Hello, I'm 마포감튀.

Building up your stats solo in MapleStory is rewarding,
but teaming up lets you reach higher-tier content faster—and have more fun along the way!
Tougher bosses can be hard to beat alone, whether you're short on damage or struggling with mechanics. With a friend, you can take them on for higher boss crystal profits and rare drops.
Today, I'll walk you through the boss system and share my experience with duo runs to show why they're more fun and efficient.

 

Why you should play with a friend!

Can an online RPG be a good place to progress alongside a friend?

In MapleStory, the answer is yes!!

With a friend by your side...

You can earn more from boss crystals!

You can aim for great item drops!

And if something good drops, you get to enjoy splitting the rewards with your friend!

Plus, you can take on bosses you can't beat alone!

With so many reasons to team up, why wouldn't you?

Running weekly bosses in MapleStory

In MapleStory, you can clear 12 bosses each week and collect rewards.

Defeating bosses gives you item drops and boss crystals.

As you can see, crystal prices vary by boss, with higher-tier bosses offering greater rewards.

That's why the key to weekly boss runs in MapleStory is choosing the 12 highest-tier bosses you can defeat.

Which bosses can I beat?

Start with lower-tier bosses and work your way up to get a sense of how far you can go.

To find the next step up from the bosses you're currently clearing, check the crystal prices...

or look at the boss content section in the Maple Guide, as shown here.

And... there's one more way!!

You can also check the boss percentages on a site called 환산주스탯.

These percentages aren't definitive, but they give you a rough idea of whether you can beat a boss with your current stats.

A rating of 100% here means someone with your stats could clear that boss.

With my mechanical skills... I usually need over 110% before I can manage a clear...

The boss crystal system

Crystal prices are based on solo clears. That base amount is split equally among everyone who defeated the boss, with each player receiving 1/n.

As of today, crystal prices are as follows.

Boss Name	Easy	Normal	Hard / Chaos	Extreme
유피테르	-	1.62 billion	4.85 billion	-
Baldrix	-	1.37 billion	3.08 billion	-
벨로나	440 million	850 million	2.95 billion	-
찬란한 흉성	-	630 million	2.68 billion	-
Limbo	-	1.03 billion	2.39 billion	-
Kaling	380 million	680 million	1.74 billion	5.39 billion
최초의 대적자	310 million	560 million	1.44 billion	4.71 billion
Kalos the Guardian	280 million	510 million	1.27 billion	4.14 billion
Chosen Seren	-	240 million	360 million	2.84 billion
Verus Hilla	-	71.2 million	110 million	-
Darknell	-	47.5 million	94.4 million	-
Will	32.3 million	41.1 million	77.1 million	-
Guardian Angel Slime	-	25.5 million	75.1 million	-
Gloom	-	44.0 million	69.8 million	-
Lucid	29.8 million	35.6 million	62.9 million	-
Lotus	-	16.7 million	51.5 million	570 million
Damien	-	17.5 million	48.9 million	-
Papulatus	-	-	13.1 million	-
Vellum	-	-	9.28 million	-
Magnus	-	-	8.56 million	-
Pierre	-	-	8.17 million	-
Von Bon	-	-	8.15 million	-
Crimson Queen	-	-	8.14 million	-
Zakum	-	-	8.08 million	-

For example, defeating Easy 벨로나 solo earns you 440 million,

while clearing it as a duo earns each player 220 million.

Which 12 bosses you clear—and how you clear them—makes a big difference to your weekly meso earnings.

Why teaming up with a friend pays off!

Based on my boss clear percentages on 환산주스탯, my stats still aren't high enough to beat Normal 대적자 or Normal Kalos.

But with my friend's help, I can clear both 대적자 and Kalos!!

After all that talk about mesos, you might wonder why I run Normal as a duo instead of Easy solo.

Well, I've never had one drop yet...

But there's a very small chance of getting a 생명념의 연마석!

And there's more! My percentage for 벨로나 is now over 110%, but it was below 100% during the first week of the 벨로나 update. By clearing 벨로나 with my friend back then, we each earned a hefty 220 million mesos!!

We're still sticking together for those runs.

On top of that...

Bosses like Kaling are extremely tough solo, but working together makes them a little easier to beat.

So we're also working hard to take down Kaling as a duo.

Who I'd recommend this to

I recommend party boss runs if the following sounds like you:

1. Your boss percentage on 환산주스탯 is around 80~100%.

2. You feel you'd never beat the boss alone, but a friend with similar stats would be just the help you need.

That's a pretty straightforward checklist, right?

Teaming up under these conditions is especially worthwhile for bosses you couldn't tackle before—it maximizes your weekly crystal earnings, too. So bring a friend and give those bosses a try!