Combat Basics

At a glance

Loot owner	The player who dealt the most damage, for 15 seconds
Drops on the ground	Gone after 3 minutes
HP recovery	Every 10 seconds, only while you stand still
MP recovery	Every 10 seconds, even in a fight
Spawns	Each channel has its own monsters

Combat Basics explains the rules behind every fight: whether your hits land, how monsters hit back, how HP and MP come back, how buffs and debuffs combine, and who gets the EXP and drops from a kill. For what happens when your character falls, see Death and Revival.

Hitting and being hit

Your attacks are checked against the monster's avoidability, with the usual penalty for level differences. Magicians have their own accuracy: INT divided by 10, plus LUK divided by 10, rounded down. Every monster's page has an Accuracy needed table showing how much you need at your level. With Magic Guard, the number over your head shows the whole hit, both the HP part and the MP part.

Monsters check their attacks against your avoidability:

• A dodged attack does no damage and no knockback.
• Monster magic ignores avoidability, so it cannot be dodged.
• Dodging does not make you briefly invulnerable.
• Your avoidability comes from LUK, DEX and the avoid of your gear. LUK counts for more than DEX.
• Thieves dodge roughly 25 to 30% of attacks from monsters of their own level. Warriors dodge very little. Against monsters well below your level, you dodge most of their attacks.

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Different from the original game Dodging uses an avoidability formula that MapleVerse rebuilt itself, so exact dodge chances may differ from the original game.

Monsters that do not chase

Snail, Blue Snail, Pig and Orange Mushroom are passive monsters. They never chase you, even after you hit them, and they do not run away because of their health. Aggressive monsters do chase. Every monster decides about every 1.6 seconds whether to stand still or walk left or right, so a passive monster may wander off on its own.

Knockback

Monsters push you back with a short shove, a small hop rather than a long throw. Walking into a monster softens the push. Monsters with real knockback attacks, such as Beef Eaters, still throw you hard.

Breakables, reactors and meteorites

• Reactors have no HP. Each hit moves a reactor on to its next state, shown by a change in its art and a hit sound. There are no damage numbers.
• Breakable objects, such as hanging watermelons, can be hit by ranged weapons when you stand right next to them. Bows, crossbows, claws and guns swing their weapon at the object from there.
• Meteorites cannot be broken. In the meteorite sample quest, click each one with the mouse. The talk key does not work on them.

HP and MP recovery

HP

• HP comes back every 10 seconds, but only while you stand still. Attacking, or being hit, restarts the 10-second timer.
• Sitting on a chair speeds up recovery.
• Endure lets you recover HP while you are on a rope or ladder.
• Recovered HP shows as a blue number over your head. Only you can see it, and nothing shows at full HP.

MP

• MP comes back every 10 seconds, even while you fight. It refills without a number.
• Sitting on a chair speeds up MP recovery too.
• Improved MP Recovery adds extra MP on every 10-second tick. Each tick gives (skill level x character level x 0.1) + 3 MP, rounded down, and a single tick is capped at 115 MP. At character level 9 with 3 points in the skill, one tick gives 5 MP.

Buffs, debuffs and status effects

• Attack and defence buffs add together. Each different skill counts once, plus your single strongest potion or pill. Casting the same skill again refreshes it instead of adding a second copy.
• Speed and jump buffs do not add together. Only the strongest one counts.
• Monster cards only work inside that card's own hunting area. Speed, jump and item buffs do not add up, so Haste, a speed potion, another card or a mount can hide a +3 card.
• A monster's dispel removes only the buffs from your skills. It leaves potions and food alone, such as Onyx Apples.
• Status effects such as poison, stun, seal and curse show as icons on your character. Cure items, such as the All Cure Potion and Holy Water, work as they do in the original game. For what each status does, see Boss Rules.
• Bosses cannot be poisoned.
• Reflecting and blocking monsters show a shield over their heads while the effect is active. Stop attacking when the shield appears.

EXP and loot

Loot

• The player who dealt the most damage to a monster owns its drops for 15 seconds. Their party members can pick the drops up straight away. After 15 seconds, anyone can.
• Items that a player drops from their own bag can be picked up by anyone straight away.
• Drops left on the ground disappear after 3 minutes.
• The drops of the biggest bosses, such as Zakum and Horntail, are open to everyone as soon as the boss falls. Other bosses are covered on Boss Rules.

EXP

• A monster killed by a party shares its EXP with the party members who are on the same map and eligible for that kill. See Party.
• Kills made by your party, and monsters you helped hit, count towards quests for party members who share the EXP on the same map.
• A solo kill pays EXP according to the share of the monster's HP you dealt. Melee hits count towards that share.
• Bosses pay EXP by the damage each player dealt. See Boss Rules.

Channels

Each channel has its own monster spawns.

Common problems

Why did you miss a monster that looked easy to hit?

Every hit is checked against the monster's avoidability, with the usual penalty for level differences. For Magicians, accuracy comes from INT and LUK.

Why is the number over your head bigger than the damage you took?

With Magic Guard, the number shows the whole hit, the HP part and the MP part together.

Why isn't your HP going up while you fight?

HP only comes back while you stand still. Attacking or being hit restarts the 10-second timer. MP keeps coming back during the fight.

Why does the snail run away when you hit it?

It does not run away because of its health. Snails, Blue Snails, Pigs and Orange Mushrooms wander about and never chase you, even after a hit.

Why did the monster push you so far?

Monsters normally give only a short shove. Walking into a monster softens the push. Some monsters with real knockback attacks, such as Beef Eaters, still throw you hard.

Why can't you take this drop? Someone else killed the monster.

For 15 seconds after the kill, only the player who dealt the most damage, and their party, can take its drops. After that, anyone can.

Why is a monster you killed on one channel still there on another?

Each channel has its own monster spawns.

Why does your monster card bonus do nothing?

A card's bonus only counts inside that card's own hunting area. Only the strongest speed, jump or item buff counts, so a stronger buff can hide the card's bonus.

Why does your ranged weapon do nothing to the watermelon?

Ranged weapons only swing at a breakable object when you stand right next to it.

Why can't you poison this boss?

Bosses cannot be poisoned.

Why does the reactor not show any damage?

Reactors have no HP. Each hit moves them on to the next state, so watch for the change in their art.

See also

• Death and Revival
• Boss Rules
• Party
• Bosses