A Windhawk's Journey by Meer
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Disclaimer! |
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This is my personal journey while playing Windhawk in MuhRO. While it supposed to be helping you on several spots, it is not meant to be something you just blindly follow. If you are unsure about something make sure to ask in #archer MuhCord. |
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Previously known as BlackIntels
Artwork by Rox Kenway
Overview
Windhawk PvM Guide I made based on my personal journey in MuhRO and community's advices as well. I hope this helps!
Important Skills
These are few of the skills that I find important. If you are interested in deeper explanation, I would like to recommend you to read more about Archer Branch Skills here.
Archer
Skill | Note |
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These both skills are self-explanatory, incease your attack range and DEX per Level. |
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Incease your AGI and DEX by certain % amount. This skill is super helpful even at end game. |
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Good single-target skill for beginning. |
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Good AoE-skill (Area of Effect) which allow you hit multiple monsters at a time for the purpose of leveling. |
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Allowing you to create your own arrows from materials. We have custom Arrow Seller NPC in @go main, so no need to craft arrows by yourself. I usually only use this skill to make ![]() |
Sniper
Skill | Note |
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Thanks to the rework, this transcendent Skill is our main skill until job change to Windhawk. It has +50 base CRIT from the skill. AoE-style skill, spam-able and do critical damage is the biggest advantage of it. |
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Increase Flee-Rate and Moving Speed to you and your party member, really helpful skill to move faster. |
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Huge boost to Hit, Damage, and Critical Rate. This skill is a must to be spammed when you are fighting anything. |
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Immobilize monsters, if being stepped on. Increase your survivability, and make your Potion usage even lower, cause you can kill the monsters while they are unable to reach you. |
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Allowing your falcon to attack. Usually helpful in cases where you have to kill monsters that only take "1" damage, cause Auto-Blitz Beat gonna hit them multiple time, while you are auto attacking. |
Ranger
Skill | Note |
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Single-target type skill that does NOT crit, but have 12 cells-range. NOT META. |
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Allowing you to stay "hidden" while moving and increasing your damage the longer you are in Camouflage. Really useful in places with no Boss / Demon / Insect Monsters. |
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One of your best skill. HUGE boost to your damage. Make sure to stay alive as long as possible. |
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Coupled with Wind Walk, this skill will allow you to move super fast anywhere you want to go. |
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Allowing your Warg to attack, and increase the damage too. Coupled with ![]() |
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Worth getting to at least Lv.1 to get the +220 SP bonus. |
Windhawk
Skill | Net Change in AP | Note |
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+1 | The current meta single-target skill. If ![]() ![]() |
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+10 (3 Targets) | The 4th's Job version of Arrow Storm. ONLY CRIT if ![]() |
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+? | Use this on the boss after using ![]() |
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-200 | The 4th's Job version of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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none | Allows you to have Hawk together with Warg. |
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Especially useful to kill Plant-Type target or the Dead Soul in Constellation Tower. | |
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Sharp Shooting (Early Windhawk)
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Required for Maximum Potential |
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Fixed Cast Time (FCT) | -0.5sec |
After Cast Delay Reduction (ACDR) | 72% |
Variable Cast Time (VCT) | The closer to Instant Cast the better |
Critical Rate Required | 50 + Target's Crit Shield |
Example Status Build for Sharp Shooting Ranger Lv.185 :
Stats | Allocated Base Points | Priority | Stats Effect | Note |
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70 | Secondary | Extra Weight to carry items, and small boost in statusATK |
Primary means it should be your focus at the early game. You should invest most of your stats points to this. Secondary means in the early game you can put like 20-30 into those stats. |
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100 | Primary | Attack Speed and FLEE | |
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70 | Secondary | MaxHP, and DEF | |
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97 | Increase MaxSP, faster variable-casting-time, and SP recovery rate | ||
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120 | Primary | Boosts your Damage, ASPD (small bonus), faster variable-casting-time, Hit-Rate | |
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100 | Extra crit chance, slight boost in damage |
This is the first choke point of being Windhawk. The transition towards Crescive Bolt will require you to have -1.0 FCT. Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) is mandatory to get that FCT reduction.
