Thief Blu's Full Guide For Shadowers

Yo. Love that, shad's a really good time

6.7k HP clean in that context means total. Base is probs a better term for HP without any gears equipped at all. I see why clean is a bit ambiguous, I just meant it in contrast to doubling the number for Meso Guard or having the Hyper Body buff. You can include monster book ring + pet equips with your clean HP cause those are evergreen best-in-slot items

Don't fret too much about the washing, my int gears were trash until lvl 120+ :] Even if you start washing from scratch in the middle of 4th job with no base int, there are ways to end up perfectly fine. Enjoy

 

Hi if you want to wash more to do everything in the game, for Pink Bean you'll need at least like 7.4K-7.5K HP I believe (and HB still). You should look into or ask people about MP washing. It takes a lot of vote NX and AP resets, but that's how you are able to gain a lot of HP even at late levels. You need to save some AP stats, and pump some into INT, so that you can also pump into MP and net a positive, and then you wash them out. Look up a guide! Glad you found this one helpful <3 gl

 

Romel LUFF!!!!!!! If you're using this shad exclusively as a sed mule, I think it makes sense to go full luk. If you get to higher levels, you'll avoid way more hits, regardless of if you're full luk or not. But Horntail's level 160 so as a low level shad, even with max shifter and full luk, I think you'll still get hit often. Definitely focus on avoid gear, HTP is much better than MON (as long as you're above the minimum 1-hit-KO HP thresholds).

Nice to hear from you brother <3 Hope all is well :V

 

Romel Hmmm, I've played everything except corsair and personally think shad is the most enjoyable class lol. So I'd recommend just making a normal shad. I don't think full luk will make an impactful difference in misses because you don't require that much str and dex with a full set of gears (even if mediocre) anyways. If you went normal build, you could still use avoid gears during Horntail, and it probably wouldn't be much worse than going full luk. A shad mule that can do damage is actually pretty nice for farming mesos too

To me it feels like shads don't avoid enough hits to be AFK-style until the very high levels (estimating 180+), once the base luk gets extremely high. Shadow shifter will account for most of the misses at lower levels, and with a normal build you'll still have a lot of base luk. But if you're confident the shad is only a mule, I guess full luk would help a bit, I'm just not sure it'd be too noticeable.

LUFFY V2!!!!! Hell yeah. You're a legend

 

Lyro yeah you can just DM me on the forums or send the handle

 

yo. i'm sure some other long-time shads could give you numbers, 15% is just me eyeballing over time. Taunt isn't a short animation, and it also includes damage reduction equivalent to the exp gain percentage, so in reality when used optimally you don't gain close to +40% exp as stated, unless maybe they're mobs you can 1-hit, but then the exp's gonna be trash

by the stage when you're able to use taunt, you're most likely only gonna use it on very high-hp mobs (shaolin 7f), so after you taunt them you still need 1-3+ hits to finish them off. if you like to train, using taunt is kinda cool because you want to localize using it on a lot of mobs at the same time, pref with really low hp so the damage reduction's impact is minimized, so there's some unique strategy to it

 

flow yo. i'm not super active these days so potentially outdated info

1. if you have a bad connection that's a whole thing, can be inconvenient for any class. shad or warrior could be a nice choice for bossing since we have the best survivability, especially shad if you wash. the flipside argument, i guess shad could be marginally worse in 4th job because our main solo-attack macro can trip up on dark sight (ish, hard to explain), but i wouldn't put weight on that unless your ping is reeeally bad. you'll probs be fine

2. i think i always told people i'd shoot for ~15k hp if remaking. if you wanna go all-out, i'd go for ~12k+ hp "clean" by lvl 18x (including gears, so 24k after meso guard). that should safely clear pink bean's touch damage threshold, you wouldn't even need HB. Pretty unnecessary though, and definitely at least until New Tokyo part 2 or something

3. yeah jump smoking works. it connects most but not 100% of the time

 

holy shit. GUHHK!!!!!!! nice to hear from you brother <3 hope you thriving