Up Drops… Duh? (Beginner-No @cash Required)When you start playing Maplestory, you press “z” to pick up items dropped by monsters you’ve killed. Among these items includes money. Therefore, you are making money every time you pick up money… duh. But it doesn’t end at that. Certain monsters drop more money than others, and some monsters even drop expensive equips and scrolls.
Amoria
The Sakura Cellions located in the top platform of Purple Plains, the map right of Amoria, drop 200-300 mesos each while barely possessing more than 1000 HP per kitten. Enough said.
Crimsonwood Keep
The Leprechauns in CWK drop obscene amounts of money from their level (usually between 800 and 2000 mesos per monster). You can hunt for these monsters in the Phantom Forest maps “Swamp Bog”, “Bent Tree”, and “Creeping Evil”. They spawn as Meso Bags, but don’t be fooled! The meso bags will actually inflict some damage to you if you touch them. Attack the meso bag, and the Leprechaun will spawn, along with some cash (usually). Kill the Leprechaun (which also drops cash), and pick up your winnings. If you can 1-hit KO these guys, you’ll be able to make a million mesos within an hour two.
If you have a high-leveled (level 80+) character that you want to train and use to make cash at the same time, consider hunting Windraiders and NightShadows, located on the mountains and caves around the Crimsonwood Keep (there are some NightShadows in the keep, too). These monsters are great to train on, AND they drop exchange quest badges. These badges can be traded for money, scrolls, and other rewards through the Crimsonwood Keep Exchange Quest, which is available to anyone who has finished all of the quests in the keep and its surrounding forest.
The Dead Mine
The Dead Mine, which is located after El Nath’s Forest of Dead Trees and before the Zakum lava dungeon, is a great place for those who can kill zombies efficiently to make money. The Miner Zombies that stroll around the place occasionally drop gold zombie teeth. Thirty of these teeth are needed to obtain the powerful and expensive Zakum Helm. Getting all 30 teeth is extremely time-consuming, so most Zakum Helm buyers are willing to pay top dollar for someone to get the teeth for them. That’s where you come in. Each tooth is worth approximately 100,000-150,000 mesos. You can usually get 10 or so teeth per hour, so that’ll be 1 million mesos per hour (at least!). Who knew selling old teeth could be so lucrative? (I’ll talk about how to sell your stuff in the next few sections.)
Orbis Exchange Quest Drops
The Orbis Exchange Quest is a repeatable quest located in Orbis that gives you 500 experience points and a small reward every time you do it. To do the quest, you need to give the quest NPC one hundred of one of these items: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...uest_orbis.php But you’re not going to make money from trying to do the exchange quest. You’re going to make money from other people who are trying to do the exchange quest. Many Maplestory players with too much money like to level up their low-level secondary characters through the Orbis Exchange Quest. This is because the amount of times you can reap the quest’s 500 exp reward is limitless. Exchange Quest items can be sold for 200 to 500 mesos each, in most worlds. When you multiply that number by a couple hundred, you’ll see why this is such a great way to make money. I personally recommend you hunt for these drops at Coolie Zombies, Sakura Cellions, Jr. Cellions, and Jr. Yetis, but you can try looking for such items anywhere they’re available.
Quests (Beginner-No @cash Required)By the time you reach 2nd job, quests will no longer be a viable option on your goal of leveling up as fast as possible, simply because their exp rewards just aren’t good enough. However, many quests will still give you VERY good item rewards, some of which can be sold for a lot of money (like I said, I’ll cover selling later). A list of such quests (created by WinglessOne):
Eliminate The Monsters From The Site (Lvl 25)
Sakura and The Teddy Bear (Lvl 30)
Jane and The Wild Boar (Lvl 30)
The Missing Mechancial parts (Lvl 30)
The View Of The Ocean (Lvl 30)
Food-Hunting for Moppie III (Lvl 30)
POLLUTED! <2-Curse Eye> (Level 30)
Terminating the Dark Force (Lvl 31)
A Delivery To A Lost Time (Lvl 33)
Sakura and The Seal (Lvl 35)
Eos Tower Threatened! (Lvl 35)
Rowen the Fairy and The Cursed Dolls (Lvl 35)
Subani's Legacy (Lvl 36)
ReVersal (Lvl 40)
Sakura, The Kitty and the Orange Marble (Lvl 40)
Shumi's Lost Sack of Money (Lvl 40)
Movie Star (BELOW Lvl 40)
Jane The Alchemist (Lvl 40)
To The New World (Lvl 40)
Alpha Platoon's Network of Communication (Lvl 40)
Peace At Eos Tower (Lvl 40)
The History of Zeta Leticulan (Lvl 45)
The Alligators At The Swamp (Lvl 52)
The Outlaw In The Sea (Lvl 55-100) (DOES NOT give choice of reward, it's random reward. Hidden-Street is incorrect about that info on this quest.)
Captain Lord Pirate (Lvl 55-100)
Preparing For The Revival (Lvl 55)
Doll In The Dark (Lvl 55)
Notice From The Excavation Team (Lvl 60)
Scadur's New Fur Coat (Level 60)
Soul In The Dark (Lvl 70)
Romeo Proposes (Lvl 70)
Operation Eliminate Red-Nosed Pirates (Lvl 70)
Who is De Lang? (Lvl 75)
Monster Rumor Mill (Lvl 80)
The Committee Challenges (Lvl 85)
Open Sesami (Lvl 85)
An Unknown Love (Lvl 85)
Sabitrama's Life Work (Lvl 85)
Freed From Darkness (Lvl 90)
Muse Is Cooking (Lvl 95)
Gachapon (Beginner-@cash Required)Gachapon is a vending machine located in several cities in Maplestory. To activate it, you need to buy Gachapon tickets, available at the Cash Shop for 1000 @cash cash each. For each ticket you use, you will receive an item. Some items will be good, and some items…. will be really bad. Gachapon gives relatively few good rewards compared to other @cash-related meso-making methods, but it’s a start.
Sleepywood Gachapon
The Sleepywood Gachapon used to be the best Gachapon in Maplestory, but since the release of the Zipangu Gach, it has fallen into hard times. Don’t move your eyes away, though. Sleepywood holds many rare items and consists of a LOT of scrolls, dark and regular. Just watch out for pumpkin pies and power elixirs; chances are this Gach will give away a lot of junk.
New Leaf City Gachapon
If you are holding 70+ Gacha tickets, NLC may be a viable option. The New Leaf City Gachapon contains a TREMENDOUS amount of crap (more than several of the notoriously crappy Victoria Island Gachapons). Yet it can also give you the expensive white scroll, which easily sells for 150+ mil. But be careful; any less than 70 tickets will probably make you end up with a bunch of worthless NPC items. That’s why I personally don’t recommend going here.
Zipangu Gachapon
YES! This is, inarguably, the best gachapon machine in Maplesea as of now. Zipangu has the highest dark scroll reward rate of any gachapon, not to mention a huge variety of expensive equips. Unfortunately, the price of dark scrolls has fallen dramatically ever since the release of Zipangu, so your profits may no longer be as high as you hoped. Still, going here is definitely an extremely safe idea, since getting your money’s worth is almost guaranteed.
Henesys Gachapon
A bunch of junk, tied with the occasional Pink Adventurer Cape and Brown Work Glove. Just go to Zipangu.
Ellinia Gachapon
The Ellinia Gachapon isn’t a viable option, either. Its prizes are way too inexpensive nowadays; I don’t think this Gachapon gives anything worth more than one or two million mesos.
Perion Gachapon
Perion contains a large amount of trash, just like all the other Victoria Island Gachapon (no surprise there). However, it is ALSO a vendor of the expensive Chaos Scroll and the super-expensive Smiling Mask. If you’re feeling really, really lucky, Perion might be the one. Don’t count on anything, though.
Nautilus Gachapon
Just about everything that comes from here is junk. And it’s not even always pirate junk, which is ironic considering Nautilus is a pirate city. There isn’t anything in particular that you would want to get from here that you can’t get somewhere else. Therefore, going here is highly NOT recommended.
Showa Gachapon
The Gachapon here isn’t much better than the ones on Victoria Island. In other words, avoid this at all costs.
Kerning Gachapon
Nope, don’t go here either.
Selling Your Stuff on Basilmarket (Beginner-No @cash Required)Okay, I’m going to take the liberty of assuming you ALL know how to create auctions on Basilmarket. And now that I’ve managed to completely skip about 20 sentences of rigorous and most likely pointless explanations, it’s time to get to the part where you actually make money.
Basilmarket is by far the best way anybody with no Nexon Cash or a crappy internet connection (or both) can sell Maplestory items. This is true due to several reasons. First of all, setting up an auction only takes up a few minutes. This allows for almost no risk at all of disconnection or getting extremely bored, which is a common problem for people trying to sell their stuff in-game. Secondly, the feature is FREE. No real money required. Just look at the ads every once in a while and you’re golden. And lastly, the auctioneer is almost guaranteed to get a fair price. This is because auctions allow for competition; even if you set a ridiculously low starting offer, people will most likely bid on the item until a reaches a more… competitive price. The only exception is for extremely unpopular items (you can find out what is popular and what isn’t rather easily with this handy Basilmarket feature: http://www.basilmarket.com/Maple-Sto...-auctions.html ) and items that are changing in price rapidly (since auctions can last nearly a week while deflation can happen in one day).
Of course, you will probably make less money selling your stuff on Basilmarket than selling your stuff in a @cash-purchased in-game store (more on that later). That’s because stores are more convenient than auctions; you find an item, and then you buy it. It takes 5 seconds, tops. And even if you include the time needed to find a specific item in the Free Market containing the stores, it’s still barely 30 minutes. Basilmarket, on the other hand, is super slow. After bidding on an item, you need to wait DAYS until the auction is over. Then you need to wait even MORE days as you try to find the seller in Maplestory. But if you can’t use a store, that’s a small price to pay.
Now, when (or if) you reach the level of meso-making in which you actually buy and sell items for profit instead of just selling whatever happens to enter your inventory, Basilmarket will most likely no longer be a viable option. The margins you will receive will simply be too low. But until then, you should use this site’s auctions whenever you need to make money selling something, whether it’s a quest reward or a drop you got from a monster.
Party Questing 101 (Intermediate-No @cash Required)Party quests (also called PQs) are repeatable quests that can only be done with a party, or group, of people. They all have different time limits. Easier party quests have short time limits, usually ranging from 10 to 30 minutes, while the hard ones can have time limits of up to 2 hours. Almost all PQs give you a reward every time you finish it (usually experience points and an item).
Party quests are a fun way to make money and have train at the same time. The rewards, in terms of experience, rarely match up to what you get from grinding (training at a specific map for long periods of time), but the items and monetary rewards that you get from party quests will usually make it worth it. That isn’t always the case, though. So just which PQs will pay you for wasting your time?
Kerning PQ (lvl 21-30)
Kerning PQ is a simple, easy party quest. Though much of the prizes are crap, there’s always that lingering chance of receiving an overall dex scroll 10%, which is worth between 500 thousand and 1 million mesos in most worlds (all estimates are based on Basilmarket prices). I made my first million mesos doing Kerning PQ. Guide: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...ning_stall.php
Ariant PQ (level 21-30)
In terms of exp, Ariant PQ is best described as “mediocre”. The gameplay isn’t much better, either. Basically, you compete with several other players in the main PQ room by trying to capture as many spirit gems as you can from the scorpions. This is done using by using spirit rocks (obtainable from the quest NPC) on the scorpions after they’ve been weakened (with your attack skills). You also receive 10 bombs, which can blow the spirit gems off everybody in its general area, making them available for pick-up by anybody. At the end of the PQ, you receive a number of points based on the amount of spirit gems you turn in. Once you get 200 points (need clarification on this figure), you will receive the Palm Beach Chair, which can be sold for several million mesos in most servers. And no, I don’t have a guide for this.
Monster Carnival PQ (lvl 30-50)
Monster Carnival PQ is one of the few PQs in Maplestory that gives more exp than what you get from actual training. If you trade-win the PQ in your early 30’s, experience gain can exceed over 75% an hour. But more importantly, you make a lot of money from the PQ by collecting Maple Coins, which are occasionally dropped by the monsters in Monster Carnival. Fifty of these coins will forge a Spiegelmann Necklace, which is worth several hundred thousand mesos in most servers. Or you can forge a Gephart, which can be NPCed for 150,000 mesos, for 7 coins. You can increase your Maple Coin output by coin farming, which is a method in which both parties agree to ONLY summon Teddies in Room 1 or 2. Teddies cost very few points to summon (allowing greater numbers of teddies) and can be killed easily, which means more coins will drop. Guide: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...nival_st01.php
Ludibrium PQ(lvl 35-50)
Ludibrium PQ gives a much larger and more expensive variety of prizes than Kerning PQ. You can receive both 10% and 60% scrolls from this party quest, not to mention capes and other items. However, Carnival PQ is much more popular nowadays, plus a faster moneymaker. So if you’re going to try making money from Ludibrium PQ, you had better really like doing it. Guide: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...rium_stall.php
Ludibrium Maze PQ(lvl 51-70)
This is one of the simpler PQs; you can finish the entire quest by just following another member and killing every Tauromancis you see. The prizes from the quest aren't exactly great, but since the average party finishes Ludi Maze PQ in 1-2 minutes, it adds up very quickly. You can make several million mesos by NPCing your rewards, which mainly consists of potions. Guide: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...mmaze_st01.php
Magatia PQ (lvl 71-85)
I’m very sketchy on the details of this PQ. All that I know is that it gives decent experience (usually 15-20% an hour) and some pretty good rewards. Guide: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...gatia_st01.php
Boss Hunting (Intermediate-No @cash Required)A boss is a special type of monster. It takes much longer to spawn than any other monster and is a LOT harder to kill. Usually, there can only be one of each boss in every channel. There are three common types of bosses: summoned bosses, who require you to donate special items for them to appear, PQ bosses, who reside in party quests, and regular bosses, which spawn at specific times in designated maps. This section focuses on regular bosses, which are the easiest to kill and receive good drops from.
“Hunting” bosses is a common practice in Maplestory. Several bosses are widely sought for their variety of rare drops, which can be sold for large amounts of money. In the past few years, deflation has lowered the appeal and cheapened the awards of boss hunting, but at least it’s still more fun than merchanting.
Mushmom (level 40-50+)
Mushmom spawns at Someone Else’s House. She used to be one of the most popular money-making bosses, but now she’s usually just hunted for fun. She spawns every 45-60 minutes, and drops a variety of armor scrolls. Mushmom also drops Ilbi Throwing Stars, but they’re super rare, so don’t count on it.
Zombie Mushmom (level 50-60+)
Zombie Mushmom spawns at The Grave of Mushmom and is basically Mushmom’s stronger, undead counterpart. She spawns every 50-60 minutes, and drops a variety of weapon scrolls. She can also drop Ilbi and Hwabi Throwing Stars, but that’s like a one in 10 thousand chance, so don’t count on it.
Junior Balrog (level 70-90+)
Junior Balrog spawns in the Cursed Sanctuary. He can inflict over 2500 damage a hit with its magic attack, so make sure you have plenty of HP/a good level of Magic Guard before going for him. Spawning only once every 4-6 hours, Jr. Balrog is extremely hard to find, and doesn’t drop many good scrolls, considering the difficulty of finding and killing him.
Crimson Balrog (level 90-120+)
Crimson Balrog has a 20% chance of spawning on the boat ride from Ellinia to Orbis and back. He drops Hwabis, a very expensive type of throwing star, and a bunch of crappy 10% scrolls. To hunt for him, go on the boat ride from Ellinia to Orbis and wait. If he doesn’t show up within 60 seconds of the boat ride’s takeoff, leave and wait for another ride. Note: Crimson Balrog can inflict over 4500 damage a hit with its magic attacks, so be VERY careful when trying to kill it.
