A Windhawk's Journey by Meer
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Disclaimer! |
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| Ragnarok Online PvM/PvE build guide for Windhawk. Specifically tailored for MuhRO. Might not work for other servers. Work in progress. |
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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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Overview
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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 Owl's Eye
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These both skills are self-explanatory, incease your attack range and DEX per Level. |
 Vulture's Eye
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 Improve Concentration
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Incease your AGI and DEX by certain % amount. This skill is super helpful even at end game. |
 Double Strafe
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Good single-target skill for beginning. |
 Arrow Shower
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Good AoE-skill (Area of Effect) which allow you hit multiple monsters at a time for the purpose of leveling. |
 Arrow Crafting
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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  Oridecon Arrow (1765) cause they are not buyable on this NPC and has the highest ammoATK in the game.
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Sniper
| Skill | Note |
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 Sharp Shooting
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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. |
 Wind Walk
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Increase Flee-Rate and Moving Speed to you and your party member, really helpful skill to move faster. |
 True Sight
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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. |
 Anklesnare
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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. |
 Blitz Beat
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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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 Aimed Bolt
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Single-target type skill that does NOT crit, but have 12 cells-range. NOT META. |
 Camouflage
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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. |
 Unlimit
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One of your best skill. HUGE boost to your damage. Make sure to stay alive as long as possible. |
 Warg Rider
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Coupled with Wind Walk, this skill will allow you to move super fast anywhere you want to go. |
 Warg Strike
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Allowing your Warg to attack, and increase the damage too. Coupled with  Tooth of Warg, it will boost the damage even higher.
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 Trap Research
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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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 Crescive Bolt
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+1 | The current meta single-target skill. If Aimed Bolt and Sharp Shooting getting married, this will be the kid. Brutally strong and DOES Critical Damage. Sadly only 9 cells-range.
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 Gale Storm
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+10 (3 Targets) | The 4th's Job version of Arrow Storm. ONLY CRIT if  Calamity Gale is up. Kinda useful to restore AP against multiple targets.
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 Wind Sign
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+? | Use this on the boss after using Calamity Gale to quickly regain your AP back to 200. Not really useful for farming purpose.
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| Calamity Gale
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-200 | The 4th's Job version of Unlimit. It also allows your Gale Storm to crit, and increases Crescive Bolt damage. If used properly without dying, you will have 100% Unlimit uptime by alternating between the two.
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 Hawk Mastery
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none | Allows you to have Hawk together with Warg. |
 Hawk Rush
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Especially useful to kill Plant-Type target or the Dead Soul in Constellation Tower. | |
 Nature Friendly
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Increases Hawk Rush's chance to proc.
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Traits (4th Job Status Build)
There are currently TWO builds that are quite popular. I'm not at endgame yet that's why I can't confirm which one is better than the others.
- POW 100 > CRT 100 > CON (rest)
- CON 100 > CRT 90 > POW (rest)
Sharp Shooting (Early Windhawk)
| Sharp Shooting Parameters
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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. Since getting 
Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) for the -0.5FCT is gacha-based in our server, you will have to be patient and slowly farm the next tier equipments. Grace Set will not work with Crescive Bolt.
| 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. |
 Advanced Paradise Cap (400139)
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Head |
The HP and SP Leech is actually quite good. A cheaper alternative of  Rideword Hat [1] (5208) .
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 Grace Sharp Suit [1] (450090)
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Armor |
Getting Grace Set should be your top priority after getting to Lv150. The combo effect is really strong. |
 Grace Attack Manteau [1] (480018)
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Garment |
Mainly just to get the combo effect. |
 Grace Attack Boots [1] (470020)
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Shoes |
Really affordable -0.5FCT. Definitely neeeded to spam Sharp Shooting |
 Grace Attack Ring [1] (490019)
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Accessories (Right) |
You can use any accesory on your left. |
 Ranger Advanced Paradise Shadow Weapon (24708)
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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
| Crescive Bolt Parameters
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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 |
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. Unfortunately in our server the chance of getting the -0.5sec FCT Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) is way too low and if it was available in the market, the price would be insanely expensive (150m+). That's why getting +11 Auto Leg A or +11 Illusion Sprint Mail & Shoes combo is mandatory to play this build.
