
Item Drop Rate Increase - Increases the rate at which items drop when killing monsters.Meso Acquisition Rate Increase - Increases the amount of mesos rewarded from monster kills.EXP Increase - Increases the amount of experience gained through killing monsters.MP Recovery - Increases the amount of natural MP regeneration every 5 seconds.HP Recovery - Increases the amount of natural HP regeneration every 5 seconds.Increasing this stat raises the overall mana of a character. Increasing this stat raises the overall health of a character. These are character stats that are unrelated to ATK and DEF.Block Rate - This stat increases the fixed chance that enemies' attacks will be blocked.EVD increases with your character level, at a decreasing rate.

EVD - Increases the chance of evading the opponent's attack.Affects the chance of you nullifying damage dealt by an enemy.Crit DMG RES - Further decreases incoming damage by a certain percentage if Critica Resistance is successful.Crit RES - Increases the success rate of critical resistance.MAG DMG Decrease - Further decreases MAG DMG received by a certain percentage.PHY DMG Decrease - Further decreases PHY DMG received by a certain percentage.MAG DEF Increase - Increases MAG DEF by a certain percentage.PHY DEF Increase - Increases PHY DEF by a certain percentage.MAG DEF - Decreases DMG received from enemies' MAG ATK.PHY DEF - Decreases DMG received from enemies' PHY ATK.DEF (Stat) - DEF the character possesses (applies to PHY and MAG).Player DEF - Increases your DEF against other players' attacks.Boss DEF - Increases your DEF against boss monsters' attacks.Damage received from enemy attacks is reduced by increasing the following stats, as follows: × (1-DMG Decrease%/100).Defense affects a character's ability to withstand damage inflicted by enemies and bosses.Jobs that rely on MAG ATK: Bishop, Captain Jobs that rely on PHY ATK: Dark Knight, Bowmaster, Night Lord PHY ATK-based characters and MAG ATK-based characters have different jobs, so make sure you check beforehand! What jobs rely on PHY ATK? Which ones rely on MAG ATK? Penetration Rate (PEN rate) - Increases the fixed chance of penetrating (piercing a block) the opponent's evasion to land a hit on it.It increases with your character level, at a decrrasing rate. Accuracy (ACC) - Increases the chance of an attack landing on the opponent.It is affected by Accuracy and Penetration Rate. Affects the chance of landing a hit successfully on an enemy.Crit ATK - Critical Attack - Increases the amount of ATK when it is a critical hit.Crit DMG - Increases DMG by a certain percentage when it is a critical hit.Critical Rate increases with your character level, at a decreasing rate. Crit Rate - Increases the success rate of a critical hit.MAG DMG Increase - Further increases MAG DMG by a certain percentage.PHY DMG Increase - Further increases PHY DMG by a certain percentage.



DEF of both types will increase the constant by a small amount, not affected by DEF%.Different jobs will have a different base constant (as of now bowmaster seems to have the lowest base).It is also directly proportional to your assumed ATK (ATK including 20% of Crit ATK), not affected by ATK% or Crit Rate/Dmg).Combat power is directly proportional to HP, affected by HP%.It is affected by the job, ATK (the one that the job uses), PHY DEF, MAG DEF, HP and Crit ATK, as follows approximately: ((ATK+CritATK/5)×(HP)×(Constant) Shows the overall efficiency of your character. This guide will serve as a Character Stat Introduction in MapleStory M.Ĭharacter growth, equipment, and consumable items all affect the rates at which a character's stats increase, including Attack (ATK) and Defense (DEF).