Equipment Name | Position How to Get |
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Weapon 10x |
Really good starting bow, available at Lv100. Use it till you can afford a better one. |
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Head |
The HP and SP Leech is actually quite good. A cheaper alternative of ![]() |
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Armor |
Getting Grace Set should be your top priority after getting to Lv150. The combo effect is really strong. |
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Garment |
Mainly just to get the combo effect. |
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Shoes |
Really affordable -0.5FCT. Definitely neeeded to spam Sharp Shooting |
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Accessories (Right) |
You can use any accesory on your left. |
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Shadow Gears |
A really strong shadow gears set that will last you for so long. Just rent it and do NOT buy. |
Entry Crescive Bolt
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Required for Maximum Potential |
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Fixed Cast Time (FCT) | -1.0sec |
After Cast Delay Reduction (ACDR) | 50% |
Variable Cast Time (VCT) | The closer to Instant Cast the better |
Critical Rate Required | 100 + Target's Crit Shield |
Useful Consumables | Effects |
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THESE ITEMS OVERWRITE ONE ANOTHER. MAKE SURE TO ONLY USE ONE OF THESE. |
Example Status Build for Crescive Bolt Windhawk Lv.260 by Stormus:
Stats | Allocated Base Points | Priority | Stats Effect | Note |
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3 | Secondary | Extra Weight to carry items, and small boost in statusATK |
Feel free to tweak the status build as you like. This status build is what Stormus personally use. e.g. I put lower INT and give some to STR so I can carry more stuffs when farming without keeping teleporting back to town. |
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105 | Primary | Attack Speed and FLEE | |
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92 | Secondary | MaxHP, and DEF | |
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100 | Primary | Increase MaxSP, faster variable-casting-time, and SP recovery rate | |
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130 | Boosts your Damage, ASPD (small bonus), faster variable-casting-time, Hit-Rate | ||
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110 | Extra crit chance, slight boost in damage |
Traits (4th Job Status Build)
- POW 100 > CRT 100 > CON 35
- CON 100 > CRT 90 > POW 45
The most popular build so far is the first one, netting around 732m per Crescive Bolt meanwhile the 2nd Build is dealing 627m (-14,4% Damage) Tested by Meer.
Despite Crescive Bolt scales on CON, POW and CRT seem to be way more impactful towards its final damage than the CON.
Equipments
Despite having unlocked Crescive Bolt early on, most beginner Windhawk will probably never get to play this build until later on. Mainly cause this build requires you to have -1sec FCT and 50% ACDR. Getting the -0.5sec FCT Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) is really easy now. So I suggest on buying that costume stone while slowly building the item down below.
Grace Set is way too good of a combo to break. This means if you have +11 Auto Leg A, but not having the Auto Armor / Engine Wing B, you gonna have a really terrible experience. This is caused by Grace Set giving good bonuses but only as a combo, if you break the combo, you will lose tons of damage and in the end switching to Automatic Set is actually a worse decision. I recently talked to a newbie who read this guide, and apparently as a field farmer he seemed to be fine farming with Grace Set for quite long. If you belong to this group of people who love to field farm instead of instance farming, I think you should just buy Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) and get the OSAD Bow + Ignis LT and after that try push straight to Episode 18 Quests and see if you can farm Gray Wolf Gears decently.
Equipment Name | Position How to Get |
Enchants & Card | Note |
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+11 |
Weapon |
Can even go without enchant. 2x ![]() |
Stormus (One of our end game Windhawk): OSAD combo is really affordable and strong set for beginners. Beginners should be able to farm this (Rudus F2) even with Eden Gears + Unlimit. DO NOT CRAFT |
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Weapon |
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Illusion Hunter Bow is a decent bow that I personally started with, cause I didn't know Virtual Bow-OSAD existed and is that affordable. |
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Head OS / OS-LT Headgears |
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Ignis Cap-LT combo with Virtual Bow-OSAD
The HP and SP Leech is better than Celestial Lux Crown prolly only worth using if you happen to find cheap |
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Middle Headgear |
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Quite affordable yet really strong combo that will last you till end game.
Stormus: The +15% HP increase by using King Dramoh x Deep Sea King Dramoh card is especially useful for Windhawk as we are tend to be squishy. |
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Lower Headgear |
none | |
+11 ![]() +11 |
Armor |
Any combination of the enchantments above. ![]() |
not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2) |
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Garment |
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Mainly just to get the combo effect. |
+11 ![]() +11 |
Shoes |
Any combination of the enchantments above. ![]() |
Mandatory -0.8sec FCT or -0.7sec FCT.
not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2) Stormus : Instead of ![]() ![]() ![]() Hurt Locker : ![]() |
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Accessories |
2x |
Mandatory -0.3sec FCT as combo, especially if you are using +11 ![]() ![]() Void Mimics are mostly for damage. Rgan combo is if you are lacking Crit Rate. |
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Accessories |
2x |
Only giving -0.2sec FCT as combo. Do NOT buy Brilliant accessories if you plan on using Illusion Sprint combo, as that combo only gives -0.7sec. |
Costume Stone Enchants
Costume Stone | Position | Note |
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Middle | Giving 5% Ranged Physical Damage if you have Lv.10 ![]() |
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Top | Really strong combo and the best combo in terms of maximizing your damage output.
Buying this will lose you the -0.5sec FCT from ![]() |
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Garment | |
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Garment 2nd Slot (Dual) | +10 CRIT Rate and 10% Critical Damage. Really huge crit rate increase just from 1 Costume Stone. |
Optional nice to have:
Costume Stone | Position | Note |
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Top | Giving 10% ACDR if you have Lv.10 ![]() |
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Low | Giving 5% ACDR through the combo with GX Stone II (Garment). Another alternative if you lacks ACDR. |
Mid Game Crescive Bolt
This part is actually kinda not recommended to make. It serves as a stepping stone before getting to the real end-game build. If you think you can skip some gears listed down below or using the lower grade version e.g. [D] instead of [C], without actually impacting your farming sessions, then feel free to skip. I personally used these gears to make my farming sessions smoother. If you don't need the extra damage, just save up for the next tier.

For those who never heard of Item Reform or Grade Enhancing, feel free to read more on that topic.
The best way, I personally got advised, to refine your item from +0 to +10 during Grade Enhancing is just to raw refine with Etherium or Etheorodecon. This is cause MuhRO actually have enhanced refinement rate compared to kRO even using the normal ores. In average I spent 700 ores to refine an item form +0 to +10 only using Etherium. The table on the right side shows the ores spent from +0 > +10 before the update on 27th July (+9 > +10 = 18% chance compared to now after the update 25%). You can start using the hammer from +10 to +11. I still gonna keep repeating this, only grade your item if you really need the extra damage to farm your next items. This is cause by the time I'm writing this (21st July), my excel sheet indicates that I just spent 200m (Elunium, Etel Dust and refining cost) to refine an item from +0 to +10 (1018 Etherium spent). If in average we spend 700x (140m) to do a grading cycle, and on this section if you do all the grading it will be 10+ grading cycles to be done. That amount of zeny investment for items, that you will not use anymore at end game, seems kinda wasteful in my opinion. So only grade the item if you really need the extra damage for your specific farming spot.
Equipment Name | Position How to Get |
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+11 [B] |
Weapon basic version from Ghost Palace |
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Remember to only Grade Up this weapon if you really need it to farm the next tier gears. Make sure to farm instances for Instance Coin cause you will need it to buy Modified Thana Hammer |
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Head basic version from Tomb of Remorse |
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Tomb of Remorse is one of the end game instance. I suggest try farming the mobs for Minneas with alt windhawk chars and leave the instance without fighting the first MVP, if you are not geared enough to solo it. Clearing the whole instance + the quests with a 12 man party is also possible. You will need Minneas to enchant your helm.
Stormus: Use ![]() ![]() |
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Armor
18 Direction of Prayer |
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One of the strongest Lv.1 Armor in the game, but requires 4500x ![]() ![]() |
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Garment Equipment Crafting |
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Really affordable to craft, while being an end game gear as well.
Stormus: |
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Shoes Hero's-LT Boots Reform basic version from Bioresearch Laboratory |
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Mandatory -0.8sec FCT. Another piece of item that you will not use at end game. The sharp enchant is good, if you need CRIT rate.
Stormus: Refine to +12 and use ![]() |
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Shoes 18 Direction of Prayer |
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Mandatory -1sec FCT. Another piece of item that you will not use at end game. Requires 4500x ![]() Stormus: A better alternative especially to +12 to get +20 CRIT Rate from the card. Easy to enchant, easy to refine being Lv1 Armor. I personally don't recommend refining to +12 on gears that you don't use at end game. I just wasted 200m trying to refine a Lv.1 Armor item from +10 to +12 (around 50x HD Carnium wasted). Only do it if you can afford the gamble. |
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Accessories Automatic Equipment (17.2) |
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This will be your farming accessories thanks to the HP/SP Leech. You can even use this at end-game if you need HP/SP Leech more than damage. The +10 CRIT per accessory is also really nice.
Stormus: Based on my old Guide I wrote, the All Force should be around 1% stronger than Attack Speed . Status: not confirmed in MuhRO |
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Accessory (Left)
Hero's Badge |
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Combo with the shoes. Quite nice to have for the CRIT rate, but you will not use it at end game. |
End Game Crescive Bolt
Current best in slot gears for non-MVP user based on Episode 19. Some of you might not noticed it, but MuhRO by design smoothens out the early gear progression. Farming these stuffs down below might be way more challenging than any part above, cause MuhRO tends to NOT smoothen the end game gearing part.