Another sad news is, Grace Set is way too good of a combo to break. That 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 Crescive Bolt instead of Sharp Shooting is actually a worse decision.
| Equipment Name | Position How to Get |
Enchants & Card | Note |
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+11 |
Weapon |
Can even go without enchant. 2x  Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)
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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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+11 |
Weapon |
2x Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)
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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. |
+11  Ignis Cap-LT [1] (400266) or
+11 |
Head OS / OS-LT Headgears |
 Abysmal King Dramoh Card (300150)
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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 |
 Sealed Chain (410093) or  Sealed Chain [1] (410094)
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Middle Headgear |
 King Dramoh Card (4524)
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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. |
 Bondage Necklace (420076)
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Lower Headgear |
none | |
+11  Automatic Armor Type A [1] (450127) or
+11 |
Armor |
Any combination of the enchantments above.  Observation Card (4392)
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not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2) |
+11  Automatic Engine Wing Type B [1] (480021)
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Garment |
 Empathize Card (300270)
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Mainly just to get the combo effect. |
+11  Automatic Leg Type A [1] (470022) or
+11 |
Shoes |
Any combination of the enchantments above.  Abysmal Merman Card (300144)
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Mandatory -0.8sec FCT or -0.7sec FCT.
not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2) Stormus : Instead of  Automatic Module (Fatal Flash) (1000148) try using  Automatic Modification Module (Robust) (1000141) or  Automatic Modification Module (Mental) (1000120) for more HP/SP and utility in general.
Hurt Locker : Automatic Module (Fatal Flash) (1000148) will give 50 AGI + 15% Crit Damage. This will be a better choice than Overpower's 50 STR.
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 Sinful Ruby Ring [1] (490044)  Sinful Ruby Necklace [1] (490045)
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Accessories |
2x |
Mandatory -0.3sec FCT as combo, especially if you are using +11  Illusion Sprint Mail [1] (450182) and +11  Illusion Sprint Shoes [1] (470066) .
Void Mimics are mostly for damage. Rgan combo is if you are lacking Crit Rate. |
 Brilliant Light Ruby Ring [1] (490056)  Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace [1] (490057)
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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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 Sniper Stone II (1000009)
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Middle | Giving 5% Ranged Physical Damage if you have Lv.10  Beastbane
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 Assassin Cross Stone II (Top) (1000222)
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Top | Really strong combo and the best combo in terms of maximizing your damage output. |
 Guillotine Cross Stone (Low) (1000976)
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Low | |
 Guillotine Cross Stone II (Garment) (1000221)
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Garment | |
 Critical Stone (Dual) (1000855)
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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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 Ranger Stone (Top) (1000860)
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Top | Giving 10% ACDR if you have Lv.10  Ranger Main. An alternative if you need ACDR.
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 Assassin Cross Stone II (Low) (1000224)
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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. 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, seem 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 |
Enchants & Card | Note |
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+11 [B] |
Weapon basic version from Ghost Palace |
2x Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)
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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 |
+11 [C]  Thanatos Shooter Helmet-LT [1] (400142)
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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 stop at the first MVP. Clearing the whole instance + the quests with a 12 man party is also possible. You will need Minneas to enchant your helm.
Stormus: Use  Limacina Card (300363) If you plan to use  Entangled Intermediate Rgan Card (300380) on Shoes.
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+11  Gray Wolf Suit [1] (450177)
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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  Amethyst Fragment (1000405) to do 3x determined enchantments (250m by the time I write this). Properly gauge if you need this armor piece or not. A player was selling the +9 end game armor piece  Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172) fully enchanted for 500m (Pre-Order).
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 Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174)
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Garment Equipment Crafting |
Empathize Card (300270)
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Really affordable to craft, while being an end game gear as well.
Stormus: |
+11 [C]  Hero Boots-LT [1] (470094)
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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 Entangled Intermediate Rgan Card (300380) instead to get +20 CRIT Rate.
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+12  Gray Wolf Boots [1] (470087)
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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 Amethyst Fragment (1000405) to do 3x determined enchantments (250m by the time I write this).
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. |
 Automatic Booster R [1] (490024)  Automatic Booster L [1] (490025)
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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 |
 Hero's Badge [1] (490163)
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Accessory (Left)
Hero's Badge |
2x  Void Mimic Card (300278) or
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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 |
Enchants & Card | Note |
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+12 [A] |
Weapon
Episode 19 |
Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)
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I still didn't make the Bow yet as of writing this, but my guess is  Temporal Circlet (Ranger) [1] (19484) would only be better if paired with the bow. Using the circlet with  Thanatos Bow-AD [2] (700029) probably gonna reduce your damage, cause you are breaking the combo. Status: not confirmed.
