-Make all finishers independant from the combo count.
-Increase the time the combos take to fade out. (Idk how long it takes in KMS right now but around 30 seconds sounds good enough to me)
-Increase the cooldown on combo recharge to 600 seconds. Now it is meant to be used as backup at bosses, not to recast your combo drain.
-Give each finisher a secondary effect. If judgement can cause freeze, give fenrir a huge range so it can cross any map from side to side, or at least work as DA's bats, combo smash can do w/e and make combo tempest deal damage on regular monsters instead of reducing their hp.
-Give finishers a small cooldown time varying on each one.
-Make each advancement's finisher increase damage passively on the previous job's one, in other to keep them all relevant at later levels.
-Increase final blow damage to 400% per hit and make it cast bleeding on monsters. (lol i'm guessing here)
-Get rid of final toss and replace it with a 1vs1 skill. I can't think of what it could be like so maybe a swing like...


-pineapple Beyonder and give us Soul synchronize. For a period of time Maha and Aran synchronize their souls increasing mastery to 100%, attack by X and defense by X. Cooldown time: xx

Builds for both Alpha and Beta, with a very specific order because you learn skills every 5~10 levels. These are designed for optimal training in Mirror World Dungeons, and then whatever it is you do at 180+.

At 100, you get 3 skill points from a tutorial and upon finishing a quest, you get +1 Pierce Thrust, and +1 Shadow Strike. Put the three points you get into Tachi Mastery and Moon Strike. Combination 1's attacks are left at level 1 as they're only used if you accidentally miss with Combination 2 and 3, and need to reduce some cooldowns. You only need to use Moon Strike -> Pierce Thrust to enable Flash Assaulter again, though level 1 Shadow Strike is fairly strong at this level.

Save up points and max Flash Assaulter first. Combat Recovery is rather useless. A single point for the +11% Recovery should be enough. Until you learn Combination 3, you shouldn't be able to spend Time Force faster than you earn it, but by the time you actually learn those, you can start to use Assist effectively to deal damage and recover Time Force.

Spin Cutter, Rolling Curve, Rolling Assaulter, and Reinforce Body are all important to be maxed first as they are primary training skills, all part of one effective combo, Flash Assaulter -> Spin Cutter -> Rolling Curve -> Rolling Assaulter. If you oneshot monsters with Flash Assaulter, you can delay getting Spin Cutter since if you don't have it, Flash Assaulter can lower its own cooldown to 1 second. You lose some damage utility against the boss, but Beta should suffice. Reinforce Body just adds to Alpha's ridiculous critical rate. Wind Cutter is important to max as it deals an insane amount of damage to stacked monsters, and it can easily clear a large area in a single use, especially if you Rolling Assaulter a group onto a boss.
Wind Strike is rather useless, and is only really used to Assist and chain to Storm Break later, so it's left at 1 for now. You could even consider leaving Wind Strike at 0 for now so you don't accidentally push away your Vortexes.

Advanced Spin Cutter, Advanced Rolling Curve, and Advanced Rolling Assaulter creates your best combo. These can each OHKO monsters in your level range quite easily if you have some amount of funding, such as just gear, or character cards, Link Skills etc. They by far do the most burst damage of any Alpha attacks. On the other hand, Storm Break can be useful for the range, but it's more useful for the Assist and learning Advanced Storm Break later.
Critical Leer gives a huge bonus in damage and survivability since Alpha has such a high Critical Hit Rate and attack speed.

Maxed Advanced Storm Break would be nice to have immediately at 180, but the other Advanced outshine it quite heavily. It's fantastic though for doing things like clearing ToT and any long flat maps with its Vortex and Electric Field. Every other skill can be maxed now. I would recommend Wind Strike first for a stronger Combination 4 chain, and then Combat Recovery unless you use Combination 1 as a standing attack at bosses.


At 100, you get 3 skill points from a tutorial and upon finishing a quest, you get +2 Power Stomp. Put the three points you get into Great Sword Mastery and Upper Slash. There are enough points for Beta to max Combination 1 rather early. Front Slash is pretty good for damage. It's decently fast and has long range. Max it and then save up the rest to max Solid Body immediately.

