Secrets of the Beginner

The fears and facts you should know about each job
[Main Page] Warrior | Bowman | Magician | Thief | Pirate

Warrior
Advantage: Damage, High HP, Mobs | Disadvantage: Accuracy, Speed, Range-attack
- Warrior fears lack of accuracy but not damage or HP (HitPoints/Life)
- Warrior worry that they could not hit boss or high level monster due to their high avoidability.
- But they do not need to worry about getting killed in 1 Hit by boss since they have high HP.
- Warriors lack of range attack, and some party quest requires range attackers.
- Warriors excel against many monster. They don’t have a hard time clearing mobs.
- Warriors are slow, so they tend to train slower in big maps unless it is shared (or party).
Pearl Of Knowledge
- STR (Strength) is warrior’s primary attribute that improves min and max damage.
- Adding DEX (Dexterity) adds accuracy, and it does not provide better min damage compare to STR.
- STR is the requirement for equipping weapon and armour. DEX (Dexterity) is only for accuracy.
- Pure STR Warrior relies on equipments to provide them with sufficient accuracy.
- Pure STR Warrior at level 70 would be as powerful as level 80 Normal Warrior.
- If your Pure STR character is hacked, you will have difficult time to rebuild compare to normal warrior.
- Warrior advantage is that every 3 STR added, they gain 1 weapon attack.
- However, if they take Onyx Apple (+100 WA), it does not boost as much damage as Thief.
- STR Scrolls are the cheapest in the market. Warriors prefers DEX Scrolls for added accuracy.

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Bowman
Advantage: Accuracy, Range-attack | Disadvantage: Damage, Low HP, Mobs
- Most of Bowman pros and cons are the opposite of Warrior.
- Bowman fears low HP (HitPoints/Life) but not accuracy.
- But they do not need to worry about boss or high level monster with high avoidability.
- Bowman worry that they get killed in 1-2 Hit by boss unless they HP Wash.
- Bowman lack of close-combat attack, thus they excel not well against mobs in close range.
- Bowman are fast, so they tend to train best in any map (big or small) preferrably flat terrain.
- They train slower in crowded mob area unless there are sniping spots to use their mob skill.
Pearl Of Knowledge
- Bowman has only 1 SP (Skill Point) path, which is STR and DEX.
- Bowman can be Pure DEX but a normal Bowman will outbeat them with normal weapon.
- There aren’t many Bow that does not require STR (Strength).
- However, bowman can cap their STR, so they can use MapleStory Timeless Weapon and Equipment.
- DEX Scrolls are expensive because Thief, Pirate, Warrior requires them for accuracy (high demand).

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Thief
Advantage: Accuracy, Range-attack, Speed | Disadvantage: Low HP
- There are 2 type of thief (close-combat: Bandit, far-range: Assassin)
- Thief equipments (especially assassins) are relatively expensive. (e.g. Throwing-Star)
- Assassins lack of HP so they need to HP Wash if they want to battle against boss.
- Bandit have a skill called Meso Guard that uses Meso to protect their HP (HitPoints/Life)
- Assassin have difficult time killing mobs in close-range (similar to Bowman handicap)
Pearl Of Knowledge
- Thief attacking speed is very fast, and their movement speed is one the highest.
- Thief relies on LUK for damage, but every 5 LUK only provides 1 weapon attack.
- In short, Thief damage grows pretty slow compare to the rest of the class.
- This can be compensated by equipping with decent scrolled equipments.
- Good news is if they have more weapon attack, their damage drastically increase!
- Basically, Thief gain 500 LUK while Warrior gain 300 STR from 1 Onyx Apple (+100 weapon attack)
- That’s the reason why the Claw (Assassin weapon) has little weapon attack else they will overpower.

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Magician
Advantage: Accuracy, Close-Far-Attack, High MP | Disadvantage: Low HP
- Magician fears boss spells (skill-lock, 1 HP/MP Nuke, Dispell) and high MP consumption.
- When a boss/monster cast those skill, Magician is vunerable and can’t cast any spell to attack.
- This can easily kill them in 1 Hit as their Magic Guard is dispelled.
- Most of Magician skills cost high MP consumption (4th Job Genesis/Meteo/Blizzard)
- However, they have high MP Regeneration but does not regenerate fast enough to recover MP loss.
- Magician can follow Pure Int Path (provided they are funded with Int Equipments).
- Pure Int Magician gain more Max MP compare to normal magician.
- Pure Int losses 10% EXP when they die since the min LUK (50) is required to reduce EXP loss by 5%.
- Magician does not need to worry with min range attack or attacking monster in close-combat.
- Magician is the easiest to play compare to the rest of the jobs. Just need to focus on MP.
Pearl Of Knowledge
- Magician able to teleport that can help them travel map quickly and speed up training.
- Magician is the only class that has the highest MP Regeneration and highest MP Capacity.
- They have MP Eater that siphons enemy MP to save MP Potion.
- Magician relies on element attacks (holy,fire,ice,lightning,poison) to deal extra damage.
- Magician INT scrolls are relatively expensive.

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Pirate
Advantage: n/a | Disadvantage: n/a