Runic Elf:
Focused Beam +15 (50.0 magical light damage)
Angel’s Wing +1 (when master life <50%, heals 2%hp ever 2 seconds for 20 seconds

Fungus:
Hack +10 (200% Physical)
Blessed Magic +4 (Magic Attack + 5% for 30 seconds)

Green Spotted Fungus:
Hack +10 (200% Physical)
Blessed Magic +4 (Magic Attack + 5% for 30 seconds)

Spotted Beetle:
Sting +10 (200% physical)
Blessed Magic +9 (Magic Attack +10% for 30 seconds)
Resistance Net (Resistances +200 for 30 seconds)

Gluttonous Snail:
Wave Bomb +15 (50 pts water)
Blessed Magic +4 (Mattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Jumping Grass:
Sting +10 (200% physical)
Blessed Magic +4 (Mattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Wild Spider:
Sting +10 (200% physical)
Confusion Gas +4 (Reduces targets physical defense by 5% for 15 seconds)

Newt:
Drift Attack +10 (200% physical)
Flowing Mediatation +9 (when masters health drops below 50%, restores 10% mana)

Wasteland Skipper:
Swooping Dive +10 (200% physical)
Blessed Magic +4 (Mattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Boar:
Impale +10% (200% physical)
Huntsman Assist +4 (Pattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Crow:
Swooping Dive +10 (200% physical)
Diabolical Curse + 4 (all targets attributes -5% for 15 seconds)

Beaver Lookout:
Wave Bomb +15 (50 pts water damage)
Forgot the name (Increase Max HP by 5% for 90 seconds)

Wild Springbok:
Impale +10 (200% physical)
Mana Booster (max mana +5% for 90 seconds)

Black Boar:
Impale +10% (200% physical)
Huntsman Assist +4 (Pattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Colorful Ostrich:
Sharp Beak Peck +10 (200% physical)
Mysterious Halo +19(when health <50%, movement speed +20% for 15 seconds)

Double Action Hornet:
Swooping DIve +10 (200% physical)
Sonic Reaction +9 (AoE spell damage reduced by 10% for 15 seconds)

Big Kuman (possible winner?)
Rabid Rage +15 (250% physical)
Huntsman assist +9 (10% pattk for 30 seconds)
Frenzy (Greatly increases attack speed, accuracy, and damage for 15 seconds)
(Unfortunately, no clue if Frenzy affects the master or the pet. Tested it whacking away at something for like 10 minutes, plenty of Rabid Rages and Assists, but not a single Frenzy… so bugged, need more loyalty, or ???)

Gold Strange Stem
Pound +10 (200% phys, 1sec stun)
Uncontrollable Fury (Increases master phys crit rate by 50 points for 30 seconds)

Wild Giant Python
Rabid Rage +10 (200% physical)
Intimidation +7 (reduces targets physical attack power by 8% for 15 seconds)

Poisonous Dragonfly
Swooping Dive +10 (200% physical)
Invogorated Spirit +4 (+5% wisdom for 30 seconds)

Red Pincer Cave Crab
Hack +10 (200% physical)
Numbed Nerves +9 (decreases targets attack speed by 10% for 15 seconds)

Fanged Ankylar
Impale +15 (250% physical)
Enchanted Scales +4 (masters magic crit rate +50 for 30 seconds)

Hammertooth Roughneck
Pound +10 (200% physical)
Huntman assist +4 (same as rest)

Sea of Snow Cyclops
Surprise Attack +10 (200% physical)
Overflowing Stamina (master gets +5% stamina for 30 seconds)
Resistance Net +19 (all masters resists +200 for 30 seconds)

Wild Berhu:
Ram +5 (150% physical and knocks down target)
Maul +10 (200% physical)

Bullfrog
Wave Bomb +15 (50 pts water)
Sonic Reaction +9 (AoE spell damage reduced by 10% for 15 seconds)

Giant Antler Reindeer
Clash +10 (200% physical & 1 second stun) 
Mysterious Halo +19(when health <50%, movement speed +20% for 15 seconds)

Ystra Winter Spider:
Sting +10 (200% physical)
Confusion Gas +7 (Reduces targets physical defense by 8% for 15 seconds)

Wilt Leaf Bat:
Swooping Dive +10 (200% physical)
Confusion Gas +4 (Reduces targets physical defense by 5% for 15 seconds)

Cow Beetle:
Sting +10 (200% physical)
Blessed Magic +4 (Mattk + 5% for 30 seconds)

Blood Soaked Revenant:
Sinister Curse +15 (50pts dark)
Diabolical Curse +4 (reduces all targets attributes by 5% for 15 seconds)
Blurred Vision +9 (reduces targets movement speed by 10% for 10 seconds)

Wolf:
Rabid Rage +10 (200% physical)
Huntsmans assist +4 (same as others)

Ice Lizard
Surprise Attack +10 (200% physical)
Numbed Nerves +14 (decreases targets attack speed by 15% for 15 seconds)

Kipos (lvl 2 water)
Pound +15 (250% physical, 1 second stun)
Overflowing Staming +4 (master +5% sta for 30 seconds)
Frenzy (greatly increase attack speed, accuracy, Damage (no idea if pet or master))

Feel free to add more.

(P.S. For those curious, I don’t believe attribute matters. Doesn’t affect skills, just affects what stats the critter provides to the master. And I’ve seen the same critter come in different attributes, so I don’t *think* the two neccessarily line up)

Credits go to GnatB.

1. Intro
2. Basics
3. Stats
4. Proof
5. Comparison

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1. Introduction
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blah blah. Maybe I’ll add one later 

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2. Basics
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(First, sorry I forgot to take SS while I was running my experiments. You will just have to trust me on the information I will be providing)

When you summon an egg (i.e. place an egg from your bag into your pet menu), the 5 stats given to the pet is randomly generated within the bounds of the growth ratio.

The big question right now is: what is better? Level up a lower level pet… or get a high level pet? Hopefully my guide can clear up some of these questions. My answer: it is dependent on your pet’s aptitude and how much you are willing to raise that.

I am just going to quickly cover the different ways you can level a pet.

A. Merging

The best and fastest way to level your pet is to merge it with another pet of its own level. Check out my guide on merging to get more information on this.

B. Food

Miller’s Special Cake (+10 XP) and Powerful Pet Growth Potion (+1000 XP) are the two other methods of leveling up your pet. These options are however much more time consuming and/or expensive. Miller’s Special Cake costs 3,500 gold while the Powerful Pet Growth Potion costs 45 Badge of Trials (won from Guild Sieges).

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3. Stats
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Leveling your pet affects the base Value of your pet’s stats. This means that leveling your pet is actually one of the best ways to affect the assist values which is what you in turn receive from your pet. Pet value growth is based on the following formula:

New Value = Current Value + (Growth Rate / 2) * (Current Aptitude / 100)

As you can tell, if you are planning on leveling your pet, it is best to have as high of an aptitude as possible.

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4. Proof
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Once again, I apologize for not providing screens. I wrote down the info without taking screenshots. I hope you can just trust that the information I am providing is accurate.

Level 2 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 7 / 8 / 5 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 71

I used 2 Level 2 eggs to raise my Cow Beetle’s level to 3 and got the following results:

Level 3 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 8.77 / 10.13 / 6.42 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 71

Then I used 1 Level 3 egg to raise my Cow Beetle’s level to 4 and got the following results:

Level 4 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 10.55 / 12.26 / 7.84 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 71

As you can see, each time the increase in the base values are equal giving rise to the notion that level increase is based on a set value. That set value is dependent only on the aptitude and growth rate of the pet. From level 2 to 3, it had a growth of 1.77 / 2.13 / 1.42 / 0 / 0. From 3 to 4, it had a growth rate of 1.78 / 2.13 / 1.42 / 0 / 0.

Now if we calculate the pet’s growth rate from the given aptitude, we come up with the following: 1.775 / 2.13 / 1.42 / 0 / 0. The 1.775 explains the difference between the 2->3 and 3->4 growth rate difference. This also tells us that the numbers are rounded down, but still retain information beyond what is just shown.

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5. Comparison
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I wanted to compare 2 Holy Pet Egg pets that are at 2 different levels to show the possibilities of growth. These were both the initial stats as soon as I spawned the eggs.

Level 2 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 7 / 8 / 5 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 71

Level 29 Crab
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 0
Base Values: 51 / 64 / 44 / 1 / 8
Aptitude: 71

If I do not raise the aptitude of the level 2 cow beetle, and simply level it to 29… the cow beetle would end up with the following base values:

Level 29 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 54.93 / 65.51 / 43.34 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 71

From a very quick inspection, the values are relatively close. We can chalk it up to the random generators that we got 2 pets that are now relatively the same build. However, let’s say you took care of your pet a bit more, and leveled it while it had 80 aptitude or possibly even 90 aptitude. What does that do for your pet? Here’s the results:

Level 29 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 61 / 72.8 / 48.2 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 80

Level 29 Cow Beetle
Growth: 5 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 0
Base Values: 67.75 / 80.9 / 53.6 / 2 / 3
Aptitude: 90

You can see that there is drastic improvement on the pet that is leveled with 90 aptitude. Almost a 25% better base value set. Understand these numbers are generated with ideal conditions (which is near impossible to do). And you must understand that leveling a pet from a low level (<5) to a moderate level (>20) will take… a very long time.

However, if you are willing to put in the work, you can definitely raise up a pet with very nice stats as long as you first raise its aptitude to a high enough level.

Credits go to failkaito.

1. Intro
2. Basics
3. Stats
4. Experience
5. Training
6. Aptitude
7. Closing

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1. Introduction
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blah blah. Maybe I’ll add one later 

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2. Basics
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How do I merge my pets? Simple! Look at the following window

The agent pet will be the pet RECEIVING. The re-agent pet will be the pet GIVING. The agent pet will be boosted while the re-agent pet will be destroyed. Very important! Left stays, right dies!!

Pets cannot be currently summoned to have them merged. Recall all pets in order to begin the merging process.

Pets can only be merged with another pet of the same element or a none-type. So if you have a Dark pet, you can only merge it with another Dark pet or a None pet. A None pet can only be merged with another None type pet.

Pets can only be merged with a pet of its same level or lower. Meaning, the re-agent pet must be equal or less than the level of the agent pet.

When you are ready to merge, press the button in the middle to merge the pets. The button named ‘Pair Merging’ involves the use of a Cash Shop item that we do not have yet.

A pet can only be merged w/ 3 other pets a day!!

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2a. Example
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Agent Pet (Level 12 Bear)

Re-agent Pet (Level 10 Crow)

Merge Result

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3. Stats
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So the all important question, how do I boost my pet’s stats. Whenever you accept a pet egg into your interface, its base stats are randomly generated closely following the growth attributes of the egg. These stats play an important role in how stats are transferred in a merge. Stats are transferred REGARDLESS of pet level. Here’s the formula:

Stat gain = (Re-agent pet stat – Agent pet stat) * 0.45
Stat gain only applies if (Re-agent pet stat > Agent pet stat)

If you look in the example, the bear has the following stats:
12 / 9 / 1 / 5 / 6

The crow has the following stats:
13 / 12.42 / 6.24 / 3.79 / 2.64

The positive difference between the two is:
1 / 3.42 / 5.24 / 0 / 0

Multiply the above by 0.45:
0.45 / 1.539 / 2.358 / 0 / 0

Round up to nearest hundreth decimal place:
0.45 / 1.54 / 2.36 / 0 / 0
Which is the result we see in the merge image.

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4. Experience
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Everyone keeps asking, "How do I level my pet?" One way is by merging. This portion IS DEPENDENT on the two pet levels. Here’s the formula:

XP Gain = (1000) / (Agent pet level – Re-agent pet level + 1)
Same level -> 1000 XP
1 level diff -> 500 XP
2 level diff -> 333 XP

In the example, we have a level 10 crow merging into a level 12 bear. So,
XP Gain = (1000) / (12 – 10 + 1)
XP Gain = (1000) / (2 + 1)
XP Gain = (1000) / (3)
XP Gain = 333 XP
We can verify this number in the merge screen.

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5. Training
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Regardless of level or rarity, when you merge a pet, all of the re-agent pet’s training will go into the agent pet’s training. New pet eggs come with the following:

Non-Rune pet egg = 50 Training
Rune pet egg = 100 Training

New Training = Current Agent pet training + Reagent pet training

I just created the Bear in the screens so you can see that he has 50 training. The Crow I had been training for a little bit longer and had 1850 training on it. So,

New Training = 50 + 1850
New Training = 1900

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6. Aptitude
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Aptitude of a pet will be transferred REGARDLESS of level. The reagent pet’s aptitude must be higher than that of the agent’s aptitude for there to be an increase. Here’s the formula:

Aptitude gain = (Reagent Aptitude – Agent Aptitude) / 4
The following condition must be true: Reagent Aptitude > Agent Aptitude

In the example, the crow has 73.94 while the bear has 68.
Aptitude gain = (73.94 – 68) / 4
Aptitude gain = (5.94) / 4
Aptitude gain = 1.485 (round down)
Aptitude gain = 1.48
Can be verified in merge screen.

Credits go to failkaito.

You can of course simply go to the auction house (AH) and buy some, but that stuff is EXPENSIVE. You should start to think about making your own. 

How do you do that? It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. First order of business is at level 10 go to Varanas Class hall and get that transmuter activated! You will also need charges to go into it. You’ll get 10 free ones to get started shortly, you can buy them with diamonds, or phirius tokens, so click that gift shop icon and start saving!

Now we’ve got the basics done, you’re ready to go. Let’s say you’re a warrior. You like axes right? Of course you do. Let’s get a nice weapon going here. First, we have to find one. Go to the AH and look for items your level or slightly below. Here’s one! Didn’t cost much either.

Notice the durability is over 100? This gives you a +20% bonus on all stats. Yes. That’s a good thing. You will always want to try and find a clean item (with no stats underneath the description) that is OD (over durability). If the durability is in white, it’s a substandard item for the most part and wait until you find an OD one. Best OD is 115-125, because it allows for equipment damage.

Ok. It’s off to Varanas. You’ll see why in a second.

Go to the Southwest corner and you’ll see three guys sitting in a line.

We want to talk to the guy I highlighted. We’ll talk about the others in another post. When talking, ask what he has for sale. You’ll see this screen pop up. Yes, he’s the fusion stone seller.

For purposes of this post, I’m just going to take the second one down on the Left side. I’m looking to quickly get three identical fusion stones. When first starting out, be prepared to buy about 15 of these before you get 3 identical ones. I just created a new toon to be nothing but a carrier for fusion stones and eventually mana stones. The new toon should be able to access the mailbox, the AH, and the housemaid.

AWESOME! I have finally found three identical fusion stones! They all look like this.

I will need three items to combine with the three fusion stones that have DIFFERENT stats. Since I’m making a warrior weapon, I’d like to have Stamina and Strength. Let’s head over to the AH and see what’s available…..

After some lengthy searching, I’ve found three items that are suitable. Doesn’t matter if you can use them or not, we’re just ripping a stat off them. They should have a single stat, or a yellow one. AND ONLY ONE. 

Here they are:

Power X stat is strength, Strength X is for strength, and Stamina X is for Stamina. Perfect!

You should now have the item you want to stat, three identical fusion stones, and three items similar to the above, but with the stats you want on your gear. Now the fun part.

Open your inventory by pressing "B" or whatever hotkey you’ve designated for your inventory. We’re looking for 

Hitting that button will open this window:

Note the charges in red. Once these hit zero, you will have to get more. Now place one of the fusion stones in a slot, and one of the items you want to rip a stat from. Once you have confirmed it is a correct in the preview window, press "confirm".

Notice that this is a tier 3 mana stone. Make sure that all of the items you have to rip stats from will give you a tier 3. Higher level items may give you a tier 4, and lower level items will give you a tier 2 or even a tier 1! You cannot combine different tiers on the same item you want to stat. ALWAYS verify the preview! Ok, let’s do the other two.

Now, you should have three tier 3 mana stones. Let’s load them in with the item you want to stat….

Double check the preview, verify that you have six stats, including the three you originally ripped from the other three items, and press "Confirm". Congratulations. You now have something nice that looks like this:

Some basic rules of thumb. Fusion stones all have different stats, if you are making a warrior weapon, you might want to pick 12k fusion stones that have slightly more endearing stats than intelligence, or dexterity. Shop. Shop. Shop. Pay attention to what you’re buying. 

Buy items to stat that you can use immediately. Blues are preferred if they are clean, or even purples that are clean, since the different colors give higher bonuses and abilities. Most you see will be white. Also remember that blue and purple also cost much more to begin with. 

Once you make an item, it’s NOT BOUND. You can easily sell it in the AH once you upgrade or buy a better piece of gear. It’s a good investment.

You should think about having at least 500k before starting this, since the initial purchase of fusion stones to get three identical may well run you 250k!

Items like this are fairly easy to sell in the AH and command between 150-350k. Good profit ratio. Want to craft to sell? Check the AH and find out what there is NOT a lot of. These will then sell faster. Currently it’s Belts and Boots. Cloaks are good too.

Cheers and hope you enjoyed this guide!

Elissabeta/Barstinia, Prodigy Guild, Reni.

Decided to post Part B from our guild website.

This post we will go into Yellow Statting. Still dirty statting because we’re using Fusion Stones purchased from in-game vendors. After doing lots of quests, and such, and since I’m a packrat, I frequently end up with low grade yellow statted items Such as these three.

After looking over a few of these, since I was making guides tonight, I decided to give a brief overview of what do do with these. With green stats, they are ranked from I to XII. Generally yellow stats are crap unless they are VI or VII or even VIII, when they can actually serve some purpose. Since we have Dex on two of these, and some stamina, I decided to make a beginner crossbow. Appears scouts like Dexterity. 

This didn’t sell on the AH, so I canceled the auction, and sent it to my statting guru. I hopped over to my fusion stone storage toon, and promptly found three identical fusion stones. They were this:

I double checked that all these items would give me similar mana stones.

And then finally ended up with this:

Now, was this a waste of four charges and 40k for the fusion stones? Yes and no. I would glady pay 40k to have the images to do this second part of the statting guide. I can probably and will probably sell this in the AH for about 100k. Most importantly, you can see that yellow stats transfer the same as green stats. The important part to note is that yellow has two inherent abilities while green only has one. This is what makes the yellows so desirable when you start farming for yellow stats VII and VIII.

Notice that the item itself jumped from Tier 1 to Tier 3 because Tier 3 mana stones were used to stat this. Had I ended up with good yellow stats, I would have most likely ended up with 3x Tier 4 mana stones, further enhancing this level 8 noobie bow.

Bear in mind that this will work with ANY yellow stats, and of course this is still considered "dirty statting"

And hey, I ended up with a bonus since this crossbow had a rune hole to begin with! ROFL.

Hope you enjoyed this one and stay tuned for the next installment.

Elissabeta/Barstina, Prodigy Guild, Reni.

Credits go to cellopro.

All of the combinations give more than what the simple rune gives.

For example: Dexterity V (17 dex) + Life V (110 Max HP) = 21/21 Dex/Stam

Savage + Spirit = Grasp
(strength + wisdom = str/int)

Spirit + Stamina = Savage
(wisdom + stamina = strength)

Dexterity + Life = Keenness
(Dexterity + max HP = dex/stam)

Stamina + Intellect = Dexterity

Stamina + Spell = Capability
(Stamina + Max MP = Stam/wisdom)

Intellect + Spell = Charm
(Intel + Max MP = Matk)

Intellect + Spirit = Devil
(Intel + Wisdom = Max MP/Wisdom)

Intellect + Life = Comprehension
(Intel + Max HP = Intel/Dex)

Stamina + Life = Ferocity
(Stam + Max HP = Max HP/stam)

Stamina + Dextierty = Safeguard
(Stam + Dex = Defense)

Charm + Spirit = Intellect
(Matk + Wisdom = Intel)

Savage + Dexterity = Stamina
(Str + Dex = Stam)

Savage + Intellect = Cruelty
(Str + Intel = Patk)

Credits go to Mamn00n.

Includes Basic Arcane Transmutor Info

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Contents

I. Introduction
A. Background Information
B. What is Required
C. Materials You Will Need
II. Preparation
A. Find the Right Weapon
B. Create the Mana Stones
III. Finalization
A. Tier It Up
B. Additional Tips

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I. Introduction

In order to transmute and upgrade your weapons, and possible your armor later on, this guide will provide you with some of the most basic arcane transmutor information that you will need to know.

A. Background Information

Tiering your weapon is the best way to increase your damage output. For every tier a weapon is upgraded above its base tier, it will inherit an additional 10% bonus to its base damage.

For example, if you have a weapon that is originally tier 1 and you upgrade it to tier 2, that weapon will have its base damage increased by 10%. If you have a weapon that is originally tier 1 and you upgrade it to tier 3, that weapon will have its base damage increased by 20%.

B. What is Required

In order to begin tiering your weapon, you must be level 10 and have your arcane transmutor activated. You can activate your arcane transmutor by going to the Varanas Class Hall and completing the simple, easy quest given by a guy located in the back of the room. Upon completing this quest, your arcane transmutor will be activated and you will receive 10 free arcane transmutor charges. You can now access your arcane transmutor by clicking the Gift Box Icon located at the bottom of your Backpack.

C. Materials You Will Need

To tier your weapon, you will need a few supplies. For the purposes of this guide, the quickest and easiest tier for newbies is tier 3. More information regarding higher tiers can be found in the next section.

Tier 3 Supply List
3x Random Fusion Stone (From the Enchanter in Lower City West, Varanas)
3x Tier 3 Equipment, Weapon, or Armor (From a Merchant in Mercenary Square, Obsidian Stronghold)
4x Arcane Transmutor Charge

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II. Preparation

Now it is time to prepare for the final product. You will need to find the right weapon and create the mana stones which will be used to tier your weapon.

A. Find the Right Weapon

Do not upgrade a weapon that is not going to last very long. Look for the highest durability possible, the highest base damage possible, and consider finding one that is "white" so you can trade it amongst your different characters or sell it when you are done using it. If the weapon is a really good "blue" or "purple", then by all means, continue with the upgrade and disregard finding a "white" to replace it.

If you have a weapon with 100 durability or higher, the weapon will automatically inherit an additional 20% bonus. The durability bonus will stack with the bonus gained from upgrading the weapon’s tier. That’s an easy 40% damage bonus if you upgrade a tier 1 high durability weapon to tier 3.

B. Create the Mana Stones

Mana stones are the basic upgrade stones that are used to tier your weapon. Mana stones have a specific tier, just like all other equipment, weapons, and armor. Having 3 mana stones of the same tier can be used to upgrade your weapon to that specific tier. Mana stones have many other uses, but they will not be covered in this guide.

Mana stones are created by using 1 fusion stone and 1 piece of equipment in the arcane transmutor. When tiering your weapon, do not be concerned with the stats of the fusion stones, equipment you use, or the outcome of the mana stones. Tiering your weapon is for the added base damage output, not the stats. You should only worry about stats on your armor where it matters the most.

Open up your arcane transmutor and put 1 fusion stone and 1 piece of equipment in any of the empty blocks. You will notice a "Mana Stone Tier 3" in the preview block. Until you confirm the transmutation, you will not receive that mana stone. Go ahead and confirm the transmutation of that mana stone and move it to your inventory once complete. Rinse and repeat this until you have 3x Mana Stone Tier 3. Once you have done that, you are ready to complete the process and tier up your weapon.

[Below is for Advanced Users Only]

If you are tiering your weapon to anything above tier 3, you will need to combine 3 of the same tier mana stones in the arcane transmutor to create a mana stone that is 1 tier higher. For example, if you put 3x Mana Stone Tier 3 in the arcane transmutor, your outcome will be 1x Mana Stone Tier 4. You will need to do this 3 times until you have 3x Mana Stone Tier 4. You can then use the 3x Mana Stone Tier 4 with your weapon to upgrade that weapon to tier 4, or you can simply combine the 3x Mana Stone Tier 4 to get 1x Mana Stone tier 5.

Tier 4 mana stones are the highest mana stones you can make without having to combine the stones for higher tiers. Tier 3 mana stones are the easiest to make by using all vendor fusion stones and vendor items. Tier 4 mana stones are easy to make, but they can only be made by combining a fusion stone with a tier 3 level 50 "purple" item.

For most players, it’s almost impossible to get a high quantity of level 50 "purple" items to transmute for tier 4 stones, so this guide will assume that players are generally using tier 3 stones in the beginning and will combine those to create higher tiers.

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III. Finalization

Now is the time to finalize your weapon by tiering it up with the mana stones you created previously.

A. Tier It Up

Go ahead, place the weapon you would like to upgrade into the arcane transmutor along with 3 of the same tier mana stones. Check the preview to make sure everything is correct before hitting the confirm button.

B. Additional Information

Here is a table with the required number of arcane transmutor charges in order to make 3 stones of the same tier for upgrading your weapon:

Tier 1: 4 Charges (3 for mana stones, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 2: 4 Charges (3 for mana stones, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 3: 4 Charges (3 for mana stones, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 4: 13 Charges (4 for each tier 4 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 5: 40 Charges (13 for each tier 5 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 6: 121 Charges (40 for each tier 6 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 7: 364 Charges (121 for each tier 7 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 8: 1093 Charges (364 for each tier 8 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 9: 3280 Charges (1093 for each tier 9 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)
Tier 10: 9841 Charges (3280 for each tier 10 mana stone, 1 for weapon finalization)

Credits go to Ambic.

Before i begin let me inform you that each item has a total of 6 slots not including ghost stats or rune slots
. Ghost stats and rune slot stats DO NOT carry over if you decide to make a mana stone out of an item with existing stats on it.

Also keep in mind when stating out items if you it looks like the item will have more than 6 named stats on it that the game only lets the item keep the 6 LOWEST stats .ie higher lvl stats get bumped off if there isnt room.

When looking for items you want to stat out, my advice to you is to ONLY stat out items that have no stats on them to begin with and have over 100 durability(overdura) that way you dont have to waste golden repair hammers to gain the +20% power modifier.
(if you have the advanced auction mod installed when looking thru item categories you can put $clean and $dura in the filter boxes to have it only Search for clean over dura items).

**** Epidemic Stats referenced in this guide have now been renamed Stormstrike in game.****

Dirty Stats: Green stats with names next to them for example Epidemic X, Stamina I, Strength I , Energy I. these stats DO count against the total on an item and each one uses one slot. ( ie:any green stat that isnt a ghost stat.)

Ghost Stats: Stats gained by refining items with jewels OR that come on some crafted and dropped items in instances by default. these stats do NOT have a name next to them on the right side of the item and they DO NOT count against the total stats for the item.ie they dont take any slots.

Clean Stats: Yellow stats that usually have two stats for each one name for example Barbarian has strength and physical attack, these stats are usually found on set items, crafted items or instance drops.each one of these counts for 1 slot but since they have two stats per one name you can fit 12 of these on an item, it’s the ideal way to stat out your gear if you plan on keeping it for a LONG time as it does get expensive. There are also Orange stats that count as clean stats too but they only drop off of the demonlord instance in the volcano zone so far, each one of these has 3 stats per name so you can fit up to 18 stats on an item using these.

Fusion Stones: Stones bought either from the enchanting vendor in towns or off of auction house that contain from 1 to 3 green stats on them usually lvl 1 higher lvl stats on fusion stones is a rarity.And to my knowledge only gained thru buying random fusion stones.These stones are used along with stated items to make mana stones.

Mana Stones: Stones created by transmuting Fusion stones and items with stats on them together using the arcane transmutor and then used to either make higher tiered mana stones or stat out an item.Keep in mind the tier of the item you transmute your fusion stone with will indicate the tier of the mana stone you will make, ie Tier 3 is the most commonly used.

Arcane Transmutor: Device unlocked in varanas at lvl 10 that comes with 10 charges which you will use to transmute items to make mana stones and to stat out your items, tier them out and make runes, each use takes charges which can be obtained thru daily tokens at the rate of 30 per 1 charge from the NPC in varanas that originally unlocks it , OR 300 for 10 from the item shop or 29 diamonds for 10 from the item shop as well. On average if you make the mana stones yourself to stat out an item each item is going to cost you 4 charges 3 to make the mana stones and one to put the stats from the mana stones on said item.

Now onto the actual guide part of this post

Dirty stating an item:
Or as some call it Green stating an item, or junk stating.
(keep in mind this is assuming you have an item with no stats on it to begin with and that this item is overdurability ie over 100 durability).

1. Purchase 3 fusion stones with matching stats on them , ( if using advanced auction mod you can put Fusion Stone into the search box and each of these stats into the filter box to have it search for fusion stones with ONLY these stats on them for example Strength I, Stamina I and Dexterity I which i will be referencing these stats for the rest of this guide).

2. Purchase 3 items with single green stats on them that are all tier 3. For the purposes of this guide i will be using Epidemic IX , Epidemic X and Physique IX(once again if you have advanced auction you can put these stats into the filter boxes check the or boxes next to the 2nd and 3rd ones and leave the search field blank and go thru each item category one at a time to find your items with stats on them.) The reason i chose these stats is because they’re relatively cheap to purchase and i have experience stating out a rogue/scout so substitute you’re classes stats where needed .

3. Open the arcane transmutor and place one fusion stone in one of the four boxes around the middle box, then place one of the single green stated items into the middle, i’m going to use the item with Epidemic X on it for this example. There should now be a tier 3 mana stone show up in the preview box that has Strength I , Dexterity I, Stamina I, and Epidemic X on it. Click confirm and make your mana stone.

4. Repeat this process with the remaining two fusion stones and the remaining two items until you have a total of 3 tier 3 mana stones. that should look like this : All should have Strength I, Dexterity I and Stamina I on them, one should have these stats + epidemic X on it, another should have them + epidemic IX on it, and the last one should have them +Physique IX on it.

5. Place the 3 tier mana stones into the transmutor in the boxes surrounding the middle one and the item you wish to stat out into the middle box, the item that is in the middle box should show up in the preview box with the following stats on it, Strength I , stamina I, Dexterity I,Epidemic IX , Physique IX , and Epidemic X. Confirm and you have your item.

Now as stated above these stats were purely used for the example substitute your needed stats if they are different, the overall premise remains the same tho.

Creating higher Tier mana stones to Tier out an item:

The whole concept of tiering only applies to weapons and armor not accessories or trinkets because when you tier out an item ie increase its tier level , the base attack and mattack on weapons increase and the phys/magic Def on armor increases , since accessories and trinkets have none of these its useless to tier them out beyond whatever tier mana stones you use to put stats on them in the first place.

This process assumes you’ve read the first part of this guide and know how to create tier 3 mana stones, if not go back an read it.
Also please bear in mind this example is to give you a basic understanding of how to tier something out NOT a be all to end all.

1. Create 3 tier 3 mana stones with matching stats on them clean dirty etc doesnt matter, however if they’re clean you may wanna make 3 stones with 12 stats on them instead.

2. Throw these 3 stones into the arcane transmutor together and a tier 4 mana stone with all the stats the tier 3 stones had on them should show up(this is why i said to make them match so you still only have 6 slots worth of stats for when you eventually use them on the item you want tiered out).Confirm and you have your tier 4 mana stone, repeat this process two more times with the same stats you had on your first 3 tier 3 mana stones to gain 2 more tier 4 mana stones, and then you can make them into a tier 5 mana stone, and so on until tier 9.

Thats basicly it to tiering all you do when you reach the desired tier of stone and have 3 of them with matching stats is transmute those stones with the item you want tiered out and it will make the item whatever tier mana stone you have used + add the stats you have on those stones to that item.

Rune Forging:

This is cake , all you have to do is find two runes of the same lvl that will actually transmute into a combo rune or another rune of the type desired and transmute them, OR if you want to make your runes higher level before doing this, you get 5 of the same lvl rune and turn them into one of the next lvl up rune.

Now for those that need a more detailed explanation i’m going to use resistance III and endurance III runes in my example.

1. Put the resistance III and endurance III runes in the outside boxes of the arcane transmutor , an atonement III rune will show up in the preview box which is a two stat rune. confirm and you’ve made your rune.

2. Leveling up a rune : take 5 resistance III runes stacked and put them into the arcane transmutor , a resistance IV rune will show up in the preview, confirm and you’ve made your resistance IV rune.

3. Also when rune forging combo runes if i had 5 of each of the runes in my example, the transmutor would have then made 5 atonement III runes at once, however it would have cost me 5 charges.

Here is a link to the runeforging tables on romwiki for reference: http://www.theromwiki.com/Transmutation_Chart

Credits go to Leutiankane.

So here it goes. Again all of this information was gathered from other posters, and credit should go mainly to Dasadorah and Unnefable.

Note: *You can be any level to make a guild*

Items you need off the bat:

-100k to make your guild
-4 other players 

Additional Stuffs:

- 30k gets you a guild flag, you can design it from their basic patterns, just put it together and color it! Horrah!!

I am not sure, but would guess the guild starts at level 1. From there you have to donate resources to the guild through the guild tab window (Default “g”). As you donate more and more, you guild will level (to my knowledge, the guild leader actually has to be online and level the guild when resources are high enough). Here is an old breakdown of what you needed for each level. Please make comments so we can update any info as needed.

(Note: It is best to refine the resources down one time then donate it to the guild. It gives more points that way.)

IE:

If you donate 1 zinc ore you get 1 point (no refinement, takes 1 resource) 
If you donate 1 zinc sand you get 3 points (first refinement, takes 2 resources)
If you donate 1 zinc nugget you get 9 points (second refinement, takes 12 resources?)

Upgrade to level 2

Gold: 18,000
Ore: 720
Wood: 720
Herbs: 720

Upgrade to level 3

Gold: 35,820 
Ore: 1783 
Wood: 1783 
Herbs: 1783 

Upgrade to level 4

Gold: 63,263 
Ore: 3708 
Wood: 3708 
Herbs: 3708 

Upgrade to level 5

Gold: 105,525 
Ore: 7191 
Wood: 7191 
Herbs: 7191 

Upgrade to level 6

Gold: 170,608 
Ore: 13,495 
Wood: 13,495 
Herbs: 13,495 

Upgrade to level 7

Gold: ????
Ore: 24,000
Wood: 24,000 
Herbs: 24,000

Upgrade to level 8

Gold: 420,000
Ore: 45,000
Wood: 45,000 
Herbs: 45,000

Upgrade to level 9

Gold: 662,000
Ore: 82,000
Wood: 82,000 
Herbs: 82,000

Upgrade to level 10

Gold: 1,028,950
Ore: 150,610
Wood: 150,610 
Herbs: 150,610

To get a guild castle; you first need guild level 7

Upgrade to GuildCastle

Gold: 350,000
Ore: 15,000
Wood: 15,000 
Herbs: 15,000

After donating your building mats to the guild you just visit the Guild Manager npc in Varanas either on west or east wing right beside the housekeeper then click on I want to build a castle.

Credits go to jugglerpro.

-100k to make your guild
-4 other players

Items you don’t have to have right away but need when you decide to make your guild larger. 
-Money to make your guild flag (30k)
-Extra money to upgrade (depending on each lvl you go up)

(Note: *You can be any lvl to make a guild, things may change for Open Beta*)

Information: 
First off, travel to Silvarspring and go to Varanas City. At Varanas City bridge you will see a NPC, Lieve [Teleporter], click on her and teleport to the Varanas City Guild Hall.

Once you have finally teleported, walk all the way at the end of the room to the NPC, Guild Establishment Administrator. Click on the NPC with a party of three including yourself and pay the fee of 100k. 

(Note: *that the party member does not have to be with you when you form your guild.*) 

After paying the administration fee, this will give you a temporary guild. Then, you have to find four other players who are also not in a guild to join yours. When four players have joined your guild, go back to the Guild Establishment Administrator to upgrade to a full guild. 

Finally, when you’re done making your guild official go to the, Guild Flag Administrator NPC to make your guild flag. You have several flags and colors to choose from.

When you’re done confirming and paying your 30k fee. Make sure you press "G" to bring up your guild interface. Once you have done that, you should see the Guild Resources button. Click it and you can see what resources you need to upgrade your guild.

(Note: *Upgrading your guild makes room for more members, each lvl you go up. More things will be added in Open Beta when you upgrade your guild.*)

*Resources for upgrading* 
-Money Total
-Minning Total
-Wood Total
-Herbs Total
-Bonuses Total
-Guild Runes
-Guild Stones

How to get a guild castle!

You need guild lvl 7 first. Getting guild lvl 7 you just need to donate resources to your guild and upgrade. After getting guild lvl 7 you need to gather 15k herbs, 15k wood, 15k ore and donate 350k gold to the guild to build your castle. (doesnt matter what kind of mats you gather as long as its herbs, wood and ore.) After donating your building mats to the guild you just visit the Guild Manager npc in Varanas either on west or east wing right beside the housekeeper then click on "I want to build a castle".

Then you are done and successfully build your guild castle! Congratulations!

Credits go to Dasadorah.

Getting Into Siege/Startup

NOTE: I am using the guildpanel addon; my interface WILL NOT be the same as most people’s. Buttons will be removed, some are even added. This screen shows all guilds that are registered for siege, and, during the prep stage, it also gives you the name of who you are fighting. Eventually, each guild will gain points by winning, and lose some by losing, so there will be some equality during the sieges.

Here is the battle screen:

This screen has three buttons on the bottom of it. the left button is Register. Only available to the Guild Leader, this button allows a guild to register for siege if they are level 7 and have a castle. Also, you can ONLY register if it is an hour AFTER siege is over, and BEFORE Preperation Stage. If you miss this time, you will have to wait until the next day for siege.

The Next button is the cancel registration button. If the guild opts to pull out, the leader can choose this. NOTE THAT THIS CANNOT BE DONE DURING REGISTRATION PHASE / BATTLE PHASE.

The final button is Enter battle. When Siege war begins, all guild members must press this button to be transported to the battle immediately, as long as they are not in a no-transportation area (Instance, residence, etc.)

Now, when you first get into the map, you will see a giant crystal in front of you. This is your Guild Honor Crystal and if you lose it, you lose. Depending on the amount of towers that are taken when your crystal falls, the time for you to reclaim it changes.

If 0-5 towers are taken by the enemy
The crystal must be retaken within 5 minutes, or your guild will lose.

If all 6 towers have been captured by the enemy
When your Honor Crystal has been taken like this, your guild loses. Immeditaely. No ifs, ands or buts.

Next is currency within the Siege. Gold can still be used to buy poisons, and ammo, but other than that, it is completely useless. The two types of currencies in Siege are Merits and Crystals. merits and Crystals are shown in the window that resembles a crystal that is on the top right of your screen. 

The Guild Siege Info Screen (Menu)

There are two modes to the Guild Siege Menu; simple mode, there there is no background, and advanced mode, which can be attained by right clicking the gem. Advanced mode is HIGHLY reccommended. Here is advanced mode:

In the center of the menu, is the crystal that shows your side. (hopefully you know your own guild anyways, but that’s besides the point) 

Under the guild names is a number, with a sword next to it. This is the number of guild members that are participating. Note that numbers are decieving. I have had many times where there have been 5 members, but they are all so powerful that we have a hard time holding our own.

Under the number of guild members participating, is a crystal icon. this shows how many crystals your guild has, as well as the enemy’s. note that when one guild has a lot and another had few, this indicates a guild has spent a lot on siege weapons, upgrades, and etc. Always try to spend your crystals if it is not a problem; that is what they are there for.

Note that Crystals are gained equally in proportion to Merits. This means for every merit a player picks up, 1 Crystal is added to to stockpile.
In the middle, under the crystal, is a timer (Bugged in this screenshot) when it is working, it counts down to the end of the mission. If no guild has successfully conquered the other’s Honor Crystal, then it is a tie, no matter the towers gained by the opponent.

Under that is a tally of your Merits. This is not a guild score! This simply is a quick reference to show how many you have in your pack at any time.

Underneath all this is the Morale Bar, or so I have named it. Morale is gained when you capture a tower or the opponent’s honor crystal; because there are 2 Honor Crystals and 6 towers, there is never more than 10000 morale at a time. Towers are worth 1000 morale, and Honor crystals are worth 2000 morale. Note, as stated above, if your morale at any time drops to 0 (through loss of all towers and the Honor Crystal) your guild immediately loses.

Currency

Merits: The main currency. This can be gotten in several ways.

1: Kill an enemy guild member. (Merits: 3-5, depending on allies nearby)
2: Kill a balloon monster next to the castle (Merits: 3-5 depending on how many allies are nearby)
3: Kill an Elite Balloon Monster (Merits: 10-20 Depending on allies)
4: Gather from a Tower (Merits: 1-3 randomly every 5 seconds; reccomended for low levels)

Crystals. The secondary Currency. Crystals are gained evenly with merits. for ever merit you gather, one crystal is added to your guild’s crystal coffers.

Towers

These are giant structures dotted around the map that are guarded by 3 guards; two normal elites and a boss Captain. Towers can be clicked on to gather merits (albeit slowly), so is a good place for lowbies to go to gather merits. (Levels 50+ are best killing balloons next to the castle)

The most effective method of capturing towers is with a 3 or 4 man group consisting of:

1 Tank (probably 25k HP+)
1 Healer (Have to keep tank alive!)
2 others, any class, to capture tower while the guards are busy.

Traps

Now, you are a new guild, just built a castle, and have no damn idea how to defend your castle. Well, next to your towers (yours, not the enemy’s!) you will find two clickable "Banners" these are actually SHOPS! Traps cost Merits, which you can gather as listed under "Currency" section.

Note that traps are VERY easily dispatched with siege weapons. if your opponent has siege weapons, you will probably need to either hide traps, or not use them at all.

In the Shop, (besides the ammo and poisons) you can buy TRAPS!

There are 3 Traps, and 1 weapon in this shop.

Trap 1: Sea Washed Stone

This trap is good when your opponent has many mages. This trap randomly casts Silence on all enemies around it.

Priority:2 This trap is good to have, but not to many. Your merits can be spent on other things if the enemy doesnt have a lot of mages or healers.

Trap 2: Face of Treachery (Hidden behind the info window)

Oh my GOD this trap is awesome. This trap randomly hits ALL enemies nearby, knocking them down 3 times repeatedly! Multiples of this trap are VERY hard to get past!

Priority: 1 You NEED these traps if you are facing a guild with no siege weapons! This is a perfect anti-troop trap!

Trap 3: Eye of True Knowledge

This trap is mediocre. you might want one or two here and there, but other than that, ditch em. All they do is reveal and stun any hidden rogues that pass by.

Priority: 3 You only need maybe 1 per tower/gate, unless the enemy is using rogues a lot.

Weapon 1: Bursting Beetles

Fighting enemies stronger wthan you? These are your friend! Place these on an enemy and after a short time, they explode, doing MASSIVE damage!

Defense 1: Insect Repellant Flower

Want to make sure you don’t explode violently? Grab a few of these. these can be used to remove Bursting Beetles!

Structures

Now, all structures that you have built OUTSIDE of guild siege is available to you to buff you in the battle. Buffs include massive defense increases and speed increases, depending on the building. I will be posting screenshots of the abilities of every building soon. 

Most of the time, Buffs cost both Merits AND Crystals. This is one of the only ways you can spend crystals.

The Arsenal

Who DOESN’T like smashing down an enemy’s walls with a gigantic Iron ram? Who else enjoys skewering their foes with a giant ballista?

If you enjoy this part of siege (Or just liked how it looked in the trailer) you need the Arsenal. The Arsenal allows your guild to build MOBILE SIEGE WEAPONS. This will help in taking down those pesky gates, especially when the opponent’s healers are continuously healing them.

The Arsenal comes with three levels of operation. To advance to the next level, it is 200 merits and 200 Crystals. To use a siege weapon, buy it, and then right click it while you are next to the Arsenal.

The full selection of Arsenal Weapons.

The first level (Basic) Has only 1 mobile weapon: The Ram. The Ram can hold up to 2 people inside. the more people, the faster it moves. Rams are ONLY good at attacking fortifications. they are WORTHLESS against PCs. You can also build portable catapult and ballista turrent packs, allowing you to set them up where one is missing, saving merits (These cost crystals only)

Next level is Advanced mode. This allows you to build the weapons you saw in the trailer. A massive mobile ballista, a giant triple headede catapult, and a huge protected ram are all yours… for a very large merit and crystal cost.

The Final level is Master Mode. I have not achieved this yet. This level is unknown to me, but using Itempreview I have seen a giant Lion-Headed Ram, among other interesting things. mostly though, I suggest sticking to advanced unless your opponents are HEAVILY dug in.

Now, some screenshots of the rams in action.

The simple ram. Very weak, but effective. does 15k Damage to the gates every 5 seconds.

The Iron Rams. These things tear through any gate. They do 30k normally, and 50k Criticals to gates!

The Third Tier ram, Lion Head Ram. When you have it filled with guildies, it does 100k damage to enemy gates. 
Kudos to Shadowsofwinter guild for fighting back so vehemently we had to break these out.

God Mode 
(Also known as The Herald of the Guild, and other names, but I like God Mode)

This is an option for those who do not wish to spend on guild buildings. The first person to gather 1000 merits and return to THEIR guild honor crystal will gain this mode.

The following stats are given to the player:

+10,000 HP
+25% Defense, both magic and physical
+25% Attack, both magic and physical
+100% size

Not only do they gain these massive bonuses, but they also recieve an awesome set of skills that buffs the ENTIRE GUILD at once!

Here is a screenshot of the skills:

Skill 1: Summoning Tornado

Cooldown: 8 Minutes

This skill channels the power of the Tempest through you, going streight forward and damaging all enemies caught by its deadly blast. VERY useful for killing enemies attacking a gate.