Due to the way Combinations work, if you don't know Throwing Weapon, Front Slash will activate Rapid Time and reduce its own cooldown to 1s. I would recommend not learning Throwing Weapon as it is not that useful. It requires jumping to reach its full range, meaning you can't actually use the chain delay. It also requires precise aim for it to hit monsters twice, and it doesn't benefit from Great Sword Mastery's Total Damage as it is a summon. As such it has a low base damage of 450%x2 at max level. It also does not activate Rapid Time because it is a summon. Instead, you can play with 1s Cooldown Front Slash.

I recommend maxing Upper Slash next as it would first balance the damage so you can Upper Slash one group, and then Power Stomp the next, rather than your Upper Slash being too weak, and your Power Stomp being too strong. Also, you can use Upper Slash to reduce the cooldown of Front Slash, and then follow up with a Front Slash instead of a Power Stomp instead of waiting that extra second, i.e. at a boss where you don't have to travel.

Learning 1 Turning Drive provides a somewhat useful effect. It's not particularly that strong, but the pull can be good and it's an AOE around you, something you'll be lacking up until now. Unlike Front Slash, it is best used for Whirlwind at 125 or Assisting with Rolling Curve at 120. Whirlwind is fairly strong at this point, so save up points to max it immediately. It does become a lot less useful later on and detrimental to DPS though, but it has good utility and damage for now.

A single point in Armor Break can be useful now with Whirlwind activating it often on anything that can survive long (I would assume Critias Dungeon at this level, possibly a Dungeon Boss). Things don't really have high Defense though to justify more points this early, especially when they die in under 4 hits. At this point, everything is maxed as you learn it.

Combination 4 has really tall range and can easily OHKO things. Advanced Power Stomp is really strong as well with its Shockwave. It can be difficult to aim because of where it appears though. At 155, max Throwing Weapon to unlock and max Advanced Throwing Weapon. Advanced Throwing Weapon is likely to be your primary damage dealer as Beta. You can use it to clear monsters by casting it and moving forward if you're strong enough, and its damage is extremely high at bosses.

At 165, 1 point in Advanced Whirlwind for the utility pull would be best. It allows you to pull in things from a very far range, and if you Assist correctly, Advanced Rolling Assaulter will kill them. Advanced Whirlwind itself isn't that strong or useful for damage so it's left at 1. Immune Barrier gives Beta the survivability that she lacks compared to Alpha's Divine Leer. It's still worse, but effective. I believe around now you can start trying Critias Dungeon Hard Mode, and if not, at 170 with maxed Advanced Earth Break and Advanced Rolling Assaulter you'll be strong enough.

There are enough points now to start on Armor Split, up to 16. The benefit of more is for higher activation rate and duration, but the most important is stacks first. Advanced Whirlwind should be able to stack it to max really fast, so you don't have to worry about activation rate, and constant attacking should keep up its duration. 11 Turning Drive leaves you with enough to max Critical Bind immediately at 185 so you can have more utility at bosses. Now you can max Turning Drive for higher damage when you're lowering your Advanced Throwing Weapon cooldown, and then Armor Split for the extra effectiveness. Advanced Whirlwind comes last as it isn't really used for anything.

Triple Slash [19/20]
Sword of Light [15/15]
Element: Soul [10/10]
Inner Voice [20/20]
One Triple Slash to train. You should OHKO with it realistically. Inner Voice gives you movement speed, though really it isn't a big deal, and neither is the WATK from Sword of Light unless you're completely unfunded with no decks/Link Skills, etc. Soul does nothing until you're pretty much in 3rd+ job, since you're likely to OHKO everything and the stun won't occur when they're dead.
tl;dr:
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[*]Max Inner Voice
[*]Max Sword of Light
[*]19 Triple Slash
[*]Max Element: Soul
[/list]

Silent Move/Loud Rush [20/20]
Trace Cut/Shadow Burn [19/20]
Falling Moon [20/20]
Inner Trust [10/10]
Nimble Finger [10/10]
Sword Mastery [10/10]
Body and Soul [5/5]
This order should be the highest damage output. Nimble Finger is earlier for convenience. Trace Cut is the primary training skill, unless you can OHKO with Silent Move, and that depends on the map and its platforms. I found Trace Cut to hit a lot better since many places have slopes.
You're short one skill point and it doesn't really matter, but Silent Move has some utility after 2nd job, Trace Cut doesn't.
tl;dr:
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[*]1 Falling Moon, Silent Move, Trace Cut, Sword Mastery
[*]5 Sword Mastery
[*]5 Nimble Finger
[*]Max Sword Mastery
[*]Max Body and Soul
[*]Max Inner Trust
[*]Max Falling Moon
[*]Max Nimble Finger
[*]19 Trace Cut
[*]Max Silent Move
[/list]

Moon Shadow/Light Flux [14/20]
Moon Cross/Sun Cross [20/20]
Rising Sun [20/20]
True Sight [10/10]
Soul Guardian [20/20]
Will of Steel [20/20]
Inner Shout [20/20]
Rising Sun is fundamentally useless. Only necessary for the prerequisite for Moon Shadow/Light Flux and Moon Cross/Sun Cross. Your primary training skill will likely be Moon Shadow. It and Moon Cross have similar DPS, though Moon Cross is faster and attacks in front of you, Moon Shadow does more damage per attack (better for OHKO), and is AOE. Depending on the map, you may have varying degrees of usefulness, but I primarily used Moon Shadow to AoE everything. They are both very useful regardless, since you can pull things in from left and right, with a high stun chance, and then Moon Shadow them to death, saving a lot of movement and mob collection time.
1 Inner Shout and 1 Will of Steel for their passive effects. Moon Cross is maxed as it has utility in 4th job, whereas Moon Shadow is useless and left at 14. Inner Shout comes first for general purpose damage increase. After Moon Cross, Will of Steel will reduce all your damage taken by a significant amount, and most importantly heal you. This is around the level range where monsters will start to do more than 1 damage to you, and with a decent amount of Will of Steel, you'll never need HP potions until things start hitting 4 digits. Soul Guardian has some utility letting you heal more has it increases your max HP, and your defenses. Rising Sun can come next as you may want to use it for 1v1 with Light Flux, but honestly it's bad. True Sight is last, but is very important to max as it is a valuable source of defense reduction.

tld;r:
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[*]1 Rising Sun, Moon Shadow, Moon Cross, Inner Shout, Will of Steel
[*]14 Moon Shadow
[*]Max Inner Shout
[*]Max Moon Cross
[*]Max Will of Steel
[*]Max Soul Guardian
[*]Max Rising Sun
[*]Max True Sight
[/list]

Cygnus Knight [30]
Dance of Moon/Speeding Sunset [30]
Crescent Divide/Solar Pierce [30]
Soul Penetration [30]
Solunar Time [20]
Soul Pledge [30]
Sword Expert [30]
Unforeseeable [10]
Master of the Sword [30]
Primary training skill is Crescent Divide and Solar Pierce. Single Target should be Speeding Sunset until you have a decent level of Solunar Time. Solunar Time requires a decent level to be used, and a moderate amount of awareness to cycle a map.
Sword Expert should provide a higher damage bonus than Master of the Sword, though I believe the difference is very small. Using Solunar Time will improve DPS quite a bit, but if you're not comfortable using it to train, get Soul Pledge first. Unforeseeable can be pushed up before Dance of Moon/Speeding Sunset if you don't ever 1v1, since it will improve your damage in general by a small amount. Soul Penetration would be useless if you never fight anything that needs to be Binded.
tl;dr:

• 1 Crescent Divide/Solar Pierce, 1 Master of the Sword, 1 Dance of Moon/Speeding Sunset, 1 Sword Expert
  
