Hannie's Night Watch manual to spread democracy

Work in progress! by Hannie

Introduction

This guide's aim is to help provide a baseline knowledge about this popular yet almost forgotten class in PVE. Hope it will prove useful to anyone who's reading this.
Night Watch is a pretty straightforward DPS class that is very easy to pick up as you go, but to truly master the usage of its arsenal ( yes, there is 5 types of guns with at least 1 builds for each ) will take a long time.
Why should you play one, and what does it offer?

Abbreviations

OG	Short
Night Watch	NW
Damage per second	DPS
Grenade Launcher	GL
Area of Effect	DPS
Action Point	AP

Pros

You get to use a gun! yes, not for fun but guns have 0 size penalty, so you don't have to worry about that part for the rest of your life

Wide variety of builds, and weapons selection

Have innate DEF ignore on some builds, and CRIT skill on some.

Medium mobility with Fallen Angel

No cooldown 25% max HP worth of shield

On DPS build can be pretty competitive single DPS on boss.

Free 30 Crit from intensive aim

Cons

Gear swapping will be essential to learn and master.

Mediocre AOE farming, Good single target and instance farming. Not the class you will want as your main farmer

Very dependance on gear

Low base HP due to Extended class can't rebirth.

Mobility tied to Pistol gun type.

Cost zeny to get coins, and most of your skills require coins and other types of ammo.

Worse ammo viability than other ammo users. Only have access to Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Holy, Neutral, Shadow and Poison.

4th job's Aim mechanic requires you to stand still in one place, only way to move is Fallen Angel

On my scale, i'd rate Night Watch to be 6/10 in term of difficulties.

Gun types

Revolver

Only gun type that can use the only movement skill : Fallen Angel, which we will get to more details on the skill section.
Suitable for boss DPS due to high scaling on Magazine for One skill. Lacks any noticeable AOE skill beside Fire Dance which requires you to be melee and does not scale on 4th job stats.

Rifle

All of rifle skills are critical based. So rifle are locked into critical damage build and have no access to DEF ignore skills.
Rifle is a well rounded gun, has access to boss DPS by spamming Only One Bullet and Spiral Shot. and Spiral shot is an AOE skill in itself albeit very small ( 7x7 around target ).

Shotgun

Similar to Revolver, Shotgun boast one of the biggest damage scaling skill. But it slow base ASPD and lacks of neither crit/DEF ignore put it behind other guns. Usable but not strong.
Shotgun has access to both target ground AOE and center around caster AOE ( both 7x7 ) which makes it not bad to pick up as a farmer build.

Gatling

The king of farming, singlehandedly carry Rebellion with Round Trip and now on Night Watch proceed to do it again with Vigilante In The Night. The difference ? They can now do long range single target with Magazine For One.
Has always been and will still be the best gun to start with, VITN is spamable Round trip and even ignores DEF. both Magazine For One and Vigilante In The Night deals acceptable boss DPS too.

Grenade Launcher

Has always been the weird one, but never the weak link. GL have lowest base ASPD out of the bunch. but makes up with huge damage multiplier. On Rebellion, GL has a cooldown limit but on Night Watch, Grenade Launcher become a spammer build which deals high enough damage to be competitive at end game. and all of Grenade Launcher skills hits for big AOE skill, which makes it an very good choice for farming.

Overview

Guns types

For	Revolver	Rifle	Shotgun	Gatling	GrL
Boss DPS	♦♦♦	♦♦	♦♦	♦♦	♦
Farming	♦	♦♦	♦♦	♦♦♦	♦♦♦

This is objectively from my experience. And are wildly varied depends on gear, familiarity with the game, your willingness to use consumables, ...

Skills

Some noticeable skill from each of the skill tree will be explained here. Since the skill points will varied build to build, I won't be listing skill builds here yet

General Skills

Gunslinger

Snake Eyes - Stat passive
Single Action - Stat passive
Chain Action - Stat passive, can skip maxing out but very useful when dealing with plant-type combat
Coin Flip - The base skill to gain coins on Gunslinger, will be replaced later on but is a prequisite, each use cost 1 zeny
Increase Accuracy - A very small stat self buff that last for 1 min
Gatling Fever - A self buff if you are using gatling

