BLADER GUIDE

BLADER GUIDE

Why should I play as a blader?

You are the best in Player versus Enemy (Pve)
You have flashy skills
You do well in player killing (PK)
You can do well in Player versus players if you are smart (PVP)
You got me to guide you
Almost all your skills are area of effect skills (AOE)

As you start out, you notice that you are in Desert Scream, assuming you are a blader. Well, you stepped into the world of the fastest attacking swords people around.

COMBOS:

This nifty thing lets you use your skills quickly, with no cast time. You also get 100% hit rate. I did not mention too much about this earlier because at regular, you can combo well now. Experiment on what you want to use.
Used Double rising -> death cross -> double slash (-> triple slash)
you can experiment on your own.
"Combo-ing" is very good because it can add much more sword exp for you. You can learn more about this in other guides, but this is a blader guide, not a whole overview of cabal: P

By the higher end of the 30's, you should be able to wear the adept sets you bought. If you didn't, please, go and get one, or if you insist on not getting one, go and jump off a cliff, a high one. If you want you can start punching things to raise your sword skills. You will also raise magic ranks which is good too, because whenever you rank up in magic or sword, you get bonus stats. Really good for you ^^.

Punch moscutters as they shouldn't do much damage on you. You will notice you sword ranks go up FAST. If you are lucky, you can get to expert by level 42 or level 41. Remember, if you got regeneration, put it to good use. If you cannot use adept rings yet, try and get life steal rings because you can sustain punching longer. Remember, armid adept is your friend.

Oh, you would notice that when you match your next rank
requirements, you have extra AP. Well, this you can put into either STR or dex.

If you want to be a STR blader, put it on str. if you want to
be a dex blader, put it on dex. Duh. I will explain more about this at the end of the guide because it is complicated and wildly disputed because people on which is better. One more tip, do not put too much into INT, only what you need for your equipments... you do not need magic and so not too much INT. besides, what are swords for? Picking your teeth of ripping apart monsters and other players with awesome
flashy swords skills that have weird lights and such things of... never mind. I will stop there, make a blader yourself to find out.


Skills to get in all:

Novice

Flash draw: LEAVE IT AT LEVEL ONE {1}
Impact stab: {1}
Stab and slash: {1, 2}
Fade step: Optional. If you get it, max it.

Magic:

Regeneration: OPTIONAL

UPGRADES:

Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Save this slot

Apprentice:

Sword

Double slash {1, 2}
Triple slash {3}
Dash Max when you can {9}.

Magic

If you are an apprentice magic, get regeneration {2} LEAVE IT AT THAT.

Upgrades:

Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Save this slot


Regular

Blade force {MAX, 18, 15}
Double rising {2, 3}
Death cross {1, 2}

Upgrades


Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense

Expert

Skills to get:

SWORD
Assault {1, 2, 3}
Hassing dance {2, 3}
Storm Grind {3}
Iron skin: MAX


Upgrades


Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense

A-Expert

SWORD:

Mirrage step: Stacks with other things, great to use, adds defence rate, what more? Oh, makes monsters miss. Max this.
Blade aura: Max.
Mirrage grind: {9, max}

Upgrade
Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense

Master

Sword

Twin-Moon Slash {9} Piercing, ranged, looks great.
Vital Interfere {9} Stuns! Stuns! Stuns!
Aura Barrier {MAX} Stacks with iron skin.



Upgrades:
Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense

Chose:
Offensive Sense*
Change Force (Magic to Sword)*

A-Master

Sword

Blade cry {9, MAX}

Upgrade
Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense
*Your chosen upgrade*


G-Master

Sword:

Blade Scud {9, Max}

Upgrade:

Vitality mastery
Mana mastery OR Choice
Defensive Sense
*choice*
Chose last upgrade
Sixth Sense
Damage Absorb
Impact Control

Completer:

Sword
Lightning Slash {9}
Art of Fearceness {MAX}
Intuition {MAX}

Transcender:

Sword
Field of Fear{MAX}
Intense blade{MAX}

Keepers:

Defensive Buffs (They all stack)
Iron Skin
Mirrage Step
Aura Barrier

Sword Buffs (They all stack)
Soul Blade (Does not stack with Blade aura, Blade Force)
Art of Fearceness
Intense Blade

Debuff
Field of Fear

Anti-knockdown stuffs XD
Instant Immunity
Intuition

Attacks
Twin Moon Slash
Vital Interfere
Assult
Storm Grind
Mirrage Grind
Blade Cry
Blade Scud
Lightning Slash

Buff Duration

For those of you who are deciding what buffs you should use, Dont fret. Get all your buffs. Blade force, blade aura and soul blade do not stack because they are evolution buffs. Evolution buffs are buffs that get better in stages. Blade force is like stage one. blade aura is stage two, overriding blade force. Soul blade is the last stage, and thus overides blade aura. AOF and Intense blade stacks with each other, and blade aura. Iron skin and aura barrier stack with each other, but regeneration does not stack with iron skin.

Punching!!

There is a reason to punch, and that is to rank up. But you say that I can do that by spamming skills, or using more combo, or other things, but there is also a better reason. Everytime you rank up you get bonus stats. Here is a table to show you what you get for each rank up.


(There are so many of these things around in so many forums, it is impossible to say when or what or who first came up with it. But... Taken from ColdRain's Guide :p)

To effectivly punch you should be hitting around 2-8's on monsters. This is to minimize the amount of exp you get per hit and maximize the amount of time you hit the monsters. You get Skill exp Per HIT. Make sure also do not hurt too much on you, because then you die. Duh. Get adept armours if you can, Armid is easy to find.
If you are lacking defence, try getting an epaulet of defense and get more defense/ def rate. You can try getting adept rings and amulets also. If you are killing/hunting on monsters, you can try to get adept weapons as well to help you get more Skill exp. The more +skill you have on your equipment the faster you will get skill points. You get skill exp everytime you hit something, so whether it be using a skill, punching or hitting a monster you will get the base skill exp + the
amount of +skill you have on your equipment.

MISCONCEPTION:::
Using Combo does not give more Skill exp. INFACT it gives more LEVEL exp. Combo gets rid of the cast times and gives you more LEVEL exp. So if you want to skill Spam SKILLS and not COMBO. Punching is pretty much better, but spamming skills is more fun to do :p

must complete quests at instructor and officer (a series of 6-7 quests) in order to get the combo skill