Planta's High Caliber guide to Night Watch

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About Me

Hola, I'm Planta, a RO enthusiast, I've been playing this game for a very long time and I decided to finally contribute to the community.

My favorite jobs for all time are all the Merchant Tree Jobs (Genetic/Mechanic supremacy) and of course every Expanded Job. Althought I'm not a specialist in how mathematically formulas works in this game (e.g. doing a calculator on Excel) I can say that I have a vast knowledge on how the game works.

Remember that this guide has a PVE purpose.

Introduction

This guide aims to help any Gunslinger enjoyer on how to class works, how to play it, what to build and most important, loving the class!

Night Watch is the final evolution of the Gunslinger Tree, they were designed as Ranged DPS job, either single target or in area. Night Watches have a variety of weapons choices, they have on their arsenal Pistols, Rifles, Gatling Guns, Shotguns and Grenade Launchers, everyone having their unique mechanics.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Pros	Cons
Every Expanded Job advantage. (faster leveling, no rebirth)	Being an Expanded Job means less HP% and lower stats in general.
Access to the mayority of elements thanks to bullets.	No ghost bullet. (REEE)
Good farmer thanks to inherent DEF bypass on some skills.	Need more than one weapon, if you want to use more skills.
Great for MVPing.	Always be on Wind Hawks' shadows.
Not having to worry about VCT%.	Low base health.
Guns have no sizes penalty.	Guns are two-handed weapons so that means no shield.
Access to bootleg Snap. Fallen Angel (Nephilim)	Skills scales with CON. (kek)

Weapon Choices

One thing that I like about Night Watch is that every skill will have a different function depending on which weapons you'll use. So, depending on what you do, the gun you use will matter.

Pistol

The good old pistols.

By far the most iconic arsenal of Gunslingers.

Things to consider.

• Highest ASPD Base among every option.
• Able to use Fallen Angel (Nephilim).
• Access CRIT skills.
• Good for Burst things thanks to the good synergy between Magazine for One + Intensive Aim.
• Thanks to Wild Shot, pistols now have an AoE skill.
• Lowest base ATK of every gun.

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Rifle

My personal favorite.

Rifles are very similar to pistols in terms that both enables Skills that can CRIT. They're are stronger than pistols but slower.

Things to consider.

• Medium ASPD base.
• Able to use Anti-Material Blast (Obliterator), a debuff that reduces target resistances by 50%.
• Access CRIT skills.
• Capable of doing the highest DPS of all builds, thanks to Time Dimensions Combo.

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Gatling Gun

"It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon...for twelve seconds." - Heavy Weapons Guy

Things to consider.

• No ASPD penalties.
• Good and big AoE skills.
• Mayority of them have DEF bypass by default.
• Decent single target damage thanks to Magazine for One and Auto Firing Launcher.
• Forgotten by Gravity. ⚰️

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Shotgun

Shotguns are powerful weapons and it's viability will depends on the server you're playing. Here on KRO meta servers, shotguns are not very good sadly.

Things to consider.

• Strongest Skill Base Damage% of every gun.
• 2nd highest base ATK of every gun.
• Access to Banishing Buster (Exile), to dispell your enemies.
• 2nd lowest ASPD Base.
• Ground target skills have some cluncky animations even with high aspd.
• Forgotten by Gravity. ⚰️

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Grenade Launcher

Without a doubt, grenade launchers are the specialists in large area damage. They are one of the best weapon options for farming.

Things to consider.

• They have the highest base ATK of every weapon in the game.
• Very effective against large groups of enemies thanks to their 11x11 AoE.
• Have the highest DPS for Pure Ranged Builds thanks to the Time Dimensions Combo.
• Lowest ASPD base of every weapon in the game.
• Ground target skills have some cluncky animations even with high aspd.

Knowing Night Watch's Skills

Credits to Penghaw for the table format, I really liked it!

Skill	Properties	Summary
Only One Bullet	Single Target 1s FCT 0.35s Cooldown 0.5s ACD	Requires 30% ACD reduction and 183 ASPD to spam efficiently. Pistol Since it doesn't crit, deals significantly less damage compared to Magazine for One. Can bypass DEF. By having low CD it turns great to kill weak monsters one by one. Rifle Can CRIT, resulting in a good single target DPS skill. DOESN'T Bypass DEF Once you have Time Dimensions Combo, this skill will autocast Spiral Shooting.
Magazine for One	Single target 1s FCT 0.5s Cooldown 1s ACD	Needs 50% ACD reduction and 175 ASPD to spam efficiently. Pistol Can CRIT, as a result, this skill is capable of dealing tons of damage. Stacks well with Intensive Aim, therefore, able to burst MvPs. Gatling Gun Deals massive single-target damage even though it cannot crit. Highest DPS skill for Gatling Gun. (maybe chaining Vigilante+Midnight is better?)
Spiral Shooting	Entity Targeted AoE 1s FCT 0.5s Cooldown 1s ACD	Needs 50% ACD reduction and 175 ASPD to spam efficiently. Rifle The only crit skill that deals damage in area. With Time Dimensions Combo you can bypass the skill CD by spamming Only One Bullet. Kinda small AoE 7x7, compensated by Only One Bullet spammability. Grenade Launcher Deals deals damage in a massive 11x11 AoE around the target. Once you have Time Dimensions Combo, this skill will autocast Wild Fire. Using it with GL is weird, it probably needs higher ASPD.
Wild Fire	Ground target 1s FCT 0.5s Cooldown 1s ACD	Needs 50% ACD reduction and 175 ASPD to spam efficiently. Has a cluncky animation, even with high aspd, it can be smoothen with cell dancing. Grenade Launcher Deals massive damage in a 11x11 AOE. Shotgun Deals more damage at the cost of smaller AoE 7x7 compared to Grenade Launchers.
The Vigilante at Night	Self target 1.5s FCT 0.5s Cooldown 1s ACD	Needs 50% ACD reduction and 175 ASPD to spam efficiently. Requires 1.5s of Fixed Cast Time reduction, meaning is hard to use this skill with Drop Rate gears. Gatling Gun A 11x11 AoE skill around the caster is HUGE. Has innate 100% DEF Bypass. Shotgun Deals more damage at the cost of smaller AoE 7x7 compared to Gatling Guns. Just to remember, unlike Gatling Gun, when using a Shotgun this skill DOESN'T BYPASS DEF.
Wild Shot	Entity targeted AoE 1.5s FCT 0.75s Cooldown 1s ACD	It deals more damage if Hidden Card is active. Pistol Finally an AoE (7x7) option for pistols. At the moment, is not a strong skill compared to Spiral Shooting and Magazine for One. Rifle A 9x9 AoE. Filler skill to be honest, maybe it can be chain with Only One Bullet spam but probably not worth the hassle. Is not strong as Spiral Shooting.
Midnight Fallen	Ground target 1s FCT 0.7s Cooldown 0.8s ACD	It deals more damage if Hidden Card is active. Regardless the weapon, it has a 100% DEF bypass. Gatling Gun A 9x9 AoE. Good to extend your self centered AoE In terms of damage, is the lowest of the three weapons. Shotgun A 7x7 AoE. Good to extend your self centered AoE In terms of damage, is the highest of the three weapons. Grenade Launcher A 11x11 AoE. It can be used alternately with Wild Fire. In terms of damage, is in the middle of the three weapons.

Build Stereotypes

As you could see, Night Watches have a variety of Weapons type and Skills to specialize.

In summary, there are two big groups of builds; Pure Ranged Builds and Ranged Critical Builds. Let's ignore magic build and pretends it doesn't exists

Ranged Critical Builds

On Renewal Ragnarok, critical skills started to dominate the metagame years ago, critical attacks deals 40% bonus damage (140%), have the advantage to ignore FLEE and have max damage variance. To be able to make a skill crit (as long as it can crit), you'll need to increase your Critical Rate stat.

• Basically; if your Critical Rate is 10, you'll have 10% chance to crit.
• However, monsters have a Critical Hit Shield, this stat reduces the chance of landing a critical hit and its calculated by: [Enemy's LUK÷5].
  • E.g.

    
    Verdant Flora (21553) has a Critical Shield value of 36. That means you'll need to have a Critical Rate of 136 to ensure the crit.

• So, for being able to crit every mob in the game, a critical rate between 182~216 is mandatory.
• Reminder that every critical damage card, gear and buffs applies after the 140% critical damage bonus.

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Back to Night Watching, physical critical builds aren't very diverse like Pure Ranged ones. Basically you're stuck with a Pistol, a Rifle or if possible both.

• Do you want to farm end-game content? → Use Rifles
• Do you want to kill things fast and move fast? → Use Pistols

By mastering gear switching (you should) you can do both.

If you are interested on gears, please check section 7.