Skill 2: Thunder Force

Cooldown: 6 Minutes

This skill buffs your entire guild with the same speed as a Speed sigil for a limited time (10 seconds) Personally, I think it is a useless skill, except for reinforcing your position in an enemy castle (Allows reinforcements to get there faster)

Skill 3: Raise Morale

Cooldown: 6 Minutes

This skill allows you to buff your ENTIRE GUILD with a superbuff that causes their MAX HP to be restored Every Second for 5 seconds.

Skill 4: Fearless

Cooldown: 3 minutes

This skill makes every guild member evade the next attack within 15 seconds. During this time, however, the Herald cannot use ANY abilities.

Skill 5: Ironblood Army Spirit

Cooldown: 5 Minutes

This skill raises Critical hits by a large percentage. While I am not sure myself on what this core is, I was told by a guildie it is anywhere within 100-200%

Skill 6: Summon Guild Honor Guard

Cooldown: Who cares? This dude is epic!!! (15 minutes)

This skill calls forth a giant Guild honor Guard to fight by your side! This Guild Honor Guard has the same stats as a Guild Guard Captain, butDoubled. Yup, this dude is epic. The only bad part about this skill is that it has a MASSIVE recharge time, and also it MUST be used next to a tower, with the exception of the Honor Crystal Tower.

With this guy, I alone can walk up to an enemy tower (as long as no other PCs are guarding it and there are not many traps) and use this skill, then, while the Honor Guard is drawing the guards away and fighting them, I capture the tower! Then, when the tower is captured, the enemy hasFOUR guards to fight instead of three!

Credits go to Dragonchampion.

We managed to complete all of Treasure Trove (including all five bosses) with a party of only 4 players… it was very difficult, but we managed to get through all of it while wiping only once or twice. This is our second attempt at Treasure Trove — our first being a full party of 6.

I would usually upload a series of videos in threads similar to this, but our strategies for Talomo and Snow Blake weren’t really that amazing, nor were they very clean (a lot of kite-tanking and several party members dying), so I haven’t really decided whether or not I’ll upload the videos — it all depends if there’s demand for me to do so.

The party composition was:

• Zarth (me!) – R/S
• koyu – M/P
• Kasmira – P/K
• sniperbob – K/W

The ‘trash’ mobs were harder than the bosses themselves..

Screenies and strategies:
(please note that the screenshots were ripped directly from the video capture)

1.) Will’s Curse (the squid boss)

Strategy: 
You’ll have to fight four ‘fake’ bosses (~500K HP) before the real one will spawn (~700K HP). We usually just click the chalices from left to right to spawn the bosses — the ordering doesn’t seem to really matter.

The fake bosses are cake, and shouldn’t be an issue. However, it might be beneficial to practice strategies on the fake ones before attempting the real boss; note that all of the bosses will randomly turn party members into either cups or skeletons. If a party member gets turned into a cup, you can free him by clicking on the cup. Alternatively, if a party member gets turned into a skeleton, you will need a M/P to purify the debuff. If the main tank is a skeleton for a prolonged time, it’s pretty much a guaranteed wipe.

2.) Loyal Talomo

Strategy: 
This boss has a permanent buff that decreases almost all physical and magical damage by a significant factor. There are some fire pits around the boss; if you click on one of them, you’ll be given an interrogation needle. The needle lasts for 20 seconds in your inventory, and if you right-click it while you have the boss targeted, his permanent buff will be deactivated for a short amount of time. Do NOT click on all of the fire pits at once, only click on them one at a time as necessary. 

DoTs remain unaffected, so stack those on as much as possible. It seems unlikely that it’s possible to down the boss in the small timeframes the interrogation needles give you, so this fight usually lasts a long, long time. The boss has a cannon AOE which EVERYONE has to run away from, as it hits multiple times for 4k+ each. We ended up needing to kitetank it.

3.) Boulder Sidaar

Strategy:
This boss is a pretty simple tank and spank. One thing to note, though, is that he reflects either physical or magical attacks, depending on which buff he has on. The physical attack reflection buff is an orange icon, while the magical attack reflection buff is a blue icon. You get hit for 1200 HP every time an attack gets reflected, so make sure the tank immediately stops attacking when the orange icon is up; as a result of this, aggro control is a legitimate concern.

4.) Lookout Luke

Strategy:
This is probably the easiest boss of the five, if you have a good enough tank; it’s another simple tank and spank, however there is a countdown-based attack (aptly named "xxxxx") which he can unleash on the tank for multiple hits. In our case, we had to keep the priest well informed of the countdown timer, so that the tank can survive all of the successive hits.

5.) Snow Blake

Strategy: 

This is the hardest boss by far. She teleports you to her and then uses an AOE called "Queen Bomb" on you for 50K flat damage — you can run away from the AOE, but in the latter half of the fight she will also cast an AOE root before she teleports you, which, if you don’t get rid of, will result in immediate death. 

We don’t really have a clean strategy for this fight. Our strategy involves everyone other than two people staying dead… the biggest problem is the root; not every class can unroot themselves, so those who cannot are generally just left dead. Most noteably, the tank will have to be able to unroot himself, otherwise he’ll be dead when the AOE hits. You might think that a priest will be able to cleanse the root off the tank, but there’s a cooldown on cleanse which will result in the priest still being rooted and ultimately dead from the imminent Queen Bomb AOE.

However, it seems that self-damaging skills will break you out of the root. So in our case, we used an R/S with Blood Arrow constantly on (-200 HP per tick) to kitetank Snow Blake while the priest cleanses himself everytime he gets rooted and also constantly popping regens and heals on the kitetanker. It is a slow strategy, but it works, so we’re not really complaining.

Yes, this means that other party members are left to fend for thsemselves (aka, left to die), and yes, this also means that Snow Blake is ultimately doable as a duo. This fight is one of the main reasons why I’m reluctant to upload the videos, as it’s rather cheesy… we hope that we’ll find a solution to the root and/or Queen Bomb AOE sometime soon.

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Anyways, this was a long post, so hopefully at least some of you’ll read it! Not like there’s much to do during the downtime anyways 

Credits go to akwok.

Party Makeup and Reqs (my best guesses):
Tank – 100k HP buffed, 120k Defense buffed, 22k pattack, T8 level 60+ weapon 
Healer – 38k HP unbuffed, X heals
DPS – 38k HP unbuffed, 28k pattack/mattack unbuffed, T8 level 60+ weapon(s)

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Trash Mobs - To Boss #1

• Trash Clear Execution - There isn’t really anything special about the mobs on the way to 1st boss. Depending on your tank’s stats and your heals, you can either straight-up tank the groups of mobs or use crowd control and the druid’s "turn" skill Spirit Guidance to your advantage. Make sure you closely watch the start and endpoints for every patrol in relation to each other and pull at the opportune time. A badly-timed pull can kill even an overstatted group easily, so be careful not to just power through the trash mobs.
• Spirit Guidance - This druid skill will turn an enemy mob into your ally for a set period of time. If you use it on a mob with other mobs in close proximity to it, the other mobs will attack it for the duration of the debuff. If you use this skill at the right times and on the right groups, you can clear entire rooms with ease. The mobs that can be turned on the way to 1st boss are Tomb Guards and Tomb Guardians, the others mob types are immune to the skill.

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Boss #1 - Guzala Angerfang (10 million HP, 9 mementos)

• Adds - There are coffins on the side of the boss room. During one complete phase of this boss encounter, 4 adds will one by one appear and attack the party. The adds will switch aggro randomly, "ping-ponging" between each member of your party. These adds are also invincible and will stack a debuff on players they attack that reduces their max HP and damage. You can prevent yourself from getting this debuff by kiting, so move around often if the adds aggro on your often and your skill rotation allows. There is a way to damage and kill these adds: by dragging them through traps.
• Traps - Shortly after beginning this boss fight, 3 traps will appear on the floor in random places around the room. The purpose of these traps is to make the adds vulnerable to damage by dragging them through them. The traps will go off (and disappear) if a player, the boss, or an add steps on them; it is very important to make sure that the adds are the only ones that set foot in the traps. Once an add sets off a trap, it will scream in say chat and become vulnerable to attack. Make sure the add is killed immediately – if you take too long it will become invulnerable again.
• Curse Explosion - The boss will cast a skill called Curse Explosion at certain points in the fight. If you have used all the traps successfully you should have 1 add left when the boss casts this skill. Don’t worry, this skill will kill one (and only one) add. Unfortunately, this skill also does massive damage to players. The best thing to do when you see this skill being cast is to run away from the boss, as it is a short range attack and only has a range of 50 or so (if I had to guess).
• Boss Fight Execution - The easiest way to do this fight is to circle the largest concentration of traps with your entire party. Once the trap or traps you are surrounding have been expended, move to next closest trap. Be very careful not to step in them yourself – if you screw up and waste a trap you will have at least 1 unkillable add running around the rest of the fight. You need to make use of the traps fairly quickly, as they will disappear right before the boss casts curse explosion (~1 minute after the traps first appear). After curse explosion, the cycle begins again and a new set of traps and adds will spawn.
• Sidenote (NPC Skills) - There are two skills that an NPC can supply you right outside the boss room. The first skill allows you to "rock" yourself, causing adds to ignore you but making you unable to move or use any skills. The second skill allows you to unrock your allies by casting it on them at close range. The use of these skills is undoubtedly the way Runewalker intended this fight to work, but in practice it is much simpler and easier to ignore these skills completely.

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Trash Mobs - Boss #1 to Boss #2

• Tygistor’s Son - These mobs have an attack called Fire Punishment. When you see a cast bar by that name, everyone must group up together immediately. This skill will do 120k damage on one random person divided by the amount of people grouped on top of that person. When you first aggro these mobs they will cast Fire Punishment immediately, so make sure you are grouped up before you pull.

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Boss #2 - Tygistor (8.5 million HP, 9 mementos)

• Lava Flame - This boss will put a debuff called Lava Flame on one random person in the party. The skill icon looks like flame (mage skill) and it is very important to watch out for. This debuff will silence and damage the player for 10% HP every 2 seconds for its entire duration. The person who gets this debuff needs to move away from the group to a range of 150-200 (whatever max heal range is). When the debuff ends, the player will explode and cause 60% damage to himself and anyone close to him. A fire AOE will also be placed on the ground in the location where the player was standing when the debuff ended. The healers need to do their best to keep the person with the debuff at full health or they will most likely die.
• Fire Punishment - This boss has the same skill as the Tygistor’s Son trash mobs. To recap, when you see a cast bar by the name of Fire Punishment ____, everyone must group up together immediately. This skill will do 120k damage on one random person divided by the amount of people grouped on top of that person.
• Lightning - There are lightning bolts which will come from the statues on either side of the room. These do minimal damage on their own, but the damage is multiplied when your party is grouped up. Even with your party grouped the damage is almost negligible, but you will be interrupted and silenced by this skill as well.
• Boss Fight Execution - This boss fight is fairly straightforward. I usually turn the boss around (seen in the video) but I’m not actually sure if it’s necessary or not, it’s just habit at this point. You should have everyone in your party looking out for the Lava Flame debuff, as it is very easy to miss because of all the other debuffs you get during the fight (don’t worry about these, they are just DoTs). Do this and group up for Fire Punishment and this boss is a cakewalk compared to Angerfang.

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Trash Mobs - Boss #2 to Boss #3

• Tomb Scorpion / Man-Eating Scorpion - These mobs will put a debuff on the tank called Armor Corrosion which will decrease his physical defense. If you get too many of these stacked, you should wait for the debuff to wear off before proceeding.
• Kareem - Keep following this beetle from the beginning of the hallway after 2nd boss. It will eventually grow bigger and you will have to kill it to open the door to the 3rd boss room.
• Crypt Beetles - Inside the 3rd boss room there will be beetles on either side of the room near the door. Pull these beetles into the hallway and kill them. They will put a dot on you called Bug Acid on you.

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Boss #3 - Linobia (8 million HP, 13 mementos)

• Beetles - There are two kinds of beetles that will spawn out of the coffins during this boss fight: crypt beetles and tomb beetles. The crypt beetles cast a skill which buffs the boss’s damage. The tomb beetles will explode on contact with a player and do massive damage. It is imperative that you have a dps assigned to kill the beetles 100% of the time, especially the tomb beetles. A mage is ideal and almost a requirement, but it is possible to do with other classes (you really need a spammable AOE and/or a ranged attack).
• Poison Cloud - Party members will get poisoned and a purple cloud will appear around them. It is very important to be spread out when you have this purple cloud, as it will deal damage to yourself and anyone adjacent to you.
• Boss Fight Execution - The boss fight aside from the beetle component is basically a tank and spank. The boss resides in the back-left corner of the room and it’s best to tank him in that general area and not in the middle of the coffins. In fact, it’s best to have as many party members as possible in the back of the room away from the coffins.

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Trash Mobs - Boss #3 to Boss #4

• Tomb Scorpion / Man-Eating Scorpion - These mobs will put a debuff on the tank called Armor Corrosion which will decrease his physical defense. If you get too many of these stacked, you should wait for the debuff to wear off before proceeding.
• Crypt Beetles - These mobs will put a dot called Bug Acid on you.
• Rock Guardian - This guy will slow your entire party and encase one of them in rock. The rock will wear off eventually so don’t worry about it too much. Once you get into the 4th boss room, there are 4 of these mobs that must be cleared before you start the boss fight, so start working your way around the room in a circle.

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Boss #4 - Yinha (8.5 million HP, 13 mementos)

• Yinha’s Red Shield - There is a red barrier surrounding this boss. Anyone standing in this barrier will take 300% more magic damage from the boss. Because of this, it is very important that whoever has aggro needs to be outside this red shield when the boss does any of his attacks. It is ideal to have a ranged DPS hold aggro on the boss, it is very dangerous for any melee dps or the tank to have aggro during this fight.
• Gravel - This skill will be repeatedly cast on whoever has aggro during this fight. This skill is just a basic attack and it nothing to worry about unless you are standing inside the boss’s red shield.
• Giant Gravel - This attack will hit everyone in the party, regardless of your positioning. When you see the cast bar for this skill, anyone standing in the boss’s red shield should back up out of the shield until they have taken the damage from the skill. After everyone is hit by this attack, a debuff will be put on one random party member (I’m not sure of the name, I’ll edit this post later if I can get it). When this debuff ends, this person and anyone standing near them will be covered with rocks. If you notice you have the debuff, get away from your group members and do not stand in the red shield. You cannot move or cast while you are trapped in the rocks. The only way to un-rock yourself is to be hit with Heavy Invasion.
• Heavy Invasion - The boss will switch targets to one random person in the party and cast this skill, Heavy Invasion. Whoever this attack is cast on will be flung high into the air. Anyone standing near (range of 25-50) will also be flung into the air. If someone who is rocked is flung into the air, the rocks will break and that person will be free to move around and cast once more.
• Slowing Whirlpool - A grayish sand whirlpool will appear on the ground under one random person. Any players standing in this whirlpool will have a debuff put on them that slows. This debuff can stack, slowing the player more for every stack on them. Move out of this whirlpool immediately if it appears underneath you, as being slowed will screw you over if the boss casts Sand Storm.
• Sand Storm - The boss will say "Targeting Disruption Activated" and cast this skill simutaneously. Right before he starts casting this skill, everyone will be pulled to the boss’s location (WA 2nd boss style). There is no way to predict when you are going to be pulled in, so pay attention. Run out of the red shield surrounding the boss immediately. If you are not out of the shield by the time the boss finishes his cast, you will most likely be one-shot.
• Boss Fight Execution - This boss fight is pretty self-explanatory if you understand all his abilities. He will use his skills in a random order. Just make sure you remove the rocks off of people who need it and move out of the red shield when needed and you should be fine.

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Trash Mobs - Boss #4 to Boss #5

• Mummy Hallway #1 - In the hallway continuing from the 4th boss’s room, there will be a pat along with coffins on the side of the room. A Limon Mummy mob will spawn from each of these coffins. These mobs will put a contagious debuff on some members of your party which will likely spread to everyone else. These debuffs can only be cleansed by the druid general skill Antidote. Once a party member is cleansed they should stay away from those who still have the debuff as it can easily be spread once again. You should do this cleansing out of battle before the next mob pulls.
• Mummy Intermission - The room following the first mummy hallway has a LOT of mobs and pats. The easiest and safest way to clear this room is by having a druid use Spirit Guidance on as many mobs as possible (guards and guardians can be turned) and clearing the remainder the typical way. If you do not have a druid, you will need to be very careful about your pulls and probably implement some kind of crowd control.
• Mummy Hallway #2 - This hallway is probably the hardest trash clear in the instance. Like the hallway before, there will be coffins lining the walls that will spawn mummies. Unlike before, the mummies will spawn infinitely while you are standing in the hallway. There is also a Giant Rune Guardian and a Sacrificer standing at the end of the hallway that must be killed before the door to the next room opens. The Sacrificer will heal the Giant Rune Guardian and the Giant Rune Guardian will cast a skill called Energized Strike that will cause a significant AOE to hit anyone near him. The best way to clear this hallway is to move slowly down the hallway moving from each set of coffins to the next and killing all mobs before you progress. Once you get to the end, kill the Sacrificer and then the Giant Rune Guardian, making sure that someone is interrupting Energized Strike cast by the Giant Rune Guardian. Once these two mobs are dead, move between the pillars on either side of the far end of the hallway and kill the remaining mummies. Do not move any farther than this as there are mobs you don’t want to aggro yet in the next room. Cleanse your party of the mummy debuff and continue. There is a video below of the clearing of this room.
• Boss Room Mobs - The room after the 2nd mummy hallway is the boss room, but there are 6 mobs that need to be killed before you can start the boss fight. There should be 6 Giant Rune Guardians standing in your path, 3 on either side of the room. These mobs have a very large aggro range so make sure you only grab one at a time. As before, make sure you interrupt the skill Energized Strike and stay at range if you aren’t the tank or a melee dps in case you miss. These mobs also cast Rune Reverse, which if you recall is a skill from Hall of Survivors that will reflect 4k damage each time you attack the mob with it on. It is far less lethal than it was back at level 55, so don’t worry about this skill too much.

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Boss #5 - Anubis (8 million HP, 15 mementos)

• Death’s Power - The boss will say "The power of darkness shall sweep over all!" and cast this skill simultaneously. This skill will fear the entire party for roughly 2-3 seconds.
• Flames of Fury - This skill works like Fire Punishment from 2nd boss. When you see the boss say "Feel the wrath of the flames!" or the cast bar, your entire party needs to group up. This skill will do 120k damage on one random person divided by the amount of people grouped on top of that person.
• Death Storm - The boss will say "Defilers of the tomb, you shall feel the stormy fury of the death god!" and cast this skill simultaneously. When cast, this skill will put a debuff on one random party member. This debuff will cause the affected player to deal damage to and interrupt any adjacent players. Keep distance between you and people with this debuff, as it can be a real nuisance and cannot be cleansed.
• Black Magic - The boss will say "Feel the suffering of my people!" and cast this skill simultaneously. All party members will be caught in a trap and rooted in place, as well as take damage every 1-2 seconds for 9 seconds total.
• Dark Bonds - The boss will say "Come forth, champion of my people!" and cast this skill simultaneously. One party member will have the Dark Bonds debuff put on them. This debuff works like a rogue’s Shadow Prison and prevents the player from moving or casting anything. A Limon Warrior will spawn at the same time as the debuff is cast. The only way to get rid of Dark Bonds on the affected player is to kill the spawned add.
• Tomb Beetles - The boss will say "Come forth my minions!", there is no cast bar for this ability. Two tomb beetles will spawn. They are not much of a danger as they do not explode on contact like 2nd boss, but they should be killed quickly anyway.
• Dust Sanction - The boss will say "Suffer the punishment of the sands!" and cast this skill simultaneously. All party members will be thrown into the air and contract a debuff that slows casting speed. This debuff should be cleansed asap, especially on healers and mages.
• Boss Fight Execution - The boss seems to follow a pattern of alternating the use of Death’s Power (group fear) and one random skill from this list for most of the fight. This fight is very simple to understand, but depending on the skill order of the boss it can be pretty difficult. There are debuffs that will stack up on every member of the party that decrease heals received in lieu of a enrage timer.
• In Case of Wipe… - If you wipe on this boss fight, you will most likely have to all res out of the instance. The mummies in the hallway before the boss room will still spawn infinitely, so you will have to run through as a group and kill them again.

Credits go to trev7389.

(Disclaimer: This is just a guide to the instance. Nothing written here is per GOD and all is subject to personal opinion and the makeup of the group)
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The name was well chosen for this instance. The whole instance takes place in one circular “arena” type room. There are five rounds total in the first four you will face four different bosses and for the last round you will face bosses #3 and #4 together. You will NOT face any non-boss mobs in this instance and you decide when to begin each round by talking to the Arena Guard within the instance. 

For the following guide there will be a plethora of screenshots accompanying each boss fight showing initial positioning before the battle begins because a picture says a thousand words. 

Requirements (based on max lvl being 62)
This is a six man instance – normally consisting of 1 tank, 3 or 4 DPS, 1 or 2 healers. Even though there is a quest line running through the instance, there is no attunement requirement to enter.

Tank

• Health: 50k un-buffed
• Physical Defense: 80k (with EA)
• Physical Attack: 19k

All Other Classes 
Health: 

• The minimum health requirement for survival is 28k; however, 30k to 35k is preferred.

Attack: All classes should bring appropriate foods, etc to buff 

• Magic attack: 20k (un-buffed)

• Physical attack: 20k (un-buffed) [this is required for 2nd/4th boss as the longer you fight - the more debuffs/circles you get which makes it harder - so you want to kill the bosses quickly]

Heals: HOTs (Heals Over Time) should be at 1.2k min as well as the following: 

• Druid: 20k restore life and Recover HOT should tick at 3k

• Priest: 25k group heal, 7 to 8k urgent heal, 20k heal

Round One 
Pop Goes the Weasel. In the beginning of the battle, the tank brings the boss (Manticos the dragon fiend) back towards the outer ring keeping himself between the boss and the party – the boss has a front/side AOE that will hurt/kill those standing closest to him. This position is where the tank remains the whole fight and one healer will remain here as well. Also, before the fight begins all DPS (and second healer if applicable) will determine which of the other two positions they will run to in the event the boss casts Dune Rock – which unless you have high amounts of DPS he will cast (see screenshot below for all positions). 

• In the event the boss casts Dune Rock: He will fly into the air and land at the end of the cast bar. The moment he lands every party member will receive a de-buff called stumble (Stumble – the sky fills with sand and makes it very difficult to move, there are also some larger rocks that seems to have some kind of strange energy- lasts for 6 seconds). When these de-buffs appear separate immediately into the three positions. This division is necessary because when the de-buff wears off 120k AOE damage is divided amongst the party (most damage hits those in position one) – this attack is called Massive Upheaval. However, each person takes a buddy with them because if everyone spreads out separately when the boss lands every member who does not have a buddy will be turned into a stone. After the de-buff wears off each member can return to the initial position behind the tank. If someone does not follow the above directions timely there are two outcomes: someone blows up on the main healer and tank (killing either or both of them) and/or a buddy turns into stone and has to wait the count down with limited heals.

Rinse and Repeat.

Round Two 
Be Ready to Run. Before preparing for this fight you should have Escape Artist Title equipped (can be earned from Hall of the Demon Lord) and/or speed pots such as Unbridled Enthusiasm (from the housemaid) or Spellweaver Potion (Auction House) to speed up your pace because this boss has a death dealing AOE – Spinning Slash. 

The battle takes place in the center of the arena. The tank will fight the boss (Great Gladiator Mukhan) in the center. The boss will call out in blue chat “The great gladiator draws everyone towards him” and everyone will be summoned to him. As soon as this blue chat appears across the screen the “run” key should be held down in anticipation. Everyone has to run to the outside of the outer circle to avoid his AOE. As soon as you turn the outer ring you can and should head back to the center because the whole party needs to regroup for the healers to do their job efficiently. 

*Notes: Holy Shield will provide immunity to the party, Holy Candle Shield/Holy Aura will give immunity to the caster. 

Rinse and repeat. 

Round Three 
Flower Power. This boss fight will also take place in center of the room (see above image for location). The boss (Consul Marachi) will periodically distribute three de-buffs to multiple party members which are most commonly known by the color of the flower rather than their official names.

• White Rose Heart (White Flower): Reduces healing by 75% and inflicts 4000 damage every 2 seconds. Also, when the de-buff wears off it causes AOE damage to all those nearby.
  Way to avoid killing the party – players suffering from the effects of White Rose Heart need to stay away from each other to cancel the effects. However, be sure to stay in the range of heals.
• Reaver Rose (Red Rose): 4500 HP is lost every 2 seconds until the wound is healed. Healers have to bring the sufferers health to full to cleanse the condition. This becomes a major problem when stacked with the other flowers.
• Red Rose Death (Pink Flower): Reduces healing by 75% and inflicts 4000 damage every 2 seconds.
  Way to avoid killing the party – three players suffering from the effects of Red Rose Death need to group together to cancel the effect.

First Boss Strategy – One Healer 
The tank takes the boss and turns it away from the party to avoid the frontal AOE. The best thing to do here is remember what each de-buff means and act accordingly. The tank will run through the party when he has the Red Rose Death and take stand on the other side. He will then run back through the party if he gets it again. 
Second Boss Strategy – Two Healers 
The tank takes the boss and turns it away from the party to avoid the frontal AOE. With two healers, the party can simply stay put and burn the boss down.

Round Four 
Follow the Leader. On this fight you will be all over the room depending on where the tank leads and making sure not to step in front of the boss (Baron Reuen von Jura). Everyone is moving due to Circles (picture below) the boss places at your feet. They steal your mana and your health – more importantly any time someone gets stuck in them, they buff the boss and slow/blind you. 
De-buffs 

• Wave of Anger – the Baron’s rage washes over you, causing 4000 damage every 2 seconds. This is applied randomly and equally to all party members.
• Court Martial – punishes a target that is not obeying orders and blinds the sentenced target for a period of time. This de-buff results from standing in the circles for too long.
• Hesitation – The imposing air of the Baron causes target to hesitate. The healers will have to keep the tank cleansed (“Cleanse”) when he has this on him because it slows him down and he will not be able to get out of the circles in time.

How to be rid of circles after the match: Stand in them with limited gear equipped – make sure a healer is awake for this part. (See illustration below)

Round Five 
Divide and Conquer. Before the bosses spawn make sure you know who is tanking and who is kiting. The Consul is the boss you want to kite while you tank the Baron. The whole party (minus the person kiting) focuses on killing the Baron and afterwards moves to kill the Consul. The tank should move the Baron into a corner in order to give the other person more room to kite. The bosses reflect their de-buffs onto the people with agro on the other boss; therefore, the consul places flowers on the tank et al and the Baron throws circles at the person kiting. It’s important to make sure when tanking these bosses that they are not facing the party and if you are kiting try not to get hit and remember to move into heal range when your health is suffering. For initial spawn points of the bosses please see screenshot below:

Credits go to Rummyangel.

This presents all of the steps (in order as necessary) to completing all of the quests to FA, but does not contain boss strats. I’m sure that can be found elsewhere in the forums. [Edit: nasira added some strats later in this thread.]

So here goes:

1. This portion occurs in Silverspring (and can be done in any order):

1a. Accept "Ancarlos Research Note" quest from Yarandor in Eye of Wisdom in Varanas 

1b. Accept "Hermit of the Lake of Magic Mist" from Musa in Tagena

- Turn-in "Hermit of the Lake of Magic Mist" to Hugo on the island in the Lake of Magic Mist
– Accept "Releasing Ancalon" from Hugo in Silverspring; receive Ancalon’s Barrette

1c. Accept "Ambassador Who Acts Improperly" from Hork in Vender Caravan

2. This portion occurs in and around Forsaken Abbey outside the instance (in this order):

2a. Accept "Apprentice’s Request" from Pete along the road to FA
2b. Go into the FA outer building

- Turn-in "Ambassador Who acts improperly" to Aymar
– Accept "Clean up the Environment" from Aymar
– Accept "The Forsaken Abbey" from Aymar

2c. Go down the stairs by Aymar into the non-instance part of FA

- Kill Rat-eared Bats and Carrion Spiders for "Clean up the Environment"
– Kill non-elite Obsessive Shadow –> loot Funerary Bracelet for "Apprentice’s Request"
– Get Old Diary from side room on the right for "The Forsaken Abbey"

2d. Turn in "Clean up the Environment" and "The Forsaken Abbey" to Aymar
2e. Accept "Documents in Darkness" quest from Aymar

3. This portion relates to the front section of the actual FA instance:

3a. Go down stairs on the left

- If necessary, manipulate the candlestick to open the trap door and go down the revealed stairs
– Enter the instance portal

3b. Accept "Spirit Gathering Circles" from Chris

- Kill all four Necromages throughout the instance for "Spirit Gathering Circles"
– Kill the Zombie Duke boss (spawns when all four Necromages are dead)
– Turn in " Spirit Gathering Circles" to Luanne

3c. Accept "The Secret of Evil Spirit" from Luanne

4. This portion occurs in the last room of the front and first room of the rear section of the instance:

4a. Loot "Document Pile" in corner of room -> Spawns Tied-up Researcher

- Kill Tied-Up Researcher; loot "Forsaken Abbey Documents" for "Documents in Darkness"

4b. Open zombie junk; kill ghoul

- Repeat until "Dreamland and Reality" drops for "The Secret of Evil Spirit"

4c. Go back to Luanne in the last room of the front of the instance

- Turn in "The Secret of Evil Spirit" to Luanne
– Accept "The Sole Survivor" from Luanne

5. This portion occurs in the rear section of the instance:

5a. Obtain keys to Ancalon’s chamber in any order:

- Kill Flowing Chaos boss -> automatically get Green Magic Seal (key)
– Kill Cruel Eater boss -> automatically get Red Magic Seal (key)
– Kill Hollow Shell boss -> automatically get Yellow Magic Seal (key)

5b. Open the door to Ancalon’s chamber with the three seals

- Kill Ancolon
– Loot "Book of Ancarlos Notes" from Ancolon

5e. Manipulate ("use") Spirit Binding Pearl toward back to release Ancolon

- Accept "Wishes of the Soul" from Ancolon; receive Spirit Binding Pearl Fragment

6. This portion occurs in Silverspring (and can be done in any order):

6a. Turn-in "Documents in Darkness" to Aymar
6b. Turn-in "Apprentice’s Request" to Pete
6c. Turn-in "Releasing Ancalon", "Final Wish," and "The Sole Survivor" to Hugo

- Accept "Sorrowful Request" from Hugo
– Turn-in "Sorrowful Request" to Musa in Tagena

6d. Turn-in "Ancarlos Research Note" to Yarandor in Eye of Wisdom in Varanas

Don’t forget to click "Check Title" on the Title page to get the FA Title "Forsaken Abbey Is My Backyard."
You can also get the "Nemesis of the Undead" title if "you are level 25 or below and cleared the whole thing in 30 minutes and under and you must not die during the Ancalon fight." [Thanks, oziemaster]

Credits go to trentjaspar.

Anyhoo, on with the guide! *NOTE* There may be some information missing, or off, or perhaps a bit outdated. If so, just let me know and I’ll update this post and let Vel know so we can update our own guide as well.

Hall of Survivors
Location: Silverspring
Level: 55+
Raidable?: Yes
Total Mentos Dropped: 46
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty levels: Easy and Normal
Status on Guide: missing cast names, screen shots 

Overview
Hall of survivors, or HoS for short, is the popular 12-man raid of an instance. Located in the upper corner of Silverspring, this instance tells the story of the robot and human relationship. With seven bosses and much loot to be dropped, this instance is still popular today for the infamous Dilan’y ring and Lightning Sword.

Specific Requirements
Tanks will want to be hovering around 30 k hp. This is so they can take the heavy hits from bosses. Healers will want at least 20 k hp so they can keep the party alive. DPS classes can be a minimum of 12 k hp but expect to die several times. Casters will want to be higher; around 15 k should be okay.
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En Route to First Boss
Before entering into HoS, grab a few Grassland Mixes if you can. This will be located to the right of the entrance if you’re running in straight on. The codex standing against the wall, Loki Debloom, will sell some goodies that will be very helpful in this instance if you are undergeared. Grasslands grant roughly another 5 k hp, and the pots like Lizard’s Blood and Tiger’s Fury will grant buffs to the entire party.

When you enter HoS, you will come across the first pat. There will be Rune Patrolmen(?), each with about 200 k hp. They will be patrolling up and down the corridors. If they target you right away, you’ll be given a debuff per mob. They each do different things but they can be healed through.

The only things you should worry about are Rune Elders. There are usually two variants, a blue one and a rock one. The blue one is green (ironically) and the rock ones are orangy-brown. These can’t do much except heal the other mobs, which is the cast Rune Return. 

There will be approximately three of these pats that are mandatory, and a group of the swordsmen and another pat towards the back. These are skippable though. The first boss begins on the bridge to your left.

First Boss
Name: Androlith
hp: 4 mil
Difficulty: medium/easy
This boss is a giant centaur-like monster who is the first boss in this giant instance. He is relatively easy to beat but if you’re unprepaired, can get you killed quite fast or give your healers a headache.

Most of his skills you don’t have to worry about. However when you see three horses spawn beside another on the bridge, this is where things get tricky. 
Two out of the three horses will run down the bridge, leaving behind a trail of fire. If you stay in the fire, it’s a 4 k tick that lasts the duration of the fire. I’m not sure how fast it ticks but it ticks fast. so be sure to run into safety and out of the fire. 
Tanks will want to keep the boss above the little mini landing and dps want to be right up and personal. 
This boss isn’t hard at all, just remember to get ready to run, especially those abusing Archer’s Glory.
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En Route to Second Boss
And surprise, it’s your favorite mobs again. Rinse and repeat; you’ll have to kill approximately three mobs for sure. Once you turn the corner into a new hallway, be careful if you’re not prepared. There are two lines of just Rune Swordsmen and then your normal pat; if you aggro all of them you might find yourself dying. As usual, take out the Elders first.

Then you’ll find two big guys slowly lanking their way back and forth. These mobs are skippable; hug the pillar to your left to go around and onto a bridge-support like area. You won’t aggro the giants, but wait for them to turn anyways. 

On this bridge, if you’re under geared, do not AOE or you’ll drag up pats from below. Instead just dps as normal, there are two that patrol the square bridge, moving along the perimetre. 
The next bit after the bridge can be difficult. You’ll see two giant guys with spinning wheels called Blade Rune Guardian. These guys are regular kills but have around 500 k hp. Spiral Assault hits for the hardest but shouldn’t be a big problem.
However when pulling it, nine out of ten times you’ll get the Chaos mob in the back as well. Be sure to keep it silenced or rooted, if it casts Ground Strike there’s a chance someone in the party will die. Once it’s dead, kill the other Blade and… 

Second Boss
Name: Glamos
HP: 4 mil 
Difficulty: easy
Glamos himself isn’t that hard to kill. Hug the wall and turn around; you’ll see that the wall behind you is actually a cage concealing the mobs you have to worry about. There are two hunters, and then a Horror Seeker, a Divine Persuer, and something else I can’t remember at the moment. Anyways you’re best off having three people who can ‘crowd control’, your best bet being three mages, two mages and a scout, two mages and a priest/mage, etc etc. You want to make sure they don’t use their skills or they cast fears or ticks that affect the entire party.
In terms of the actual boss, the tank wants to turn him around to avoid the AOE. He can be hit normally and doesn’t do too many special things. 

Upon killing, you’ll have to run though to the crystal and transfer back to the entrance hall to despawn them, unless you have epic dps and then you can just eat their faces. 
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En Route to Third Boss
This is where things begin to get a little harder. These mobs are pretty much the same as the ones in Kallin Shrine. They are big and burly and rather annoying to take down. They hover around 600 k hp. These guys aren’t too bad except for one of their attacks: Rock _____. This will target the person furthest away from them. So if you’re a freeloader hoping to just sneak by for loot, you’re going to get a nice surprise! To avoid this, everyone should group up when taking out these mobs and try to interrupt or discharge them before they can cast.

There isn’t too much to be worried about, though. You fight them in waves of three. You’ll go down a hallway with six of these mobs in total and then turn onto another bridge with another group of three just beyond the doorway. Clear them and you’ll find the original gang of rune robots. Once you deal with them you should see three more of the Rune Guardian mobs; one at the back left corner and one patrolling. After that, follow the ramp to your right and descend down to the left to face three more Rune Guardians. Past them is…

Third Boss
Name: Guldamor
HP: 5 mil (?)
Difficulty: Medium (for the unprepared)
Hello big hammah guy who’s randomly tearing a hole in the back of the instance. This guy, as said above, can be hard(er) for those who are not prepared.

Before going in, you just want to group up to the left as you enter the doorway into his boss room. You’ll want to do your fooding/buffing/music-playing here. This guy doesn’t hit for too bad, he’s just annoying. The tank should try to keep the big guy where he is in the beginning, but he must be turned around as he has a frontal AOE. 

This guy does two things in particular: summon red balls and a white crystal. If you’ve ever heard any bad puns or jokes about balls, this is where it all begins. (Also I assume this is where Frogster and Runewalker decided they like the idea of balls in every. single. boss. fight.) The red balls are a small red orb hovering with white/red electricity crackling around it, as well as a circle underneath. These must be killed or something bad will happen. Usually mages will aoe or take them.

The second cast he will suddenly jump to the back of the room and will be invincible. He will say "This thing is Sacred! No one can touch it!" or something to that effect. A white crystal, not unlike the one we use to transport, will then drift, at a respectable speed, towards him. If you don’t dps this crystal down he will enrage. Don’t be discouraged though; it should have less than 100 k hp so it should be easy to take down.

The rest is tank and spank. 
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En Route to Fourth Boss
Repairing would be ideal now; hop outside using the blue transport crystal when you enter the next room – it should be directly beside you to the left. 

Upon exiting the boss room, go up the little ramp and fight your classic group of rune robots. After that you’ll recognize that the ramp is the same as the one when you were travelling to the fourth boss. That means the mobs are the same! There are two more Rune Guardians to face; destroy them and find a moving pat of the same rune robots. After them you’ll descend into a room with around five rune guardians. Same deal, but if you’re worried that your party can’t take them all at once work on them slowly, getting your tank to pull one at a time and draw them out backwards that way. Beyond the little doorway is.. 

Fourth Boss
Name: Vrantal
HP: 6 mil (?) 
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
DO NOT ENTER THE ROOM DO NOT ENTER THE ROOM DO NOT ENTER THE ROOM.
The doors will lock as soon as you run inside and if you try to escape, you’ll be one shot. Poof. Just like that.
That being said, edge very carefully inside so your toon just drops down the little ledge that is the doorway. That way if a mistake happens no one is locked out. Do your food and buffing here, making sure the Tank counts down.

The boss will greet you with a Rune Particle Beam but as long as the healer heals whoever gets hit, it shouldn’t be a problem. This boss is very big – as in you will literally not be able to see it’s face, only it’s butt which ironically, is the thing you’re smacking around. You’ll all want to stand inside the red target circle. The beam it casts can probably one shot someone. You’ll know when that beam is coming when you see Rune Energy Ready!. 

When you see the text Training Time Has Arrived. this is where things get tricky. Two people will be sent up and the rest of the group stays down, the boss becomes invincible, and stuff gets weird. For the ones in the air, you should call out that you’re up and you will get a cast bar with three skills. In order they are: 

1. An instadeath but requires you to be charged.
2. A solid hit but has a long cool down.
3. A DoT that ticks for about 3 k per.

What you’ll want to do is scroll in all the way so you’re in first person view. Angle your camera upwards and you should see a bunch of mobs in the air (named…) that will be placed evenly apart from one another. If you’re not charged, you can’t use skill 1, so spam skill 2 and throw up skill 3 when you see the debuff disappear from the mob you’re aiming for. Do this right and the mob dies – Vrantal loses two total HP per dead sky-mob. 

Now how to be charged? This is for the people that are left behind. From all directions, similar mobs will spawn and all come towards the centre of the circular platform, of which the group should be on. One aoe should take them out – they only have around 28 k hp. Kill them and loot them – the loot should be on ffa – and then select a member that is up via the raid list and click on the drop in your bag. The person who charged another should announce it so they know they can use skill 1. After a certain amount of times (around 4 waves of the mobs below) the boss will drop back down and smacking can resume. 

He isn’t too bad if you know what you’re doing. Keep a cool head and try not to get frustrated.
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En route to Fifth Boss

This is when you start to fight the other big guys, more Chaos mobs and finally, the Giant Rune Guardian mobs. Most of these are skippable though, so if you lack the dps to burn them down it is highly recommended that you skip. 
You’ll recognize the Giant Rune Guardians as the pats moving back and forth en route to second boss. These guys aren’t too bad, they hit decently. They have two casts you should be aware of: Rune Reverse will now hit you back after you hit him with this buff. Its a small red and blue one – you can see him cast it if you don’t interupt him in the middle of it. When it is activated you still hit normally but now take 4 k every time you hit it. Again, those with low hp can find themselves dead quite fast if they’re just spamming and not paying attention. The next cast is Energized Explosion which is an aoe; it hits for usually 30 k flat so BACK UP when you see it being cast. It’s relatively slow so you have time to react. 

Once you exit south from the dead body of the boss, you’ll find yourself in a safe room with your crystal transportation. Here hang a left out of the room and back to the mobs. You’ll find one Giant Rune Guardian at the back with one Chaos moving back and forth. Take him down and you can skip the Giant. When you turn the corner going right you can cut diagonally across to skip the Giant chilling against a wall. 

Go out into the rubble-filled area and, to skip as many mobs as possible, hug the right wall (or what was left of it.) Kill the stray Chaos mob, the Giants are optional. Once you’re past them you will see another ramp to your left that is ascending. Go up and you’ll find a Chaos *name needed*. They aren’t hard to kill.

There will be one of those mobs standing on the ramp, and then another two when the ramp opens up. Take them one at a time or together, depending on your dps. Follow the slope up and there should be another Giant against the right wall, with a rune robot pat. Pulling the rune robot pat is almost impossible to get without a side of Giant, so carefully take out both. (Elders first, then Giant, then the other little guys.) The giant against the back wall shouldn’t pull with them, but if he is be very careful.

As you turn the corner you will find another Giant against the same back wall. To avoid running smack into him when turning the corner hug the wall as tight as you can. It will then open up to two Giant Rune Guardians, one against the left wall and a few paces afterwards, against the right wall. It is advised to kill both. The left one is skipable but you don’t want to back into it while fighting the right one. 

-missing info - 

After that corridor you will find four swordsmen and a Giant rune guardian behind him. You have no choice but to take all five at once. It shouldn’t be too bad. After clearing them, you’ll find the transport crystal behind them – but wait, you can’t go through because you haven’t killed the boss. Even though this boss may seem out of the way you HAVE to kill him – her? – to get into the final boss room. 

Fifth Boss
Name: Zygro
HP: 4 mil (?) 
Difficulty: Easy
This boss is so easy it’s almost a joke. She has this strange obsession with blood. Anyways do your fooding and buffing before you enter little clay dome thing. 

Once the boss begins, the tank will want to keep her just about anywhere but beware of the frontal AOE. Everyone else should now party underneath her skirt (It flares out behind) so you can dps her from in there. She is very very frail so with a decent party you should get her to around 1/3rd of her health before she begins casting. 

Her first cast will port her away from the group, near the back left, where she will bubble and become un-attackable. She first summons replicas of the party. (ex: blood priest, blood scout, etc) if these aren’t killed fast enough, she will heal herself. Once you deal with these copies of yourself – and they must be burned fast – you will have to sit through a constant attack that hits the entire party for approximately 5 k (easily healable) before you can attack her again. At this point she should be dead.

** There is also a debuff you get that has to do with a crystal, but if you get that far you should be seriously concerned ** 
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En Route to Sixth Boss
Come back the way you came past the dead bodies and you’ll see the previously red crystal is now blue, which means you can port. Yay. The right side is still uncleared, so begin there. 

Your favorite pats are back! Remember to cc/interrupt/root the Elders or you’ll have to deal with a lot of annoyance. Past them and over the bridge of lava and you’ll see two Chaos mobs moving back and forth. Be sure to interrupt Ground Strike but take them both down the same. Pull the Chaos from around the fallen rock and kill him too, then get the other Giant. Next you should see a ramp with two more Chaos patrolling up and down. Grab one carefully and kill it before killing the other, or Lasso/Discharge it to be safe. 

The top two Giants are skippable, but to be safe get your Tank to run into the doorway to the right and pull out the Chaos to kill him first so you won’t get feared into a nasty surprise. Once he’s dead you can then follow inside and begin killing the Blade mob that’s next. Be sure to check the back for accidental pulls. Kill the next Chaos and you’ll see something new: three Elders holding down a Giant. If you attack one elder all four will be unleashed on the party, so if you need it, make sure to assign people on the elders to kill right away or they’ll keep healing a Giant that will happily Energy Explode or Rune Reverse with heals. This group is skippable but just clear it. 

Then on the ramp down to your left you’ll see a Chaos to the left and a Giant to the right. Lasso/Discharge the Chaos and kill the Giant first. Then hop down and run to the middle of the room.

Sixth Boss
Name: Mantarick / Sydaphex
HP: 4 mil (?) 
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Correction: one of your group members should stray to the left and go to where a lever is. This person should not be the tank as you want to grab aggro right away, and being away from the party will not do that whatsoever. To activate this boss, the lever must be pulled. You’ll want an unbridled enthusiasm on, the escape artist title if you have it, and a stash of nobodies rum. (I don’t know if the latter works anymore.) So be sure to food and buff before giving the go ahead.

Once pulled you’ll see the boss is a robot on a chariot with a (surprise surprise) mechanical horse. You must kill his light horse first — it only has around 1 mil hp (?) so he can be burned down quick. It does nothing special; just treat it like any normal mob. It can randomly lag out and port to the right so just beware of that.

Once it’s down the real fun begins. The boss is invincible to begin with. Make sure at this point you have Unbridled Enthusiasms on because this can potentially get very disastrous. This is why the boss isn’t marked ‘easy’. 

In the four corners of the room, four different coloured crystals will spawn. They will either be red, blue, green, or white . The boss will then call out the cast Space is filled with all kinds of Elements and four members will then get a different colour debuff. They resemble runes but be sure to double check it if you get a white coloured one – blue and white look very similar. Those debuffed have about 12 seconds to run/sprint to the corresponding crystal and click on it. To know you’ve done it right, the base will light up with a small ring of white. 

The tank at this point should’ve dragged the boss back to where the lever is to minimize the chances of other casts being put on your running members. One is a 5 second (?) stun which is usually waited out of a 6 k flat attack. He also has a frontal AOE so if the tank didn’t drag him, don’t stand in front of him. 

If you get the colours wrong 7 (?) times the boss will rage and start oneshotting everyone. This is your cue to run away as fast as possible. 

Once the colours work the boss will shout something out and turn dark purple, name changing to Sydaphex. He can be burned down easy, but leave him alone for too long or don’t kill him in time and he’ll go back to being gold and you must do the colour process again. He should definitely die by the second time he switches schemes. 
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En Route to Seventh Boss
Beating this guy opens the doors where you can continue to the last boss. Crystal is on your right. 

There’s a Chaos mob patrolling back and forth, kill him first. Against the wall after that is a Giant with three Elders holding him down. This group is skippable but it is again, recommended, to take them out first in the event of an unwanted back pull from the next group of mobs. 
To the left will be a slope downwards that has three mobs on it; a Giant, a Chaos, and the one that summons three adds. An easy way to take this group out is to get the tank to hug the left wall and carefully pull the Chaos up to kill first, then do each mob one by one. Pass them and go through the doorway into a new hallway/room with new mobs.

Here you’ll encounter Ice and Fire mobs. The room may look intimidating but you can cut diagonally right through the monsters and only need to fight three for sure. The first will be a Fire mob patrolling up and down. Be careful not to stand too much to the right or you’ll aggro the two staying stationary to your right. Kill him and only kill the ice mob patrolling up and down the next corridor. You might want to wait until it sits just around the corner from where you killed the Fire mob previously. There’s one more Ice mob standing in front of the boss door, but kill the last Fire mob just to be safe – its against the wall. 

These mobs, if they get a skill off you, will eventually count down and burst – freezing everyone around you. It wears off but it can be time consuming.

Food and buff for last boss. 

Seventh and Last Boss
Name: Andaphelmor
HP: 10 mil
Difficulty: Hard
This guy is the one sitting on a chair. He has three balls circulating him, one red, one green, one yellow. These become crucial in the fight later on.

This boss is burnable, but requires pretty op dps to take down his 10 mil before he starts casting. A good gauge whether or not you can burn is if you can take down Vrantal before someone is sent up. If you can do that, you should be good to go. Otherwise, you must do it the normal way.

When one person goes down the ramp, the doors behind you close and the fight begins. It is crucial everyone is inside the room when the fight begins. As soon as the doors close mobs with exploding cores spawn and will kill anyone locked out. 

The boss should be tanked in the middle, while the rest of the dps try to hit the boss as much as possible. DO NOT USE AOES. 

Three members within the group should be elected – these people should not be able to oneshot mobs with around 30 k hp. They need to run past the boss and get ready for the mobs.

Now the boss room looks like this: 

————–Exit———
——Green——Orange—–
—-Purple———-Blue/Ice—-
——-Red——–Gold——-
———–Entrance ——–

Three mobs will spawn at a gate, one each and a different colour. They will all aggro the same person the boss is aggroing. Pull them off and drag them to the corrisponding door. For example, the purple mob should go to the purple door. The colour they are is in the name of the mob. Make sure you call out which colour you get so two don’t try to pull the same mob. Once you kill it at the gate (and make sure it’s right on the gate, not ‘close’ to it) a small glowing circle that extends upwards will appear at the top of each gate. Once the initial three are down, the other three will spawn and you do the same thing. It is imperative that all mobs are killed at the right spots. If a colour is missed, please let the entire group know.

This is where things get messy. Once this done, all group members will get a colour debuff. You must all run to the corresponding colour gate (no guessing games here, it’ll be obvious what colour you are) and through the little glowing circle to remove this debuff. If you can’t make it or your colour was missed, you will explode, taking out the people around you too. So if you think you’re not going to make it run away from the party, because someone who might’ve done it right might still explode if you’re close to them. 

The best thing to do if your colour was missed is to run repeatedly into the Exit. It appears when the boss does its explosion it has a radius thing, if you’re lucky you may bypass it. 

Once that part is done, one of the three balls will come down and must be dps’d: 
Yellow must be killed by physical 
Red by any of them 
Green by casters
Failure to do this will result in debuffs to the type of attacker that can’t kill it – Yellow will debuff magic, Red will debuff heals, etc. 

Once this round is over, the mobs at the gates will respawn and it must be done over and over again until the boss dies.

Grab your 10 mentos and your loot and congratulations, you’ve cleared Hall of Survivors!

Credits go to AzhureSunSoar.

Best guesses on Party Makeup and Reqs:
Tank – 15k HP, ??? Defense
Healer – 10k HP unbuffed, 10k heals
DPS – 10k HP unbuffed, ??? pattack/mattack, T7 weapons

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Trash Mobs – To Boss #1

• Tame Ray – AoE called Sting Attack
• Ayam Defender – Attack called Pressure Blow and a skill called Horror that will fear you
• Ayam Sea Incanter - Deep Sea Ice which is like Rising Tide from a Priest and Deep Sea Gail which is a DOT
• Ayam Fish Trainer – Will root you when you aggro it and hits hard
• Little Tame Ray – No skills
• Ayam Warrior – Will charge and knock you down
• Ayam Assassin – Invisible and will shadow step you
• Ayam War Drum Priest - Fish Queens Blessing will heal mobs. Also you can pull this mob without pulling the rest of the group
• Ayam Sea Mage - Riptide is like Rising Tide and Deep Sea Gail which is a DOT
• Ayam Archpriest - Fish Queens Blessing will heal mobs, has Wave Armor that will absorb 900 damage
• Ayam Sound Shell Guardian - Pressure Blow will stun you, Horror will fear you and he also has an AoE and has a mana drain aura around him
• Ayam Guard - Crimson Whirl is an AoE

When fighting the groups of mobs you usually want to kill the Ayam War Drum Priest first because you can pull this out of the group without aggroing the other mobs in the group. Once you pull the groups you would normally focus on the healers first and then any mob that may fear or stun you. Also the Fish Trainers seem to hit much harder than the other mobs in the group so be careful when you pull these and be prepared.

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Boss #1 – Bloodthirsty Claw – 980K HP (Mentos = 0)

• Adds
  1. Horse Show Crabs – 2 spawn but have no skills.
  2. Stationary Jellyfish – These jellyfish emit a blue aura around them that will suck mana. Mana users should move away.
  3. Moving Jellyfish – 1 spawns but has no skills.

• Cast Bar
  1. Splinter Magic – A magic based frontal AoE

• Boss Fight Execution - During this fight the tank must turn the boss away from the rest of the party due to the boss having a frontal AoE called Splinter Magic. The rest of the party will stand behind the boss. At certain times during the boss fight 3 adds will spawn, 2 horseshoe crabs and 1 jellyfish. These mobs are nothing special and usually the DPS in the group will take down these adds because if the tank were to take aggro them it could be too much for the tank to handle. Also at random times during the fight stationary jellyfish will spawn that have a blue aura around them on the ground. This blue aura will drain your mana so healers and other mana users should move away immediately. When the adds are up, DPS should be on adds. Once the adds are dead, the DPS should be DPSing the boss. This fight is pretty simple if you keep the boss turned away from the rest of the group.

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Trash Mobs – To Boss #2

• Fish Trainer
• Ayam Assassin
• Tame Tiger Ray – No skills
• Ayam Defender

On the ramp down to the second boss there are alot of Ayam Defenders that will fear you. Make sure you interrupt them so you do not get feared into the boss and start the fight by accident.

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Boss #2 – Teeth of the Reef – 1 Mill HP (Mentos = 3)

• Adds
  1. Little Fish – No special skills but alot spawn

• Debuff
  1. Big Ripper – Takes 35% of targets HP every 2 seconds

• Boss Fight Execution - This boss fight is easy if you have a mage in the party. This boss does not have an AoE so you can stand grouped up. The boss will put the Big Ripper debuff on everyone which will take 35% HP every 2 seconds. It is important for the tank (and everyone else in the party) to not have a big amount of health. The healer in the group must be able to heal party members close to full with their heals or the 35% HP debuff will be too overwhelming. If someone in the party has too much HP then they must take off some gear in order to lower their HP. Also the boss will put a debuff on the healers that will make them cast slower so healing this fight is a real chore. It is rumored that if you use Nobodies Rum from Weeping Coast that it will get rid of this debuff but make sure you have increased spell casting speed food on and a clear thought from your housemaids. Random times throughout the fight the boss will spawn little fish adds. These add are very annoying and time consuming to kill if you are a single target DPS. The best way to deal with the adds is to take a mage or other classes that have AoE skill to take down these adds.

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Trash Mobs – To Boss #3

• Fish Trainer
• Ayam Assassin
• Ayan War Drum Priest
• Ayam Archpriest
• Ayam Defender
• Ayam Sea Mage
• Tiger Ray
• Tame Tiger Ray
• Ayam Guard
• Ayam Warrior

On the way to the third boss there are alot of groups close together so be sure to pull carefully and wait for the pats to clear out. There is potential to pull almost every mob that is between 2nd and 3rd boss. Also remember to pull the Ayam War Drum Priest first so you can kill it without the rest of the group.

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Boss #3 – Jiasha – 1 Mill HP ( Mentos = 3)

• Debuff
  1. Bleed – 500 HP every 2 seconds
  2. Slow

• Boss Fight Execution
  1. Jiasha does not have any skills herself and will just hit you with normal attacks. The most important thing in this fight is to stand inside the bubbles that spawn from the ground. Throughout the fight bubbles will spawn and despawn in the boss room. When standing inside these bubbles you will be immune to the "lasers" that shoot across the room. The "lasers" come from giant jellyfish that Jiasha summons. The lasers that shoot across the room are very deadly. (most likely a one shot) You must hop from bubbles to bubbles in order to stay immune to these "lasers" while fighting the boss. Also this boss will randomly put a slow and bleed on you. Heals pull an unusual amount of aggro here so be careful healers.
  2. Stand on the edge of the room and wait for a pack of bubbles that spawn near the entrance of the boss room. When the bubbles appear charge in as a group and run though the bubbles to become immune for a short period of time. Tank will grab aggro on the boss while the rest of the group heads to the left to a little purple tree thing. You must stand inside the tree in order not to get hit my the "lasers" in the boss room. Once the tank has aggro with one or 2 hits, he also will join the rest of the group in the purple tree left of the entrance to the room. You can just stand here and tank and spank the boss. Healing may be harder with this strat but you wont die from the "lasers" if you are in the tree.

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Trash Mobs – To Boss #4

• Deep Sea Vermin – These are mobs that you cant kill. All the do is path back and forth and they don’t aggro. What you have to do is walk around them without touching or else they will explode and kill you and anyone standing near you. It is a good idea to go one at a time when walking through these mobs.
• Fish Trainer
• Ayam Assassin
• Ayan War Drum Priest
• Ayam Archpriest
• Ayam Defender
• Ayam Sea Mage
• Tiger Ray
• Tame Tiger Ray
• Ayam Guard
• Ayam Warrior
• Ayam Sea Incanter
• Ayam Rookie – Very weak but a very fast respawn time
• Ayam Sound Shell Fighter – This mob hits harder than the normal mobs and has Pressure Blow that will stun you andCrimson Whirl which is an AoE

When you reach the Ayam Rookies, you will see a whole squadrand of them with 1 mob pathing in the middle. What you have to do is have the tank go in and aggro the pathing mob and kill it. Next the party must move to the other side of where the Ayam Rookies were standing and then kill all the Ayam Rookies. The Ayam Rookies have an extremely fast respawn so if everyone does not move to the other side, you will have to kill them again. The best way to kill the Rookies is at the same time with AoE skills if you have them in party.

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Boss #4 – Geba – 820K HP (Mentos = 4)

• Cast Bar
  1. Whirlwind Counterattack – medium range AoE with huge damage.
  2. Geba’s Magic – spawns a clone of Geba

• Boss Fight Execution - Geba is a fairly simple fight because he only has two cast bars. Be sure to clear out the room before you start fighting Geba because you do not want to aggro any extra mobs. Geba has a really big path we walks so you might have to wait for him to walk to you. Tank and fight the boss like usual and look for his cast bars. When he casts Whirlwind Counterattack everyone near the boss must run away, even the tank. Once the attack is over, go back to fighting him. When he casts Geba’s Magic he will spawn a clone of himself who is much weaker. Usually a DPS will off tank the clone, they should be able to survive. Once the close is down, go back to fighting the boss.

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Trash Mobs – To Boss #5

• Deep Sea Vermin
• Ayam Assassin
• Tame Tiger Ray
• Ayam Sound Shell Guardian
• Ayam Sound Shell Firghter
• Ayam Sea Mage
• Ayam Warrior
• Ayam Defender
• Ayam War Drum Priest
• Ayam Archpriest
• Medusa’s Maid - Lightning Strike will hit multiple targets and Electrify will hit pretty hard and also has Wave Armorthat will absorb 900 damage
• Medusa’s Servant - Crimson Whirl is an AoE and this mob hits harder than most others

Going to 5th boss is hard because most of the mobs hit harder than earlier trash mobs in the instance. There are also alot more Ayam Sound Shell Guardians/Fighters as well as the Medusa’s Maids and Medusa’s Servants. It is recommended that you kill Medusa’s Maids first because they can hit multiple party members with Lightning Strike. Just remember to keep your distance from the Medusa’s Servants if you are melee because of the AoE.
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Boss #5 – Medusa – 1.2 Mill HP (Mentos = 5?)

• Debuff
  1. Rock Bind – roots player for a short period of time
  2. Petrify – rocks player for 3 seconds or 2 minutes

• Boss Buff
  1. Increases boss attack and defense by 100%
  2. Boss regenerates 3% HP every 2 seconds
  3. Boss continuously hits party for 289 damage every 2 seconds

• Cast Bar
  1. Summon Sound Shell – long cast where you have to DPS the boss in order to cancel the cast. If cast goes off the party will wipe.

• Boss Fight Execution - To start, pull Medusa into the middle of the room and fight her there. Throughout the fight Medusa will put the debuffs Rock Bind and Petrify on party members. The short time debuffs you cant do anything about. If you are rocked for 2 minutes, the DPS in the group will have to target you and DPS the rocks off. Medusa will then have 3 buffs on her as stated above. When these 3 buffs appear, 3 stone soldiers in the boss room will become activated. One DPS in the group will have to go to these stone soldiers and click on them in order to get rid of these 3 buffs on Medusa. (if the runner gets rocked the DPS will have to get the rocks off him or someone else will have to click the stone soldiers.) Next Medusa will start casting Summon Sound Shell. The only way to interrupt this cast is to DPS the boss, so all DPS have to go all out at this point. If the cast goes off the whole party will wipe. If you stop the cast, DPS the boss and watch out for people being rocked and look for the 3 buffs on Medusa again and the cycle will repeat 3 times. Once Medusa does Summon Sound Shell three times, she will not do it again. After that stage the party will get a DoT on them. You can not cleanse this DoT and more will stack over time doing even more damage per tick. The only way to get this DoT off is to aggro one of the snakes that spawn. Once you aggro the snake, it will "bite" you and remove the DoT. Also if you do not kill these small snakes, they will grow into big elite snakes over time and do alot more damage. Use the snakes to get rid of the DoT and then kill them. These snakes will keep spawning for the rest of the fight until you kill Medusa.

Credits go to odumxdynasty.

1st Boss | Horatio Tia (Mamnoon) | <Mento value>

Video from Treelol: 


Video from ZaPuRai: 

Be sure everyone is ready before stepping over the thresholds in this instance, as the aggro range for the boss fights is minimal, several of our party were locked out when they didn’t come in as a group. 

It’s a good idea imo for whoever is doing the catapults to get in all of them and set up their aim in the early stages of the boss fight. Doing so means you only have to click the catapult and start firing, regardless of the catapult used. 

Boss 2 | Jacklin Sardo (mrmisterwaa) | <Mento Value>

Boss 3 | Lanaik | <Mento value>

Video by mikemonkeybutt:

Passage to 3rd boss: 

Boss 4 | Experiment | 11 momentos (lelm27) | 10 mil HP

Video of mobs leading to 4th boss from ZaPurRai:

Boss 5 | General’s Skeleton | <Mento Value>

[Passage to boss] The hall leading to the boss is lined with mobs that have very tough buffs, unknown at this time if they can be removed. Dps on them was slow as hell. In the middle of the hall will be rolling balls that can knock a player down and damage them. The mobs must be removed to move forward (there is a wall at the bottom of the ramp). 
This boss is buffed like hell, and I could do only minimal dps to him as his pdef was very high (lvl 70 boss as well, so the level difference could have had a major impact here). The mage we had in the group was doing well with his dps so the boss may be vulnerable to magic damage. 

Couple of things, there is a sword that spawns that we believe (unconfirmed) is used to eliminate the bosses buffs. He also occasionally summons an add that we are unsure of it’s purpose. 

Then he’ll do a 2 combo attack, Abysmal Blow followed by another one that is a short range aoe that hits for massive damage. Despite being prepared for this move on a second run I had no time to hit my BC to see if I could interrupt it as the cast bar doesn’t show the correct time, it was only halfway through when the attack went off.

Credits go to wolfowl77.

– WolfOwl77

Boss 1: Cayus (jack in the box) - thanks Mattyb for the names, my memory sucks (4 mentos)

This boss is interesting to put it mildly. He doesn’t have the bottom portion of his legs, instead he’s on springs attached to a box that he uses frequently for a weapon. If I’m not mistaken he’ll often swing into a 2 strike attack, using his body for the 1st strike and the box for the second. With just priest buffs and 43k hp I’m able to tank this boss on easy. He does have some aoe’s though, as one player we took in with 15k hp was one shot by him. 

But that’s all fluff and not the meat of the boss fight, surviving that will only mean you’re capable of running the instance, not clearing the boss. 

The boss will spawn boxes several times throughout the fight. Beforehand he will go immune and declare a box color. These colors correspond with the pattern on the floor as you enter. Indigo is green (??? what is RW smoking anyway?), Dusk is red, and Purple is obvious. Once he declares the box color you’ll be hit with a timed debuff (about 10 seconds). Move to the box color (asap, he also hits you with slow and fear effects at the same time) and use the box when the debuff has under 3 seconds left. You’ll get a buff called Close call that lasts for 3 seconds, and I believe protects you from the effects of the box. Caution: Everyone needs to use a box of that color!

Once the fight starts he debuffs the entire party with a mana drain. On easy it’s 2 percent, and it affects patk/matk.

Boss 2: Ardmond (trainer) and Isaac (lion) – 6 mentos

Trainer has to be taken out first, appears to glitch if not. (Mamnoon) Isaac has aoe fears and heavy damage on normal. Additionally, If u kill Isaac first, Ardmond enters a Frenzy state where he hits much harder. A tank able to tank RT gold+ standing can tank Ardmond on frenzy state in Grafu normal mode (Scootermtb)

There are several barrels/buckets in the cage with the 2 bosses, a player may use the barrel once the fight starts to be given a food item which can then be used to "aggro" Isaac away. Sort of an involved CC for the sidekick, duration unknown. This boss has been the easiest in the instance by far. 

Boss 3: Boro-boro Brothers (Thanks Salonius) – 9 mentos 

Aoe’s are gonna be a big help here, as a player will be turned into a pillar/bell that has to be destroyed. Reminded me of Medusa’s rocks. 

Boss 4: Conjurer Chapeaunoir (thx again Salonius) - 8 mentos

To start this boss fight you have to catch all of the bunnies, the last one caught spawns the boss. 

One of his main "attacks" is he debuffs 2 people, one is placed in a giant hat (3 on hard - Pazzuzu) with a evil looking bunny, and another is turned large. The player who is turned large has to use the hat to release the other player. Players need to spread out from hat as anyone near may be turned into a flower, including person in the hat and the "giant" player. 

The boss also has several debuffs with differing effects. 

Conjurer’s Flower 
Effect: Poison Tentatively Confirmed: Druid skill Antidote removes debuff - Treelol

Aside from turning you into flowers this debuff also has an aoe pulse that hits you and those around you, and the debuff reduces healing on you by 90% – Treelol. You have no control over your actions. Speculation: you may need to be spread out as this buff may turn others into flowers as well,unproven. 

Conjurer’s Rabbit
Effect: Harmful Effect Speculation: Priest Cleanse skill may be used to remove this debuff

Under this debuff you have very few HP’s (<500 so far on easy) but you can control your movements. 

Conjurer’s Squirrel
Effect: Curse Speculation: Druid skill Purify may remove the debuff

You’re completely at the mercy of the Fear effect with this debuff, absolutely no control over your movements at all. 

Shuffle The Deck: This seems to be an aoe dot that resets aggro, he tends to use it close to the end of the fight. 

Requested information: When put into the hat there is a rabbit there, if anyone has any information on the function of the rabbit it would be appreciated. 

Boss 5: Lavanger Barkud – 10 mentos

If you’ve been questing and doing the Toni/Morrock quests in LoM you’ll recognize this guy. I believe to complete the quest for him in this instance you’ll have to do it on hard mode.

At the start of the fight the boss will not attack but will spawn waves of adds. Along both sides of the room are usable food items. Following a pattern for using the foods will kill the adds, they don’t hit hard (easy) but are difficult to kill themselves. 

The pattern is this: Meat (placed in center of the room) will aggro all the mobs and draw them in to itself. Wine will douse the mobs in a radius (use over the meat) and the Candle will burn them. Mage and warrior aoe’s help here as well. The Soup can slow down the mobs, guessing it’ll be useful for buying some time for the meat. 

Once the waves of adds are gone the boss strikes. And he’s tough, even on easy. We were not able to defeat him (not a ringing endorsement is it?). He cast a aoe poison gas that on easy was striking for around 13k a tick (we’re thinking it’s percentage based because the values for everyone were different).

Keeping spread out and moving around appeared to help with the poison gasses, which seems to target 2 players when cast (Mattyb/Charliebananas). 

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Thx – Scootermtb for the above tips. Additionally he’ll name the player that he’s going to hit with this move, and he casts it pretty frequently. I tried interrupting it with BC but to no avail. Party should probably be carrying Rainbow Crystal Candy for this fight. 

Boss 6: Lord Grafu (hard only)

no info is currently available for this boss

Boss 7: Annelia (hard only)

no info is currently available for this boss, I expect bears though 

Trash

There’s not a whole lot of trash in the instance, but we entered on Normal and the 1st mob (a roller skating clown) charged one of us and one shot him. Be aware of the stuffed teddy bears as they come to life once you near them. 

That’s it, feel free to comment or add any additional information for sharing. I’m particularly interested in the first boss and those pesky boxes. 

Edit: I will have to add that this is one of the most visually interesting and entertaining instances I’ve come across, I have a feeling that once I’m running it regularly it will be one of my personal favorites. 

Also, while gear from easy does drop dirty, the stats are still pretty decent, even the greens, and the gear is a little better than zs/dl gear but without the set bonuses, perfect for dirty statting to get into content.

Credits go to wolfowl77.

Contents:
1. Overview, Map, Rewards List
2. Lanka Guide
3. Tanboli Guide
4. Woozilla Guide
5. Tealiss Guide
6. FAQS

BOLINTHYA RIFT OVERVIEW
Location: Dust Devil Canyon @ (56.9, 64.0) OR Silverspring @ (37.0, 30.4)

Easy Mode: Accessible through zone transportation prompts OR by talking to [Gugan Gelitz] outside the Obsidian Stronghold OR by talking to [Lydia Anne] outside Varanas. It is a level 50+ instance (mobs level 30 – 50).

Hard Mode: Accessible ONLY through the use of the transportation set skill (requires level 65) for Bolinthya Rift. This set skill can be bought from the Codex NPCs in Kampel Town, Land of Malevolence. It is a level 65+ instance (mobs elite level 65 – ?). Requirements are about the same as Grafu Castle – Hard Mode.

Group Size: This battlefield is not meant to be solo’d. The best approach would be a 12-man or 36-man raid, especially if you are attempting the hard mode.

Time (Easy Mode): 1 Hour Timer; when time is up, you will be ported outside.
Time (Hard Mode): It is timed in accordance to tasks that must be carried out. For example, you have 3 minutes to complete the first task or else you will be ported out and receive an exhaustion debuff that prohibits you from re-entering Hard Mode for 10 minutes.

Points: You receive battlefield points for staying in Bolinthya Rift for the full 1 hour. Points can be exchanged for special armor at NPCs in Obsidian Stronghold and Varanas West. For merely standing inside Bolinthya Rift for the full 1 hour, you will be awarded 55 points. For killing all the bosses you receive 165 points.

Map (Easy Mode)

Green Arrow = Entrance/Exit
Yellow Lines = Gates
Yellow Lines with Orange = Gates that cannot be attacked 
Red Dots = Enemy Catapults (Cliff Path)
Blue Dots = Ballista Construction Points
Red X = Boss locations

Gates
Easy Mode:
The gates are similar to Siege War castle gates. They have high defense and DoTs cause more damage than regular attacks. The two gates leading to Tealiss are immune to attack, most likely until the first 3 bosses (Tanboli, Lanka, and Woozilla) are successfully defeated. You can use catapults to take down the gates faster. 
For every ~25% HP you take off the gate, a mob portal will spawn. This prompts Angren mobs to appear and attack either you or the catapult. 
These gates can very RARELY be shadow stepped so don’t bother trying. Other outcomes are that it will have no effect, that you will use the skill but stay in the same spot, or that you will get stuck inside the gate. It’s faster and easier to use catapults and more importantly, it’s FAIR. :]

Hard Mode:
The only gates are the ones around the boss areas. All other gates are gone.

Catapults
Easy Mode:
There are usually 2 construction points for catapults near each gate. The construction points by the first 2 gates do not require any materials. You can build a catapult by clicking on the node 2 times and these catapults can be rebuilt an infinite amount of times. For every catapult afterwards, you will have to collect [Catapult Part] (requires level 30). You need only one [Catapult Part] for each catapult you construct. This item is Bound, which means it cannot be traded between players. To receive the [Catapult Part], you must complete easy quests given to you by soldier NPCs you encounter along the path (1 part per quest completion). For example, one quest may be to kill Ents and Bolmus and another quest may be to kill Angren mobs.
Catapults decrease the HP of a Gate by 5% per hit.

Hard Mode:
There are no gates, therefore there are no catapults.

Ballistas
Ballistas are used against the bosses in this battlefield. There are a handful of construction points within the boss areas for Tanboli and Woozilla (estimating at least 5). The ballistas require 40 supplies each in order to be constructed. The supplies appear in the form of wooden crates called "Battlefield Supply " along the cliff-route to both Tanboli and Woozilla (appears in your bag as [Box of Materials]). The supplies that are collected in your inventory are Bound items and cannot be traded between players. Balistas take off about 1% boss hp per hit and cause a lot of aggro. There are no construction points in Lanka’s area so be prepared to take him on without assistance.

Mobs (Hard Mode ONLY)
This information applies specifically to the hard mode version! There are generally NO mobs throughout the map until you get to the gated area around each individual boss. In these areas there are large portals from which Angren elite mobs that are IMMUNE to physical damage will spawn (about 10 mobs per on the first wave out of four waves). These mobs are level 65 elites and ARE part of the process of running this version. Defeating these waves of mobs will spawn a boss. The best strategy for these mobs would be to pair a tank and mage with a priest/druid for heals; the tank will help maintain aggro while the mage uses AOEs. Ideally you need to do this with a group of at least 6 or more players because while half of the group fights the mobs on the northern side, the other half of the group has to fight mobs on the southern side.

Gear Rewards
Easy Mode:
Upon entering the battlefield there is an NPC named [Kenneth Hawking] in front of some troops. If you talk to him he will give you a daily quest (counts as one of your 10 dailies) called "Key to Victory." The quest asks you to defeat Toxic Tealiss, which is the final boss. If you can succeed in doing that you receive a bag containing a random piece of armor (can choose between Plate, Chain, Leather, and Cloth). I would not recommend pursuing this quest because it just gives some run-of-the-mill green armor for under level 50, which is the same stuff you get off the mobs in Ravenfell.

Hard Mode:
Cavern set gear drops off of bosses only in hard mode. One of the leather sets can be viewed here: Agility of the Cavern

Sets of Unknown Origin: 
Agility of the World set (level 50 – leather; decreased damage from monsters)
Tealiss’ Noxious Leather Gloves/Leather Boots/Belt/Shoulder Guards/Leather Helm/Leggings/Leather Coat

Core of the World set (level 50 – leather; decreased damage from players)
Tealiss’ Toxic Leather Gloves/Leather Boots/Belt/Shoulder Guards/Leather Helm/Leggings/Leather Coat

Magic of the World set (level 50 – cloth; decreased damage from monsters)
Tanboli’s Plant Gloves/Boots/Belt/Guards/Hat/Leg Guards/Robe

Frost of the World set (level 50 – cloth; decreased damage from players)
Tanboli’s Spiritual Gloves/Boots/Belt/Guards/Hat/Leg Guards/Robe

Destruction of the World set (level 50 – plate; decreased damage from players)
Lanka’s Hand Guards/Foot Guards/Belt/Shoulder Gaurds/Helm/Leg Guards/Plate Armor

Ability of the World set (level 50 – chain; decreased damage from monsters)
Woozilla’s Light Gauntlets/Light Boots/Belt/Shoulder Armor/Helm/Light Leg Guards/Light Armor

Point Rewards*:
277,200 points = gloves, shoes, and belt
554,400 points = shoulders and helmet
831,600 points = chest and pants

*Can choose between armor that decreases critical damage, armor that decreases damage from players (%), and armor that decreases damage from monsters (%). These are probably the best rewards from this battleground in the same way that armor bought with honor points used to be very valuable. My assumption is that the level of the gear will be either 50 or 60.

831,600 points = [King's Light] title
King’s Light is a vanity title, but produces a special effect when equipped.

Special Item Rewards
Woozilla’s Tail (legendary weapon crafting)
Tealiss’ Core (legendary weapon crafting)

Credits
These people helped me gather information for the guide! Thank you everyone!
trav42073
bilalab
[Nirti]
[Nezho]
pazazzu

LANKA THE DREADFUL

Description
Lanka the Dreadful is a pretty big guy who spawns a lot of mobs on you (Elite Guardian Captains and Rune Swordsmen). A lot of the attacks from the mobs are stuns, roots, or DoTs. He also has a habit of rejuvenating HP during combat. Hard Mode: In the hard mode version, Lanka has about 13 million HP.

Strategy
For this one, you’re definitely going to need a mage to AOE the spawns and either a priest or druid (or both!) for some debuff cleansers. If possible, druids should use their Spirit Guidance skill to make some of the adds friendly. This will cut down on the amount of debuffs that are stacked on your party. (More to come…)

Video
Easy Mode: N/A
Hard Mode: 12-man Raid vs Lanka (German)
This is the only video I’ve come across so far; it isn’t a successful run, but it gives the jist of the strategy. What happens in this video is a 12-man raid is put together with 1 tank, 2 mages, 2 dps, and 1 healer (I think) for each group of 6. The first group of 6 takes the southern route and the second group of 6 takes the northern route. Halfway through, the first group wipes and fails their mission. The second group is able to spawn Lanka, who proceeds to 1-hit everyone, wiping the group. The NPCs are also killed. 

Attacks
from Lanka:
Beast Iron Claw (1 second cast)

Earth-Shattering Fist (instant; causes "Shockwave")

Beast Fang Shatter Fist (instant, range: 50)

Boulder Hurl (2 second cast, range: 200; causes "Injured" and "Bleeding")

Debuffs
from Lanka:
Injured
"Struck by a boulder, feeling dizzy." Stun that lasts for more than 5 seconds.

Bleeding
"Being hit bya flying boulder causes severe internal bleeding, resulting in 300 damage every 2 seconds."

Shockwave
"An energy blast that causes people to lose their footing. After being hit by the powerful shockwave, attack speed, casting speed and movement speed are reduced."

from Bolinthya Elite Guardian Captain:
Punishment – Imprison (instant)
"Body is immobilized. It’s as if your whole body has been incarcerated. Unfortunately your bad luck doesn’t end there. Suffer 1000 points of damage every 2 seconds." 

Punishment – Hunt (2 second cast)

Punishment – Terrify (instant)
Causes Fear; cannot attack.

Punishment – Devine Retribution (instant)

Prison Hunt
"You feel the intent to kill coming from the Bolinthya Elite Guardian Captain’s body…"

from Bolinthya Runestone Swordsman:
Horror Hunt
"The Bolinthya Runestone Swordsman makes you feel oppressed…"

TANBOLI

Description
Tanboli looks like the twin of Medusa from HotO…or else it’s Mother Nature on a bad day. Tanboli is fairly straight-forward; she doesn’t spawn any adds, but she has some mean roots, curses, and DoTs. Also, there are catapults located on the cliffs above the area, which are fired at you throughout the whole fight. If Tanboli roots you and the catapults attack your party, areas of fire will spawn under you hitting for about 1000 HP every 2 seconds. The only way to avoid this is to travel through the cliff-route (farther north than the normal route that connects to Lanka) and take out these catapults before you attack her main gate and begin the fight.

Strategy
You should always take out the cliff catapults FIRST or you’ll be taking on extra damage throughout the fight. Enemy catapults also interrupt spell casts. Remember to collect the crates along this path in order to construct your ballistas in the boss area. If you take the cliff-route first, you will have ample time to construct all the ballistas in the area since Tanboli will NOT spawn until you destroy the low-road gate (connects to Lanka’s area).
If you have any skills that prevent rooting, use them when you’re rooted with catapult fire under your feet so you can get out of there asap. For those that can’t get out of being rooted, make sure you have some druids or priests near by to keep up your HP for the duration of that attack. 
You will need a priest or druid to cleanse the curse debuffs. (More to come…)

Attacks
Crazy Love (instant, range: 500)

Emotionally Unavailable (lasts for ~10 seconds)
"You are in Tanboli’s good graces and are confused and unable to move. She invades you, bit by bit, causing 100 damage every 2 seconds."
This is a curse-type skill.

Female Power (instant, range: 75)

Dressed Up
AOE skill

(Credit: Thanks to [bilalab] for strategy suggestions & skill names)

WOOZILLA

Description
Woozilla looks like the panther queen of Angren and yes, she packs a real punch. However, she is pretty straight-forward, doesn’t spawn any adds. She does have a pretty powerful DoT like Tanboli, but hits a lot harder. There are catapults located on the cliffs above the area, which are fired at you throughout the whole fight (same as the Tanboli area). The only way to avoid this is to travel through the cliff-route (farther north than the normal route that connects to Lanka) and take out these catapults before you attack her main gate and begin the fight.

Strategy
Make sure you take out the cliff catapults FIRST or you’ll be taking on extra damage throughout the fight. Enemy catapults interrupt spell casting. Remember to collect the crates along the cliff-route in order to construct your ballistas in the boss area. If you take the cliff-route first, you will have ample time to construct all the ballistas in the area since Woozilla will NOT spawn until you destroy the low-road gate (connects to Lanka’s area). 
Probably tank and spank from there…? (More to come…)

Attacks
King’s Verdict (instant)

Sentence
"Suffer 2600 points of physical damage every 2 seconds." (lasts ~10 seconds)

(Credit: Thanks to [bilalab] for strategy suggestions)

TOXIC TEALISS

Description
Toxic Tealiss is the demon boss in charge of the whole battlefield of Bolinthya Rift. She’s incredibly large and tall and has a pretty nasty poison debuff. 

Strategy
Bring a druid with the Antidote to Tealiss’ poison! (More to come…)

Attacks
(More to come…)

FAQS

Q: I went to an area where a boss should appear, but I don’t see the boss. Is it bugged?
A: It is most likely NOT bugged. Bosses will not appear if you do not proceed through Bolinthya normally. This means if you hack, cheat, or try to shadow step past gates, the boss will not appear. For Tanboli, you MUST destroy the gate before her area in order for her to spawn. Remember:Bolinthya Rift is a world battlefield so another possibility is that someone else has already killed the boss.

Q: I went to the coordinates in your thread for Bolinthya Rift but the area was deserted. Did you post the wrong location?
A: The location is correct. However, the portal to Bolinthya is not open 24/7 even though the battlefield itself is open 24/7. You can either wait for the zone prompt asking if you want to participate in the A Silent Danger Approaches event OR you can go to [Gugan Gelitz] outside of Obsidian Stronghold to be transported OR you can go to [Lydia Anne] ouside of Varanas to be transported.

Q: I tried to go through the exit portal, but nothing happened. How do I get out?
A: For some reason sometimes the exit does not work. If this happens you can either use Recall to exit or you have to wait for the time to expire.

Q: What is the set that I need to access the hard mode version?
A: There is a plate, chain, leather, and cloth set that have this skill available. Only 3 pieces are in the set and only 3 are required to extract the set skill. For plate, the set is called "Plate Costume of the Rescuer." For chain, the set is called "Chain Costume of the Destroyer." For leather, the set is called "Leather Costume of the Escort." For cloth, the set is called "Robe Costume of the Protector." The entire sets are all available for purchase in Kampel Town, Land of Malevolence at the Black Codex NPCs. These sets are separate from the sets that give the Osalon Valley transports so make sure you read carefully and buy the correct pieces.

Q: How much does the hardmode transport set/set skill cost?
A by [Trav42073]: It cost 500k gold to extract the skill, after paying 150 mems and some gold for the 3 piece set.

Q: What are those portal pads at the entrance to Bolinthya Rift hard mode?
A: The portal pads are NOT exits. They merely allow you to port ahead to the first boss area on the map (since there are no mobs or gates, it’s just for the purpose of saving travel time).

Credits go to EsxCape.

To mods: Sorry that this is a self-split, but I thought that not many people would see this on the 5th page of "What do the new housekeepers do?" so I made a new thread.

This is the basic info screen for housemaids. This can be accessed by pressing the far right button in the house information window.

There are six panels for people’s faces, and as such, the maximum nomber of Maids that can be in your house is 6, no matter your house size.

Note there are four buttons on the bottom. this allows you to control your Housemaids. 

The first button is to "summon" your housemaid. This makes the housemaid appear in frount of you, facing you. Place it where and how you wish.

The Second button is to recall a placed housemaid. this allows you to hide any housemaid that might not have an outfit, or one that you just dont have room for.

The third button is the dismiss button. this PERMANENTLY removes the person from your House Maid roster.

The fourth and final button is to hire more housemaids. Click this to bring up the next window, with information on all available maids that can be hired.

this screen is the House Maid recruitment window. you can see tabs on the right, that may or may not be greyed out. Greyed out ones are hired maids- you CANNOT hire them.

From the top, you can see some basic information about the person you are recruiting. Including birth datae, sign, and more. This has no effect in the game as far as I have seen.

Next is the stats. Not that most stats are capped at 80. HOWEVER, each maid has ONE skill that is capped at 100, their "Chosen Profession" this means that if you buy the housemaid, you will be able to train them to level to 100, and they will make superior items.

The first stat from the top left is what i call "Attunement" this means how much the person is willing to server you. Chatting raises attunement, but once you get past 80, it sometimes takes 5-10 chats to raise it by one! Attunement is VERY imortant; as it govern’s the maids ability to train skills. A maid with 22 attunement can only train her skills up to 22! This is why chatting with your maid until she is at 100 Attunement is highly reccomended.

The second stat is Charisma. Although I have yet to see it ingame. Charisma is raised when Attunement is raised, meaning this will be filled the more you chat with them as well.

The Third stat is Fatigue. When this bar fills, they will no longer be able to perform any duties until they rest. Mind this at all times! 

UPDATE: Before going to Hoto, I got 4 stacks of potions from one maid, and they where fatigued. I got all the buffs/supplies needed, and then went and did Hoto. Upon returning an hour later, the fatigue was reset to 0. I do not know if it is a bug preventing some people from losing fatigue, but it seems that they lose some on either a 5-30 minute basis, or else reset every hour, like the respawn things for hiring.

The fourth stat is Magic. this skill is used to place a magic buff on you when you wish. This stat, when at level 80, gives 1050 Magical Attack and an additional 2% added onto that; and it lasts 2 hours. At level 100, this is capped at 1575 Magic Attack and 6%, with a 4 hour duration! Also, they have a second buff that raises Magic critical by 210 at level 100 for four hours!

The next column, from the top is the Battle stat. this stat gives you a boost to your Physical attack, good for rogues and scouts. At level 80, it is the same as Magic, with 1050 Attack and 2% added on and a 2 hour duration, then at level 100 it is 1575 Physical Attack and 6% added on and a 4 hour duration. Also, from repeated clicks, itsometimes removes the buffs and gives a Physical Critical buff instead, with same numbers above.!

The next is Defense stat. this is for tanks and those who want HP. This stat gives HP, like the others give Physical attack and Magical attack. Once again, at level 80, it is 1050 HP and 2% Additional with a 2 hour duration, and at 100 it is 1575 and 6% additional with a 4 hour duration. Sometimes gives a physical defense buff instead of the HP buff.

The next stat is the Cooking stat. This means you will no longer have to worry about sneding your heard earned gold on food! (Well, most food anyways.) This skill allows the maid to cook for you, making the following items:

levels 1-20
Salted Fish with Sauce
Bacon with Herbs

levels 21-40
Caviar Sandwich
Seafood

levels 41-85
Spicy Burritos
Swamp Mix

levels 86+
Unimaginable Salad
(Unknown. I am a tank, it gives me ONLY unimaginable salads, might be different if you are a magic user)

NOTE: All Maid items have a 24hour expiration date! If you do not use them within 24 hours, they disappear forever! You can just go and get more from the maid tho, so don’t fret if this happens.

ALSO NOTE: Unlike buyable food, Housekeeper food lasts only 5 minutes.

The next stat is possibly the most fun and useful stat. Unlike Cooking, which gives ripoffs of ingame items, Crafting makes Potions you CANNOT get ANYWHERE else! Some of these are novelty potions, and overs are insanely powerful! The list is as follows.

levels 1-40
Green Prince Potion – Turns you into a frog
Unbridled Enthusiasm – +15% Walking speed for 1 hour
Fullness – Turns you into a giant, like the GMs

levels 41-80
All of above
Galloping Gale – +30% riding speed for 3 minutes
Clear Thought – -10% Casting time for 1 hour
Lucky Target – THIS is the most useful potion for most classes. +75% Luck for 1 hour, CAN STACK with diamond luck potions!!!
Crazy Breakout – Allows you to jump 10 TIMES as high as normal. 1 jump consumes 1 potion.

levels 81+
All of above
Volatile Stench potion – BEST potion for tanks. +15% Aggro for 10 minutes
Godspeed Potion – +50% Movement speed for 8 seconds. Acts like the speed sigils in Arena!

NOTE: All Maid items have a 24hour expiration date! If you do not use them within 24 hours, they disappear forever! You can just go and get more from the maid tho, so don’t fret if this happens.

At the bottom right you can see the "Hire" button. this allows you to hire the currently selected maid. HOWEVER< if you see the red text "Hired" this means the have Already been hired by another player. However, when this happens, all is not lost.

Every hour, the people in the roster reset. This allows anyone to buy them. (The best thing to do is just camp in your house for an hour and wait till they are on sale again.)

Now that you have your Maid and have placed them (Using the button described above) you can start having them learn and train their skills.

To start with, you cannot do anything with the maids. they will NOT listen to you. To solve this, simply talk to them a few times to get their "Attunement" up.

Here is a screenshot of the chat window that opens up.

The first option, Chat, allows you to talk in ;/say with the Maid. (Well, they talk, you listen) this gives a +1 to Attunement and charisma. However, if the attunement is high (80+) you will need MULTIPLE chats to get One point of attunement!

The second option is "Magic Carriculum" This allows the maid to cast a Magic attack enhancing buff on you. Depending on her Magic level, the buff gets stronger. Chosing this option raises the maid’s Magic level by 1.

The third option is "Battle Curriculum" This gives the Physical Attack buff mentioned above. Again, this relies upon the battle stat. Choosing this levels the maid’s battle skill by 1.

The fourth option is "Defense Curriculum" This gives the HP buff listed above. This relys upon the maid’s Defense stat. This option, when chosen, adds 1 level to the maid’s defense stat.

The fifth option is Cooking. doing this will give you a random number of foodstuffs. This number gets higher the higher level the maid has in cooking, as well as better foods! My level 100 cooking maid gives me 62 Unimaginable salads!

The sixth option is Crafting. This relys upon the maid’s crafting skill to make potions. this gives you a random number of random potions. Unlike cooking, the number remains around the same no matter the level; the only change is the quality and powers of the potions.

The final option takes you into the Housekeeper attributes page, which tells you their levels. This also allows you to equip your maids how you wish!

Next to learn is the Housekeeper equipment screen. Not Only can you equip them with any look you wish, but they can also hold items for you!

The housekeeper comes with slots like a mannequin, but with one additional; you can even give them wings! equipping them has no visible function to the game, however. Maybe a possible future awaits where people can be attacked in their houses and their maids can fight to save them; who knows?

