Gear progression

Gear works like GMS, with a few Eden shortcuts. Here's the order most players follow.

1. Get the gear#

• Drops and quests carry you to level 100 or so. Monsters drop equipment at x2.
• Search any item in the Library to see which monsters drop it and how often.
• Boss equipment comes from bosses, and so do the Oz skill rings (Ring of Restraint, Weapon Jump and the rest), in ring boxes: see Oz rings from bosses.
• From level 190, weekly commissions pay for AbsoLab Coin and Stigma Coin: see section 7.

2. Scroll it with Spell Traces#

Spell Trace upgrades an item's slots with stats and attack. On Eden, traces are:

• dropped by every monster, in stacks, at x2 rate;
• sold by Nave for 8,000 mesos each.

Each attempt costs traces, more for higher-level items and lower success rates. A level 150 armor costs 192 / 252 / 312 traces at 100 / 70 / 30%, close to official MapleStory, so a 70% attempt is about 2M mesos at Nave's price. Check the trace count in the enhancement window before you commit.

3. Add potential#

Items without potential need a potential scroll:

4. Cube it#

Fredrick's workshop in the Free Market cubes your items for NX. A Red Cube costs 1,200 NX and a Bonus Potential Cube 2,400 NX. His AutoCuber keeps re-rolling until it hits the lines you asked for, for an extra NX fee. NX also drops from monsters (see Rates, burning maps & NX).

5. Event rings#

The 1-of-3 Event Ring Selector Coupon is a premium item: Ari in the Free Market sells it for 50,000,000 NX, and any single donation of more than $20 comes with one free (claim it from Ari). Use it to pick one of:

• Tenebris Expedition Ring
• Glory Guard Ring: Justicar
• Awake Ring

Upgrades for them:

The game client won't put potential on some event rings, including the Justicar. Fredrick can: his "Seal potential into an event ring" option uses a potential scroll on the ring server-side. After that, he cubes it like any other item.

6. Other Fredrick services#

• Enhance an item with Equip Enhancement Scrolls. Ari in the Free Market sells the Advanced one for 50,000 NX: +10% success over normal star force (it can still destroy the item).
• Restore a traced item: bring back an item that broke and left a trace, for NX.
• Raise Arcane Symbols: see Arcane River & symbols.

7. Weekly commissions#

From level 190, two NPCs hand out a weekly list of hunting commissions, GMS style. Turn each one in from your quest window when it's done. Every commission also gives EXP. New lists come out every Thursday 00:00 UTC, like GMS.

Those 20 are exactly what one coin costs: