Post-BB/Chaos Dark Knight Build

1st Job [61 SP]

10 HP Boost
20 Power Strike
20 Slash Blast
11 Iron Body (20)

1 Power Strike > MAX Slash Blast > MAX Power Strike > MAX Improving Maximum HP > 11 Iron Body

2nd Job [121 SP]

20 Weapon Mastery
20 Weapon Booster (5 Mastery REQ)
20 Final Attack (3 Mastery REQ)
10 Enhanced Basics
20 Hyper Body (3 Iron Will REQ)
11 Ground Smash (20)
20 Iron Will

1 Ground Smash > 5 Mastery > 6 Booster > MAX Improved Fundamentals > 3 Iron Will > MAX Hyper Body > MAX Final Attack > MAX Mastery > MAX Booster > MAX Iron Will > 11 Ground Smash

3rd Job [151 SP]

11 Elemental Resistance (20)
20 Dragon Buster
20 Dragon Fury
10 Dragon Wisdom [Only works on 3rd Job attacks]
20 Sacrifice
30 Dragon Roar (3 Sacrifice REQ)
20 Dragon's Blood
20 Magic Crash (3 Dragon's Blood REQ)

1 Dragon Fury > 10 Dragon Judgment > MAX Dragon Fury > MAX Dragon's Blood > MAX Crusher > 3 Sacrifice > MAX Dragon Roar > MAX Sacrifice > 11 Elemental Resistance > MAX Magic Crash

4th Job [243 SP]

30 Achilles
30 Berserk ["Dark Force"]
10 Beholder
20 Aura of the Beholder (1 Beholder REQ) [Healing]
20 Hex of the Beholder (1 Beholder REQ) [Buffs]
10 Beholder's Revenge (1 Beholder REQ)
30 Maple Warrior
25 Monster Magnet (30)
30 Power Stance
24 Rush (30) and 9 Elemental Resistance
5 Hero's Will

1 Rush > 1 Monster Magnet > MAX Berserk > MAX Power Stance > MAX Maple Warrior > 1 Hero's Will > 10 Beholder > MAX Hex of the Beholder > MAX Beholder's Revenge > MAX Achilles > MAX Hero's Will > MAX Elemental Resistance > 25 Monster Magnet > 24 Rush > MAX Aura of the Beholder

Wow so many 4th job skills David ;o

11 4th job skills. You'll have 11 too!

Off-topic: Post #200!

Too bad that 4(idk about Achilles, but if it is passive... 5) of his skills are passive. LAZY. Lern to triple pot and zerk and buff pls.

Achilles is passive, making 5 passive skills. BM's and NL's have 3 passive 4th job skills.

Mm niceee. i like this.

11? Lemme do my math:

-Sharp Eyes (30)
-Hurricane (30)
-Bow Expert (30)
-Marksmenship (10)
-Maple Warrior (30)
-Concentrate (30)
-Vengeance (10)
-Dragon Breath (30)
-Phoenix (30)
-Hamstring (30)
-Hero's Will (5)

That 11 or I'm missing something?
and I assume 3 passive skills would be bow expert, marksmenship, and vengeance... BE and marksmenship is a must have and should be maxed..

Shadow Partner - Shadow Star - Claw Booster - Haste - Maple Warrior - Shadow Meso
Hyper Body - Beholder - [Dragon's Blood] - Iron Will - Booster - Maple Warrior - Power Stance
Dark Knights have the same or more number of active "buffs" as Night Lords.

That's 11 alright Jane. 265 SP with a given 243 SP. You'll have to sacrifice 22 of them. Leave Dragon's Breath at 21 and...?

Hamstring at 0 and hero's will probably level 1..

I don't find hamstring useful at all.. My bow gives 10% chance to do lvl 2 slow (so pretty much like hamstring with lower chance to slow down).. It doesn't work at boss so there's no point of putting points in hamstring.. I don't know how veng work honestly.. I saw vid of BM killing ob 3 guardians (lvl 170 BM).. Seems like he doesn't even have points in veng.. I don't want veng (passive skill) works like final attack pre-BB (uncontrollable skill that does damage on monsters)..

So my skill build after BB, would probably be: (in order)
-Sharp Eyes (30)
-Hurricane (30), for new BM, should put at 21 and get BE to 27
-Bow Expert (30)
-Marksmenship (10)
-Maple Warrior (20), yeah not gonna dream of getting MW 30
-Concentrate (30)
-Phoenix (30)
-Dragon Breath (21)
-rest is whatever skill you wanna put, inferno or w/e maybe good..

You'd think Hamstring would work on bosses since Slow (Wizard) does. Fail.

Pre-BB:
No, it doesn't work.. Just ask any bowmaster you find around.. They all know hamstring won't work at bosses.. Also, if you get 10% chance to slow (potential from weapon), those aren't work at bosses either..

Post-BB:
I personally don't know what happen to hamstring after BB patch, whether Nexon changes it or not.. Poison however work at bosses (including ice/fire demons).. I also believe that inferno/Phoenix can burn bosses as well..

Still, I don't feel like hamstring is a much of a skill to be maxed early.. SE, hurricane, BE, MW, concentrate clearly shows the power at bosses (damage).. As for marksmenship, it's a good defensive buff that saves a lot of pots and probably survive death..

Updated to reflect the following gMS skill name changes:

Improving Maximum HP -> HP Boost
Mastery -> Weapon Mastery
Booster -> Weapon Booster
Improving Fundamentals -> Enhanced Basics
Crusher -> Dragon Buster
Dragon Judgment -> Dragon Wisdom
Crash -> Magic Crash

[Double Post]

Updated in anticipation of current kMST changes.

WONK

Stop spamming outside of the spam area - only I do that!

Spoiler:

I'll do a Wind Archer one at some point...

Jazberry wrote:

This whole forum is a spam area.

Spoiler:

Hex buffs stack with other buffs. Edited to reflect this,

Why is Mastery at 19? 19-> 2% mastery + 3acc

Reprievable wrote:

10 Weapon Mastery
11 Ground Smash (20)

5 Mastery > 6 Booster > MAX Improved Fundamentals > 3 Iron Will > MAX Hyper Body > MAX Final Attack > 19 Mastery > MAX Booster > MAX Iron Will > 12 Ground Smash

Consistency is obviously not in my vocabulary. Should be MAX Mastery and 11 Ground Smash. It went boom somewhere along all the edits I made...

I'll fix it now. Also edited 4th job skills.

Also, do you really need to max Magic Crash?

No, but it cuts my Pianus and Lilynouch time. Anything less than max isn't 100% success so I'd imagine it to be annoying against Cancel Weapon and unreliable against Damage Reflect.

I'd take it over the 18% extra resistance from elemental attacks - there isn't any elemental mob-player attack that does all that much damage. Wisdom takes care of a chunk of the HP loss when training and you should be using Sacrifice at most bosses anyway so the extra 18% you preserve from elemental damage is nothing compared to the HP you lose from Sacrifice.

You max both eventually regardless.

Wait what? Yeah, I wasn't reading very well and didn't think Magic Crash was THAT good... >.>; So I put 11 in it. But then again I don't plan on going to area bosses that much. I'll probably just pap and zak with a bit of training.

It's best with 3-4 Warriors, but it's decent with just yourself on any boss that does any buff, including Cancels and Damage Reflect.