Anyways, unlike a mannequin, they can ALSO hold up to 10 ADDITIONAL items, making them a living chest! This means not only can you make them look good, but you can store anything you need to store with them.

That seems to be all of the current features of housemaids; Im glad you took the time to read this, and I hope it helps!

EDIT: Added in some new things, including what I have found about crit rate and pdef buffs!

Credits go to Dragonchampion.

Let’s start with Rogue; A shadowy, assassin-type class, much like warcraft. Leather gear, crit, damage, fast daggers and quick reflexes are what the Rogue is all about.

R/K: This particular Rogue is a very balanced build; Good, steady dps from the Rogue side, and added defense and HP from the Knight secondary to offset the Rogue’s natural squishiness. There are no real flaws in elites(patk raise, hp raise, etc), and the /k offers more than one skill to spam when energy is down. Great for tanking/off-tanking if geared enough.

R/S: This crit-happy Rogue is certainly the most classical one, and an easy build at that. /S lets you equip bows and xbows on the rogue side, while offering a few ranged skills(not enough to make you a ranged dps, per say, but good for solo’ing) on the side. As i mentioned before, this build revolves around crits and burst damage, sacrificing defense for damage.

R/M: This is your standard Rogue with an extra heaping of CC. This is certainly a skill-oriented build, with trap-laying elites lol. Some mdmg fireball and CC from the mage, including a Silence for those pesky casters. A good physical DPS build for PvP with Caster-silencing abilities.

R/W: Dual-weilding axes, stackable bleeds. Nuff’ said lol.

R/P: A Rogue with self-heals and a single magic(ranged) skill. Passive buffs include water resistance(PvP Priests), and magic resistance(Casters!!)

R/Wd: is a good Rogue with awesome elites. Many of them are hard-hitting, increase crit damage, auto self-heal upon taking damage, and one the reduces mdmg on you.

R/D: no
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(Props to Midknight for the mage info)

The Mage is a ranged magic-based class. CC’s, AoE’s, and nukes are a trademark. 

M/K: most important benefits are the passive buffs and EA from Knight General skills. They can mitigate the Mage’s characteristic squishiness to a degree. The arsenal of Light element spells can also add some variety to the usual Mage repertoire. The way it works now, Intensification + SoL makes a good combo. However, there’s nothing in particular that drastically affects the power of your AoE; just defensive benefits to protect you when you AoE and boosted mana pool.

M/S: A potent PvP combo with burst single-target damage. Keep in mind that Fire Rose only stacks the skill damage, not the mDam contribution. Basically burst damage, CC, and an enchanted shot for damage capability even when silenced.

M/W: No

M/R: While dual-wield opens up more options in terms of maximizing your DPS at any particular gear choice, the main benefit of this is the cast-time reduction of Shadow Shroud. Rogue general skills are a mixed lot, dodge benefit isn’t bad, per say, but just of situational usefulness. It basically has its ups and downs.

M/Wd: The only combo that can take decent advantage of Stone Scale Blade due to Earth Scepter. Also gets useful critical potential from Earth Markings, and EGWB is a potent spell because you get to double-dip mDam with elemental bonuses for both hits.

M/D: A tad more independent than M/P, this combo focuses more on offensive potential than healing. Druid general skills are less useful than Priest generals, but the first 2 Elites, Perception and Magic Target are very useful, especially late-game. Also has a double-hit spell in Magma Blade, though only the Fire portion has Mastery bonus.

M/P: See, Above, but more heals over dps.

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Thanks to FencerSukuzi and Midknight for Scout info

Scouts are physical ranged dps. Essentially a ranged Rogue. Fast shots, steady dps.

S/K: A sustainable scout. They’re heavily armored machine guns– never stop firing and can take a beating. A great end-game tanking class. You can start building up nice aggro at a distance and Scout is already a high DPS class to begin with. Knight General Skills greatly assist to fill in Scout’s few weaknesses.

S/R: Another crit-happy Scout, they shoot sh!t fast lol. Extra speed, dodge, and offhand from the Rogue benifit greatly. 

S/M: Plays just like all scouts do, but with the added benefit of both an aggro wipe AND an aggro dump, Lightning and Silence from Mage general skills, and an AoE with root chance to supplement single-target capacity. Basically, a Scout with an side order of CC.

S/P: get a ranged defensive dispel, a mana regeneration cooldown, a slight buff to Snipe ,a powerful group cooldown increasing attack and casting speed, and a buff to it causing it to heal the Scout. They also get an aggro-lead, a few self-heals, and extra mdef resistance from /p general.

S/W: turn rage into powerful temporary buffs, increasing their dexterity, gain a permanent buff to HP, a buff to, a buff increasing concentration regeneration, and increasing the physical damage done to a target. Also, the abilities to wear axes can be benificial in melee combat.

S/Wd: Eclectic elite skills, almost all of which adding a new, powerful skill to your arsenal. Coupled with a Vanish-type move, hard hitting spells, and two new DoT’s, this Scout is a force to be reckoned with.

S/D: Imo, better skills than the S/P, adding some of the same skills, a buff to crit, a slew of remove-root/stun moes, and the ability of self-healing on the side.

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The Warrior is a beefy dps. Trading dodge, speed, and squishiness for heavy hits, slow big axes, and bulky chain armor. 

W/D: Has some decent elites, a few new skills, but many are buffs or enhancements to existng abilities.

W/K: This combination complements the Warrior’s tanking abilities, giving them a ranged pulling ability, a potentially consistent blocking buff, a potent PVP-oriented cooldown, (Immune to helpless/stun/root for ten seconds) a potent damage/threat building skill, and additional rage generation. 

W/M: The W/M complements the Warrior’s playstyle by taking advantage of a mana pool that often sees little use. It supplies a high-damaging weapon skill that buffs and stacks up to three times of magic damage done (30%), a strong melee-range elemental-damage strike, a Damage reduction ability, a ranged nuke, and the ability to imbue the Warrior’s weapon to cause wind damage with every normal attack. Overall, the warrior/mage combo provides other useful abilities like Silence and a snare spell. (Lighting and augments the warrior’s lack of range attacks with Thunder Sword which can be devastating when fully upgraded.) Later on at higher levels, this combo begins to rely heavily on the magical aspect of its secondary as most of the later elite skills are based on magic damage, making the Intellect stat more important. While the combination can be seen as a hybrid class, ideally the player should choose between going either melee or magic focused as going balanced with both will only limit the abilities in the end. 

W/P: Fairly eclectic. It features a desperation cooldown, an interrupting ability, a buff to Magic Barrier skill, an ability to convert health directly into rage, and a high damage attack used when the target is Weakened as per Soft Spot. Not many other benifits from /p except self-heals and mdmg resistance buffs.

W/R: The Warrior/Rogue elite skills, like the Warrior/Priest, don’t affect a character’s playstyle that much. One skill changes the functionality of Shadowstab’s bleed effect (Shadowstab Perfection); another increases the warrior’s base movement speed (Speed Up). Blood Dance gives characters another powerful attack that costs HP while Frenzied Attack acts as powerful but risky damage-increasing cooldown. Keen Attack is another combo skill, usable when the target is Vulnerable (as per Probing Attack), striking twice for a large amount of damage. 

W/S: The Warrior/Scout combination favors two-handed weapons in close range and adds more skills to the Scout’s ranged skills. Warrior/Scouts gain a powerful close-range strike, a ranged stun, a buff to the Moon Cleave skill, a ranged strike that complement Warrior rage generation, and a ranged strike that does the same but is based off of weapon DPS. 

W/Wd: This is a good PvP-oriented build, with many new skills from /Wd, and PvP anti-silence/helpless/stun/fear/root thing that raises crit rate, and buffs to crit damage.

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I’m going to to go ahead and include Knight, Priest, Druid, and Warden, as, well all servers need their tanks, healers, and scapegoats.

The Knight is a tank. Massive hp, massive pdef, bulky plate armor and shields are their specialty.
Knight cannot be Druid or Warden secondary.

K/M: The Knight/Mage combination focuses on passive damage and protection, giving them a Light-damaging aura, a Damage over Time skill, a slowing component to Whirlwind Shield, reflective armor, the power to take damage to mana instead of health, and a powerful buff to Mana Return. K/M’s get an extra fireball, silence, and CC from Mage General.

K/P: The K/P combination focuses on their ability to deal light damage and protect group members, giving them a damage over time effect, a powerful strike usable when the DoT is on the target, a tool to reduce aggro generation, the ability to prevent mobility hampering effects on any target, and a powerful buff to Shield of Valor. They also get a buff to resolution, and self heals, extra mdef, and water resistance from /P. K/P’s benifit from massive hp, and massive pdef/mdef.

K/R: K/R emphasizes the ability to crit, increasing Holy Strike’s chance to crit by 40%, a powerful strike only usable after critical hits, an increase to Blind Stab’s duration, a consistent buff increasing the ability to crit, and a powerful weapon-based AoE skill. K/R’s benifit from lots of crit, weapon speed, dodge, and patk.

K/S: The Knight/Scout combination focuses on the knight’s tanking skills, giving them a ranged taunt, a buff to Holy Strike, a monster type specific root, a ranged area of effect taunt, and an additional chance to reduce damage dealt when using Heavenly Arrow. K/S benifit’s from extra kiting, the ability to use the bow slot as an extra stat holder, and some /s CC’s.

K/W: This combination focuses more on area of effect and damage skills, giving them an increase in Whirlwind Shield’s damage, the ability to equip two-handed axes at increased effect, a buff to Whirlwind, a cooldown increasing parry chance, and a cooldown granting temporary immunity to fear.

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The Priest is a general good healer. Lol, the class explains itself.
Priest cannot have Druid or Warden as a secondary.

P/K: Priest/Knights focus on the healing/utility aspect of group play, changing Grace of Life to also grant MP, making Urgent Heal also heal the caster, giving a cast time reducing cooldown, adding a powerful buff that increases effectiveness at healing while reducing effectiveness at damaging, and another buff that grants temporary fear immunity to a target 

P/M: The p/m combination is fairly eclectic, combining crowd control, the ability to remove curses, a mana restoration group buff, a mana restoration cooldown, and a buff to Lightning that places a debuff increasing wind and water damage done to a target if the target is afflicted with Bone Chill when struck. P/M’s also benifit from a skill called Icewind Blade, a powerful single-strike damage hit.

P/R: The Priest/Rogue combination focuses on granting offensive abilities, like a Dark damage over time ability, a medium-cooldown Dark damage nuke, applying Nimble Hands to spellcasting, an offensive dispel, and a long-cooldown DoT with a stun component. It also has two awesome elites, one increasing Crit for the whole party, and one that restores mana when using a certain skill.

P/S: This fun combo has a fairly eclectic elite skill set, giving them a magic attack buff, a ranged Throat Attack, changing Wave Armor so that it buffs defense, allowing Rising Tide to scale off ranged weapon damage, and an area of effect heal with a regeneration effect. Overall great healers. +1

P/W: This fun(? hehe) combination focuses around enhancing the Priest’s melee capabilities through Battle Monk Stance, giving them three powerful strikes; Explosion of Fighting Spirit, Fighting Spirit Combination, the powerful Ascending Dragon Strike, and an ability that doubles the power of the next physical attack. They also gain a very hard hitting skill that has a base damage of 300% weapon dps at +0, and scales almost 20 per level.

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Druids are specialist healers, with their secondary defining how they heal.
Druids cannot have Knight or Priest as their secondary.

D/M: The Druid/Mage actually sports DPS rather than healing. A hybrid healer/dps combo, this one is neither excelling in either, but has a balanced mixed of dps and healing.

D/R: The Druid/Rogue leans more towards DPS, focusing on Dark damage, crit, DoT’s, and powerful single-strikes.

D/S: The D/S is generally termed as the ~best~ druid healer, focusing on pure healing. Specialists in single-target, these healers can ake any class a tank.

D/Wd: Probably next in line for Druid healing, thrown in with some damage skills.

D/W: A really wierd healing combo, with really, depending on how you stat, can be a healer or DPS. DPS is similar to the P/W, healing is more like a mobile Group HEal.

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Props to Midknight again for this;
"Warden is quite unbalanced. It is a pet user class and suffers from the age-old summoner trope of the pet being god mode in the beginning, but not being able to keep up with content and thus falling flat on its face by end-game. So Wd/S will work quite well for leveling and questing purposes, but eventually you’ll need to switch to S/Wd for instances and end-game overworld. Wd/S gets primary benefit from their elite Chiron summon, a pet no other Warden gets. S/Wd is a very, very solid Scout build. Recent [Shot] issues aside, it is one of few combos with a majority of useful Elites. Only Charged Power is useless. All in all, a solid combo if you have a good mind for strategy and long-range damage."

Nearly ~all~ warden mains are similar in gameplay/style as the vast 75% of all their elites focus around the pet. The Warden currently scales horribly into endgame.

~Thanks to Midknight, FencerSuzuki, TheROMWiki, and several other sources in the making of this guide.~

Credits go to sharinganuser.

Forum regs know how often new players (or new forum viewers) ask for build advice.

The problem with "LF X/Y build" posts is that many don’t understand that "build" doesn’t apply to ROM in the way it does in other games.

In other RPGs and MMOs (where most of us come from) you generally have attribute points, skill points of a finite number to spend on your character, so you have to make the most of them. Thus many new players come to the forums seeking "build guides" in this traditional sense.

ROM opperates differently in a few respects.

1. Talent Points(TP) is essentially infinite for our purposes. Once you reach max level (no longer gain XP) you continue to gain TP from quests and kills. As such eventually all skills can be maxed!

2. Attributes (Stats) in ROM are not "invested in" in the traditional sense. Each level you will gain a static boost to certain stats. Your secondary class also provides a boost to your currently selected primary in the form of 10% of their base stats being applied to the primary.

ie. S/R – Rogue has 100 of each attribute as it’s base. The Scout therefore recieves a bonus of 10 to each attribute.

The way folks modify stats is through gear modification and selection (the core of what this game is about).

"So what am I really looking for then?"

1. What skills are useful, and should be priorities in leveling:

Skills generally do not scale well with levels. Rank 0 is very powerful relative to rank 1. With each TP invested, skills get more and more expensive, and their relative power does not scale accordingly.

As such early on it will be hard to "max" (keep @ same level) more than perhaps 3-4 skills.

For this reason "rules of thumb" apply.

Many players keep 3-4 core skills within about 5 levels of their character.
The next most important skills are often kept within 10-15 levels.
Least important skills are either not leveled until much later, or lag 20+ levels behind.

What you need to glean from "guides" and class/build specific posts are how important skills are for your character, and prioritize your TP investment.

2. What stats are most important:

Even within the same class, there can be times that certain stats are simply better for build X over build Y. Thus an understanding of what stats do is very desirable. Take a look at the guide in my sig, or theromwiki.com/Attributes for this information.

Once you have a handle on what benefits they offer, the decision is largely self evident. For more specific stat advice seek help from class "experts" in their respective forums.

3. Elite skills:

The make or break aspect of many builds. Much like regular skills, some are worth investing in, others are not, and some come pre-maxed and require no investment. 

Again, read and ask specific questions if unsure. Some elites are considered "must haves" and others garbage. Don’t let the term "elite" fool you into thinking they should be maxed. Do your research.

4. Skill rotations:

This is key to learning your class. Also learning skill rotations will help you learn which skills are used most often, and thus should be kept high until you’re able to max them.

5. the 50+ problem:

You’ll quickly notice that after 50 the cost to upgrade skills becomes massive. You’ll also notice you have massive amounts of TP to spend. The temptation is to continue as usual.

IMHO it is best to level all useful (not necessarily every skill, by 50 you should know the difference) to 50 before going any further.

This is especially true for casters who can effectively leave most "casted" skills at very low levels and still be relevant with a good weapon (because of how casted spells are calculated).

This will also give you time to reflect on the usefulness of skills, and focus your attention post 50 on the skills that will carry you into end game.

Extra advice

(a) Skill Reset @ 30 – don’t waste this stone too early. Yes you’re 30 and starving for TP, it gets better and this is a vulable item to use later if you discover you’ve invested 50 levels in a skill you don’t really need. Or if you decide to re-roll and want to recoup all your TP.

(b) Maximize TP bonus’ – these are availble in the form of Potions, Housing Furniture, and sometimes "events" such as double TP weekends. It’s tempting to maximize XP, but the more TP you gain relative to XP will maximize your potential.

(c) DO YOUR DAILY QUESTS – this is just sound advice in general. But many players find a "hump" around 28, 39, 44 and 55. This is often because they failed to diligently do their daily quests.

The number of actual quests in this game is not sufficient to level 2 sides to max level, you must make use of daily quests – and the tokens are absolute must haves for several reasons.

Final Notes

I hope that reading this guide steers you in the right direction, endables you to ask more pointed/relevant questions about your chosen class/build, and maybe even tought you something in the process.

Credits go to Nemecis.

Knowing your class:
This is one of the highest dps wardens. If you like things to go boom, then pick this one. Wd/r however is one of the hardest wardens to lvl from 1-55, so be aware of this. This class specializes in crit damage, DoTs, and pure damage from some of your main skills.

Elite Skills:

Achilles’ Heel Strike- Excellent damage, and gives a buff to you and your pet’s crit rate. Very helpful to remember this. The 30 energy cost is a bit high though in long fights.

Thorn Upgrade- This is a very good upgrade to thorny vine. It restores a ton of your mana, and does very good damage. Use this, but try saving for low mana.

Gravel Attack- This is another DoT. Though i do not recommend it very much. This skill has very high mana cost, and the DoT isn’t very strong.

Soul of the Spirit Tree- Very helpful in long fights, gives you a huge boost of damage to Power of the Wood Spirit, when target is at 30% HP or lower.

Store Power- Nice boost to charge chop, some extra damage. As well as +10% crit on it.

Critical Feeling- This is why you would want oak walker as a pet. When you crit she hits the target. When she hits the target your next 2 attacks crit. It is an endless chain of fun for all. (Crit buff only procs every 30 sec though)

Walker Spirit- This is a dodge and move speed +50% buff. Pretty much you will only use this to catch up to people in pvp and such though.

Together- This is pretty much a 10% damage buff. Keep in mind when using this. There is a 2min Cool down.

Rogue Skills:

Shadow Stab- This is not used much, because its dps is so low, and its bleed effect requires a dagger. Saves mana pots at low lvls though.

Throw- This is a ranged attack, used mainly for pulling. The damage is terrible.

Blind Stab- You may use this often, depending on if you think you need -40% acc on target. The dps isn’t the best, but still pretty good.

Projectile Training- It lets you use Throw!

Off Hand Training- Pretty useless for us, as we use 2-H weapons.

Agility- Increases your dodge rate by a nice amount

Nimble Hands- This increases your attack speed. Will add a lot to your total dps.

Shadow Step- Teleports you behind the target. 

Pet:
Oak Walker- If you want to follow your elites go for this pet as your main. You will have less damage yourself, but she will have a nice amount of dps. You may also use her for 15% damage, and just use a different pet.

Nature Crystal- This pet is great if you are using Oak Walker for her buff. This pet spams buff on you, such as attack and cast speed +5%. You can also Use this pet for crit rate buff and summon oak walker.

Spirit of the Oak- This is your best friend at low lvls, he has a high aggro rate, nice HP, and decent dps. End game though wd/r doesn’t favor this pet as much. Some will still prefer him though.

Conclusions:
This Warden can do great dps. This warden will also have the highest attack speed, and skill damage of all the wardens. If you are looking for dps in a warden, then this is a great warden to play. Along with all the move speed buffs, and teleports that just make it fun to play.

Credits go to Xeph.

Knowing your class:
Warden/mage is much less support then warden/druid, and more dps. Since it still has support skills i will call it a support warden. This basically transforms warden into an aoe dps class. You will still have good single target damage, but all your skills will mostly be magical aoes.

Elite Skills:

Wind Chop- This will be your spamming skill especially at lower lvls. It does both physical and magic damage. So when your main skills are on cd you will use this

Tough Oak- All pets get a huge increase to pdef like 50% or so. Also spirit of the oak’s cool down for punch is reduced by 1 second.

Oak Blessing- This makes the Heart of the Oak buff much stronger, so you may be better off using Spirit of oak for buff and use crystal as pet at this point.

Nature’s Revenge- This is a very strong new skill for nature crystal. It is an aoe that takes 2 seconds to charge up with no cd and does more damage then Beam Attack, so you can pretty much through beam attack away.

Spiritual Feedback- Reduces the HP consumption of Spirit Attack by 10% so now it cost 20% of your pet’s max HP. Also can increase you and your pet’s magic damage by 12% for 20 seconds.

Crystal Protection- If Nature Crystal dies all damage suffered by people in your group is reduced by 20% for 20 seconds, but you may not summon nature crystal for 40 seconds. This is kind of a win lose elite. Less damage taken can me helpful, but nature crystal does a lot of damage when it is summoned.

Narrow Escape- This is soul bound for your pets. However because of the elite that says nature crystal can not be re summoned for 40 seconds this skill will not work on him only the other 2, so i do not use this much.

Crystal Boost- This makes it so crystal explosion will no longer kill the nature crystal. It will drain 80% of his max hp and restore about 1000 mana to everyone nearby, along with hurting the mobs.

Mage Skills:

Fireball- Does a decent amount of fire damage to the target. 6 second cd

Lightning- Does some damage to the target and roots them for about 10 seconds. 20 second cd

Wisdom- Increases your Intelligence by a large amount.

Intensification- Increases your magic damage by a large amount for 20 seconds. 2min cd

Silence- Used mostly for pvp it makes it so target can not cast skills for 10 seconds if mob and 5 seconds if player. 24 second cd(strange cd)

Fire Ward- You will take less damage to fire type skills. This can be useful i never really use it though. 

Pets:
I only like 1 pet for this build, because it is such a magic build.

Nature Crystal- This pet will do mass destruction on warden/mage. You can cast intensification then summon him for extra damage. This pet will do huge amounts of aoe damage if you are built correct. In pvp and pve he will be good.

Gear:

This class will stray away from everything i have said in warden general he will use different gear and different skills.

The weapon-
Root of Nightmare/Raksha Magic Staff

The main set-
Holy Tree Crown/Flower God Headress
Elemental Flame Robe/ Flower God Robe
Elemental Flame Boots/ Flower God Cloth Boots
Elemental Flame Shoulder Guards/ Flower God Shoulder Guards

The secondary set-
Guardian Leg guards
Labyrinth Frost Belt/Kawak’s Belt
Maxim’s Gloves/Raksha’s Gloves
Labyrinth Cloak or Rebirth/ Savage Light Cape

The accessories
Vahto’s Magic set all of it!

for stats you will want

Int/Str
Str/matk or Int/patk
Stam/Int
Stam/Pdef or Stam/HP
Int/Wis
Str/Patk

Skills:
One of the only wardens who will need different skills then what i have said. Forget about charge chop and all that junk and go.

Frantic Briar- It is an matk aoe

Soul Attack- It is a magic spam skill that uses your pet’s HP to save mana.

Briar Shield- ok you can still lvl up this.

Crystal Explosion- It is an aoe that is pretty much only usefull on wd/m or wd/d

Elite Skill:

Wind Chop- you will not use it too much, but can be good single target dps.

Tough Oak- Crystal will die less!!!!!

Nature’s Revenge- It does a ton of damage.

Conclusion:
This is one of the more interesting wardens since it does not act like a warden at all. This one is if you like to see large amounts of aoe damage. spam Nature’s Revenge and Frantic Briar and watch everything fall.

Credits go to Xeph.

Knowing your class:
WD/D is a support warden, or healer warden depending on your play style. The main pet for this build is Nature Crystal, it is indeed a support pet. This warden has 2 group heals, only 1 can actually heal though. As well as stealing the druid skill recover, and it gets a cleanse. 

The elite skills: 

Remove Curse- Basically a cleanse for nature crystal, though i haven’t actually checked if it works on last boss in ZS, it is still helpful.

Magic Control- This is a spirit of oak skill. You will not really use spirit of oak ever though, maybe sometimes when soloing. This skill doesn’t help so much either. If you are not using nature crystal feel free to use this on bosses.

Quick Reflexes- Your pet will Dodge a lot more, and pretty much never get critically hit. Since nature crystal is very squishy this is helpful, if it for any reason gains aggro.

Earth Spirit Essence- Adds magic damage to your white attacks. This adds a minimal amount of damage, but it is still very helpful.

Natural Spring- This changes charge chop into charged cleave. Charged cleave will hit the target for a large amount of damage, as well as casting a strong group heal. I believe this group heal is effect by heal bonus as well. Though this heal is not effected by the 2 second cast time, like it is supposed to.

Connection- When you use elven prayer on your pet, it will increase the pets damage by 10% for a short time. Since nature crystal doesn’t deal damage I do not find this useful. Also you can only use this once every 2 minutes.

Blade of Protection- This skill has a really nice animation. All party members get +10% pdef when you hit the target with this skill. This skill also does nice damage.

Crystal heal- This makes it so when you have crystal summoned, you may cast a group HoT. Though this HoT is for a flat amount of 350 hp, so i don’t use it. Animation is cool though.

Druid Specific skill:

Recover- This is pretty much your main single target heal. Does a nice amount of healing at that.

Antidote- Removes poison from the target

Savage Blessing- Increase accuracy, by a lot at that. Almost to the point where you don’t need any dex to hit target.

Earth Pulse- Magic damage fan Aoe. You really won’t use this ever though, maybe for pulling.

Knowledge of Nature- Increases your wisdom by a large amount. This will make your heals stronger.

Mother Earth’s Protection- This makes you take less damage for a small amount of time.

The Pets:

Oak Walker- Just eat her, for her buff.

Nature Crystal- This will be your main pet. It has damage negating buff, and dps buffs. For entire group.Not to mention the cleanse.

Conclusion:
If you want to support, or heal then go for this warden. Just remember you will not keep up with the dps of a wd/r or wd/s.

Credits go to Xephs.

Knowing your class:
This is Warden/Warrior. It is a warden with strong attacking abilities, but prefers to exchange the damage of the top dps wardens for some defensive skills. From what i can tell most of this wardens skills seem pvp oriented, but they do decent damage in pve as well. 

The Elite Skill:

Double Chop- When i first got this i thought it would be useless, but after a while i learned to love this skill. It hits the target twice each hit dealing about 230% main hand dps at lvl50. This skill also costs rage so it saves you some mana. This skill has a 6 second cool down though.

Beast Chop- An interesting skill This will do about 320% main hand dps at lvl50 and it has no cool down or cast time. It does cost rage so you will not be able to spam it very much. When this skill hits the target your pet will get a buff increasing its patk by about 15%

Ire- This skill forcing target to fight your pet for 5 seconds. After the effect ends it resets the aggro of the mob(at least i think that is why i get aggro after i use it). This skill can be useful if you are too hurt to let a mob hit you for a while. 

Restraint- This skill can be good. I find it annoying tbh, but it has saved my life in the past. If your spirit of the oak dies then you will get a buff increasing your pdef by about 35% at lvl50 for 20 second, but you may not summon him again for for 40 seconds. Since scouts in pvp tend to kill your pet first this can be helpful, so you can take a few extra hits against them.

Pulse Mastery- This skill is a huge boost to a skill you already have. It will make Savage Power increase you patk by almost twice what it used to. When maxed you get a 30% patk increase from Savage Power.

Resonance of Life- You will kill your spirit of oak in order to heal yourself by 30% and increase your max HP by 5% for 10 seconds. This is another skill i thought i wouldn’t use too much, and i thought the 5% HP boost would be useless, but i use this skill all the time. You can summon Spirit of the Oak right after you use this and he keeps the 5% HP boost.

Will Attack- This is a skill that takes some getting used to. It does a good amount of damage. When you cast it you may get 1 of 2 buffs. You will pretty much have to memorize the picture for each buff, because you only have 8 seconds to use it. One of the the buffs makes it so charge chop only has a cast time of 1 second. With cast speed buffs Charge Chop feels like it is instant cast. The other buff it gives makes it so Beast Chop will do 50% more dps then before. This is a nice boost, but i much prefer the Charge Chop buff.

Coat of Arms- When you hit the target with Charge Chop or Double Chop you may get a buff. This buff makes it so all skills cost 30% less mana, and you gain rage 30% faster. This means much more use of rage costing skill since they do more damage then mana skills.

Warrior Skills:

Slash- This is a skill you can spam.It costs 25 rage. It does a good amount of damage, and puts a DoT on the target. I pretty much only use when i have extra rage and want to have DoT on boss, because I like to spend my rage on Double Chop.

Equip Axe- Does nothing since we had this ability before.

Enraged- This is a good skill for before a boss fight. It gives 20 rage and has a cool of 40 seconds. This means you will have extra rage to cast berserk.

Whirlwind- I do not use this skill very much. I don’t like aoes especially when they cost half my rage bar. It does not do much damage, but since we only have a total of 2 aoes and they both only hit infront of us you may want this skill.

Berserk- I like to put this right next to Savage Power. It exchanged 36% of your pdef for patk. This is a nice boost to damage. Just keep in mind you will be squishy. It lasts for 30 seconds and has 1minute cool down.

Defensive Formation- This skill is not really good. It costs a huge % of you and everyone in the group’s patk to increase everyone’s pdef by a very small amount.

Brute Strength- This is just a passive that gives a large boost to your strength. More Strength means more dps.

Pets: 
This class will pretty much only use 1 pet. The like to use Oak Walker for the buff, and use Spirit of the Oak as a pet.

Spirit of the Oak- Like half of your elite skills are focused around this pet. This is pretty much the only class that has a chance of making Spirit of the Oak tank. You can summon him with Savage Power, Berserk, Energy Absorb, and Resonance of Life buffs on. Then he will get a huge boost in damage from your 76% patk increase, and 10% damage increase. 

Gear:
This warden likes to focuses on Stam and Patk mainly. These both will make spirit of the oak a much stronger pet. Fun to get all the temporary HP buffs you can think of and summon him with like 70k hp or so when you have about 40k. The stats this warden should use are

Str/Patk
Stam/Patk
Str/Stam
Str/Dex or Dex/Patk
Wis/Patk or Wis/Str
Stam/HP or Stam/Pdef or Stam/Wis

You will get a ton of patk and HP this way.

Conclusion:
This is not as high dps as the other wardens, but it can have higher dps for a small amount of time. The intended idea of this warden seems to be a high dps tank, but spirit of the oak will lose aggro if you go all out on your damage. Since you have so many defensive, and attacking skills this class does very well in pvp. Priests do not seem to like it when they get 1 shoted, because you cast charge chop almost instantly.

Credits go to Xephs.

I have been playing druid for a long time and through my experience i have learned many different strategies as a druid to be successful as a healer. Healing effectively and efficiently as a druid is not an easy thing to do, at least in comparison to our healing counter parts the priests.

I won’t talk about DPS Druid skills in this guide, just healing. In this guide i will go into detail for healing strategies and give many example situations where these strategies work. I will also cover the usage of all the healing elite skills and how they differ and how they can be used.

Section 2: Grouping Vs proximity

WHen your character starts or join a party in this game, you are assigned to a group. Each group has a max of 6 people in it; obviously if you in a party preparing to run a instance where only 6 people can enter knowing what group you are in is not important. However some instances can take up to 36 players and as such there will be 6 groups each containing a maximum of 6 people in that one party. When you join a party like this please take note of which group your character belongs to as this is very important because some healing spells and Group buffs will only target (or can only be placed on) members in the same group as you.

The Spring of Blessing Spell from the Druid/Mage and healing Wind from the Druid/Warrior uses this type of targeting, it will hit all six group members (including you) that are withing XXX (typically 80-180) range units from you. The Druid Concentration prayer buff also work using this type of targetting.

The next type of targetting is by proximity and it is more complex to use but also more versatile. Some healing spells will have a point of origin and will hit/heal all friendly and in some cases neutral targets within it’s range regardless of what group the party member belongs to. This type of targetting allows for very precise and 
sophisticated control of healing but becomes almost impossible to control in large group when everyone is stacking.

The spell Mother natures Fountain uses this type of targeting, you select a party member and then cast the spell at which point will heal the targetted party member and the next three closest members to him/her within a rnage of 100. The Druid/scout elite spell called healing arrows works by proximity also, upon casting this spell you get a Area of effect circle with a diameter of 200 range units which you can move and target, once you confirm the location of the spell the spell will cast and the origin of the spell will be the center of the circle you just targetted; party members closest to the center of the circle will be the one affected by the spell.

Understanding these two types of in game targetting is something all Druids should know. Especially the classes D/M and D/W.

Section 3: Good Foundational Druid Healing Strategies

Making Smart use of Mother Natures Fountain (works for any Druid/x combo) (6 man Group)

Mastering pro usage of MNF is not an easy thing to do but i assume you once you get it you will be able to healing most everything in the game. Location is everyhting to make this healing strategy work. Please take a look at the image, this or similar is the ideal setup.

So your job will go like this… Keep the regens from Recover (14 seconds) and Blossoming Life (20 seconds) on the Tank at all time, ALL TIMES! When MNF is ready or when the DPS group needs heals target the Red colored DPS and cast, this will ensure that all the DPS are hit. Inbetween MNF cool down heal yourself if needed and perform any spot healing if needed. If there is nothing to do drop extra blossoming Life, mana pot or buff the party.

Take a look at this second picture, your DPS might be Warriors or Rogues.

This setup is a bit harder because you might have to dance MNF between two groups. Still it is manageble just stay sharp and keep regens up on the tank and additional blossoming life on others and you should do fine.

Blanket Healing (6 man for D/x , 7 man for D/R , 8 man for D/Wn)

This strategy consist of dropping Recover and Blossoming life on each party member sequentially. Recover lasts for 14 seconds so this HOT gives you enough time to cycle through an entire 6 person party have have them all regening with Recover and blossoming life.

D/r get a casting speed increase so they can strecth this strategy to 7 party members, the D/warden has an elite skill that extends the HOT time of Recover to 20 seconds just like blossoming life so you can do this for 
8 party members, with a clear thought potion you could do 9. Just stand close enough to the tank to cast MNF when/if he needs it.

* the Druid/Warden has an elite skill which is a large AOE heal which can be used in addition to this Blanket strategy for some serious cozyness! The Druid/warden is unmatched in cozy blanket healing.

Section 4: Specific Healing strategies (using Elite skills)

Strategy A: Your Moms a HOTO! (D/M 6 man solo heal)

This is the strategy i developed to successfully solo heal hoto as a d/m. I think i was the only one on the server at the time when i did this and FYI this was Pre-chapter 3 and I had a tier 8 HD Artful gusher as my weapon with about 12K HP and 10K mana.. Hoto is Druid Hell but with this strategy and a sharp team it can be done. I later found this D/M strategy to work for almost any situation.

The spell rotation is as follows: Start with at least 5 natures power and target the tank.

Curing Seed on Tank
Spring of blessing (-2NP)
Mother natures fountain (self targeted -1 NP)
Blossoming Life on Tank
Restore Life X 2 on tank (+2NP)
Mother natures fountain (Self targeted -1 NP)
Restore life x 2 on tank (+2NP)
Repeat

That’s the general setup but you can swap out a restore life for a Recover if the tank needs a bit of extra heals, it was a problem back then but now with forest bath and the new 20 second Unity with mother nature it should not be a problem at all.

Advantages of this strategy: THis is probably the most universal of all druid healing strategies and i found later that it work pretty much anywhere.
Disadvantages: almost none, except in 12 main parties the targetting of MNF gets harder to control.

Strategy B: Patch Healing (D/S any party size healing)

What can i say Camelia Flower (instant cast, spammable) and Healing Arrows (2 second cast, spammable) as a D/S allow you to put SOO many regens on the whole party it’s like ZOMG like a double Rainbow! Alright D/S is the very best class in the game to spot heal entire raids, trust me i know thats more or less what i have been doing since HOS.

In a 12 man raid i keep AT ALL TIMES the hots from Recover, Blossoming life and Camelia flower on the main tank. This ensures that the tank and me (Life Guide FTW) are safe and always healed. Meanwhile if there are any scouts in the party with blood arrow on it’s easy to drop a single camelia flower on them which keeps them at 100% HP.

In my experience 1-3 scouts is easy, 4 is okay but 5 scout with blood arrow or more start to hinder my ability to keep the party alive. With 5 scout i usually ask them to group together and get everyone else to go somewhere else so i can put healing arrows on all the scouts at once and then focus Camelia flowers on the other members of the party. But Remember Blossoming life, Camelia flower and Recover on the Tank at all times. Remember to save MNF as an emergency spot heal because spamming healing arrows takes alot of natures power.

This strategy requires the most game experience and knowledge of boss strategies. Simply performing reactive spot healing isn’t good enough, you have to anticipate that a certain member of your party is about to or will have incoming damage so be sharp and be ready and be pro-active.

Strategy C: OMG double Group heal! All the way! (D/W Double Group heal)

I found D/W to work very well as a group healer even better than my D/S. The key is you have to manage your Natures power, Rage and Mana (tough times, see my D/W guide) and your timing needs to be impecable.. Mother natures Fountain is a proximity group and Healing Wind is a Grouping group heal. In combination a single druid can heal a 12 man raid. By having the druid in one group with 5 DPS classes healing wind will take care of the druid and the DPS while the druid can spot heal (restore life) and use proximity group heal on the main tank and 1-2 other Close-range Dps-ers nearby…. It’s a thing of beauty.

I will talk about managing mana at the end of this guide but as for managing rage honestly this requires you to physically hit monsters which is risky so when gearing make sure you have enough +STAM, +HP and +PDEF. Basically you will generate rage faster than you can use it by hitting monster so spam Healing Wind when it’s up and Spam MNF when it’s up to heal you and your tank, inbetween the cool downs cast earth arrow or Restore life (Spot heal) to generate natures power. Be mindful of location because druid group heals have short range.

Advantages of this strategy: Two group heals allows for some very nice timing tricks and life savers if you understand the boss strategies. TIMING IS KEY!
Disadvantages: Your always in melee range of monster (risky business) and you have to constantly keep track of 3 energy bars (rage, mana and NP).

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There is no special healing strategy for the Druid/Rogue because they don’t get any additional healing elite skills. I won’t talk about the Druid/Warden either because i already mentioned them in the generic healing strategies. D/Warden also gets another healing spell called healing ripple which is worthy to note that it is great for Duo-ing bosses with someone but it’s not enough to center an entire strategy around.

Section #5: Managing Mana

See my early Druidhood guide for basic tricks regarding managing mana, i pretty just say always drink your mana pots (both kinds). In addition to this have a large supply of Exotic Fruit pie (lowers mana consumption by 25%) in your inventory and use them frequently. Also carry around "Mana Source" Potions (increases Mana pool by 10%) and always use them at the start of boss fights. The Druid/mage has an elite skill called Spiritual gush which reduces mana consumption by 35% when leveled it is most excellent. Also the Druid/Warden can exchange NP for mana and Mana for NP, this convertion is very handy.

Credits go to Xerise’s.

Hello Adventurer, I am glad you decided to play a druid. This is an excellent class that is highly dynamic and will allow you to be highly customizable with your character.

Note*1: Druids in general are a complicated class to play, they have the reputation of being one of, if not the most difficult class to play in this game. Furthermore they have a very steep learning curve come early end-game (lvl 50+) with the earlier instances. So if this is your very first ROM character, be prepared for this steep learning curve.

Note*2: If you have come from another MMO such as WoW where druids are shapeshifters, you need to drop that notion right now. Druids in ROM from a non-ROM player point of view can been seen as a Earth based Caster class with alot of healing spells. 

Note*3: About Balance, ROM’s Classes are not balanced. Some are definetly better than others. For example druids are not only a hard/tricky class to play but are at somewhat a dis-advantage compared to other classes. Some dual-class combinations don’t even work well past level 50. Im just saying be aware what your getting youself into.

Section 2: Research

Okay first some tools to help you with your adventuring in Taborea (thats the name of the continent your running around on FYI). Refer to these links for general info on quests and skills

The ROM getbuffed Database (http://www.runesdatabase.com/) : A great site , too bad it’s only right baout 80% of the time.

The ROM WIki (http://www.theromwiki.com/Main_Page) : Another great site, it’s weakness is it’s rather incomplete.. and somewhat outdated now.

A generic Class guide by my friend Nemecis (http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=45120) this is a must read for new rom players.

Contact me: Send me a message and i will attempt to answer your question.

Section 3: Spending Real-life Money on ROM

This is my opinion and ofcourse you are entitled to spend your own money any way you wish. However take it from an experience ROM player that the only thing really worth spending Diamonds on in early game would be a "permanent" Mount. This will allow you to move around easier and quick and some of the mounts are far more interesting than the generic horses you can rent. 

If you have access to Zeevex cards you can get trade-able diamonds and you can sell some diamonds for in game gold. Use this gold to get housekeepers this will help you alot in your early adventures.
Other than the above two mentioned things i don’t really feel that ROM is worth investing alot of money in until you hit level 55 on your druid.

Section 4: Early questing

Rom is a fast game, to be honest it does not take alot of time to get to level 50. Most people can probably do this in about 1 month. 99% of your level gaining will be via questing… so for much of the early game… enjoy the quest, enjoy the scenery and enjoy the story line… Refer to the tools in section 2 for help on quests..

Section 5: About Instances

Some time real soon you will get quests that take you inside what MMO’s Call "instances"…. please look this term up if there is any confusion. In ROM you may get a quest that is rated as a level 25 quest… when it comes to instances in this game quests inside instances "DO NOT" match the level the quest is given. For example Forsaken abbey is an instance that from the quest point of view is rated as a level 25 zone. If you intend on solo-ing that instance be 10 levels higher than the recommended quest level.. vis a vis be level 35 to solo forsaken abbey, also it will help if you bring some friends along.

Section 6: Getting to Level 10 and picking your secondary class.

Alright, just follow the quests given to you on the elven island, they are all pretty straight forward. Use "earth arrow" and "Briar entwinment" to kill your enemies and "Recover" and "Blossoming Life" to heal yourself.
Once you get to level 10, you will have more or less completed all the quests on the elven island. One quest in particular will lead you to the airship to bring you to Varanas where you can choose your secondary class a most important decision.

Once your in Varanas, locate the Class hall. Now here comes your choices..

Druid/Warrior: This is by far the hardest Druid subclass to control because you constantly need to manage three Unit bars (Natures power, Mana and Rage), it’s tricky business. However this druid gets two group heal spells that are life-savers if you can master good timing. The Class combo is primarily best suited to be a dedicated healing class and it is the best group healer of all the druids.

Druid/Warden: This is a hybrid Healing / Physical damage combination druid. It’s strongest talent is it’s ability to make an excellent healer to a trio (so if you play with two friends and your the healer this is a great class) and it’s solo-ability is great as well. It’s weakness ofcourse like all hybrid is that it does not really excel is any particular field.

Druid/Rogue: This is the best druid combo for attacking and doing damage of the magical sort. It has a great selection of Dark magics and it utilizes curses on it’s enemies to slow them or make them hurt more. This class combo has some great Party support spells that enhance your friends or weaken your enemies.

Druid/Mage: This is another hybrid druid, it has a balanced distribution of healing abilities and Magical Damage. Like the Druid/Warden it’s a great solo-class and it’s specialty in a party is when that party needs just a bit more damage or just a bit more healing to make the gap. Throughly a very enjoyable class.

Druid/Scout: This is another primary healing build as a druid, the druid/scouts specialty is single target healing and Spot/patch healing. Properly geared this class makes the best single target healer in the game and great for duo-ing with a friend. 

Section 7: Managing Natures Power and Mana

Yikes! what’s this? …. Druid have to manage two "Class-unit" bars, Mana (like knights, mages, wardens and Priests) and Natures Power (unique to Druids)….. Depending on your secondary class you may have to manage three….

Mana is easy enough to manage, if you find your always running out and need more. Then choose quest rewards that give you +WISDOM and always carry around plenty of Mana potions as you will be drinking these more than water.

Natures Power is the tricky one and for young druids it’s often a problem. I will tell you right now, worry not my friend Natures power is actually very easy to manage and eventually you won’t even need to think about it.
First all druids have a max of 10 NP (Natures power) this will not change, the one notable exception is that Druid/scout’s at level 45 get an elite skill which increases their maximum NP to 15. the PRIMARY way to restore your natures power is by casting "Restore Life" or "Earth Arrow" …. So my recommendation to you while fighting is that you establish VERY EARLY on a casting rotation that includes those skills so that you will always net a total of Zero natures power.

For example… Say you and your two friends are in a party and your the druid hence there is a good chance your going to be healing…. a good rotation would be "earth arrow" X 2 then "mother natures Fountain" which is a group heal that uses 1 natures power.. then repeat.
You will get the hang of it don’t worry… Anyways the first skill you get as a druid that consumes natures power is at level 14, so until then you don’t need to worry about Natures power.

Section 8: Quest Gear

During your adventures try to select the quest rewards that provide you with a balanced quantity of Intelligence, Wisdom and Stamina… You can ignore the other stats. FYI Stamina = "HP + DEF" , "Wisdom = Mana + mDef" and "intelligence = 2XMatk" …. so you might want to carefully consider quest rewards that provide you something like Magical Attack instead of Intelligence.

As a druid always use a two-handed Staff as your main weapon until you hit end game… As a druid/Rouge you can use a wand + Hammer if you want.

Section 9: Skills (Finally I know)

I remind you to look at section 2 for the tools i put there which should provide you with all the info you need concerning skills. However while leveling up there are really only six skills that you need…

1. Earth Arrow
2. Briar Entwinment
3. Knowledge of the Earth
4. Recover
5. Blossoming Life
6. Pure Healing

Everything else is just gravy and don’t try to keep the skill maxed, you will starve yourself for Talent points… Keep the above 6 skills about 5 levels below your level and any other skill like 10 levels below your level.

Section 10: So you made it!

So you finally hit level 50… Congratulations…. You now should starting thinking about gearing up your character, talk to your guild mates and friends, read my other guides. The real fun is about to start.

Credits go to Xerise’s.

Hello Druids thank you for taking a moment of your time to read my stat, gearing and skills druid encyclopedia. I used to have a a guide for every druid subclass but i realized after some time that those guides only worked for the game content that was released at that time and as the game progressed the guides became more and more outdated.

This guide will attempt to address informing you how to stat and gear your druid in a more universal way that should survive as the game progresses and hopefully give you a sense on how to make best use of your druid skills. This guide ofcourse assumes that there won’t be any major changes to the druid class itself and/or ROM combat game engine.

Section 2: Assumptions and Requirements

This guide assumes that you have reached lvl 50 on your druid side and for you to progress your going to need to start examining and playing around with Modifying your gear to make yourself be able to survive in some of the harder zones like Savage lands, Aotulia Volcano, Thunderhoof hills and Janost forest.

Im going to try to keep this guide as Free-to-Play friendly as possible but i will be very honest with you to be at the leading edge of game content generally requires at least some financial investment into this game.

Im also assuming that you have at least read my two previous guides, Strategic healing and Early Druidhood.

http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=45132
http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=47338

Section 3: Getting a jump start on powering up!

Our first task will be to get your chracter to lvl 55 because thats when all the good gear starts. Between lvl 50 and 54 it can be a long haul because you need more experience for just those four levels than you did for your level 1-50. For the moment your quest gear will suffice but you may have already found a guild and perhaps your guild is nice enough to lend you some "Twink" gear which can make this leveling process very easy.

However assuming you have no twink gear, by the time you are lvl 50 and have done all the needed quests you should have about 2 million gold to your name. Use this gold to invest in buying a Holy earth or Holy Water pet for your druid. Buy about 1m worth of Golden eggs and power level this pet to about level 15. This will be an early and cheap but significant boost to your character.

You can find a pet guide on the rom forums, pets are not the focus of this guide.

Taking advantage of your housemaids: I hope you got yourself at least one housemaid while you were leveling up early on, because these are free buffs to your chracter. I personally have two housemaids for crafting and 1 for protection curriculum (gives more HP). If you have not done this do it now and start building these relationship with your maids.

Again you should be able to find a guide on housemaids if your have any additional question because housemaids are not the focus of this guide. 

Section 4a: Your Training Day! Levels 50-54

Well you made it! level 50 not bad. Time to start learning how to play your druid in a group environment and figuring out more specifically how your going to gear it when you really hit end-game.

For the moment just keep going on whatever gearing trend you have established for yourself, your about to find out if it really works. Many people skip these levels but i cannot stress enough how important it is to learn how to play your druid in stressful situations because later on your ability to adapt and your reaction time will be the determining factor if your going to make it as a elite druid or not. With chapter three release too many people are skipping content and really sucking at playing druid later on because they fail to develop their adaptability and dexterity.

Mystic Alter: Difficulty Easy
Requirements: 5K Hp as a Druid and Standard Quest gear + your pet.
What i hope you learn to deal with in here in how to make a good pull, deal with monsters that fear you, deal with Mana draining monsters and learn to fight both magical and physical damage dealing bosses. Furthuremore the bosses in this Instance are not kite-able.
Skill tips: Binding Silence

Cyclops Lair: Difficulty Normal
Requirements: 8K+ HP + Pet and a weapon that has been upgraded a bit, maybe even 1 or 2 pieces of stated gear.
What i hope you learn here is to deal with a boss that actually needs teamwork to kill, monsters that charge and knock you down and bosses that stun you. Give this place a try it’s an excellent instance where alot of gold and experience can be obtained.
Skill tips: Lots of Regens, Recover + blossoming life, Mother natures protection

Kalins Shrine: Difficulty Hard
Requirements 10K+ HP + pet, 1-3 Pieces of stated gear and a upgraded weapon.
What i hope you learn here is how to handle percentage based attacks, really sudden powerful attacks and again tactical teamwork. As a druid this place will also be your first real challenge as a healer.
Skill tips: Antidote, mother natures wrath, Mother natures fountain, mother natures protection, rock formation

Treasure Trove: Difficulty Nightmare
Requirements 13K+ HP, + Pet, Upgraded weapon and 2-4 Stated pieces of Gear.
Here you will learn about hidden monsters (assasins), how to handle patrolling monsters and how to manage removing buffs and debuffs. As a druid you will learn about timing and healing on the move and how to deal with laggy situations.
Skill tips: Remove Curse, Rock protection, Briar entwinment, Earth Pulse, Sandstorm

Section 4b: Your essentials
I hope you have noticed by now that your bread and butter healing skills are Recover and Monther natures fountain and I hope that you have learned to control Mother natures fountain properly (please see My strategic healing guide).

I hope your mixing in Restore life to restore natures power while the Recover regen is ticking. Don’t forget you can also cast Binding silence and Curing seed to additionally restore natures power!.. DO IT!

Although Mother natures wrath seems really expensive it’s actually a great spell to mix into your rotation if your a D/M or D/R, try experimenting with your DPS and mixing it in.

I hope these four instances have allowed you to explore your various skills in multiple situations, druids are a very dynamic class and have a wide array of option availible to their play style. I haven’t even touched elite skills yet.

Section 5: Lvl 55+ Gear (generally speaking)
Alright so you made it, level 55 thats hot! This is where you will really discover if your a casual player or a hard-core player because this is where your level doesn’t matter so much but rather your skill with your class and ofcourse the gear you have. In particular your gear will start costing you alot of money (rom Gold) i hope your ready for this.

Generally as a druid you will always seek healing gear regardless of your sub-class. The main thing you should be looking for are pieces of gear that provide you with "Healing Point Bonus". At level 55 the most notable set is the Holy Source set from the instances Zuridon Stronghold and Hall of the Demon Lord. At level 60 for example you may be seeking the Tribute set from Rhaska Temple. This holy source or Tribute set mixes great with the Mother tree set from the instance origin. Mixing the Holy source / Tribute set with the Mother tree set is an AMAZING start and will last you a long time. 

You will want:
Tribute / Holy source Head piece
Tribute / Holy Source Shoulders
Tribute / Holy Source Boots
Mother Tree Chest Piece
Mother Tree Belt

Every Druid should at least try to get these five pieces first before venturing onto other pieces of gear and/or 
experimenting with other combination.

There are other various pieces of gear that can be obtained from Various Black Codex seller all across the game and an easy way to get the currency for these guys (ancient mementos) are from Timed events that take place in thunderhoof hills and Janost Forest. Please find other events or memento guides written by others as this is not the focus of this Guide.

Section 6: Druid Sub-classes and General equipment guidelines with a particular note on the Vahtos set
Druid is the most dynamic class in this game and your sub-class greatly varies how you play. So please do not label or stereotype the Druid/X class. Allow me to Define the Druid as I see them, I have at least played every druid sub-class up to and past lvl 55 and brought them all into ZS/DL instances at least. Keep in mind my suggestions are just that suggestions not a rule, please feel free to play your druid as you please.

The Pure Healing Druids:

Druid/Scout: This Druid is the best class in the game for Single target healing, with four regenerate spells it is 
unmatched for Patch healing and spot healing. Gearing with the Druid/scout is easy because all you need to focus on is maximizing your healing ability (Healing point bonus, Magical Damage and Wisdom) and survivability (HP, Stamina, Physical Defence).

Druid/Warrior: This druid is the best group healing druid, with two-instant cast group heal spells this druid can match a priest in it’s group healing ability with even finer stability and control. You can gear the Druid/warrior similar to the Druid/scout but somewhere you will need to get gear that increases your Physical accuracy or stats that improve your dexterity since Rage (warrior energy) only gets generated when you hit a enemy, if you are always missing you won’t have any rage. Also the Druid/warrior has to be in melee range of enemies this increases your danger factor so as a D/W you should go a bit heavier on Survivability than the Druid/Scout.

The Hybrid Druids:

Druid/Mage: This druid is a perfect mix of Magical Damage and healing at the same time. A great addition to any party when just a bit of DPS and/or heals are needed, A real thing of beauty in the hands of the master. Seek out the main five pieces of healing gear i said earlier but after that you can mix up mage or more healing pieces if you want. Stating the D/M is tricky business try to achieve a stating ratio of something like 3:2:1 Mage:healing:surviving.

Druid/Warden: This druid is a mix of Physical Damage and Healing at the same time. A great tank support class where you can get up into the enemies face with your tank and keep both of you up with ease. Another very tricky class to equip, seek out the main five pieces of healing gear i suggested after that you can mix physical DPS gear with Healing gear as you wish. In terms of stating never use any stats that have Strength on them (the druid simply does not benefit from Strength) try to get a statting ratio like 3:2:1 Physical DPS:Healing:Surviving.

The Damage Druid:

Druid/Rogue: This Druid specializes in the dark arts and although it retains all of it natural healing abilities it has the choice to greatly increases its damage output at the cost of reducing its healing powers. A truly competitive magical DPS class. As i mentioned before all druids will seek out healing gear which also applies to D/R however the D/R should Stat like a Mage building up intelligence and magical attack. If you need more info please seek out a good mage and ask them how they are statting up.

Using a Vahtos set: The Vahtos set is a very old set from Chapter 1 but it is still around and used widely because it’s fifth piece set bonus is a 15% increases to magical Power. So the majority of Magical damage dealers use this set. However for healing it’s a bit more unclear if a druid should use this. Later in this guide i explain the healing formula and show you why and where you should use this set but for the moment.

Druid/Scout, Druid/Mage and Druid/Rogue should always be using the Vahtos set. WHile Druid/Warrior should be using healing accessories and Druid/Warden can almost use any accessories it wants.

Section 7: What you need to survive in endgame play
This section im going to go briefly over what i think is the minimum requirements in terms of HP and Healing power for you to get into an instance and do well. When i state these numbers this can be in a buffed state. I don’t care so much about your unbuffed state because the truth is when your running an instance with your guild it is adviseable for you to make use of every helping tool you have.

For damage dealing druids please compare your Patk or Matk and Pdmg or Mdmg numbers to typical DPS classes and you should have at least 85% of their numbers to be effective in that instance.

For you hybrid druids your requirements are always a bit harder because your statting and gearing for both but in effect try to have at least 85% of the typical DPS requirements numbers and at least 85% of the healing numbers i am about to describe.

Note: the number im going to describe below is assuming your NOT the only healer in the party. In a 6-person raid it’s always a good idea to pair up with a priest. In a 12-person raid i have seen as much as 4 active healers.

Instances: Default instance difficulty is Normal; my rated difficulty is how hard i think that place is for a druid.

HOTO (heart of the ocean): Difficulty Nightmare
Hp: 12K Hp or higher.
Healing power: Recover needs to be doing at least 7K burst heal and 1K regen.
Lesson: Explosive worms

Origin: Difficulty Fairly easy
Hp: 16K HP or Higher.
Healing power: Recover needs to burst for at least 9.5K and regen for about 1.5K
Lesson: Getting lost and finding your way, Origin is BIG!

HOS (hall of survivors): Difficulty Very hard
HP: 20K HP or higher
Healing Power: recover must burst for at least 10K and regen more than 1.5K
Lesson: Crowd Control

LODD (Lair of the Demon Dragon): Difficulty Medium
HP: 17K HP or Higher
Healing Power: Recover burst 9K and regen 1.4K
Lesson: Sometimes Healers might need to tank

COTWD (Cave of the Water Dragon): Difficulty Hard
HP: 20K HP or Higher
Healing Power: Recover burst 15K and regen 2.5K
Lesson: Vary your attacks and anticipate monsters that explode.

ZS (Zuridon Stronghold): Difficulty Medium
HP: 21K Hp or higher
Healing Power: Recover must burst for at least 12K and regen more than 2K
Lesson: Don’t Leeroy or things go BOOM!

DL (Hall of the Demon Lord): Difficulty Hard (and buggy)
HP: 24K Hp or higher
Healing Power: Recover must burst for at least 15K and Regen about 3k.
Lesson: Sometimes losing is winning! 

DoD (Dungeon of Dalanis): Difficulty Easy
HP: 22K Hp or Higher
Healing Power: Recover must burst for abourt 18K and Regen for about 3.5K
Lesson: None

WA (Warnoken Arena): Difficulty Medium
Hp: 30K Hp or Higher
Healing Power: Recover must burst for about 20K and regen for about 4K
Lesson: Grouping and Scattering at the right time

RT (Rhashaka Temple): Difficulty Hard
HP: 42K Hp or Higher (really im not kidding)
Healing Power: Recover must burst for about 23K and regen for about 4.5K
Lesson: Mastering Kite-healing

Section 8: The ideal six!
In this section i will give you my recommendations for what 6-stats to seek out to try and put on each piece of gear you have. These recommendations will be generic I won’t be naming specific stats.

Tempting stats that should be avoided, Anything with +MP (ex. Wing of improsonment +57Stam/+365 MP) and anything with +Mdef (ex. Armor VII +41stam/+120Mdef)

Druid/Scout: Pure healing druid
#1 Wisdom/Stamina (ex. Frost of imprisonment +57Wis/+57Stam)
#2 Wisdom/HP (ex. Secret of imprisonment +57Wis/+365Hp)
#3 Wisdom/Pdef (ex. Spirit of Competition +66Wis/+444Pdef)
#4 Stamina/HP (ex. Guard VII)
#5 Stamina/Pdef (ex. Pioneer VII)
#6 Another Wisdom/Stamina of lower level (ex. Frost of Fear +54wis/+54Stam)

Druid/Warrior: Pure healing Druid
You can follow the same statting guidelines as the Druid/scout but you should have some pieces of gear that contain these following stats as they will help your accuracy.
#1 Dex/Stam
#2 Dex/HP
#3 Dex/Pdef
#4 Wis/Dex

Druid/Rogue: Pure magical Damage Druid
Well you will be statting totally like a mage so your ideal six stats might look something like this.
#1 Int/Matk
#2 Int/Stam
#3 Int/HP
#4 Wis/Matk
#5 Wis/int
#6 Int/Pdef

Druid/Mage: Hybrid Heals and Magical Damage
You will be stating like a mix between the D/S and the D/R, so your ideal six might look like this.
#1 Int/matk
#2 Int/Stam
#3 Int/Hp
#4 Wis/Stam
#5 Wis/Matk
#6 Wis/HP

Druid/Warden: Hybrid Heals and Physical Damage
this is definetly the most complicated Druid to stat up because it needs a bit of everything except int and Str. Your ideal stats might go something like this.
#1 Wis/Stam
#2 Wis/Pdef
#3 Wis/HP
#4 Wis/Patk
#5 Wis/Dex (I haven’t seen any of these past Hoto)
#6 Stam/HP
#7 Stam/Pdef
#8 Stam/patk (Highly desired stat, be prepared to argue against everybody for this stat)
#9 Dex/Patk (another Highly Desired Stat, Ugh!)
#10 Dex/Stam
#11 Dex/Pdef
#12 Dex/Hp
#13 Patk/Pdef

Section 9: A Healing formula

In this section i will present a healing formula which i hope will give you an understanding of how healing gets 
calculated in this game and if your on the bleeding edge of the game as i am how you can stay ahead of the crowd with this knowledge.

Assumption #1: Please note the section of the title says "A healing formula" The formula i am about to present to you is a formula which i use to predict my heals +/- 10% compared to what i actually get. So what does this mean? Well it means my healing formula is wrong and it is not "The ROM Healing formula" but my formula is good enough in my opinion, this is just a game, im not launching a satelite into orbit so perfect accuracy is not important.

Assumption #2: This derived formula is currently active for Chapter 3 of this game. The healing formula was different in chapter 2 and it may be different in chapter 4 but for now this formula works.

Variables:
Hp = The HP you heal on your target
HM = Healing Multiplier (this variable alone is a complicated subject, more on this alter)
Mdmg = Your total Magical Damage, see your character screen, 95-100% of your Mdmg will come from your Weapon
Wis = Your Total Wisdom taken directly from the character screen.
HPB = Healing Point Bonus, a stat you get from pieces of gear and gear set bonuses
HV = Healing value taken directly from the tool-tip on your character skills menu
# ticks = the amount of times a healing spell hits your target, burst heals are always 1 tick , while regens can range from anywhere to 4 – 20 ticks.

So here we go!

HP = {HM * (Mdmg/2 + 3Wis/10 + HV + HPB)} / # ticks

Understanding this formula: If your decently comfortable with mathematics you should instantly see that Wisdom is the smallest contributor to your heals, while HV & HPB are the biggest contributors while Mdmg is somewhere in the middle. Therefore if your looking to maximize your heals always try to boost HV or HPB first before bettering your wisdom or Magical Damage.

However just because HPB and HV are the best things to raise it doesn’t nessisarily mean they are the most availible things to get. At early end-game you probably have not maxed your healing skills because the Talent point cost scales exponentially and they get very expensive, still try to max these skills first; Currently in the game the only place you can get HPB is from healing gear and sets. Your Mdmg comes from your weapon and theoretically there is no limit on how good your weapon can get but the limiting factor is your bank roll and how much money you can shove into your weapon. Typically there is a sweet spot for weapons and this is called Tier 8 (please find another guide on tiering, not the focus of this guide). Wisdom being the weakest factor is also one of the most availible thing to aquire and it is usually wisdom that seperates Best from healer from second best healer, because eventually all healers will have the same HPB, HV and a tier 8 Weapon, so the only thing thats left is wisdom. Ofcourse one could argue that wisdom does you no good if your dead. So balancing wisdom are survivability is an interesting game.

Section 9b: The Healing Multiplier

The healing multiplier is a compound variable that includes any skill or buff that boosts your healing by a percent. Interestingly some of these percentage boosts multiply with each other and some other dont. Unfortunately i don’t have a list of which ones do and which ones don’t (this unknown factor may contribute to my +/- 10% error). I will give a few examples to show what i mean.

Healing Multiplier Variables:

CT = Casting Time, the default casting time of your spell (typically a 1, 2 or 3)
PDHB = Priest or Druid innate healing boost (Faith or pure healing, they max at 35% on either class, makes this 
variable 1.35 at level 50)
ES# = Elite skills that may contribute to the healing multiplier (ex. Divine incarnation (1.15), Summers banquet 1.05, Grace of the forest 1.03 * 1.03 etc.)
FB# = Food buffs that can contribute to your healing bonus (ex. Fresh fish soup 1.05 or Garlic bread 1.05)
Other boosts = like the vahtos set 1.15, like the dragon set 1.06 etc.. Like the eye of wisdom set 1.10

So the formula
HM = CT */+ PDHB */+ [ES1 + ES2 + ES3 + ....] +/* [FB1 + FB2 + FB3 + ...] */+ Others

Yeah i know it’s dirty and unclear but honestly it’s the best i got… Let me give you an example of the multiplier my Restore life spell gets under full buffage.

HM = 2 (CT) * 1.35 (Pure healing) * 1.05 (Fish soup) * 1.05 (Garlic bread) + 1.15 (Vahtos) = 3.423

So as you can see the HM goes a long way to boosting your healing spells. I hope this section was helpful.

Section 10: Pro Druid tricks!

Spiritual Guidance: This spell converts enemies (that can be stuned or rooted) to your side for 15 seconds and it has proven to be SUPER useful in many particular circumstances. Let me share my experience with you here. This spell IMO has been over-powered in some places.

– this spell is usually used to kill of single enemies in a large patrol of monster or stand still group. Places where this works really well is in HOS, ZS and RT. Try it!

– Take your guidance to the next level! Sometimes bosses summon enemies to help them and these monster sometimes have really devastating attacks or spells, MAKE them YOURS!. Places where this works so well is HOS 5th, ZS 1st and 3rd, DL 2nd, RT 1st and 6th … Seriously think about it!

– Boosting Party DPS .. I strongly suggest you include Withering seed or weakening seed into your casting rotation as these reduce defence by 10%, this may not sound like much but it really helps out your Tank and DPS classes. 

– Squeezing Natures power: I also suggest you include Binding silence into your casting rotation, not only does this help your Natures power generation but it also prevents boss super attacks and sometimes even breaks bosses so they cease doing special attack entirely.

– Boosting Tank Aggro: Always cast Body vitalization at the beginning of each fight this will help your tank get additional aggro at the start. Trust me it makes a difference if your running with a powerful DPS class that is chasing the tail-end of your Tanks Aggro.

Section 11: Elite Macros that Speed things up

Bypass Targetting of Healing arrows and similar spells. Really useful and speeds up your reaction time.

/script CastSpellByName("Healing Arrows")
/wait 0.025
/script CastSpellByName("Healing Arrows")
/script SpellTargetUnit()

note* you can change the spell name to any spell that uses that type of targetting. I also use it for Cleanse and my mage friends use it for thunderstorm.

Self-targeting Mother natures Fountain.

/script TargetUnit("player")
/cast Mother Earth’s Fountain

note* i also use this type of macro for Mother earth protection. To save my butt in Siege.

Swaps equipmen to save yourself dura loss on death

/run SwapEquipmentItem()

Swap to Madrush siege title and cast’s it, switch to escape artist title and pop’s a Spellweaver potion RESULT: run really really fast… I call this macro ESCAPE

/run SetTitleRequest(530459)
/wait 1
/cast Mad Rush
/run SetTitleRequest(530427)
/wait 1
/use Spellweaver Potion

Anyways that’s all the goodies that i really loved.. There are other macro’s i use also but they are generic and can be reaserched elsewhere.

Section 12: Conclusions

Thank you for taking the time to read this guide. It doesn’t contain everything ofcourse and will eventually become outdated im sure but this guide should provide you enough information to become an excellent druid. I also must bid you all farewell as i have more or less moved on to another MMO. I will come back and investigate the Chapter four content when it comes out but for the moment I am not playing this game. Xerise has been maxxed out on her gear for several months and there is nothing left for me to get for the current content (March 22 2011). 

In case your wondering… I left the game with 15013 Wisdom… 84K Hp, 68K Pdef under my normal instance running buffs (Fully buffed i had something like 109K hp but rarely ran with that) and managed to be the solo-healer for all the game content RT diamond and KT (hardest at the time).. I truely and full-heartly welcome my successor.

Credits go to  Xerise’s.

*NOTE* There’s a TP reset available at level 30. So feel free to invest points in whatever until then.

Cooldowns, uptime, downtime coming! Busy with school, sorry!

General Skills
Holy Strike 
Causes 25.0% of the main hand weapon’s damage to target and adds Light Seal that last 10 seconds. (Each level will increase aggro)

Early game this skill is great for damage, and later on, great for aggro. One downside is that spamming it will destroy your mana-pool. For this reason, some say to keep it underleveled, but i have mine maxed. Patch 1806 states that aggro is 5x damage dealt.

Punishment
Cause 16.4 holy damage and activate Light Seals on the target. Each Light Seal causes 23.0 physical damage.

Again, early on this makes for great damage, but doesn’t do as well later. The additional damage from multiple light seals are arguably not great, though with current aggro issues, damage may be the best way to draw aggro. Post lvl 30, I would say scrap it. (i’m not there yet, though)

Disarmament
Causes 39.2% of the main hand weapon’s damage to the target and reduces target’s armor value by 3.0% for 10.0 seconds. Can be stacked 4 times.

So, the description doesn’t show it, but the debuff is actually increased with every level. In addition, so is manacost. Some say leave it at 0 for DPS, some say buff it instead of HS, I say that it’s a nice skill to have either way, low for cheap DPS, and high for nice armor debuff.

Shield of Atonement
Attacks target with a shield, causing 24.6 physical damage. Also prevents enemies from using physical and common attacks for 3 seconds. (Shield must be equipped.)

Again, I’d use this for the stun rather than damage, and 3 seconds is still static. Useful, but not high-importance for upgrading.

Enhanced Armor
Increases armor stats by 4.0% for 300.0 seconds.

This should be fairly obvious to upgrade. 

Defense Skill
Increases block rate by 9.5%.

Get it. This apparently increases block rate regardless of whether you have a shield or not, so even for your 2H/DWer’s, this is a must get.

Resilience
Increases stamina by 9.0 points.

Depending on how it scales, it may be wise to invest in. If strapped for TP, I personally prefer Defense Skill, but either (and both) will help greatly with tanking. 

Devotion
Increases maximum mana by 15.0 points.

Nice to have, but if you’re short on TP (and you will be), consider other options. You always have potions or… well, you can get deal with mana shortages.

Specific Skills
Holy shield 
For 8.0 seconds, every party member within range receives a shield which can block all physical damage.

Great skill, this can get you out of a pinch. Keep in mind the 10 min cooldown, though.

Mana Absorption 
Activate the holy seals on the target, regains 45.0 points of mana. (Target need to have 3 holy seals stacked)

This is a great skill, it keeps Knights from being too potion-dependent. If you’re a heavy solo-er/DW’r, this is alright, but keep in mind that Threaten takes holy seals, too. Post lvl 30, Threaten may be of more importance.

Holy Seal 
Attaches holy powers on to your weapon causing holy damage when the weapon is used, and adds a chance to attach a holy seal on target. (maximum of 3 Holy Seals)

Keep this on you at all times. It’s manacost isn’t too taxing, and triggers both Mana Absorption and Threaten.

Shield Bash 
Causes 20.0% of the main hand weapon’s damage to all enemies within range. (Extra aggro will be adjusted with power level. Must have shield equipped.)

The Knight’s one and only AoE attack, and mediocre to start. It’s only redeeming feature is it’s aggro, which, unfortunately, is very important. I’d level this up, but not at all for damage. Patch 1806 states that aggro is 10x damage dealt.

Chain of Light R1 
Emanate a chain of light, locking an enemy for 6.0 seconds.

A 6 second hold is nice for those pesky mages and scouts. This keeps them in your melee pain radius.

Resolution
Increases maximum HP by 270.0 for 60.0 seconds.

More HP = Less dying. ‘Nuff said. Yes, the tooltip is wrong, it’s a straight increase, not percentage. That’d be a bit OP now, wouldn’t it?.

Charge
Charges toward the target causing 9.8% points of physical damage and adds 1.9 seconds of dizzy effect.

Adds a nice weapon to your arsenal of stuns and whatnot. Getting it is not really effective for tanking or drawing aggro, but it stun duration lengthens as you invest. Low priority, but still one, i’d say.

Threaten
Activate the Holy Seals on target causing self aggro to increase by 16.0% for 8 seconds. (Target must have 3 Holy Seals stacked)

Aggro is important if you’re group tank, but otherwise not that important. Also, since it’s only single-target aggro and requires Holy Seals (which you can only obtain through repeated attack), it’ll only really be useful on bosses.

Shield Mastery
Increases shield’s armor stats by 4.0%

Upgrading this could be important, but depending on how it scales (or if you’re even using a shield…), it may not be as important as your general skills.

Plate ability 
Can equip plate armor

Here’s the good stuff. Knights get their own armor class, and to top it off, it’s better than any other. woot woot!

Shield of Valor (?) 
Injects light power into a shield, resisting up to 4.8% of physical attacks for 15.0 seconds. (Shield must be equipped.)

So many skills, so little TP. I’d say get this, but there are other skills that you need. So i guess don’t get it.

Shield of Truth (?) 
Injecting light power into a shield that prevents dizzy, sleep, and dazed effects for 15.0 seconds. (Shield must be equipped.)

Meh. It can do well, but honestly, TP is gets pretty short. I’d settle for 15 seconds, and invest in more health/defense.

Shock (?) 
Causes 39.3 holy damage and activate Light Seals on the target. Each Light Seal causes a 1.0 second stun effect.

4 Light Seals = 4 second stun. Not bad, but there’s a 30 second cooldown. Choose this or punishment (or neither, i guess), but you can’t have both. 

Chain of Light R2 
Create a chain of light, trapping two enemies for 6.0 seconds. Requires Charge +20.

Now you can hold TWO pesky mages and scouts. Joy oh joy.

Hatred Strike
All aggro will increase by 9.0% for 15.0 seconds.

Again, this is a tanker’s skill, but if you’re going PvP, this is practically (entirely) useless.

Shield of Discipline (?) 
Injects holy power into a shield, absorb up to 4.0% magical damage within 30 seconds and causes 100 points of holy damage to attackers. (Shield must be equipped.)

I don’t know exactly how this works, but a return damage buff sounds awefully nice. I hear that later bosses become immune to holy damage. If that’s true then this return buff, well, isn’t.

Chain of Light R3 
Create a chain of light, trapping three enemies for 6.0 seconds. Requires Charge +30.

By now, you can hold a handful of monsters/people/whatever you need to hold. Just make sure to get Charge +30.

Hall of Dead Heroes (?) 
If you die, teammates in range will recieve a 30 second effect that resists up to 800 damage and increases movement speed by 10%. Effect lasts for 10 minutes.

Debatable skill to improve. Ideally, you’re not going to die, but if you do, it’s a nice buff to see your buddies through the battle. I’d level it a bit, just to get on their good side.

In Summary
PvP/Solo PvE 
Enhanced Armor
Defense Skill
Shield Mastery
Resolution
Resilience
Shock

Group PvP 
Enhanced Armor
Defense Skill
Resolution
Shield Bash
Threaten
Hatred Strike

Secondary Class Notes

K/R - My personal favorite, currently what i’m playing. Adds a bit of health and damage, but most importantly, dodge. Blind Stab (lowers target’s accuracy) + Agile keep you from getting hit, and some random skills here and there can help, too, like Shadowstep. The only downside i see is that dual wield is kinda wasted on Knight; I’d imagine a shield is staple equipment.

K/W - The "ultimate melee fighter." Warrior adds extra attack, and the use of an axe. If you’re looking at K/W, you’re looking at lots of HP, lots of strength, but that’s about it. I feel it’s fairly straightforward, just hack ‘n’ slash.

K/M - An odd build, to say the least. Mage adds a bit of ranged DPS (at expense of mana), a silence, and.. well, that’s about it. If you’re K/M, i’d suggest going M/K, as the Mage gets much more from Knight than vice versa. IMHO, of course.

K/P - the "cleric." All the WoW pally fanatics will probably choose this build, and fortunately, it’ll be alright. Priest’s Holy Aura will give you another 5 seconds of invulnerability, which is nice, to say the least. On the down-side, Priests use mana, so any Priest spells are at the expense of Knight spells, which reduces its usefulness.

K/S - I was considering this for a while, but I don’t really know why. Scouts have, like rouges, Agility bonuses and a decrease accuracy debuff, but aren’t terribly useful. Perhaps the arsenal of debuffs that they can unleash on their foes make K/S valid, but i feel like a secondary class could be put to better use.

Credits go to limaster08.

1. Abbreviations
2. Tanking Background
3. Gear
4. Accessory Sets
5. Instance Requirements
6. Stats
7. Runes
8. Aggro / Skil Rotation
9. Skills
10. Sword and Board or 2H
11. Other Tips

1. Abbreviations: 

a. Pdef = Physical Defense
b. Mdef = Magical Defense
c. HS = Holy Strike
d. WWS = Whirlwind Sheild
e. CS = Cash Shop
f. Clops = Cyclops 
g. IMO = In my opinion
h. ZS = Zuridohn Stronghold
i. HoDL = Hall of the Demon Lord
j. HP = Hit Points
k. DPS = Damage Per Second
l. CC = Crowd Control
m. AoE = Area of Effect
n. CD = Cool down (from skill)
o. TT = Treasure Trove
p. KS = Kalin Shrine
q. PAtk = Physical Attack
r. DoD = Dungeon of Dalanis
s. PAcc = Physical Accuracy
t. Ghost stats = Bonus / unnamed stats on a peice of gear

2. Tanking Background:

a. Basic Description: The tank is the person in the group who protects every one and keep’s the enemies focused on him / her troughout the entire group run. The Knight is provided certain special tools to make this happen.

b. Situational Awareness: it takes a special sense of foresight and being able to forecast the situation for what it is and what will happen. Being able to see the enemies’ movements and target adjustments beforehand is key to being succesful in tanking this game.

c. Objectives: You main objective as the tank is to ensure no one in your group dies and making sure the enemies are hitting you and not the group.

3. Gear:

a. The knight is the only class in RoM that can wear platemail. Platemail offers the highest Pdef values compared to every other armor categories. While you would want the highest Pdef you can attain, you also want class specific stats from plussing your gear with CS Jewels. Along with plussing gear, you should try to attain an overdura peice of gear and weapon, by doing so will boost that equipment by 20% base power. If you arent going to use CS Hammers, this is the best way to get good gear, if anything atleast your weapon. Along with gear are capes and wings. Capes and wings, just like gear should be statted the same. Another aspect of RoM are set bonuses, these set bonuses offer specific stat and skill bonuses for each partial / complete set. To offer the highest Pdef, set bonus and set skill bonus availible, I strongly suggest the folowing:

1. Plate helm (Plate set bonus)
2. Plate chest (Plate set bonus)
3. Plate gloves (Plate set bonus)
4. Chain belt (Gives Stamina when plussed)
5. Plate leggings (Plate set bonus)
6. Plate boots (Plate set bonus)

b. While leveling up in RoM, you will come across quest completion armor. This armor is more than enough to accomplish levleing and tanking in an instance at your perspective level. However I’ll will mention some Platemail armor set bonuses for your information. Furthermore, there are some sets in RoM which do not come from an instance, these sets do not give the HP bonus that the "real" sets give. Lastly when making set peices, you will find that the practice of going from one complete set to another maybe pricey. It is completly ok to mix / match set peices for different set bonuses untill you get the next complete or partial set. 

c. Clops set. This set is the hardest in the entire game to fully attain. While at a glance the set bonus is arguably the "best", it may not be the best, but it is still good untill later on in the game.

1. 2 peices = 10% Aggro
2. 4 peices = 10% Aggro, 100 Parry
3. 5 peices = 10% Aggro, 100 Parry, 10% Stamina
4. Ghost stats + set bonus: (1680 HP, 10% Aggro, 100 Parry, 10% Stam)

* Red Thunder Breastplate: 480 HP
* Red Thunder Helmet: 420 HP
* Red Thunder Leg Armor: 420 HP
* Red Thunder Spaulders: 360 HP

d. Black Triumphs Armor (Dragon Fang Ridge set)

1. 2 peices = 40 Stamina
2. 3 peices = 40 Stamina, 300 MP
3. 4 peices = 40 Stamina, 300 MP, 400 HP
4. Ghost stats + set bonus: (240 Stam, 2668 HP, 600 MP)

* Black Triumph Armor: 35 Stam, 672 HP
* Black Triumph Gloves: 25 Stam, 504 HP
* Black Tirumph Head Piece: 30 Stam, 588 HP
* Black Triumph Shoulders: 30 Stam, 504 HP

e. Lurker Armor: This set is from Origin, but its a small temporary set that you really dont need.

1. 2 peices = 240 Parry
2. Ghost stats + set bonus: (2457 HP, 42 Stam, 84 Dodge, 60 Damage, 3% Aggro, 528 Parry Rate)

* Colorful Lurker Armor: 936 HP, 84 Dodge, 144 Parry Rate
* Lurker Boots: 702 HP, 144 Parry Rate, 3% Aggro
* Lurker Helmet: 42 Stam, 819 HP, 60 Damage

f. Knight Scarlet set: (Dalanis Vendor) Willl post information as son as I find it.

g. Tiktaalik King (Heart of the Ocean) set. This set would be the next set after the clops set. This set may be mixed with some of the Clops set or Lyk set or both. 

1. 2 peices = 80 Stamina
2. 4 peices = 80 Stamina, 192 Parry
3. Ghost stats + set bonus: (3060 HP, 340 PAtk, 408 Parry Rate, 144 Stam, 45 Damage, 126 Dodge Rate)

* Tiktaalik King Body Armor Breastplate: 720 HP, 108 Parry Rate, 45 Damage
* Tiktaalik King Helmet: 32 Stam, 630 HP, 270 PAtk
* Tiktaalik Leg Armor: 630 HP, 270 PAtk, 63 Dodge Rate
* Tiktaalik Scale Gauntlet: 540 HP, 270 PAtk, 63 Dodge Rate
* Tiktaalik King Shoulder Gaurds: 32 Stam, 540 HP, 108 Parry Rate

h. Destruction Armor set (HoS). This set is a very good end game set, aswell as the next one. This set may be mixed with other sets just as the previous one, on a side note this complete set looks very nice too .

1. 3 peices = 80 Stamina, 80 Strength
2. 4 peices = 80 Stamina, 80 Strength, 384 Parry
3. Skill Set (5 peices): Lion King Battle Roar Knight (AoE+ Taunt)
4. Ghost stats + set bonus: (320 Stam, 5049 HP, 510 PAtk, 85 Damage, 80 Strength, 255 Parry Rate, 119 Dodge Rate)

* Destruction Battle Armor: 60 Stam, 1224 HP, 85 Damage
* Destruction Hand Protector: 918 HP, 510 PAtk, 85 Parry Rate
* Destruction Heavy Boots: 60 Stam, 918 HP, 85 Parry Rate
* Destruction Helmet: 60 Stam, 1071 HP, 85 Parry Rate, 
* Destruction Shoulder Armor: 60 Stam, 918 HP, 119 Dodge Rate

i. Knight Falcon set (ZS / HoDL)

1. 2 peices = 140 Stamina
2. 3 peices = 140 Stamina, 140 Dodge Rate, 240 Parry
3. SKill Set (4 peices): Full Moon Cleave Knight (AoE)

k. Beastman Set (RT)

1. 
4. Accessory Sets: When dealing with accessories, its important to note the bonuses you get from partial, or complete sets. While some may focus more on crit, damage, or PAtk, you may want to tailor your tank to either of those three main traits.

a. Heroic set: This set is usually the first set a melee character will get while completing quests in RoM. The necklace is at lvl 18, a ring at lvl 24, two earring one at lvl 30 and another at lvl 35, and a last ring at lvl 40.

1. 2 peices = 120 HP
2. 4 peices = 120 HP, 10 Damage
3. 5 peices = 120 HP, 10 Damage, 15% Crit Damage

b. Labyrinth Set(s) Unlike the lower level accessories, these accessories give ghost stats. I will identify these by (G).

1. Labyrinth Army Set = (3 peices = 144 Parry Rate), 720 PAtk, 252 Dodge Rate, 204 Parry Rate (total Ghost stats and set bonus)

a. Labyrinth Army Ring (G) 360 PAtk, 84 Dodge Rate
b. Labyrinth Army Earring (G) 360 PAtk, 84 Dodge Rate
c. Labyrinth Army Necklace (G) 84 Dodge Rate, 60 Parry Rate

2. Labyrinth Vitality Set = (3 peices = 144 Physical Critical Hit Rate), 1080 PAtk, 324 Physical Critical Hit Rate Rate (total Ghost stats and set bonus)

a. Labyrinth Vitality Ring (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Physical Critical Hit Rate
b. Labyrinth Vitality Earring (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Physical Critical Hit Rate
c. Labyrinth Vitality Necklace (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Physical Critical Hit Rate

3. Labyrinth of the Scorching Sun = (3 peices = 360 PAtk), 1440 PAtk, 180 Wisdom (total Ghost stats and set bonus)

a. Labyrinth Ring of the Scorching Sun (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Wisdom 
b. Labyrinth Earring of the Scorching Sun (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Wisdom
c. Labyrinth Necklace of the Scorching Sun (G) 360 PAtk, 60 Wisdom

5. HP/Patk/Tier requirements for instances: (Note, these numbers are generic and may be higher or lower than what you might have experienced, but these are the numbers myself and others have had with these instances)

(NOTE: You should have atleast 1.5 to 2 times Pdef as HP, Example: 10khp ~ 15kPdef+, 50khp ~ 75-80kPdef…) If your statting right, you should have that avg) 

a. HP:
Clops = 8-9kHP
KS = 9-10kHP
TT = 10-12kHP
IDK50 = 12-14KHP
HoTo = 15kHP
Origin = 20kHP Unbuffed
HoS = 25kHP+
DoD = 30kHP+
ZS = 35kHP+
HoDL = 40kHP 
WA = 55kHP+
RT = 55-60+

b. PAtk:
Clops = 1.5-2k
KS = 2k
TT = 2k.5+
IDK50 = 2.5 – 3k+
HoTo = 4k+
Origin = 4k
HoS = 5k+
DoD = 8-9k+
ZS = 10-14k
HoDL = 10-14k+
WA = 15-20+
RT= 21+

c. Weapon tier:
Clops = 6-7
KS = Same as clops
TT = T7
IDK50 = T7
HoTo = 7-8
Origin = 7-8
HoS = 8-9
DoD = 8-9
ZS = 9
HoDL = 9
WA = 9
RT = 9-10

d. Shield tier:
Clops = T3
KS = T3/4
TT = T4
IDK50 = T4
HoTo = T4/5
Origin = T4/5
HoS = T6
ZS = T6
HoDL = T6
DoD = T6
ZS = T6
HoDL = T6
WA = T6
RT = T6

e. Pdef (If any one can remember these numbers?, or if you are tanking it now, what would u say these numbers are?)
Clops = 
KS = 
TT = 
IDK50 = 
HoTo = 
Origin = 
HoS =
ZS = 
HoDL = 
DoD = 
ZS = 
HoDL = 
WA = 75-80k
RT = 118k

* WWS is based off of Mainhand Weapon DPS AND Sheild tier, so naturally the higher tier of both would be best.*

6. Stats:

a. Every class in RoM receives a class specific set of attributes per stat. While every class does not get the same from Stamina and Strenght for example, they will benifit from other stats. Knights however gain the most HP and Pdef per Stamina over every other class. You get a total of 6 stats per peice of gear, I suggest you use those 6 stats as wise as you can. 

b. Most end game players have a certain ratio for statting their gear. They pick the best two stats for thier class and outline a ratio for their gear. As knights we must be able to take all the hits the enemies deal to us, and keep aggro. In order to take the hits, we must stat with stamina and to keep the aggro, we must use strenght. Stamina and Strenght are our main stats (NOT HP, but Stam). I suggest a ratio of 4 Stamina:2 Strenght per peice of gear. Some of the lower instance gear (Clops) will come with stats already on it. This is what we call dirties. It is best to have clean peice of gear to use all 6 stat slots, but if not, just go with 3 Stam:2 Strenght ratio.

c. See the following link for information on stats: http://www.theromwiki.com/Attributes; and the following link for help on statting: http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=18268.

d. An example of the ratio would be:

1. Plate helm
Stamina
Stamina
Stamina
Stamina
Strenght
PAtk stat

2. However, when you progress further enough to start aquiring Yellow stats it is very important that you still maintain a set ratio and visualize the secondary stat on the yellow as a useable added bonus (anything for melee in general). Example (HoTo Stats):

Plate helm:
Armor (Stam/Mdef)
Pioneer (Stam/Pdef)
Repentance (Stam/Wis)*May substitute for Stam XI or better due to rarity of preist stats*
Fright (Stam/Dex) (May use Stam/HP too, as Dex is mainly for leather wearers.)
Razor (Str/Patk) (Main Threat stat)
Ravage (Str/Dex) (A better one, in terms of Pa is Dex/Pa, but thats mainly a leather wearers stat, but good communication counts when rolling)

*Wisdom is great for Mana and Mdef, Dexterity is great for PAcc and Dodge rate.

7. Runes: 

a. As a rule of thumb, I treat runes as part of my gear, likewise I keep a certain ratio for them. With all the great runes for gear, I tend to have a few favorites that I will break down between CS and Non-CS.

1. (Non CS) Aggression (Str/Patk) 
2. (CS) Block (Stam/Pdef) Or (Non CS) Attonement (HP/Stam)
3. (Non CS) Guts (Stam/Wis)
4. (Non CS) Potential (All Stats)

b. Some good runes for your weapon are as follows:

1. (Non CS) Hatred (Aggro increase)
2. (Non CS) Aggression (Str/Patk)
3. (Non CS) Revolution (Patk/Dex)
4. (Non CS) Fatil (Crit increase) Or
5. (Non CS) Agile (Str/Dex) Or
6. (Non CS) Might (Str/Stam)

*Wisdom is great for Mana and Mdef, Dexterity is great for PAcc and Dodge rate.

c. While your starting to tank and level in RoM you will acquire T3 runes, these are very acceptable pre-end game runes to use on your gear. T3 runes are very good, however once you reach end game content you might start to use T5 runes on your gear. See the following link for rune information: http://www.theromwiki.com/Transmutation_Chart

8. Aggro / Skill Rotation: 

a. Knights are the only class in RoM that is provided Aggro generating skills. Aggro is basically the enemies hate on you. It is not a taunt and it is not DPS. It is however based on your Mainhand DPS as a knight. Our aggro skills greatly outwiegh any non aggro DPS from the DPS’ers in your group in terms of hate if used correctly. In any MMO, the enemies will hate / focus their damage towards whoever has more aggro in the group. Every tank is provided the necassary skills to get and keep aggro over the group, again, if used correctly.

b. In RoM, the enemies are usaully grouped up into 2, 3, 4, 5, even 6 per group in instances. The safest way to engage the groups of enemies is to pull a specific single one. In any MMO, the person who comes in first contact the a mob of enemies is the one who has initial aggro by default. Therfore, the knight should pull the enemy if able. The initial pull has a very low aggro level on the entire mob, but it is thier first target, untill some one else AoE’s or gains aggro by striking them. While some pulls require CC, you dont need CC on every pull. Once the tank pulls, the tank should AoE to gain aggro on the whole mob once their all in range. The tank will have ease in keeping aggro with the "Main Tank" or "Raid Focus" feature (This can be activated by right clicking on the tanks picture and using the given features), this will ensure your group is targetting the enemy you are targetting, so you will not "loose" aggro to the DPS in the group.

c. Once you engage a group of enemies, you MUST AoE (Only if there not gonna be CC’d) and focus on the single one that the group deems to die first. Some groups engage in a specific kill order, IE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc (Numbering can be done by right clicking the target(s) and using the numbering system). This kill order will be used by the entire group so no one will cross target or break a CC or take aggro from the tank. Kill orders are VERY usefull in some instances. Once youre focusing on the first one to kill, and the mob engages the group, you AoE and begin striking that target, then move to the next one after the first one dies.

d. Skill rotation. While there is no situation the exact same as the last, for the most part. There is no perfect rotation of skills, there may be a situation where you must AoE, or not AoE, or choose between Threaten and Mana Return. No one else will watch for the mobs’ movement, threat or watch for incoming mobs like the tank. It is your job to react in every situation to keep every one alive and keep aggro on the mobs. That being said, a generic skill rotation, at best would be the following: (this is only for 1 boss which will remain stationary for the whole fight with no adds being spawned)

1. Pull with Shock or Charge, which ever one seems best at that time.
2. Hatred Strike
3. WWS
4. HS Spam x3-5
5. Threaten (there will be 3+ seals on the target, and WWS will be off of CD)
6. WWS
7. HS Spam
8. Mana Return
9. Threaten
10. Repeat from step 3

*Rotate Mana Return and Threaten as needed, also use your Phirus potions and Mana potions.
* Rotate Disarmament into the rotation, this will put a 12% Pdef debuff on the target.

