Guide to efficiently leveling high base int chars with zero starting funding.

Who this guide is for

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This guide is for the dedicated legender who wants to reach end game with HIGH HP (10K+) on a ranged DPS class.

Also, if this is not who you are and other players talk down or you or try to make you feel bad because you are not doing this, tell them to suck it.

Step 1: Make a HS mule and Ice-lightning at the same time.

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HS mule can stop at 81, ice lightning can stop anytime level 70 or above.

The most efficient way to do this is to make both the HS mule and ice lightning together and then multi client on party quests, (HPQ, KPQ, LPQ).

From level 10 to 21, do a combination of quests and HPQ

Once you reach 30 from KPQ/Questing, I do recommend you try out Nisse's guide to get from level 30 to 35.

https://forum.maplelegends.com/inde...precise-levelling-for-new-chars-lvl-35.17122/

From 35-37 or 40, I suggest doing LPQ until you can max thunder bolt on your ice lightning. This mobbing skill is amazing.

From there, I suggest leeching your cleric with your ice lightning at teddies until it reaches level 43, then you can swap over to leeching it at wraiths.

If your Ice lightning is leveling too far ahead of your cleric, take some time to solo train your cleric. You don't want them to grow too far apart in levels.

Once your cleric reaches ~lv 45, and your ice lightning is ~45-50, swap over to ghost ship 2. Its super early for cleric and your exp would be garbage solo, but this is the perfect time to come for an ice lighting because gs2 mobs are weak to lightning. So even though you miss alot, you still do good damage with your ice lightning and get good exp.

Stay at GS2 until you get Max holy symbol on your priest and get to at least level 70 on your ice lightning. Once your priest reaches lv 75, I do recommend buying 3-3.5 hours of split wolf spider leech to get to 81. Trust me, you will be sick of GS2 after being there for over 30 levels.

Step 2: Make an attacker class (class you want to level with high base int)

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As for which attacker to go, you should play whatever you want to play.

However, if you are making a nightlord, i strongly recommend making a SE mule along with it.

If you are making a marksman, I strongly recommend making an SI mule as well.

The reason is that these party buffs are absolutely insane damage boosters on these classes.

SE gives nightlords nearly a 60% damage increase, whereas speed infusion gives marksman nearly a 17% damage increase. If you have speed infusion on a marksman, you will be out-damaging similarly funded bow masters for a VERY long time (though they will win at end game).

Corsairs don't really need party buffs to be that effective, but they do become slightly stronger when they get SI and SE (each give ~5% damage boost to corsairs).

Bowmasters literally do not benefit from any buff in the game. Don't bother making any buff mules if you wanna main this class.

Shadowers are in the same case as bowmasters. Also they don't need to wash at all due to meso guard so unless you just want a high HP, high avoid shadower, you should stop reading this guide and just start a shadower.

If you want to make a Bucc, making an SE mule along with it is still an option (stun mastery + SE = insane damage on mobs when grinding in fourth job), but not something I strongly recommend.

If you want to play any warrior, you really should stop reading this guide and just go make it. They barely need any int to hp wash effectively.

Step 3: Train yourself doing the following:

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Henesy PQ 10-15
Bubbling self leech 15-20
Wild boar self leech 20-25
Teddy self leech 25-43 (tough grind here)
Jr. Wrath self leech 30-43 (only better than teddy if you 1hit)
Wraith Self leech 43-53 (even tougher grind here)
GS1 self leech 53-55
GS5 self leech 55-58
GS2 self leech 58-65

While you are doing the above, you want to invite your HS mule to your party to buff yourself HS and then leave party on it. You should also consider selling split low level leech, the exp you provide if you rotate your map optimally is very comparible to that of a bishop.

If you consistently sell split leech you will be making bank.

If you see another person trying hard to grind and don't have a split buyer, be a nice person and PARTY with them. Even if they kill at only half the rate you do, having them in the party will increase the exp per hour your attacker gets.

You want to try and save mesos because in step 4 you will buy a lot of leech. I estimate that it should cost you ~300-400m to complete step 4.

