MapleStory Calculator Glossary

One reference for the upgrade, probability, and progression terms used across MapleIsland's calculators.

Star Force

Boom: An enhancement failure that destroys the item and requires a replacement copy before enhancement can continue.
Safeguard: An optional extra meso payment that prevents destruction on eligible enhancement attempts.
Star Catching: The timing minigame that adds a success-rate bonus when completed.
Percentile: A planning threshold. A 75th-percentile cost means 75% of modeled runs finished at or below that amount.
Fodder: A lower-level item enhanced first and transferred into the target equipment to reduce the stars attempted directly on the expensive item.

Potential rank: The item's Rare, Epic, Unique, or Legendary tier.
Prime line: A line drawn from the selected rank's primary pool; later positions can instead draw a secondary line from a lower-rank pool.
Option set: One complete three-line result that you would accept.
Aggregate target: A minimum total across repeated stat rows in one option set.
Per-cube chance: The probability that one independent roll matches any accepted option set.
Cumulative chance: The probability of seeing at least one accepted result after a chosen number of independent rolls.

Bonus Stat: A green stat added to equipment by a flame.
Line and tier: A line is the selected stat category; its tier controls the line's strength.
Flame Advantage: A property that changes the supported line and tier behavior for advantaged equipment.
Flame score: A user-weighted total that expresses an item's Bonus Stats in main-stat equivalents.
Equivalence: The conversion assigned to Attack, All Stats, secondary stat, HP, or damage when calculating a flame score.
Flame source: The reroll or acquisition method whose tier and line distributions apply.

Skill Node: A HEXA node that unlocks or strengthens a Sixth Job skill.
Mastery Node: A class-specific node that improves existing skills.
Boost Node: A class-specific node that enhances designated attacks.
Common Node: A shared Sixth Job node available across classes, such as Sol Janus.
Sol Erda: One of the two resources spent to unlock and level HEXA nodes.
Sol Erda Fragment: The tradable or account-earned resource used alongside Sol Erda for HEXA upgrades.
HEXA Stat expected cost: The average Fragment requirement for probabilistic HEXA Stat enhancement when no resets are modeled.

Trace of Darkness: The currency spent to advance Genesis liberation missions.
Mission gate: The Trace cost and required solo boss challenge for one liberation step.
Bank cap: The maximum 3,000 Traces of Darkness a character can hold at once.
Genesis Pass: A temporary multiplier applied after an eligible party reward is split.
Weekly reset: The Thursday boundary when eligible weekly boss clears become available again.
Overflow: A reward portion that cannot be stored because the currency bank is full.

Adversary's Determination: The currency spent on Destiny Weapon missions.
First and Second Transcendence: Separate three-mission stages with different currency totals and bank caps.
Destiny Mode: A mission-specific solo challenge required for progression.
Party split: The base boss reward divided by party size and rounded down for each character.
Reset-by-reset schedule: A projection that orders income and mission events by their UTC reset dates.

Trace of Battle: The boss-earned currency spent on Astra missions, subject to a 1,000-Trace holding cap.
Vestige of Erion: The Astra resource earned from eligible Grandis dailies and boss coupon rewards.
Astra mission: One of three resource gates that grants or upgrades the Astra Secondary Weapon.
Weapon stage: The Astra Secondary Weapon I, II, or III version unlocked by quest progress.
Coupon allocation: The party-decided distribution of Vestige coupon bundles; equal shares are only a planning assumption.

Trace Restoration: The process of rebuilding eligible destroyed equipment with points earned from solo boss challenges.
Base difficulty: The single selected clear difficulty for a boss.
Modifier: An additional challenge condition that awards more restoration points.
Weekly Traces: Recurring restoration income after the selected Black Mage cadence adjustment.
Cadence: Whether Black Mage points count every week or are averaged across four weeks.
Restoration target: A supported item category paired with its fixed Trace cost.