General Strategy - Just like in other MMOs that feature an Auction house in some form, your goal is to buy stuff cheaply and sell said stuff with profit. The main thing to know about the MS 2’s Black Market is that most of the gear can be sold only once, so reselling it after a purchase is impossible. This limitation will force you to focus on consumables and item-enhancement resources, like Onyx. First of all, you have to do some price research, and check if there is any room to profit from flipping resources; you’ll want to check prices of all exceptional level 50 weapons and armor, and the price of Onyx. This sounds simple, but is not that straightforward and has to be made on regular basis. With all this all out the way, here is the strategy: Dismantling a level 50 Exceptional (Blue) item will give you 49 Onyx Crystals (with notable exception of knives and throwing stars which give you half less), knowing this you’ll want to do some basic math; if the price of an item is lower than the price of 49 Onyx Crystals + Market fee, you will profit from buying said item, dismantling it, and eventually selling Onyx Crystals. For this to be really profitable, you should aim to have at least a 15% profit from each item.

You can also buy and resell items like Snares, Solvents, Essences, Onyxes, and Keys, but this might be difficult, because of quite high Market fees. However, even with punishing Market fees, simple item-flipping has high Mesos-making potential.

1. Check the Onyx prices on a very regular basis, because they can change rapidly.
2. You can prepare a spreadsheet that will help you identify the minimal item price to Onyx price relation which will result in a worthwhile profit.
3. Get to know how the Black Market operates in order to speed up search and buyout processes. You should set up available item filters (Types, Job Requirements, minimal level needed etc.); basic search setup looks like that: Level 50 – MAX, Jobs – All Jobs, Name – Blank (do not write anything here), Type – Armor (or Weapons), Sub Type – Blank (or one subtype after the other if you are looking for weapons).
4. There are new auctions posted on the Black Market every minute, and the ones that present the highest profit possibilities will not stay up for long, so you should search the market in intervals (for example, you search all weapon and armor categories, dismantle bought items, post up Onyx Crystals, and then proceed to next search session, if your search sessions are about 15-20 minutes apart, new items should be available on the Market; remember to check Onyx prices before searching for items, to define your maximum buyout price each time!).
5. Try to time your market search sessions with prime server hours, because the more people online, the more new auctions created every minute.

1. After a boss is killed, pick your loot up quickly, and move away in order to switch channels.
2. Use available in-game commands to speed up the channel hopping process; the commands are as follows: /nextchan (used for switching channels downwards ch1ch2 etc), /prevchan (used for switching channels upwards ch2  ch2 etc), /movechannel # (used to switch current channel for the selected one; replace # with a channel number).
3. If you are not a premium member and have trouble relocating without a flying mount, you can set up portals leading to desired locations from your House via build mode.
4. If channel 1 if full, you can start your farm at a lower channel, and then proceed by using the /nextchan command; if you have a few minutes until spawn, you should instead spam /movechannel 1 command until you manage to get the 1st channel (do the same thing if more than one of the top channels is full).

1. You can dismantle unneeded Gear Drops for Onyx Crystals and sell them on the Black Marked for increased profit.
2. Looted Epic Gear is tradable and should be Black Marketed for a nice profit (remember to check prices before posting it!).
3. If you enjoyed farming in a certain group, you should try to make friends with those group members, this will assembling a good group in the future much easier.

1. If you don’t have much time every day, just focus on completing 3 Get Reach missions each day, because they will provide you with the highest profits.
2. There are 6 Daily Missions categories, and each of them provides you with 3 Daily Missions with awards that are category-specific. Check the possible awards before picking up a mission.
3. As the name suggests, those missions reset daily, and there is a limited amount of them, so they could be learned in order to speed up the completion process.

END NOTE

MapleStory 2 presents a lot of opportunities for Mesos-making, and we have featured just a little portion of them. Every MS 2 player will surely find his favorite way of earning a lot of Mesos without getting too exhausted or bored.

Please do note that this is an early version of our guide, and we will be happy to receive constructive criticism, that will help us improve it, so leave your suggestions in the comment section below. We also plan to add further Mesos-making activities to the list in the foreseeable future.