Step 4: Buy leech for your i/l and attacker class, (can also bring HS mule to bishop but thats optional)

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65-71 WR
71-75 Greatest Oldies
75-85 Wolf spider
85-90 ulu1
90-100/105 ulu2
[optional] 100-105 ulu3
105-120 petrifighter or 108-120 skele

Beyond here is optional

120-125 shaolin 3-4
125-129 shaolin 5-6

If you ever run out of mesos, you can just self leech starting at 120, or go back to selling low level leech with your HS mule + i/l combo if you are not fourth job yet.

If you are really low on mesos because you were not able to sell split leech and got consistently screwed over by gachapon, just buy split leech for your i/l and rush it to fourth job.

After your ice lightning hits fourth (which should not be too expensive as leeching from 75-120 shouldn't cost more than 200-300m if you buy split) you can just self leech your attacker as far as you like.

Also, I do suggest either MP washing your ice lightning OR making a hyper body mule to lessen your potion cost. Blizzard eats alot of mana per cast!

Notes:
I don't recommend leeching more than two characters at most (even though full party leech is the most efficient). The teddy and wraith grind are pretty much hell as is.

If you want to power level, try to find someone else who is also leeching an attacker and trade leech with them. Basically instead of both of you leeching your characters individually, have person A leech both players characters for X hours, and then have person B leech both players characters for X hours. This is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than leeching only by yourself.

To efficiently HS, copy paste /partyinvite HSmule , and then when its time to HS, type enter, control v, enter. Then, go to your hs mule, click accept party use HS, and then use the /leaveparty command.

In addition, I also recommend making a few fame mules and trying to sell some fame daily. It may only get you 500k to 1m per day, but do it over the course of a month and it certainly adds up.

The most optimal time to do this is during an event when there are bonus exp or drop rates. This drastically reduces the amount of time you need to leech yourself and increases the amount of mesos you make per hour from monster drops.

 

The reason is that ice lightning peaks with its mobbing capabiltiies very early on and is far superior than fire poison at grinding on weak monsters.

You won't be using poison mist to train at teddies / wraiths after all and thats where you will be spending the majority of your leech time, (and of course you wouldn't want to max explosion first on a FP mage).

The other thing is that if you are leeching your attacker to 65 AND selling split leech along the way, it is not unreasonable to reach ~400m in mesos by the time you hit level 65 on your attacker, (As do note this is the third character you've reached near third job on).

You will get hunting gachapon tickets, normal gachapon tickets, nx drops, equips to npc, and split leech mesos. If there is an event going on, you make even more.

Of course, if you don't get to sell split leech consistently, you probably won't make it to the 400m mark. In that case, once you reach lv 65 on your attacker, you can swap to pure leech selling mode and try to build up your mesos bank.

Also you 100% want to spend the mesos on leech because its much more efficient in terms of gaining exp. Selling leech at a low level map and then buying leech at a higher level map beats grinding normally at a high level map hands down. Also, demand for low level leech seems to have been going up these days.

Also I should clarify that this isn't a guide for players with zero funding, its a guide for players with zero starting funding. Naturally as you play you gain funding. I am saying that this funding should be spent on leech.

 

Party training is more efficient, but I recommend not letting the level difference between them grow too much. Try to train them somewhat evenly. Also, make sure to keep an eye out for GM buffs. 30 minutes of grinding with Holy symbol is magical compared to grinding without it.

The reason is that at level 45, ice lightning mages can go to ghost ship 2 and get really good exp. However, if your cleric is within 5 levels of your ice lightning mage, your cleric will be able to leech exp from your ice lightning, even though slimy at ghost ship 2 is level 63.

Right now, your goal should be trying to get to ghost ship 2 as fast as possible, as its unfortunately the best map to grind on from 45 to 81 (other than leech).

 

Yup. By the time you are near the end of your GS2 time you will be absolutely sick of it. You will definetly miss a lot at 45, but the exp to health ratio of slimy is so good, its still the best training spot even with a bunch of misses.

I definitely recommend saving some mesos for when you hit level 75 to buy leech to 81. It would only cost you ~12m in split wolf spider leech through those last few levels to get holysymbol.

GM buffs are kinda random, but I've seen them happen decently often during weekend PST evenings / mornings.

Also do note what Fishy said for meso making. You can't sell low level leech until your holy symbol mule is finished, so what he said is pretty much your best bet at raising funds at your level. Though, to be honest at your level you should value exp over mesos since once you can sell leech, the mesos just roll in.

 

Play the game however you want, but if you have any ideas on how to better start a high base int character with no starting funding, im all ears.