Full Critical

The critical build has the most potential of every Night Watch build, you'll be able to do any content with it, from farming Varmundt's Biospheres with ease to bully some MvPs, including Betel and Rigel.

At first stance, we have this skills on our arsenal

• Only One Bullet
• Magazine for One
• Spiral Shooting
• Wild Shot

On a end-game phase you just use Only One Bullet, because it autocasts Spiral Shooting thanks to Time Dim Rifle and Crown.

Pure Ranged Builds

Pure ranged builds don’t have all the benefits that critical attacks do. So, if we compare them, they tend to be worse. Still, some of them are more comfortable to use while still providing good results.

Since Night Watches have a ton of pure ranged skills, there are a variety of paths.

Grenade Launcher Build

This is the most viable ranged build at the moment. Grenade Launchers are one of the most powerful weapons at the cost of a big ASPD penalty, both GL skills have good skill base damage and huge AoE.

We have access to these skills.

• Wild Fire
• Spiral Shooting
• Midnight Fallen

On a end-game phase Spiral Shooting autocasts Wild Fire thanks to Time Dim GL and Crown, leading to big numbers.

Pure Vigilante

AKA Kanni's build.

To be fair, The Vigilante at Night is such a comfy skill to use (I'm a enjoyer too), just lay down and press one button. Unfortunately, Vigilante is one of the weakest skills of the NW repository, it doesnt have a great base skill modifier and it's pretty outdated in gears, if we compare it to Rifles, Pistols and Grenade Launchers.

Grenades

Not to be confused with the Grenade Launcher Build.

Grenade skills were useful when Night Watch was first introduced, for example, it was one of the ways of having an AoE option for pistols, instead of using Fire Dance (Dance of Massacre). Nowadays, they're just filler skills to regenerate some AP.

On the other hand, i've seen good results using Auto Firing Launcher, so maybe it can be considered as a offmeta, niche and for fun build.

A reminder that Auto Firing Launcher is KING 👑 for events in MuhRO.

(añadir skill descriptions aqui en una pestaña aqui, en la sección 6 o crear event aspd build o algo nose aun)

Being a Night Watch

Stats and Traits

Like every guide, of course it will have a stats and traits section.

Stats

STR	STR will offer us little ATK, but, it increases weight capacity, so go for it.
AGI	More AGI means more ASPD and that means less Delay between Animations.
VIT	We want HP, we are squishy :(, and also provides some status inmunity.
INT	INT will help us on our SP pool and some status inmunity.
DEX	Our main stat for dmg, you want to 120 it.
LUK	Every 3 Luk points it adds +1 Status ATK, cheaper than STR, also great for CRIT and Curse inmunity.

Traits

POW	ATK goes BRRRR, literally a adds a final modifier (P.ATK) for damage calculation.
STA	Adds RESistance for physical damage.
WIS	Adds Magical RESistance for magical damage.
SPL	We don't want SPL, because we ain't mages, unless...
CON	CON will helps us with HIT, FLEE and P.ATK, also our Skills scales with it.
CRT	Every 3 points in CRT it will add 1 of our beloved stat C.RATE. Useful for Crit Builds.

For more detailed explanations on stats and traits, please visit the Stats page.

Important Skills

In this section, only the most important skills will be mentioned.

Gunslinger

Skills
Name	Level	Summary
Coin Flip	5	Coins works exactly like Monk's Call Spirits, they are catalyst for some skills and give us some Mastery ATK.
Increase Accuracy	1	Adds +20 HIT aswell as +4 points in DEX and AGI, free stat buff, get it.
	1	A situational buff, +30 FLEE and 20% less damage on ranged attacks, has a 30s duration, could be useful in some scenarios.
Single Action	10	A passive skill, free +20 HIT and 5% ASPD, max it.
Snake Eyes	10	Another passive skill, at level 10 boost our HIT by +10 points and give us +10 Range on basic attacks.
Chain Action	10	It's Double Attack for pistols, max it too.
Rapid Shower (Trigger Happy Shot)	7-10	A pistol exclusive skill. A glorified Double Strafe, good for leveling meanwhile we are a rookie Gunslinger.
Desperado	10	A pistol exclusive skill. Desperado was always a strong skill, an 7x7 AoE around us, hits are random up to a max of 10 each cast. A must to have.