• Max Crescent Divide/Solar Pierce
  
• Max Sword Expert
  
• Max Master of the Sword
  
• Max Solunar Time
  
• Max Soul Pledge
  
• Max Dance of Moon/Speeding Sunset
  
• Max Unforeseeable
  
• Max Soul Penetration
  
• Max Cygnus Knight
  

True Sight - Persist [143]
True Sight - Enhanced [162]
True Sight - Ignore Guard [183]
Divide and Pierce - Reinforce [149]
Divide and Pierce - Boss Killer [168]
Divide and Pierce - Bonus Attack [189]
Speeding Dance - Reinforce [155]
Speeding Dance - Ignore Guard [177]
Speeding Dance - Boss Killer [195]
Soul Forge [150]
Cross the Styx [170]
Glory of Guardians [200]

Speeding Dance Hypers, True Sight - Ignore Guard should be priorities for 1v1 damage. True Sight - Enhanced if there is Physical Resistance. I would recommend Divide and Pierce Bonus Attack instead otherwise.

Exceed: Double Slash [20]
Overload Release [20]
Life Sap [10]
Demonic Veracity [15]

In first job, you should honestly be OHKOing everything you don't miss on with your single point in Double Slash. If you don't, you could put points into Double Cross until you do. You should also be leveling faster than you can spend your HP. If you really need to recover HP, there's potions, or you can use Double Slash against the air 20 times and then use your one point of Overload Release to recover 24%. Life Sap is very negligible in this case since monsters deal so little damage, and you spend so much to attack compared to what you recover. That being said, mobility will help you the most at the beginning. Double Cross has pretty good range, but it is relatively slow compared to other classes, especially if you reset its Exceed Stage with Overload Release often.

tl;dr:

1. Max Demonic Veracity
   
2. Max Overload Release
   
3. Max Life Sap
   
4. Max Exceed: Double Slash
   

All skills maxed.

Exceed: Demon Strike [20]
Bat Swarm [20]
Battle Pact [10]
Abyssal Connection [20]
Unbreakable Steel [10]
Desperado Mastery [10]
Rage Within [5]

Demon Strike is probably the single most overpowered second job skill in the game. It does four hits, so you'd be very unlucky to miss a monster completely. It's best used on maps with flat platforms where you OHKO so you don't have to backtrack. Since this skill deals four hits, it has already very stable damage, leading to less usefulness from having earlier Mastery. Abyssal Connection provides a sizeable boost in damage with 40 WATK and increases the limit to what you can OHKO. If you have over 100 WATK, Desperado Mastery technically provides a higher increase in damage for 10 points. Unbreakable Steel provides a good increase in defense. Rage Within gives a little bit less, and STR adds some damage as well. If you're already taking 1 damage, add points into Bat Swarm earlier.

Bat Swarm at a single level should be able to OHKO or 2HKO things around your level. It attacks at 330ms, and covers 1800% range. It can be difficult to manage it against a single target boss when using Demon Strike however. It covers a significant amount of distance, and is very unlikely to hit its attack limit until 3rd job. It should be maxed instead of Demon Strike, since Demon Strike is useless in 3rd job, whereas Bat Swarm will always be useful on maps with flat platforms.

Any flat map with few platforms is a good training area. Chryse in particular has the two platforms where Bat Swarm can hit both of from the bottom. Roids would be viable near the end of 2nd job if you can hit often enough.

Demon Strike has a spam delay that is very small. Regardless, Booster cannot cut spam delays, so attack speed will only increase the amount of distance you can walk before using another Demon Strike. Booster is thus only truly useful for Double Cross and activating Bat Swarm at this point, but is important for everything else later on.

tl;dr:

1. 1 Demon Strike, 1 Bat Swarm
   
2. Max Abyssal Connection
   
3. Max Desperado Mastery
   
4. Max Unbreakable Steel
   
5. Max Rage Within
   
6. Max Bat Swarm
   
7. 19 Demon Strike
   
8. Max Battle Pact
   

All skills maxed except Demon Strike [19].

