Making Pure Mesos in MapleStory

That sounds pretty absurd.
Where would a level 120+ get the meso needed to buy NLC potions? Not all classes have a self-healing skill, many still need actual potions that cost several thousand meso each.

My Hero is my most consumptive character, and it gets by on the pots dropped by Root Abyss bosses (about +50 per run). Hilla's another decent source if I want mesos/pots, since it only does a bit of damage.

I don't remember the last time I bought potions on a new character. (a) You get reset to full HP when you level up, (b) monsters drop potions about every 5 kills now.

They need to figure out a way to inconvenience botters without affecting legit players. Like, say, aggressively banning the accounts that the botters transfer mesos to. Put up an announcement on the website, first: "If you buy mesos from, or receive mesos from, a hacker, you are guilty of crimes against the economy and will receive a meso wipe and temporary ban". Then, every time they catch a botter, ban anyone they've traded with. It's not possible to drop trade large amounts of mesos, so the botters' "accumulative" accounts where they trade all the items in order to sell in the FM and the accounts meso sellers use will start getting banned left and right.

Most effective though is to just make botting accounts not last out the week. It's not exactly a tough judgement to say "asfasfdgsds" who's teleporting around the map looting everything is a botter.