Rebellion

Skills
Name	Level	Summary
	1	Champion's Dangerous Soul Collect (Zen) but with a CD, pepehands. Calls up to 10 coins at the cost of 100 zeny.
Platinum Alter	5	Oh boi, one of our best buffs, a whopping 150 ATK and shield of 25% of our health, the ATK buff scales with the number of coins we have summoned, so use it after Rich's Coin, it doesn't have cooldown. Can't be used alongside Heat Barrel, Adjustment and Madness Canceler.
Heat Barrel (Acceleration Bullet)	5	Another good buff, not as good as Platinum Alter tho, with 10 coins will give us 160% ATK, 20% FCT reduction and +5 flat ASPD. Keep in mind that this ATK boost for skills is just additive, thus, acting similar like Maximum Power Thrust. If we compare it with Platinum Alter, is a small boost on skills. On the other hand, for basic attacks it's basically double damage for 1 minute. Can't be used alongside Platinum Alter, Adjustment and Madness Canceler.
Fallen Angel (Nephilim)	1	A pistol exclusive skill. The baby form of Body Relocation. Teleports you to the targeted cell, consumes a coin and it has a range of 9 cells. At higher attack speed, it will feel smoother, try going to 193 ASPD.
Binding Trap (Dark Pit)	5	A trap skill. It lays down a 7x7 trap on your position, affecting enemies' movement speed, there can be only one trap active at a time tho. Needs 1 Special Alloy Trap (7940) and a coin. This skill works on bosses.
Eternal Chain (Infinite Chain)	10	Enables Chain Action for any gun. Chain Action level will depend of the skill level of Eternal Chain.
Round Trip (Circle Dance)	10	A Gatling Gun exclusive skill. Personally I find Round Trip to be one of the best skills in the game, it has great damage, a massive 13x13 AoE, and deals extra damage if targets are knocked back into a wall (this extra hit is guaranteed on bosses because they are immune to KB). Additionally, there are tons of gears to improve it. A must-have skill.
Fire Dance (Dance of Massacre)	0 or 10	A Pistol exclusive skill. Back in the day, Fire Dance was one of the highest DPS skills for Rebellion. Even in the early days of 4th jobs, this skill used to achieve good results. Currently, it remains a viable option for leveling, alongside Round Trip. It requires around 66–72% ACD reduction, though I can't recall the exact value. For this reason, you want to choose Round Trip for leveling.
Anti-Material Blast (Obliterator)	5	A Rifle exclusive skill. One of the few debuffs we have right now, it cuts to half enemies resistances, working like a pseudo Comet, it has a 70% chance to hit. Cooldown can be reduced with Finisher [2] (28223) . Very good skill, a must.
Banishing Buster (Exile)	10	A Shotgun exclusive skill. A powerful shot capable of removing buffs of your enemies, working like Dispell, chance increases depending the level, it has 100% at level 10, you can reduce the cooldown through gears. A good situational skill, a must have too.
Crimson Marker (Blood Brand)	1	Marks your enemy with a Crimson Death Mark, once it's marked you can see your enemies through the mini-map. Useful if a MvP teleports away. Lasts 50 seconds and consume a coin.
Fire Rain (Fire Deluge)	5	A Gatling Gun exclusive skill. A strange one to be fair, shots a barrage of bullets in 3x10 area, capable of removing ground effects (e.g. Pneuma, Land Protector), it has a long cooldown and a 40% chance to work. Very situational and mediocre, it's hard to use this skill correctly because sometimes it goes to the wrong direction. If you're using Rebellion Stone (Mid) (1001048) max it, otherwise, skip it.

Night Watch

Skills
Name	Level	Summary
P.F.I	10	Night Watch's most basic skill, a free stat booster, max it unless you wanna do something crazy with your skill tree lmao.
Grenade Mastery	10	Same as above, free +10 CON, it also boost the damage of Grenade-type skills.
Intensive Aim	1	This skill is interesting. Once activated you'll enter an Intensive Aim state. While is active, you'll gain 150 ATK, 250 HIT and 30 Critical Rate, however, you won't be able to move. Every 0.5 seconds you gain a stack of Aiming Count, up to 10. These Aiming Count stacks multiply the damage of your skills. For example, when using a pistol, Magazine for One has a Aiming Count multiplier of 500, meaning at 10 Aiming Counts you'll have a extra 5000% of skill damage. Once a skill is used, your Aiming Count will reset to 0 and it will have to recharge it again up to 10. Using Fallen Angel (Nephilim) is the only way to move around while Intensive Aim is active.
Hidden Card	10	One of our two ultimate skills, at the cost of 150 AP, we gain 100% Ranged Physical damage and +30 P.ATK. A no brainer, max it ASAP. why it can't be like unlimit :(