Exceed: Lunar Slash [20]
Vitality Veil [20]
Shield Charge [20]
Ward Evil [20]
Diabolic Recovery [20]
Pain Dampener [20]
Advanced Life Sap [5]
Lunar Slash has really good range and damage, even at level 1. Shield Charge is for the single point of utility. It's very situation when you'd want to actually charge things though. Very map dependent. Vitality Veil is really only good for the HP Recovery, since it kills things so fast and then you stop and wait for the long cooldown. Pain Dampener has two uses. One is the Overload reduction, and the other is the Exceed Skill damage boost. The reduction stays the same from 1~10, and 11~20, so you'll see me use the breakpoints in this build there.
Diabolic Recovery provides a +40% HP boost. This will increase your damage by a decent amount (significantly less than 40%). The most important aspect of Diabolic Recovery is the 5% HP every 4 seconds. With this active, you will never need to use potions regardless of where you train. Pain Dampener at 11 provides a bit more reduction to Overload's reduction.
Lunar Slash itself gains a 1.46x increase from 1~20, compared to 1.2x increase of Ease Exceed Overload's 1~20, so if all you're looking for is damage instead of survivability, max Lunar Slash first. Advanced Life Sap increases your HP recovered per monster to 10%.
Ward Evil helps with damage reduction, which means you'll have higher HP longer, resulting in more time between Overload Releases keeping your damage relatively high. You'll likely not be anywhere that has status effects though, but it does provide resistance.
Vitality Veil has some niche uses depending on the map, but it's usually faster just to use Lunar Slash. Shield Charge has some even more niche uses. You can rush a dense platform, and then Bat Swarm them to keep your mobility up. I found it particularly useful to do this at Dual Ghost Pirates' bottom platform. Shield Charge is the skill left unmaxed as it's the least significant.

I went to Red Nose Pirates 3 at around 75 and was 3~4HKOing with level 1 Lunar Slash. Moved to DGP at around 90 since I started killing faster than spawn. I've only ever used potions to see what my max damage was.

tl;dr:

1. 1 Exceed: Lunar Slash, Vitality Veil, Shield Charge, Pain Dampener
   
2. Max Diabolic Recovery
   
3. 11 Pain Dampener
   
4. Max Lunar Slash
   
5. Max Advanced Life Sap
   
6. Max Pain Dampener
   
7. Max Ward Evil
   
8. Max Vitality Veil
   
9. 19 Shield Charge
   

All skills are maxed except Shield Charge [19]

Exceed: Execution [30]
Nether Shield [30]
Nether Slice [30]
Blood Imprison [20]
Overwhelming Power [30]
Defense Expertise [30]
Advanced Desperado Mastery [30]
Infernal Exceed [20]
Maple Warrior [30]

Execution is your primary attack in 4th job. Nether Slice is actually completely useless until it is maxed. 1 point is for pomegranates and giggles, honestly. Overwhelming Power provides the next highest increase in damage after Execution. Then Advanced Desperado Mastery. Defense Expertise provides the same bonus as Nether Slice but is passive. Nether Slice will help party members at bosses, but on regular monsters it may not be worthwhile since you need to use it each time they spawn. Blood Imprison is Dark Bind. If you don't need Dark Bind, get Nether Shield first. Nether Shield is actually a 1.14x increase in overall damage output after maxing it compared to 1 point. If you don't boss, Nether Shield comes before Defense Expertise and Nether Slice as well.

