MapleStory: Encyclopedia II - MapleStory - Monsters

MapleStory - Monsters

Monsters residing on the beginner island (Maple Island) are suited best to beginners, just as Victoria and Ossyria monsters are to higher levels.

Killing monsters gives the player experience, common drops (leftovers from the monsters), ores (used to make items), equipment, quest items(for certain types of quests) useable drops (potions, throwing-stars, etc) and during certain periods of time, "set-up" (event) items that are mainly decorations. The value of the drops tends to increase with the level of the monster though some lower level enemies drop items that have very high market values.

Some monsters are more vulnerable to certain elemental attacks. For example, fire boars are weak against ice-elemental attacks, while undead monsters such as zombie lupins are weak against holy attacks.

Other monsters are more or less vunerable to the type of attack, wheather it be weapon attack or magic attack. For example, a Sentinel (a monster residing in the Orbis Tower) is very armored against weapon attacks, making it hard for most characters other than mages to defeat.

And, other monsters, such as Jr. Boogies, when missed while attacking, effect the attacker in ways such as, unable to jump, or slowly loses HP (hit-points). This makes some monsters particularly dangerous.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Monsters", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki