Melee crit paradise dk edition

Introduction

This is a comprehensive one-stop bible written by CY for Melee CRIT players through the lens of a CRIT Dragon Knight. As such, it goes through every part that I think will be helpful to players at almost all stages. Please use the TOC to skip to whichever section is relevant to you.

Lore of Dragon Knight

Taken from High school DXD, Issei in Dragon form

Dragon Knights (DK) are the 4th class of the knight branch who draws energy from the Red Dragon 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). These runes were discovered in Ash Vacuum by the player as a Rune Knight; where Ash Vacuum is an alternate dimension that Satan Morroc hailed from.

The CRIT DK is one of 2 main playstyles for DK where we directly imbue the Strength of the Dragon into our 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 Hunts/Instance Hunts

TBA

Levelling

One of MUHRO's unique factor is that exp penalty from mob levels is non-existent, so some veteran RO players new to this server might find the recommended levelling path different than other servers.

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 painlessly as a DK. The levelling process is not done as a CRIT build but uses whatever skill offers the best efficiency with almost no gears and just some consumables. We will re-spec to CRIT after acquiring a set of mid gears.

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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Go to Eden (@go Eden), register with Eden Group and collect your paradise equipment+ sword.
4. 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.
5. Head to Orc Dungeon and beat orcs with Bash and Magnum Break until Job lv50.
6. Job change to Knight at job lv50 at @go Office and @go Eden to collect your second weapon, a twohanded sword.
7. Head back to Orc Dungeon, and have fun with Charge Attack flying around until lvl75 by using the Turbo feature.
8. @go Eden and collect the lvl70-99 Board quests (Just click the "Take All" option). We are after only Petite, and sometimes Mantis.
9. Warper--> Old Glast Heim --> Entrance and then walk right to land at the map for Petites.
10. 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.
11. MAKE SURE TO HAVE 1 COMPLETED PETITE request, and do not claim it!
12. Rebirth at Base lvl99 and job lvl50 to High Novice.
13. Head to Lasagna and beat a couple Eggrings to get joblvl10 to Job Change to High Swordsman at Office.
14. @go Eden and submit your petite kill quest you saved earlier to directly hit Job lvl50 as High Swordsman.
15. 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!
16. 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.
17. 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)

1. 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"
2. 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.
3. Feel free to head back to petites for some more Eden Coins if you do not have 30+
4. Warper --> illusion--> illusion Moonlight. Finish 100 kill counts. Submit to Daily Hunt NPC. This should unlock the Illusion of Vampire kill quest and access.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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).
8. Complete and submit 100 kill counts on Illusion Twins or whatever is your highest until you hit lvl 180.
9. 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.
10. 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 Lv200 immediately.
    1. 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 players).
11. Job change to Dragon Knight. Congratulations!

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

1. 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 with Charging Pierce buff up 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!
2. 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.
   2. Head to Odin's Past. Slower than Abyss 4 but provides some zeny farming potential due to the presence of https://muhro.eu/?module=item&action=view&id=23986Odin's Relics which vends for 90K 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).
3. 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 first. It is less demanding and offers some zeny rewards. I was still able to almost hit 250 within the 1 hour Battle Manual.
4. To access either area through warper, you simply need to reach there yourself once.
   1. For abyss 4, Use warper to Abyss---> climb up to abyss 4.
   2. For Odin's Past, User warper to Odin's temple --> climb up to Odin's past.
5. 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
6. Be sure to use a new Battle Manual if it ended (20 eden coins), 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
7. 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
8. You may stop levelling before lvl250 in either of these maps but you would then need to buy a transition weapon, a Glacier Two-handed Sword to farm in better area. I would recommend just staying until 250 to be able to purchase and equip a Dimensions Dragon Sword. Just move to Abyss 4 for the faster levelling and get to 250 whenever you want to speed to 250 instead of Odin's Past.

What's next after lvl250

Following my levelling guide so far have gotten you here as a gearless pleb, making full use of Madness Crusher's high skill % and spammability when you don't have gear. However, this skill falls off hard later on as it cannot be scaled vs other main DK skills. We will now want to transit into our Hack and Slasher build with a few good and cheap cards+ equipment and then we're off to what RO is all about:

• Farm fields
• Play Instances
• Do Quests (the main story quests)
• Make nice costumes
• Gear your character to it's max potential

There are of course many areas you can farm, I've compiled a list of ALL good field farms and instances in my guide so you don't ever have to look else where.

