Stat Terms

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Fame

A vanity stat that does not affect your character and is only relevant in a social aspect

Damage (Range)

Your damage range which Skills use to calculate the damage they deal. The first number is your minimum damage and the second number is your maximum damage. When you attack, your damage will be between these two values

People will normally use this for benchmarking progression but it can be highly inaccurate since there are many other stats and factors that contribute to the actual amount of damage you do and your DPS

Weapon Mastery

A stat gained from Passive Skills that reduces the distance between your minimum damage range and maximum damage range. In short, Weapon Mastery stabilizes your range by increasing your minimum damage range

STR, DEX, INT, LUK (AP)

Stats that your Damage scales from - a stat used in the calculation of Damage. For most classes, you will have a Main Stat and a Secondary Stat. However, Main Stat contributes the most to your Damage and is your main priority compared to Secondary Stats. There are some classes like Demon Avenger that's Main Stat is HP and scales off of it. As well, these stats also increase your Defense stat

Some sources of these stats come from Leveling Up, %Stats from Potentials, Star Force + Scrolls (Spell Trace), Hyper Stats and Passive Skills

In general when you Level Up, you can use the Auto-Assign feature to allocate your AP

Attack + Magic Attack

Attack is another important stat that your Damage scales from. Like AP stats, Attack is used in the calculation of Damage

Some sources of these stats come from %Attack from Potentials, Star Force + Scrolls (Spell Trace), Hyper Stats, Passive Skills and Potion Buffs

Damage Bonus (%Damage)

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Damage_to_Normal_Monsters

A stat used in the formula calculation of Damage (Range). This stat does not provide much of a Damage increase compared to other stats

A good analogy to understand Damage is:

"Atk% and Damage % are multipliers with each other.

Easy way to think of it is to imagine your damage output is the area of a rectangle. To maximize this area (damage output), you want to increase the length (atk%) and width (damage%) of the rectangle as much as possible right? You also want to think about balancing the length (atk%) and width (damage%) to be as similar to each other as possible, in order to maximize the area.

A 19"x1" rectangle only has 19 in² of area covered, but a 10"x10" square has 100 in² of area covered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/45g9b0/attack_vs_damage/czxri0d

Final Damage

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Final_Damage

A stat that affects the actual calculated Damage (Range) you see in your Character Stat UI. As implied by the name, it is not used in the actual calculation of the Damage but instead after all calculations have been done which makes the stat very important and useful

Boss Damage

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Damage_to_Boss_Monsters

Similar to %Damage but only applied to Boss Monsters. It is added to %Damage in calculations

Ignore Defense + Enemy PDR/MDR

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Ignore_DEF

Ignore Enemy Defense (IED) is a stat used to ignore an enemy's PDR/MDR (Physical/Magical Defense Resistance). PDR/MDR is an enemy stat that reduces your damage, think of it as the opposite of %Final Damage

For example, if an enemy has 50% PDR/MDR and you have 0% IED, your %Final Damage is reduced by 50%. If you have 90% IED, the enemy only has 10% of its original PDR/MDR which is now 5% so your %Final Damage is only reduced by 5%

Now, if an enemy has 300% PDR/MDR (which most Lv. 200+ bosses have) and you have 0% IED, your %Final Damage is reduced by 300%. If you have 90% IED, the enemy will only reduce your damage by 30%. This is why for bosses with higher PDR/MDR, every percent of IED counts

Note: IED is calculated multiplicatively. This means that you will see diminishing returns if you have too many sources of IED. This is the case especially if the sources provide marginal IED. Optimally, you want large sources of IED and fewer sources of IED. Additionally, it is impossible to obtain 100% IED because of the multiplying property

A visualization of IED calculation is: [Source 1 x Source 2 x Source 3 x ... x Source n]

IED is irrelevant against normal enemies as most only have 10% PDR/MDR

Ignore Elemental Resistance + Elemental Resistance

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Monster_Elemental_Resistance

Elemental Resistance is another stat like PDR/MDR which reduces your %Final Damage

To understand Elemental Resistance, better, we need to explain the forgotten mechanic called Elemental Attributes. Each Active Attack Skill in MapleStory has an Element, such as Fire, Ice, Poison, Lightning, Holy, Dark, and lastly Physical. The most important element to note is Physical which most damaging Skills are regardless of what class you are. In old MapleStory, certain monsters were weak against certain elements or resistant against others but nowadays most monsters are neutral to all Elements (0% Final Damage reduction). The only exception to this is bosses which are resistant to all elements which include the Physical element. This means that bosses can reduce your %Final Damage by 50%

Players also have an Elemental Resistant stat but is irrelevant as enemies do not deal Elemental Damage (including Physical)

