HP Washing Guide

[RoyalCatManDo]

Introduction

My my, this topic has been coming up far too often lately for my tastes, so I've decided to make a thread to end all HP Washing questions.

Hopefully this will remain on the front-page for long enough to quell the tide of "How much can I wash at?" questions, if only for a short while.

What is HP Washing?
HP Washing is the process by which, a character loses MP and gains HP. This works because HP and MP have a common Ability Point (AP) pool.
You need to spend a lot of real life money on AP Resets from the Cash Shop in order to HP Wash.

How does one HP Wash?
You need spare AP in order to to HP Wash.
The game won't let you put points into HP if they were gained using an AP Reset. You can only allocate points into HP (And MP, for that matter) if you have AP from leveling up.

To HP Wash, put 1 AP into HP and then use an AP Reset from the Cash Shop on MP. It'll let you.
Put the point into whatever stat you want (Except for HP/MP*). Those should be either STR or DEX.

*You can't wash circularly. You cannot: Put a point in HP > AP Reset out of MP > The same point goes back into HP, repeat.

The game will only let you take a point out of MP as long as you have 148+Level*14 base MP or more.
That means that if at level 120 you have 1828 MP, you can wash, but if you only have 1827 MP, it won't let you take a point out of MP.

How much do you gain/lose?
For every point you put into HP, you gain 18 HP (On average) and for every point you take out of MP, you lose 12 MP (On average).
On average, at level 120~ people can wash around 13 times. That means, that for the price of 13 AP Resets you gain around 240 HP and lose 156 MP.

How HP Washing works and how to get the most out of it.
HP Washing works by taking your "spare" MP (All MP gained above the 14 MP minimum with 4 base INT) and turning it into HP.
It has been proven that leveling up with INT equips on, increases your MP gained at around 10 extra INT = 1 additional MP on level-up.
According to KeikoTan, you only gain additional MP on level-up for "whole" 10 extra INT points. So you gain 1 extra MP for +10-19, 2 for +20-29, etc.

Now that sounds unremarkable, but if you level with +50 INT, that means you gain an extra 5 MP, so for every 3 levels you level with these equips on, you get an additional HP Wash (Or to be more precise, 5 washes per 12 levels).

Now, level 60 times like that (Or 90, if you start that early), and you've got a total of 43 washes you can perform instead of 13.
750 HP gained as opposed to 240.

INT Equip Suggestions
One thing to keep in mind, is that you're very well off if you have a close LUK-less Mage friend. VERY well off.
I'll mark the poor-man's solutions as PM. You've got enough NX to HP wash excessively, so go Gachapon yourself some meso. :p

Helms:

• Zakum Helmet - 15 INT
• INT-scrolled common Hat - Can even go above 15 INT. Try and get one from a Mage friend.
• PM - INT Black Bandana (If you were around back when they weren't Gachapon only) or a Maple Helm (Level 10, 30, 70, ones give 1, 2, 3 INT respectively) or a Pirate Captain's Hat.

Overalls:

• An INT scrolled Sauna from a Mage friend. You don't really have any other options here. You can get upwards of 20 INT from one of these, so make sure to make an effort. And I'm sorry for you female Archers who want to wash, Saunas are practically out of the question.
• PM - Sorry folks, you're left pretty high and dry here

Earrings:

• Earrings can easily go up to 9 INT nowadays at pretty affordable prices. Try and borrow your Mage friends' Earrings. If you have some REALLY good connections, you can get 12+ INT Earrings. ;)
• PM - 4-5 INT Earrings are dirt-cheap nowadays, aren't they?

Cape:

• Most Mages over 50 use Purple Adventurer Capes, so just INT Capes are pretty cheap. Aim for an 11+ INT Cape.
• PM - 5-8 INT Capes are very cheap.

Weapon:

• Ideally, you should have the Goblin Bat (+5 INT), free from the final quest in Korean Folk Town, after you defeat the Goblins.
• An almost impossible to find +INT common weapon is a scrolled Umbrella, I wouldn't bother.
• The lowly Wooden Wand is a common Wand, meaning you can scroll it for INT and get the biggest Weapon-based INT boost from it possible. (Thanks KeikoTan. ;))
• PM - +1 INT Pumpkin Basket, and any +2 or more INT common weapons.

