MapleStory Hyper Stats Guide and Calculator - Games Finder (2024)

Last Updated on December 27, 2023 by Samuel Franklin

Optimising your MapleStory hyper stats is an important step to maximising your damage output but it can be difficult to find the perfect setup. In this hyper stats guide I provide powerful cost-effective allocation principles that players can apply to have an effective setup which will limit the number of hyper stat resets and save you Mesos.

This guide also includes an overview of the system mechanics, the best hyper stats to invest in for training and bossing, a general approach to hyper stats allocation and how to use community hyper stat calculators for players that want to min-max their character power. This information is based on my thousands of MapleStory gameplay hours and levelling over 40 different characters with their own hyper stat allocations.

Table of Contents:
– Hyper Stats Overview
– Best Hyper Stats Tier List
– Hyper Stats Allocation Guide
– Hyper Stats Calculator

MapleStory Hyper Stats Overview

This section provides a summary of the hyper stat system and should be read in conjunction with the hyper stats wiki page.:

• Players will earn hyper stat points from level 140 onwards with all characters having the same hyper stat options.
• Hyper stat points are separate to your other attribute points (AP) and spent in the hyper stat window on unique hyper stats.
• Initially for each character level gained players will gain 3 hyper stat points with this amount increasing by 1 every 10 levels.
• The number of hyper stat points required to boost a hyper stat increases as the hyper stat value increases.
• The majority of hyper stats can be increased to a max level of 15 although a small number have a max level of 10.
• Players can have hyper stat presets (up to 3) which cost 2 million Mesos to switch between. As a result it is common for players to have both a training and bossing preset.
• A hyper stat preset can be reset for 10 million Mesos.

MapleStory Best Hyper Stats Tier List

The best hyper stats are noted below in a hyper stat tier list structure with ratings from S to A, B, C and D with a separate rating for training and bossing as these have different stat priorities. This is a general guide only of how powerful each stat is and will vary slightly depending on your class and progression in other MapleStory game elements. It is applicable for both Reboot and normal servers as the differences between these servers are not material enough to impact hyper stat point allocation. For guidance on how to allocate hyper stats and the critical decision points involved refer the hyper stats allocation guide after this tier list table.

• S Tier – Useful in almost all situations and classes as it will provide the best damage or utility increase to your intended purpose (training or bossing).
• A Tier – Provide a solid boost your MapleStory character although can’t quite compete with the power of S tier options.
• B Tier – Useful in specific circ*mstances and will need to carefully be considered before investing hyper stat points here as they may not always be applicable to you.
• C Tier – Niche options and hyper stats that simply don’t offer a significant gain for points invested that are only viable when other tiers become too expensive.
• D Tier – Not used as they offer little to no benefit.

The detailed reasons behind these hyper stat ratings is as follows:

• STR/DEX/INT/LUK/HP%/MP%: These are a C tier option when it is your primary class stat as this has a small impact on overall damage. While you will invest some hyper stat points here eventually there are other priority hyper stat damage options that come first.
• DF/TF/PP/Mana: A class dependent hyper stat that provides certain classes with unique resources for their skills higher maximum values. This boosts Demon Fury (Demon Slayer), Time Force (Zero), Psychic Points (Kinesis) or Mana (Kanna). Demon Slayer and Kanna particularly benefit from this boost to maximise their damage or utility while Zero and Kinesis are less reliant on this to perform their core combos.
• Critical Rate: Critical rate from hyper stats should be used to help you reach that important 100% critical rate milestone alongside other critical rate sources that are available (such as Link Skills or Legion). A common mistake is players reaching 100% critical rate without any investment in hyper stats as this means you are likely relying too much on other mechanisms to provide critical rate at the cost of better options. A common example of this is players using the Phantom link skill for the 15% critical when this could be swapped out for a stronger link skill (if available) and a level 10 critical rate hyper stat providing the same 15% benefit. If you are a bowman in 5th job you can go beyond the 100% threshold to improve your burst potential with Vicious Shot for bossing if required.
• Critical Damage: Critical Damage is a significant damage boosting stat with only a few sources and so it is a priority hyper stat to optimise damage output.
• IED: Ignore Enemy Defence is vital for bossing as it allows for a higher portion of your damage to penetrate the boss defences although has no effect on training. While not as limited in terms of sources as critical damage the mid to end game bosses of MapleStory require you to utilise every IED source possible.
• Damage: A straightforward damage boost that isn’t as strong as some other damage options but applies in both bossing and training scenarios.
• Boss Damage: Similar to damage above but only applies to bosses.
• Status Resistance: Historically (before the 2016 V MapleStory Patch) this provided a chance to dodge status resistance entirely and was thus a reasonably popular option. However, currently status resistance only reduces the time you are inflicted by a status effect which is not worth taking over other available damage focused options.
• Knockback Resistance: If you are a class that already has high stance (80%+) this can be a good option to reach the 100% mark permanently for boss fights.
• Attack / Magic Attack: Similar to obtaining your primary stat this source is useful to increasing damage but is simply outshined by obtaining other damage boosting options from hyper stats first.
• Bonus Experience: When players comfortably have the damage required for their current training location you can consider investing points here to boost experience gains while training.
• Arcane Force: Similar to bonus experience Arcane Force is one that will be based on your particular account progression. Investment here can be useful when it allows you to unlock bonus damage on your current training map or allows you to do daily activities that would be impossible otherwise.
• Normal Monsters Damage: Another account dependent hyper stat for boosts to training if it allows you to regularly one hit monsters you are currently training at but is not necessary if you have already reached this point.

MapleStory Hyper Stats Allocation Guide

With the above best hyper stats you might be wondering how to invest your hyper stat points for maximum efficiency. Given every MapleStory account will be different given class, equipment, link skills and legion the only way to be certain in your hyper stat investment is to use a MapleStory hyper stat calculator although these take a significant amount of time to use.

For Maplers that want a simple approach to maximising hyper stat benefits you can apply the below steps based on the tier list ratings above (either training or bossing as appropriate). I recommended that players have a preset for both training and bossing to switch between as appropriate. With this approach below you’ll likely gain the majority of the benefits from your hyper stats without having to repeatedly use a calculator. This order is based on the significant diminishing returns of hyper stat point spending that occurs at level 5 and 10.

1. Level everything rated tier S or A at level 5
2. Level everything rated tier S or A at level 10
3. Level any B or C rated hyper stats to level 5 that benefit you (e.g. don’t invest into critical rate if you don’t need it and don’t invest in a non primary stat)
4. Level all S tier hyper stats towards maximum level

Hyper Stats Calculators

With the complexity of true optimisation of hyper stats many in the MapleStory community have created their own calculators which with significant input of your account information can recommend the mathematically perfect hyper stat point allocation. I personally recommend SuckHard or DelusionDash hyper stat calculations for those wishing to go down this calculation based path.

When using these calculators though it is important to be aware that they take serious time investment to use and only deliver an optimised hyper stat result at that point of time which will quickly require recalculation if you change anything related to your character. This makes MapleStory end game progression a good time to use these calculators as you are unlikely to make significant changes to your character and before this point you can use my simplified hyper stat point allocation process above.