On Episode Quests

When you are feeling up to it, you should start doing main story quests for Renewal in order to unlock some of the profitable instances. In MuhRO, you must complete these quests at least once, starting from EP18 , before you can skip them through purchasing Skip tickets on your other characters. The Quest skip NPC is found in office, Temporal Tina. You can skip EP17.1 and EP17.2 on your first character for 6M zeny and should do that to save some time.

Gear and Stats based on progress

You will notice that I did not give any stat distribution for the class until now. It is because the stats you should use is based on your current gears. I'll be providing a good stat example for each gear phase you're at later.

• Eden/Grace
• Mid Gear Set
• Budget End Game
• Final End Game

Skill Tree

Swordie

Knight

Rune Knight

Version A: Full Vigor DK

Version B: Lvl6 Vigor, access to Madness Crusher for low instances

Field Farm Locations

This is my compiled list of what you can farm at every gear level; with which location is great for a DK to farm amongst each difficulty zone highlighted. More details about loots will be added when I have the time. Meanwhile feel free to ask on discord what to loot in any of these areas. I'm sure many players would entertain you :D

Super Easy (As long as 4th class can do)

• Istana Cave
• Geffenia
• Thanatos Tower F7-12
• Odin's Past

Easy ( Mobs <15M HP)

• Sp_rudus4
• Nif_dun1
• Amicitia1

Mid (Mobs 40-60M HP)

• Nif_dun02
• clock_01 (Clock tower unknown basement)
• Amicitia2
• Mjolnir Underground Cave
• Power Twisted Plains

Mid-Hard

• Varmundt's Biosphere A, all 4 maps (Glade is the recommended zone for A)

Hard

• Varmundt's Biosphere B, all 4 maps (Temple is recommended zone for B)
• Garden of Time

Current End Dungeon

• Varmundt's Biosphere Depth 2 (Depth 1 is no longer profitable, you only play it to get Reputation points to enter Depth 2)

Episode-based (Unlocks with episode quests). Some might be decent for zeny farming but are generally for farming Episode gears.

• jor_root1 (sacred cat whiskers + dim box, 22M HP) EP20
• jor_ab02 (flower petals + dim weapon box, 45M HP) EP19
• jor_ab01 (flower petals + dim weapon box, 25M HP) EP19
• oz_dun02 (amethyst fragment, 5M HP) EP18
• ba_pw02 (Varmeal Ticket, 3M HP) EP17.2 ----> This is one of the best maps to farm Eden Coins, very high density, allows you to kill 240 mobs for 33 coins in 2~3min
• sp_rudus2 (unknown parts, cor core, <1M HP) EP17.1

Instance Farm Locations

This is a list of instances, organized according to difficulty, that is still worth doing on a daily basis. You do not need to do every single one of them. In fact, the fun is in making your own variety of an instance run schedule.

As the life blood of a CRIT DK in end game after the maximum profits, experienced players often make multiple clones of their characterss to allow them to repeat their most desired instances multiple times a day. Gears can be easily swapped between these characters by having an empty storage where you use the command @storeall to put all your equipment instantly into storage and then use @getall to get them out on the next character. There is a lot of profit that can be made through instances when you reach a stage that you do not urgently need upgrades that field-farming can provide quickly.

instances that are extremely quick will have their timing mentioned. Loots details in each instance will be added eventually.

Easy (MVP Card Gacha)

• Central Lab (<1min)
• Endless Tower (GTB and out)
• Endless Cellar (Tao/Kiel/Thanatos)

Easy (as long 4th job)

• Old Glast Heim, Normal mode
• Old Glast Heim, Hard mode
• Fall of Glast Heim, Normal mode
• Fall of Glast Heim, Hard mode
• Buwaya Cave (<1min)
• Hey Sweety! (<1min)
• Bioresearch Laboratory
• Poring Village

Mid

• Old Glast Heim, Challenge Mode
• Airship Destruction (EP19)
• The Immortal, Normal mode (EP20) (<1min)
• Sticky Sea (EP20) (<2min)

Mid-Hard

• Lake of Fire
• Simulation Battle (EP19) (<1min)
• Villa of Deception, Normal mode (EP18) ---> Requires an alt to access

Hard

• Villa of Deception, Hard Mode (EP18)
• The Immortal, Hard mode (EP20) (<1min if u OP)
• Constellation Tower

Niche card hunting (difficulty not included, for those who are specifically after the boss card only)

• Geffen Magic Arena/Night Arena; for Fenrir Card
• Thanatos Tower Instance; for Broken Memory of Thanatos Card (rare collectible)
• Sarah and Fenrir; for Sarah card (most powerful defensive card in game)

Party

• Alice Twisted Madness
• Hall of Life
• Constellation Tower