Thief SHADOWERS PLEASE READ ~

After having multiple Shadowers asking for advice on skill builds and order, i think it would be easier if this knowledge is made known to the upcoming Shadowers also.

BOOMERANG STEP and TAUNT is a Shadower's bread and butter when it comes to grinding. Shadowers have the potential to be the highest EPM class in all of Maple AFTER mages whilst grinding. Their aoe boomerang step COMBOED with a lvl30 taunt (which gives 40% increase of exp/loot per mob hit) is absolutely amazing. Taunt is an "aoe" skill that hits everything within range in a straight line, exactly like boomerang step.

Depending on whether you grind often/self leech with a mage or mainly focus on bossing; you would consider swapping taunt priority with stuff like assassinate/smoke. BUT, taunt should always be prioritised AFTER boomerang step/shifter. Smokescreen is nice but not necessary, it barely impacts gameplay much and is defo not more important than taunt in our kit. Assassinate is mostly used for single target bosses, but even with that maxed; the DPM difference between assassinate+boomstep combo is not a HUGE difference to boomstep weave spam.

Boomstep>shifter/taunt>shifter/taunt>assassinate>smoke>venom for Shadowers that grind (which you should be doing anyway). MW is completely up to you, chances are your party members will already have mw9/20 for boss runs/grinding parties.

So please stop leaving out 1 of the most important skills in our kit just because other people with zero knowledge of the class keeps asking you for smoke during zakum runs, i die inside everytime after hearing that.