9. Sword and Board or 2H?

a. 1H Sword and Board (Shield) is best to start tanking with, you can use this setup in every sittuation. The Sword and Board setup is the best setup for full spectrum tanking, as in AoE control. This is however not the best setup for full potential aggro, as 2H are generally Higher DPS (Higher Aggro) than 1H. 

b. 2H weapons are the best for full potential aggro tanking. This is however not suited for AoE control, only for single target tanking. Use a 2H for single target tanking where there is no mobs or adds, only one target.

c. Some people use macro’s to switch between 1H Sword / Sheild and 2H, I however do not. This can be done manually as well. I am not against or for the use of macro’s, if you do or do not use it, just make sure you get the job done. 

10. Skills:

Main Aggro Skills

a. Holy strike: This skill is one of your main tanking skills, this is fully spammable and is key while WWS is on CD. This skill has a direct aggro multiplier of x5 the damage you deal on HS. *Upgradeable*

b. WWS: This skill is your main AoE aggro skill, another main skill. It has a 5 second CD, but it has a direct aggro multiplier of x10 the damage your WWS skill does. (Note: This skill’s power is based from your Mainhand DPS AND Sheild Tier) *Upgradeable*

c. Hatred strike: This skill is your initial aggro bosst skill. When you engage the mobs or boss, you use this skill with WWS and HS spam for the highest aggro you can attain. It has a CD of 1 minute. *Upgradeable*

d. Threaten: This skill boosts your aggro while your attacking the enemy or enemies. This skill lasts 8 seconds and is only usable with 3 Holy seals on the target. *Upgradeable*

Main Defensive / Mitigating Skills

e. Enhanced Armor: This buff gives your platemail a Pdef buff. It is needed to "take the hits" as the tank. *Upgradeable*

f. Defensive Technique: This skill is a good complement to Enhanced Armor, it lets you parry at a certain rate.
*Upgradeable*

g. Holy Sheild: This will protect you and all your party members in range from physical damage for 5 seconds.

h. Resolution: This will increase your HP for 60 seconds, has a 60 second CD. *Upgradeable*

i. Sheild of Valor: This skill will increase your Pdef for 30 seconds. *Upgradeable*

j. Sheild of Discipline: This skill will abosrb a certain percentage of magical attacks on you and deals 100 damage back to the attacker for 30 seconds. This is most useful in PvP moreso than PvE. *Upgradeable*

Semi DPS Skills

k. Punishment: This skill is not related to any aggro you must produce as a tank. It is purely DPS. *Upgradeable*

l. Disarmament: This skill is not related to any aggro you must produce as a tank. It is purely DPS. But this skill is very usefull for tanking, moreso than Punishment. It stacks a Pdef Debuff on the target for 8 seconds, 3% Pdef debuff per stack, up to 4 stacks, for upto 12% pdef debuff for 8 seconds. *Upgradeable*

Main Utility Skills

m. Shield of Attonement: This will not interupt or stun a mob or boss in RoM, but is handy in PVP and PVE as it will prevent white/regular attacks. *Upgradeable*

n. Shackles of Light (Rank 1, Rank 2, Rank 3): This root your target(s) infront of you for upto 6 seconds. *Upgradeable with Charge*

o. Holy seal: This skill is a buff on you which adds very little DPS the the target but allows you to use the following skills:

1. Threaten
2. Mana Return
3. Shock (can use this on target without seals, but has a better effect with 3 seals on target)

p. Charge: This will stun your target infront of you for up to 3 seconds (6+ for mobs/bosses). *Upgradeable and upgrades Shackels of Light*

q. Sheild of Truth: This skill will immune you from a stun for 15 seconds. Most useful in PvP rather than PvE, in most casses.

r. Hall of Dead Hero’s: This skill will block a certain level of damage for the group and increases their movement speed by 10% for 30 seconds if any one die’s. A 10 minute buff on you.

s. Shock: This skill will interupt a skill and provide a small stun affect. The stun will last upto 3 seconds provided you have 3 seals on it, it stuns 1 second per seal. *Upgradeable (the damage affect, not the stun duration)*

t. Mana Return: This will replenish a potion of your used mana. *Upgradeable*

Passive Utility Skills (No activation needed)

u. Resilience: This will upgrade your Stamina. *Upgradeable*

v. Devotion: This will increase your mana. *Upgradeable*

w. Plate Ability: At level 24, this skill will let you wear platemail.

11. Other Tips:

a. Phirus potions: Play the Malatina game (Survival Game), located in Logar for a chance to win phirus potions. These potions are great and act as an upgraded HP and Mana potion.

b. Addons:

1. NTBuff: This will automatically use a HP or MP potion at a certain percentage without pressing the potion box.http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-a…ls/ntbuff.aspx (Not sure if working atm)

2. PBinfo: This addon will come with alot of great addons, but the main one for you is Threat Meter. http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-a…ls/pbinfo.aspx (Works)

3. Scrutinizer: This addon is great for measuring your DPS against your party members. http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-a…rutinizer.aspx(Works)

4. KIS Damage Meter: This addon will give you current DPS, measure and summerize Miss/Hit and Crit/Hit percentage, give a raw damage number and give an average of your DPS per skill. http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-a…ils/kisdm.aspx (Not working atm)

5. StatRating: This will let you see the DPS of different weapons as well as a comparison between a weapon you have and a weapon you hover over with your mouse. Not only will it work the same for weapons, but gear too. http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-a…tatrating.aspx (Works)

*You can download the Curse addon before you install any addons. You can download it here: http://www.curse.com/

Credits go to Littlefeather.

Before I get started, there are a few things that need to be known about the skills of a secondary class:

-When the secondary class is picked up, all of the skills in the general skills tab of that class are also obtained at its listed level. (An example of this is Enhanced Armor of the knight subclass which is obtained when the knight side reaches level 12.)

-The general skills’ levels of the subclass are limited to the main class’s level. (If the character is a level 40/50 Priest/Knight Enhanced Armor is maxed out at level 40.)

-Elite skills are obtained when both the main class and subclass reach levels 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50.

-The combination between the general skills obtained and the elite skills differentiate the particular class make-ups and should be the main reason to choose a subclass.

*Note that all of the following is considered for when the player has reached level 55/55 and not while he or she is leveling. Also, I do not point out all the positive and negative points in the following section just the highlights of each class combination.*

Priest/Knight

Positive: 
-Divine Incarnation: The effectiveness of your heals is increased by 15% and the MP cost is reduced by 30%
-Enhanced Grace of Life: Your Grace of Life also increases the maximum MP.
-Life Link: Your Urgent Heal now also heals you. (Very useful for two manning instances later)
-Sacrificial Cure: Sacrifice your own life energy to restore a party member’s HP by 30%….99%.
-The knight side generals give 60% more physical defense, 60 stamina and 780 points of mana. (Very Tanky)

Negative:
-Very low DPS in comparison to all other priest combinations (without Divine Incarnation)
-Leveling takes longer in comparison to the other priests (which is already slow)
-No Crowd Control .

Summary: Priest/Knight is considered to have the “best” heals. This class is often seen as a prime example of the classic healer, very high healing without being able to do much DPS. Only choose this class if you are prepared to level slowly, and even when you reach level 55 your DPS will still be much lower than the other priests.

Priest/Mage

Positive:
-Freeze and Lighting: Two Crowd Control abilities.
-Angel’s Blessing: The Angel’s Blessing grants your party restoration of additional 10…50 MP every 5 seconds. Lasts 600 seconds. (This buff can give up to 180 mana every 5 seconds which is very nice!)
-Angel’s Carol: Regenerate 30…255 MP every 2 seconds. Lasts 10 seconds. (Approximately 1.5k mana in 10 seconds)
-Very nice DPS in comparison to other priests and can switch to Mage/Priest (One of the most common classes in the game)
-Has a silence ability that is useful on a few bosses and in PvP.

Negative:
-Has cloth physical defense which is fairly low.
-Has the lowest healing output of the priests (besides Priest/Warrior)

Summary: Priest/Mages can be referred to this class as the mana battery class. The mana regeneration is extremely useful in the party as well as the valuable “Freeze” ability that can be used on almost every enemy in the instances. This class is a fantastic solo class, and normally seen in almost every group. Choose this class if you want to solo or become a loved mana battery.

Priest/Rogue

Positive:
-Shadow Fury: Increases the whole party’s magic crit rate by 10…130 for 600 seconds. (Mages love this buff)
-Decent Damage over Time or DoT damage.
-Snake Spirit: Replenishes your mana when the effect of your Snake Curse wears off. (Not a large amount of mana and this will interrupt the caster in Malatina’s event)
-Quick Spellcasting: Uses your Nimble Hands for greatly increased spell casting speed. (Only a 7.5% increase at level 55)
-Fairy gives 3% bonus magical attack to the party.
-Can dual wield a wand and bludgeon which is more plus healing than a single staff.

Negative:
-Has cloth physical defense which is fairly low.
-No additional healing abilities.
-In order to gain mana, the priest must use offensive spells.
-The damage is more than a Priest/Knight, but still less than a Priest/Mage.

Summary: Priest/Rogues are very rarely played. Although they have a slightly higher healing output than a Priest/Mage, the class does not have the versatility of the Priest/Mage or Priest/Scout it is mainly wanted for the valuable Shadow Fury buff for the casters.

Priest/Scout

Positive:
-Curing Shot: An AoE Regeneration that after 10 seconds will heal more cumulatively than a single group heal.
-Embrace of the Water Spirit: Raises you and your party’s magic attack by 20…620 points for 1800 seconds. (Group buff that is more than the mage/priest self buff)
-Very nice DPS, arguably more DPS than a Priest/Mage.
-Able to equip a bow which allows up to 6 more stats than the other classes.

Negative:
-Must consume potions to prevent being out of mana.
-Has cloth physical defense which is fairly low.
-No Crowd Control.

Summary: Priest/Scouts have the second best healing output as well as maintaining a decent damage output as well. Choose this class if you want to be a more balanced healer .

Priest/Warrior

Positive: 
-This is the single priest class that allows melee DPS. 

Negative: 
-Currently the 15/15 elite gives a static 330 physical attack (which is nothing considering some melee DPS can obtain around 12,000 physical attack) and 44% enhanced defense which is less than having a knight subclass. 
-No additional healing capabilities.

Summary: Do not choose this class if you want to heal. If you’d like to physical DPS and healing capabilities Rogue/Priest, Knight/Priest, or Scout/Priest might be a better consideration.

This guide does not include PvP foresight, but I can say that Priest/Knight is pretty much like waiting for the other person to give up and leave or you get bored and leave. If you want to PvP your best bet is probably Priest/Mage 

Please keep the criticism constructive; I’d like to help new players entering the game and not have arguments over if you think your class is better than another class.

Credits go to Death16005.

Due to increased interest in the monk build many users came asking for help on how to use the macro. I’ve decided to simplify it so people do not have to write their own files. Attached is a MonkMacro.zip file containing everything you need. It includes the DIYCE addon + my custom monk function.

Unzip it into Runes of Magic\Interface\AddOns
It should contain two folders "DIYCE" & "DIYCE_Battlemonk"

In-game create these macro, once created you can move it to the actionbar to use.

Code:

/run MonkSwapDps("Blood Rage")

Code:

/run MonkSwapHeal("Demon Eye","Urgent Heal")

Replace "Blood Rage" with your current dps weapon of choice
Replace "Demon Eye" with your current healing weapon of choice. 
Replace "Urgent Heal" with whatever healing spell you use.

What is the purpose of this macro?
Two purpose. 

1-To condense monk dps spells into one spam-able button. This allows the monk to spam one button; dps without the need to watch rage generation. Enables the monk to do other things like watch other player HP to know when to soul source or swap gear to assist healing. 

MonkSwapDps() Will buff Battle monk stance, Power Build-up, Condensed rage whenever it expires. It will use Ascending Dragon Strike when rage is available, if not it uses mana based skill Explosion of Fighting Spirit. If the user is in healing gear, it will swap gear to before using DPS skills.

2-Automatic gear swapping. This macro was design for monks with two sets of gear. One for pure healing and the other for pure DPS hence maximizing both aspects. Traditionally, one would have to open character (c) window to press gear swap button, but this is slow. Alternatively, one could also make a /SwapEquipmentItem() macro which is faster, but still requires pressing an extra button and thinking

MonkSwapHeal() Will cast your healing spell of choice. If the user is in dps gear, it will swap gear while casting healing. This enables the user to spam one button to swap + heal increasing response time.

What if I want to control or save my rage?
MonkSwapDps() condenses all the skill into one spam-able button, but that doesn’t mean you can’t manually use other skills. A monk only really use two attack skill, EoFS & ADS. E.g you want to save up 100rage so burst 3x ADS attacks. Just spam EoFS manually then use MonkSwapDps() when you want to burst the ADS attacks.

Why doesn’t it use Fighting Spirit Combination or Slash?
After getting 50/50 elites for p/w, there is no point in using FSC skill or Slash. Eofs & ADS both have higher dps. If you would like to include FSC or Slash into MonkSwapDps(), then read up on DIYCE and how it works. Edit the DIYCE_battlemonk() function in Monk.lua file.

Why do I need to type weapon names in the macro?
Because I use the weapon name to check whether to swap gear or not. E.g MonkSwapDps("Blood Rage") blood rage is my axe dps weapon. If i am in healing gear I would not have that axe equipped. It will then know to swap gear before casting dps skills.

Don’t I lose rage when swapping gear?
Nope. That’s one of the beauty of it. You only lose rage when equipping weapon from your bag. When you swap to secondary gear, you never removed that weapon slot hence rage is not lost. The cool benefit is that you can swap to healing gear to self heal while gaining rage from player/mobs hitting you. When you swap back you can have a full rage bar for pwnage.

Does this make my dps better?
Depends. If you already know how to manually dps efficiently then this macro won’t improve your dps. However, this macro makes it easier to dps without rage management leaving you precious time to focus on other things. If you are slow or have a laggy internet connection then this macro will likely increase your dps because you can spam the dps button faster than the screen refreshes due to lag.

What’s that fairy macro I see you use?
This macro here will summon your fairy, cast Accuracy Halo, then cast conceal.

Code:

/run if PetHeadFrame:IsVisible() then UseSkill(4,29) else CastSpellByName("Fire Fairy") end  /wait 7  /run if PetHeadFrame:IsVisible() then UsePetAction(6) end  /wait 3  /run if PetHeadFrame:IsVisible() then UsePetAction(7) end

Credits go to Teaforr.

Many people say the devs messed up on the battlemonk and that this is a broken combo. It wasn’t the devs that messed up, it was the community that misunderstood its complexity.
As a game programmer and designer, I saw an opportunity to challenge myself and identify broken elements of the combo. Well, it’s not broken. If somebody says otherwise, direct them to this guide.

Battlemonks offer a great amount of survivability, great dps, and can often save your party from a wipe.

This build is for melee, a bit of healing and no use of magic attack. It’s a build I find very fun and it’s continually proving powerful. This guide is what I found to be optimal through math, the capabilities of the battlemonk (talents, stat multipliers and gear available) and personal experience.

To start the guide off, if you’re below level 35 you’re probably wondering why people would ever want to play this combo. Your elite skills make the priest/warrior a battlemonk. It isn’t until level 35 that you really start to “shine”. So, it’s specifically oriented towards battlemonks past level 35.

While you’re leveling:

Spread out points in your battlemonk elite skills, buffs, regen and Heal (I avoided Urgent Heal as it’s a mana drain). 

Throttle Explosion of Fighting Spirit with your needs for dps; the higher the talent the more mana pots you will need to burn through. The need for mana pots tapers off when you start getting a good amount of wisdom but I don’t mind the need to pop mana pots. I prefer good dps over being efficient (ntBuff add-on auto pops potions when set up properly. I removed it after 55.).

Level up Faith with spare talent points as it will counter the battlemonks healing negation. 
Healing Salve is nice when soloing bosses and assisting healers in instances.
In later levels it is nice to be able to Holy Candle and Group Heal to save your group from wiping but it shouldn’t be a top priority. Don’t expect to heal near as well as somebody built to heal… but you should be able to do something when healers die or yell for a bit of healing help. 

Your main dps is going to be Explosion of Fighting Spirit, Ascending Dragon (Rage dump), and Fighting Spirit Combination (good for burst & a bit of mana efficiency).

Your Stats:
I’ll start off with what to avoid based on 50 points of an attribute and lvl 58 buffs…

Strength: 
50*.8 = 40 + 12.4% = 44.96 PA
50*.2 = 10 + 15% = 11.5 HP
Avoid like wild fire. It is one of the most useless stats for the battlemonk. The PA and HP bonus might be tempting, but it does not multiply well with the priest and any investment in strength is a bad investment. Some people think otherwise, but once you have access to yellow stats and greater, you get way more from stating from anything else. Any attribute, aside from int and dex, can replace strength to benefit a battlemonk, more than twice over, with a general gain. What strength gives you, you can get much more of in straight +PA.

Intelligence: 
50*.5 = 25 + 12.4% = 28.1 PA
50*1 = 50 MP
50*2 = 100 MA
Avoid this as much as strength also. The battlemonk doesn’t have any skill to take advantage of the magic attack it offers. Wisdom is better as I’ll explain. The PA bonus from this is almost nothing.

Dexterity: 
(Dex multipliers are wrong on wiki. I’ve calculated about .9ACC .77Dodge per dex)
50*.9 = 45 + 6% = 47.7 PACC
50*.77 = 38.5 Dodge
Dexterity offers a decent amount of dodge and a very important amount of accuracy that the battlemonk needs. Don’t overly invest into dexterity but it’s nice to have a good amount. Being able to hit instead of miss often provides a nice return in dps. I’ll go into the reason why accuracy is so important for a battlemonk later.

Wisdom (& +healing):
50*5 = 250 MP
50*3.2 = 160 MD
leaving out MACC (Useless)
Important for this build. This will offer the battlemonk a good amount of mana regen and survivability. Yes, survivability. Condensed rage is an amazing skill and I will go into this later. Of course, it will buff your heals also, and for this build it opens up the ability to help a bit when a healer dies or asks for help. Without wisdom, your mana based attacks will eat your reserves up fast.

Physical Attack (PA): 
(You get about double per base stats on yellow stats)
100 + 12.4% = 112.4 PA
Absolute must. When you’re not packing on Stamina you’re packing on PA. But! don’t put all your apples into one basket. A lack of accuracy, a high damage weapon or survivability can make your PA useless.

Stamina: 
50*1.5 = 75 + 56% = 117 PD
50*5 = 250 + 15% = 287.5 HP
I give this the highest priority as the battlemonk buffs take advantage of it the most. When you pack on enough and feel you are equal to or out surviving everybody but the tanks, you can move on and invest into PA and a bit of wisdom/healing. Investing in a lot of stamina allows you to use berserk which is very important in order to pump out some great dps. No stamina = a dead clothie, especially when berserking.

Wild cards: 
+HP & +PD our buffs can take advantage of. These fit nicely on a yellow stat accompanied by another highly useful stat. When you’re over 25k PD, the +PD isn’t near as useful as it doesn’t even offer a 1% gain to your total PD.

How To Start Getting Good Gear. (For levels 54+, otherwise skip for now)

Any combination that begins to go past lvl 55 will start needing gear in order to be useful in instances. To save groups the trouble of dealing with an under geared character, and to save your name, I suggest doing events in Thunderhoof Hills.
Type /join THEvents to join the event channel. Ask nicely in the channel weather there are any keywords you must type in channel in order to auto join the events raid.
Follow the raid around for a few hours and you’ll quickly get a grasp of the events. You’ll also gain different currencies that you can trade in for ancient mementos, or "mentos" as most call it.
You can use the mentos at black codex vendors to purchase the gear that fits nicely with the battlemonk and to get yellow stats that fit well with the stats listed above. 

A guide to transmuting basics: http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=40969
I suggest using purified fusion stones that can be purchased in the item shop, or bought with gold through a player that has access to them.
You can also purchase the outcome, a mana stone with a single yellow stat, from the the auction house.

A wiki link to available gear through codex: http://www.theromwiki.com/Black_Codex 
(This link is currently missing updated gear outside DoD and the vendors outside Southern Jonast Forest (SJF)) 

I recommend waiting until you gain 280 mentos and purchasing the SJF gear for quick boosts to your stats and avoiding unneeded upgrades.
You can usually get about 100 mentos in two to three hours.

Once you have substantially upgraded your gear, you can think about running end-game content for harder to get gear.

How to make the battlemonk have amazing survivability.

Condensed Rage: Either this skill scales well with +healing and/or it doesn’t receive the 30% healing negation. When you’re hit it will heal you. It procs immediately after the first hit and will only proc after an additional 30 seconds. This allows you to take a big hit and walk away with an instant heal to give you valuable seconds to pop Holy Aura or Soul Source. This is also great when you’re questing or grinding because you rarely need to heal yourself. With a good amount of wis/healing condensed rage does 100% of my healing while I grind.
When raiding, I like to carry some rage potions to use enrage -> rage potion -> condensed rage. It’s a life saver. 
~The general set skill Energy Restore allows you to channel rage regeneration and the need for a rage potion to buff is eliminated.

Your shield: Battlemonks get a nice defense bonus. In order to take advantage of this, you’re going to want to grab a tanking shield. A high defense on it will scale nicely with your battlemonk buffs and will help to take the squish out of you. You’ll eventually be able to offtank certain things and solo content usually only other well geared combos can handle. You’re melee, you will need it!

Your priest talents: Don’t forget you’re a priest. Holy Aura and Soul Source are very powerful survival tools and don’t require any special gear or talent allocation. 
Holy Aura makes it possible to take off the last couple percent of most bosses with the rest of the raid dead. It makes you immune to all damage and most effects for 5 seconds and it only has a two minute cool down. This is amazing when you see a boss about to use a big ability… just pop Holy Aura and sit through it.
Soul Source heals your group members to full. Before condensed rage healed well, I would often bypass heals and use Soul Source when grinding just to save on mana because of the little cool down and no mana cost.
I have both of these bound to my mouse thumb buttons for quick usage. I use them so much during a raid their usually on cool down.

How to compete in DPS…

Get a high damage axe asap. I’ve only ever found axes a viable option. Get as high dps as possible because your talents are based off of that number. Tier it to your abilities or purchase it tiered then plus it up. This only opens up the door to dps. Don’t expect anything amazing yet.

Accuracy!!! You’re going to be missing a lot without it. Get some dexterity and/or +accuracy. The reason why your accuracy is horrible is because you’re a priest. Priest’s weapon skills are very low compared to other melee classes. To make up for that, a bit of accuracy makes a huge difference. You’ll notice this more and more as you start fighting more difficult bosses. Without being able to hit your dps goes down the tubes.

Berserk! Use it and use it with caution. Only level it to +25% to 30% or so and only use it when you know you’re safe. I prefer popping this just before a rage dump and removing it if you think a boss is about to use an ability. This is another reason why a tanking shield and a load of stamina is important. And, if you do get hit with berserk up, thank goodness for condensed rage and the +healing. A good amount of your dps will come from berserk. You can level it higher if you like to be risky, but you’re going to be stuck with the drawbacks unless you respec. 
Once you get enough defense, you’ll hit the cap for most mobs PA so you can pop berserk and see no difference in the amount of damage you’re taking, even after a 30% reduction to your PD.

Stat for PA. You’ll need a good amount of PA to put up some numbers. Your berserk is useless if you don’t have much PA because berserk increases it on a percentage basis.
If your PA hasn’t reached what the mobs defense is, there is a horrible drop off in damage. Don’t judge your dps on mobs outside instances because mobs in a normal difficulty instance have a much higher defense. 

Get your 50 elite. I know this is horribly difficult, expensive and time consuming, but it has +accuracy for you and your party and damage bonuses to the 2 most used skills; Ascending Dragon and Explosion of Fighting Spirit.

As long as the above criteria have been met, you will often out dps other melee… many that out-gear you.

What to look for in a pet…

Pets equate to a large boost in your stats as if you have an extra piece of gear. They can also nicely boost your damage every couple minutes.
Mathematically, Wind attribute pets are the best for battlemonks. It offers a lot of Dex for PACC/Dodge you will not get much of in your gear. It also offers a good amount of Stamina and Wisdom which are important stats needed for the battlemonk.
Dark or Light are other options for a minor increase to PA, but you will loose out being forced to use strength which doesn’t multiply well with the priest.

You will want a pet that has a good +% PA buff such as a bear or hawk. For even more survivability, you can stick with an elf that heals you when you drop below 50%

You’ll probably want to stat your pet with +% PA, or +% crit damage depending on weather you’ve stated +crit chance.

To note:
Don’t be stingy about the dps meters, be a team player. Good players will notice your ability to accommodate a healer hitting the floor. Keeping up your parties dps players to finish a fight is better than a wipe.
Our buffs are a bit of an eye sore. I suggest getting a mod that removes intensive effects. It has removed my fps problems and increased my dps. 
EU forum link to the mod I use: https://forum.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=153205
Unzip and place it in your base RoM directory.

If you have any questions… please be professional and courteous and stay on topic of battlemonk mechanics. I would love to see other battlemonks do great. Salvage our name. Don’t let people cringe when they see a p/w. I hope this is only seen as a favor.

Credits go to spazzpunker.

For starters in this guide i will not tell you which armor to get at low level’s this more of a lvl 50+ guide as far as gearing goes.(if you want more info on low level gear look at Premium’s R/K guide which has info on low level gear, it applies for both classes.)

I will be going over which skills to use how to use them and when, to maximize your DPS. Which is and should be the main goal of any R/S (because your not very good at anything else.

Skills: Rogue Side
1. Dagger Mastery-keep maxed at all times.
2. Shadowstab/Blindspot-The skills you use to start your combo. These have actually started a debate over which to use. My advice is try both and see which one you like better because your using them to start your combo to deal the true damage of a rogue, Which you use wont make a big impact on your dps what so ever.(i used blind spot when leveling and only at 50+ did i level my shadowstab).
3.Low Blow-keep as high as possible can be one of your more important skills.
4.Wound Attack-your highest damage skill try to keep it as high as possible.
5.Combat Master(30 elite)- As a R/S this is your bread and butter skill after you have it your damage will increase with every level you + it.(my advice is to keep it MAXED at all times this is skill is what makes you good.)
6. Evasion- Very useful skill on account of us R/S being squishy keep this ready for hairy situations.
7. Off Hand Mastery-fairly useful don’t put too much tp into this at lower levels.
8. Coerce(45 elite)- This skill can greatly increase your burst damage is used correctly(will be covered in the "How to" section).
9. Fervent Attack- This skill is also used to increase burst damage don’t level it till you know how to use it.

Skills (Scout Side)
1. Vampire Arrows- very nice DoT skill keep it high.
2. Shot-Nice ranged damage skill keep it high aswell.
3. Speed Shooting- Increases how much you can use shot, increasing your sustained dps.
4. Swiftness- Inherent Dex Increase.
5. Joint Blow- Useful snare good for many situations including pvp no need to level past 40.

Now that you know what the skills are and which to level, I will tell you how to use them. How you use your skills alone can be one of the biggest factors in your DPS.

How To (Skill Usage)
Ok this is for Short fights aka questing, dailies etc. 

Find a Target in bow range from you.
Premed–>Shot–>Vamp arrow–>Shot–>Blind Spot/Shadowstab–>Low Blow–>Wound Attack–>Low Blow. If your target is not dead you’ll be out of energy so use the first 3 skills in the combo till your energy is back finish off with a low energy skill. 

Boss fights.
Use the same combo, but the key to dps in boss fights is when and how you use your cool down skills(Assassin’s Rage, Energy Thief, Fervent Attack). Once the boss you are fighting is down to around 30% get ready because your about to unleash the biggest burst damage in the game,MAKE SURE YOUR TANK HAS AGGRO!!! Fervent Attack–> Assassin’s Rage–>Energy Thief–>Shadowstab–>Low Blow–>Wound Attack–>Low Blow(till your wound attack is recharged)–>Restart Combo. Do this till your cool downs have ran out. 

Now for Some Q and A on the last section.

Q:Why wait till 30%? A: Doing this allows you to use energy thief to spam Low Blow, a very high damage skill and keep your Coerce up(only lasts 5 seconds) raising your weapon damage by a %, raising your dps even more.

Q:Why use your bow skills in between your combos? A:This is the key to a R/S if you don’t use your bow skills your sustained dps will be absolutely horrible, and you wont be better than any other rogue class at dps rendering you useless to a party. 

Gear 55+ 
Just to let you guys know you don’t run into Hoto with a t5 dagger and 0 yellow stats on your armor hoping to do anything but wipe to the rays. Gear doesn’t dawn on you because your awesome you need to put in the work to get your gear in level’s once you get to 50+ you want to start working on the Black Victory set, then once you stat you can go to hot and so on, just my insight here.

As i said before your first set should be the back victory set anything more than the 3 piece isn’t needed. 

At this level Stat your Pieces With around a 50/50 dex/stam ratio(this isn’t what it will be later on.)

Use stats like Fang V Barbarian VI 40 dex 45 dex 40 stam 45 stam (possibly throw in a dodge X on some pieces). This will give you a great balance of Physical attack and hp/stam with all easily attainable stats. Finish off the rest of your gear with 51+ clean white items with the same stats.

Get a Green short blade or if lucky a Al-Lanja Assassin’s blade t7-t8 it and your ready to go to heart of the ocean. Make SURE to stat your offhand and bow. If you have 12k+ hp and 6-8k physical attack your more than ready for hoto, which means you have access to the Dark shark set and yellow VII stats. 

Get at least the 2 piece Dark Shark(i use all 4) but its up to how much your willing to farm. Stat them with the following stats:
Cruel VII(should have 1 on every piece.)
Razor VII(as many as possible)
Fright VII(as many as possible)
Slaughter VII(nice stat)
others are your choice i would go for a suppression or eruption or Epidemic XI if possible. 

PvP (Mostly Arena Advice) 
R/S is one of the more versatile pvp classes can do huge burst damage and is a formidable opponent for every class. Yes you are OP. If possible Start every battle in hide.

VS Warrior: Before you engage use premed and evasion and go to town if you are getting hit to hard use Joint Blow and kite while shooting arrows till dead, there isn’t much he can do. Blind stab is also useful against all mele characters.

VS Rogue: Your most challenging opponent especially R/K it gets down to who can shadow prison first, the best strat i have found is use evasion as soon as possible its your best defensive skill your dead with out it. Other than that kiting and slowing are your best defense. But the main philosophy of a R/S is a good offense is the best defense so use your burst damage to your advantage and kill your target asap. Blind Stab is also useful against all mele characters.

VS Mage: Easy if you do it right, you are the one class that can surefire kill a mage every time if you do what i tell you to correctly. Start the fight in hide, get as close as possible to him use shadow prison start your combo by the time you use low blow use Throat attack a 4 second silence the finish with wound attack and run as fast as you can while shooting arrows. your target should be dead.

VS Priest: Slightly Harder than mage to kill but nice because you don’t have to worry about getting killed in 1 shot, use shadow prison and throat attack the same way you did with a mage chaining them together for a 9 second disable giving you all the time in the world to unleash your crazy burst damage.

VS Scout: I haven’t had very much experience with scouts but ill give you my best understanding on how to beat them, you want to stay as close as possible if they get you far away your dead, use your Shadow prison, Hide and Joint blow to keep them close range use evasion and use your combo’s, mind you he will do the opposite to you trying to keep you as far away as possible.

I Hope this helped with everyone wondering about R/S and i hope it helped the many R/S’s out there who didn’t know how to play their class

Post questions here ill try answer as many as i can. 

Credits go to Legless.

**Please note** - I get a lot of questions in game. Questions ranging from topics about the class that are answered in this thread, to questions about random quests. The best thing to do is to drop your questions in the forums. Please try to remember that I’m not a GM or staff or anything like that. I’m a player just like everyone else. And when I’m in game I’m running end-game content and playing with my friends and guildies. Thanks for understanding. 

Skills

I would say that these skills are your highest priority to max, or keep as close to maxed as possible:

Blind Spot
Shadowstab
Wound Attack
Low Blow
Disarmament
Resilience
Enhanced Armor
Dagger Mastery
Sneak Attack
Holy Strike (ONLY if you plan on doing any Tanking/Off-Tanking)

To a lesser degree, but also important skills:

Evasion
Defense Technique
Informer
Lion’s Protection (25 Elite)
Devotion
Off Hand Master
Agility
Nimble Hands. 
Fervent Attack
Power of the Lion (40 Elite)

Non Attack Based Skills to Level (I’ll start with the order of which I maxed):

Treasure Hunter
Holy Light Protection
Sprint
Hide
Numbing Dagger
Combo Throw/Throw.

Make sure Combo Throw/Throw is the very last thing you put any TP into at all. Even maxed out, with Premed, the damage it does is negligible. It’s a skill that would be good for pulling, and that only. 

Attack Combos:

The best and most damage I find that can be done, with an opening combo is:
Premed > Sneak Attack > Blind Spot > Low Blow > Wound Attack. 
If anything survives that attack combo, then procede to spam Disarmament, (stack 4 Disarm debufs on target) while your energy regenerates. If the target is STILL alive (would have to be an elite or boss) then I like to go: Blind Spot > Shadowstab > Low Blow > Wound Attack.
But you can also remove Blind Spot and just use SS > LB > WA. Probably easier until you master using Blind Spot in combat. Once you master that trick, I would suggest using Blind Spot in combat, especially if you have the level 50 elite, as it’ll add to your DPS. 

Using Blind Spot in combat:
Is easy. There are two ways to do this. You can just hold forward on your keyboard, running basically through the target while spamming Blind Spot quickly. Or you can just run forward, and hop over the target, also spamming BS. Either work…find which one works best for you. 

Equipment:

Daggers in both hands. 
Upper Body – Leather
Lower Body – Leather
Head – Leather
Belt – Leather
Hands – Leather
Shoulders – Cloth
Feet – Cloth

The reason you want to use cloth for your shoulder, and foot armor, is becaue the + bonus from using Jewels gives stamina. Having your gear at +3 (or higher using CS Jewels) gives you a stamina bonus, that provides as much, or more physical defense, than what is provided by having leather armor. So opt for the cloth, and make sure everything is at +2 or +3. Of course aim for +5 or +6 if you’re using NPC Jewels. The rest of your leather gear will give a dexterity or Stamina Bonus. Leather belts, and pants give a stamina bonus. 
Opt for leather shoulder armor if you’re using a set though. For example, I’m currently using the Black Victory armor set, and have leather shoulders to take advantage of the set bonus. 

For end game (level 55) your main hand dagger should be tier 7 or higher, and your off hand dagger should be transmuted with stats. 

Armor:

level 1-16

I’d recommend picking up the 3 pieces to the Glory of Logar set to start off. Required level for the full set is 12, but you can wear the upper armor at level 7. These pieces are all quest rewards, starting with the "Things That Go Bump In The Night" quest. 

level 16-23

The Silverspring Hope set, is also available as quest rewards. The entire set can be worn at level 16.

level 23-35

The Top-Secret Records set is another set available from quest rewards. Eaily attainable, and some nice yellow stats and set bonuses. 

From level 35 on, I’d recommend you start transmuting. You should have enough gold, and can make gold by farming materials. Get some gold, and start transmuting with some 2 and 3 stat NPC fusion stones. Transmute onto 105+ durability white items. A lot of quests give out some half decent clean yellow stats such as the Necropolis Ghost Leather Jacket, avilable through the Recover the Needle quest. 

Also you can always buy +35 stam and Dex from higher level players for very cheap. You’re just buying the stat and you can send them your NPC fusion stone.

Level 50 – 55

Cyclops set is nice, now that it comes with a ghost HP stat. Set bonus is nicer DPS wise on the Cyclops set as well, but only for the full set. Only the 10% Dex increase is worth while. +25 Physical Attack isn’t even noticeable. Same with the off hand damage increase. Black Victory is easier to get, and always comes clean. So based on that, I’m picking Black Victory as the 50-55 set to use. Farming an entire Cyclops set is FAR too time consuming for a set that you’re going to be ditching in 5 levels. If you luck you and score the Cyclops Chest piece by chance, than go ahead and farm the rest of the set. The chest piece is the rarest. I’ve been playing since Beta and I’ve NEVER seen it drop once. So keep that in mind. 

Also, stat this set. Time to start using Puris if you haven’t already. This is the set you’re going to use when you first jump into HotO. So you want it to be decent. 

Endgame – Level 55

By this point you should have already been inside HotO, or are ready to get inside now. This instance is as good a place for stats as it is an Armor set. I don’t think you need a full set, because the set bonus for the complete set is good but not great. And your ultimate goal should be the Giant Fist set from Hall of Survivors, so having to replace a full armor set is not fun. 

If you’re following the guide, and using Black Victory pieces, I recommend keeping the shoulders and the Gloves, and using the Dark Shark Breast Plate and boots or helmet. You’ll get the 2 piece set bonus, and a nice boost in HP and most importantly Dex and Pdef. The level 55 sets have FAR better physical defense. 

With the Black Victory 2 piece and 2 piece Dark Shark your set bonus will be:
+40 Stamina
+52 Dexterity. 

You can pick up a "Source of Life Helmet" from the AH or turn in the quest to get it. Use a Dark Shark, or even use a Black Victory for your head piece. It’s up to you. Dark Shark will give you the most benefit, and is the easiest to get too. It drops VERY often. You can even complete the set if you get decent enough shoulders. Just remember that you should aim to replace it. Use Heart of the Ocean as your place to gear up for Hall of Survivors and beyond. The rest of the end game content is significantly more challanging than HotO. And you’ll need to gear accordingly. Your level 50 gear/weapons just won’t cut it there. So re-think everything. Aim to double your attributes. If you ahve 10k HP, your goal should be 20k. If you have 6k patk, you should aim for 12k…etc.

After you’ve gotten some stats, and some Armor from HotO your goal should be the Giant Fist set from HoS. The Attrocity set from Zurhi is nice too, but the databases aren’t updated (last time I checked) and the dodge rate was swapped for off-hand damage. Based on that, I think I like the Giant Fist set better. Furthermore, even a full Dark Shark set is a bit sub standard for Zurhi and above. So an HoS set is nearly a must. If the Attrocity set is better, it’s marginal. And certainly not so good that it’s worth farming a Giant Fist set, and then replacing. Giant Fist should be your end-game goal right now, and what you plan on using going into the next expansion. 

Giant Fist set comes with innate stats as well as the ghost HP, and standard refining bonus. Shoulders give stam, boots give dex, and gloves give patk. I’m going for Giant Fist Shoulders, chest, gloves, boots, and Strange Bug Helmet, and Pants. 

Daggers – End Game Only

Peril Buster Dagger which drops from 1st boss in DL is the best in game, followed by the Venom Fang Dagger and Naga Dagger which drop from Experiment No 81 in DoD. Next best would be the Emerald Dagger that drops off 3rd boss ZS. 

After those, it would appear that the crafted dagger from the Lair of the Demon Dragon, the Flame Dragons Black Wing Tooth is equal to the Aesi Dagger and Copy Soul from HoS. Aesi having the same base damage as the Copy Soul. Copy Soul has a crit rate innate, so I’d go with that over the Aesi. The craftable dagger is too much work for the limited benefit, and the Copy Soul drops quite often, so the superior dagger out of the 3 imo. 

Red Thorn Poison Blade, and Bughook Backstab both drop in Origin and they are a bit better than the Torch Blade that drops from Medusa in Heart of the Ocean. 

Stats

In terms of which should be stacked, I’ve gone for a build with:
1. Dex
2. Stamina
3. Physical Attack

Try to have a nice balance between stamina and dex. Don’t go all out stamina. If you have all stamina, and not much dex, you won’t be very useful in a party. Dex adds to your physical attack, and also your dodge rate. So it’s helpful as a Tank, because a dodging Tank that’s doing heavy DPS makes for mob nightmares. The more dex you have, the more you dodge, and the harder you hit. So make sure you have dex stats on all your gear. 
Since we’re tankier, and dont hit as hard as the R/S’s of the world, adding some physical attack is good as well. You can usually find a lot of that in yellow stats.

*edit #3* With clean mods only dropping in every instance, and natural game progression, plus the addition of the Dungeon of Dilanis, I’m going to change this up a bit. 

Pre Heart of the Ocean stats to use:

Fright VI (+30 stam +30 dex)
Barb VI (+30 str +75 phys atk)
Fang V (+20 dex, +50 phys atk) – Gives less Dex than Dex X, but more Phys atk than even +40 Dex
Auth V (+20 stam, +50 defense) – doesn’t give as much HP as Stam X, but gives more defense. 
Epidemic X (+40 dex)
Physique X (+40 stam)
Stam XI (+45 stam)
Dex XI (+45 dex)

Pre Hall of Survivors stat set:

Cruel VII (+41 dex + 94 phys atk)
Razor VII (+41 str + 94 phys atk)
Slaughter VII (+41 str + 123 defense)
Ravage VII (+41 dex + 41 str)
Eruption VII (+41 stam + 84 phys atk)
Fright VII (+41 stam + 41 dex)
*(Fang VI, Cruel VI, Epidemic XI, Physique XI or Suppression VII can all be used as alternates)*

Pre Demon Stronghold/Zurhidon Stronghold stat set:

Cruel VII
Eruption VII
Diamond of the Lost (Cruel 7.5) – (+47 dex + 104 phys atk)
Power of the Lost (Razor 7.5) – (+47 str + 104 phys atk)
Rage of the Lost (Slaughter 7.5) – (+47 str + 221 defense)
Day of the Lost (Eruption 7.5) – (+47 stam + 104 phys atk)
Light of the Lost (Fright 7.5) – (+47 stam + 47 dex)

Also there is:
Moon of the Lost – (+47 Dex +103 HP)
Scale of the Lost – (+47 Dex/+47 Str)
Both are decent alternatives and filler stats. 

Ideally the stat set you should be ultimately aiming for:

Diamond of the Lost
Diamond of Fear
Diamond of Imprisonment
Day of Fear (or Day of the Lost, since Day of Fear isn’t too common)
Day of Imprisonment
Light of Imprisonment

This build will give you 4/6 Dex stats, 5/6 patk stats, and 3/6 stam stats. You’ll be build for dps and main tanking/off tanking. Maximizing the best areas for a Rogue. 

Any questions post em in here. Any other R/K’s feel free to throw in your 2 cents, as this guide is just based on my own opinions from my own experiences. I hope this was helpful. 

Getting a lot of PM’s with a lot of the same questions, so I’ll put together a little FAQ.. 
FAQ:

Q: Is this guide good for any other Rogue/? combination?
A: No. This is a Rogue/Knight specific guide. 

Q: What about the Blake’s Honor Suit set from TT?
A: Not worth the effort. Drops too often with 2 dirties and low durability, and the set bonus is not so good. Sets I would stay away from: Aisha set, Anselve set, Blake Honor set. Too much work for minimal pay off. Set bonuses are not that good, and they take too long to farm. The Aisha/Anselve sets sometimes come with THREE dirty stats. 

Q: Demon Rune set? What about those?
A: Decent set bonus. But they take a long time to farm the points, and you’d be better served spending that time farming HotO for stats. 

Q: What about the Cyclops set?
A: My opinion…great set, but better pre-end game and for level 50-55. At level 55 the set bonuses are better, and the pdef is SO much better. The Cyclops set is only good for the full set bonus. Some pieces are rare drops, and you’d have to use a purifying stone to clean the crappy stats like Speed, that come on it. And in the end you’re sacrificing a lot in the way of defense. All in the name of 10% more Dex? Just doesn’t seem worth it to me. The off hand damage increase is barely noticeable, and +25 physical attack is laughable. 

Q: What daggers are you using? How much HP/Physical Attack do you have? 
A: Currently I’m using a T9 Peril Buster Dagger main hand, and a clean T6 statted Emerald Dagger off hand. I have 34k HP, and 29.4k physical attack unbuffed.

Credits go to Premium.

Armor:
Your armor is yours to choose, just remember that the only stats that really matter are HP(sta), Defense(sta) and Physical Attack(dex or str). IF you want to be able to play both R/W and W/R and you can only afford to make one set of great gear then you should consider statting out sta and str, this will work for both sides at the cost of dodge(dex) for your rogue and defense(leather) for your warrior, but it can be better then 2 sets of half assed gear.

NOTE:
1 dex = 1.3 PAtt
1 str = 1.2 PAtt

Weapons:
1x 1h Axe (not main hand or off hand)
1x 1h Dagger (not main hand or off hand)
these have to be able to be in either hand as the true DPS potenial only comes out when you start to do hand swapping for your skills

Skills:
list of skills, and my thoughts on them, didn’t list all of them because i feel explaining hide to a rogue is wasting everyones time. When I played a R/W i never bothered using Blind Spot or Sneak Attack as I scripted my entire attack sequence in a lua function and I had no way for it to efficiently tell if i was behind my target. that being said i still think they are a waste of energy for long fights where energy is in short supply. Shadowstab, Blind Spot and Sneak Attack all share the same bleed effect and will not stack so i choose to use the most energy efficient skill for my rogue bleed.

E/s = Energy per second, we have a 15 energy regen per 2 seconds so this is to make sure we don’t use to much and run out. This isn’t perfect math as some skills will be up at the same time and you can only do one per second, but it is a good simple way to look into your energy allocation.

Shadowstab – 20 Energy / 8 sec bleed = 2.5 E/s to keep the Rogue Bleed going
Blind Spot – 25 Energy / 6 sec bleed = 4.17 E/s to keep the Rogue Bleed going
Sneak Attack – 30 Energy / 6 sec bleed = 5 E/s can only be used before combat and is almost impossible to get off in a party
Low Blow – 30 Energy / 10 sec DoT = 3 E/s to keep Grievous Wound going
Wound Attack – 35 Energy / 6 sec CD = 5.83 E/s to use every time it is up

so with only using energy for Shadowstab, Low Blow, and Wound Attack you are using 11.33 E/s out of your 7.5 E/s regen capabilities, factor in the fact that you are not going to be using your skills perfectly on time(human reaction and reDoTing needed at the same time) and then 50/50 elite that will regen energy on shadow stab usage and you can keep this rotation going endlessly with Slash/Poisonous Infection attacks inbetween

Main Attack Skills:
Low Blow: 30 Energy – Axe Main Hand – 3 E/s to keep Grievous Wound going
Wound Attack: 35 Energy – Axe Main Hand – 5.83 E/s to use every time it is up
Shadowstab: 20 Energy – Dagger Main Hand – 2.5 E/s to keep the Rogue Bleed going
Slash: 25 Rage – Axe Main Hand – main attack that uses Rage, will be used quite a bit, never ending Warrior Bleed
Enraged: to be used when no other skill can be used

Boss Only Attack Skills: (or any mob that will last at least 15 seconds before death)
Poison: Poison Bottle – buff before fight, poison bottles only stack 20 high so i never bother using this unless for boss fights (for the next 2 skills) or Numb Dagger usage
Poisonous Infection: 20 Rage – Axe Main Hand – use whenever availible to keep a 4th DoT going and best damage other then Wound Attack
Decay: 30 Energy – Axe Main Hand – note: crit rate is 10-110 (getbuffed is wrong at time of post), mixed feelings about this skill, this build is to energy dependant so it is hard to find the spare energy for this skill, I would only use it if Wound Attack was on cooldown and i had more then 65 Energy

Boss Buffs:use all 4 at same time to go into Boss DPS mode
Informer: 60 sec, 1st – this cancels the buff if another rogue already has it up so try to coordinate with your other rogues so you don’t cancel each other out
Fervent Attack: 30 sec, 2nd – more DPS less Defense, be careful which bosses you use this on and don’t take aggro or you’ll most likely die
Berserk: 30 sec, 3rd – 25 Rage – same as Fervent Attack
Assassins Rage: 15 sec, 4th – do i need to bother commenting

Conditional Attack Skills:
Numbing Dagger: useless until endgame, invaluable for HotO and beyond
Throw: Projectile – Main Pulling Skill, elite that adds slow effect, Works wonders if tank needs to kite
Whirlwind: 30 Rage – Axe Main Hand – AoE – you will general have extra rage so this is great on big trash pulls

Oh *** Skills:
Sprint: Can be cast on others, namely the priest that is trying to avoid a full wipe
Evasion: Your primary oh shit skill
Defensive Formation: 25 Rage – Party wide oh shit skill, if you do not play your warrior side then you can invest much more tp into this then normal warriors

Passives:
One-Hand Axe Mastery: most of your attacks should use Axe main hand so this is very important, also 55% at lvl 50, this is hands down the best mastery skill in the game
Dagger Mastery: more dagger damage, not as important as axe mastery
Off Hand Master: don’t bother with til all attack skills are atleast 50
Nimble Hands: faster white damage attacks means faster rage generation, more skill spamming
Agility: don’t bother with til all attack skills are atleast 50, this adds minimal dodge, and you shouldn’t need much extra
Brute Strength: every little bit helps, and uses warrior tp so go nuts

Limited Usefulness Skills:
Blind Stab: 20 Energy – Waste of energy and crap damage, Only useful if your tank is taking to much damage and this can help them dodge more hits and even then don’t bother leveling
Death’s Touch: 20 Rage – Useful for PvP or any mob that can heal themselves, it uses rage to boot which you can spare a bit easier then energy, only becomes useful at skill lvl 40+
Poison Spray: 15 Rage – this skill consumes the Poisonious Infection DoT and does one shot damage to nearby enemies (5 targets max, i believe), it might sound like you are spreading the Dot, but it is just one shot damage to all mobs at the cost of the original DoT, so you can only use it once every 15 secs. Most useful situation is in NoM against the Dino Bosses for killing the adds or similar bosses. to much setup to be useful against trash

Hand Swapping:
To be most effective in your DPS you need to have the correct weapon in your main hand to deal the most DPS

PickupEquipmentItem(16)
PickupEquipmentItem(15)

this will pickup your offhand and place it in your mainhand, your main hand automaticly goes into the slot of the replacement(offhand). replacing your mainhand weapon from your bag will reset your energy and rage to 0 but swapping hands will not.

This section is to help you play as R/W intelligently if you choose to click each of your skills yourself and not use conditional attack scripts. I highly suggest getting nkXtdmacro addon(curse has it disabled atm, trying to get that resolved, I just attached it to this thread), as this will allow you to make all your ingame macros have the same icon and cooldown effects as normal skill, just by naming the macro the same name as a skill

You should place this bit of macro code either at the beginning of the first skill of your chain or as a stand alone macro that you click once to load up the data every time you start the game. This will let the game know the name of your weapons for comparison and hand swapping. always update this and rerun it if you ever replace one of your weapons

/run axename = "the name of your axe goes here in quotes without the plus(ie +1)"  /run daggername = "the name of your dagger goes here in quotes without the plus(ie +1)"

now for any skill that matters which weapon is in your main hand use a similar script as this example. you will have a macro for each of your attack skills. If you do it this way then the only macro that will need tweaking for new weapons is the first one, all the others will just work.

Name of macro = Shadowstab  /run _,_,mainhandname = GetInventoryItemDurable("player", 15)  /run if mainhandname ~= daggername then PickupEquipmentItem(16) PickupEquipmentItem(15) end  /wait .1  /cast Shadowstab

the title and the skill name should match exactly and replace daggername with axename for axe mainhand skills. If the game trys to throw away your weapons then you’ll need to increase the wait to maybe .2, this being said there will be a delay from the time of click to the skill usage by a slight amount so you will have to click your skills a little early to not waste time and slow your DPS.

Credits go to Mavoc.

What everyone gets confused on in this game is the dual-classes. You can have 3 scouts in a party and each can operate differently. It was never my intent to play a class that used Int+Str but my W/M build does.
This is what im workin with;

I’ve noticed that this class is not really for high pve dps. Just looking at the elite skills for this class a few of them dont work in a pve senario at all. (e.g. Sense of Danger and Wind Bastion)

Ok, the attack spells [Thunder Sword], [Lighting's Touch] and the weapon enchant’s [Eletrical Attack], [Lava Weapon] thier dmg is magic based thus Int/m.attk is a must. However, the Warrior is before the Mage since your secodary class is supposed to complement the play style of the primary thus Str takes precedence. This is so for one reason and the only reason really needed the warrior primary skill [2-H Weapon Mastery] does not work at all for staffs. My suggestion, swords are made for us. 

Most Warriors use Axes and most Knights use Hammers but, swords have the most balance between P.dmg and M.dmg and they usually display less dmg but have faster attack speeds then axes or hammers so do decent "skill dmg" because almost all of the W/M’s p.dmging skills are dps based. 

Now, the Stating priority shud be Str-1st, Stam -2nd and then Int/m.attk and Dex in runes and Ravage VII’s. Your lv35 and lv45 elite skills [Eletrical Attack] and [Power Control] are very nice and allows the W/M to forego Dexterity stating for more accuracy. Instead, every place where most warriors put Dex stats I place Int/m.attack stats e.g. Illumine. I if i need more accuracy still I use Triumph and Rouse runes and I hit everytime. ^^

If u look back at the Elite Skills sheet and look at the 1st skill on the list you will find the greatest skill the W/M class is given [Eletrical Rage]. Now I really apprciate this skill it turns your rage into magic power with a little dps on the side.^^ 

So, the reason stating Int/M.attk is important yet you dont wanna go overboard is because you need some m.attk for [Eletrical Rage] or rather the buff [High Voltage] to multiply but [High Voltage] when stacked x3 will grant you enuf for the other attack skills to hit effectivly. This is all the advice I have for now I myself am still trying to figure out some more things. However I must say an all magic build with this class once you get silenced = splat, trust me on this. And that reminds me for your mage side always max-out the mage general skills [Silence] + [Lightining] PLZ! ^^ 

p.s.Wear chain and it throws people off when I use [Taunt] in a duel. ^^

Credits go to Neorengoku.

Warrior/Scout: The Fighter
Able to generate rage from range. Easily one of the best if not the best in PvP. If equally geared can almost out dps any class combination in the game. The W/S is all about wielding the 2H weapon making it very good with aoes which, should be utilized as they are very strong in endgame instances. We are also not very popular but very strong. I have only seen 4 w/s in the long months I have played this game. (Check sig)

If you don’t think the W/S is for you, or you want to learn more about the scout, or you just want to entirely switch the class combo, then this guide is for you (Contributed by DarknessReaper) http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=35740.

Popular Skill Abbreviations:

MC: Mooncleave
BC: Blasting Cyclone
BA: Blood Arrow
AFTW: Aim For The Wound
SKB: Skull Breaker 
SWB: Sword Breath
TA: Tactical Attack
PA: Probe Attack
OF: Open Flank
CD: Cooldown
GCD: Global Cool Down

High Priority Warrior Skills:
Warrior General and Primary: 
Note: Skill descriptions from Wikipedia (I did not copy and paste). Skills should be five levels lower than your current level to save TP to put into your other skills. Also Berserk is a very good dps skill mainly used for endgame when you have a priest perpetually casting Group Heal.

Slash: Level 1. Inflicts 80% to 344% main hand weapon dps to the target. Every upgrade increases dps by 4.8%. You all want this maxed or close it is your main damage dealer.

Probing Attack(only until level 45+): Level 2. Inflicts 70 to 301% main hand weapon dps to the target. Causes the target to become vulnerable. Every upgrade increase is by 4.2%. I say level 45+ because until then you will have enough TP to put it into PA, OF, Slash, TA, and other skills.

Open Flank(only until level 45+): Level 2. Inflicts 110 to 473% main hand weapon dps to the target. Every upgrade increase is by 6.6%. Same reason as above. 

Tactical Attack: Level 4. Inflicts 45 to 193.5% main hand weapon dps to the target twice! It also has a chance of critical hitting! This is a combo that goes with Slash always use Slash first then tactical attack, that will casue it to hit twice.

Berserk: Level 12 Cool down 60 seconds lasts 30. Increases physical attack power from 3 to 36% and decreases defense by 3 to 36%. Every upgrade increase is by .6%. Max level is 50. Reason I say this is because its not really important until endgame where you will have a healer at all times. It also takes away about 37% of defense so soloing it can be tough.

Moon Cleave: Level 22 cool down 30 seconds(Elite skill cuts CD by 20 seconds). Attacks multipe targets in your range three times! Inflicts 40 to 172% main hand weapon dps. Every upgrade increase is by 2.4%. This is your main aoe does lots of damage. In endgame it should be doing 25k total damage.

2-H Weapon Mastery: Level 30. Increases damage done by axes, swords, or hammers by 5 to 38%. Every upgrade is by .6%. At 38% this adds 3.8 tiers to you 2H weapon. You want this all the way maxed very helpful skill for damage.

Blasting Cyclone: Level 40 cool down 10 seconds. Causes 100 to 375% main hand weapon dps to all surrounding targets creating a knockdown to humanoids and a 2 second stun to all other targets. Every upgrade increase is by 5%. Another one of your significant damage dealing aoes it should do about 12-15k damage in endgame.

Low Priority Skills
Warrior General and Primary:


Brute Strength: Level 20. Increases strength from 10 to 65. Every upgrade is by 1 point. Just get this skill to 20 then abandon it until later levels, or you could level it all the way up.

Aggressiveness: Level 34 Cool down 3 minutes. Increases rage gain from 20 to 75% for 30 seconds. Every upgrade increase is by 1 point. Not very useful until boss fights in endgame when you could use the rage generation and sometimes you will run out of rage and focus.

Survival Instinct: Level 36 Cool down 5 minutes. Can only be used when your HP is below 25%. Increases defense from 25 to 91%. Every upgrade is by 1.2%. Raises the chance of dodging from 5 to 16%. Every upgrade increase is by .2%. Raises the parry rate from 5 to 16%. Every upgrade increase is by .2% for 30 seconds. Lasts 30 seconds. This skill is just basically an Oh %$#@! Moment.

High Priority Elite Skills:
Note: Use Skull Breaker if you want until level thirty. If you want to remove it then use the skill reset stone you get at level thirty from the gift packages you receive every few levels. I say this because of the huge focus cost and it is very unpredictable. You obtain elite skills when both of your classes have reached the designated levels.

Skull Breaker(optional): Level 15. Inflicts 80 to 300% main hand weapon dps and a 50% chance to inflict the skill bonus itself of reducing targets accuracy by 43%. Every upgrade increase is by 4.4% and with every upgrade there is a decline in accuracy by .-6%. Obtain, 3x Ash Lumber, 3xZinc Nugget, 3x Mountain Demon Grass Sap, 8,000 Gold Pieces. Location is Varanas Class Hall…Listi Pursdon.

Stun Shot: Level 20. Stuns the target for four seconds. Obtain, 3x Willow Lumber, 3x Tin Nugget, 3x Beetroot Sap, 15,000 Gold Pieces. Location is Varanas Class Hall…Listi Pursdon.

Moon Cleave Perfection: Level 25. Decreases cooldown of mooncleave by twenty seconds and rage by 10. Obtain, 15 Illusion Crystals and 20,000 Gold Pieces. Location is on the road to the Forsaken Abbey…Fay Akjad.

Aim For The Wound: Level 30 cool down 6 seconds. Inflicts 70% ranged weapon dps. Every upgrade increase is by 4.2% and rage increase is by .5. Starts at 5. Obtain, 3x Oak Lumber, 3x Copper Nugget, 3x Moxa Sap, 28,000 Gold Pieces. Location is Silverfall, Aslan Valley…Menqid Beman.

Sword Breath: Level 35 cool down 8 seconds. Inflicts 70% ranged weapon dps. Every upgrade increase is by 4.2% and rage increase is by .3. Starts at 5. Obtain, 15 Study Essences from the Auction House or by farming Necropolis of Mirrors and 35,000 Gold Pieces. Location Silverfall, Necropolis of Mirrors…Sisileena Chab.

Waiting Game: Level 45 cool down 20 seconds. When you use Aim for the Wound and hit the target with a Moon Cleave it raises your physical attack power by 300 or so? And its not upgradeable so its not very useful in endgame considering it won’t make much of a difference. But at lower levels it will. Obtain 20x Harpy Holy Spirit and 58,000 gold. Location is Dust Devil Canyon, Obsidian Stronghold…Belin Pursdon.

The Final Battle: Level 50 cool down 6 seconds. Inflict 60% main hand weapon DPS. Every upgrade increases this by 3.6%. If the target’s HP is lower than 30%, it will inflict 120% main hand weapon DPS. Every upgrade increases this by 7.2%. Very useful in PvP this is your strongest skill. Go to Sigg Fletcher in Varanas. You have to do the following…

• Necropolis of Mirrors and Paspers Shrine
• Ystra Labyrinth, Mystic Altar and Ruins of the ice dwarf kingdom (50)
• Shrine of Kalin, Paspers Shrine, Treasure Trove
• Aisha
• And one last class specific quest.

Low Priority Elite Skills: 
Note: Calm is a totally useless skill only get this skill to get your 45 and 50 level Elites. It could be useful for PvP against a Rogue or Scout.

Calm: Level 40 no cool down. When your skull breaker fails as in missing or not applying the effect. You increase your accuracy by 2 points for 10 seconds. Every upgrade increase in accuracy level by .56. 10x Minotaur’s Soul, 10x Sound of Wind, 42000 Gold Pieces. Location Dust Devil Canyon, Obsidian Stronghold…Belin Pursdon 

High Priority Scout Skills:
Scout General Only:
Note: Only level up Blood Arrow until endgame and always tell your healers when you are using blood arrow. All of these skill should be maxed. Except Wrist attack.

Shot: Level 1. Requires 1 ammo. Inflicts 17 to 317.5% ranged weapon dps. Every upgrade increase is by 4.5%. Always max this skill. Very useful for PvP.

Vampire Arrows: Level 4 cool down 10 seconds. No ammo. Inflicts 23.5 to 260 ranged weapon dps. Every upgrade increase is by 4.3. It also draws 16 with an additional upgrade of 8 every level for every 2 out of 10 seconds at max this will do 2,100 damage. Max this skill good skill to kite with.

Swiftness: Level 24. Increases dexterity from 10 to 65. Every upgrade increase is by 1 point. Always max this skill. You can never have too mauch free dexterity.

Speed Shooting Mastery: Increases the speed of bows and crossbows from 10 to 37.5%. Every upgrade increase is by .5%. It would improve the CD of shot that at a point it will become spammable. Without Frenzy.

Wrist Attack: Level 20 Cool down 30 seconds. Decreases damage dealt by the target by 30% for 5 seconds. Fairly useful for bosses and PvP.

Low Priority Scout Skills:
Scout General Skills:

Join Blow: Level 8. Decreases movement speed by 40% from 4 to 9.5 seconds. Every upgrade increase is by .1 point and it inflicts 16.4 to 197.9 main hand weapon dps for every increase dps is increased by 3.3%. Only useful for PvP and Arena.

Throat Attack: Level 16 cool down 12 seconds. Don’t level it up unless you are in PvP great skill interrupt. Inflicts 16.4 to 197.9 main hand weapon dps. Every upgrade increases damage by 3.3. If Throat attack interrupted a skill that has NO cool down, then all skills of the target enter a 3 second cool down phase. Do not put any TP into here unless you have extra TP.

Recommended Skill Rotation:

Shot–Vampire Arrows–Aim For The Wound–Sword Breath–Shot–Enrage(Only when up)–Frenzy(Only when up)–Slash–Shot–Tactical Attack–Shot–Probing Attack–Shot–Open Flank. When you start again do everything except stun shot, Frenzy(Its on CD), and Enrage(Its on CD) only when really needed.
Recommended Skill Rotation 

Equipment:

Here I will be explaining the equipment you should be using basically from 1-50 you should be using quest gear. I started transmuting my gear at level 50 cause there really is no point in doing it any earlier it will just waste money. So I will be showing the gear that you should be using at 50 and beyond.

Level 50 - You can go either way with Rune Warrior’s Chain Armor or Cyclops’ Chain Armor. Either are good. But the Cyclops sets are always pretty hard to get.

Cyclops Chain Armor Set - +80 Physical Attack +120 Defense +10% Strength Increase. 

Iron Warrior’s Chain Armor Set - +20 Strength + 100 Physical Critical Hit Rate.

Level 55 - For the level 55 there are many different sets many have great effects. 

Devil Slaughter Set+Ancient Tree - What I do is use 3 piece DS and 2 pieces from the Ancient Tree Set which gives +600 Physical Attack from 2 pieces. That gives me more Physical Attack and gives me good critical from the Devil Slaughter set and gives extra 100 damage. Which outweighs the 130 accuracy from the Giant Tree Set. Plus the DS set skill is very nice. So get all 4 pieces then sell 1 piece and get 2 pieces from the Ancient Tree. BOTH drop from Sirloth in Hall of The Demon Lord. 

Leveling:
Note: Level your Scout and Warrior to level 35. Then abandon it when you get your Sword Breath. When your Warrior reaches cap level up your Scout with dailies and or quests that you missed. Also don’t go to Reifort, leveling is very, very slow. I would recommend just staying in Silverspring or go back to Logar or Pioneers and level your scout there.

1-10: Utilize your Slash and Shot skills. Always start with Shot and then normal attacks until you gain enough rage for Slash. Just do quests to level up. Don’t forget to get the quest from Lola which is the first Epic Quest line you will encounter.

11-20: Get you level 15 and level 20 elite skills. Insert them by following the skill rotation. Here by killing whirlwind beetles you will find an emblem drop from them. Right click it and accept the quest…that is the second epic quest line you will encounter.

21-30: Obtain your level 25 and level 30 elite skills. You are now able to start doing Necropolis of Mirrors at level 30+ with other level 30+’s in your party.

31-35: Obtain your level 35 elite skill and make sure all your recommended scout skills are maxed. Then abandon your Scout and head off.

36+: Live your life as a W/S and don’t be afraid to say it out loud in World Chat. Level your Warrior to cap then level your Scout to cap.

Macros:
Note: This is for the people that want to use macros. These macros came from the old W/S guide.

(Contributed by Bearcrazy)

Enrage -> Vampire Arrow -> Autoshot -> Shot -> Wind Arrows; while at the same time walking backward away from the target mob.

Since I often forget to cast Enrage, I developed the following macro which always check for the availability of the Enrage skill first before firing.

("5" is my Enrage. "4" is my Vampire Arrow):

/script if ( GetActionUsable(5) ) then UseAction(5); else UseAction(4); end
/wait 0.3
/script if ( GetActionUsable(4) ) then UseAction(4); else end
/wait 0.3
/cast Autoshot
/wait 0.3
/cast Shot
/wait 1.2
/cast Wind Arrows

For Warrior as main, for simplicity sake, I would only include Enrage, Vampire Arrow, Shot, Stun Shot. These would be incorporated into 2 macros.

First macro is to cast Enrage(1) -> Stun Shot(2) -> Vampire Arrow(3):

/script if (GetActionUsable(1)) then UseAction(1); else end
/wait 0.3
/script if (GetActionUsable(2)) then UseAction(2); else UseAction(3); end
/wait 1.2
/script if (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(2); end

The reason for this loop around b/w VA and Stun is if a target is outside of the Stun’s rage, the macro would go for VA and then as mob come closer, hopefully close enough to use Stun.

However, if distance is still too far for stun which happens a lot since I usually walk backward as soon as I fire off, we have the second macro.

The second macro involves double if’s and stun shot(2), VA(3) and wind arrows(4):

/script if (GetActionUsable(2)) then UseAction(2); elseif (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(4); end
/wait 1.2
/script if (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(4); end

These two macros are overlapped this way to ensure stun shot and vampire arrow will be casted.

Patch Notes:
I don’t know of any recent patch updates to the warrior/scout, warrior, or scout. If there are please let me know.

Credits go to Oziemaster.

Zitat von So how does dual classing work?

At level 10 you gain the ability to use a subclass. You can switch between the two classes you choose, making one your mainclass and the other your subclass or vice-versa. Your mainclass and subclass are two separate classes that need to be leveled up individually. Here are a few things to keep note of:

6. Elite skills are unique to each combination possibility. They give each combination a more compatible and defined purpose, rather than throwing together two classes that might not usually work well together.

Note: Click the class to see the skills available to it. For example, Druid/Warrior – Fury, if you click Druid or Warrior it will open the page that contains all of their skills. Please keep in mind that your secondary can only use the General skills of that particular class.

Druid/Warrior - Fury
In addition to regenerative healing, the Fury can enhance the physical attributes and mystical might of their allies, making the attacks of their party members even more formidable.

Elite Skills
Natural Attack - Gathers the power of nature to launch an attack.
Glory Wand - Raises your attack speed, healing received, and creates a protective shield.
Cross of Thorns Attack - Launches a rapid double attack on the target.
Heart Piercing - Concentrates the power of nature in your body to launch multiple attacks on your target.
Awakening of the Wild - Increases your and your party members’ attack power.
Healing Wind - Restores HP to you and your party members within range.

Druid/Scout - Strider
While Striders excel in regenerative healing, they can also command the forces of nature against their foes, and scout dangers in the untamed wilds.

Elite Skills
Camellia Flower - Target recovers HP, can stack.
Life Guide - Causes you to recover more HP when you use Recover.
Healing Arrows - Restores HP to friendly targets in range.
Group Exorcism - Removes harmful effects from multiple friendly targets within range.
Warm Spring - Recovers MP to party members in range.
Mother Earth’s Blessing - Increases your healing power.

Druid/Rogue - Venomancer
The Venomancer can strike enemies with a concentrated shot of poison or even spread a toxic gas throughout an entire area, severely weakening beast and human alike.

Elite Skills
Poisonous Widow Embrace - Summons the sinister plant, Poisonous Widow, to seize and attack your target.
Speed Catalysis - Temporarily raises the physical attack and casting speed of party members within range.
Corrosive Poison - Corrodes your target, inflicting dark damage over time.
Necrotic Wound - Reduces healing received by target.
Shadow Contract - Increases your maximum MP, your Dark elemental power, and also reduces healing power.
Magic Turmoil - Increases your magical critical hit rate.

Druid/Mage - Geomancer
The Geomancer can enhance the party’s attributes and provide magical protection in combat while inflicting elemental damage upon the enemy.

Elite Skills
Earth Chain - Inflicts Earth damage to targets within a radius.
Spring of Blessings - Causes party members within a range to recover HP.
Shield of Light - Bathes friendly targets within range in a shield of light that can absorb damage.
Inspiration - When your Fireball hits there is a chance that you will be Inspired, reducing the casting time of your next spell.
Spiritual Gush - Your MP cost for spells is reduced.
Quick Help - When the effect of Rock Protection ends your will additionally recover MP and HP.

Druid/Warden - Eldritch
To a eldritch, nature is a delicate balance of actions, in which even the smallest imbalance can create storming turmoil from peaceful skies.

Elite Skills
Enhanced Briar Shield - Allows your Briar Shield to be used on other friendly targets.
Avalanche - Causes your Rockslide to cause additional Earth damage.
Extended Recovery - Prolongs the effect of your Recover spell.
Healing Ripple - Restores HP to friendly targets within range.
Mysterious Grace - Increases you and your party members’ magical damage.
Essence Extraction - Converts MP into Nature’s Power.

Knight/Priest – Paladin
Paladins bolster their allies with holy auras and blessing to protect their friends from harm and enhance their powers. Wearing heavy armor, they can withstand terrible blows in the thickest battles while healing their wounded allies.

Elite Skills
Holy Light’s Fury - Inflicts Light damage over time.
Holy Smite - You lash out with all your holy power, inflicting damage. (Target must be affected by Holy Light’s Fury)
Holy Protection - Targets aggro rate is reduced.
Free Will - Target is immune against Root and Slow effects.
Firm Courage - Increases the physical damage your Shield of Valor can block.
Shield of Valor - Injects the power of Light into a shield, resisting physical attacks. (Shield must be equipped.)
Concentration Practice - Increases the accuracy of your physical attacks.
Great Inspiration - Increases maximum HP and completely resists the next attack.
Resolution - Increases health and additionally resists the next attack against you.
Holy Illumination - Boosts the healing capacity of party members within a radius.

Knight/Mage – Hexblade
Hexblades are Knights who possess some arcane magic ability, which they may use while wearing heavy armor and cast without hinderance. They are a force to be reckoned with by their opponents, and seem unstoppable to those they protect.

Elite Skills
Holy Light Domain - Inflicts Light damage to all targets within range over time, and reduces target’s damage.
Lightning Shield - Your Whirlwind Shield now Slows the target.
Whirlwind Shield - Inflicts damage to all enemies within range, Slows them, and adds hate.
Lightning Armor - Lightning flows over your armor causing Wind damage to anyone attacking you.
Mana Shield - Each point of damage absorbed by the Mana Shield will cost 1 MP.
Enhanced Mana Return - Enhances the effect of your Mana Return.
Mana Return - Activates the Holy Seals on the target to regain mana. (Target needs to have 3 Holy Seals stacked.)
Hall of Order - Increases your Holy Light Domain hatred, and extends the effect.
Holy Light Domain - Causes targets within range Light damage, and decreases damage.
Wind of Protection - Grants wind energy on your Lightning Armor so that you restore mana when you are attacked.
War Prayer - Activates Light Seals on the target’s body., temporarily boosting your own parry rate. (Three Light Seals must be stacked upon the target’s body.)

Knight/Rogue – Blackguard
The blackguard epitomizes evil and is hated and feared by all. The blackguard has many options available to them, a few of which include attacking with stealth and honorless guile, or straightforward smiting of the forces of good that stand in their way. 

Elite Skills
God’s Sword - Your Holy Strike’s chance to do critical damage is increased.
Smash - Direct attack on your enemy causing damage after a critical hit.
Blind Stab Mastery - Extends the Blind effect of your Blind Stab.
Crazy Blades - Your chance to deal critical hits with physical attacks is increased.
Dance of Two Blades - The whirling weapons inflict damage to multiple targets for two hits.
Leopard Instinct - Increase dodge rate.
Panther’s Blessing - Your dodge rate will increase temporarily.
Shield of Discipline - Absorbs magical damage and deals Light damage to enemy. Can also increase dodge rate.
Shield of Valor - Resists physical attacks and deals Light damage to enemy Can also increase dodge rate.
God’s Vengeance - Chance to boost defense after successful Holy Strike.

Knight/Scout – Defender
As the name might imply, the Defender is a skilled combatant trained in the arts of defense. A line of Defenders is a far better defense than a wall of stones, and much more dangerous. 

Elite Skills
Arrow of Vengeance - Fires an arrow that taunts your target.
Enhanced Holy Strike - Increases the damage of your Holy Strike.
Holy Chains - Roots your target with your holy powers. (Only on undead and demons)
Heavenly Arrow - Taunts up to 10 enemies within range.
Weaken Weapon Strength - Chance to lower the damage of targets physical attacks.
Sacred Resistance - Causes ranged damage and has a chance to increase your dexterity.
Sacred Protection - Increases your chance to shield block.
Disregard Danger - Shares the damage of one attack on a party member.

Knight/Warrior – Champion (Easy Starter Class)
The most honorable of all combatants, strong in body and in character. Distinguished in battle or tourney, Champions are decorated knights, schooled in honor and pride, and governed by the codes of chivalry.

Elite Skills
Whirlwind Shield Mastery - Increases damage dealt by Whirlwind Shield.
Whirlwind Shield - Inflicts damagte to all enemies in range and adds additional aggro.
Two-Handed Axe Training - You can now equip two-handed axes with damage increased.
Deadly Whirlwind - The rage cost and cooldown is reduced. Target recieves Deadly Wounds.
Quick Reflexes - Raises your parry rate.
Fearless - Increases your courage, a short immune against fear.
Master of Parry - Increases your parry rate.
Shield of Discipline - Absorbs magical damage. Also deals Light damage to the target.
Shield of Valor - Resists physical attacks.
Authoritative Deterrence - Forces a target to face and attack you, and decreases their next two hits.

Mage/Druid - Prophet
The spirit of nature is at a Prophets disposal. The trees seem to come to life at their commands, the wind carries their words to lands far away, and nature itself strikes all who defy their will.

Elite Skills
Perception - Temporarily increases your mana limit and magic attack.
Magic Target - Temporarily increases your magic accuracy.
Control Flame - When your Eruption effect is triggered, magic attack increases.
Green Guardian - After Mother Earth’s Protection effect ends, restores HP over time.
Magma Blade - Forms the power of earth and fire into a blade dealing Fire damage and Earth damage.
Boiling Rock - The critical hit rate for your Magma Blade’s Fire damage is increased and its Earth damage can recover MP.

Mage/Knight – Scholar
The Scholar fulfills a militant support role by providing elemental and holy offensive attacks to enemies. The Scholar is able to use many arcane powers, while also striking opponents with divine power. 

Elite Skills
Holy Light Strike - Inflicts Light damage on the target.
Stars of Light - You shoot five flares and each one explodes dealing Light damage.
Enhanced Holy Light Strike - Holy Light Strike now has a 30% chance to Stun the target.
Messenger of Light - All damage caused by your Light based spells is increased.
Light Charge - Inflicts Light damage and Slows your target.
Concentrated Attention - Causes your Messenger of Light to increase your magic accuracy.
Messenger of Light - Light spells deal more damage and your magic accuracy increases.
Holy Light Strike - Inflicts Light damage with a chance to stun and decease light resistance.
Light Charge - Inflicts Light Damage and Slows the target with chance to reduce light Resistance.
Energy Recovery - Increases critical magic damage and Holy Light Strike will recover mana.
Energy Influx - Chance for magic to critical hit, deal more damage, and reduce Light Resistance.
Holy Light Strike - Inflicts Light Damage and Stuns the target with chance to reduce light Resistance.

Mage/Priest – Wizard (Easy Starter Class)
To Wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, Wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The Wizard’s strength is his spells. Everything else is secondary. 

Elite Skills
Essence of Magic - Raises magical attack.
Purify - Can dispel curses from your target.
Outburst - Flame and Fireball now have a higher chance to deal additional damage.
Rising Tide Mastery - Your Rising Tide is now an instant cast with lower cooldown.
Shine of the Holy Aura - Used with a Holy Aura, you recover more HP but all mana costs rise.
Grand Dispel - Purify also dispels harmful effects.
Purify - Can dispel curses and harmful effects from your target.
Disable - A Flame/Plasma Arrow hit has the chance to decrease the target’s magical critical resistance.
Flame - Deals Fire Damage, and has a chance to decrease the target’s magical critical resistance.
Plasma Arrow - Causes Wind damage and sets charged state. Can reduce targets magical critical resistance.
Magic Drain - Steals the target’s attack power, lowering the target’s magical and physical attack while increasing your own.

Mage/Rogue – Warlock
Unlike Sorcerers and Wizards, who approach arcane magic through the medium of spells, a Warlock invokes powerful magic through nothing more than an effort of will.

Elite Skills
Cursed Fangs - Curses your projectiles and deals Dark damage, with additional damage.
Kiss of the Vampire - Inflicts Dark damage on your opponent and restores your HP.
Demoralize - Your target cannot attack for 6 seconds.
Fang Ritual - Raises the damage dealt by Dark magic.
Distract - Conjures a phantasm to fool the target, so it doesn’t notice you.
Shadow Shroud - Causes your Demoralize to additionally lower the target’s magic defense.
Demoralize - Causes your target’s magic defense strength to drop and stuns them.
Shadow Protection - Increases your casting speed, with a chance to increase movement speed when hit.
Kiss of the Vampire - Inflicts Dark damage on your opponent, restores your HP, and has a chance to increase your damage.

Mage/Scout – Sorcerer
Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire powerful spells more slowly than wizards, however they do have more time to learn fighting skills, and they are proficient in some weapons.

Elite Skills
Thunderclap - A magic arrow binds the target to their location.
Fire Arrow - Chance to critical damage with magic attacks is increased and deal fire damage.
Fire Rose - Plants a rose seed inside the target that causes Fire damage.
Fire Rose Explosion - Instantly ignites all Fire Roses planted in target, causing Fire damage.
Flame Spirit - Turns your flame energy into concrete substance to support your attacks.
Flame of Fire - Causes Fire damage.
Power of the Wind - Increases magic accuracy and adds Wind damage to your Shot.
Fire Rose Storm - May cause extra magical damage when you successfully launch a Fire Rose.
Magic Crossflow - Raises the casting speed for the character and their pet.

Mage/Warden - Earthshaker
These mages are feared for the ability to summon massive quakes at their mere whim. So tremendous is their power that their magic leaks out of the earth violently with every spell.

Elite Skills
Earth Surge - Causes massive damage to target, but the chance of hitting the target is pretty low.
Absence - Causes target to become absent minded, reducing magical accuracy.
Flame Follower - The flame follower understands the flow of flame energy, reducing your Fireball cooldown and increasing your Fireball critical rate.
Earth Groaning Wind Blade - Inflicts wind damage and earth damage on the target.
Earth Scepter - Your magical Earth damage is increased.
Feedback - A successful hit of your Earth Groaning Wind Blade can recover MP.

Mage/Warrior – Battlemage
Battlemages are able to resolve most conflicts with either spell or axe. They are a deadly mix of magic and melee. Battlemages are wizard-warriors, trained in both lethal spellcasting and melee combat. 

Elite Skills
Magical Talent - Temporary increase the maximum MP.
Magical Enlightenment - Lets you regenerate MP.
Elemental Explosion - Your chance to inflict critical damage with magic attacks is increased.
Rage Mana - Convert your rage into MP.
Activate Mana - Transforms your mana rage.
Magic Boost - Berserk raises magic attack and physical attack and lowers physical and magic defense.
Enhanced Intensification - Increases magic damage and critical damage.
Flame - Deals Fire damage, with a chance to increase casting speed.
Plasma Arrow - Causes Wind damage, increases magical crit chance, and a chance to increase casting speed.

Priest/Knight – Disciple
The Disciple is a militant healer, who utilizes holy magic to heal allies. They are extremely talented healers, thanks to their connection with the gods. They prefer to stand at the back of a fight and perform divine attacks, bolster the party, and heal allies.

Elite Skills
Enhanced Grace of Life - Your Grace of Life also increases the maximum MP.
Grace of Life - You and your party members’ maximum HP and MP are increased.
Life Link - Your Urgent Heal now also heals you.
Last Prayer - Your next spell’s casting time is reduced.
Divine Incarnation - Heals effects are increased, but MP cost and magic attack are decreased.
Calm Heart - Friendly target resists Fear.
Sacrificial Cure - Sacrifice your own life energy to restore a party member’s HP.
Holy Power - Temporarily increases your wisdom.
Conceal - A total defense technique used by fairies.
Devotion Halo - Raises the wisdom of party members within a radius.
Light Fairy - Summons a light fairy to assist you.
Recall - Call back your fairy.

Priest/Mage – Cleric (Easy Starter Class)
Clerics are versatile casters, both capable in divine magic and skilled in the use of elemental magic. They are powerful due to the large number of both curative and destructive magics available to them.

Elite Skills
Freeze - Freezes your target in place.
Remove Curse - Removes curse from target. 
Angel’s Blessing - Restores additional mana to you and your party. 
Angel’s Carol - Regenerates mana to you and your party.
Lightning Rod - If Bone Chill is on the target, striking it with Lightning will also cause an Electric Shock.
Enlightenment - When you use Heal, there is a chance to temporarily increase your Wisdom.
Icewind Blade - Water and wind energies combine to form a sharpened blade that inflicts damage.
Wind Fairy - Summons a wind fairy to assist you.

Priest/Rogue - Defiler
The Defiler best serves as a first line of defense for the party, being able to heal wounds and remove ailments that afflict allies. In addition, the Defiler can weaken and harm enemies with corrupted magical attacks. 

Elite Skills
Snake Curse - Causes dark damage to your target. 
Infectious Wound - Attacks targets wounds causing dark damage and lowers effectiveness of heals received by target.
Quick Spellcasting - Increases spell casting speed.
Purge- Removes all beneficial effects from target.
Lure of the Snake Woman - Lures the target into a poisoned dreamland dealing Dark damage.
Shadow Fury - Increases the whole party’s magic crit rate.
Snake Spirit - Replenishes your mana when the effect of your Snake Curse wears off.
Shadow Fairy - Summons a shadow fairy to assist you.

Priest/Scout – Shaman
The Shamans world is filled with powerful living spirits. By bargaining with these spirits, the shaman gains power over the natural world and mighty divine magic with which to aid their comrades or smite their enemies.

Elite Skills
Embrace of the Water Spirit - Raises you and your party’s magic attack.
Throat Stab - Increases the range of Throat Attack.
Enhanced Wave Armor - Wave armor now also increases defense.
Tide Control - Rising Tide causes additional ranged weapons damage.
Curing Shot - Heals friendly targets within reach immediately and over time.
Ice Blade - Turns magic into a knife blade to attack the target, dealing water damage.
Saint’s Blessing - When you cast a Heal on a friendly target with low HP, it is enhanced.
Water Fairy - Summons a water fairy to assist you.

Priest/Warrior – Monk
Those who desire to engage in graceful melee combat will find the Monk profession to be an exciting path. The Monk is best served on the front-lines where their advanced stances are most effective against their foe. 

Elite Skills
Battle Monk Stance - Physical attack is raised, defense is raised, and healing effectiveness is reduced.
Explosion of Fighting Spirit - Mana is converted into fighting spirit to charge the target and inflict damage.
Fighting Spirit Combination - Releases two successive bursts of fighting spirit.
Ascending Dragon Strike - By transforming rage into the dragon form, you inflict damage.
Power Build-Up - Your next physical attack does double damage.
Vindictive Strike - Inflicts lots of damage and stuns the target.
Condensed Rage - Instantly gain rage and enter Condensed Rage state where each attack recovers HP.
Fire Fairy - Summons a fire fairy to assist you.

Rogue/Druid - Invoker
While most Rogues best their opponents through stealth and careful training, Invokers find power to come with far greater ease through the wrath of the forest.

Elite Skills
Hysteric Vengeance - If you are hit by physical attacks, you have a chance to increase your critical physical attack rate.
Poison Antibodies - Makes it so you cannot be affected by poison after you successfully use Antidote.
Poison Shroud - Inflicts poison damage on most targets within range.
Killin’ Time - Increases the critical physical hit rate of your next four attacks.
Crippling Poison - You learn a new poison that can reduce targets magical defense.
Slaughter Blessing - Instantly restores HP and increases attack power/magical power to you and your party members.

Rogue/Knight – Rogue
Rogues are versatile, adaptable, and skilled at getting what others don’t want them to get. While not equal to a fighter in combat, a rogue knows how to hit where it hurts, and a sneak attack can dish out a lot of damage. 

Elite Skills
Armor Breaker - Increases Disarmament’s damage.
Poison Protection - When activated, will prevent any poison effect.
Lion’s Protection - Increases your physical attack.
Holy Light Protection - Reduce magical damage received and prevents root or slow effects.
Courageous Guard - Protects party members in a range from Fear.
Power of the Lion - With Lion’s Protection, you can turn it into Power of the Lion to instantly raise your HP.
Searing Light - Causes your normal attacks to deal additional Light damage.
Reckless Warrior - Whenever you use Low Blow or Blind Spot, there is a chance that it will boost your physical attack.

Rogue/Mage – Nightblade
Spell and shadow are their friends. By darkness they move with haste, casting magic to benefit their circumstances. Nightblades are spellcasters who use their magics to enhance mobility, concealment, and stealthy close combat.

Elite Skills
Poison Trap - Creates a magical poisonous trap that poisons anyone who enters it.
Booby Trap - A burning magical trap that deals explosive damage to anyone that enters it.
Paralyzing Trap - A trap that paralyzes anyone that enters it.
Magic Breaker - Removes a beneficial effect from target. 
Poison Flame - Cause poison damage and lowers spell casting speed.
Enhanced Paralysis - All targets affected by your Paralyzing Trap stay Paralyzed even when attacked.
Create Opportunity - Increases the damage of the next physical attacks and stuns your target.
Protective Aura - When your HP is low, physical and magical damage taken will be decreased, as well as your physical attack strength.

Rogue/Priest – Duelist
The duelist is a nimble, intelligent class trained in making precise attacks with light weapons, such as daggers. They always take full advantage of their quick reflexes and wits in a fight. Rather than wearing bulky armor, a duelist feels the best way to protect himself is not to get hit at all.

Elite Skills
Quickness Aura - Raises the dodge rate of you and your party.
Wound Tear - Your Wound Attack critical rate is increased.
Shadow Walker - Your Sneak Attack no longer needs to be used before battle, and the cost is reduced with increased cool down.
Fearless - Immune to fear effects.
Kick - Kicks the targets shinbone causing damage and lowering the target’s movement speed.
Slowing Poison - Cause poison damage and lowers attacking speed.
Sinister Methods - Using Low Blow or Blind Spot may increase your critical hit rate.
Man Surge - Magic Barrier will recover HP whenever you receive physical attack.

Rogue/Scout – Assassin (Easy Starter Class)
The Assassin is the master of dealing quick, lethal blows. Assassins often function as spies, informants, killers for hire, or agents of vengeance. Their training in anatomy, stealth, and poison allows them to carry out missions of death with shocking, terrifying precision.

Elite Skills
Deadly Shot - Raises your Shot’s rate to deal critical damage.
Slit Throat - Throat Attack now also Silences the target.
Energy Thief - Every normal attack restores points of energy. 
Combat Master - Raises your rate to deal critical hits and critical damage.
Substitute - Uses a substitute for you to absorb an attack.
Tounge Poison - Attacks may Poison the target, extending the casting time of its spells.
Coerce - The energy cost for using Low Blow is reduced, and when enemy HP is low your damage increases.
Wraith Attack - Your Shadowstab will damage a second target for half damage in one attack.

Rogue/Warden - Stalker
Beware, you who wonder the night. Each step you take leads you deeper in the hideous reign of the horrible ruler of the dark, the Stalker.