Gloves:

• 1-2 INT Yellow Work Gloves. LUK-less Mages grab these up quick, so try and borrow if you can.
• INT Scrolled common Gloves. These are extremely rare, if you find one with +3 or more INT, you're good to go.
• PM - 1 INT Yellow Work Gloves, sorry folks, not much else in common INT Gloves.

Shoes:

• +1-3 INT Yellow Snowshoes. No other common Shoes add INT.

Shield:

• Any common Shield scrolled for INT will do you nothing but a world of good. :) All those other than Stolen Fences, Pan Lids and Common-class Maple Shields need not apply (Thanks again KeikoTan ;D).

Why Wash?
Obviously, more HP means it's easier for you to survive.
But what good is there to a tiny bit more of HP?
The only times you should HP Wash is if you can (afford to) wash enough to either take an extra hit from what you train on: For instance, getting up to 3.4k HP To be able to safely take 2 magical hits in a row from a Bone Fish (1.65k damage) or over 4k to be able to take two hits in a row from Himes and so on.
Or gain enough HP for better survivability at bosses. With proper INT equips, it isn't unheard of to reach 4k HP at level 120. That means easy-peasy-lemon-squeasy Pap solos.

For many, the only worthwhile reasons to wash as an Archer are:
3.6k HP - One of the Piani (The left one I believe) does around this much damage, so once you have this much HP, you can solo it safely.
3.7k HP - Being able to safely take a hit from Skelegons (High level Leafre monsters, very good EXP) as well as being able to take 2 hits in a row without dying at Himes. That makes training drastically easier, and makes relying on a Heal-follower Priest possible.
4.1k HP - Being able to tank Papulatus' bombs, enabling easy solos, or being part of HB-less parties at just about all bosses.

Summary
If you've got a lot of real money to burn on AP Resets, and you want to get the most out of your character, go for it. But be advised that unless you leveled with INT equips on, your results will be limited and far from astonishing. You won't quite reach the goals you set when you started HP Washing (As stated above).

On a side note, this post of LightBravers apparently helps people understand how to HP wash a bit easier, so take note:
http://www.sleepywood.net/forum/show...2&postcount=22

[LightBraver]

OMG, great guide ;]

I think the Heart Staff has been released, and that's a common class Wand that gives an average of +2 INT.

I highly recommend HP Washing ^^~


I hope these pictures can help you see the results of HP Washing
(I am wearing Fallen Leaf Earrings though)

OGM Spoiler!

Here's my HP/MP at Level 120~


And here's my HP/MP at Level 120 with Hyper Body~

[Bad Religion]

but using 13 and maybe 43 resets will cost alot of money, thats why i dont like the idea but if ur rich and stuff, then go for it... waste all your money for some extra HP =_=

[Anii]

This is a good idea, especially because the AP resets are going on sale soon (5 for 7.7k, cheaper than Black Friday's prices)

Good job at explaining, though it's probably a bit too late for me to do the Int thing :P

[DonFZ]

Nice, explains everything altough I roughly knew it already. I'm not going to bother with it since I'm not willing to pay for extra HP

[chankalank]

This goes for Hermits also right? o.o

[ImEatingYou]

One small thing I'd like to point out, the average hp gained per point is not 19, its 18. I HP washed 15 times and other people have also confirmed that the average is in fact 18. While it sounds anal to be picking over 1 hp, it does make a relatively significant difference.

Edit- And er, yes, this thread applies the same way to Hermits too.

[LightBraver]

I think this would be a great sticky thread ^^~

[BrownAnus]

I believe the equation is 150+lvl*14.

I was able to this lvl and I had 2 mp over your equation.

[LightBraver]

Originally Posted by BrownAnus

I believe the equation is 150+lvl*14.

I was able to this lvl and I had 2 mp over your equation.

Apparantly, the equation (Level*14) + 148 is the minimum amount of MP you need to HP Wash.

So your equation "150+lvl*14" can't really prove the original equation to be false.