MapleStory Elite Monsters Guide

What are Elite monsters? Monsters that are bigger and stronger than their regular selves. They drop better items, gives more EXP and have more HP than your usual mob. Is it worth it to hunt them, and how do you encounter them in the first place?

To summon an Elite monster, you have to kill a lot of regular mobs, however you'll have to be around the map's recommended level (up to 10 levels higher than the recommended level), or else it won't appear at all.

Some field bosses may appear as Elite monsters as well, such as Lyka (from what I've seen at least).

After killing many Elite monsters, you might have the chance of fighting an Elite boss. They are based on the basic five classes (Warrior, Magician, Thief, Bowman, and Pirate).

Once an Elite boss appears, a message is sent to everyone near the zone the Elite boss appeared in.

The Elite boss is VERY powerful, unless you're strong, it is recommended to bring people with you.

Thanks to Luna PrincessNinjato for the video.

If you manage to kill an Elite boss, you'll be sent to a bonus zone where you can get lots of goodies! Good luck and happy hunting!

Thanks to OdysseyTwo, Xenomata, and KamiNoBeniMizu (It's me!) for the prefixes.

Sorry for taking so long for posting it on my blog, kinda forgot about it... -_-

Description from OdysseyTwo

Elite Monsters and Elite Bosses have prefixes that give them a random effect. This thread is a guide that tells you which prefix does what. (If there are prefixes I missed or I made an error, feel free to reply and I will update the list.)

NOTE:In case you're wondering, buffs are applied to the monsters and debuffs are applied to the players facing the monsters.

Buffs:

Speedy-Increases Speed

Beefy-Increases Weapon Defense

Magic Resistant-Increases Magic Defense

Powerful-Increases Weapon Attack

Healer-Recovers HP by a large amount but takes a very long time to cast

Solid-Gives Critical Armor which blocks all non-critical hits

Invincible-Takes no damage for a while

Reflective-Gives Damage Reflect

Commanding-Creates a blue aura that grants a random buff when monsters are in the aura

Black Chains-Adds an attack with danger areas

Debuffs:

Sticky-Causes Slow which drops your speed to 80%

Fragile-Causes Weakness which prevents jumping

Shadowy-Causes Fear of Darkness which reduces your vision

Befuddling-Causes Confusion which reverses your movement keys

Magnetic-Causes Magnetized which draws you to the monster

Gassy-Creates a Poison cloud that damages you when you are in the cloud

Overwhelming-Causes Shadow of Darkness which deals damage if you do not move

Poisonous-Causes Poison which deals damage over time but at a very low rate

Evasive-Causes Blindness which makes you miss often if you are not a Magician

Seal Master-Causes Seal which disables your skills

Transformative-Can transform you into a pig which will render you helpless

KO-Causes Stun which stops your movement and skills

Accursed-Causes Curse which reduces your EXP gain by 50%

Magic Eater-Dispels buffs from players

Undead-Causes Undead which cuts your potion recovery by 50%

Dry-Causes Potion Lock which prevents potion usage

Petrifying-Causes Bind and you must press < and > alternately to break free

Seductive-Causes Seduce which locks your control of your character

Debilitating-Creates a dark aura that causes a random debuff when you are in the aura