Equipment Enhancement

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Most Equipment in MapleStory can be improved in several ways via: Scroll Enhancement, Star Force Enhancement, Potential, Bonus Stats, Soul Weapon Enchantment, and Exceptional Enhancement.

Scroll Enhancement

Main article: Scroll Enhancement

Equipment with Scroll Enhancements available can be upgraded with Spell Trace Scrolls or Special Scrolls to greatly increase the stats of that Equipment, with higher level Equipment typically allowing for more Scroll Enhancements. Almost all Scrolls will consume a Scroll Enhancement for each enhancement attempt, with the exception of Potential Scrolls and Equipment Enhancement Scrolls.

In Heroic / Reboot Worlds, Scroll Enhancements are mostly disabled with the exception of Scrolls that do not consume Scroll Enhancements, such as Potential Scrolls.

Star Force Enhancement

Main article: Star Force Enhancement

A piece of equipment can be enhanced with Star Force Enhancement by paying a sum of Mesos. Enhancing equipment further increases some stats on that equipment.

When an item's stars decrease twice in a row, chance time activates, which guarantees the next enhancement attempt to succeed. The guaranteed attempt will only apply to the item that is currently being enhanced.

Superior Equipment are rare pieces of equipment that gain massive stats from enhancing, but will be a lot more expensive and risky.

Unlike scrolling where the player can choose different scrolls or Spell Trace options, enhancing always adds a pre-set amount of stats to the player's item. The stats affected and the amount they are increased are based on both the type of equip the player is enhancing and how many times it has been enhanced already. Fully enhancing the player's weapon is one of the most efficient ways to gain more attack or magic attack. Each enhancement made to a piece of equipment will add a star above its name.

For more information, please visit the Spell Trace and Star Force article on StrategyWiki.

Bonus Stats

Main article: Bonus Stats

Bonus Stats, also referred to as Flames or Additional Options, are additional stat values that can be added to equipment. The actual values are determined by the characteristics of the item receiving the bonus stats.

For more information, please visit the Bonus Stats article on StrategyWiki.

Potential

Main article: Potential

Equipment are frequently dropped with hidden potential and those that do not can be given potential using a Potential Scroll, Epic Potential Scroll, Unique Potential Scroll, or Legendary Potential Scroll.

There are two sub-systems of potentials: the Main Potential and the Bonus Potential. Each kind of potential can have two or three separate lines of stat value. In most cases, an item must already have the main potential before it can receive the bonus potential. The sole exception is if an equipment was created via Equipment Fusion, where there is a chance for the new item to receive only the Bonus Potential.

Potentials are also divided into various tiers of increasing stat value. These tiers, in order of increasing value, are: Rare, Epic, Unique, and Legendary.

In Heroic / Reboot Worlds, the Bonus Potential System has been disabled.

Soul Weapon

Main article: Soul Weapon

Soul Weapon is a weapon upgrade system that uses Souls to boost a weapon's stats. Players have to collect Soul Shards from Boss Monsters and combine them into Souls to upgrade their weapons.

Exceptional Enhancement

Main article: Exceptional Enhancement

Exceptional Enhancement is a system used to enhance accessories that are part of the Pitched Boss Set and Brilliant Boss Set. It can be accessed by using an Exceptional Hammer or by speaking to the Wandering Blacksmith in certain major towns.