Area Bosses (level requirement varies)
Area bosses are almost exactly like regular bosses, except there can be more than one of them in a map and they have much lower amounts of HP (usually). Consequentially, their drop rate is much lower, too. Anyways, most area bosses drop a variety of 10% and 60% armor scrolls, along with a few weapon scrolls, and are much less frequently hunted than regular bosses. For more information on them, refer to this guide: http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/796..._to_know.html#
Selling Your Junk in the Free Market (Intermediate-@cash Required)So you’ve finally gotten your mom to buy that Nexon Cash Card for you. It’s time to make some REAL money! :) When you go to the store section of the Cash Shop, you’ll notice that there are two (and sometimes 3) types of store permits: the Regular Store Permit, the Hired Merchant Permit, and the Event Store Permit. A brief explanation of these three very different licenses:
-Regular Store Permit: This is the standard store. Basically, it allows your character to open a mini room in the Free Market where you can put up items for sale. These rooms can hold up to 16 items, which should be enough for anyone who isn’t a professional merchant. I highly recommend you buy a Regular Store Permit, since it is the cheapest of all your options. That is, unless your computer burns out quickly or your internet frequently disconnects: these stores are most efficient when kept open for more than 12 hours. Any less and your selling ability will seriously get screwed up. And lastly, make sure your mom/siblings don’t get pissed at you having MS turned on all day.
-The Hired Merchant Permit: This permit allows you to open a store that is run by a NPC (non-playing character). The type of NPC depends on which type of Hired Merchant Permit you buy. With this, you can train and play Maplestory all you want while the NPC sells your stuff for you. Sounds good, eh? Well, there’s a downside: these permits are EXTREMELY expensive. One day costs almost as much as an entire THREE MONTHS with a regular store. I personally don’t suggest you buy one of these unless-
1. You are a training freak.
2. You are a pro merchant who has no time to sell stuff; only time to buy.
3. Your internet connection/computer sucks buttocks.
4. You have rich parents who will buy you lots of virtual money to spend on things in a game.
-Event Store Permits: These only come out a few times a year. They are basically regular store permits that allow you to put 24 items on sale instead of the usual 16, which makes them useful for people with lots to sell. Unlike the Hired Merchants, event permits are pretty reasonably priced.
Finding a Spot For Your Store
Stores can only be opened in a Free Market room. Opening your store in the Channel 1 Free Market is recommended, though Channel 2 and 3 will work. To open your store, you need to find an empty gap in a FM room about this wide. Try to find a spot in a low-number FM room. The best rooms have the lowest numbers. Here is a chart measuring the desirability of all the Channel 1 FM rooms in the major worlds (smaller worlds will have fewer hot/good rooms and more ok/bad rooms): http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1242593643 The “goodness” of your spot ALSO depends on the store’s position in the room. The best spot in the room is the place right next to the portal (you can’t open a store right over the portal). This will be the first store everybody will see, and therefore be the first store most people will look at. If a buyer finds what they’re looking for in a door store, they’ll probably buy it immediately without checking any of the other stores for lower prices (assuming your price for the item isn’t totally ridiculous). Therefore, the best spots in a FM room are the ones closest to the portal. The worst spots are the ones in the very corners of a FM room. Consequentially, a door spot in FM 8 would be better than, say, a corner spot in FM 7, even though room 7 is better than room 8 overall.
Note: If you see an empty spot but you’re not sure whether your store will fit in it, TRY IT ANYWAYS. It never hurts to check.
Setting Up Your Store
To open up your store, open your inventory and click on the cash shop section. Your store should appear there. Double click on it; a window will appear with a blank space on it. In the blank space, type your desired store name. Do it quickly; if you take too long, someone may take your spot. Once you have entered your store name, a larger window will pop up. There will be blank gaps on the window. Drag the items you want to sell from your item inventory into those gaps. Every time you do so, this window will pop up: http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1242594036 Enter the information into the blanks. In the first blank, type the number of items that you want to sell (has to be the same type of item). In the second blank, type the price of each of these items. The blank labeled “# of Items in Package” is optional, and not recommended. Once you’ve filled the window, press “ok”. Then repeat until you’ve put everything you want to sell into the store.
How Much Should I Price My Junk For?
Selling your stuff in the Free Market has several advantages against selling your stuff on Basilmarket. For starters, it’s much faster. But you probably already knew that. More importantly, you can sell your stuff for MORE money. But you probably already knew that, too.
Before you price ANYTHING, check the Basilmarket auctions. They are, by far, the most efficient and accurate Maplestory price check on the Internet. To look for the price of a specific item, first go to the Basilmarket auctions in your world. Find four or more auctions for the specific item or one similar to it (auctions must have bids). Average out the bids, and you should have a reasonably reliable estimate of the item’s Basilmarket price. To find the Free Market price, simply add an extra 25 to 40% to the Basil price. For example, an item worth 1 million mesos on Basil could probably be sold for about 1.3 to 1.4-ish million mesos in the FM. If you cannot find 4 auctions for the item, check the auctions of another server, preferably one that has a similar population to yours.
There are exceptions to the “25 to 40 Rule”, of course. The most noticeable exception is new event item pricing. The prices of new event items at the beginning of an event are extremely random, therefore making Basilmarket a horrible price indicator for them. If you want to sell an event item at the beginning of an event, well… you’re on your own. The price people will be willing to pay for your item will depend on how hard it is to get and what it does. If you managed to obtain it in 10 minutes of training, than it probably won’t be worth more than a few hundred thousand mesos. If it took you 4 hours of complicated, mind-blowing questing to obtain it, then it’s probably worth a lot more. However, it is even more important to figure out what the item does. Is the item useful for all jobs? Is the item stronger or better than all others of its kind? Does the item last forever? Does it do something nothing has ever done before? The very most expensive event items will answer all of these questions with a “yes”.
A last piece of advice on event item pricing: The stuff you get can usually be sold for much more than you’d think. That’s because there are hundreds of Maplers out there with way too much spare cash on their hands who like to buy absolutely EVERYTHING that’s new in Maplestory, even if they can get the exact same item 3 weeks later for only 10% the price. At the beginning of most events, new items can be sold for at least twice their worth, and often more. Be sure not to make the mistake of under-pricing your stuff; I recommend you always set the price a bit higher than what you expect to get, just to be safe. Checking other stores for prices never hurt, either.
Simple Merchanting (Intermediate-@cash Required)Simple merchanting is an easy money-making method that takes advantage of the fact that you have a store and patience while others don’t. Unlike other forms of merchanting, this involves almost no human interaction at all, so it’s great for newer players who aren’t used to bargaining and buying from other people yet.
The Basic Idea
With simple merchanting, you buy/make weapons, armors, and other items in large quantities and then sell them for more than they cost to obtain. This method mainly targets people who are either too impatient to make the stuff on their own or are bulk scrolling (scrolling dozens of the same armor/weapon at a time) and need the stuff fast. The profits from this will be very low, but everybody has to start somewhere.
What to Sell
-Snowshoes- Snowshoes are shoes obtainable in the El Nath armor shop for 30,000 mesos. Unlike any other shoe in Maplestory, they have 7 slots instead of 5 and prevent you from slipping on the ice in El Nath’s training grounds. Because of their unusual number of slots, snowshoes are bulk-scrolled all of the time. However, you can only buy them in El Nath, and most people aren’t willing to make the trip there. That’s where you come in. Go to El Nath, buy 16 snowshoes (preferably of the thief variety) and then enter the El Nath FM and sell them in your store for 50,000 mesos each (20,000 more than their NPC price). Once you sell out (which may take a while), buy more and open shop again.