Rebellion

Rich's Coin - Your most important skill to generate coins, instantly gives max coin with 100 zeny cost
Binding Trap (Dark Pit) - A good skill to use when soloing, although not as potent as ankle snare but it helps alot even with just the slow. A little clunky to use, have to aim far from your self
Banishing Buster (Exile) - Shotgun skill that removes 1 positive buff from a target, useful in some situation but generally not worth the hassle. Will fail if you dont have enough HIT, has elemental immunity, auto guard
Eternal Chain (Infinite Chain) - Allows Chain Action skill to benefits all guns, therefore opens up Quick Draw Shot for all guns
Quick Draw Shot (Tailwind Shot) - After Chain Action passive proc, use this skill to add damage to that shot. Does not have acd and can be cast as much as your ASPD and luck for chain action procs
Crimson Marker (Blood Brand) - Reduce target FLEE to 10, and damage to Rebellion's skills towards marked target. Bread and butter for bossing as a Rebellion
Fallen Angel (Nephilim) - Your only movement skill, can spam as much as you have the coins for it. Only usable on Revolver
Platinum Alter - 25% max HP shield, Mastery ATK increases depends on the amount of coins you have on cast. Very potent buff without cooldown that you will use alot, downside is the skill only works with Silver Bullet (13221) or Purifying Bullet (13220)
Heat Barrel (Acceleration Bullet) - 50% FCT, ASPD and Attack buff depends on the amount of coins you have on cast. Can be used with all bullets but have cooldown.
Anti-Material Blast (Obliterator) - Rifle skill that have a chance to put resistance reduction debuff on the target. It will boost your team DPS by a lot, but the debuff duration is short and have a chance to fail. Useful on all guns in bossfights.

Night Watch

P.F.I - Stat passive
Grenade Mastery - Stat passive
Grenade Fragment - Changes the element of your grenade skill tree ( the one below Grenade mastery, not grenade launcher's skill
Auto Firing Launcher - Gives NW auto attack a chance to use the 3 grenade skills, usually NW will not be using auto attack but once there is gear for auto grenade build it will find its use. for now dont worry about this.
Hidden Card - NW's "unlimit", gives you a huge damage boost for the duration. Cost 150 AP
Intensive Aim - Enter aim mode. While in aim mode, NW cannot move by any means aside from Fallen Angel (Nephilim), but in term will gain stack of Aiming that will boost NW other skills and stat boost
Mission Bombard - NW "dps" ultimate, deals a burst of damage. Not worth using since you will be keeping AP to reuse Hidden Card.

DPS Skill

Gun skill

One or Two of these will be your main tool, they are limits to having equip two certain guns, and builds will be center around these.

Skill	Overall	Special 1	Special 2
The Vigilante at Night	AOE skill centered around player	Gatling: Ignores DEF, Bigger AOE	Shotgun: Higher Scaling, Smaller AOE
Only One Bullet	Single target skill	Revolver: ignores DEF, higher scaling	Rifle: can crit
Spiral Shooting	AOE skill that does damage around target	Rifle: can crit	Grenade Launcher: deals 2 hit, bigger AOE
Magazine for One	Single target skill	Revolver: can crit, higher scaling	Gatling: deals more hits
Wild Fire	AOE skill that does damage in the selected area ( ground target )	Grenade Launcher: bigger AOE	Shotgun: higher Scaling, smaller AOE

Gun skill

These skills have pretty similar function is that they do some small aoe damage, generates AP and can choose element with Grenade Fragment. Either one or two of these is very good to have when farming. They cost Throwing Grenade (1000564)
Basic Grenade
Hasty Fire in the Hole
Grenades Dropping

Special Mechanic for Night Watch

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Builds

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Build Types

Autocast Build

One day Master Soul Rifle-LT [2] (810009) Heroic Token (Night Watch) [1] (490185)

Farming

Overview

Nightwatch is not the best farmer, but makes up in versatility and some weird gimmick. We have a tool for most of the situation and map that thrown at us but we wont farm fast enough compare to meta farmer. Now get to the main part