Equipment Name | Position How to Get |
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+12 [A] |
Weapon
Episode 19 |
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I still didn't make the Bow yet as of writing this, but my guess is ![]() ![]() |
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Head
Old Glast Heim Challenge Mode |
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Middle Headgear |
6% ACDR
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Armor
Constellation Tower |
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This piece of gear is NOT the best in slot anymore.
Despite not having ACDR enchant, this armor piece sharply increase your damage. You might want to recalculate your ACDR. Recommended to just buy from someone who farms CT. Expert Archer Lv.3 enchant was said to deal higher damage > Sharp (based on Leaf) Status: tested and SharpLv3 is better than EA3 by a small margin (less than 1%) |
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Armor
Varmundt's Biosphere Depth |
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Stormus said that this is the current best in slot. There is chance that this dungeon gonna be really rough to farm solo, especially if you don't have Nebula Suit of Creative. I recommend to farm this as a party. |
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Garment
Equipment Crafting |
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+12 ![]() ![]() Stormus: ![]() ![]() |
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Shoes
Varmundt's Biosphere |
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Mandatory -1.0sec FCT.
From my internal test I did with my guildie, Only choose CON enchant if you are sure about what you are doing. |
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Accessory (Left)
Varmundt's Biosphere |
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MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE CORRECT "RIGHT OR LEFT" OPTION DURING REFORMING, so you don't make double rings by mistake.
The 3rd slot enchant (Tenacity or Agilty of Varmundt) can be upgraded. (Thx to dmr for mentioning this) From my internal test I did with my guildie, ![]() Only choose CON enchant if you are sure about what you are doing. Stormus: ![]() ![]() |
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Accessory (Right)
Varmundt's Biosphere | ||
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Accessory (Right)
Constellation Tower |
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IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO MAKE THIS ANYMORE especially if you are not using the Nebula Suit. I just put this here just in case someone can get it for cheap price.
Combo with ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The damage gap between ![]() ![]() The test was done this way cause it would resemble the most scenario of farming something that is not related to your enchant. But if you get really good enchant on the Varmundt Ring, it will be way better to farm with it. (Tested by me, Stormus confirmed the same idea.) |
Shadow Gears
No more eden shadow gears? I got you covered (based on priority, make the one on top first, slowly walk down to bottom). I have really good hunch about these Master Shadow Gears. Sadly can't get my hand on those yet. I heard people talking about how crazy expensive it is to enchant.
If you plan on min maxing the enchants I guess CRT > POW > CON would be the way.
Set R:
Get all shadow gears to +10 and get +5 C.Rate and Crit Damage% enchants on each piece!
Name | Slot
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Accessory (Right)
Shadow Gear |
Full Penetration combo should be the first priority cause having 100% DEF bypass is really important for general players without ![]() Monsters like Grote in Nifl Dun F2 has 456 DEF. Which translates to -45% Damage for someone with 0% DEF Bypass. |
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Acessory (Left)
Shadow Gear | |
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Shield
Shadow Gear |
The extra 9% ACDR is really nice to have while only occupying 1 slot. |
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Weapon
Shadow Gear |
Depending if you need ACDR more or farming Large monsters more you can put this shadow gear at higher priority than the reload. |
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Armor
Shadow Gear |
The only shadow gears I think "worth" getting to +10 due to the 12% to all elements bonus.
The reason I prefer +10 Max Mammoth Shadow Armor, instead of having the Max Mammoth Set on accessory slot, is because the unupgraded version of Mammoth Shadow Armor gives HUGE CRIT. It will make things easier to get the 140 CRIT just by having the non upgraded version. |
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Shoes
Shadow Gear |
Optional nice to have:
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How To Get |
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Shield
Shadow Gear |
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Pet System
There is ongoing talk going on Discord indicating that Little Isis is having wrong description and wrong script compared to Divine Pride. If this bug report is getting properly adressed, there's chance that Orc Hero might lose its throne.
Costume Stone | How to Get | Note |
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Pet System | Stormus: Current strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Might be quite tedious task to grind it 😂 Another alternative would be Little Isis. Way easier to make, only slightly behind (-0.12%) compared to Orc Hero Egg. |
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Stormus: 2nd strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Loq: Despite lacking in terms of ATK%, there might be a chance this could be the strongest Pet against Boss protocol. Status: Tested by Meer. Around +2% compared to Orc Hero Egg. | |
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Nice to have if you lacks CRIT Rate. |
Current Research Data Collected
The OG players would understand what this section gonna be filled with 🥰
Things that affects your skill's spam rate: |
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By the time I'm writing this guide 19th July 2023, MuhRO doesn't have Skill Queue. This means your distance to the server MATTERS for your skill spam rate.
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