Elite Skills
Weak Point Strike - Inflicts damage and can further inflict more damage if the weak point is hit.
Hidden Master - Reduces the physical and magic damage you suffer while in Hide status.
Bloodthirsty Blade - Deals damage and has a chance to increase your critical hit rate.
Crazed Creed - Permanently raises your critical damage.
Vanish - Along with Vanish, all damage you suffer will be reduced.
Emotional Obstruction - Sends out a purple fog that reduces the target’s magical damage.
Wood Spirit’s Grasp - Increases the damage of Power of the Wood Spirit, and can increase your parties magical and weapon damage.

Rogue/Warrior – Brigand
Those who enjoy a tough and unpredictable scrapper that works the dark corners of the world for gain through intimidation will find the Brigand to their liking. He serves his group best as an unseen element in the chaos of battle, positioning himself just behind the frontlines and dealing powerful strikes of opportunity against the enemy.

Elite Skills
Throwing Mastery - Your Throw can now Slow the target.
One-Hand Axe Mastery - One-hand axe damage is increased.
Whirlwind Mastery - Reduces the cost of Whirlwind and decreases cooldown.
Death’s Touch - Effectiveness of heals on target is reduced.
Poisonous Infection - While Poisonous, Bleed caused by Shadowstab or Slash can poison the target, and cause damage.
Poison Spray - Can be used when target has Poisonous Infection to spread the poison to nearby targets.
Decay - Deals damage, and has the chance to raise your critical attack rate and critical damage.
Reclaim Energy - When you use Shadowstab, there is a chance of recovering energy. When you use Poisonous Infection, there is a chance that your rage will increase.

Scout/Druid - Sentinal
Sentinals have the ability to feel or perceive nature subjectively. Acquiring spells and abilities otherwise forgotten by those less in-tune with the spirits around them.

Elite Skills
Curse Breaker - Removes target’s cursed status.
Snake Poison Arrow - Inflicts ranged damage and has a chance to stun or poison your target.
Unbinding Magic - Removes Root and Slow from target’s body.
Elven Eye - Temporarily increases critical physical hit rate.
Devour Blood - A successful hit of your Vampire Arrows can recover MP to friendly party members in range.
Focus - Half of your wisdom will be converted into attack power.

Scout/Knight – Nobleman
Swift on foot, they use distance as their ally. Slower adversaries are fodder for their arrows. Nobleman are dedicated to rooting out and destroying the perverted practices of dark cults and profane sorcery.

Elite Skills
Repelling Shot - Roots the target and cause ranged weapon damage.
Healing Shot - Heals your target’s HP.
Enhanced Armor Perfection - Enhanced Armor lasts longer.
Mana Conversion - Convert mana into focus.
Mana Recovery - Gives your Healing Shots a chance to recover mana as well.
Armor-piercing Arrow - Extends the range of your Disarmament.
Escape Danger - You are immune against Helpless, Stun, Root, and Slow effects.
Spirit Meld - Keeps your Reflected Shots from losing reflective damage, with chance to boot party members physical and magic attacks.

Scout/Mage – Trickster
Tricksters combine their knowledge of spells with a taste for intrigue, larceny, or just plain mischief. They are among the most adaptable of adventurers. Arcane spellcasting and ranged weaponary are signature skills with Tricksters. 

Elite Skills
Purify Arrow - Removes curses and harmful effects from target.
Blazing Energy - Your fire elemental based spell damage will be increased.
Ignite - Causes fire based damage to multiple targets in range.
Gone like the Wind - Wind magic makes the caster invisible, ends combat, and clears aggro.
Cursed Arrow - Puts a poisonous curse on your arrow to inflict damage and reduce healing.
Prairie Fire - Increases damage of Ignite and may also Root your opponent.
Wilderness Campaign - Your Combo Shot might increase the physical attack power and magical damage of party members.
Aggro Transfer - Using Shot while Aggro Transfer is in effect triggers Secret Hatred. While Secret Hatred is in effect, you can transfer your aggro to a party member through the power of the wind. The party member will restore mana.

Scout/Priest – Pilgrim
Pilgrim profit in life by bartering in the market, or by persuading the weak-minded. Pilgrims are travelers, seekers of truth and enlightenment. They fortify themselves for road and wilderness with arms, armor, and magic.

Elite Skills
Purifying Arrow - Remove one harmful effect from target.
Mana Arrow - Target recovers mana over time.
Sniper - Reduces your snipe casting time.
Spiritual Leader - Raises attack speed and casting speed of party members.
Vampiric Transformation - Transforms the blood drawn by your Vampire Arrows into heals for your group.
Target Neck - Extends the range of your Neck Strike, but requires long range weapons.
Drums of War - Each hit may raise the physical and magic critical hit rate of party members near you.
Aggro Lead - Using Shot while Aggro Lead is in effect triggers Secret Hatred. While Secret Hatred is in effect, you can transfer your aggro to a party member through the power of the wind. The party member has reduced damage.

Scout/Rogue – Ranger (Easy Starter Class)
A ranger can use a variety of weapons and is quite capable in combat. His skills allow him to survive in the wilderness, to find his prey, and to avoid detection.

Elite Skills
Weak Point - Shooting at the weakness of the target causing ranged weapon’s damage and increases critical rate.
Blinding Powder - Prevents your target from attacking.
Lasso Master - Your Lasso now restrains the target from movement and attacks.
Sapping Arrow - Lowers target’s magic defense and physical defense.
Deadly Poison Bite - The deadly poison on your arrow inflicts damage, and critical strikes lowers max HP.
Exploiting Shot - When your Shot makes a critical hit, your target receives additional damage.
Deadly Counterattack - When your Piercing Arrow hits the target it may raise your physical critical hit rate.
Poisonous Spit - Keeps your Reflected Shot from losing reflective damage. Also, with every Reflected Shot or Combo Shot, there is a chance that the target will be poisoned if you are carrying Poison Powder.

Scout/Warden - Revenent
Revenent are warriors dedicated to paying homage to the spirits of the forest creatures who once served as scouts when the world was young.

Elite Skills
Thorn Arrow - Uses Briar Shield to turn the thorns that surround you into thorn arrows that attack your target.
Entling Offering - Each time your Shot hits a target, the target may also suffer earth damage.
Hidden Peril - You attack your target using the forest for cover dealing damage and reducing snipe cast time.
Charged Power - Your Charged Chop becomes a ranged attack.
Natural Care - Permanently increases your received healing and ranged weapon damage.
Hide Scent - While merged with your surrounding, all enemies will lose interest in you allowing you to leave combat and erase aggro. Your next Hidden Peril will be stronger.

Scout/Warrior – Archer
Archers are fighters specializing in long-range combat and rapid movement. Opponents are kept at distance by ranged weapons and swift maneuver, and engaged in melee with sword and shield after the enemy is wounded and weary. 

Elite Skills
Battle Instinct - Increases your dexterity.
Master of Survival - Increases max health.
Enhanced Throat Attack - Your Throat Attack has increased range and can cause an additional silence.
Mental Focus - Recovers focus.
Target Lock - Physical damage received by the target is increased.
Gale - Increases damage of Combo Shot and prevents you from being interrupted by an attack.
Accurate Targeting - When your Shot hits a target there is a chance to increase the physical attack power.
Recover Vitality - Upon hitting a target with Snipe or Piercing Arrow, there is a chance that you will gain rage and cancel a beneficial effect on target.

Warden/Warrior - Woodsman
Woodsman are masters of defending the vulnerable midst of nature. They also have the ability to use natures spirits alongside them in combat.

Elite Skills
Double Chop - Double attack.
Beast Chop - Deals damage and may raise pets attack.
Ire - Forces the target to turn towards the pet.
Restraint - If your Spirit of the Oak dies, your defense will be increased and attacks can stop enemy skills.
Summon Spirit of the Oak - Summons an oak spirit to help you.
Pulse Mastery - Increases your physical attack power even more.
Resonance of Life - Sacrifices your Spirit of the Oak to recover HP and increase max HP.

Warden/Scout - Hunter
They have ranged combat skills, as well as close combat abilities, and can even use natures spirits to do their bidding.

Elite Skills
Anti-Magic Arrow - Deals damage and restores mana.
Beast Tamer - Increase your pet’s critical hit rate and dodge rate.
Submission - Pet summon cast time is reduced.
Centaur’s Arrow - An arrow infused with the strength of centaurs that deal damage.
Summon Chiron the Centaur - Summons the centaur Chiron to help you in battle.
Secret Agreement - Permanently increases your melee weapon damage and damage caused by Chiron.
Morale Boost - Increases your and your party members’ physical damage and magical damage.

Warden/Rogue - Coercer
Master of domination, Coercers can subjugate the spirits of the forest, taking complete control and forcing an unwitting creature to do their bidding.

Elite Skills
Achilles’ Heel Strike - Deals damage and raises critical hit rate of yourself and your pet.
Thorn Upgrade - Increases damage done by thorny vines and restores your mana when the effect ends.
Gravel Attack - Deals damage, with each successful hit having a chance to inflict more Earth damage.
Soul of the Spirit Tree - Increases damage of Power of the Wood Spirit, and when the targets HP gets low the crit chance increases.
Store Power - Slightly increases the damage and crit hit of your Charged Chop.
Critical Feeling - If Oak Walkers’ Sepal Stab, your next two attacks could be critical.

Warden/Mage - Mystic
Mystics invoke elemental strikes against their opponents and use nature to retaliate with unyielding conviction against those who dare to harm their allies.

Elite Skills
Wind Chop - Deals damage and can deal extra wind damage.
Tough Oak - Increases your pet’s defense and lowers Punch cooldown.
Punch - Deals damage.
Oak Blessing - Enhances Heart of the Oak health effect and restores health.
Nature’s Revenge - Inflicts Earth damage.
Spiritual Feedback - Reduces the HP use of your Spirit Attack, and can increase you and your pets magical damage.
Crystal Production - When your Nature Crystal dies, physical and magical damage done to your party is reduced.

Warden/Druid - Warden
Warden can cast nature-based spells as well as fight adequately when the need arises. They are also able to summon Nature’s spirits as companions to fight beside him. 

Elite Skills
Antidote - Removes poison state from one friendly target.
Magic Control - Restricts target’s magic energy and magic attack.
Quick Reflexes - Increases pet physical critical resistance and dodge.
Earth Spirit Essence - Cloaks your weapon in the power of earth, making attacks deal Earth damage.
Natural Spring - If Nature Crystal’s Beam Attack, your group can restore MP.
Connection - Your Elven Prayer can bestow an additional spell onto your pet temporarily increasing physical and magical damage.

Warrior/Druid - Guardian
A combination spellcaster and fighter, the Guiardian can fight with arms as well as cast debuffing spells on opponents and beneficial spells on allies.

Elite Skills
Rose Vine - Your standard attacks can cause bleeding.
Tremor - Use when target is Weakened to cause fierce tremors that inflict damage and lowers accuracy.
Guardian’s Pledge - Temporarily increases the maximum HP and crit resist of you and your party.
Redemption - If your Probing Attack fails physical and magical accuracy will increase for your group.
Remove Magic - Cleanses harmful magical effects from your target.
Recovery of Life - Your Whirlwind’s cooldown time and Rage is reduced, with a chance to increase max HP on hit.

Warrior/Knight – Barbarian (Easy Starter Class)
Fearsome brutes who inspire fear and dread in the hearts of their enemies. Like a storm, swift and powerful. Finding use in heavy armor, they rely on smashing their foes into the ground. 

Elite Skills
Throw Shield - Throws your shield at target causing damage.
Blocking Stance - Increases your chance to block.
Ignore Pain - Immune against Helpless, Stun, Root and Slow effects.
Shield Bash - Immediately strike back with your shield causing damage.
Heroic Surprise Attack - Immediately strike at the target with your shield causing damage.
Concentrated Precision - Increases accuracy.
Fierce Attack - When hit with Throw Shield you can lower your targets critical resistance.
Resist - In a Blocking Stance physical damage is lowere, and rage increases.

Warrior/Mage – Stormlord
Stormlords wield thunder and lightning like a fighter wields his sword. Because of their command of one of the most destructive aspects of nature, Stormlords are viewed with awe and feared by lesser folk, regardless of their motivation.

Elite Skills
Electrical Rage - Causes main weapon’s DPS and increases magic damage.
Lightning’s Touch - Deals Wind damage. 
Sense of Danger - Lowers the damage you receive.
Thunder Sword - Fires sword shaped thunder bolts at the target inflicting Wind damage.
Electric Attack - Your attacks gain Wind damage.
Lava Weapon - Your attacks gain Fire damage.
Power Control - Electric Attack increases your physical accuracy and Lava Weapon raises physical critical hit rate.
Wind Bastion - On successful taunt, your physical defense increases.

Warrior/Priest – Warpriest
Warpriests are fierce, earthy clerics who pray for peace but prepare for war. Their strong wills, powerful personalities, and devotion to their deities make them fearsome combatants. Warpriests are experts of group warfare and have many powers to protect and rally their allies while terrifying their foes.

Elite Skills
Defender’s Roar - Increase the maximum HP of you and your group.
Interrupting Strike - Interrupts target’s casting and causes damage.
Magic Barrier Perfection - Your Magic Barrier now also decreases the magical damage received.
Bloodlust - Convert health into rage.
Opportunity - Deal damage with target is weakened.
Blood Retention - Gain Rage when you use Bloodlust.
Morale Boost - Causes your Berserk to increase the damage of your group.
Barbarian Battle Cry - Casts Fear in an area, lowers their physical and magical damage, and the Slash and Probing Attack causes added damage.

Warrior/Rogue – Berserker
The Berserker’s skills in melee combat consume the entirety of his role and abilities. The Berserker is the personification of unbridled rage and fury, making him a powerful combatant. The Berserker serves his party on the frontlines of battle where he can best vent his rage upon his enemies in melee combat.

Elite Skills
Shadowstab Perfection - You no longer need to have a dagger equipped to gain the Bleed bonus of the Shadowstab skill.
Speed Up - Increases your movement speed.
Blood Dance - Causes damage of the main hand weapon’s DPS.
Frenzied Attack - Critical hit rate is increased, Slow and Roots are removed, but defense is reduced.
Keen Attack - Deal two attack if target is Vulnerable.
Splitting Chop - Deals damage if target is Weakened.
Frenzied Heart - When you enter Frenzied Attack state, your physical critical damage is increased.
Exhaustion - Lowers the rage required by your Whirlwind. Also when using Probe Attack, there’s a chance to lower the target’s energy, focus, rage, and mana.

Warrior/Scout – Fighter
Unafraid of light weaponry, Fighters plow into the fray with little regard for injury. Masters of all melee tools, they put little faith in the magical arts. Fighters are the professional men-at-arms, soldiers, and mercenaries, trained with various weapons and armor styles.

Elite Skills
Skull Breaker - Precise strike at the enemy’s head causing main hand’s weapon damage and has a chance of lowering target’s accuracy.
Stun Shot - Stuns your target.
Moon Cleave Perfection - Reduces your Moon Cleave rage cost.
Aim for the Wound - Inflict ranged weapon’s DPS. Has a chance of gaining rage.
Sword Breath - Deals damage with a chance to gain Rage.
Calm - When Skull Breaker fails you enter a state of calm in order to increase accuracy.
Waiting Game - When you use Aim for the Wound and Moon Cleave it may raise your physical attack power.
The Final Battle - Deals damage, and if targets HP is low it will inflict added damage.

Warrior/Warden - Savage
Encompass the concept of the natural being, unencumbered by civilization or human intervention. The Savages actions are natural, innate, and based on the spirit of the forest.

Elite Skills
Savage Strike - May raise your physical attack after you hit a target.
Attack Weakener - Deals damage and reduces targets physical attack when target is Vulnerable.
Mental Bestiary - Increase the damage of your slash attacks on vulnerable beasts and humanoids.
Savage Whirlwind - Deals damage.
Wind Howl - When using Savage Whirlwind, you can increase you and your parties physical and magical damage.
Awakening of the Wild - Prevents Root and Slow effects, and increases critical hit rate.

Credits go to Saieno.

Skills to max :
Warrior: Slash , Tactical Attack, Skull Breaker , 2h Mastery
Scout: Vampire Arrow, and Swiftness

Other Skills:

– Surprise Attack – level this one to 20 to be eligible for Shout (5 sec AOE stun)
– Aim for the Wound
– Moon Cleave and Blasting Cyclone
– Brute Strength

After maxing those, spend your TP at your discretion. You will make use of all of your elite skills. So be prepared to obtain them.

Important Information:

Strength effects ALL physical damage, including ranged.
Dexterity only effects chance to hit and dodge.

Grinding PVE: This should be fairly self-evident. But for the sake of completeness, I will address it briefly here.

Begin at 180 Range

Vampire Arrow
Aim for the Wound
Surprise Attack
Skull Breaker x2
Slash
Tactical Attack

Use Frenzy and Berserking when they’re up. Stun Shot and Throat Attack when needed.

Disclaimer: Some players claim to be able to AOE-grind as a Fighter, it’s certainly possibly. Perfected Moon Cleave, Blasting Cyclone and Whirlwind would be your best friends if that is the path you choose to take. Mobs die very quick one at a time, with zero risk. Whether or not you want to attempt AOE is completely optional.

Leveling a Fighter:

1-10

You will want to use a 2-hand weapon as a fighter, since all of the abilities the fighter uses work best with a 2-hand weapon.

Use the TP you get from the first 10-levels to increase the effectiveness of Slash and Tactical Attack.

Save the daily quests until you’re almost ready to call it for the day/night. Ideally you want to do the highest level ones youre capable of each day.

10-20

Once you hit 10, pick your secondary class (scout) and fetch yourself a ranged weapon.

I’d recommend leveling your scout to 4 immediately to obtain Vampire Arrow. Amazing skill, will make your questing much easier.

Once your Warrior half is 20 or close to it, change to Scout, and catch up your Scout to 15 (or 16 if you want Throat Attack). You want to get your 15/15 elite skill as soon as possible (Skull Breaker), as this is a class defining, and destructive grinding ability. It will make leveling infinitely easier on you.

The best way to quickly catch your scout-half up to 15 is to use the ability to port to Riefort and do the quests that the friendly Goat-People will give you.

20-30+

Following the quests to 30 on your Warrior should be fairly simple. You can achieve 20 on your Scout-half in Rienfort, from there you should do daily quests and anything you skipped. Maybe even some good ol’ grinding.

Remember, you only really need to get your Scout-half to 30. 31-50 will allow you to increase the rank of abilities like Vamp Arrow, but you dont get any new abilities.

Macros: (Contributed by Bearcrazy)

Enrage -> Vampire Arrow -> Autoshot -> Shot -> Wind Arrows; while at the same time walking backward away from the target mob.

Since I often forget to cast Enrage, I developed the following macro which always check for the availability of the Enrage skill first before firing.

("5" is my Enrage. "4" is my Vampire Arrow):

/script if ( GetActionUsable(5) ) then UseAction(5); else UseAction(4); end
/wait 0.3
/script if ( GetActionUsable(4) ) then UseAction(4); else end
/wait 0.3
/cast Autoshot
/wait 0.3
/cast Shot
/wait 1.2
/cast Wind Arrows

For Warrior as main, for simplicity sake, I would only include Enrage, Vampire Arrow, Shot, Stun Shot. These would be incorporated into 2 macros.

First macro is to cast Enrage(1) -> Stun Shot(2) -> Vampire Arrow(3):

/script if (GetActionUsable(1)) then UseAction(1); else end
/wait 0.3
/script if (GetActionUsable(2)) then UseAction(2); else UseAction(3); end
/wait 1.2
/script if (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(2); end

The reason for this loop around b/w VA and Stun is if a target is outside of the Stun’s rage, the macro would go for VA and then as mob come closer, hopefully close enough to use Stun.

However, if distance is still too far for stun which happens a lot since I usually walk backward as soon as I fire off, we have the second macro.

The second macro involves double if’s and stun shot(2), VA(3) and wind arrows(4):

/script if (GetActionUsable(2)) then UseAction(2); elseif (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(4); end
/wait 1.2
/script if (GetActionUsable(3)) then UseAction(3); else UseAction(4); end

These two macros are overlapped this way to ensure stun shot and vampire arrow will be casted.

PVP:

Warrior Primary Skill List:

Frenzy Greatly increases attack speed, accuracy, and damage for 15 seconds.
Probing Attack Causes 70…280% main hand weapon DPS and can make the target Vulnerable.
Soft Spot When the target is Vulnerable this brute force attack causes 110…440% main hand weapon DPS to the target and Weakens it.
Tactical Attack Inflicts 45…180% main hand weapon DPS and additional damage if target is affected by a Bleed effect caused by Slash. (Requires a two-handed weapon.)
Thunder To be used when the target is in Weakened state. Causes 130…520% main hand weapon DPS with an additional 2…6 second Stun. (Requires a one-hand weapon.)
Feint After the enemy dodges, 80…280% main hand weapon DPS are once inflicted on the target.
Surprise AttackThe Surprise Attack causes 16.4…180.4 physical damage, additionally Knocking down the target. (Must have a distance of at least 60 from the target.)
Taunt Forces the target to turn towards you for 5…17.5 seconds.
Moon Cleave Attack multiple targets within range three times. Each attack inflicts 40…160% main hand weapon DPS. (Requires a two-handed weapon) **(See Elite Skills List for upgraded version)**
Shout Stuns up to 5 targets in a range of 90 for3 seconds.
One-Hand Weapon Master Increase damage with one-handed swords, axes, or hammers by 5…40%.
2-H Weapon Master Increase damage with two-handed swords, axes, or hammers by 5…35%.
Terror Force an enemy to flee for 4…14 seconds.
Aggressiveness Enhances speed of rage increase by 20…70% for 30 seconds.
Survival Instinct Can only be used when HP is below 25%. Increases defense by 25…87.5%, raises the chance of dodging by 5…17.5% and increases parry rate by 5…17.5 for 30 seconds.
Group Taunt Taunts most targets within range to target the player; lasts 4…14 seconds.
Blasting Cyclone Causes 100…350% main hand weapon DPS to multiple targets within range and Knocks targets down.

Warrior General Skill List:

Slash Inflicts 80…320% main hand weapon DPS to the target with an additional chance to add Bleed effect. (Bleed effect only with equipped axe.)
Enraged Immediately increase rage by 20 points.
Whirlwind Whirling in place you cause 70…280% main hand weapon DPS to the targets within range.
Berserk Increases attacks by 3…33% and decreases defense by 3…33% for 30 seconds.
Defensive Formation Increases defense of all group members by 5…55% and decreases offense by 5…55% for 60 seconds.
Brute Strength Increases strength by 10…60 points.

Scout General Skill List:
Bow Training Can equip bows and crossbows
Shot Fires one shot at the target causing 70…297.5% ranged weapon DPS.
Vampire Arrows Inflicts 23.5…240.9 points of damage and additionally draws 16…416 HP every 2 seconds for 10 seconds.
Joint Blow Causes 16.4…180.4 points of physical damage and Slows the target by 40% for 4…10 seconds.
Blood Arrow For 60 seconds, every 2 seconds your HP are reduced by 2…8% and the physical attack of your ranged weapons is increased by 10…35%. (Right click the Buff icon to stop effect.)
Throat Attack Causes 16.4…180.4 physical damage and interrupts the target’s spell casting.
Wrist Attack Damage dealt by the target is decreased by 30% for 5 seconds.
Swiftness Dexterity increases by 10…60 points.
Speed Shooting Mastery The speed of bows and crossbows is increased by 10…35%.

Warrior/Scout (Fighter) Elite Skills List:

Skull Breaker (15/15) Precise strike at the enemy’s head that causes 80…300% main hand weapon DPS and has a 50% chance of lowering the target’s accuracy by 10…60%.
Stun Shot (20/20) Causes your target to be Stunned for seconds. (Requires ranged weapon.)
Moon Cleave Perfection (25/25) Reduces your Moon Cleave rage cost by 10 points and cool down by 20 seconds.
Moon Cleave (25/25) Attack targets within range three times, each attack inflicts 40…160% main hand weapon DPS. (Requires 2-handed weapon)
Aim for the Wound (30/30) Inflict 70…280% ranged weapon DPS. Has a chance of gaining additional 5…30 points of rage. (Requires a ranged weapon.)

Obtaining Elite Skills:

Once both your Warrior and Scout halves are 15, you go to Veranas administration area, and talk to the [Elite Skills Master].

Tell him you want to learn your 15/15 Elite skill. He will give you a list of mats you need to bring to him. Purchase the mats from the auction house, bring them back to him.

Once you bring him the mats, he will give you a certificate. Turn the certificate back into him and you will have your elite skill.

Related Patch Notes:
Source: http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Credits go to Dulu.

"Biggles: Er…. Nobody…um….
Ximinez: Expects…
Biggles: Expects… Nobody expects the…um…the Spanish…um…
Ximinez: Inquisition. " 

As soon as you enter the lands of Taborea you’ll adopt our first and most important creed: Magic is for pussies! We are real men, we use our brawn to beat stuff into the ground really hard and we don’t have to wear dresses to do it. But why are we the way we are? What do we have?

• A strange desire to chop heads from close range
• An easy to replenish energy source
• Ability to wear chain which gives us a decent end-game set
• Additional mitigation in the form of Regeneration powered by our manly 2 handed head-chopper
• A great "They did in fact expect the Spanish Inquisition " button in the form of Holy Aura
• Great defense against the dress wearing kind in the form of Improved Magic Barrier (25/25 Elite)
• An interrupt for those brave enough to try conjuring blasphemy for more than 1 second (20/20 Elite)
• Our devotion to the Pope blessed us with "at will" rage in the form of Bloodlust (30/30 Elite)

"Ximinez: Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons….Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…."

Now that we know who we are, let’s look at out tools

Face Smashing

• Slash: Max it. It has a pretty good damage/rage ratio especially due to the high bleed. The other attractive feature of this skill is that it has no cooldown so it’s going to be your main rage dump until you get your 35/35 elite. After Opportunity just use this every 6 seconds for the bleed.
• Probing Attack: Max it. Your other opening skill, which has a bit lower damage than slash, but necessary to fire off the rest of your high damage combo. It would be excellent if it wouldn’t have the 4sec cooldown, but you can’t have it all.
• Soft Spot: Max it. Simply awesome, for 10 rage every 4 seconds you get to use an attack that does 1.5 times the damage probing does. It doesn’t get any better than this…or does it?
• Opportunity: Max it (when you get it). 35/35 Elite. Hello there Soft Spot’s older brother! 15 rage for double probing attack damage. What’s not to love? Well the 4 sec cooldown and you having to go down the chain (Probing->Soft->Opportunity), but it’s still a great skill.
• Two handed Weapon Master: Max it. You want to be a great inquisitor don’t you? Every great inquisitor smashes faces like the best of them and he does it by maxing this skill.
• Feint. Good skill if you expect some of those elusive individuals to cross paths with you: the damage is good, the cooldown is close to nonexistant and it costs no rage.
• Interrupting Strike. Your main interrupt, try to keep rage available for it if you face caster mobs. It’s nothing out of the ordinary but nice to have nontheless.
• AoE Skills. This is a mixed bag: you can generate the rage to drop all of them in quick succession due to bloodlust but doing so will require you hogging the priest full-time. In solo work i haven’t found these useful due to all the melee hate which prevents me from aggroing lots of stuff all at once; BC is good to catch a breath if you happen to face humanoid mobs though.
• Berserk. Useless until you gear up, useful if you outgear the enemy and your Regenerate can compensate for the loss in defense.

Preparing Faces for the Smashing

• Surprise Attack: 20 Pts. Your main "Face, meet Axe!" skill, embrace it and love it since it’s your only way to get from enemy to enemy faster than snail speed; it’s also a good interrupt agains humanoid mobs if they happen to open with a cast. The skill works fine with no points but you want 20 points to unlock shout.
• Shout. The Good: AoE stun and it’s already maxed. The Bad: 2 min cooldown and limited to 5 targets The Ugly: Needs 30 rage and is only 3 second long. Poor skill overall when compared to the mage’s Discharge, but nontheless it’s a good "ocrap" skill.
• Terror. Maxed it’s about 15 seconds of fear if you manage not to hit your target. The duration is ok, the cooldown isn’t horrid but it’s still a bit too high (at 45 sec). If you have spare TP this is an ok skill to pour some points
• Aggressiveness. This is your second contender for spare TP with a decent uptime for its cooldown it maxes at 70% extra rage generated which will make you stay at max rage for the whole duration of it.

Keeping an Intact Face

• Regeneration: Max it. No nonsese healing skill which continues working while being stunned, feared or silenced and it gets an ok benefit from us using a 2h weapon
• Enhanced Magic Barrier. It’s great for solo work, it brings those magic mobs back to "cake" level and the elite actually makes it better than the priest one:EMB advances at 1%/level (with the additional 0.1%/level flat damage reduction of course) while the priest one advances at 0.6%/level. It might also make you a "1st choice" for a melee DPS if a magic damage dominated end-game dungeon gets released.
• Defender’s Roar. 15/15 Elite. This is kind of "meh" because it only has 50% uptime and it running out in the middle of combat isn’t that nice. Still if you predict a fight will run for less than 1 min it’s a useful buff to use since it’s the equivalent of 70-80 stamina
• Survival Instinct. This is an interesting one for us because unlike other classes we can trigger this whenever we want with bloodlust, so for very short fights (<30s) we can actually play as a tank. Other than that it’s an ok "ocrap" button with a cooldown which is still a bit too high though.

Keeping our friends’ faces intact

• Taunt. No nonsense "Hit me now!" skill. It upgrades at an ok pace (0.25 sec per level) and has a bearable cooldown if you’re not tanking. Useful in instances but i wouldn’t hurry to upgrade it: a knight or any real CCers should notice a random mob wandering into the rest of the party pretty easily.
• Group taunt. Horrible horrible skill. 5 minute cooldown for an "I’ll die now, kthx" skill.
• Defensive Formation. Help your knight tank that boss even if his gear wouldn’t allow him. Good skill for progression, otherwise it’s a "meh" panic button
• Instant Heal and Regenerate. Use them if your priest doesn’t seem to be keeping up with the enemy damage or is silenced, since a dead party does not damage. Use them only as an emergency though, don’t try to act like a real healer.

"Now, Cardinal — the rack!"

Let’s talk about gear a little. 

You’re a damage dealing class. You’ll want to stack strength and p.att on your gear to keep up on the charts with your party mates. Strength gives 2 p.att per point so if you want to go "full damage" on a piece of gear, with 3 open mod slots you’ll want for example: Strength IX, Strength VIII and Might IX because Strength VII gives only 17 str (which is less than 40 p.att). From the yellows, Barbarian stands out as the best mod for the job, and regarding runes you’ll want Aggression. You’ll also want to put some Dexterity on your gear to keep your hitrate at a decent level.

You’re a melee damage class, which means you’ll be in the thick of things eating those AoEs so you’ll need a good amount of stamina/HP. The thing about W/P is that you don’t want to stack it too high because Bloodlust scales with HP and you want your regenerate to cover your health loss in a timely manner (you don’t want to hog your priest).

Rage scales with weapon speed so that isn’t a factor in choosing a weapon, but keep in mind that swords have a higher accuracy because they have a higher max. Weapon Skill. If somehow you’re interested in static damage skills (interrupting strike, surprise attack) you might want to know that you’ll want to use axes because the extra damage is dependant on the weapon damage not DPS.

When it comes to transmuting armor and you don’t depend on set bonuses keep in mind that the higher armor bonuses you get from the chest, pants and head pieces while the lowest from the cape, gloves and boots. This might be a good time to use cloth boots for the stamina bonus or lather gloves for dex bonus if you need the mods. Keep your jewels up to date as well, if you hit that HP sweet spot concentrate on getting good rings and neck instead of spending effort on earrings.

You’ll want to have consumables with you at all times:

• Food is very important for us manly types, our big brawn and big bellys have to be maintained so our enemies cower in fear as soon as we appear on the battlefield! P.attack or P.damage food will make your life quite a bit easier by upping your overall DPS (now that we can’t use Amplify attack from our own priest any more).Alternatively, if you can’t find any or can’t cook the +crit chance food is a decent DPS increase, especially if you have the Vahtos set and/or high leveled rings for the additional crit power.
• As a respectable Warrior of God you cannot have a good meal without a good Dessert, after all Ambrosia was the gift of Gods and it’s not wise to refuse the will of the Gods! The pdef and mdef deserts aren’t really as good as their offensive counterparts but i recommend keeping small stocks of "immunity deserts": Laor Forest Tart (50), Rainbow Crystal Candy(24) or Crisp Doughnuts (10) against physical and Forestsong Soft Cake (38) or Sweet Fruit Bread (14) against magic
• You remember those Gauls, especially Asterix , right? Like he proved numerous times, every good warrior needs Potions to unlock every ounce of potential in himself, and as someone who aspiers to a nice red uniform you don’t want to get left in the dust, do you? Like everyone, you’ll want to have some instant big HP restore potions (800/1200). You will also appreciate having some Stimulant (17) (or the better Strong Stimulant) on hand when you want to kill those average quest elites or when you bite more than you can chew. For party play Potion of Rage (or it’s upgraded version Strength of Battle) is mandatory for those times you can’t afford the 20% HP loss from Bloodlust and, as a damage dealing class, using Pacification Powder (25) (or the better Tranquility Powder) when your tank is having trouble with his aggro will get you bonus points. For general use, especially at high levels you might like using Elixir of the Sage (19) (or its better and more expensive counterpart Hero Potion (47) )

"Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit heresy against the Holy Church"

Solo Work

The "Snap, Crackle and Pop" will be your bread and butter routine when facing enemies by yourself. Draw at least two of them to have a good amount of rage generation (regenerate and eventually a HP pot should be enough) and spam your high DPS rotation: Slash-> Probing Attack->Soft Spot->Opportunity; until you get Opportunity you can use that cooldown on Slash or Bloodlust (depending on your rage generation). 

"Puny Mortals!".When trying to farm daily items from mobs lower level than yourself you can rival the killing speed of a mage by drawing as many enemies as you can handle (and you should be able to tank quite a few between upgraded chain armor, regenerate and a potion) and Smiting all those unbelivers with a few swoops. With that many mobs hitting you, a single Bloodlust should be enough to launch each of those 3 AoEs (Blasting Cyclone, Whirlwind and MoonCleave) in quick succession.

"Hah, an enemy worthy of my time!".As a Warrior of the Gods, descendant from Hercules himself, you should be able to handle some of those heathens who call themselves "The Elites". Low HP quest elites should be doable provided you keep your regen at a good level and have updated potions and gear. When going agains these the whole secret is to go "all-out": Frenzy, Stimulant, Aggressiveness, damage boosting food and start spamming those skills (avoid using Bloodlust as the damage is pretty high in burst) while keeping youself alive with regenerate, potions, holy aura, survival instinct and immunity dessets.
Party Play

"Snap, Crackle hold the Pop". Most of the time, unless you heavily outgear the instance some crowd control will be needed and depending on your party composition and player skill you might be needed to handle some yourself. In this situation you need to be careful with the rage, always try to keep above 30 so you can fire that Terror or Shout and don’t use Slash since the bleed damage will break the "fear" effect. When doing damage in this "stance" try going on the Probing chain.

"Groin Attack". When facing caster mobs start with Bloodlust so you can interrupt immediately, always be aware of what the mobs are doing since one interrupted spell provides quite some mitigation and it doesn’t cost the healer mana or cooldowns.

"Buddy, how about a hand here?". You work in tandem with your knight, always. Watch what he’s doing and adapt accordingly; you are his support, his safety net.

• A mob escaped from him? Taunt him and bring it back into his range so he can WW shield it back. If it’s possible, try not to tank it yourself for long periods of time because it puts an incredible strain on your healer if you’re not overgeared. This is one of the reasons "Group Taunt" is terrible on non W/Ks.
• Boss entered berzerk due to some unfortunate turn of events…and the healer is struggling to keep him alive through the high burst? Pop Defensive Formation since he can always manually disable it after the danger has passed.
• Tank aggroed quite a few mobs and they take a while to kill? Drop those AoEs and try to stay close to him in threat on the adds. Mobs that change targets to one that’s 1 meter away from the tank are easier to regain than mobs that went on a stroll towards the mage 300 meters in the back.

While you’re not off-tanking most of the time in the purest sense of the word, your contribution might just make it easier for the tank in unforseen circumstances.

"Holier than thou". Talk with your priest, know his limits ask him if he’s ok with keeping an eye on you more often than usual so you can use Bloodlust liberally. But remember, what he says is law, if he tells you "i can’t keep up both of you" (the tank and you) after the first 3 battles it doesn’t mean "i’m just kidding, go ahead and try to commit suicide, i’m going to heal you anyway" but it really does mean that using Bloodlust is risky and you have to use it sparingly (or only relying on your own support)

Credits go to Balathorn.

Table of Contents:

A) Introduction
B) Skills
1) Reccomended
2) Not Reccomended
C) Elite Skills
D) Playstyle/Role
E) Stats
F) Gear
G) Weapons debate
H) Conclusion

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[A] Introduction -
Contrary to the belief that this build does not mix well, I took it upon myself as I have in previous games to step 
away from the standard cookie-cutter style of standard RPGs, and set out to prove wrong the theories of hate and disgust 
with this class combination. Here I will do my best to cover all subjects with no error. My previous guide, due to 
patches/my changes & upgrades/suggestions, was in dire need of an update, and this rewrite was born.

Abbreviations used:
LT = Lightning Touch
TS = Thunder Sword
EA = Electric Attack
ER = Electric Rage
L = Lightning
FB = Fireball
CC = Crowd Control
AP = Attack Power
MP = Magic Power
Mdmg = Magic Damage
Pdmg = Physical Damage
Str = Strength
Int = Intelligence
Sta = Stamina
Wis = Wisdom
Dex = Dexterity
GCD = Global Cool-Down
TO = Threat Output
Hp = Health Points
Mp = Mana Points

[b] Skills -
[B1] Recommended -

Warrior Secondary -

Defensive Formation – This skill reduces your physical attack power at a [5% per level] ratio.
Why – Your a magical damage user, there’s no downside to this skill.

Warrior Primary -

Surprise Attack – This skill grants you the ability to rush into combat, dealing physical damage
and knocking the target down for 1 second.
Why – This is primarily a CC class, and the short knock down is still a usable intterupt.
Note – Not necessary to go past 20, but damage is still damage, doesn’t miss.

Shout – This skill will stun all targets within 90 yards for 3 seconds.
Why – This stun also counts as an interrupt, which is again part of our CC.

Survivors Instinct – This skill, when under 25% health, will increase your defense by a large amount.
Why – If you ever go under 25% health, this skill can make or break you.
Note – this is recommended, but not required, this has saved me so many times.

Terror – This skill will make the target run away in fear for a few seconds.
Why – Another staple of our CC.
Note – This skill breaks when the enemy is struck so make sure you use it at range, it activates auto-attack.

Mage Secondary -

Fireball – A long range magic skill with low mana cost and low damage.
Why – Limited spell arsenal makes this rotation-capable with low TO.
Note – DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS SPELL.

Lightning – Strike your opponent with lightning, rooting them to the ground for a long period.
Why – Staple of the CC/Mage classes.

Wisdom – Increases your intelligence by 10+[level+1].
Why – Why not?

Intensification – Increases your next spell’s damage by a medium amount.
Why – Only damage buff you can do by yourself.
Note – This skill only works on the first strike of TS, and is about a 10% overall damage increase for any spell.

Fire Ward – Increases your party’s fire resistance by a large amount.
Why – This is your only buff, and does make a large difference in some encounters.

Silence – Interrupts spell casting and prevents it for some time.
Why – PVP becomes so much easier with this skill, as does some boss fights (dorlos anyone?)

[B2] Not Recommended -

One Handed Weapon Mastery – Does not affect your WAND/Skill damage

Two Handed Weapon Master – Does not affect your STAFF/Skill damage

Strength – Does not affect your MAGIC/Skill damage

[C] Elite Skills -

(15) Electrical Rage – At max level increases your Matk by 45% [15% per strike, stacks x3]
Note – This skill affects your paperdoll (aka final) Matk.

(20) Lightnings Touch – Inflicts medium Mdmg in melee range.
Note – Costs a large amount of mana for a medium burst in damage with no cooldown [GCD]
Stat Effects – Every 1 int provides 2.4 damage, Every 1 Matk provides 1.2 damage.

(25) Critical Conciousness – Under 30% total health, reduces ALL INCOMING DAMAGE by a large % [85 max % for 8 seconds]
Note – Affects Mdmg, DOT, Pdmg, Falls. DOES NOT affect criticals.

(30) Thunder Sword – Releases four bolts of pure lightning at the target, Channeled, .5 seconds per bolt. 6 second cooldown.
Note – Does more damage than Flame in 2/3 the time. Each strike crits individually. takes 1.5 seconds to complete casting.
Stat Effects – Every 1 int provides 3.6 damage, Every 1 Matk provides 1.8 damage.

(35) Electric Attack – Adds wind damage to your attacks for 15 seconds. 25 second cooldown.
Note – Attack speed does not greatly benefit you on this skill.
Comparison A – Wand with 2.0 attack speed will net you (with minimal matk/mdmg @ 50) 1k per strike for 7.5 hits aka 7.5k damage
Comparison B – Staff with 3.0 attack speed will net you (same conditions) 1.2k per strike for 5 strikes aka 7k damage

[D] Playstyle and Role -

This class is generally a crowd-control class, but may fill a off-tank role with the correct gear. You are a mage, stand 
away from the enemy, fire spells without watching your TO, and rush ahead of the puller confident that you can 
handle the situation. I will be more specific of course for the two styles of available play, PVE and PVP, as follows.

PVE - 
You fill a DPS(Burst)/CC position in a dungeon party, because you have no AOE, you are probably being brought to a group 
to destroy main targets, aka bosses, something your sustained DPS should be capable of doing with no trouble. Remember 
that while in a boss battle you are "In-Combat" and the skill Enrage will be a primary way of generating rage versus bosses 
or enemies that may AOE. Defensive formation is beneficial to you using this rage, as is Electrical rage, if you 
want to run in and strike with it and run back out.

PVP - 
This is a great PVP class. You have the high HP and defenses of a warrior, and the crowd control and damage of a Mage. 
This class is ANNOYING to fight against. Fire Mages will find it hard to burn down a warrior with high fire resistance 
due to thier self-buffing, and Melee classes will find it hard to even get close to a skilled Warmage. Use this to 
your advantage. Versus Mage/Priest, keep silence and lightning up at all times and burn them down with TS and LT, 
dont let your mana go under half. Versus Warriors, Knights and Scouts, Keep Lightning, Surprise attack, and Terror on 
them as often as possible, especially when they are running away to Charge or Surprise you as well, since these skills 
all prevent you from getting those much-needed strikes in, these classes will melt like the wicked witch to everything 
in your arsenal. Play the coward in all battles, kite like crazy and keep them controlled and you will have no trouble 
with most opponents. Players you will have trouble with: Rogues and Priests; They can basically lock you down, or resist 
your damage entirely, magic barrier will scruff you to no end. My usual rotation in PVP will not be release for the 
safety of my own butt ^^

[E] Stats - 

Note: These stats are written according to how they affect you as a mage.

Str – Has a small effect on your maximum HP.
Dex – Has no effect on your character.
Sta – Greatly increases your defense and overall maximum HP.
Int – Greatly increases your Matk and has a small effect on your maximum MP.
Wis – Greatly increases your magic defense and overall maximum MP.

[F] Gear -

You have the ability to wear Chain, don’t let this fool you. I know ive said before that chain makes a large difference, but this 
is only true in the case of non-CS users who do not + their gear. in case you are the CS-user type I will make teh following 
suggestions to maximize stamina and intelligence on our gear; Cloth robe, hat, gloves, boots / Leather pants / Chain belt, 
shoulders. You should mod in the direction of stacking Stamina first, Matk second, Intelligence third, and Wisdom fourth. In this 
manner, you will be able to maximize all your important aspects; Health, Damage, and Mana. This is what makes you better than 
the standard mage. Able to pull the same overall single-target DPS while having more pdef and health. Of course though, you have 
nothing on them when it comes to AOE’s. For the non-cs user I suggest maximizing your pdef and stamina first, then matk. You must 
remember that even though mage gear is your friend, you are still a warrior, and must gear as such.

[G] Weapons Debate -

Okay so there’s always these people who say "I like the whole magic part of the build, but I want to use a two handed sword/axe/hammer"
etc. These people always seem to fail to realize how big of a difference the mdmg from their weapon makes, or as new players, don’t take 
notice. This is especially true at lower levels when magic damage gaps between weapon types is minimal. I tell you now, with as much 
motivation as I can, please use a staff. Your weapon proficiency with a staff goes up to 115 (only a few levels below the standard melee 
weapon) so you will not notice much difference in misses and damage (in the case that the staff and the 2 hander have the same pdmg) If 
you insist on using melee weapons while wearing magic-based gear, please t9 your weapon so that you maintain at least half the mdmg of a 
t6 staff. That was sarcasm, please use a staff. In the extreme case that you think i’m lying, or just all out wrong, please test both to 
your delight. Ive done extensive testing with alts, and my end-game char, and in no case was the two hander better. The staff makes a 
sufficient melee weapon, and an outstanding magic weapon. I hope this clears out all the confusion, if it doesn’t then ill be glad to help 
you any way I can to figure it out, just message me!

[H] Conclusion - 

I hope this helped everyone who was confused with my previous guide, and learned something. If you have a question please send me 
a mail on Osha, a private message here, or post. I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Special Thanks go out to Sodeska, Arcie, Noctis, everyone who thought I was crazy in Purgatory, everyone who supported 
me through the hard times in Paladin, and everyone who listens to my whining every day for better gear! ^^

Credits go to Lauste.