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| +12 Temporal Circlet (Ranger) [1] (19484)
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Head
Old Glast Heim Challenge Mode |
Limacina Card (300363)
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| +12 [A] Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172)
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Armor
Constellation Tower |
 Heart Hunter AT Card (300381)
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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. By the time I write this there's a player selling +9 Fully Enchanted Nebula Armor by your choice for 500m (Pre-Order). Expert Archer Lv.3 enchant was said to deal higher damage > Sharp (based on Leaf) |
| +14 [A] Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174)
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Garment
Equipment Crafting |
 Galensis Card (300261) or
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Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174) will probably be better in most situations. The only thing that could possibly make it worse than  Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480232) is probably when you are farming the mob which matches your elemental specific enchant. Status: not confirmed. Still trying to get my PCC to [A] 😂
Stormus: Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174) is better than Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480232) , because the end game boss in Constellation Tower "Betelgeuse" is Neutral, Large, Dragon. PCC is better against Large enemy.
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+12 [A] Ice Rune Boots [1] (470175)
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Shoes
Varmundt's Biosphere |
Entangled Intermediate Rgan Card (300380)
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Mandatory -1.0sec FCT.
CON enchant was said to be the BiS for Windhawk, while POW enchant gives more flexibility if you plan on sharing the gears with other classes. Status : not confirmed |
 Varmundt Soul Ring [1] (490299)
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Accessory (Left)
Varmundt's Biosphere |
Void Mimic Card (300278)
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Same as above. CON enchant was said to be the BiS for Windhawk, while POW enchant gives more flexibility if you plan on sharing the gears with other classes. Status : not confirmed
Stormus:  Agility of Varmundt Lv5 (311968) is best.
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 Stellar Creative Seal [1] (490135)
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Accessory (Right)
Constellation Tower |
Void Mimic Card (300278)
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Combo with Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172) . Giving in total +16 CRIT Rate, 42% Critical Damage, 8 P.ATK and 2 CRT.
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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 still didn't try out the Master Shadow Gears, so I'm not sure if those are better.
If you plan on min maxing the enchants I guess POW > CON > CRT would be the way.
Stormus:
Get all shadow gears to +10 and get +5 CRIT Rate enchants instead.
| Name | Slot
How To Get |
Note |
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+9  Full Penetration Shadow Earring (24661)
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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  [MVP] Thanatos Card (4399) .
Monsters like Grote in Nifl Dun F2 has 456 DEF. Which translates to -45% Damage for someone with 0% DEF Bypass. |
+9  Full Penetration Shadow Pendant (24662)
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Acessory (Left)
Shadow Gear | |
+9  Separate Reload Shadow Shield (24746)
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Shield
Shadow Gear |
The extra 9% ACDR is really nice to have while only occupying 1 slot. |
+10  Infinity Shadow Weapon (24386)
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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. |
+10  Maximum Mammoth Shadow Armor (24679)
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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. |
+10  Maximum Mammoth Shadow Shoes (24680)
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Shoes
Shadow Gear |
Optional nice to have:
| Name | Slot
How To Get |
Note |
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+9  Mega Blitz Shadow Shield (24767)
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Shield
Shadow Gear |
If you don't need the extra 9% ACDR from Separate Reload Shadow Shield (24746) you can go for this shadow gears for the +10 Critical, 8% ASPD and some Crit Damage %.
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Pet System
| Costume Stone | How to Get | Note |
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 Orc Hero Egg (9121)
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Pet System | Stormus: Current strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Might be quite tedious task to grind it 😂 |
 Abysmal Knight Egg (9132)
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Stormus: 2nd strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Despite lacking in terms of ATK%, there might be a chance this could be the strongest Egg against Boss protocol mobs. Status: Not confirmed | |
 Choco Egg (9091)
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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 🥰
Special Thanks
- Pipo a.k.a Stormus for the peer-review. At this point it should be co-writer of the guide LMAO. Tons of stuffs written here are based on Stormus's knowledge as well.
- Cannon Meat for end game gears.
- Hurt Locker for Illusion Sprint Mail and Shoes combo.