MapleStory/Guard Captain Darknell

• Minimum Level: 255 or higher
• Additional Requirements: Completed Limina quests

Captain Darknell is a boss found at the end of Limina. Just after him, is the path to black mage directly. He is also the chief of Elite Bosses.

Entry Requirements

• Level 255 or higher
• Completed Limina quests
• Entry limitations
  • Entry is allowed once daily per mode if you did not take Captain Darknell down. (30 minute re-entry cooldown between modes)
  • Clear count is allowed up till once per week regardless of mode. Resets on Thursday midnight.
  • Practice mode is allowed 20 times daily (shared across all the bosses). No rewards (EXP, items, monster collection chance, quests) can be earned even if the boss is killed in practice mode.

Boss Data

• Overall time limit: 30 minutes
• Level: 265 (Character Level 270/275 or higher for 1.2x damage dealt in Non-Reboot/Reboot world respectively)
• Required Arcane Force: 850

Arcane Force	Damage dealt proportion
0~84	10%
85~254	30%
255~424	60%
425~594	70%
595~849	80%
850~934	100%
935~1,104	110%
1,105~1,274	130%
1,275 or higher	150%

• Story Mode HP: 21,000,000,000 (21 Billion)
• Normal Mode HP: 26,000,000,000,000 (26 Trillion)
• Hard Mode HP: 155,000,000,000,000 (155 Trillion)
• DEF: 300% throughout the battle (30% in Story Mode)
• Resists all elements, including Physical.
• Death Counts Allowed: 5 per person throughout the whole battle.
• Damage percentages are based on your HP.

Rewards

Captain Darknell drops the following items (definite drop unless specified)

• Glowing Soul Crystal (individual drop)
  • Max 180 per world weekly, limit resets on Thursday 12am
  • 5x value on Reboot servers
  • The entire service will be adjusted the same way, and adjustment happens every Thursday 12am
  • The price will be based on the time the crystal is obtained, not the time it is sold. You can check with NPC Collector to see the price and to sell the crystals.
  • Price shown are by solo standards. The actual price is inversely proportional to party size when entering the boss fight
• Suspicious Additional Cubes (Master Craftsman Cubes for Reboot Worlds)
  • 6 for Normal mode
  • 10 for Hard mode
• 14 Medal of Honor (gives 100~200 Honor Points when picked)
• 40 Power Elixirs
• 16 Flames of Desire (individual drop, tradable, collect 50 and combine with 1 untradeable essence of dark energy for an entrance item to black mage)
• Crusader Coins
• Up to 3 Captain Darknell's Soul Shard (individual drop, collect 10 to exchange for a random Captain Darknell Soul)
• (Hard Mode only) Commander Force Earrings (low drop chance, Level 200 Earrings, +7 all stats, +500 HP and MP, +5 ATT and Magic ATT, +100 DEF, 6 upgrade slots before hammer)
• (Hard mode only) Arcane Umbra Armor Box, Arcane Umbra Weapon Box (untradeable, expires in 7 days, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive. Resulting item is tradable until equipped and does not expire)
• Yellow Cube (very low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects, expires in 7 days)
• Blade of Chaos (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects)
• Crimson Resurrection Flame (very low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, expires in 7 days)
• Rainbow Resurrection Flame (very low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, expires in 7 days)
• Black Resurrection Flame (very low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, expires in 7 days)
• Unextinguished Flame (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects)
• Never-extinguishing Flame (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects)
• Black Never-extinguishing Flame (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects)
• Additional 50% EXP buff (moderate drop rate for Normal mode, high drop rate for Hard mode, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, expires in 7 days)
• Sparkling Blue Star Potion (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive)
• Sparkling Red Star Potion (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive)
• Small EXP Accumulation Potion (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, shares the same effect as EXP Accumulation Potion but for 30 minutes only)
• Large Medal of Honor (low drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects including Reboot world passive, gives 5,000 Honor Points when used, expires in 30 days if unused)
• (Hard mode only) Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness 60% (moderate drop rate, unaffected by drop rate increasing effects, expires in 30 days)
• (Hard mode only) Primal Essence (high drop rate)