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PROFESSION: The Dark Knight

Introduction

A Dark Knight’s journey starts off in town of Lorencia. Once proud knights of an order fighting for the protection of its citizens, countless years of strife and struggle has left these knights forsaken and divided as masters of their own. Wandering the lands of MU, dark knights continue render their deadly art of combat to deliver across justice and pain on those deemed for punishment.

The Character

                Dark knight’s main attributes comes from within its vigor and strength, relying on melee weapons such as axes, swords, maces, pikes and spears or the use of shields. The dark knight can dish out huge amounts of damage on a single blow. High in hit points and armor, this allows the dark knight with increased survivability to undertake the game environment alone as compared to other classes. 

The Dark Knight Skills

Weapon Skill – Basic weapon specific skills are found throughout the game. Depending on which you use, this deals a calculated damage of “200%+Energy/10” to its enemies.

·         Defend Skill – Basic shield specific skill available at level 30. This increases the defense rate and defense of the character by 50%.

·         Twisting Slash – At level 20, after acquiring the “Orb of Twisting Slash” you gain one of the most useful area of effect (AOE) attacks done by the dark knight. An advantage when the character is being mobbed or targeting multiple enemies on a 2 range radius.

·         Impale – At level 28, after acquiring the “Orb of Impale”, this skill is only available when the dark knight is mounted on a pet and is using a spear type weapon on hand.

·         Raid Skill – This skill is only available when you are mounted on a “Dinorant”. This is a stronger version of the “Impale” skill and is available on any type of weapon that you may carry.

Suggested Builds

                In every level you gain, you are awarded status points in which to distribute. Following some are  the basics:

·         Strength -  Increased base and max damage

·         Agility - Increased attack speed, defense and defense rate

·         Vitality - Increased hit points (HP) and recovery

·         Energy - Increased skill damage, magic points (MP) and recovery

* Note: There are many advanced calculations and aspects that affect the character

“Strength” Dark Knight - With strength as its main focus, this allows the knight to wear the strongest available armor and weapons. It’s priority to deal the maximum amount of achievable damage to the opponent.

 “Agility” Dark Knight – Focused on agility, the agility knight usually wields a shield using a one handed sword. This allows increased defense and defense rate in evading attacks done by the opponent.

“Vitality” Dark Knight – Focused on vitality and energy,  these knights are made up increased “HP” or hit points, this knight enables himself to take on focus on damage dealt by the opponent. Used along with self casting abilities and potions, this makes the character ideal to be a “TANK” or “MEAT SHIELD”. 

  

 Promotion

After hard training and completing a series of quests, promotions are available for the dark knight to evolve into a more powerful character. This portrays a new look and the additional set of skills to be used in combat. New items such as armors and weapons are also available.

The Blade Knight 

                Available once the dark knight reaches level 150, you need to fulfill quests given out by the non player character (NPC) Priestess Serbina in the town of Devias. Completing the task you are then awarded the promotion worthy to be a blade knight.

Blade Knight Skills

Death Stab – At level 160, after acquiring the “Orb of Death Stab” you gain one of the most powerful concentration attacks. It hits a single line in front of the dark knight on a range of 2. This is very useful on enemies with huge amounts of HP to drain.

Earth Break or Rageful Blow – At level 170, after acquiring the “Orb of Rageful Blow” you gain another area of effect (AoE) attack. It has greater damage and range compared to the skill “Twisting Slash” but due to the slow cooling time of the skill, it still remains as a solid addition to the dark knights arsenal.

Greater Fortitude – At level 180, after acquiring the “Orb of Greater Fortitude” you gain the ability to maximize your hit points (HP) including the members of your party. The amount of health points is calculated on your vitality and energy points. This skill is very effective for “Vitality Knights”.

Explosion – At level 220, after acquiring the “Orb of Explosion” you gain one of the most useful skill in player versus player (PvP). This skill freeze and slows down your target, left helpless you can spam your attacks to claim victory.  

  

Additional Tips for a Blade Knight

                The”quest for power” is definitely a must for any blade knight to take.  With the help of Marlon (Another NPC) who is found in the town of Devias, follow the quest as he guides you on the things he need. Upon completion this unlocks a new ability using “Combos”. This new form of attack allows the character to use a combination of skills in succession resulting in great effectiveness in terms of damage.

How to use Combination Attacks (Combos)

                Combination attacks are initiated only if you are equipped with a weapon with its basic weapon skill. This also requires a lot of patience and timing in order to perform. Once you have gained the tempo and mastered it, you will find it very handy in any player versus environment (PvE) or PvP situations.

Start off with your weapon skill, followed by any dark knight skill and finish off with any of the dark knight skills which you have not yet used.

Example:

1.       Weapon skill + Twisting Slash + Death Stab

2.       Weapon skill + Death Stab + Rageful Blow

Experiment using some combinations of your own that would suit your taste for blood on your battles