MapleStory Boss Ranges Guide (Reboot & Normal)

Last Updated on July 15, 2023 by Samuel Franklin

MapleStory Boss Ranges Guide (Reboot & Normal)

Our MapleStory boss ranges guide equips you with the necessary knowledge you need to defeat the ever increasing difficulty of boss challenges that MapleStory throws at you. Whether you’re on Reboot or the normal servers having a reference point for when you should be looking to challenge each boss can assist with your broader progression plans and prevent you wasting your time or boss reset attempts.

This is particularly important on the Reboot server where obtaining boss drops for yourself are vital to your character power and moving to the next boss stepping stone. The aim of this article is to provide a guide and reference point that you can regularly refer to in reaching your MapleStory boss and general progression goals.

MapleStory Boss Ranges Overview

While the concept of boss range charts in MapleStory is widely requested and discussed in the community they are inherently an imperfect tool given the vast game mechanics and classes available.

When reading the detailed table below you should keep in mind that it is a general representation of what is required and cannot take into account your specific MapleStory character class, your Legion setup, available Link Skills, hyper stat points and of course your own mechanical ability. Higher damage for boss fights is of course always useful as it lowers the effective time to kill the boss and means less opportunity to make mistakes that might lead to a failed attempt. Damage is not the only deciding factor though and thus the damage numbers here are designed only to be a guide for the minimum to comfortably defeat each boss.

With this in mind this boss range guide has been designed to offer players multiple reference points beyond solo range to give you a broader guide to your progression through the boss difficulty list. You don’t have to hit all of these for a chance at a successful boss kill though. The different metrics used in this guide below are:

• Level: Level is an important consideration of whether or not you are ready to face the next boss. Not only does this drive your base main stat (STR, DEX, LUK or INT) obtained from ability points before bonuses it also impacts the skills you’ll have available. Most importantly though the closer you are to the actual boss level the less damage reduction you’ll receive, which is particularly potent on Reboot servers.
• Damage Range: A good initial checkpoint to see if you are in the right league of the boss you intend to fight. What is range? This should be your fully buffed damage numbers shown on your character stat window. You could fight these bosses earlier in a party by combining your damage ranges together. All the damage ranges in this guide are based on Reboot requirements which are often inflated compared to normal MapleStory servers due to the damage buff Reboot characters get per level. If you are on a Normal MapleStory server you can cut this damage range figure in half. Improving your damage range is significantly driven by your weapon, secondary and emblem potential with minor boosts coming from things like Inner Ability and other best in slot items (totems, titles, medals, etc.)
• Dojo Floor: The dojo floor that you can reach on your character. This is a useful alternative metric as it gives a consistent challenge for comparison and in my opinion is even more reliable than damage range.
• Main Stat: Given the importance of main stat in character progression in the MapleStory universe this is another useful checkpoint to your boss readiness status and is another quick option for comparison. This can also help gauge how far along you are with potential and Star Force on your gear which are both key to bossing (and training) power.
• Ignore Enemy Defence (IED) %: All your mid to late game bosses have a IED stat check almost built in and if you don’t hit a certain amount you’ll barely tickle them in terms of damage. Note that this should be your effective IED (also known as true IED) which is often higher than that shown in your stat window due to other sources of IED that aren’t included there. You can calculator your effective IED with this MapleStory utility calculator while the best ways to raise IED are Link Skills and Legion.
• Legion: Often closely tied with IED as this is one of the key drivers of Legion power this is included as it gives insight into both the amount of passive power you have available through the likes of IED, Boss Damage, Critical Chance and Critical Damage. It’s also a useful reference point for the Link Skills you might have available given an account with 6k Legion likely has the core Link Skills available.
• Skill Nodes/Boost Nodes: When you reach level 200 and take your fifth job advancement your damage can dramatically begin to climb as you start to use and unlock nodes. These come in the form of skill nodes which are new fifth job skills and boost nodes which boost your previous abilities power and adds additional utility like IED or targets hit. A number of 5/20 in the table below means you have all of your key fifth job skills at least level 5 and at least 20 boost levels to each of your key previous job abilities. Keep in mind that skill nodes cap at 25 and boost nodes cap at 50 before factoring in matrix points.

MapleStory Boss Range Chart/Table

This boss guide to required ranges and other metrics is presented based on the boss difficulty list order within MapleStory (bottom to top, left to right) and is for solo kills. To adjust for party split the required damage range across the number of party members (IED minimums though do not change based on your party numbers). It currently goes up to Easy Lucid as end game bosses from that point onwards have too many variables, party dynamics, mechanic skill levels and your own class considerations to even be remotely accurate.

Boss	Level	Damage Range	Dojo Floor	Main Stat	Effective IED	Legion	Skill/Boost Nodes
Zakum (Easy)	55	Any	Any	Any	Any	Any	N/A
Zakum (Normal)	100	25k	10F	Any	Any	Any	N/A
Papulatus (Easy)	130	250k	21F	4k	Any	Any	N/A
Magnus (Easy)	140	75k	15F	3k	Any	Any	N/A
Hilla (Normal) Von Leon (Easy)	120	100k	18F	3k	Any	Any	N/A
Horntail (Easy)	130	50k	15F	Any	Any	Any	N/A
Ranmaru (Normal) Horntail (Normal) Von Bon (Normal) Crimson Queen (Normal) Pierre (Normal)	160	100k	15F	2k	Any	Any	N/A
Vellum (Normal)	160	150k	20F	3k	Any	Any	N/A
Arkarium (Easy) Horntail (Chaos)	160	300k	24F	4k	Any	Any	N/A
Julieta Gollux* (Normal) Von Leon (Normal)	150	800k	28F	6k	Any	Any	N/A
OMNI-CLN Pink Bean (Normal)	180	250k	21F	4k	Any	Any	N/A
Magnus (Normal) Cygnus (Easy) Von Leon (Hard)	160	900k	29F	7k	Any	Any	N/A
Akarium (Normal) Papulatus (Normal)	170	2mil	34F	9k	85	4k	1/10
Ranmaru (Hard)	195	500k	26F	6k	Any	Any	N/A
Hilla (Hard)	200	1mil	30F	8k	85	4k	1/10
Pink Bean (Chaos) Cygnus (Normal) Von Bon (Chaos) Crimson Queen (Chaos) Pierre (Chaos) Zakum (Chaos) Princess No	210	1.5mil	31F	10k	85	4k	1/10
Vellum (Chaos)	210	2.5mil	34F	11k	90	4k	5/15
Magnus (Hard)	210	2mil	33F	11k	85	4k	5/15
Papulatus (Chaos)	210	3mil	40F	15k	90	6k	5/20
Lotus (Normal)	210	5mil	42F	17k	93	8k	20/40
Damien (Normal)	220	7mil	43F	20k	93	8k	20/40
Lucid (Easy)	230	8.5mil	50F	22k	93	8k	20/40

*Hard Gollux (Hardlux) is approximately equivalent to Vellum (Chaos) while Hell Gollux (Hellux) is approximately equivalent to Lotus (Normal).

Written by

Samuel Franklin

Samuel Franklin is the founder and lead editor of the Games Finder team and enjoys video games across all genres and platforms.

Sam has played MapleStory since beta with thousands of Steam hours played and regularly returns to the game for the MMO progression curve, boss challenges and community it offers. His favourite class is his level 226 Night Lord for its fast ranged attacks and solo boss potential who is currently exploring the ends of the Arcane River while building up Legion characters on the Scania server.