Thief [Guide] Krythan's Shadower Washing Guide

How to wash your shad to 30,000 HP.

Intro

Washing an Shadower follows the same process as washing a Night Lord. You can read about this topic in Krythan's Night Lord | Guide to Thirty Thousand Hit Points. This post will be an abbreviated version.

Note: This character requires preparation and resources to make. Before beginning this process, it's recommended to have at least 1,000,000 NX on this character's account. I also recommend having at least 100 million mesos for equipment and buying leech, as well as a higher level character (bishop recommended) for self-leech and helping with quests.

1. What is Washing?

Washing is the process of using AP Resets from the NX Cash Shop to create more HP and/or MP. If you're not familiar with the concept, or deciding whether or not to wash, I recommend reading section "6. Washing" in the Getting Started guide. If this is your first character, I recommend looking into the HP Challenges, as they are viable alternative to washing.

As a Shadower, there are three types of washes that you need to be familiar with:

• MP Washing - Fresh AP to MP, then AP Reset from MP to INT or LUK.
• HP Washing - Fresh AP to HP, then AP Reset from MP to LUK.
• Stale HP Washing - AP Reset Stale HP from MP to HP.

2. What's different?

Not much. Shadowers and Night Lords use the same washing formulas, and share the same primary stat (LUK). Where Night Lords have a single secondary stat (DEX), Shadowers have two (DEX and STR). The main difference in consideration between the two is if you may want to have a few extra points into your Base DEX and/or Base STR to help you reach the stat requirements to wear your equip(s).

3. Step by Step

You may reach your goals sooner or later than the listed levels. The levels listed here represent a baseline, your results may vary.

Levels 1-6

• Start with 10 INT
• Put Fresh AP into INT

Levels 6-10

• Put Fresh AP into DEX, until you have 25 DEX
• Then, put Fresh AP into INT

Note: You need 25 DEX to do your job advancement

Levels 11-40 - Pump INT

• Put Fresh AP into INT until you have 200 Base INT

Levels 40-80 - MP Washing - Part I

• Once you have 200 Base INT, start MP Washing.
• Put Fresh AP into MP, then use an AP Reset to -MP +INT.
• Repeat this process until you have 400 Base INT.

Levels 80~150 - MP Washing - Part II

• Once you have reached your Base INT target, continue MP Washing:
• Put Fresh AP into MP, then use an AP Reset -MP to +LUK.
• Repeat this process until you have enough MP.

This process MUST be complete before you reset your Base INT.

What about DEX/STR? You may also want to reset 10-30 points into DEX/STR. This will make it easier for you to reach the stat requirements for your weapons and equip(s). As you upgrade, and scroll your equips to have more DEX/STR, you'll be able to convert these points from DEX/STR to LUK.

Level ~150 - Reset Base INT

Ensure that you have created enough MP to reach your Target HP and Target MP goals. Double check, and triple check it! Make sure, make 1,000% sure you have enough MP to reach your goals, because once this step is done, there's no going back!

• Once you have reached your MP goals, reset your Base INT:
• Use AP Resets to reset your Base INT into LUK.

This process must be completed only after you have finished MP Washing.

Levels ~150+ - HP Washing

Once you have reset your Base INT, start HP Washing. Most of your HP Washing will be done with Stale HP Washing, but you can include Fresh HP Washing if you have the AP and NX.

• Do you have NX and Fresh AP? Do Fresh HP Washing: Put Fresh AP into HP, then use an AP Reset to -MP +LUK.
• Do you have NX but no Fresh AP? Do Stale HP Washing: Use AP Resets to -MP +HP
• Don't have NX, and have Fresh AP? You can either save your Fresh AP for when you do have the NX, or put those points straight into LUK.
• Don’t have NX, and don't have Fresh AP? Keep leveling, vote daily until you do.

Then, simple repeat these steps until you have Thirty Thousand Hit Points.

4. FAQ

Q: How do I know when I have enough MP?

At some point, around level ~140-155 you’ll want to reset your Base INT so that your character can reach their full potential of damage. This is the “point of no return”, because once you reset your Base INT, you won't be able to do any more MP Washes, so we need to make sure we have created enough MP to afford the remaining HP Washes.

The trick to this is being able to answer the question: "Do we have enough MP to reach our goals?"

The best approach is to add/subtract all future sources of MP and HP. And then play around with the numbers until you can determine if you need to keep leveling, and MP Washing, to create enough MP.

Spoiler: Show me an example

Take your current MP
Add MP from future level ups w/ Base INT
Add MP from future level ups w/o Base INT
Add MP from future MP Washes
Subtract MP from future Stale HP washes
Subtract MP from future HP washes
Add MP from upgraded MP equip(s)
Add MP from future equip(s) upgrades
= Projected MP

Take your current HP
Add HP from future level ups
Add HP from future Stale HP washes
Add HP from future HP washes
Add HP from future equip(s) upgrades
= Projected HP

Note: You may also want to ensure that you don't have any AP sitting in HP/MP when you do these calculations. The easiest way to check this is the $bloodwashes command in Discord.

Q: How do I level a character with no LUK?

Most of our leveling journey will be a combination of self-leech, and buying leech. You may choose to do quests and party quests as well, albeit leech is often faster.

Read more: Krythan’s Leech Buying Guide

Q: How do I do the job advancements?

Your 2nd and 3rd Job Advancements require combat challenges in order to progress. These can be difficult due to your primary stat being so low.

Read More: How do I complete the job advancements, if I have no damage?

Q: What about the HP Challenges?

As of March 2025, the MapleLegends team is continuing to work on implementing an alternative to HP Washing. The HP Challenges are especially strong on Shadowers, as they also gain the benefit of the Meso Guard skill - effectively increasing the value they get from each point of HP gained.

"These challenges will introduce a viable alternative to washing, especially useful for those who are on their first character, and don’t have / want to, spend the time, effort, and NX to wash. They will allow characters to complete specific quests to gain additional HP, allowing any character to participate in almost every boss in the game." - Getting Started

The challenges system is the recommended path if this is your first character. However, it's possible to reach a much higher HP with washing as seen above.

Read more: Challenges System - HP Wash Alternative

 

This thread is a re-post of the Archer Washing Guide, which is also an abbreviated version of the Night Lord Guide. It's common to see the Night Lord guide being shared on Discord when players are asking about washing Shadowers. For the sake of clarity, and helping players more easily find information, I figured there might be value in posting a version just for Shadowers.

 

Fixed! That was my mistake, sorry about that!

Done. Whoopsie.