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Warrior An Updated Guide to Dark Knights

Discussion in 'Jobs' started by Alyosha, Oct 9, 2018.

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    HP washing looks very complicated. Probably just go for low dex dk. haha
     
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    Question. Hex beholder (lvl 21+) still outperforms attack potions?
     
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    I am confused if end game is Spears won't putting points in PoleArm mastery in 2nd job hurt my accuracy down the line with spears?
     
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    You have 121 SP to use in 2nd job. You should be mastering the following (in no particular order):
    Spear Mastery 20
    Pole Arm Mastery 20
    Spear Booster 20
    Pole Arm Booster 20
    Iron Will 3
    Hyper Body 30

    This leaves you 8 extra SP to use on anything in 1st or 2nd job. They recently buffed Iron Will and Iron Body, so that may be something you'd be inclined to skill up. I would suggest using 2nd job SP for Iron Will as you can eventually reset SP out of Power Strike and Slashblast to increase Iron Body once you have Crusher or Fury. I believe there is currently no way of resetting SP that you used from a higher job into a lower job with SP resets (unless a GM helps you out with this).
     
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    Hex from level 20-25 only adds enough attack as a Coke Pill would and does NOT stack. Therefore it is not worth to level Hex past level 20.
     
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    It is worth to level hex above 20. 25 accuracy 50 avoid and 100 defense each. You free up a slot on coke pills too.
     
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    thanks for clearing that up!
     
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    Also one other question is any other good training spots or should i check the other guide for that? Thanks
     
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    You will be maxing spear mastery. Be it with 2nd job skill points because you won't be putting a single point in final attack or 3rd job skill points where dragon blood is utterly useless.
     
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    Yeah I spoke too soon and just assumed I would be running out of points (since i never made a DK before) thanks for clearing it up after seeing that you got enough points I think Hybrid is always the way. More options too.
     
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    Great guide thank you so much for this! :)
     
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    Would it be a bad idea to max Dragon Roar first before Dragon Fury if i'm leeching from 70? I'm thinking the sooner I max Dragon Roar, the sooner I can go train at CD's with a priest and not have to buy leech all the way to 120? Thoughts?
     
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    Yeah, I heard doing that worked out well for someone so it's pretty good.
     
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    I really like your guide, it is informative and also funny!

    I am currently struggling with equips though.
    My spearman is level 58 and I recently got a chaos scroll from the raffle :D
    I now have 163m to spend but I don't know what to spend it on.

    I added a picture of my current equips and stats, could you give me some tips on what are good upgrades to get to maximize damage increase?

    Thank you!
     

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    ooo looking pretty nice so far. I'd buy a cape switch for places where you don't need the accuracy. If you look around you could probably get a 3-4 attack one with str(or dex if you just want to replace the old cape entirely) and no slots rather cheaply. Clean capes are for chaos scroll fanatics.

    12 attack gloves are always a good upgrade as they last a good chunk of playtime. They're good until you can save up some big money for some 14's much later on and aren't hard to resell when you do.

    For the most part attack is the main focus when going for damage. Strength tends to not do as well for every meso spent.

    Other than that I think I'd keep saving for some level 100 equips. Top and bottom are some decent stats, so you should be able to snag 17 str top and 14 dex bottom without much of a dent in the wallet. You could also grab a Scar helm, then you can just toss some helmet for accuracy 70's on the Zakum helm. There are no helm acc 60's so they're risky if it's your only hat, and I don't think it's a good idea to helm dex 60 it as those are fairly expensive, especially on a minimum dex hat.

    That blood snowboard should last until level 90 or so as well. Overall level 55-70 are some of the tougher levels to train, but after 70 it's a huge power spike until ~110 or so. It looks like you'll have enough accuracy to reliably hit the Latest Hits Compilations in Taipei, but you would probably miss some of the time with the Greatest Oldies until level ~75 or so. You're probably set for third job already, it's just that second job tends to taper off around this point.
     
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    Thank you for your help last time! I have another equipment question.

    I am lvl 80 now, I am still using 97 att blood snowboard. I also have a 109 att omega spear someone gave me. I am not sure if this is worth using over the snowboard because of the slower attack speed. Which one is better?

    Or should I just forget about both and get a maple snowboard? Or wait for 85 and get a sky ski?? I maxed dragon roar first so I dont think pole-arm vs spear matters much right?

    I'm pretty lost. there are a lot of options and I dont know what to use. It would be great if you could help me again! :)
     
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    Speed almost always wins out, unless you're really close to a 2ko/3ko threshold where 12 attack will be the difference between killing in 2 hits most of the time or killing in 2 hits just some of the time. As you level up there'll be a point where the spear is more effective with roar, then later on it should cycle back to the faster pole-arm being slightly better.

    Roar does neither swing or stab, so its damage calculation is slightly different than other skills. Spears are stab x5 and swing x3 for primary stat, and Pole-arms are the opposite. Roar on the other hand just goes with primary stat x4, with no better or worse weapon.

    I think I'd rather be grabbing a Maple Snowboard over the Sky Skis though, as I didn't really touch spears until 110 or so. Pole-arm Fury just has too nice of a horizontal range, at least compared to Crusher's rather short range. It's sort of difficult to use Spear Crusher without Rush and Stance, but it still has a niche with high hp, slow and spread out mobs like in the Temple of Time.
     
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    The main change to Bigfoot now are that the lack of i-frames means you can pin him with a Normal weapon with Booster. If your Skis out-DPS your Slow Spear (whether that's a Fairfrozen, Pinaka, Faltizan, Pooh Pooh, Stormshear, or something other), they'll do the trick at BF now. The issue is, as you said, finding one: even the ones in the two Elderwraith maps are always dry.
     
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    ty for letting me know!
     

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