Dungeons

Farming 101 For Nightwatch

Map	Difficulty	Preparations	What to Loot	Notes
General	Nope	Everything	Zelunium Ore (25730) Zelunium (25731) Shadowdecon Ore (25728) Shadowdecon (25729) Oridecon (984) Elunium (985) Etel Dust (1000322) Forgotten Heirloom (50001) All Cards drop	These items should always be in your alootid list as they are used for progression, they drops alot but also used alot. Have values to sell to other players too. Autoloot commands (this section better put into you login autoloot settings): @aloottype +6 @alootid +25730|+25731|+25728|+25729|+984|+985|+1000322|+50001
Geffenia	0	Purifying Bullet (13220) Panacea (525) Recommended build: The Vigilante at Night Wild Fire	Little Evil Horn (1038) Zargon (912) Little Evil Wing (1039) Golden Hair (1060) Puppet (740) Red Gemstone (716) Yellow Gemstone (715) Royal Jelly (526) Mastela Fruit (522) Gold Ring (2610) Reins (1064) Diamond Ring (2613) Professional Cooking Kit (12127) Crimson Two-Handed Sword [2] (21015) Wondrous Foxtail Wand [2] (1691) Crimson Violin [2] (1939) Additional loots to consider: Girl's Naivety (12370) Boy's Pure Heart (12373) Hand of God (1009) Cursed Water (12020)	Pretty simple place to farm as Night Watch. Mob will frequently cast Curse and Hallucination so bringing a Panacea (525) is important to keep you comfortable. Most of the loots are for direct sell to NPC ( making an overcharge Merchant or buy Haggler Pass (50042) from cash shop is always recommended ) Girl's Naivety (12370) and Boy's Pure Heart (12373) are used to capture Incubus and Succubus pet, they are best farming pets at all stages of the game for physical class.( so for ourselves ) Hand of God (1009) is used in a crafting recipe needed at end game and Cursed Water (12020) is shadow endow. Autoloot commands (add id of additional items to nolootid if you want it removed): @autoloot 100 @nolootid +509|+932|+2864|+1919|+5072|+756|+1974|+2866|+2865
Illusion Dungeons	1-2	Purifying Bullet (13220) Recommended build: The Vigilante at Night Wild Fire	Illusion Stone (25271) All Illusion gear, for example: Illusion Tae Goo Lyeon [2] (21050) All Illusion refinement/special refinement box, for example: Moonlight Refinement Box (100391) Special Moonlight Refinement Box (100392)	One of the most versatile farming place. All Illusion gear can be sold to NPC at high prices ( around 100k a piece with overcharge ), raw zeny drop is great at Illusion of Twins, Illusion of Underwater, Illusion Stone (25271) can be vend to player. If you manage to get +10 using refinement boxes, buy the exchange hammer at Paradise Market and you get yourself a +9 ticket, if you are lucky, you get +10 ticket with 3 hammers ( 3m zeny ) that can sell for 25+ m zeny. Also some gear here are great to use on yourself too. Check up the build part Autoloot commands: @autoloot 0.2 @alootid +25271 This will autoloot all the target items from mobs, but for MVP you have to either pick the boxes and gear your self, or use @autoloot 15
Magma Dungeon F3	1	Purifying Bullet (13220) Panacea (525) Yggdrasil Berry (607) or Concentrated Blue Syrup Potion (1100004) Recommended build: The Vigilante at Night Wild Fire	All equipment drops	Great for starter farming, doesn't really need much gear ( can start with Grace set ) and has great returns. Also has Eden board quest and Daily board quest associate with it. Mobs here frequently cast SP drain, so an Yggdrasil Berry (607) or Concentrated Blue Syrup Potion (1100004) will be mandatory to keep using skill in here. They also use curse and hallucination debuff, but not as frequent, Panacea (525) will come in handy. Gear drops here worth zeny from selling to NPC and if you have spare Elunium (985) you can mass refine them to as high as possible ( preferably over +8 ) and turn into tickets for reselling. Autoloot commands: @aloottype +4
Rudus F3	1	Armor-Piercing Bullet (13215) Recommended build: Wild Fire Spiral Shooting	Cor Core (25723) Dark Piece (6089) Dragon Skin (7123) Rune of Darkness (7511) Bloody Rune (7563)	Pre-quest: 17.1 Illusion Mediocre farming place, mostly used to farm directly for Cor Core (25723) that is used on Grace gear, Illusion Gear. Mobs here are slow, does not have many really bad debuffs, just careful with Dolor casting defender Other loots can be sell for zeny. Autoloot commands: @alootid +25723|+6089|+7123|+7511|+7563
Varmundt's Second Power Plant	2	Blazing Bullet (13216) Recommended build: The Vigilante at Night Wild Fire	WIP	WIP
Rudus F4	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Nightmare Biolabs/Bio5	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Niflheim Dungeon F1	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Thanatos Tower F11	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Thanatos Tower F12	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Amiticia Dungeon F1	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Niflheim Dungeon F1	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Amiticia Dungeon F2	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Oz Dungeon F2	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Clock Tower Basement	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP
Varmundt's Biosphere	WIP	WIP	WIP	WIP

Instances

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