Ignore Elemental Resistance is used to ignore an enemy's Elemental Resistance. However, the calculation of the reduction is multiplicative rather than subtractive. For example, 10% Ignore Elemental Resistance will reduce the %Final Damage penalty to 45% rather than 40% (50 * 0.9)

Critical Rate

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Critical_Rate

The chance for your attack to be a Critical Hit

Critical Damage

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Critical_Damage

The damage multiplier that is used when you land a Critical Hit. The value that you see in the Character Stat UI is added to a Lower Critical Damage (20%) and a Higher Critical Damage (50%) multiplier. Whenever you land a Critical Hit the damage multiplier will be between these two values

Abnormal Status Resistance

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Abnormal_Status_Resistance

A stat that reduces the duration of Abnormal Statuses (debuffs) inflicted on you. The higher the value, the shorter Abnormal Statues are

Knockback Resistance (Stance)

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Knockback_Resistance

A stat that determines the chance of resisting getting knocked back when hit by a monster. There are certain attacks and maps that can ignore Knockback Resistance and still push you back. As well, there are Super Knockbacks that pushes you back and leaves you briefly immobile

There are certain classes and skills that have Super Knockback Resistance that can prevent being knockbacked by all sources. An example of this is Skill Enhanced Specter State Enhanced Specter State and Skill Sudden Strike (Hayato) Sudden Strike

Defense

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Defense

A stat used to calculate the damage you take from enemies. However, this stat is not as important past Lv. 200 since most monsters in the Arcane River will deal 1 HP damage to you with enough Arcane Power. Additionally, most bosses deal %Max HP damage instead which ignores the DEF stat

Speed (Movement Speed)

Stat that determines how fast your character moves

Jump

Stat that determines how high your character can jump

Star Force

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Star_Force_Maps

An accumulated stat from your equipment's total Star Force enhancement count. Star Force stat is used primarily for Star Force maps which are areas with higher HP monsters but give tremendously more EXP compared to regular maps

Star Force maps have a minimum required amount of Star Force to deal 100% Damage to enemies in the map

Note: You can only see the Star Force stat Lv. 100 and above

Arcane Power (AF)

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Arcane_Force_Maps

Eqp Arcane Symbol: Vanishing Journey Arcane Symbol: Chu Chu Island Eqp Arcane Symbol: Lachelein Eqp Arcane Symbol: Arcana Eqp Arcane Symbol: Morass Eqp Arcane Symbol: Esfera

An accumulated stat from Arcane Symbols that you obtain from Arcane River areas. Like Star Force, Arcane Power is used primarily in the Arcane River areas to deal damage to enemies in the area

Arcane Power maps have a minimum required amount of Arcane Power to deal 100% Damage to enemies in the map. Higher amounts of Arcane Power allows you to deal increased damage up to 50% more

From Arcane Symbols, you can have a maximum of 1320 AF and 13.2k Main Stat for most classes. There is also a Hyper Stat that increases your Arcane Power as well

Item Drop Rate

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Drop_Rate_Stacking

A special stat that increases the drop rate of items. However, there are some items that are affected less than others or even not affected at all from Drop Rate increases

Item Drop Rate accumulates additively although effects from Cursed Runes and Event Drop Rate increases are multiplicative. Item Drop Rate can be increased up to +400% however, there are two types of Drop Rate increases, one category that can only accumulate for a maximum of 200% increase and another category that can be stacked without a limit.Drop Rate increases from potential lines on equipment are included in the second category

Note: The details of how Item Drop Rate is currently calculated are unknown and still being debated what the max Item Drop Rate is and if Drop Rate from potential lines are capped or not. The info will be updated whenever more concrete info is available. Potentially, GMS and KMS may have different Item Drop Rate formulas

EXP Rate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y17ktmVkiYQ

A special stat that increases the EXP gained from defeating enemies. This does not affect fixed EXP gains like quest reward EXP

In GMS, EXP Rate increases are a mix of both multiplicative and additive - the product of the multiplicative part is summed with the additive rates

There is no hard cap for how much EXP Rate increases you can gain but for a guide to EXP stacking, check out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/4j64v3/gms_exp_stacking_guide/

Note: In some servers, EXP Rate increases are additive. For example, in GMS, 2x means 2x but in other servers, it means +100% EXP. As well, 1.5x in other servers mean +50%. You'd expect 2x and 1.5x would accumulate to 3x but it could potentially only be +150% (2.5x)

Meso Rate

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formulas#Meso_Drop

A special stat that increases the amount of Meso dropped from defeating enemies. The increase is summed additively and has a max limit of +300%

The minimum Mesos dropped is 6 x Monster Level and with the 300% Meso Rate increase, the maximum Mesos dropped is 9 x Monster Level. However, in Reboot World, enemies drop 5x the amount compared to Interactive Worlds (the values shown above)

EXTRAS:

Stat Comparison Calculator: tiny.cc/maplestorycalculators

Credits:

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Formula