Melee Hyper Novice Guide by Jetago: Difference between revisions

Hi, I'm Jetago, a Hyper Novice main ^^~

I decided to write this guide to provide a couple of tips for anyone interested in being a '''Physical Hyper Novice''' *-*

It'll be focused of course on '''Double Bowling Bash''' and '''Mega Sonic Blow''' builds

I hope it'll be helpful ^^.

Let's go over the basics, Stats and traits and their benefits.

!Stat

!Points

!Note

|'''Str'''

|120

|this is our main damage status, increases Atk and Weight Limit, max it out for the maximal damage output.

|'''Agi'''

|Increases Aspd, Flee and improves the effect of Aspd potions, we're going to need a high Aspd to be able to spam our skills properly.

|'''Vit'''

|Increases MaxHp, Def, Mdef and Hp recovery, improves our tankiness and survivality (100 total Vit grants '''Stun''' status immunity).

|'''Int'''

|Increases Matk, MaxSp, Mdef, Sp recovery and reduces Variable Cast Time (100 total Int grants '''Silence''' status immunity).

|'''Dex'''

|Increases Hit and reduces Variable Cast Time, also slightly increases Atk and Aspd.

|'''Luk'''

|60-90/120-125

|Increases Critical Rate, main stat for critical builds, also slightly increases Atk, Matk, Hit, Flee and Perfect Dodge, raise your Luk depending on your needs or conditions (100 total Luk grants '''Curse''' status immunity).

|'''Pow'''

|Increases Atk, P.Atk and base damage of skills, this is our main damage trait.

|'''Sta'''

|0-70+

|Increases Res, optional, get some points if you want to be more resistant to Physical attacks (Close it preferably in multiples of 3).

|'''Wis'''

|0-70+

|Increases Mres, optional, get some points if you want to be more resistant to Magical attacks (Close it preferably in multples of 3).

|'''Spl'''

|'''Con'''

|0/70-110

|Increases P.Atk, Hit and Flee, this is the second best damage trait for No-Crit builds and third for Crit (Close it preferably in multiples of 5).

|'''Crt'''

|0/70-110

|Increases C.Rate and H.Plus, this is the second best damage trait for Crit builds (Close it preferably in multiples of 3).

Here i will mention some of the skills that I personally find useful and that you may want to take into account.

|Increases Str, Int, Dex and Hit for 4 minutes

|Increases Agi, Aspd and Movement Speed for 4 minutes

|{{#skill:26}}

|1

|Basically an {{#item:12887}} use level 1 to avoid the window pop-up

|Memorize up to 3 different locations (use /memo) and gain the ability to create portals to reach them quickly

|Deals damage and knock-back enemies within 5x5 cells around you and significantly increases your damage for a short period after use (The damage bonus doesn't increase with the level of this skill, just level 1 is fine)

|Increases Weight Limit by 2000

|Buy items from Npcs for 24% less zeny

|Sell items to Npcs for 24% more zeny

|Enables using a cart with 8000 extra Weight Capacity

|-

|Increases MaxHp by 2000 and Holy element resistance by 50%

|Enables a 30% chance to block physical attacks

|Increases Atk and Matk by 25 for you and your party members for 2 minutes

|Enchants your weapon with Holy element, Holy deals increased damage against Shadow and Undead (and essentially Ghost) elements enemies

|Enchants your weapon with Poison element, Poison deals increased damage against Fire, Water, Wind and Earth elements enemies

|Increases Atk, MaxHp, MaxSp and Healing received

|Increases MaxHp, MaxSp and Healing received

|Restores for you and your party members within an area of 15x15 cells around you 1000Hp and 350Sp per second for 20 seconds

|-

|Increases P.Atk and Hyper Novice skills base damage

|Main offensive skill, deals damage in a 9x9 AoE around the target and further increases its damage with the number of enemies within the AoE

|Main offensive skill, single target, spammable, can Crit and its damage gets doubled when the target's Hp is below 50%

|10

|Secondary offensive skill, ranged, deals damage in a 9x9 AoE around the target, can be used to get rid of low Hp enemies or for basic farming

|<nowiki>AP Buff, massively increases our skills final damage (+100% Mega Sonic Blow | +120% Double Bowling Bash and Shield Chain Rush) for 5 minutes</nowiki>

|AP Buff, increases our MaxHP by a large amount and P.Atk/S.Matk by +15 for 5 minutes

'''Skill Notes:''' We're going to need at least 30% After Cast Delay reduction to get the max spam rate of DBB, Aspd doesn't need to be very high since it has a long cooldown, however higher numbers would help with with animation delay and cast delay of other skills/buffs.

|Feel free to keep any 45% Biosphere gem of your preference

Or +9/10 {{#item:24425}}

'''Skill Notes:''' We're going to need at least 30% After Cast Delay reduction and 183 Aspd to get the max spam rate of MSB, however higher numbers would help with with animation delay and cast delay of other skills/buffs, also we need around '''150''' to '''160 Crit Rate''' to always hit crit on any monster, except inside Varmundt's Depth 1 and 2 which would require up to '''195.'''

|Provides some sorted stats, source of Crit Rate

{{#item:29007}}helps with your Crit Rate

{{#item:29007}}helps with your Crit Rate

{{#item:29007}}helps with your Crit Rate

{{#item:29007}}helps with your Crit Rate

{{#item:29007}}helps with your Crit Rate

Decent Headgear for any Crit Build

|With proper enchants and refinement it can deal a higher damage and provide a better Crit Rate than Boitata Hat but it'll be only usable for Novices while Boitata can be used for Any class

{{#item:450169}}is more flexible to share between builds, {{#item:450172}}provides a better Crit Rate but can be trickier to get the right enchantment, it is also rumored to be BiS armor for future updates

{{#item:312700}} sacrifices some Crit Rate and Damage to provide a higher Aspd and Acd reduction   

Crit +

| rowspan="2" |{{#item:450169}}is more flexible to share between builds, {{#item:450172}}provides a better Crit Rate but can be trickier to get the right enchantment, it is also rumored to be BiS armor for future updates

{{#item:450282}}is slightly better in damage but reduces your Crit Rate, {{#item:450285}}provides a better Crit Rate

|Pretty optional shield, not exactly an upgrade in terms of damage but provides great utility in Defense, Aspd, Acd, Crit Rate etc. if you don't need these stats you can skip it

|Provides a more manageable Crit Rate and After Cast Delay reduction, additionally it can be used for any other critical class either ranged or melee

|Feel free to keep any 45% Biosphere gem of your preference

{{#item:310696}}should also be viable but still weaker than {{#item:310706}}also it won't provide you with Crit Rate

Melee Dmg% or Crit Dmg% as best second attribute options.

Or +9/10 {{#item:24425}}

{| class="wikitable"

|<nowiki>Critical Rate +8, C.Rate +3 | Best pet if you need more Critical Rate and a bit of Critical Dmg</nowiki>