If you need to hit more targets than Execution can, use Lunar Slash. Nether Slice is too pomegranatety. Nether Shield is useful, but you have to be careful not to kill the monster it's targeting, or it will disappear immediately.

tl;dr:

1. 1 Exceed: Execution, Advanced Desperado Mastery, Nether Shield, Defense Expertise
   
2. 1 Blood Imprison, Nether Slice, Enhance Exceed
   
3. Max Exceed: Execution
   
4. Max Overwhelming Power
   
5. Max Advanced Desperado Mastery
   
6. Max Infernal Exceed
   
7. Max Defense Expertise
   
8. Max Nether Slice
   
9. Max Blood Imprison
   
10. Max Nether Shield
    
11. Max Maple Warrior
    
12. 54 Extra Points
    

Exceed - Reinforce [143]
Exceed - Reduce Overload [162]
Exceed - Opportunity [183]
Ward Evil - Harden [149]
Ward Evil - Immunity Enhance 1 [189]
Ward Evil - Immunity Enhance 2 [168]
Nether Shield - Reinforce [155]
Nether Shield - Spread [177]
Nether Shield - Range [195]
Thousand Swords [170]
For Liberty [200]
Forbidden Contract [150]

Reduce Overload reduces your max Overload count. Nether Shield - Spread makes you hit up to four monsters, but only two Shields can hit a single target still.

If you're aiming for pure damage, Exceed - Reinforce, Opportunity, and Nether Shield - Reinforce, Extra Target.

Thousand Swords isn't actually beneficial to %/s or hits/s.

You're halfway there to level 200. This time, these normal skills don't start at the max level of 30, so you need to get those Mastery Books to raise the max level of a skill which is frustrating. What's worse is that you only get those through luck based item called Mystery Mastery Books. Good luck on getting all the books you need if you want to continue. So you start off as a Hero with Rush, and either Advance Final Attack, Monster Magnet, or Combat Mastery, and Raging Blow. Raging Blow completely breaks Brave Slash by hitting up to 6 mobs 5 times. Its last hit is always 100% critical hit, so it should be your first skill to max. Advance Combo Attack is originally supposed to be the second skill to max, but in order to add points into this skill is that you need to get a Skill Book. I'd go on a Zakum run with a person that has enough range to fight it, but (I need clarification please,) you need at least 5 people in the expedition, so good luck finding people who can be the expedition mule. You can get the Skill book from Hilla, but keep in mind that Hilla expedition (Normal mode) is level 120+, so it's going to require a lot of patience. You can skip this skill until you get it if you're a fast leveler, otherwise just save skill points till you get the skill book. Advance Combo Attack is the upgrade to Combo Attack in 3rd Job. You charge up to 10 orbs and have the chance to charge it twice. Combat Mastery should be maxed after Advance Combo Attack (Raging Blow if you don't have ACA skill book ATM.) since it ignores mob defense. Advance Final Attack is the upgrade to Final Attack with a higher chance to activate. It comes with the passive Attack Power buff and it hits twice when activated which is why you should max it after Combat Mastery. Stance is a god send since you never get knocked back when maxed. You need MAX ACA in order to access Enrage, so it should be your last core skill to max before adding points to Maple Warrior, Hero's Will, Monster Magnet and Rush. Getting the Maple Warrior mastery book is super frustrating thanks to Mystery Mastery Book. So you're going to have to hunt for it which can be really tedious. For Hero's Will, you need Miniature Pianus to do the quest to get 40 Pieces of Courage. 10 Mithril Plates are needed too. Maxing all but Monster Magnet and Rush will leave you 105 Skill Points left.

Pro Tip: Hero's Will always costs 30 MP depending on how many skill points you have added to it. If you have Self Recovery at level 5 or above, it should help you whether you get seduced and 1/1'd which isn't a common combination. If you have potential that allows you to be invincible for 2 more seconds, then there should be no problem waiting for the recovery without being screwed.

The only purpose to max both Monster Magnet and Rush is damage. Monster Magnet can be used to pull mobs, but it's useless when it comes to training since it is likely you'll deal enough damage to instant kill the normal mobs with Raging Blow. It is however useful when facing off against Pink Bean along with Shout due to delay it has and Raging Blow can't reach the bird statue so it can damage without angering it unlike Paladin's Blast, and DarK's Dark Impale. Rush is a very critical skill in terms of training which makes normal training a bit faster. However, maxing this skill is costly MP wise, so you better have a lot of MP potions if you max this skill, so I'd leave Rush at 1 in order to save MP.