Increase EQ & Potion drop rates from Normal Mobs

Sorry to see your poll isn't really turning out the way you would have probably liked to see it.
I think most people are voting 'No' because it's not really a problem people face when they become more acquainted with the game. Struggling to fight higher level mobs can initially be rough, but once you know where to find what you need (which can effectively be done here, it all becomes a lot easier.

 

good to see that other people enjoy the challenge. Ez games are no fun. also its annoying when ur item stash gets quickly filled up with random bs items, im just ocd like that.

 

Try these quests for mesos;
https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/money-making-quests-for-new-players.39247

 

maybe with more context we could help out?
i've played a page from lvl 1 to 71, didnt sell anything to anyone (only selling to npc, hence 'mesos quest' doesnt benefit me), carrying a 50 int stats, and have been doing fine mesos wise.

general tips for below 30 will be to sell ores to npc. the only valued ones u should keep imo is steel ore, miltril ore, power, dex and luk xtal ores, black and dark xtal ores. others are generally not really needed except for monster book ring.

i find if yr not selling ores, potions are really hard to keep up with, unless u do player-to-player trade (beg meso, sell fame, sell scrolls, setup stores etc), which will make mesos really easy to get buy, eso considering fame is 100k iirc.

above lvl 30, teddies will help to break even yr mesos as a melee. but if u have cleave (multi mob attacks), burning land V is the best. lots of spawns but mobs dont really hurt that much. drop rates for npcable equips are also pretty good. if u can lpq, its probably the best source of non-player based income. have someone to carry u while u go to bonus stage and collect colored capes. if u dont mind waiting, u can sell those capes at FM at a price higher den NPCs (70k probably possible)