Melee crit paradise dk edition

Introduction

This is a comprehensive one-stop bible for Melee CRIT players in MuhRO through the lens of a CRIT Dragon Knight.

Lore of Dragon Knight

Dragon Knights (DK) are the 4th class of the knight branch who draws energy from the Red Dragon through Leticia; a cosmic dragon who took notice of your character after mastering mana acquired through the power of Runes ( one that gains the respect of dragons but scares off Pecos) discovered in Ash Vacuum as a Rune Knight . Ash Vacuum is an alternate dimensions where Satan Morroc hailed from.

The CRIT DK is one of 2 main playstyles for DK that directly imbue the Strength of the Dragon into his Sword to dish out Outrageous DPS through skills like:

STORM SLASH: One of the highest DPS single-target skill due to short cool down and 60% chance to deal double damage,
Hack and Slasher: A 7x7 AOE skill to deal with mobs. The damage is okay but the AOE is small @ 7x7; the downside of CRIT DK.
Charge Attack: At 14 cells- the furthest mobility target skill in game, allows CRIT DK to close in on any target easily.
Vigor: Draws out the dragon's aura to deal 50% additional damage to Angel and Demi-human enemies. Also increases normal attack damage.

The other playstyle channels upon the Vitality of the dragon to spew flames via Dragonic Breath- a build with lesser Single target DPS but more HP and better AOE (9x9) at range.

Highlight of the Melee CRIT DK build

Pro:

The high DPS of Storm Slash, coupled with all the other defensive tools available to you as through Runes makes you probably the best boss-killer in the current meta.

The best playstyle to compliment this is through instances (basically a short raid) with bosses that offers great pay-outs. There is a section on instances in this guide later.

Con:

The small 7x7 AOE of Hack and Slasher makes your field-farming capabilities much lower than the typical mage; besides selected dungeons where pathways are narrower. Fortunately, the current end game dungeon, Depth 2, is one of them, and still remains very profitable.

However field-farming is a big part of the game (at least until the late phases), and MUHRO even improves upon it by having cash shop items such as Blacksmith's Blessings and Bloody Branches being acquirable through field farming. As such, you may find that the starting farm speed of the CRIT DK is slow but it is worth the wait as you will eventually get strong enough to beat powerful instances much faster than most classes.

Pre-game Setup

Turbo

In official servers, some players set up external macro programs to help them spam and click skills. MuhRO has it's own one built into the game to even the playing fields without cheating. This is a game-changer in your gaming experience, so make sure to set it up first!

Refer to: https://wiki.muhro.eu/Patcher#Turbo_Setup

TIP: Turbo is useful not only for skill spamming, as you can use the rapid click feature to :

quickly sell all your junk to NPC, doing so safely by first putting all of your valuables into the fav tab in your inventory and then locking it.
level up skill points quickly through the rapid click to save time as well.

Autoloot

MuhRO has a very comprehensive loot system that lets you save various versions of autolooting items dropped by monsters in game. However, new players usually find that they have to keep retyping their autoloot options on login. Reason is that you need to save your current loot setup as the main login option.

You may do so via the command @alc , which allows you to save several different loot lists.

You can load different ones that you saved via @als as well.

Generally for new players, we would typically just type @autoloot 100 to loot everything, and use @nolootid +id to not pick up items that weight too much.

Refer to : https://wiki.muhro.eu/index.php?title=Autoloot_setups for more information on loot setup options.

Eden and Daily Quests

Levelling

While some classes may have issues levelling their first character, DK is not one of them. In fact, you'll be please to know that following my guide will let you hit lvl240~250 relatively painlessly as a DK. The levelling process is not done as a CRIT build but whatever skill offers the best efficiency with almost no gears and just some consumables. We will re-spec to CRIT after.

A full levelling video is provided for visual purpose:

Lvl1-99 (just dump all your stats into STR first and have ~30 int for enough SP)

Follow through the tutorial to acquire the free HE Manual. Please hit LVL10 before exiting to save some time from visiting a separate dungeon, as it is required for paradise equipment. Equip your free costume.
Head to Office (@go Office)and job-change to Swordsman. If not yet lvl10, type @go Lasagna and walk down to kill Eggrings to get lv10.
Go to Eden (@go Eden), register with Eden Group and collect your paradise equipment+ sword.
IMPORTANT: Use your free HE manual now as it will be disabled beyond lvl40. The duration does not tick down while in Town areas so you can relax in prontera even with it activated.
Head to Orc Dungeon and beat orcs with Bash and Magnum Break until Job lv50.
Job change to Knight at job lv50 at @go Office and @go Eden to collect your second weapon, a twohanded sword.
Head back to Orc Dungeon, and have fun with Charge Attack flying around until lvl75 by using the Turbo feature.
@go Eden and collect the lvl70-99 Board quests (Just click the "Take All" option). We are after only Petite, and sometimes Mantis.
Warper--> Old Glast Heim --> Entrance and then walk right to land at the map for Petites.
Kill petites and submit quests every 10 kills for the Eden coins. Be sure to drag the coins into your fav tab so you won't sell them accidentally.
MAKE SURE TO HAVE 1 COMPLETED PETITE request, and do not claim it!
Rebirth at Base lvl99 and job lvl50 to High Novice.
Head to Lasagna and beat a couple Eggrings to get joblvl10 to Job Change to High Swordsman at Office.
@go Eden and submit your petite kill quest you saved earlier to directly hit Job lvl50 as High Swordsman.
Go back to Office and turn into Lord Knight. Make use of Aura Blade and Concentration to increase your Charge Attack into a 1-shot. It's fun!
Repeat step 7 to 10, Basically High orc to 75, Petites to 99/70. Same thing, make sure to leave 1 kill quest completed but NOT submitted.
Job change to Rune Knight and then submit the petite quest you saved to get yourself above lvl100. Get Wind Cutter as your 3rd Job levelling skill on Turbo.