-Bathrobes- The Bathrobe is an overall with 10 slots wearable by all classes. There are only a few kinds of overalls like the bathrobe, but none of them have such a low level requirement or are as easy to obtain. Like snowshoes, they’re scrolled frequently and can be bought in large quantities in the Showa Bathhouse for 20,000 mesos each. Most people aren’t willing to make the trip, though, so you can easily sell them in the Free Market for 50,000 to 100,000 mesos each.
-Work Gloves- You need 15 leathers and 1000 mesos to make a Work Glove, which is a level 10 glove with 5 slots that’s useable by all classes. To get the leather, I recommend you either hunt Pigs and/or Ratz or buy them in large quantities from the FM/Basilmarket. Once you have a couple hundred leathers, go to “JM of the Streetz” in Kerning City and forge the Work Gloves. Since Work Gloves are such a flexible item, they’re scrolled all the time and can be sold for 50,000 to 150,000 mesos apiece.
-Summoning Rocks- Summoning Rocks are used by hermits and night lords to summon a Shadow Partner, one of their key skills. However, the rocks are very hard to obtain normally. The best way to get them is to buy them from Alcaster, a NPC in El Nath, for 5000 mesos each. But before you can buy them from Alcaster, you have to finish a grueling and annoying series of quests and their prerequisites, which can take several hours. Most hermits don’t have enough patience to finish the ridiculous number of quests. That means that, if you finish all of Alcaster’s quests: http://global.hidden-street.net/ques...rquest_003.php , you can sell large amounts of summoning rocks in your shop for up to 6500 mesos each (1500 mesos higher than the purchase price). Multiply that by a couple hundred, and it adds up.
Regular Merchanting (Hard-@Cash Required)When you ask any veteran Maplestory player how to make mesos, you will almost ALWAYS be told to “merchant”. But what exactly is merchanting?
To be brief, merchanting is the process of which you buy an item for an under-average price and sell it for a higher price, thereby creating profit. Or, to put it simply, “buy low and sell high”. There are many, many ways to do this, each method using a different strategy and requiring different abilities. Dozens of processes have been explained in guides all over the Internet. Which way is the best? Hell if I know.
In fact, there probably isn’t a best one. With so many unique people and unique techniques… well, anybody who claims to know the best formula is either crazy or full of crap. Therefore, I can’t guarantee that the way I do things is the greatest way. And I definitely can’t guarantee that I can explain every form of merchanting in existence. So instead, this section is here to provide you with a list of good merchanting guides, coincidentally saving me about 3 hours of work. Yeah, let’s say that.
Bunnie’s Merchanting Guide-written by Bunnie/Vysper/Isilie/Floire
Smartguy’s Grade:B+
This famous/infamous Basilmarket guide covers the basics of merchanting very well. Unfortunately, it doesn’t cover anything else. Bunnie’s guide is a good place to start for those who have no idea what they’re doing yet, since it explains most forms of regular merchanting. However, this guide lacks specific explanations in certain sections, so non-beginners may not find this guide that helpful.
Merchanting For Dummies-written by Kwary
Smartguy’s Grade:: B
This Sleepywood guide does a very good job of explaining the concept of mass merchanting, where you spend as much time as possible buying scrolls and then selling them for more in a Hired Merchant Store. It has pretty graphics, too. However, as you may have noticed already, the guide is very short. That’s because it ONLY covers mass merchanting, and ONLY for scrolls. Though certainly not a one-size-fits-all guide, this can be a very helpful reference and will give you a pretty accurate idea of what you’re supposed to be doing.
Lexy’s Guide to Getting Richby NegiWarrior
Smartguy’s Grade: A-
“Lexy’s Guide to Getting Rich” is extraordinarily comprehensive and, if my guide had been written in 2007, would probably have gotten an “A” grade. Unfortunately, it’s no longer 2007, and many sections of the guide are outdated, especially when it comes to item prices. But outdated information or not, this guide can still tell you what you’re supposed to be doing and the best way you should to do it. It doesn’t cover everything there is to know about merchanting, but it’s a very good start for beginner merchants who don’t want to follow a “let’s see what happens” learning strategy. Just try to avoid the parts that are affected by current events, like the FM spot and “what to sell” sections.
