Red Potion - Items - Liven's Classic Maple Guide

In-game description

A potion made out of red herbs. Restores 100 HP.

Liven's take

Red Potion is Classic MapleStory's entry-tier HP consumable. Restores 100 HP per use, no cooldown, 5 mesos to buy from any starter town's potion shop. It's the mainline HP potion for characters L1-30.

Why 100 HP matters: at level 1-10 a Warrior has ~120 HP total, so one Red Potion is nearly a full heal. Even at level 20-25 (~350 HP), a Red Potion restores roughly a third. Above L30, White Potion (300 HP restore) becomes the better ratio; Red Potion stays useful as low-cost inventory filler for training runs.

Who this is for:

Warriors live and die by HP potions - Sword / Axe classes take hits by design. Keep 50-100 Red Potions on hotkey slot 4.
Bowmen and Thieves keep smaller stacks (~20-30) for emergencies when kite-and-shoot goes wrong.
Magicians mostly use Magic Guard (converts damage to MP loss) so they need Blue Potion more than Red - but a small Red Potion stack is still useful when Magic Guard drops or you're out of MP.

How to acquire: every starter town's potion shop sells Red Potions for 5 mesos each. Also drops from many low-level mobs. Also awarded by numerous L1-15 quests: Bruce's Mushroom Studies (10 potions), Icarus's I'm Bored 2 (10 potions), To Henesys, the Prairie Town (5 potions).

Stats

Effect

Restores HP

+100

Vendor buy price 5 mesos

Sold by (6 shops)

Lucy Amherst Department Store · Amherst inferred 5 mesos
Len the Fairy Ellinia Department Store · Ellinia inferred 5 mesos
Luna Henesys Department Store · Henesys inferred 5 mesos
Cutthroat Manny / Don Hwang Kerning City Self-Defence Item Store · Kerning City inferred 5 mesos
Mina Lith Harbor Department Store · Lith Harbor inferred 5 mesos
Arturo / Sophia Perion Department Store · Perion inferred 5 mesos

Where it comes from

Given by quests (8)

Olaf's First Training L8 · Lith Harbor · x8 · guaranteed
Phil's Call L8 · Lith Harbor · x8 · guaranteed
Estelle's Request L15 · Henesys · x10 · guaranteed
The Reason Behind the Mushroom Studies L10 · Henesys · x10 · guaranteed
I'm Bored 2 L11 · Kerning City · x10 · guaranteed
A Heart of Stillness and Wood L50 · Forgotten Hollow · x15 · guaranteed
To Henesys, the Prairie Town L12 · Citizenship · x5 · guaranteed
To the Gray City, Kerning City L12 · Citizenship · x8 · guaranteed

Dropped by (16)

Craftable (0)

Not produced by any crafting recipe.

Available: quest rewards, crafting recipes, and crowdsourced mob drops (via MeowDB). Not yet documented: NPC vendor lists beyond the NPC sell price. Vendor data isn't publicly exposed at osmsdataexplorer as of this build.

Related guides

Sources

Community-maintained data dashboard extracted directly from the Classic World client; first captured from the CoT 2 build (Aug 2026, the figures below) and refreshed for the Grand Launch client on Oct 22 2026 (7,360 items, 343 quests, 109 monsters with Classic World stats). Provides 163 skills with per-level stats + PNG icons, 712 items + 1,199 equipment with icons, 187 monsters with animated sprites, 348 crafting recipes with ingredients and meso costs, 322 quests with chains and rewards, and full patch notes. GitHub-mirrored so the dataset survives even if the live dashboard goes down.

Confirmed facts

CoT 2 contains 163 skills across 25 classes (datamined Aug 11 2026)
CoT 2 contains 348 crafting recipes across 6 disciplines
CoT 2 contains 322 quests organized into chains by region
CoT 2 contains 712 non-equipment items and 1,199 equipment items
Warrior 1st job in CoT 2 has 6 skills including new 'Precise Strikes'
Archer 1st job in CoT 2 dropped 'Blessing of Amazon' and added 'Power Knockback'

Topics: Skills, Items, Equipment, Monsters, Crafting, Quests, Maps, Cash Shop
Checked: 2026-10-22
Links: Original Archive snapshot