Thief Blu's Full Guide For Shadowers

It's bad after the aggro-nerfs. You shouldn't be farming there at all.

 

I see, thanks!

Besides Nightghosts, is CDs a good spot to farm meso?

 

Hello! Thanks for the guide, very helpfull! Thanks for the time you dedicated to make this.

I'm a new player. I never had a Dit in old GMS so I'm a little confused with these topics:

1. Why should we have STR? I mean, the difference beteween str daggers and luk daggers are almost none, and the allocated points on STR would not conpensate the superior damage (in my newbie opinion). Is STR really gives any significant boost on our damage, other than luk?
2. For a unfunded new player isn't better go dexless and then switch to a normal stat dagger? I mean, with a clean lvl 64 dagger and a pure luk stat wouldn't you be better than have over 100dex (+str) and equip a cheap normal stat dagger? From level 80+ then, I start raising my Dex so I can equip endgame daggers (also saves money for a later investment)
3. Which was the assassinate buff that made shads dpm better? How was it before and now?

 

1. There's a level 120 thief-exclusive shield called the Dragon Khanjar that adds between 13-17 ATT, and requires 75 strength to equip. Considering that you'll be wearing things like a Zakum/Scarlion/Ravana helm, which already add ~15 str, it's definitely worth it to try to get ~55 more strength to get that ATT boost (alongside the boost from STR daggers like the Gold Double Knife/etc).

2. It's probably better to do so, but, as Blu said, it's nice to be able to change equips once in a while. Also, this guide wasn't written in context of the Anniversary event that's currently going on, as generally speaking, that Maple Dark Mate/level 64 dagger will go for a fairly hefty price, so using regular daggers would be relatively cheap.

I don't have an answer to do 3, so I'll let a more experienced Shadower speak about it.

 

Thank you!. Very clear now.

Thank you!

 

Is the training bit updated?
kinda lost at where to grind lvls 50-60 (currently 53)

 

Level 55-70 is honestly the more arduous stretch of being a bandit, since the complete lack of mobbing can be extremely annoying.

At that level, you should probably get to 56 via EPQ, then go to either Forest of Golems, Mysterious Path 3 (both are great party grinding spots, although MP3 is probably optimal). Afterwards, once you're ~65ish, I'd recommend heading to Taipei 101 and grinding on Cheap Amplifiers, then Fancy Amplifiers (whenever you can 2-hit them).

You could also spend some time doing Orbis PQ or Pirate PQ, which are both decent exp.

 

Can anybody explain to me the mechanics/numbers behind the 3rd job skill Chakra? What are the %s on the skill based on? Is it an active, buff, toggle, or passive? Kind of confusing since there is no timer on the skill description, so I'm assuming it's an active skill that you use in order to heal one time, or until you're hit/moved?

 

i'm pretty sure it's an active skill that you use to heal yourself, but i think you can only use it if your hp is below 50% ☺️

or at least that's what it was, i don't actually know if any changes were made to the skill on this server

 

It's an active skill, at 21 (where it's typically maxed to),

MP -27
Recovery Rate: 159%
Damage during the recovery if hit: 130%.

It only works when your hp is below 50% and when activated, if you get hit, you will take 130% damage. so say your hp is 5000, you activate it at 2300, it'll heal you +3657hp. (I'm not entirely sure if its the % of your remaining hp or your full hp so may need someone to confirm this)

If you get hit at all during the time it takes to cast the skill, Chak the Ra's, praise the Dark Lord, and grab a sandwich, you'll take 130% damage.

But frankly speaking, i've never really felt that you take damage at all or even are able to move. Because when i get hit or try and move it just kinda stuns me and seemed to do diddly squat. So that helped immensely when i ran outta pots while grinding at Dual Ghost Pirates around lvl 75~100 in between Pirate PQ-ing. This is purely anecdotal though. mileage may vary.

 

Can anybody confirm whether the above statement is true?
In theory, if someone had washed a shadower to 20k hp, would Chakra be worth leveling over Meso Explosion?

 

Recommend putting Endure from 2nd Class and Chakra from 3rd class into Steal to help with Monster Card hunting!

 

steal blows just kill the monster tbh lol

 

have you read this thread good sir? https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/buff-the-bandit-skill-steal.12217/

tl;dr no. its a useless pepega of a skill.

 

I want to express my gratitude to this guide, it allowed me to come back and play my shad properly and finally bringing it to enjoy the endgame content! Thank you so much Tim~

 

Hi, a little late to the party, but can I check regarding the 75 Str/150Dex requirement, does it take into account gear if i am semi funded? Or does my base stat without gear have to be that amount? Thanks in advance.

 

It takes in your base gear. So if you have 30 base str and 45 str gears you have 75 str to equip the khanjir

 

To add to this, make sure your str and dex is at 75/150 before you equip something like a dragon khanjar which gives you str. You could have base str of 30 with gear giving 44, but you can't equip dkhanjar even if it gives +6 str or whatever.