MapleLegends info dump

There's a fair amount of stuff that's generally known by players, but it really doesn't have a place to be shared or organized. There's also a lot to learn and for a lot of the smaller stuff it's not really needed to have its own forum thread but is rather useful information anyways. There's a fair amount of nuance to the game, it would be nice to post things that generally get overlooked because it's rather small.

Basically I'd like this thread to be dedicated to useful tips, tricks, experiences, and just general information pertaining to any job or playstyle at any level. No doubt I've done too many tests, it's just that I've forgotten almost all of it and never really shared it in the first place. I did keep a few of my findings though.

Feel free to post almost anything I guess - from exp/hr from training or leeching, small nuances among skills and reasoning behind investing in some before others, silly things to do with your character, AP builds and experiences with washing, benefits and faults within weapons/armor, how to do certain bosses, which potions to use in places, your damage per minute and how it compares to other classes, or one of many other things I can't really think of right now.

I have a couple pieces of information right off the bat:

Spoiler: For Chief Bandits using Meso Explosion at Himes vs at the Shaolin map east of the well

~Shaolin~
CB = ~302k exp per run
Priest = ~175k exp/run
70 runs per hour at 51 seconds per run
For a total of 21.1mil exp/hour for cb
12.25mil exp/hour for a priest
85k mesos per run to average
~6mil/hour in mesos A CB spends
~.284 mesos/exp here(edited)

~Himes~
CB = ~104k exp / run
Priest = ~71k exp/run
109 runs per hour at 33 seconds per run
For a total of 11.4mil exp/hour for cb
7.7mil exp/hour for the priest
~30k mesos per run to average ~3.3mil/hour in mesos
A CB spends ~.289 mesos/exp here

These numbers are probably off by a fair margin, they were tested with a level 14x Shadower and a level 17x bishop, using the same methods available to their 3rd job counterparts. Thanks Konnui for being the CB in the testing! Basically Shaolin is faster by a lot while costing essentially the same mesos/exp.

Another tidbit:

Spoiler: SI's extra benefit for bishops

Bishops get a large bonus from the Buccaneer's Speed Infusion while Arch Mages only get a small boost because they already have a booster.

Bishop w SI - 28 casts/minute
Bishop w/o SI - 22 casts/minute

AM w SI - 24 casts/minute
AM w/o SI - 22 casts/minute

Basically bishops get an extra 16.66% more dpm over Arch Mages when an SI mule is used. Their damage still sucks though. Thanks D R O D S for testing that on his Arch Mage for me