Where to hunt

The question that matters most in MU is not "what build do I make" — it is where am I hitting. Monsters at the right level pay; monsters far too weak pay almost nothing.

This is the whole list, with what each map has of its own.

The table

Level is the monster's, not yours. Entry is what /move charges: minimum level and zen. As a rule, hunt where the monster is close to your level.

Map Monster levels Entry Excellent What is special
Lorencia 2 – 19 lv 10 · 500 none where everyone starts
Noria 2 – 18 lv 10 · 500 none starter, and the Chaos Machine is here
Elbeland 2 – 48 lv 10 · 500 0.010% * starter, and it goes further than the other two
Devias 20 – 52 lv 20 · 500 0.010% * good zen for the level
Dungeon 19 – 55 lv 30 · 500 0.010% * first place with equipment worth keeping
Arena 70 – 102 lv 50 · 2,000 0.010% a duel map, not a hunting map
Atlans 43 – 74 lv 70 · 6,000 0.020% underwater
Lost Tower 47 – 66 lv 50 · 2,000 0.020% seven floors, each one deeper
Tarkan 72 – 93 lv 140 · 15,000 0.020%
Icarus 75 – 108 lv 170 · 25,000 · and wings 0.020% Loch's Feather drops here, at 0.10%
Aida 72 – 120 lv 150 · 15,000 0.035% and the Harmony NPCs are here
Land of Trials 75 – 128 lv 150 · 15,000 0.035% the only place you can hunt ancients
Kanturu 1 80 – 129 lv 160 · 15,000 0.035%
Kanturu 2 117 – 119 lv 160 · 15,000 0.035% Moonstone Pendant drops here, at 0.20%
Kanturu 3 event only lv 160 · 15,000 · and wings 0.035% Gemstone drops here, at 0.10%
Crywolf 97 – 134 free 0.035% the best material table on the server
Vulcanus 90 – 124 lv 30 · 500 0.050% high excellent rate and a cheap door
Swamp of Calmness 95 – 137 lv 400 · 40,000 0.050% and Medusa invades here
Karutan 1 99 – 114 lv 170 · 25,000 0.050%
Karutan 2 105 – 120 lv 170 · 25,000 0.050%
Raklion 102 – 148 lv 280 · 40,000 0.050% the only place that drops socketed items
Barracks 117 – 119 no entrance today 0.050% Condor Flame is on its table — see below
Refuge 118 – 128 no entrance today 0.050% the smallest map in the game
Kalima 1 to 7 17 – 147 by item 0.035% * seven tiers, entered with the Symbol of Kundun

* Excellent and ancient only drop from monsters level 25 and up. In Lorencia and Noria no monster reaches that: the rate is configured, but the game never gets to use it, and no excellent drops on those two maps. On the marked maps the rate only applies to the high part — the low-level monsters do not count.

None of that applies to jewels: jewels drop from monsters of any level, subject to each jewel's own minimum.

How to reach each one is in maps.

Wings, Dinorant or Fenrir to get in

Icarus and Kanturu 3 will not let you in on foot. Any of the three works: equipped wings, a Horn of Dinorant or a Horn of Fenrir. Without one of them /move refuses.

The three places that exist only once

If you want something specific, the map is not a choice:

What you want Only place
Ancient by hunting Land of Trials — 0.15% per kill. (Medusa gives them too, but by invasion)
Socketed items Raklion
Gemstone, which becomes Harmony Kanturu 3, and only during the Kanturu event

Material that drops on one map only

Item Where Chance What it is for
Splinter of Armor Crywolf 0.20% Fenrir
Bless of Guardian Crywolf 0.20% Fenrir
Claw of Beast Crywolf 0.20% Fenrir
Loch's Feather Icarus 0.10% second-generation wings
Condor Flame Barracks (closed) — in practice, the invasion's Pouch of Blessing 1 in 87 per pouch third-generation wings
Moonstone Pendant Kanturu 2 0.20% entering the Kanturu event
Gemstone Kanturu 3 0.10% becomes Jewel of Harmony

Crywolf has the best table on the server: 0.20% on each of the three, double the rate of a jewel.

Medusa, and the second road to ancients

Every four hours — at 01:00, 05:00, 09:00, 13:00, 17:00 and 21:00 — Medusa invades the Swamp of Calmness and stays 10 minutes.

She is level 175 with 7.8 million life, so she is not a one-person job. In exchange, her bag drops an ancient on roughly one kill in five — against 0.15% per monster in Land of Trials, that makes her the biggest ancient source on the server for anyone who can kill her.

See ancient sets.

The Pouch of Blessing, and Condor Flame

The other invasion worth putting on the clock brings the Pouch of Blessing — ten pouches in each of six maps (Lost Tower, Atlans, Tarkan, Aida, Kanturu 1 and Raklion), at 02:05, 06:05, 10:05, 14:05, 18:05 and 22:05.

Each pouch hands out one item drawn from a list of 87, and Condor Flame is one of them. Since Barracks has no open entrance today, this invasion is the only Condor Flame source that works — and without Condor Flame there are no third-generation wings.

Where you hunt does not change the jewel chance

This saves a lot of wasted hours: Bless, Soul, Life, Creation and Chaos drop on any map, at the same chance, as long as the monster is high enough level.

There is no "jewel map". What changes from map to map is the excellent rate, the ancient, the socket and the exclusive material in the list above. See jewels.

Raklion charges a hidden price

Raklion is the only place that drops socketed items — but its monsters resist common drops more than the rest of the game. The chance of ordinary gear falls from 15% to 10.7%. See what drops.

A trap after master level

The moment master level opens, monsters below level 95 stop giving experience. Not a little: zero.

If your bar simply stopped moving after the master opened, this is why. The maps open maps where every monster is above 95 are: Crywolf, Karutan 1 and 2, Swamp of Calmness, Raklion and Kanturu 2. Land of Trials, Kanturu 1, Icarus, Aida, Vulcanus and the high Kalimas work too, but only in the high part of the map.