Lvl100-200 (Get STR to 120, DEX to ~50, ~30 INT, and then split AGI/VIT equally)

Talk to Daily Hunt NPC (it's in many towns, i use mine in Lutie, Roxanne) to get the Illusion Moonlight kill quest. Just take the first option, "Take All"
Head back to Eden and acquire your lvl100 set.
1. Paradise Rune Knight Two-handed Sword for 10 Eden coins or 15 Old Pick (type @ws 7318, buy if available, use eden coins other).
2. Advance Shadow Gear set for 20 Eden Coins.
3. Advanced Paradise Physical Set for 15 Elastic Bands and 3 Blue Hair (type @ws 7200 and buy 15 bands, then get the last 3 blue hair yourself.
  1. IF no bands for sale, skip first and get after your manual ends. Do not waste manual time on hunting bands as DK is able to hit lvl200 just fine with the pre100 set.
Feel free to head back to petites for some more Eden Coins if you do not have 30+
Warper --> illusion--> illusion Moonlight. Finish 100 kill counts. Submit to Daily Hunt NPC. This should unlock the Illusion of Vampire kill quest and access.
Drag Illusion Stones into your fav tab so you won't sell them accidentally. Illusion boxes found through the dungeons should be kept as well.
Beyond this step, we employ cash shop consumables acquired from the Eden Machine. Purchase and activate
1. Brilliant Protection Scroll for 3 Eden Coins and;
2. Medium life Potion for 4 Eden Coins.
Complete and submit 100 kill counts on Illusion Vampire, unlocking Illusion of Twins kill quest and access. If your Battle manual ended for whatever reason, you may not have unlocked Twins yet, then simply progress with the latest unlocked illusion dungeon you got (Teddy or whatever).
Complete and submit 100 kill counts on Illusion Twins or whatever is your highest until you hit lvl 180.
Type @ws 7439 to search for players that vend Fragment of Despair, a commonly sold item that gives free quest rewards daily. Usually a vendor selling these will have all 4 types of fragments in vend when you search for one.
Try to buy all 4 types of fragments, they are Agony, Misery, Hatred and Despair. Submitting all of them while your battle manual is still active gets you to 200 straight.
If nobody is vending and you can't find a seller thru shouting via the Trade channel, you will then need to continue thru illusion quests or do Recon Robots kill quest. You may refer to this in Cheverlotte's DK guide levelling section (still great for Dragonic Breath users).
Job change to Dragon Knight. Congratulations!

Lvl200-250 (250 is the lvl requirement for Dimensions weapons which are cheap and powerful)

As Dragon Knight, you can first repeat 1 illusion kill quest to get more skill points. Start by using Hack and Slasher which you can max by Job Lvl15 first, but you'd want to use Madness Crusher when you get enough skill points to max it around job lvl 26. Be sure to add your POW trait whenever you level, they increase your damage a LOT!
From here, there are 2 options to level effectively while getting the most out of it. Every 240 kills in both areas provides you with 33 Eden coins every turn in.
1. Head to Abyss 4. This offers a faster leveling progression to 250 but you do not earn much zenny along the way. Mobs are stronger than Odin's past so you should only access this with Madness Crusher maxed as a gearless pleb :D.
2. Head to Odin's Past. Slower than Abyss 4 but provides some zenny farming potential due to the presence of Odin's Relics which vends for while you get to 240 minimum.
  1. As Odin's Past is one of the Recommended farming maps later on (beginner stages), be sure to use a Bubble Gum whenever you can (purchase for 30 Eden Coins from Eden Machine).
Your goal for either area is the same, which is to accept the Daily Hunt Quest for the area and the Eden Board 130-190 kill count (requiring 240 kills).
1. Submit all of them together whenever you finish the 240 kill counts and repeat.
2. If you are unsure, my recommendation is to go to Odin's Past. It is less demanding for the new player and offers zenny rewards. I was still able to almost hit 250 within the 1 hour Battle Manual.
To access either area through warper, you simply need to reach there yourself once first.
1. For abyss 4, Use warper to Abyss---> travel to abyss 4.
2. For Odin's Past, User warper to Odin's temple --> travel to Odin's past.
For both areas, there are ghost mobs that demand you to use consumables to turn your weapon into a non-neutral element in order to hurt them.
1. For Abyss 4, use any of the 4 elemental converters, try @ws earth elemental converter
2. For Odin's Past, use Cursed waters. You can farm a few in Geffenia or similarly try @ws cursed water
Be sure to use a new Battle Manual if it ended, and use the opportunity to make your 4 main runes before starting a new EXP manual. Refer to the runes section if you need help. You may not need to use all 4 of them if you're comfortable with your current power levels for the map. Don't forget about the Eden consumables too!
1. Lux Anima Rune
2. Asir Rune
3. Turisus Rune
4. Hagalas Rune
Bonus: If you chose to farm Odin's Past, you may try to make an Enchanted LUK Soutane as your mid-game gear if you do not wish to ask people to help you enchant your glacier armor later. Talked about in gear section later